skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disagree, the greatest story in the world won't save bad mechanics. I mean, Dark Souls has a lore people obsess about, but there's plenty of people with an emotional attachment to it with absolutely no clue what's going on.
I have been often mocked when asking for a cup outside of the metro area! I means how the f else wouldja say it?
Did you enjoy it? I really liked The Quantum Magician (puppets!) but thought The Quantum Garden was not a worthy follow-up.
Recently I watched movie "Brain on Fire" sorry a big spoiler ahead, in it main protagonist a girl had auto-immune disease so one half of brain got inflamed.
She was showing symptoms like she had schizophrenia. After fixing auto immune problems and brain inflammation everything return to normal with some after effects.

That being said and knowing that root canals can get inflamed and that inflammation can spread trough nerves to brain how lightly is the cause of his amnesia has a similar cause?

Neurologist among you what is the brain region that is most probably first to be affected if that would happen?
I think there is a big difference in what you steer your students to do, and what you do as an established scientist.

A Masters level education in Physics is not the time to be going off the beaten track; you still have 5 years or more before you even understand the territory enough to offer corrections on the map.

Replace “cold fusion” with “homeopathy”, do you still think your statement applies?

I think cold fusion is closer to homeopathy than stellar fusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position
Naturally, nearly all the comments here are about space exploration and not what this article was actually about. I liked the comparison.
I wish Safari has this feature.
For context:

> Brendan Eich is [the] creator of the JavaScript programming language. He co-founded the Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation, and served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer and briefly, as its chief executive officer. [1]

Yes he was only CEO for 11 days, but he literally co-founded Mozilla so it's not like he was only around for a couple weeks.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
You can get US citizenship through investment?
I prefer the variant: "It’s not that I have something to hide. I have nothing I want you to see."

It's clearer on what the problem is.
No, you don't get it. "Cold fusion" is akin to dismissing the recommendation to wash hands before surgery, because the experiments promoted by the proponents were repeatedly shown not to give the results they claim.
See https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/ for more information.

The underlying collection is also public if you wanted to do a different kind of processing:

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/

s3://ndnp-batches

Also note that if you want image slices the entire collection has a IIIF image server used by the main Chronicling America site and this search application.
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2014-2010 = 4.

It's close enough because right up until his apology Eich did not indicate in any way shape or form that he had changed his views on this. Only after it all blew up did he come with his apology. Sure, he wasn't CEO at the time he made his donation but when he stepped forward to become CEO he was well aware of his own position regarding this and knew that to effectively lead Mozilla would be impossible given his - apparently strongly held - views. At least, I'm assuming people do not donate to political causes they do not feel strongly about.
How often do oxen work longer days than the farmer himself?
> That's putting a lot of faith into internal separation of departments for a company with a track record of inserting malware into their products and lying about it.

1) Why would a pre-installed Ubuntu from Lenovo be more risky than a pre-installed windows from Lenovo ?

2) This news gives a new service to the customers. That does not affect the security at all.

3) That's not a question of faith, it is a question of trust and facts.
There has never been any evidence of any malware insertion at Thinkpad.
So I have no reason to worry more about Thinkpad than I worry about Dell or any other vendor.

Points 1), 2) and 3) question the relevance to make the connection between superfish and this news.

If you don't trust Thinkpad, then you shouldn't trust Dell either.
If you don't trust the pre-installed Ubuntu of Thinkpad and Dell, then you shouldn't trust their pre-installed windows either.

And if you are in one of these cases, you don't trust pre-installed systems, then you should delete the pre-installed system and then install your system.
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I don't intend to implicitly compare that paper to the work done by NASA. Two completely separate subjects. And I specifically pointed out that it is not peer reviewed, how can you peer review something if no journal would consider it in the first place?

The paper itself may turn out to be seriously flawed as your link suggests. But I think it's important to have the conversation.
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By consequence, I mean, you have some sort of reason to want to avoid death. Amnesia as I recall had very frequent checkpoints, and dying set you back a minute or so, only to encounter the same scare puzzle shortly after. Doing the same scene twice in the same pattern breaks any immersion (which is, again, a very difficult problem to solve in game design). One of the design principles in the movie Alien was that you do not want to show the monster. I think that's a good rule, and is doubly true in games where death means you do it again. An enemy you can only hide from is cool, but frustrating when said enemy follows a scripted pattern and its secretly a puzzle rather than something where you actually feel like you're hiding from a being (Alien Isolation does this well). Haunted hayride is a good descriptor. Resident evil and silent hill have tried to tackle this problem by inducing resource scarcity. Most scary encounters will not kill you, but they'll force you to expend resources which make you feel more hopeless about the future. It's far from perfect but it sort of works. It is vulnerable to players taking the opposite mentality, whereby they purposefully die to try and clear sections with lower resource loss.

