skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many conspiracies can be just explained through emergent behavior. For example, there could be demand for that music, and the labels are just creating content to respond to that demand... without any ethical considerations about what they're promoting, that is.

But to be honest, a conspiracy of some kind could be an explanation, who knows.

For some people, there are substantial tangible, material benefits to dumbing down society.

For example, the "gangster rapper" stereotype is pushed aggresively by the music industry. The popularity of "gangster rap" results in "gangster" aesthetics becoming fashionable, even among law abiding people who are not gangsters. However, when people see a person that resembles the "gangster" stereotype (purely based on their attire) pushed by the entertainment industry, they will be more likely to call 911, eventually resulting in an innocent person being killed for no valid reason. Is this a racist conspiracy? who knows.

Likewise, oversexualization results in people having unplanned kids, causing them to ultimately become poor, and more susceptible to predatory loans, low wages, political manipulation and all the machinery that exists only to abuse the poor. Similar to anti-intellectualism.

And then, glorification of violence, competition, non-compliance, etc... this just makes people very divisive, and in order to dominate a large population you want them to be as divided as possible, and constantly distracted with immaterial disputes while you lobby the government.

So, yeah... it could be a conspiracy. It is very profitable to make people vulnerable and susceptible to manipulation and abuse. Especially political manipulation, which is already prominent in American journalism.

It kind of resembles the psychological warfare techniques used by the Soviets (i.e.: ideological subversion). https://youtu.be/IQPsKvG6WMI?t=60
I sadly lost my old bike due to this thinking:

- cheapo 90s brand

- ugly design / color

- no seat

- missing one pedal

- low end shimano shifter (manual lever above handlebar)

- rust, broken brake handles

ps: how is the vibration alarm working ?
"Who are you?" is the most expensive question in information technology. No matter how you get it wrong, you're fucked.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3mo7l6/that_go...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/7qya12/informa...

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2w618r/how_to_...
Disabling JS for the site works for most local news/non-newspaper sources :)
You forgot stabilizing pop growth.
It happened in Colorado.
For me this is way too much to invest in Bash. Any non-trivial utilities should be written in a real programming language when possible, especially when they are used in a context where they are likely to accrete complexity over time. I’m sure there are good use cases for complex Bash programs, but we should be reaching for something with less footguns by default.

(Shellcheck is an amazing utility and I use it for all Bash that I write.)
Purely anecdotally, I've found haskell-centric spaces to be pretty hostile, which definitely did not help getting me interested.
TGMLC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
Worth reading to the very end:

>When threat modelling, a good starting point might be take your attackers "needs" and then instead of striving to 'surprise and delight' you instead strive to "bore and frustrate".
I know that feeling exactly. When my wife and I were traveling in the southwest US, we called it "vista fatigue" -- There are only so many times you can be wowed by even the most beathtaking views when there's another one around the next bend too.
deluge is great. it has a mobile client that i can use to connect to my home server using zerotier to make the home server accessible anywhere.
As far as I'm aware many crypto exchanges also act as wallets and have smartphone apps that feature QR scanning for transfers / payments.

The largely obviates the need for any domain knowledge.
The Thai version of this doesn’t require you to enter the recipient name, you just enter a number and a bank ... and it tells you the recipient name for you to check. Pretty fool proof except that it leaks names for bank account details
Browser autoplay doesn't have the real-world consequence of needing medical attention and going thousands of dollars into debt.
Your two self reported flaws deserve some reflection IMO. Ask for help on them, whether from boss, coworker, mentor, or perhaps a therapist if you suspect a deeper issue is driving those. Especially the second one -- saying no and setting boundaries respectfully is paramount.

Regarding testing and tech-debt, those things don't drive business necessarily. Try thinking about what management is really after (it's not those two!) and find a way to deliver.

Related to the paragraph above, talk to the product manager, try to understand the user stories. Once you get a better idea of the forest through the trees, see if you can get yourself staffed on a high impact project. It's not always fair, but the devs who work on high impact projects (again, in the eyes of the business) have more leverage.

Hope this helps, best of luck. Happy to bounce some more ideas off you if you'd like.
Honestly I've never met a person who listens to Spotify's top/trending playlists - they are notoriously awful random mess (like all top hit charts)

Spotify is definitely killing top lists but not on purpose - turns out arbitrary top lists are an awful idea once we have free access to music and a strong communities that can curate the music properly.
It'll continue to decline as people are learning how to control their playlists better.
I think something is off. Sun IPO'd in 1986. The first SparcStation wasn't released until 1989. I can't find any evidence they ever declared bankruptcy of any sort...
Literally "Coast to Coast AM"! The host was named Art Bell. The show is still on the radio with the host George Noory.

