skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are quite a few different groups within Mozilla that are accustomed to and comfortable with different communication platforms. For chat, it's mostly Slack vs Matrix. Everyone around me will roll their eyes and grumble if you suggest using Slack for anything but very very clearly company-internal stuff. But other groups "just use Slack" and don't think twice about it, so are a bit confused when we demand to know why they're only on Slack.

I guess few large-ish companies have managed to keep their communication platforms rationalized and consistent. It's more important for Mozilla to stay open than it is for most places, though.
Scrimba for classrooms. That's what I want.
I have a hard time accepting this. My daughter is in 3rd grade and seems to have a reasonable grasp of fractions. They teach her about them at (public) school and we've discussed them at home. Sure, "1/3 + 2/7" is outside her reach, but simpler stuff, things she can visualize, are well within her grasp.

> why is 2/3 different from 2/6 anyway

Because 2 pieces of a pie that you cut into 3 pieces is more than 2 pieces of a pie that you cut into 6 pieces. She understands that 4/8 == 2/4 == 1/2. Sometimes she needs to think about it a bit, but she does "get it".
"AWS DeepComposer Computer generated music. It’s as horrible as it sounds."

it's so true. go to aws and find this deep mind composer. play twinkle twinkle little star. press 'generate composition'. now play it again. wtaf.
> I think abortion is a lot easier when you frame the argument around suffering.

Really? I think it becomes much more difficult. It invites arguments for infanticide (see the 2013 Giubilini paper on after-birth abortion for a famous example of this). The same arguments concerning a woman who is not able to take care of a child apply equally well after birth if suffering is the only consideration, because it's entirely possible to end the life of the baby in a painless manner. As someone who is pro-life, I've generally found the suffering angle to be the least compelling of the pro-choice counterarguments.
We just moved Cuelang.org primarily to the new GitHub discussions emerging. Pretty cool, Productivity boon! Now if they could just add a chatroom feature... or probably integrate teams

Probably fully migrating from slack to something like gitter later
MasterClass is seizing its moment
If you used these words with their original, negative, meanings, sure.

But that's missing the point - words like "bitch", "queer", and the n-word are used to mean positive things in their respective communities.
Fun anecdote -- in the late 90s I maintained several web sites (personal/hobby ones) and by far the best source of traffic for them was Yahoo directory pages. I didn't know the SEO game (if there was even one at the time) and while search engines brought a small amount of traffic, majority of visitors came from Yahoo. When I launched a new hobby site, the goto marketing plan was to apply to add it to Yahoo. Granted, we're talking about the range of dozens to maybe a hundred or two visitors a day, so it's not web scale :)
But in the case of parachutes, it's not the device, it's the activity. I know it's splitting hairs, but it's important, especially when it comes to assigning moral responsibility to manufacturers.
The Banality of Evil.
Basically what it sounds like you're saying is that AI is non-deterministic, and you can't have systems like that running critical applications.
>it does feel slowly like Blizzard is losing their way

Blizzard lost their way on the day they were purchased by Activision. They've been a hollow shell of their former selves since then. The quality and passion of their older games is gone and everything they pump out is a way to milk money from customers. Everything from releasing individual campaigns for StarCraft 2 as standalone titles, to diablo 3's launch nonsense, to the ridiculous phone diablo nonsense. Not to mention just milking the utter fuck out of WoW for well over a decade.
Now that you're aware of them you're going to start seeing them everywhere. There's more adoption than you realize.
Nope.

Most of what you see in social media and mainstream media is intended to spark discussions, get eyeballs/likes/follows and go 'viral' (in the digital sense).

Most people that disagree with the politics of people in office can vote them out. None of the countries you listed, to my knowledge, are places where every citizen has that capability.

There have been massive differences in the US since foreigners came here (i.e. non Native Americans). They all brought their own cultural, religious and other beliefs with them.

You should check out the book American Nations by Colin Woodard [0] it goes into detail about how these different areas formed and who settled those areas pretty much dictates present day politics. These aren't new concepts either - political parties use these to decide where to campaign for decades now. A map that represents the areas in question. [1]

0 - https://www.amazon.com/American-Nations-History-Regional-Cul...

1 - https://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united...

Edit: answered the question.
Thanks for reading!

>Did the shop provide you with deinterlaced video?

I think so. The video they gave me is 29.97 FPS, which I think means they deinterlaced it, but my knowledge of video technicals is pretty weak. I didn't realize just how weak until I read a lot of the comment on here and /r/DataHoarders about other stuff I could have tried.

Let me know if you have any questions about switching to MediaGoblin. I'm bad at video but good at software.
Interesting article worthy of a discussion. But I also have a selfish motive – I've been really intrigued by some of the teasers and I'm wondering if people have done any of the courses and have an opinion on whether or not it was worth the money.
By the time you read about it, it`s old news.

