skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may or may not agree with this document or this website (never heard of them), but honestly, I am genuinely shocked at the number of people I run into both on the street and at my workplace (a university of higher learning) that absolutely believe that COVID-19 is a conspiracy. They are hell bent on not wearing masks, think this is all a load, and that we should ignore everything anyone from CDC (or any medical doctor that does not agree with them for that matter) says about it.

I'm still baffled every day at the depths of our own misguided thoughts and beliefs.
I'm really tired of people not noticing how a certain phone/OS/editor/food/whatever can be a great choice for themselves, but not for everyone, because everyone makes the choice theirselves.
This article appears to be deeply confusing two drastically different meanings of "enlightened".

There's the spiritual sense, which might be described as fully understanding and accepting the impermanence of the world and the "artificiality" of meaning.

Separately, there's "getting" something in a knowledge area. E.g. you finally understood how pointers work in C.

The author seems to start with the first... but then immediately goes wrong. He assumes if you're enlightened then you want to spread it -- but this is the exact opposite of enlightenment, so the author has it 100% backwards.

Then he eventually veers into "But what do you know about education and foreign policy, ecology and immigration, tax reform and monetary policy?" Which is the second sense of enlightenment, but has nothing to do with the first.

Spiritual enlightment has nothing to do with applied knowledge in any of those.

This is... really just a bad article. The author doesn't seem to understand what enlightenment is at all, and is trying to satirize/criticize it because of that. It's kind of sad, in a way.
I just checked; the site uses this CSV to build the UI: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/BBCSoundEffects.csv

So no need to actually scrape; you can download the CSV and download all the individual files from that.

base url: http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/assets/
As I recall, for iPlayer you need to VPN to the UK from abroad and register with a UK postal code.
> People cannot be trusted to upgrade. It REALLY IS good to force people to upgrade.

The very idea that users should be at the mercy of their computers instead of the other way around is contrary to the concept of personal computing.

People like you are why I hate IT these days. You seem to think that because you have some specialized knowledge about computers that you're smarter than everyone who doesn't. You're totally willing to sacrifice hours of peoples lives, ruin their projects, and break their systems in the name of "I know better". It doesn't matter what they're doing, or how important it is to their lives, what matters is what you think is important.
There is no media blackout. The media is simply reporting what is the general consensus among professionals. Mainstream news is not a good avenue for discussing theories supported by a single paper or two.
What about the millions of idiots and non idiots who die due to lack of medication?

Give counseling at the pharmacy counter, limit to reasonable doses, check ID.
I think his background as a UK ambassador who was then hounded by the UK establishment[0] has given him a frame of reference where it's hard not to see conspiracies.

However, it's true he is currently being taken to court by the Scottish government for contempt of court over his reporting of the Salmond case. That's not something that happens to the average conspiracy nutjob.

[0] and yeah, I totally believe his stories of the UK political establishment closing ranks against an outsider. I grew up in that world, and that chummy upper-class clubhouse can get very cold and hostile very quickly. It also has very long reach.
Programmers accusing other fields of not being rigorous is like the pot calling the enamelware kettle black.

This is a field where favored practices in machine learning come and go at a furious pace, often based on the results of a single paper that didn't even attempt to isolate the new idea they're presenting as the primary cause of their result, as opposed to the 10 other variables they mention in the paper and that everyone knows can make a big difference, but that they didn't bother to control for. Other fields might not be uniformly meticulous about isolating confounding variables, but at least there's a common understanding that it's good to try.
It's not the presence of grapes in North America that I'm thinking of, it's more that they're absent from the Nordics. Now, obviously there were Norse who'd encountered European Grapes on their travels/raids down south, but there really weren't growing any grapes up here back then.

It's sad we'll never know for sure. For much of our history, the Nordic countries have been exceptionally bad at writing things down. :/
From the 1st paragraph:

“World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations (UN) organization that develops international treaties on copyright, IP, trademarks, patents and related issues.”

3rd paragraph in the article:

“WIPO’s work, which shapes international laws and policies that affect the sharing of free knowledge, impacts Wikipedia’s ability to provide hundreds of millions of people with information in their own languages. The Wikimedia Foundation’s absence from these meetings further separates those people from global events that shape their access to knowledge.”
I found WIPO remarkably anti "open access innovation" and very pro "lets promote property rights in the digital realm were copying a product is nearly free".

Maybe Wikimedia should steer clear of such dinosaur of an institute.
I wonder how many commenters were just parroting what they had heard about him. I get the feeling it's not uncommon for negativity about someone to be amplified by people doing that. With enough comments saying the same thing, it's easy to believe it's true.

