skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most people regard A Machine for Pigs to be less good than it's predecessor

I think that's mostly a problem of expectations. TDD focuses on being a horror game while A Machine for Pigs is much closer to a horror-themed walking simulator. If you expect Amnesia II out of A Machine for Pigs then I can see how you would be disappointed but that doesn't make the game worse it just means using the Amnesia name might have been a bad choice since the games are in different subgenres and thus target somewhat different audiences.
Who are these people they "serve"? Surely you don't imply that Facebook is a user driven website? One look at how they handle UI changes tells you that any claims to "serve" the users is extremely hollow.
Nothing remarkable in a company that makes lawnmowers.

Facebook is a company that uses its power to change what people think because so many view it as a source of truth. Doing it for money, or doing it for power, is essentially the same thing. If you are in position to manipulate the truth for benefits to you or your friends in high places you will, and he is.

If I worked at Facebook and felt the CEO was twisting truth for money, I'd leave, but the bribe to work there is so high.

If Zuckerberg truly was not a dictator wannabe, he'd give up voting control of the company, but of course he won't.
Epic, Spotify, and Tinder form advocacy group to push for app store changes
> The EU and Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Bahrain, Brunei, Australia, and New Zealand. It works all over the world.

Not necessarily at the same price though. The US healthcare system is crazy expensive because US salaries for high-skill individuals are crazy high (because tuition is crazy high?....). To fund an expansion might be more expensive.

I'm sure it's possible, but if you need more funding, you need more taxes. I'm not at all sure Americans would be okay with that. Remember that you have very low taxes compared to Europe or Japan.
gokrazy is not bare metal as it bundles a Linux kernel, so it's basically a mini-Linux distro and therefore quite different.
The electromagnetism of social cohesion
I've been using Sqitch https://sqitch.org/ lately with really good results. It's also a good alternative to consider.
I found BA role to be quite enjoyable. You get to define what the team implements and get to interact with business more. As such you get to learn the business whatever that may be. Make sure you have a good process. Do you use use cases? How do you capture business rules? Do technical rules differ from business rules ie do you differentiate between them? Without knowing much about your organization I’ll state again make sure you have a good process and everyone follows it. Oh and don’t be a pushover. The PMs or product manager or customers will always try to change scope on you. Always require a change ticket to control that.
Using a schema diff tool can help with a number of the problems you mention - you can test correctness, autogenerate changes, and because you can diff from current -> target without version numbers, no need to keep a chain of migration files hanging around.
Many GC enabled languages offer:

- value types

- some form of RAII

- untraced reference (aka raw pointers)

- stack and global memory segment allocation

Examples of such languages:

Mesa/Cedar, Active Oberon, Mesa/Cedar, Component Pascal, D, Modula-3, Nim, Swift, C# (depends on the version, C# 9 is already quite sweet)
The big thing that isn't talked about is the fact that the problem with forcing a vendor-specific definition on the undefined behaviour of signed integer overflow is that significant optimization opportunities are lost.

The danger of signed integer overflow in C++ is not that your less-than-zero comparison is not working in a reverse for-loop (although, to be fair, that's a danger encountered by newbies). The big problem is that the compiler will optimize away huge chunks of code when it detects a possible signed integer overflow resulting in weird and unexpected behaviour at runtime. It's not really an exploitable security issue so much as a massive cost issue from stretched out development time or increased support costs (depending on how well your code gets tested before release).
This is ordinary in many organizations. They want to ensure there is no manager/report relationship that could ensnare the employee or the company.
Why even the young dye – A short history of hair colouring
Thanks for posting this! For someone introduced to spinors via Clifford algebras, with the applications to physics distant, this was very helpful to read.

Some small points - The remarks on 'double cover' in Section 5 can be improved. 'Double cover' usually doesnt refer to the dimension of the vector space which the groups acts on, but rather the geometric fact there is map from SU(2) to SO(3) which takes 2 points to a single point.
For example see,
https://indico.cern.ch/event/243629/attachments/415251/57698... Writing SO(4) as SU(2)+SU(2) also doesnt make sense for this reason.

The simplest example of double cover being the map z → z^2 for unit circle in complex plane or in terms of angles θ → 2θ. This also relates to the 'square root' and 'half' remark in the first paragraph of Introduction. The general definiton of 'covering space' in a topology text book can be useful to read.

Also, I think there is a typo in RHS of Eqn 3.1.2.

But again, this was really helpful to read for someone who learnt the formal definition long time ago and was out of touch with spinors.
Speaking generally about biofuel, it's a terrible idea - it's taking farming output and turning it into fuel, which is a bad idea because 1) it's unreliable and climate-dependent, and 2) we're basically just turning oil into plants and then turning the plants back into oil.
SUPERMIND- Take control of your sound environment
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SCC – Small C Compiler for DOS
"White men are so fragile," she fired off, "

Not everyone would see that as anti-racism
It’s interesting to me how a modern critique by Taylor argues that the novel’s setting is not a real utopia. I took a philosophy course on utopias and dystopias. Through all of the readings my biggest takeaway is that the distinction between a utopia and a dystopia is your point of view within the setting.

