skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, some are more serious because some forms of mental illness make it so the afflicted have serious trouble doing normal things in normal society.

You can have schizophrenia that is well controlled and work a job - or be on disability, for example.

You can have thoughts and not act on them, though. If someone realizes that their attraction is to children, yet understands that it is something that hurts them and therefore, doesn't act on it and doesn't view child porn because people are hurt in it... I'm not entirely sure they are doing anything wrong. Not only that, but I don't think we help this category of folks either.

It isn't that I agree at all, but not everyone with ill thoughts act on them. I'm not entirely convinced that fake porn is going to hurt anything. Sure, I find it absolutely disgusting, but no one asked me.

If you are going to dig into this, though, I fully suggest you go off on "barely legal teen" porn, a good amount of manga, and every image that makes young folks into sexual beings, though you are going to have issues around puberty since folks are becoming sexual beings themselves and it is generally good to have trial periods on things like clothing and makeup and hairstyles.
I think a bigger question here is, did anyone really trade anything significant based on the leak? Or was the leak created purposefully to cover up the insider trading?
Youd have to build the whole enclosure yourself, but otherwise yeah you could do that. It's just a phase change heat pump, after all.
I don’t think software that runs at 2fps can be described as ‘underperforms’, that’s just ‘unusable’
> Spending free time for enjoyment can’t be considered a waste.

I don't think we actually believe that. We don't say that about something like heroin or masturbation.

Also, your future-self doesn't necessarily agree with that either. Give your future-self a say in how you spend you time today because they're the one who has to live with it.

"Time enjoyed while wasted wasn't time wasted!" tends to only be something present-you says to conveniently justify spending time in ways that will turn out to be unfulfilling with high opportunity costs.
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There was a bunch of analysis over on /r/wallstreetbets a while back based on satellite imagery of roads in China, using them to estimate coronavirus recovery levels for factories there.
While I've learned to not give a shit about being downvoted, since it happens more and more often out of personal taste than objective thinking, still It just amazes me how some users hit the button without even thinking why they are doing it.
Creating fake illegal things has been done in the past with the purpose of analyzing their path through the so called black markets in order to discover where they travel to go from point A to point B. So, why doing the same with fake child porn images should sound so weird? I mean, they're fake, it's not like someone is being harmed in the name of justice, but simply the authorities could pose as creators and attempt to get in contact with the distributors and bust them.
I agree, but there are more advantages to real life compared to virtual.

IRL, you meet your opponents, and possibly make friends. Online is often anonymous.

IRL you're learning subtle body-language and other cues.

IRL the discipline is stronger even at the lowest levels, and rewards scanter. Games are designed to give you just enough hope to keep trying - real life isn't. IRL teaches perseverance, even when there seems to be no hope.

The real problem is problem gamers - those that satisfy their drive and desire by playing games all day, rather than progressing their career and real life.
It seems to me that one of the purposes of protests is that they allow people to exert pressure when they do not have the numbers. That's important because it forces governments to provide for the needs of all citizens not just the majority.

I'm somewhat skeptical of the ability of politics to bring about meaningful change in the United States. It seems to me that a combination of propaganda from those in power and a political system that's biased towards the status quo is almost insurmountable. It just doesn't seem like face to face persuasion scales the way that media propaganda does.
The title doesn't need the exclamation mark.

The author agrees with Rogan's statement from the get-go and then goes on to choose arguments - notably the a theorem on 'fake fitness' posited by one psychologist in a blog post - that support that statement.

This is fine and valid in itself, but then the article simply becomes what it is: a personal opinion piece based on personal views and values that eschews any critical dissection of arguments on both sides of the aisle.
> Apple does not exist to satisfy your whims.

I never said so. In any case, I don't need you to tell me what to do.

I vote with my wallet and I don't buy Apple products anymore.

The government does not need to regulate it, the market itself will do it just like it did with Microsoft. On the meantime, I'll let you keep finding excuses for Apple's shady practices.
The problem is that the unsafe-safe boundary needs to be specified. Unsafe code often relies on invariants ensured due to safe rust's checks. Also, there are properties that unsafe code has to satisfy which are special to rust, for example involving rules around special traits like `Drop`. So even if the unsafe code itself could be proven to have no memory corruptions, if it does not satisfy these invariants, it could lead to wrong behaviour in other parts of the program.
If you are interested as to how grammar is taught at JPC there is this "Reverse Engineering Japanese" page http://japanesecomplete.com/reverse-engineer/
It’s utilitarian society or oblivion. If you’re not min-maxing your life you’re not a productive member.
JAMStack Isn't About Developer Experience
Ah. I clicked on benchmark, but because I'd already scrolled down on the page I was on, it remained scrolled and all I saw was the graph. Thanks.
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Deaths percentage in Finland and Norway for the elderly homes was higher than in Sweden as far as I remember. But they have an abysmal number of deaths/M compared to Sweden. So the elderly homes deaths can’t be an important contributing factor in the Swedish total deaths number.
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I disagree. Authentication and authorization are central to many areas in which programmers work. And while there are plenty of gotchas (especially in webdev perhaps), at it's core it can be learned, understood, and implemented right as long as you rely on the experts for the proper tricky bits ("don't roll your own crypto")