They have been flooding many of the outlets with counterfeit emotional capital (social/MSM) and counterfeit intellectual capital (psuedo-science/education/politics) for quite some time now.

As long as the "I" or the "L" in those fancy acronyms know the difference, the quality of the data will not be in dispute.

Even without AI/ML, it`s been obvious how bad data integrity is in the most basic sense of the meaning.
What does the other third say?
As a total outsider following this from a distance, I sort of feel for Facebook and other social media platforms facing this problem -- they've run up against a fundamental issue for which there doesn't seem to be any satisfying solution. Misinformation and propaganda are rampant on their platforms definitely, and echo chambers that reinforce divisive worldviews have probably deepened real societal divisions, but how do you actually implement a policy to stop this? What is "propaganda"? What is "misinformation"? The entire core of Facebook's existence is advertising, which means user engagement and reach is the only thing that drives your bottom line; they want to drive users to Facebook and keep them there, and keep them engaged. They've just happened to discover a universal human truth along the way, which is that people like feeling validated, and people like being a member of a tribe. Facebook is the way it is because thats what users want, whether they will admit to it or not.

Anything that Facebook does will be perceived as making a political and/or moral statement, which they obviously are trying very hard not to do, because as soon as you take a position you alienate half of the population (at least in the US). They've apparently decided to go the route of burying their heads in the sand instead of trying to make things less tribal and divisive, which in all honesty is a pretty understandable position to take, and yet even while actively trying not to piss off conservatives they have still landed in hot water over perceived favoritism towards the left. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

So honestly, what is the proposed solution here? What would you do if you were in Zuckerberg's shoes? Do you campaign for regulations that take this issue off of your hands but that let the government call the shots somehow? Do you look at your board members with a straight face and tell them you're going to tank user engagement for some higher, squishy moral purpose for which there is no clear payoff?
Ah ok - I think I understand.

Github does have special Jekyll support, but you just generate the hugo static files locally and only push those up to where Github expects them to be?

I think with Jekyll Github will re-generate the static files for you and works with the RSS plugin automatically.

Good to know though - might be worth checking out Hugo, thanks!
Hmm. The Intermediate Greek Lexicon gives the original meaning of "skandalon" as "a trap or a snare laid for an enemy": http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...
> Is division really all that new or can we just see it more now?

In the article Facebook themselves say measured the increase and knew they caused it with their algorithms.
Exactly. I remember clicking on homepage to get selection of new, interesting videos. Now I just get exactly the same every time I click. Useless. I would like to discover new topics not get rehash of same ones.
Nothing related to screen resolution. Wifi worked via the command-line tools mentioned in the manual, or the KDE interface. Similar for other things. I didn't stick with KDE--I switched to sway--so there were a number of things to deal with because of that, but that won't matter if you do use one.

If you do encounter an issue it will be more work to deal with, because you both have to figure out the underlying issue and then figure out how to fit that into the Nix way of doing things.

The biggest factor is handling downloaded pre-built binaries that assume various libraries will be in typical locations. Those generally require patchelf and then they work fine. I would only recommend NixOS for now for people who are willing to tinker a bit and learn how it works.
Regulators simply need to either forbid paying out the tolls or forbid collecting fraudulent tolls from users. These are scams.

The carriers try to hide behind old agreements that state all calls, fraudulent or not must be paid. If they want to keep these agreements they can just pay for them themselves. If not, they should change them. The end users aren’t in a position to enforce this so regulatory pressure is clearly required.
Comcast DNS-hijacks that entire site as a "potential threat". They also block https://ix.io/. Interesting.
The research showing that serifs aid in readability are based on printed samples, which are much higher resolution than most screens.
If you are giving them your PII to verify your identity, doesn't that means they already have a PII database to compare you against?

Id be pretty shocked if anybody here had a FB account, under a pseudonym, and they actually believed they were keeping their true identity hidden from FB. If you have an account, they know who you are. Verifying your ID is a due diligence on their part to CYA.

How many people, saying they would never give info over to FB, willingly hand it over to the fintechs like Robinhood?
Who? Not macOS [1], or Ubuntu [2]. Does Windows still use base-2? They probably shouldn't [3].

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201402
[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy
[3]: https://www.tarsnap.com/GB-why.html
Haha, yeah, there's something that just feels dirty to me about doing a search and replace on HTML output.

The gcsfuse solution to me felt more elegant even though it functioned poorly because everything still worked and all I had to do was mount GCS and add some symlinks where MediaGoblin expected to open files. But it is hard to beat the simplicity of a two-line config change.
Notion is amazing, and they recently removed the cap on the amount of "blocks" you're allowed to use on the free plan[0].