That is to say, utopias achieve social harmony by excluding dissidents. The process of exclusion varies widely, of course. In the past the means were crude: slavery, war, closed borders. More modern “solutions” might include drugs, eugenics, or genetic engineering, or simply pretending the problem doesn’t exist.

And what is the problem, anyway? It’s that people disagree, in fundamental ways, how the world should be run. These disagreements are presently held in check by a delicate balance of power and complex political processes. But utopian authors don’t want that. They want to simplify society and sweep away the complexities and ugliness of the real world. I have yet to see anyone succeed at doing that without some process of exclusion.
If you can get a muon between them they fuse spontaneously.
But then shouldn't we also do non-blocking Java? Vert.x, webflux, akka-http?

I also didn't make the bench marks.
That's a highly subjective statement. I eat well, and enjoy my meals, and I only eat animals about once per week, if any. I'm not missing anything. (I'm not a full-on vegetarian, and certainly not vegan.)

_"Meat is delicious"_ is a mindset. _"It's not a full meal unless there's meat"_ is an arguably marketing-induced mindset.
If your exclusive goal is to make money, you might consider peertube, lbry, bitchute or an alternative site. You don't have to use YouTube.
Random trivia: "tamago" can also be written as 玉子, which means something like "round child". 卵 is used for any kind of egg, 玉子 mostly for cooked chicken eggs.
Depending on what you are looking for then the various Skeptics groups are a very good starting place
The submission title is editorialized. The linked article's title is simply "macOS Containers and defaults".
Too fast for the city, too slow for the highway. 50mph is a compromise that nobody wants
Bye and thanks for all the fish, I attend both shows on Paris when it was demoed.

The first one traditionally carriage down, due to security regulations and the following air show already flying properly.
Not the best choice in my opinion as there's no concept of immutability in JS.
This aligns with how I have always seen Facebook, in contrast to Google for example.

In their business plan Google (now Alphabet) favors a "greater good" for society rather than purely revenue optimization, whereas Facebook centers on the revenue and does not shy away morally doubtful decisions (like selling user data without regard for their anonymity, which Google avoids by restricting sensitive access to closed-loop algorithms).

And that makes sense in that Google historically (and still now) favors attracting talents and great minds (who lean leftwards) to work in its teams, to build the best technology, whereas Facebook tries to focus on its market, and how to please users (quite 50/50 politically) as well as business partners (maybe rather revenue-focused guys than socially responsible guys).

Both approaches make sense, but I do prefer the Google approach.
You wrote a lot but didn't contribute to answering the question.
Going Dark: Looking for the End of the Internet, Part 3: The Gemini Project
IATA Calls for Systematic Covid-19 Testing Before Flight Departures
I think I'll choose local pickup for 5 C$:

>Local customers:

There is a local pickup fee of $5.00 Canadian Dollars per item.
Due to the current unprecedented situation, the local pick up option will only be offered via curb side pick up. Customers are no longer allowed to enter the building and all entrances are locked.
Our current operating hours are M-F 9am-5:30pm.
When arriving to our store please proceed to the man door and use our wifi and QR code setup to sign in with your smartphone. There will no longer be any form of physical customer / employee interaction.
After you have signed in please proceed to the west side of the building to the loading dock to wait for your items there.
Well that's due to the entryist take over of the republican party by far right - this is no long the party of Lincoln Esinhower or even Nixon.

What sensible business leaders should have down was to put a stop to this - and freeze out the ultra hard line rightist's as they are poisoning the well for them.

A bit like how in the 50's when the communists wanted to take over some large UK unions moderate Unions work with MI5
China: Loss of access to fast internet in plans to expand behavior rating system
Courts aren’t machines that evaluate a series of IF statement in vacuums; they look at the entirety of the situation. They’re going to be looking for the root cause of the reason that management has landed on their decision.

Someone mentioning they’re gay after being asked if they have a wife would be a very different situation from someone who, for instance, is engaging people in inappropriate and unwanted discussions of sexuality.

The law is quite simple: was the person fired because of their membership in a protected class?
>> Poland (a country that recently made europe-wide outrage headlines with "LGBT-free zones")

Please don't spread the fake news. There is no such thing in Poland as "LGBT-free zones", just some asshole gay activist putting fake signs and posting photos of them on social media.