Personally I never participated in spreading that, but I absolutely was swayed by the negative comments to avoid touching Calibre. I already find myself fact-checking a lot of things given how much bullshit people spread, but I guess I have to step that up and be more wary about what people say here (I've been more trusting of things on HN than on sites like Twitter).
Surely there's one in here that would be acceptable. https://community.vcvrack.com/t/complete-list-of-c-c-fft-lib...
A lot of blockchain clients (including Bitcoin) have no auto update feature.
Who are the trustworthy actors in global politics?
The article is aimed at people who have made the life choice of less personal time vs more work/pay. Presumably these people have thought about things and consciously made that decision. There is no reason to tell them they have made the wrong choice.
Doesn't 3DH solve this? E.g. what's used in signal?
Why are you comparing the actions the US admitted to doing with the actions Russia is accused of doing?

The US manipulated the IMF to give a 10.3 billion dollar loan, and then advised Yeltsin to use that money to buy votes. The US stalled election watch dogs and prevented them from realizing their duties fully. The US sent intelligence agents to Russia to advise Yeltsin on what his tactics should be, and as we have already seen they were highly fraudulent.

The US absolutely was as involved, if not more, in meddling with the 1996 Russian elections as Russia was in 2016. Just because the tactics weren't the same - Yeltsin had already seized control of the media to use it to give himself good coverage, and there was already public unrest - doesn't mean what the US did has a lesser magnitude.
> People seem to forget that the expected total death count from day 1 was, and still is, expected to be the same no matter what actions taken....

Only if you assume we'll never have vaccine or efficient specific treatment, which is most likely false assumption.

In all other cases expected total death toll can vary by order of magnitude or more depending on how many people get infected before vaccine and/or treatments are widely available.
Not entirely. There's still Alpine, Gentoo, Void, Debian/Devuan -- All of which still run on reasonably low specced hardware, and can be loaded with XFCE/Tiling WM's for a lightweight UX.

Outside of Linux and other FL/OSS OS's I have to agree though.
It's a direct result of membership in a cult of personality. :(
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partly because the courtroom is so restricted and hardly anyone else is actually there
> People learn when they’re surprised.

I took it as a quick opportunity to stop reading, since I wasn't surprised at any point.

But now I'm thinking: in the morning I found out that "la hoja" is "the sheet [of paper, etc]" in Spanish. How do I still know it in the afternoon if my jaw didn't meet the floor at any point?
Can you provide one peer-reviewed study that shows that universal masking (i.e. mandating the general public wear masks made of any material) slows the spread of COVID-19 or a similar respiratory disease?
The article is about Campbell's book in particular, but I think most writers have never actually read Campbell in the original. They nonetheless follow the Hero's Journey slavishly because it's such a successful style of storytelling that it seems inevitable. Especially for mainstream films, perhaps because the up-front investment is so high that they feel compelled to not risk breaking the formula.

So I don't know that they really need to make a case for chucking Hero with a Thousand Faces simply because we already have, especially outside university lit departments.

Finding ways to ditch the Hero's Journey is more difficult, simply because it's so effective. And arguably we'd still be doing it even if Campbell never existed, since Campell is merely describing the structure of stories rather than inventing it. His formulation of it is surely influential, especially because of Bill Moyers and George Lucas, and that has become so universal it's hard to see any other way. That's the real challenge.
NSHipster was about taking a piece of obscure framework and deconstructing in as much detail as possible. Now it’s about “DSL”s, Swift, Swift, Swift and some more Swift.
If that is true, shouldn't the current administration just let him go? Because, you know, the head of the administration just loves Putin?
Sounds like it's not entirely gone just yet :)

But Enlightenment does not imply Clarity, which may come from more contemplation and perhaps some guidance.

Some people never experienced Bliss.

Some people experience Bliss all the time.

Some people can experience Bliss whenever they like, or need to.

Bliss is not Enlightenment.

So just because someone tasted ice-cream, doesn't mean they should eat it all the time, or that tasting good is all ice is good for.
Do you think employee activism should not have an agenda? If so would they just organize to do nothing - just to hang out?
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"The American College of Radiology recommends limiting lifetime diagnostic radiation exposure to 100 mSv. That is equal to 10,000 chest x-rays or up to 25 chest CTs."

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/should-i-worr...
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> Taking away the inflammatory signal will result in remyelination without any stem cells in my opinion.

If it only were this simple.
> If he’s “not that bad” why is he dictator for life?

He's not dictator. Russian people voted for him. Just like american people voted for Trump. You might like it or not, you may call them brainwashed, but that's their choice.

> His methods are always questionable! E.g. poisoning opposition leaders.