The show is a bit different now, I don't listen to it often so I could be wrong but it seems to me that Art Bell always had a bit of a smirk or wryness, while Noory just comes across completely serious. Also with Art Bell it was simpler times, with the more entertaining aliens and cryptozoids and MiB. Now there is a lot more of the modern political deep state/Q/child trafficking stuff. Religious fundamentalism always showed up a lot in the "conspiracy theory" world. Before it would be things like how aliens are actually angels or something and signs of the rapture. Now you regularly hear guests talking about how God chose a certain person to clear out the demonic deep state, so there's a more disturbing undercurrent.
...unless it triggers photosensitive epilepsy... which I wouldn't be surprised if some of the more obnoxious ads out there do.
Your argument is irrelevant. It does not invalidate the research linked above in either case.
This isn't exactly the same, and isn't a new thought, but is at least tangentially related.
One of my memories is around finding my dad's record collection and seeing the music he and my mom would listen to. There weren't any mind-blowing secrets, but it felt like a window into a world I didn't know about before and somehow was a slightly formative experience.
I don't know what that experience looks like in a world with subscription services where there's nothing to be stumbled upon by others. There's fewer bookshelves or movie collections to leaf through at a friends house everything is guarded by a password and hidden away, there's less opportunity to stumble across that secret hidden collection and that feels like a little bit of a loss to me.
Probably just me getting older and complaining about the good ole days though haha.
I think that not all music is the same in that it won't be chosen in every context. Sometimes people just don't want to listen to music, they just want some background "noise" that will cover whatever background noise is present (like during a commute). I guess even the "formulaic garbage" is better than the traffic hum or the random noise on public transit.

I'm not saying that's a bad thing. When I drive (which I don't often do at all) I'll listen to whatever's on the radio, usually "zapping" around (like people do on TV) and ending up listening to some random music I would never chose on my own. That's usually whatever's popular at the moment. Do I like that music? Not really. But it sure beats the crap out of the rental car's noise engine.
... Most newer freezers are frost-free. Cool, right? (Ha, ha.) But the way frost-free freezers get rid of the frost could actually compromise the long-term quality of your food. The frost-free freezers eliminate frost by raising the temperature inside the freezer a few times a day, from about 0 degrees to 32 degrees.

While this still keeps your food at a freezing temperature, it prevents any free-floating water particles from forming into ice, instead collecting them and siphoning them out of the freezer. It saves you the hassle of frost in your fridge, but can actually cause more freezer burn, as your food temperatures are fluctuating slightly and that makes it easier for moisture inside your food to escape. ...

https://www.thekitchn.com/the-problem-with-frost-free-freeze...
In my admittedly limited experience, I feel confident that my work is valuable enough for a company to not drop me, and choose not to question my self worth. I work at a startup, I always feel behind since there's always a lot of work - but I also know that if I burn both ends of the candle, I'll still feel that way, so I choose not to.

Whenever you do something at a company you're not just doing that thing, you're communicating to others what they can expect from you. So if you don't want others to expect that you'll work long hours - don't work long hours! See if it actually, really materializes into bad performance reviews; if it does, work on your efficiency, not the number of hours spent; if it doesn't, you just won yourself work-life balance.
The goal of work is to intentionally decrease the amount of work you have to do to achieve the same tasks. Why pay you when I can find a person who will do the same work you do in less time?

I think what you're arguing is that employees should always have some work to do, which simply won't be the case in every industry
> The existence of a continuum

... can be used as an apparent counter-argument to literally anything, and is meaningless. I don't believe the contradiction has been addressed at all.

> I'm lost.

Ah yes, a brilliant response to any concrete example I might bring up of leftist intolerance, such as the widespread informal boycott of Chick-fil-a. (This is called an example.)

> I'll warn that were running headlong into paradox of tolerance territory.

The so-called "paradox of tolerance" is literally an admission that the left does not tolerate those with whom they disagree; i.e., they are not open-minded. I'm not sure why you want to bring that up now. The left has twisted the definition of "tolerance" until it means the exact opposite. This is presumably why you can't get past "claiming that to be tolerant you must be tolerant of people you are intolerant of". Of course if the word has been twisted to mean two opposite things, but you still try to use the word to shape your understanding of the world, you will inevitably conclude that acceptance of those with whom you disagree is impossible. It's baked right into the meaning of the word (for you, as it seems to me)! The word has been used to mean both "acceptance" and "agreeing", to the point where disagreement is declared intolerance, which is absurd. I urge you to reject "tolerance" as a notion altogether due to how it's been mistreated, and use more precise concepts for more accurate reasoning.

> Compare to the right, which gets it's ideas from the Bible and enlightenment philosophers, both of which predate leftist philosophy by decades or centuries.

I really don't see much similarity between the protestant Bible (I assume that's the one you mean) and the philosophy of the right. But you have correctly identified enlightenment philosophy as a prominent influence.
You can get all the old episodes on the coast to coast website but you have to pay I believe. Apparently TuneIn.com also has Art Bell episodes.
I prefer stores like Bandcamp.
> CPython is [...] one of the Python implementations, alongside with PyPy, Jython, IronPython and many others.