No affiliation, just a happy customer. :-)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236786
Every MasterClass series I’ve watch (I’ve watched about half a dozen), they seem to be more of an entertainment thing than a professional class. There is a general lack of rigor and details that just can’t be conveyed in a single course.
They're indicative of a collapse of consensus on the part of society. It could well be argued that prior to our current political era, especially in the US, that the political domain was largely constrained to a discourse on cultural aesthetics, wherein the Democrats and and Republicans argued over trivialities (on a broader national, not individual respect) such as abortion, marriage, and immigration, while they operated on an implicit consensus concerning foreign policy, and had a functional stalemate in terms of the size of the state, farming out many of their policy decisions to thinktanks, corporate donors, and well-established bureaucrats within our regulatory bodies

America's role as international security guarantor, its trade policies, and its government's role in domestic affairs was never really up for debate, and it only really changed stepwise in a stochastic manner, responding to situations and incentives day-by-day with no conscious consideration to the role of America or its state on a broader scale.

What we're seeing now, is large portions of the population coming to realize that that existing bipartian components of the political consensus - which I believe to be a legacy of the cold war, no longer serves their cultural or economic interests.

This process is naturally fractious, chaotic, sometimes violent, and full of dirty tricks, because politics isn't just about flavor of the month policies anymore. We're in the process of reinventing who we collectively are, and what we want to be. As a result, we're running across real, fundamentally irreconcilable political and moral differences that have been buried for decades, as well as confronting the failures and controversies of our past.

Many of those fundamental agreements settle neatly along class, racial, and professional boundaries. Others, not so much.

Science denial and anti-intellectualism is the natural result, because much of science communication has become a carrier mechanism for policy prescriptions predicated upon society operating under a specific ideological consensus, when in fact someone of a different political persuasion might objectively consume the scientific data and come to a different policy conclusion based on the same data.

For the less educated, who encounter proposals from scientists they consider to be politically unworkable, and which might rightfully be considered manipulatively framed, it is easier to reject entire specialized fields of research out of hand than to investigate further and attempt to conceive of alternative proposals because they lack the tools to engage with the information effectively to begin with.

All of this is messy, but it constotutes a real political dialogue on the part of society.
I'm not sure if it's a separate issue, but I've noticed 1.1.1.1 sometimes can't resolve my bank. Adding 8.8.8.8 as an alternate DNS service resolves the issue for me. I don't know if it's just balancing the requests or only using 8.8.8.8 if the primary fails. I'd like to know the answer to that.
Agree, one of the primary use cases for both Slack and Teams is messaging. I've seen businesses make the exact point you're making.
Overwatch was a great post-Activision game. Overwatch 2 on the other hand...seems like a blatant cash grab.

We don't know much about it, but it seems like it's introducing new heroes, maps, and new abilities for existing heroes. Maybe that's enough to warrant a "2" in the title, but it sure doesn't feel like it at the moment.
America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms
Symbolically, yes that's almost always the case. Numerically it's the other way around.
I don't think they're permanently gone. Assuming it becomes safe to have large gatherings sometime, they'll come back. You're right that there isn't a way to duplicate that environment online.
This is obviously an enormous investment. However, I'm a little confused by the tone. Tencent's R&D budget is usually a couple of billion dollars. Their annual revenue is 10's of billions of dollars. $70Bil over 5 years doesn't seem crazy?

This seems like they're going to keep spending a reasonable amount of money on improving their business through CapEx, R&D, and other normal expenditures.

All that being said, I think more companies should focus on the tremendous improvements that can happen over years instead of months. A five year investment plan may allow them to achieve loftier goals. (I now move into controversial waters...) The CCP seems to be encouraging long term investment in a way that will probably be effective.
Which leaves some hope that everybody is not yet brainwashed.

Remember, China sequenced the virus and shared the genome with the whole world to help build tests faster. And now they would try to impede research?

Also, 9 times or of 10 it takes a long time to get an idea of where an attack is coming from. And independently of what they know, 9 times out of 10 politics won't tell you what they know but what they want you to believe. So what are the chances that you have any idea of what actually happened and why? Close to zero.

What to do then? Well, at least let us refrain from howling with the wolves.
This is true on paper. Sans serifs are more readable at small sizes on lower-pixel-density screens.
It's hilarious how desperate they were for any scrap of product to announce. 18 months+ later and still not a hint of a go live date. I'd not be surprised if Blizzcon stops being annual
It seems as though taste has not been improving with the Internet's adoption. I was just reflecting on this today and how SEOs rank according to "reputation", which is now just a network of mass media publishers which fill out the first 3-5 search pages. "Reputation" in the 90's was drastically different than today, where the average webmaster was likely a professor.