I'm not aware of any significant persecution or hate towards gay people in Poland, although some LGBT activists try very hard to provoke it and paint themselves as victims (because in today's crazy world being a victim is desired, it opens many doors (and wallets) for you).
The fiasco of the 1976 ‘swine flu affair’
> I still think that there is a simple explanation for the 'reduction in methane' effect

Yes - your "still" suggests to me you think that it is a mystery (apologies if i misunderstand), whereas i believe it is reasonably well understood - it's bromoform, aka tribromomethane, which inhibits methanogenesis in bacteria [0].

So it is indeed a chemical weapon.

> Raising cattle in a regular diet of seaweed for its entire life and expecting it to grow correctly is still uncharted territory. Are we pushing cow metabolism to the brink of famine?

Well, we'll find out! There is an argument, with in vitro evidence, that stopping methanogenesis will increase animal nutrition, because the carbon that would have been lost as methane is available to make vital fatty acids instead [1]. There are studies on real animals which look good [2]. But it's only by trying it at scale that we'll really know.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299274346_Identific...

[1] https://animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/...

[2] https://research.csiro.au/futurefeed/research-and-developmen...
This is something I would like my university to do. Yearly mail of 'Here are updates to course X you took, based on changes in our knowledge'.

We really don't have the best relationship with admitting change in our beliefs. Or with keeping records.
> Germany ... Neither is a strict rule following culture

If you put your recycling in the incorrect bin, in Germany, your neighbors might correct the notion that the rule following is not strict.
Assange Hearing Day 16
Thought experiment: how close would the Hindenburg have been to missing that specific ratio?

The thing is, no matter how far you are overshooting or undershooting that ratio, as soon as you are doing both there'll be a boundary where it's matching.
pom poko
porco rosso
Time also has value.
> The Great Barrier Reef is already de-bleaching

How I wish this was the true picture, but unfortunately science paints a picture that is much worse:

Apr 7, 2020

'The scale of bleaching is enormous during global bleaching events,' according to Professor Hughes, 'the situation brings me to despair.'

The first recorded mass bleaching along the Reef struck in 1998, at the time the hottest year on record. Then again in 2002, 2016 and 2017, as more temperature records were broken.

The latest follows February’s unusually hot summer–resulting in the highest ever sea surface temperatures recorded on the Reef since controls began in 1900.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tamarathiessen/2020/04/07/great...
Now that you mention it... many years ago I took a course on SAP. Mein Gott, what an abomination. All the tables and columns with four letters name were specially fun.
lame. the real problem is the algorithm generated feeds that apps like instagram, FB and twitter use. their main goal is to occupy the eyeballs for as long as possible. this manifests in people being sucked deeper down into their own echo chamber. yes, that echo chamber is filled with garbage, but the garbage lined, endless pit of media streaming and it’s impact on our society squarely originates at the core and maniacal focus of SM platforms to to increase app use time. period. everything else is window dressing.
But they do still call themselves OpenAI while they choose to go proprietary? Isn't that a misappropriation of the term?
Frictional's first game, Penumbra: Overture also fits in my opinion (although not if you already consider Amnesia to be too dated).
Still embrittlement is an issue. How long until the hydrogen tank needs replacement?

Liquid per liquid, why not liquid methane that's far easier to work with and can be manufactured at zero carbon emissions.
Coalition for App Fairness (app stores)
Why Magic Leap Failed
Whatever you think of the opinion of some of the employees regarding FB's stance towards politics, they're just never going to get their way without a union. It's exactly right that FB is a monarchy and what we see here are akin to the political challenges you'd read about in a monarchy. The small collective actions seem to be a good step in that direction but still much, much smaller than you'd need to form a union. We've seen recent unionization efforts in professional occupations that are shrinking - media & academia mainly. But I'm not sure political mishandling or ethical concerns about data are enough to overcome the fact that tech is growing and paying good wages. People need some self-interest at stake before they make the leap to something risky like that so we'll probably keep seeing this sort of employee flailing, be it leaks or small group actions or what have you.
Massive I believe.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150401084157.h...

Cattle responsible for 15 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions that humans cause."

It's the methane, chickens are much less damaging. The outsided damage cattle does is because if the biochemistry in the stomache, which this feed addresses (Lamb is terrible too, but less popular)
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the analogy here but I would expect the library to be fully aware of what books I have checked out. If I don't return a book, they would nag me about it. Why would that be strange or unusual for someone?
Why So Many People Fail in Affiliate Marketing
Journalists Are Leaving the Noisy Internet for Your Email Inbox
A beaked whale’s nearly four-hour-long dive sets a new record
He is Fucked if Biden wins - and I suspect the dual stock structure used to maintain control might get looked at by the SEC.

The Board need to tell him

" Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.