What others are there? I’m only aware of MicroPython, but it only implements a subset of the language.

What’s more, aren’t both Jython and IronPython dead? Leaving PyPy as the only significant alternative to CPython?
That's an interesting take, but I don't think the explanation could be so simple as "just that". It looks like the graph in the article showing the share of streams toward top songs has been trending downward long before COVID.
My personal favorite with a /gigantic/ tech tree:

Kittens: https://bloodrizer.ru/games/kittens/
If you're expecting to always get the data in 5 cycles but you sporadically get in 250 cycles, you're no longer on a realtime system. The latency per se doesn't matter, as long as it is what you expect it to be.
This reminds me of how, to make a whole lineup of Intel chips, they just make the highest-price model, and then disable features to create the lower-price ones. Or how shorter-range Teslas have the same battery capacity as longer-range ones--they just disable using the extra capacity in software.

In this case, the "5400 RPM" drive runs at 7200 RPM, but WD presumably makes it (either via software or hardware) perform worse in other ways to compensate, so that its performance is really only competitive with actual 5400 RPM drives.

That way, they can justify the lower price point without actually needing two separate manufacturing processes for each kind of drive (like how Intel saves on having to redesign each chip in a lineup).
Understanding Convolution in Deep Learning (2015)
iD has done excellent work with id tech and I’d love to actually play it, but the Denuvo scandal leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I want to reward good industry behavior. I’m not sure if excellent technical advancement, competent design, and alluring art outweigh hostile behavior. They probably do on a 50% sale.
Realtime capable hardware and software is all super intersting. It makes up for a very different challenge when building that something that has to fulfill a certain task in a certain amount of time instead of just providing a best effort solution. Therefore I'm always curious to learn about products and solutions in that field.

However for this presentation I'm a bit puzzled by some of the marketing slides:

- Optional NEON accelerates ML.

- Advanced machine learning support

Is that really a use-case for those processors? Can ML be hard-realtime anyway? I feel like a promotion that one could use those SIMD instructions for e.g. erasure-coding on storage use-cases or e.g. for signal processing on Telco/Audio/Video use-cases would be much closer to typical applications for such a CPU.

Is it just me or sounds the "ML" on these slides more like "we need to join the hype" than an actual use-case?

- Optional MMU enables Linux and cloud-native software development

I agree - MMU is great, Linux support too. But what is cloud-native again? And is something that runs on a SSD controller in a datacenter now cloud native?
So, as I understand, that's expected to happen in foreseeable future. Otherwise, why switch from SHA1 if you can't create a collision with unaltered data?
I dunno, when you consider the design intent of the Abrams (operating environment, crew protection, etc.) 4 million seems like a reasonable price tag to me.

Whether the US Army needs 9000 tanks is a separate discussion though.
I think it's interesting that there's some periodicity in the graph showing the "Share of US Spotify top 200 streams going to top 40 songs" where the share spikes during each summer. I have no substantive conclusions about this, just thought it was worth pointing out.
Huh, interesting. For stuff like this (human-friendly numbers/ids/codes) I tend to use google's base20 Open Location Code alphabet[0] that I read an explanation of a long time ago on their website[1] :P. Whereas this project aliases some similar letters together, the OLC alphabet avoids similar looking letters altogether and tries to avoid spelling any words at all. Keep in mind that "oh, letters are aliases for each other" doesn't necessarily help now that "passwords are case sensitive" is also drilled into users' heads, and no distinction between I/l is even more rare than case sensitivity, so users might unnecessarily remember the difference or make a fuss about it (speaking from experience working with my grandmother and technology).

Anyway, usually I just copy/paste a piece of code like below to use the OLC alphabet and randomly generate an id, and you could just copy the literal to use as a radix alphabet as well.

"".join(random.choices("23456789CFGHJMPQRVWX", k=5))
# check against id in dict
if userinput.toupper() in idmapping: ...

[0]: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/js/...

[1]: https://github.com/google/open-location-code/blob/master/doc..., under "Easy to use"
I would guess this particular path into the sea doesn't need a lot of legalese about it.
> You can't turn off gifs or canvas because it would just break too much internet.

That sounds like a challenge.

I think if there were a click to play button on gifs > N megabytes or > X*Y resolution, nobody would complain, nor would they complain about click to play on frequently updated canvases.
Time to add a Falsehood[] Programmers Believe About Names: that it's even remotely possible to "match" them. That's just not how names work, frankly.
Most cyber-security reports only focus on the cool threats
After a lot of deliberation I finally decided to shuck and got 2 8tb WD elements from Amazon and 2 8tb WD easystore from Best Buy. Shucking was extremely easy. They all had the same WD white drive inside.