Also, what's noticeable with cultural works or "products" is the purchasing behavior is very much a crowd-effect. Very few people are inquisitive about such products; they will likely commit to a buy through word-of-mouth, and even then it may be after the 2nd or 3rd different person recommended a film or book. So the "psychology" of such purchases also favors the mass consumer who is looking for some temporary amusement, rather than a soul pathfinder looking for their chords to be plucked.
mb means millibars to you in the context of file size? How does that make any sense?
I do think you're right that there's an extra element beyond just suffering (otherwise you can argue that killing infants instantly is okay if they don't notice and they're not yet self-aware).

I think it's a mixture of suffering and having a neural network formed enough for ...something? I have an intuitive feeling that it's wrong to kill infants before they're self-aware even if 'done painlessly', but I don't feel that way about a blastocyst or a fetus without a sufficiently formed neural network that can suffer.

I recognize this isn't perfectly consistent though and I don't have a great answer for why.
Actually EA has released a lot if interesting stuff in recent years.

Frostbite technicaly solutions: https://www.ea.com/frostbite/news
Rendering research papers: https://www.ea.com/seed/publications
"the leader of the country represented by .us brags about raping women"

Care to provide ANY proof? I mean exact words, not hearsay or convoluted explanations of his saying.
I can't think of any of those from recent history. Medicine has gotten pretty good.

Exceptions may be in mental health. Somebody else mentioned psychedelic drugs, which might be FDA-approved for some conditions soon, but all official medical sources currently treat them as extremely dangerous.

However, I do think cherry-picking the effective treatments from naturopathy and TCM and turning them into mainstream medicine is similar in spirit to cherry-picking the successful approaches from 80s and 90s AI research and turning them into "just algorithms". But there are a lot more successful old-school AI techniques than there are effective alternative medicine treatments.
> I'm not so sure. I think the task is to find a treatment and a point in time where the treatment was considered alternative medicine, was then proven to work, and thereafter was considered medicine.

That would imply examples from 400 BC would have the same relevance as examples from 50 years ago. I assumed it was obvious that that's not the case, but it seems I was wrong.
> How did it happen

It just did. Halfway through my usual route, I started to notice a light ache around the knee. Initially I didn't think much of it, I figured it's just a little stronger than normal muscle soreness, nothing unusual for exercise. But I did lighten my pace a bit (not that I was pushing hard to begin with). About half a mile later I switched to walking because I didn't feel comfortable. I walked home OK and it wasn't terribly painful at that point, took a shower, ate, relaxed a bit and by the late evening it had gotten much worse and I couldn't really take a step with that leg.

The other knee was similar but different. Started feeling light ache when I took steps. It never got very bad but I stopped running. What was bad, and painful, really painful, was pulling on the leg. Like when you pull your pants off when changing clothes, or when helping a tight shoe off with the hand. Apart from that, it was always an annoying ache when taking steps. Rest and it goes away. Walk to the grocery store and back, and the ache is back, and so is the pain when you take pants off.

> and do you have any suggestions for avoiding it?

Not really. Checking with a physiotherapist or some experienced running coach would probably be ideal, but I guess the alternative is to just.. not push as far as I did. Give your body plenty of time to adapt, increase the load only in tiny increments over months, and immediately stop at first sign of pain? But as you say, it's hard to gauge. I didn't think I was pushing hard at all! If anything, I felt like I was in great shape to run longer and faster than I did.

If you do a search for knee injuries & strength training exercises, you'll also find that there's supposedly a lot you can and probably should do to improve muscle strength to stabilize the knee and let other parts of the body take up some load to reduce the likelihood of injury.
I agree, but I'm still, probably unwisely, allowing myself some anticipation for Diablo 4.
I use even a shorter version on my site, a cross between pastebin and ascii blog [0]

[0] https://embit.ca/scratch
Over the last couple of years, I found the combination of physical controls for driving-essential functions and voice control (e.g. CarPlay; I don't like the manufacturer solutions as much) for convenience functions quite effective.
Airgapped installation into hospitals, on physical boxes designed and assembled by the team. They are not ready or comfortable with the cloud yet.
That's the crux. :) I don't have an answer for you, but that seems to be why the different sides are talking past each other in this discussion.

If a company can just dilute, there's no real tangible expense outside of the company transferring value from the shareholders via dilution. If a company has to buyback shares from the market, then I absolutely agree that stock-based compensation needs to be recorded on the income statement as a real expense.
Oh, interesting. I didn't know about OBS until a year or so ago, long after I'd outsourced the capture. A lot of the feedback I'm hearing is that the skew might have been on the software side, so maybe OBS would have solved a big pain point for me.

The encoding step for me takes about 20 hours because I'm maximizing quality. That part I don't mind though because I can just run it in the background and grab it when it's done. I've only had to do that 2-3 times, so I don't mind a longer encode job for higher quality.