Sure, if you can outsource authentication to FB or Apple or OAuth, then that's great. But even then you're still on your own when it comes to authorization. And it's still important to understand what these services are doing for you.

So in the end you still need to properly grok both authentication and authorization.

One of the big 'milestones' in my career was finally building something that involved logins, roles, sessions, etc. It scared the crap out of me from all the HN stuff I'd read. In the end, despite all the gotchas in browser-land in particular, it turned out to not be as complicated as I thought, or at least the complications involved things that no 3rd party service could take care of for me.
The barrier to entry for an alternative to Goodreads isn’t exactly high. But does anyone care enough to do so?
Some of the best programmers I know used to be addicted to video games. I'm sure there are many more out there who never quit.
Not under the UK definition. Insider trading requires material non-public information. Being in news media means information is now public. However disclosing such information is also an offence. So it's not like you can tweet the info and trade on it now it's public.

Even if the information appeared in a paid subscription publication it is considered public as long as anyone could subscribe to it and it's not prohibitively expensive.

Source: I have enjoyed many many compliance training sessions.
I don't think it's paradoxical. I just get the impression you may have jumped to building models without carefully considering the exact phenomenon you claim to deconstruct. "Self-awareness" or "consciousness" are just words. What do they point to in the world?
It means it's never been tested and there's no safe way to use it - the hardware and software are not configured to have that ability for this particular flight, is how I understand it.
Yes, but you're more likely to end up with cauliflower ears:

https://www.grapplearts.com/cauliflower-ears-in-brazilian-ji...
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That's just the thermostat, though. If you powered and ran the compressor directly, it would pump heat until the heat exchanger goes well into negative temperature.

People used to turn portable A/Cs into PC coolers, which was pretty... cool.
I was in a situation where it went NOTICED for months but the managers were too scared to fire him (a contractor so should have been easy) because there was some 'HR mess-up' that they were very cagey with details on.
I don't think they need help to collect such material when it's readily available on the internet
> looking down the list of last year’s most popular games, it’s striking to see how many provide a vivid simulation of hyper-masculinity, allowing the player to pretend to be a soldier, gunslinger, warrior, gangster, or heavily armed survivor in a post-apocalyptic hellscape. All fantasy scenarios that provide violence, peril, and (apparently) immense satisfaction for the young male brain.

In other words, these games give youth a vivid fantasy of a mass murderer experience.

I am sure that 99.9% of people has enough gray matter in their cranium to clearly distinguish the fantasy from a real life, but the remaining 0.1% don't.

What I also noted is that America has a really perverse military subculture, not much dissimilar to what videogames portray. Those boy get too much of popular culture in their head, and then unleash it on the Iraqi civilians.

I feel a very different tone in military games from countries with conscription, or which had conscription relatively recently, vs countries without it.

Take a look what is a typical plot of a Western AAA title these days: you play as some "black-ops" completely above the law glorified elite unit, as special snowflake with big gun, completely crushing your adversary.

Take a look on OFP, or ARMA titles (made in Czech republic:) the protagonist enters the army as a conscript, and is mostly busy with keeping himself alive. He is not on the battlefield to even "win." The protagonist's biggest struggle is his helplessness with the world crumbling around his because of war, trying to do as much as possible as a small cog in a global conflict.

The type of youth that enlists in US army these days seem to do so with dreams of killing as much enemies as possible.

For the youth that ended in army on the other side of iron curtain, most had a dream of not having to kill to live another day, or at least to preserver their sane mind while being ordered to do so.

I spent a big part of my childhood in Vladivostok, a city with a big population of serving, and ex-military cadres. A very frequent conversation topic in public canteens among military was their experiences in Afghanistan. Those talks were harrowing, and I tried to avoid even sitting close to these guys just to not to listen to their stories of "what colour were the guts of Afghan children"
>That is elitist nonsense.

You appear to have hallucinated a version of what I've said and are arguing against that.
Yes, that's the whole point though.
Let's not kid ourselves: the vast majority of people who play highly popular FPS games are not modders. They just play the game.

