skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you deny the remit of BBC one is as stated and the BBC doesn't operate under that principle?
This definitely seems like a legitimate test. Especially with the music and everything.
I'll point out that many of these annoyances don't have equivalents on the command-line. And the annoyances I do have on the command line I can mostly work around with wrapping things in shell scripts, aliases, or functions.

It's nice to have a simple interface and high extensibility on top of it.
A sibling comment mentioned that theres wikimedia Catalonia.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24589655
I think everyone has their own preference to learn but I second this recommendation. Videos work well to have a friendly face explain how things work and get interest generated, but if you intend to level up your programming skill you are better off reading code documentation and googling your way through every concept that needs explaination. Videos don't allow you to navigate away from the original learning path. I personally keep finding myself in situations where I am reading something up and want to fork out to get a good grasp on a concept being discussed. Text is your friend.
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Portugal AFAIK ain't legalizing a thing, just making possession a non-crime. And obviously very limited possession. Which is a progress compared to US' creation of whole jail-for-money industry in the past where few joints could easily ruin rest of your life, but far cry from what consumers really want - just go to shop and buy the god damn thing, legally, with safety and purity guarantees, and all constraints applied (ie age).

Ie if you want to smoke a joint, you still have to go to same illegal drug dealers as everywhere else. Just police won't bother you if they find you with that joint, they will just take it from you (some places like Switzerland can put a fine on top of that, decriminalization has many flavors around the world).
So when does that change to require multiple votes to veto, at minimum to see who's aligned with who?
GWT isn't officially deprecated, although it's not getting much attention.
Explain further, please. I don't think I'm following you.
>For full disclosure, most of the images I got of the protests personally were from a twitch stream called "Woke" which was a compilation stream of about usually 5-10 simultaneous protest streams from different cities. I don't think I ever once witnessed arson or another crime, despite having watched that stream ever night during the height of the protests.

Sorry, but this is classical gas-lighting. This is absolutely equivalent to saying - I saw Leni Riefenstahl's movies and there were no people dying in concentration camps, so Nazi propaganda is factually correct. There are tens of thousands of criminal acts documented during those 'peaceful' protests and I don't think that anyone with IQ >80 and the slightest bit of self-respect would ever take what you're saying seriously.

Btw, these days even far-left HN seems to be split in two and I was sure it would be one of the last bastions of group-think. I guess we live and learn.
As Douglas Adams famously said, "Technology is stuff that doesn’t work yet".
Wasn't gmail down about 1month ago? Jeez, my boss looks at me weird now for switching to gSuite 4months ago
Ah yes, the random twitter account from China. The best of journalistic sources
Power and Politics in Today's World (2019)
They suffer from the same problem of requiring third party maintainers to keep software working.
In this article: 5000 words about "what is programming".

Then, waaay down at the bottom, the actual list of YouTube channels.

Seriously, this is worse than those recipes where you have to get through three anecdotes about cooking with grandma.
Ha, they truly are that corporation from wall-e. When blue origin eventually begins offering space cruise vacations it will really seal the deal.
This is not covid news. It is hackernews. This article doesn't touch on anything startups or tech.

It is purely partisan propaganda and is divisive. Please don't post this material
My point was its obvious and I'm not sure what the purpose of the article is? Other than to promote paid security products
I agree with you but you could say the same thing about a lot of linux installations.

"Its easy to install arch, all you have to do is run these 10 arcane commands"

With some linux distros is definitely feels like it is hostile to entry-level users. Which is probably by design, but I'm just saying that Windows isn't the only OS where you have to do a bunch of weird hostile setup stuff when you first install it
Their power to regulate protests is about the same as their power to regulate religious gatherings, which they had no problem doing.
I have a friend whos a raging alcoholic who's almost died from alcohol intoxication, and I have a cousin who has overdosed on prescription pain killers. I also know a few acquaintances who have died from prescription fentanyl.

The answer here isn't to make alcohol illegal, or to ban prescription pain killers, because that would surely exacerbate the problem.

I don't know why Americans seem to think that banning substances and jailing people who use them is the answer to this problem.
It was only a few years ago that, if you didn't want everything to look like crap, you needed to install Infinality-patched libs and explicitly configure font hinting. How far we've come.
This better fits the "compelling narrative" rather than "surprising events" mode. Perhaps combining them.