However, the difference was not in just branding which to me was surprising. In Elements the drive is held by rubber brackets which won’t fit in non-WD drives, but Easystore is using rubberized screws, which allowed me to use the case with older Seagates.

They do run hot in the external case. I was trying to run badblocks and when the temp became about 60C, I decided to run an external fan. I wonder how long do these drives last in these external cases..
In my NAS with fans, the highest it got was 49C
There's a lot of subjectivity in these definitions. But an overnight batch job run once a week would usually not be considered a realtime task. The duration of the job and the time resolution of its deadline is pretty large compared to the CPU scheduler timeslices used by general-purpose operating systems, and you probably don't need any special hardware support. You just need to provision enough CPU time overall, and not allow the job to be starved by higher-priority tasks consuming all the available CPU time.

A task would usually be considered realtime to some degree if it cannot automatically get its work done on time even when competing with a background-priority long-running job—for example, if your deadlines are operating on similar or smaller timescales to the operating system's CPU scheduler. Then you need to start taking extra measures to ensure adequate responsiveness, not just adequate throughput.

But there's also the aspect of consequences of missing a deadline. Most realtime tasks are concerned with millisecond or shorter timescales, but a job that must be performed once every 108 minutes to prevent the end of the world would also be reasonably considered a realtime task.
The problem for Xi with respect HK and Taiwan is that plenty of mainland tourists will visit and learn from the locals how much they prefer democracy. These values will then seep back into the mainland and the CCP wants to maintain the fiction that democracy doesn't work for Chinese culture. Letting HK continue on for 30 more years might become uncontrable in China.
Readlax: Speed Reading (Apple Store)
I remember when Xtra bought out their $27.95/month unlimited dialup plan.

It changed our internet browsing habits so much. With hourly charges, you would try to plan out what you would do before connecting and instead of reading webpages, you would save them to disk for reading later.

With unlimited, you could just sit there and browse. Or leave it on overnight to download files.

At some point we got a second phoneline and I was downloading torrents on dialup all day and night for years before we finally moved somewhere with ADSL in 2006.
I'm not refuting you, but now I'm genuinely curious. We all know or think of turbulence like hitting bumps in the road, shaking, etc.. I was on a shorthaul, some embraer or similar sized plane, and experienced this only once. We kept hitting those big 'bumps', then I'd feel the plane dive down or up quickly. The kind that gives you the feeling in your stomach, like going over a hill as a kid in a car.

In my head to this day I assumed the pilot was quickly trying to find an elevation to avoid the turbulence, but your comment implies that's incorrect. So those quick pitches are also a form of turbulence? It was stomach turning, and honestly made me a bit uneasy.
Who is going to pay them?
Fear of that is why I migrated all of my primary stuff off of Google during lockdown while I had more time.I used everything google had too at the time, even google Fi. My services are a bit more spread out now, but they are also more robust and don’t have a single catastrophic point of failure, besides my fragile body.
Based on the saga from Epic and Floatplane[0], if your product is digital or mostly digital, Apple will enforce IAP purchasing which is a 30% cut to Apple. If it's something mostly physical, like packages or food delivery, you are allowed to implement your own CC processing screen.

You also can't link to your website via any means if you can subscribe via the website. Even support articles can't link to the main website.

0: https://youtu.be/WzQw3kEbEio
First impressions of NEAR smart contract development in Rust
Most normal companies are okay with small divisions. Sometimes they'll sell them off. It feels like Google is like Intel. They reflexively kill anything that isn't going to be worth a few hundred million in revenue.
I guess it’s reasonable to worry that Spotify is creating a sort of algorithmic filter bubble where it just delivers you more of what you want…but man, the Discovery Weekly feature just works. I have, weekly, discovered a lot of artists I would never have heard of.

Am I finding as wide of a range of music as I would have when I worked at a college radio station? Probably not. Have I discovered more and better music than whatever was on the radio in Peoria growing up? You betcha.
To be fair, the fact that something happens to be true (which, I feel the need to point out, no one here is actually disputing in this case) doesn't have any direct bearing on the question of whether polite society, in the counterfactual case that it were not true, would allow studies to conclude accordingly.
thanks very much. Where/how can I forward it?
The radio work of Joe Frank [0][1] often had a similar surreal and captivating quality.

[0] https://www.joefrank.com/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Frank
Serious question: what is the value in an in-house engine these days? Performance? Ease of use? Profit margin?

I don't know anything about game dev, but the cost of maintaining an engine sounds very high, and the benefits seem unclear. I imagine that Unreal is more advanced than these homegrown engines, and the engineering cost of constantly upgrading a homegrown engine with new algorithms and such must be staggering.

What's the value?

Ps: Doom Eternal runs really great, but I'm sure with tuning Unreal can produce similar results, right?