This is especially true for the current generation of gamers who are often playing on consoles lacking any modding capabilities.
That's a smartwatch. Obviously you need an incentive to wear it continually; that could be exercise (step counting), health tracking (heart rate plus (as of a few months ago) pulse oximetry), etc.

Also you can get contactless payment, and it can even tell the time.

After a few months you get used to wearing a watch continually again.
>The government has historically done a pretty bad job of this...

I'd say the government is _currently_ doing a bad job of this. Historically, at least in the 1000+ years prior to the advent of digital payments, governments did a great job of facilitating uncensorable peer-to-peer payments by minting various types of currency (commodity, fiat or otherwise) that people could subsequently trade how they saw fit. It seems plausible to me that the last 100 years of private-organisation facilitated transfers is ultimately revealed to be an anomaly.
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Perhaps:

> In this paper we present an electronic voting system based on homomorphic encryption to ensure privacy, confidentiality in the voting. Our proposal offers all the advantages of the multiplicatively homomorphic encryption cryptosystems. The proposed voting scheme is suitable for multi-candidate elections as well as for elections in which contains neutral votes.

* https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7492759

Others:

> * Securing Data Stored in the Cloud. Using homomorphic encryption, you can secure the data that you store in the cloud while also retaining the ability to calculate and search ciphered information that you can later decrypt without compromising the integrity of the data as a whole.

> * Enabling Data Analytics in Regulated Industries. Homomorphic encryption allows data to be encrypted and outsourced to commercial cloud environments for research and data-sharing purposes while protecting user or patient data privacy. […]

* https://www.venafi.com/blog/homomorphic-encryption-what-it-a...

White paper from a Microsoft crypto conference:

* http://homomorphicencryption.org/white_papers/applications_h...
I have a pair of Atari Portfolios' in my retro collection, one of which is my original from the release, and the other was a contribution - and they're simply delightful little machines.

My original still has Turbo C on it, and all the programs I wrote during flights all over the place back in the 90's, keeping myself awake in obscure airports.

Very fun to dig it out, put in fresh batteries, and go back to where I was editing, ~30 years ago .. ;)

My GPD Pocket is still a better dev machine in that regard, though..

(I also have an Olivetti M10, which is like a Tandy Model 100 .. another delightful machine with saved state that goes back decades, instantly available with the insertion of a couple of ol' trusty AA's ..)
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I can honestly say I never met anyone like that. Romance readers I know are less focused on it then Sci-find readers I know.
The cheap money, as in Oligarchy backed petrodollar slush funds, is residing mainly in the US. The 'defacto' second language of the world is English. Combine those two and it is not hard to see why English NLP is so dominant.

I'm not yet sure whether that is a good or a bad thing for non-English-as-a-first-languege regions.
TLDR: if you are not self improving in your free time your life is a waste

Hope this cult will die some time. It's pretty much the same as with social media too.
IANAL, but working in a trading desk and have 3/4 compliance trainings on insider trading every year (for SFC/HK and ESMA/Europe).

My understanding is the same as the parent post. You are assumed to know what is private information and what is not. A number of things are considered to be explicit markers of "public", e.g. the information is available on a platform that is freely accessible to anyone. In case of doubt, recommendation is to ask a local compliance officer.

So in summary, you are supposed to know, or to have the means to know (through compliance dpt).
Anyway, if working in finance, there's a 99% chance you have to pre-declare and get approval for your single names stock purchases, and are subject to a minimum holding period.
>This is how people used to talk about Hip Hop in the 90s

This isn't true unless you're talking the bling Era of the late 90s.

Also, past criticisms existing doesn't invalidate new ones even if there's similarities in the complaint. So that's a side step.

Tribe, wu, west coast gfunk rappers, mobb deep, fu schnickens, onyx, bone thugs, cypress, busta, we're all wildly different. Even at the height of g-funk, I could have named 50 at least semi popular rappers who deviated from that style.

Now who deviates? Danny brown? He's like 40. RtJ? They're like 40 too. Kendrick tends to always be the modern exception to every hip hop criticism. So I consider him the exception that proves the rule.

>are still popular MC's and producers who operate outside of Trap.

And they're treated the same as Rhymesayers or DefJux rappers, Saul Williams or immortal tech were during the bling and Crunk eras. It's all "white" even if black, nerdy, back packing shit thats not considered part of the "culture". Thats the way most lyrical rappers are treated today. They're talked about like Atmosphere was in 2004.

So fuck the culture.
What if it normalises the fetish?could you still argue that it reduces harm?
How permanent is this implant? Can it be easily removed?
Especially one surrounded by allies, many of which are top 10 world economies. This should have been done in the 1990s as bases were closing in the United States.
This does not account for dividends, which, if reinvested, would have produced a 22% gain during this time period, which is not too bad when "everything was selling off"

Not spectacular, but you also need to compare this to whatever alternate investments you would have chosen at that time, and would have kept until now. Gold, Cash, small caps, real estate, multi-factor, managed futures, ?