Silent hill games (the good ones...) aren't action games btw. Most people consider the second one to be best psychological horror game ever made.

Horror's pretty dope these days. Next Resident Evil lookin slick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSapXD9vxYA
For funzies, I looked at one our ActiveMQ Message brokers, which are ran on 1g machines with a 640m heap. The heaps are fully allocated and the resident set size is ~658m. Linux reports it has 66M of free memory and 95M of available ram. 440m of swap is being used and is only lightly being paged out under light load of 400 msgs/s. This same setup can push 2000msg/s before GC thrashing becomes an issue and we need more heap.

So no, I don't think there's any truth to the claim "Hotspot always uses an extra 256m of memory". Sounds like the kernel is doing what it's supposed to: free memory is wasted memory.
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The Sonic is also an Opel designed platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Gamma_platform
> Brendan Eich's homophobia

All we know is that Eich supported one political movement with money. Show me where he has come put publicly as fearing homosexuals.

We are in a dangerous world of viewpoint discrimination. A belief on a particular moral or political issue does not represent the totality of an individual.

We all disagree on things; some of us on things we consider core unalienable rights and values. But at the end of the day, we are also all human beings.
I think it's the early versions that tarnished Atom's name.

I have an ancient Atom 330 still chugging away as my Asterisk box. It's on an old Intel Mini-ITX board, the only Intel-branded motherboard I've ever had that didn't die from capacitor plague.

It's hilarious to realize that a Raspberry Pi 4 will run circles around it. The 330 can't saturate a GbE port, and even the SSD pokes along at the 1.5 Gbps SATA speed. If I didn't have a PCI telephony card I wanted to keep, I'd replace it with a Pi.
As someone very poor, for me good life means having money to the point where my choices are not based around it.
At the extreme end of the spectrum with quant hedge funds this actually becomes somewhat true. They expect strong academic understanding of math and make a killing by hiring those who do.
I remember using this a few years ago, but was irritated to see the nested div mess.
It creates unnecessary amount of them to make a view look like what we intend.
Is this common for other WYSIWYG editors for HTML? Or has this been fixed?
Good to see it still kicking around tho, given how frequently things shut down.
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Statistics to English Translation
That's part of the confusion. The C2XXX and C3XXX aren't typical Atoms. They use the brand for an odd range of chips.
Yeah, so nice they publish lists like that for us. I found so many treasures in such publications that I wonder if it is a viable way to advertise.
Then why would he be spending $7 already on a hobby!??!
An opposing point of view, from somebody at Mozilla who cared about the browser and wrote the code: https://yoric.github.io/post/why-did-mozilla-remove-xul-addo...
Nitpick but the genre existed before - Amnesia is a first person horror adventure game and the Penumbra series was their first attempt with almost identical mechanics. However even before there was Call of Cthulhu - and Thomas Grip's (Frictional's programmer) own Unbirth game[0] which was cancelled but they demo uploaded (the downloads do not work but you can find it at the archive[1]). Unbirth feels like a very unfinished Penumbra without the physics stuff (but the horror adventure game elements are still there).

And of course there were similar games going back in time, e.g. Realms of the Haunting [2] and i'm sure you can find many others.

[0] https://unbirth.frictionalgames.com/

[1] https://archive.org/details/unbirth_alpha

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzT27LXpoyc
What would the dividends be here? The article says "shortage", but it's my understanding that health workers are now getting all the PPE they need to stay safe; we're just not quite up to the normal level of abundance where it's disposable. If you sent me 6 months into the past with $10 billion to allocate, I'd surely spend it on vaccine funding.
I spent a bit more than half of my professional career developing in Perl, on a large web application implemented across 100+ modules. All of my work was done through a terminal connected to a remote server, using vim.

When I had to rename something, it was a manual process: one terminal opened to the command line, using grep to locate all of the instances I might want to rename. From there I could use sed or perl on the command line to do the renaming, or I could open individual files in vim. Once in vim, I could use a global search and replace command, or search for each instance and replace manually or with a macro or . command.

Slower than an IDE? Absolutely. But it never changed something I didn't intend to change, and the process taught me the value of good naming conventions. I never felt it was a hassle, and I became very good at refactoring without breaking things.