The right story, told the right way, at the right time.
Hong Kong, Singapore, and overseas Chinese have a big impact on the Chinese content. Hong Kong even used to have a chapter (now it's a user group, for reporting compliance reasons)
People should be able to legally port their email address to another service
Protests aren't a monolith, though. People come and go throughout the course of the protest. They are loose in organization, and the participants are generally unaffiliated.
For anyone who doesn’t know what Pret is, they’re a British sandwich & coffee chain (coffee that’s a tad above McDonald’s quality). The article should have been marked as an ad; Pret have recently been running promotions to entice customers back into their stores with cheap coffee (first 20 cups for £20, now £20/month unlimited subscription).
I can't find legit journalism anywhere anymore. There's only Narrative and Opinion.
It's possible to use DeDRM tools from the command line, the plugin just makes it easier.

Simply git clone https://github.com/apprenticeharper/DeDRM_tools/ and then:

python2.7 DeDRM_tools/DeDRM_plugin/k4mobidedrm.py \
-k ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/kindle/drive_c/users/*/Local Settings/Application Data/DeDRMPrefs/kindlekey.k4i' \
~/Documents/My\ Kindle\ Content/book.azw .

or

python2.7 DeDRM_tools/DeDRM_plugin/ineptepub.py \
adeptkey.der book.epub book_dedrm.epub

(I'm not exactly sure where to get adeptkey.der but I'm certain it can be extracted from an old python2 Calibre + DeDRM installation.)
Amusingly enough back when I was still active editing on Wikipedia, there was a lot of trouble related to sourcing articles. Because the media in PRC itself is restricted, you have very less sources you can trust. You can't source content from sources like GT but do you trust CGTN, Xinhua? Eventually, you have to because if you don't you would be left with very less coverage and one from a western perspective even if Xinhua probably doesn't have the credibility/reputation of say BBC.
> What once was a culture of skepticism in the US seems to have devolved into a culture of mistrust. I wonder what has driven this apparent shift.

I spend time with both elites (academic, professional class, government bureaucrats) and with working class people. I can, anecdotally, tell you pretty easily why there's so much mistrust. The elite class has shifted wildly away from traditional narratives about how the world works, and toward post modernism and intersectionality, while the working class has largely stayed with traditional views.

Those two views are fundamentally incompatible. When working class people hear views that don't align with theirs over and over stated as facts, and often forced on them, they cease to trust the people pushing them. This is why they love people like Donald Trump, he understanding this dynamic and panders to it, using it for his own ends.

Elites are largely viewed by the working class as either out of touch, corrupt liars, or malicious social-engineers looking to erode society. It shouldn't be a surprise that they don't trust them. The sad result is that these people then fall back to trying to find "truth" themselves, and end up with some strange, often dangerous, results.

The candle in the dark is being lost in the west.
What everyone should know about how encoding works
The DRM doesn't improve typography, the newer format does.
That's not what happened. They intentionally told people to stop buying masks when they KNEW they would help, because they were worried about running out of them for medical professionals.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7
Paradox-Free Time Travel Is Theoretically Possible
I don't see it is a picking a fight at all, and I'm petty sure that's counter to their intentions. I really don't get why some people get upset here. Nobody is saying it is OSI open source. But it's the next closest thing, so a comparison is natural and effective communication.
> Media reports "fiery, but mostly peaceful protests".

> What intelligent person can cope with the dissonance of arson = peace?

The first statement sounds more like an ampersand than an equals sign.
All you need to know is the channel bandwidth (say 20-50khz) and noise floor power relative to rx power to give maximum data transfer rate (Shannon-Hartle theorem). Capacity = (Bandwidth) * log2 (1 + recieve_power / noise_floor_power). There is also a lot of em noise going on - just like sound. I would expect sound to be many orders of magnitude less power effecient/bit than EM - but the principles basically the same
It's one thing to tinker with Linux to learn how the OS works and another thin to troubleshoot it just as you are about to give a presentation.
People want to drive cars, not all of them want to be mechanics.

People want their phones and software to just work. Or at the very least not get bricked every friggin update.
Obviously, you can't prove anything about what would have occurred in counterfactual circumstances in any strong sense, but you can get a pretty good idea from looking at excess deaths.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
I don't know who "they" you are referring to (plenty of organizations covered the violence...) nor why they would not cover the violence in the protests but consider the following possibilities:

1. Executives at the news agencies told the reporters to cover the protests favorably for corrupt reasons

2. The news reporters and camera crew were at the protests for several hours and genuinely got a lot of footage of peaceful protests; the violence happened at 2 AM when most protestors had gone home, and were both not filmed by the camera crew and seemed unrelated to the protest that the camera crew had covered

3. Most of "them" did in fact cover in the violence in some amount, maybe less footage or less coverage then you think is appropriate but some amount of coverage nonetheless. However, because "they" are an unspecific and presumably large number of media channels that run all day long, you probably weren't watching all of the coverage and you might have missed it (or the sources that tell you "they" didn't cover the violence hadn't mentioned that they actually did cover it a little)

I can't tell you which is true between 1-3, because I don't know who "they" refers to, and I know I don't watch "them" anyways because I never watched mainstream coverage of the protests. Just some food for thought, again that we are quick to turn to instant distrust before we apply nuance and consider the alternative.
People are most definitely getting messed up on albuterol. Pretty much any inhaler, actually. Same with those vapor nose sticks that - folks take the pellet out and get high.