You also need to consider why you have chosen these to points in time.

Looking backwards, there were probably better things to do with your money during that specific time period, but would you have chosen them in 1996 ? And would you have kept them until today ? And, if not, would the changes you would make have also done well ? You would need to be right in both investment selection and timing many times to have done better than the SP has done.
> IA started lending friends’ copies without asking

And then it turned out the friends were fine with it anyway.
Hmm. I have hard-coded superusers for an app that are based on email address (where email is the login username). I'd love to hear from the HN experts if that is a very bad idea and how to do it better.

(initially I had a 'superuser' permission that would sort of short-circuit the permission system, but I felt really uncomfortably about how much that affected my code. I figured having compile-time hard-coded superusers per-app-instance would make more sense).
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Whose face?
As much as the Boox is great, they have a lot of GPL issues. Plus the kernel they are using is very very closed sourced. Sounds like FUD, but I am generally quite wary of companies in China that do this
You may find this Twitter account of interest

https://mobile.twitter.com/BrimleyLine
Thanks for that! The js was loading on non-js pages...
Could we use A.I / a 3D environment to figure out how the pyramids were built?
Hello everyone,

I'm not an IT guy, but I know some of the smartest people on this earth frequent this forum, so I'm posting this here.

With all the advances I have seen in simulating 3d environments, which try to emulate realistic forces of gravity and interactions between moving objects - would it be possible to create a virtual environment in which either an A.I or a human try to build the pyramids?

It would be a monster project needing tons of funding. But assuming money wasn't a problem. Is computer science advanced enough to make something like this happen?

Would love to hear your opinion.

Regards

Michael
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Now I understand why first-hand knowledge is better than reading summaries and commentaries. Every conversation revolves around a context, which when separated and generalised distorts the entire thing. Anyone who wishes to understand the context should watch the segment from the podcast, there are timestamps under the video. It is as not as black and white as the article makes it out to be, in fact, I’ve a new found respect for Joe after watching that particular podcast.
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The linked video isn't the swamp cooler video (which is something TC also talked about recently).
> He pays (I think) 1.5%/year for a personal financial advisor

The financial part is solved nowadays with various low-fee funds. However, an advisor can still be useful for things tax accounting, estate planning, and general personal behavioural sanity checks.

So if he's paying that for the funds it is probably too much, but if it is for the services there may be some value there.
And yet - dismissing criticisms of older people by younger people as "you're just old" rather than answering the criticism is just as old.

Older gens hated rap when I was a kid and I was thirsty to defend it with supported reasons

Kids today just say OK boomer and move on. Bc they have no defense .
"Trust tokens are meant to foster user trust across sites"

Can anyone shed light on what exactly this "trust token" mechanism is? It sounds to me like some sort of cryptographic identifier that will enable Google to track our every move (to the limited extent we use Chrome and Google's websites) but this would be contradictory to their claim of non-identifying privacy.
I like the first keyboard model. The experience was just right when using it.
For a similar experience, watch Antonioni’s Zabriskie Point (1969). Philip Baker Hall was only thirty-seven when he acted in that film, but he already looks like the old man whom people would recognize from the more acclaimed roles he started getting in his fifties and sixties.
I hate to say this, but could he just be lying?

That’s what I worry about when we try to learn a lot about human minds from a case.
That's an option, but I hate watches. Always have for some reason, even when it was the only portable accessory I had it in my pocket.
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=Joe+Rogan
Of a mini-split? https://www.fujitsugeneral.com/us/residential/what-is-a-mini...

It's the the large horizontal vents protruding from the wall you see in pretty much every low-rise (2-3 floors) residential buildings ("apaato"), or if you go to the back of the building you can see each flat's external unit, generally wall-mounted next to or below a window.

They're almost all reversible heat pumps, though their heating capacity tends to be lower than their cooling capacity.

Note that mini splits can also use a more discrete slim duct (as the link notes), but in my experience the wall mount is by far the most common, as that's way simpler and more convenient for multi-unit buildings.
> How it went unnoticed is that we were all busy with our own stuff, he was put on some small project that none of us were working on, and we just assumed that nobody would be stupid enough to hire someone without at least /some/ vetting.

I'm still confused about how this could have happened. Did anybody ever ask how his work was going? Did he just lie and say it was great? Did the person have a manager? Shouldn't the two of them have set some kind of goals and milestones for their first project? Does the company do code review? Wouldn't it be considered odd that the person wasn't sharing any code to be reviewed?

It seems like there must have been some serious culture/management problems at this company.