Today, I use Visual Studio to develop in C#, Javascript, and sometimes Typescript. The C# refactoring tools are great, and I've learned to trust them, though my naming convention habits are still useful when it comes to refactoring names in comments. Javascript, and to a large extent Typescript, generally require my old manual search and replace process. And whenever I do any refactoring, I always have a separate commit for it, which I carefully review to make sure the tools didn't do anything unexpected.
PlayCanvas Game Engine Adds Templates (a.k.a. Prefabs)
> What's wrong with being kind and speaking to people with respect while you disagree with them?

The problem is that people intentionally manipulate what "being kind" means to try to silence others. The tactic, as far as I understand it, is to present an incredible level of sensitivity about anything that happens to disagree with their worldview such that even voicing a different opinion is treated as "disrespectful" and "unkind". It's an intentionally manipulative play that exploits people's desire to get along, with the outcome of only the most sensitive person's opinions being allowed to be voiced, everything else being characterized as unacceptable, and dissenters being ostracized.

It's weaponizing social etiquette as a means to enforce political compliance, all the while crying crocodile tears and claiming that they just want people to be "kind".
David Graeber the anarchist antropologist who recently died had the same argument for UBI as a way of unblocking society from the stagnation the bureaucratic system has imposed on humanity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN9S0HD8VH8
> the people with the power to change the never-ending hamster wheel situation are primarly women

Why have they singled out women here if not to place blame? Women are a product of selection pressures just as much as men are. Moreover, it isn't like women are not on the same hamster wheel as everyone else.
Most of their traffic I suspect is mobile, I don't think that will change even if another desktop option is available.

So the amount of effort to maintain a desktop client(s) now becomes a big hassle if nobody is using it.
huh? looks like it's still holding up?
If you don't think the state should allow incestual, polygamic or polyamorous marriages you are as bigoted as Eich for being against gay marriage.
People switched to Linux to get away from Microsoft, so it makes perfect sense to me that these same people will now use a Microsoft browser that violates their privacy .....
So what would be the equivalent for 2035? Everyone using AR devices or neuralink?
We're back to Dreamweaver?
The sequence doesn't really matter though, does it? Eich felt strongly enough about the issue to donate money to it, then moved to become CEO of a company whose main charter is diametrically opposed to such a stance. I don't see how he would have been able to do that without it coming to a head sooner or later.

Also, and this is just a general observation, whether Eich would have been a good CEO or not is a complete unknown.
Yeah, I am thinking this is because there's no way for Tesla to really lock people into their system - unlike big tech.

Other manufacturers have the mechanical tech, the software tech may not be as differentiating, and the battery tech will leak out.
Microsoft Gets Exclusive License of GPT-3
That depends - where does energy come from. If we never figure out fusion, then it may be we can find the energy to extract a few materials, but not enough to live there long term. Depends on the material - a large platinum (very rare, the industrial need per year is greater than the total production in a century so industry makes do with something not as good) would be worth it, while iron is everywhere on earth so not worth it.
> Morhaime will act as CEO of Dreamhaven as a whole, which will be based in Irvine, California. It marks his first major move in the games industry since stepping down as Blizzard president in 2018 and leaving the company he helped create in 2019.

Sounds like the typical expiration date for a non-compete, so I assume they've been planning to do this for some time.

Let's hope it works out. In this era of constant consolidation, I'm always happy to see new companies spring up.
Frictional Games also developed SOMA. It's also a horror game, but the psychological horror in the game is just a gameplay element where the philosophical topics are embedded.
The tl;dr summary of this post is questioning whether or not it's even possible for TikTok to rank higher in Google than YouTube. People are searching for TikTok influencers on Google, including the branded term "tiktok" in the query and all the top search results are YouTube links. This is a real problem when people can search for your brand and Google can show their own properties ahead of you. That being said, TiKTok has still managed to make some impressive strides with SEO growth over the past 6 months that is worth calling out.
Adding a low-power ARM core to an ARM SoC is the norm. See all these "big-little" configurations.
Well what about the decade of work prior to being CEO? I mean, the guy did create Javascript. For better or worse, it is one of the most popular programming languages in use today.
Maybe trying to generate interest for their upcoming game, Amnesia: Rebirth? Honestly, their stuff is quite good if you like horror games-- Amnesia: Dark Descent and SOMA are excellent!
Glad to see more light shed on the Data-as-a-service biz model!
I once read that code is the what, tests are the why and comments are for jokes.

Of course, I don't believe it to that extreme; comments are sometimes handy. But that's the thing: sometimes, sparingly.

Over the past few years, if I find myself not understanding something about a piece of code, I first go to the tests to see if it was tested, and the tests help me determine what it's supposed to do more than well enough.
> How is software dev breaking your body? Are you typing with your face?

I wrote about it. I consider my brain just like any other muscle of my body, so after 8 hours of work, my brain is quite tired. Perhaps my wording was wrong.