In the name of God, go!"
This is a great idea. I wouldn't go as far as requiring fact-checking of the fake accounts, but just an indication that what you read may have been inaccurate and point out all that you have read.
Definitely not chupacabras, unless they drive cars :)

I intentionally didn't post link to news coverage, because that's graphic and, quite frankly, I don't want this post to become a badge of honor or suggestion for some of those people who could be around.
Wow, and those are doctor-recommended for treating just about any discomforts of pregnancy. Just think of everything we do to screw up our babies in-utero. What kind of effect does that have on society?
Primordial black hole would have formed before big bang nucleosynthesis and so would not contribute to the relevant amount of baryonic matter.
1. That's not a lot.

2. It's a forum, not everything has to be a direct response.

3. Either way, this was a direct response: CPython does not have a JIT because there's little reason for it to have a JIT, and many good reasons why it shouldn't.

4. If you want a JIT'd Python so badly, why not use PyPy?
The judge says that closing arguments are irrelevant, because the opening statements were thorough enough. Why are they even going through the charade of witnesses testimony, cross examination, etc. then?

> On Wednesday the trap sprang shut, as Judge Baraitser insisted the witnesses must finish next week, and that no time would be permitted for preparation of closing arguments, which must be heard the immediate following Monday. This brought the closest the defence have come to a protest, with the defence pointing out they have still not addressed the new superseding indictment, and that the judge refused their request for an adjournment before witness hearings started, to give them time to do so.

> Edward Fitzgerald QC for the defence also pointed out that there had been numerous witnesses whose evidence had to be taken into account, and the written closing submissions had to be physically prepared with reference to the transcripts and other supporting evidence from the trial. Baraitser countered that the defence had given her 200 pages of opening argument and she did not see that much more could be needed.
The problem in the world now is that we have long gone past eating for survival, we now eat for desire.

Anyways, go vegan.
No it is not, but I am fairly sure that is one of the main use cases. And you have a uniquely identifiable machine which creates new security problems.

We also know from smartphones that manufacturers can indeed be motivated to lock bootloaders. I think the main reason we don't have that on PC is that there are still multiple manufacturers and legacy considerations.

Aside from that it remains true:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5283799

I cannot read the minds of Microsoft, but I have my assumptions that I believe are quite safe.

https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/ has rebranded themselves because they got a bad name. Justified in my opinion. People have identified the motivation on day one.

But again, yes, it can have some security advantages against the numerous disadvantages. I think it is bad for open computing overall. There are certainly mechanisms to secure your OS that don't rely on TPM. It may benefit you, but I would actually like to see it removed from my machine with all the consequences (which would be not being able to play DRM protected media).
Compasses [pdf]
Yes, the US is an outlier. One example: "In the most extreme case, we see that Americans spend more than 5-times what Chileans spend, yet the population of Chile actually lives longer than Americans".
Thanks for pointing it out. Fixed now.
An issue I see with that line of thinking is that Turks in Germany are also a lot poorer than native Germans, get lower education and rely on welfare a lot more, commit more crimes etc. Yet they immigrated barely 60 years ago and were immigrating as workers, not refugees.

Turks have never been enslaved (quite the contrary, they've been slave-owners for much of their history), there were no racist laws against Turks, yet they still ended up in a very similar place.

That suggests that there might be different reasons why groups are less successful, and might suggest that it's not racism. That the results in different African American groups are very different also makes the simple narrative of "it's because of racism" hard to follow, I think.
Can someone ELI5 the meaning of "bare metal" in this context?
I'm still using Photoshop 7 on my Windows machine. Google tells me that was released in 2002 haha!
try Windows Terminal

https://aka.ms/terminal

https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal
Yeah, the way people like JK Rowling have been hounded for not agreeing on every point with some people is very depressing to see, considering that she has been quite supportive in the past of the very groups that are hounding her.

Mob like behaviour to hound someone for their beliefs just reeks of illiberalism.
There used to be self-hosted video content on the web as well. It’s just that it isn’t very memorable due to the technical limitations of the time before YouTube and other platforms took it over.
To Fight Apple and Google, Smaller App Rivals Organize a Coalition
librarians are in no way like SM corporations. SM corporations are like digital drug dealers, doing anything possible to increase the eyeball time on the app. they achieve this by any means necessary. even at the cost of further radicalizing the thoughts/opinions of the masses. everything being discussed here threatens their very existence and they know it.
TinyGo is a re-implementation (in progress) of Go (mostly from the ground up), and using LLVM as the backend for code generation.

TamaGo appears to be standard Go, forked to add support for specific boards.
> In their business plan Google (now Alphabet) favors a "greater good" for society rather than purely revenue optimization

What dream world are you living in and also where do you get this from? Google, like countless other companies in tech, is a for-profit company, that optimizes for revenue and revenue only. If they are doing anything for the "greater good", it's because it'll eventually drive up their revenue.

If they truly wanted to do something for the greater good, they'd turn Google/Alphabet into a non-profit. But alas, they are not.