Nyquil and other cough syrups? Yup, folks are getting high off of it. That cold medicine for folks with high blood pressure? Yup. Mucinex? Check. Pretty much anything for asthma? Yup. And slews of other medications. This is why you have pharmacies that keep some medications behind the counter, even though there is a spot on the shelves and they are OTC: These are high theft items.

But then again, I've seen someone get high in the pharmacy from a can of canned air.

(I used to work at a pharmacy in the states).
> Isn't the point of tech to tinker?

What no extremely not. It's to... do things? Tinkering with tech is cool if that's your hobby but it's not mine and I'm trying to do shit not pick up another hobby here.

It's like the people that argue that cars have lost something intrinsic in recent decades and now no one knows how to do work on their own vehicles. That standard was an artifact of unreliability, not something to be applauded.

Tech should get out of the way and let you do what you're trying to do. If "tinker" is that thing then sure have fun. But for most people that's not the point at all.
UDPA Implemented Using EBPF?
According to the article, if you believe that "CDC, are exaggerating the danger posed by the virus in order to damage Donald Trump’s presidency" then you're believing in a conspiracy theory.

As someone living in Europe, I don't care two hoots about Trumps presidency, but I do think that the danger of this virus, and the current responses have been exaggerated.

In the beginning, when so many things were unknown, it was perfectly understandable and appropriate to overreact.

But now that it's largely clear that this virus is not much more lethal than the flu, (and that with the recent surge in cases in Europe, the deaths have remained largely flat), I struggle to understand the fear-mongering and hand-wringing.

My guess is, instead of a conspiracy, it's a case of a massive sunk cost fallacy, whereby politicians and high profile celebrity epidemiologists etc. can't admit that they were wrong in their original estimations.
SmartNICs and SmartSSDs, the Future of Smart Acceleration
How poker and a spaceship imposter game make you better at life
“Just 20 years ago..."

Personally, when people think we are making good progress on something, I’m reminded of these words:

“Before this decade is out...”

Sure, great and rapid progress might require a couple percent of US GDP, and a million people working on a problem, but advancing medical research a few decades in the next 10 years, would benefit everyone.
100%. With a drawn-out phase 3 and oodles of black-box warnings to boot.

And why is there so much credulity in this thread? In fact why isn't paracetamol's toxicity more well known? My mom is a nurse and I have an undergrad in chemistry and it wasn't till college senior year in a pharmacochem elective that I learned how narrow the therapeutic range is, and how alcohol shrinks it further to the point where accidentally nerfing your liver with booze and dayquil is plausible.
True. However if they had better means they’d chose to go vegetarian right?
Saying they don’t work or aren’t necessary was a lie. I’m honestly not trying to stir anything up here, but a lie is a lie.

Here’s an interview where Fauci discusses point-blank why the American public was mislead, and it had nothing to do with data: https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...

We need to hold our leaders to a higher standard. All of them. Red, blue, green, whatever.
Taiwanese official language is also mandarin, so it doesn't really make sense. Apart from the obvious Civil War issues, there is also another aspect to this: The CPC has done their very best to disemphasize the differences between "Han" Chinese, and discouraging the use of local languages like Shanghainese or Cantonese.

China is obsessed with unity and stability (with good historical reason), and very paranoid about foreigners trying to divide and conquer them (also with good reasons), and sometimes this takes on slightly ridiculous forms as in the wikimedia example.
> What intelligent person would trust institutions that are inconsistent [...]

An intelligent person would trust institutions that change their mind more, because it's the right thing to do.

Institutions that remain utterly consistent in the face of evolving knowledge are the ones you should be wary of.

I saw an analogous thing in the much simpler world of signal processing and statistical estimation. Estimators and control systems sometimes oscillate as new data is acquired. It seems counterintuitive, more data should just improve accuracy, right? As if to converge toward an underlying true value? No, sometimes the best possible estimate and control output oscillates gently as more data is acquired, without any inconsistency. It took me a while to appreciate that.