> If you want to be the best version of yourself within 9-5, please fix the bugs that alert on-call the first morning you hear about them. Most developers never do this, which is why they are put on call.

Agree.

> you are hired by a company to make a product that works, so if your product isn't working, you need to fix it

Agree as well, but my contract states "40 hours per week". I'm being plain straightforward here, I'm not willing to give anything for free to any company (does that happen the other way around? Never). Not sure what's "wrong" with this.

> And I stop at 40hr/week too, but once every 8 weeks, I get a few calls about broken shit, and I put in the time to help prevent those from re-occurring, because most people I work with don't.

I have nothing against that, and I respect it. I guess the other way around should work as well, right? Like, if someone is not willing to give more than what's stated in their contract, that should be fine for everyone. What you call "help" sure it's help, but companies are taking it as free labor. I have nothing against companies making money, but I do not support companies making money without having to pay employees for that. But the main point of my first comment was: even though companies are paying for being on-call, one should have the option to say 'No, thanks. I don't want to give you my free time in exchange for more money. I already have enough with my 40h/week schedule', and that should be fine for everybody.
This trick loosely reminds me of Neal Stephenson's excellent Anathem; by imagining a narrative in which you've solved the problem you're trying to solve, you actually create that narrative with the solved problem; then it's just a matter of merging that narrative with your own.
Bluehost Issues: Big problems from Monday with your servers.
Bluehost has had big problems with its servers since Monday sept 21 2020. Any news about it?
> Who are the real crooks?

First they came for the data brokers and I did not speak out because I am not a data broker.
You're missing a big factor: money. It takes significant capital to start your own studio. In games, only the founders are making real cash, and only if they're actually successful the first time around. Programmers make significantly less than they do in other fields, for example.

And then in terms of reputation, very few people in games - usually designers - are household names. I'm talking maybe a dozen or two people in the entire industry (vs hundreds in film). And I would assume that it's very hard to get outside investment without that star power.

Finally, games is an enormously crowded space. Thanks in part to the massive influx of indies, improvement in tools, etc there's an insane amount of oversaturation on platforms like Steam. This means that thousands of high-quality games go completely unnoticed and die a quiet death. Unless you have that star power to get people paying attention in the first place, or you win the social media lottery and go viral, you're probably toast.

So yes, the market is huge and growing, but despite that it remains a really brutal industry to be in. Big studios know this, and they take full advantage of it, knowing that their employees would likely have it even worse if they left.
I do, but also think it deserves more context.

I’m not sure most of the public dialogue is framed correctly. As the parent comment stated, it’s about quantifying risk. We (humans) are generally bad at thinking about risk in statistically relevant sense.

Even before that discussion can happen we need to define what is the appropriate level of non-zero acceptable risk and how to measure it. Is it more appropriate to measure in utilitarian or absolute terms?(E.g., is the risk of death to an elderly nursing home patient equivalent to the risk of death to an otherwise healthy teenager? I.e. are ‘life-years lost’ more important than lives lost?) I don’t know the answers, but only once we understand that risk can we accurately mitigate it.

Bypassing all that is just layering assumptions upon assumptions
Firefox is already dead... which I'm happy about because they're doing a horrible job.

BUT... key point here, I totally agree with them regarding their compensation.

Even non-profits have to be competitive.

Imagine it's YOU... everyone you know is making 350-400k at Google and you're stuck making 180 or whatever at FF. Would you stay?

And sure, say YOU would, what % of your colleagues do you think would stay?
Even if some women blame "all the men" for their problems, that doesn't mean that blaming all women for something in turn is any more justifiable.
You clearly have a narrow view of the history of the United States because before the 1960's a black person could be murdered by a mob for saying the wrong thing to a white person. And those mob murderers would not be prosecuted. You call that a philosophical protection of free speech inshrined within the culture?

Also, you ever hear of anyone in America being punished for saying they're a communist or homosexual? Or is that fiction to you as well?

To any degree free speech was a thing, it was most often selectively afforded to white men. And now it is that same group who coincidentally seems to complain the loudest that they no longer can say exactly what they wish without consequences.
All of the pets in your home wouldn't choose to live with you if they weren't conditioned to already. You would need to abduct them one way or another. They wouldn't volunteer to become food, either. Getting caught by another animal mean becoming food is the alternative to forced labor.
> Planetology

Unfortunately this has some astronomical ring to it. (I do not think most geologists think of the earth as a planet, to be honest.)
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https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://blog.torproject.org... should work.
I wonder why Eich went with Chromium/Blink and didn't decide to continue to use Firefox/Gecko as the basis for Brave?