Nobody in Russia believes to those fiction stories. If they were poisoned by Novichok, they would be dead. I would more believe to NSA poisoning Navalny to paint him as a victim. He's absolutely unpopular in Russia at this moment. There's 0 reason to poison him and 0 reason to let transport him out of the country. Just turn on your logic. This story is absolutely made up by western secret service and propaganda, it's so stupid, I don't know who can believe in it.

> Russia is a pure dictatorship

Again, Russia is not pure dictatorship. Putin clears political landscape, so he can win the elections. That's obvious. It does not make him dictator in my eyes. And it's all words, anyway. I'd prefer dictator who cares about his country, rather than "democratically elected" puppet who'll sell his country to his masters.

He's old anyway, so someone will replace him, one way or another. And many people will remember him fondly, just like many people fondly remember Stalin despite all propaganda against USSR.
Which can be adjusted (at least in GNOME)
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Good, in my opinion. I am well aware of the fear this may cause due to the potential for misuse, but I think it's high time we acknowledge the benefit such public surveillance of emerging mob[ility] provides in terms of quick justice. After all, isn't that why we are protesting -- because justice is slow and uneven? Has anyone considered that it's slow and uneven because the effort required to piece together events after the fact is often extremely difficult, and many times outright impossible? With checks in place (see legislative proposal [0]) for the use of the materials obtained by such drones, we can get to the work of separating violent bad actors and provocateurs from the peaceful/non-violent protests that much quicker, making it safer to protest as the majority intends.

Related and sure to draw ire: I for one am quite sick of being blamed, hated, threatened, and abused by these protestor and those of their supporters ignorant of detail and focused solely on their imagined -isms, all for the sake of glorifying flagrantly (and often proudly) lawless "martyrs". Yeah, sometimes people die when they commit crimes and get caught, or keep the company of criminals. Cry me a river then go be a lawful citizen.

[0]: Christopher Slobogin, “Making the Most of United States v. Jones in a Surveillance Society: A Statutory Implementation of Mosaic Theory,” Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2098002.
Aside from other stuff others already mentioned, I would also want to add:

Windows Vista and onwards, MS, while claiming it was for technical and stability reasons, nixed a lot of features that were annoying to movie studios, basically they changed how driver stack worked in a way to make DRM easier and make harder to pirate movies.

But as consequence of that, a lot of cool stuff outright stopped working:

* Some interesting video modes

* Some obscure ways to output data

* And the one that annoyed me the most: Soundcards became useless.

Before that, Soundcards could do a LOT, they could have their own processor and do a lot of fancy stuff, most famously they could do "3D Audio", and it was super cool, Thief for example is a game that uses it well, it would use its own processor to do same thing GPUs do for graphics, and do it for audio, it would even raytrace sound (ie: suppose a character is on the other side of the wall, but there is a door on that wall, the card would calculate the sound of that character footsteps reflecting on the walls and reach you, then if you were using headphone or 4+ speakers it would make you hear the sound coming from the reflections, thus a person with good hearing could deduce where an enemy was, on the other side of a wall).

That stunt basically killed off the soundcard market, people then were making cooler and cooler cards, after that the cards became little more than just output ports soldered on a tiny board.

Sound Cards pre-vista:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Cr...

Sound Cards post-vista:
https://http2.mlstatic.com/D_NQ_NP_768672-MLB41729093507_052...
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Or vice versa, the person who is great at dealing with people and bad at everything else.
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_Causality_ is unlikely to be demonstrated until a direct cause is known, and for a complicated illness like MS, it is likely to be a variety of factors, an active and changing area of research.

That in itself doesn't in any way mean that MS wouldn't be classified as autoimmune, however. If there is a high degree of immune system involvement, then it is generally classified as autoimmune, or immune-mediated. And that had been demonstrated. Such as in this [0] paper.

[0] https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.febslet.2014.04.007
Digital information cannot be stolen.
Wow very cool. It was the text I was interested in and I can see that it's tokenized in the XML, that's great.
A minor nit, the author references MX Linux as being the most popular Linux distribution currently when that is not truly the case. Yes, MX Linux receives the most page views on DistroWatch [1], but that does not directly correlate to actual users or downloads. I'm still looking for a clear set of data showing the market share of various Linux distributions, but everything I have found so far points to Ubuntu still being the most popular distro. MX Linux is growing in popularity, sure, but it's certainly not a runaway winner in the market.

1 - https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mx
>if you're enlightened then you want to spread it -- but this is the exact opposite of enlightenment

Isn't the opposite of spread - hoard?
The only reason they're merely embarrassed rather than servibg time for war crimes is precisely because they're above the law...
I feel like someone should pause just for a moment to note the brilliance of a criminal syndicate with the name "PillCosby"
Maybe because I'm dutch and I made the FOSS/Libre connection...
Or do business with any newbie on the network, who might be a competitor. Or do business with any customer who gets their account hacked.
Philosophy is closely entangled with information technology.
Those poor people will never buy an iPhone or expensive phone, you should compare how many Samsung Galaxy or Pixel users in US vs iPhone users in US that have same financial situation get infected, otherwise you could compare iOS users in US with XP users in China it is "lying with statistics".

The guy that reviews the Apple Store has no idea if the developer sells the data to a third party, the chances that somehow Apple finds this out in time to help you is minimal, it would help if Apple would let you give this people fake data or more granular data (like I want to give them a first name, 1 picture, and a city location but not much more details). Many existing apps are using FB SDKs, other advertising related library in the apps, loot boxes and other dark patterns and Apple is not blocking this because they have a financial interest.
> Nearly 1 in 4 (24%) believed in March that some in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, are exaggerating the danger posed by the virus in order to damage Donald Trump’s presidency, which increased to 32% in July;

Even I believe that one. It really didn't help when public health officials banned outdoor gatherings, but BLM protests were OK.
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> If you weaken encryption, you can catch more terrorists.

Can you? Where's the evidence? Why would they obey laws like this when software for strong encryption is widely available?

Same thing for all other examples of criminal activity.
Sort of. It's not a new process invocation, but it is a new interpreter. Most high volume set ups cache user space startup state in Redis or Apcu. And, as you said, the built in opcache caches the commonly used code.
If they use you are you an asset or just a cog in a gear? Did they ever disclose where they were from or their communications with the source?
I know, I feel so bad for him.
And this is the unfortunate dichotomy. We are thankful to our abusers. We often don't even understand how they are using us for their own benefits but we are grateful to them. Something is awry but because we are reaping the benefits now we're blind to it.
I've been down this road with a few people, so I'll take a shortcut and get to the crux of it: do you believe that masks stop spread of coronavirus between individuals? If so, what factor would account for masks stopping spread between individuals but not stopping spread over the population?
People say the same thing about manual memory management, garbage collection and memory leaks, but to be honest, something about conceptually leaving out the UX of such a powerful tool (like memory allocation) always rings hollow.

If writing "smart contracts" is to remain not for "anybody but very seasoned developers" how can that not seem like anything but a giant gaping hole in the conceptual abstraction itself? Do you think people say the same thing about payment processors? What do you think would happen if Stripe approached its API the same way? Sure, one is a proprietary payments processing system and the other is an entire decentralized virtual machine for contracts. I get that.

But implying that "everybody is busy with much more pressing issues" despite admitting "most people would say it's not the best" really implies a blind spot. Successful technologies end up building layers where folks who aren't "very seasoned developers" can't hurt themselves. Pretending that these layers don't exist or emerge or deliver value is omission.
Ok, I updated the link to be the latest version I can find. It's dated June 2020.

There are no new indictments per se but it does add the allegation that Assange and wikileaks recruited hackers to commit computer crimes.
I would argue that it can. The question is if an individual finds it unethical or not, not if it's being stolen. Legally speaking at least.
Upon reading it my thoughts went to yesterday's Verge article on the audio recordings of Zuckerberg's Q&As. Facebook has many vocal rank and file people who seem to believe they've arrived at Enlightenment and want Zuckerberg to toe the line. His imperfect attempts to walk a tightrope that keeps everyone happy infuriate the Enlightened, who believe tightrope walking is in its very conception a concession to Evil. They conclude that he's an Agent of Hatred and start taking steps to coerce him into compliance with Correct Thinking.
Thank you for your explanations. I particularly like your comment on down scaling the triple resolution.

Actually I am using a Retina display. I’m still noticing the difference very much. Hence I don’t think subpixel rendering would be only a technique for obsolete devices.

But I don’t think subpixel rendering is a performance issue, my MacBook Pro running 10.11 displays everything fast even though being 6 years old.

And if the complications were already there, perfectly working, why remove them? I understand that it is hard to add these features into the iOS libraries, but then the others should have been kept as is.
I think people assume that drug development is still slow. For many targets, the time from discovery to market is around 6-7yrs (per a big pharma VP I spoke to a few years ago)
Yes, the US has heavily meddle in the 1996 Russian elections to prevent the much more popular Communist Party from winning the elections, and by doing so elected Yeltsin, whose disastrous actions led to the much weaker Russia we see today.

Complete with advising him as he seized control of the media and used it to spread disinformation, forcing an IMF loan that was then used to buy votes, sending US intelligence agents to Russia, the whole deal.

As for direct electoral fraud, the numbers in the election are incredibly fishy even from our historical viewpoint, was fraught with irregularities, much, much less than in the Bolivian elections that the US called illegitimate. This hypocrisy is yet more meddling.
This language is too loose. "(de)Criminialization" usually refers to demand side, not supply side.
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