Back to the big picture of institutions. Inconsistency over time may seem dissonant, but it shouldn't. It can be the most correct and accurate recommendation over time as new data and knowledge is accumulated. In an evolving situation, you should be seeing this.

The fact is people do cite inconsistency as a reason to disbelieve, and it puts public health policymakers in a dilemma. If they tell the truth and give the best advice to follow, people don't believe it because the truth is complicated and counterintuitive, and best advice rightly changes over time, and in different locations, circumstances, etc. So they have to walk a line between fully detailed truth, and simplified advice that people en masse are more inclined to believe and follow.

(I don't disagree with your other assertions about accountability etc).
Isn't everything political these days? Advocating against govt backdoors is "political". Advocating for LGBT rights is "political". Joining WIPO is political, because they clearly want to influence how intellectual property laws are developed/written.
How would you improve the economy? Thus far it appears while the economy has grown the distribution of the benefits has been skewed. Some appear to be worse off as the country as whole is getting richer.
MakAir: Covid-19 ventilator with a Raspberry Pi
A large percentage of those people would have died within the next year anyway.

Covid Survival Rate:

0-19 years - 99.997%

20-49 years - 99.98%

50-69 years - 99.5%

70+ years - 94.6%
Ah well you see Tesla's system is so sophisticated that it knew that it was a dummy and not a real pedestrian.
I can't count how many times I've shown up for work excited to continue working on something that's going to have a big impact that I'm really making progress on - only to be interrupted by something trivial and meaningless and by the time I get back around to what I was doing find it stale and uninspiring.
Downvoted for:
(a) Sounding like a canned response
(b) "We are sorry that we gave you this perception" passive aggressive gaslighting and abdication of any responsibility to the user. Really, I've barely ever heard of zoho and had no opinion of them _until_ this response. Now zoho's on my fuck-them list for talking this way to a customer.

Speak like a human for fuck's sake.
Well, then there is also the annoyance of having way too many wrappers to wrap your head around, and it's one that I personally encounter somewhat regularly. Still has not figured out how to deal with that one.
I kind of agree, but calling it technology is pretty broad (article it's mostly app related). Technology-wise, I also expect things ranging from a flashlight to a CT scan to not suck, and they usually do not.

Edit: flashlight instead of torchlight.
Alcohol is more deadly than cocaine (by far) and even heroin. By that definition, it's certainly a hard drug.
This poster comes into nearly every Assange Trial thread and attempts to discredit Craig Murray and discredit his reporting. No attempt to actually discuss the trial at all.

Stop feeding the troll.
Somewhat tangential, but that trend isn't limited to South Africa. "White silence = violence", for example.
Thanks. That study doesn't measure any sort of disease spread. It measures the density of candle smoke on either side of the mask.
And Dick Cheney was never even charged with outing Valerie Plame.
Parent asked for evidence that mass mask wearing prevent the spread of the disease. You presented a study that shows some masks if worn properly block some viruses.

Can you see how the study you presented doesn't answer parent post's question?

Further, your study tests the first breath exhalation.

> We screened 3,363 individuals in two study phases, ultimately enrolling 246 individuals who provided exhaled breath samples (Extended Data Fig. 1). Among these 246 participants, 122 (50%) participants were randomized to not wearing a face mask during the first exhaled breath collection and 124 (50%) participants were randomized to wearing a face mask. Overall, 49 (20%) voluntarily provided a second exhaled breath collection of the alternate type.

So, your test says "when you put on a mask that mask will, immediately after you put it on, stop your exhaled breath hitting a plate placed in front of your mouth".

It says nothing about how effective that mask is over time.
Astronomers find evidence of an extragalactic planet 23 million light years away
So what if it was?

The site is already blocked inside of China and will remain blocked as long as there is one word that the communists don't like.

Do you think that is the only reason? How about the content Great Leap Forward or Uighur concentration camps?

Should Wikipedia remove all content disliked by the CCP?
Why wouldn't any other government follow the same pattern and block the Foundation from joining next year?
Would you use Wikipedia if you knew any page was potentially full of incorrect and untruthful information?
No. MP4 is based on MOV. MP4 is typically going to have h.264 video with AAC audio. MOV is not limited in video codec, nor audio codec. Even though MediaInfo reports MOV as MPEG-4, they are not the same.
I think that person lives in a Qt bubble.
> Institutional trust has eroded. I think the biggest problem is social media.

Why do you jump straight to social media?

Why wouldn't the fault lay with the authority figures themselves? For decades we have authority figures saying "the science says X therefore you must Y" while at the same time we have an educational system that (correctly) says "science is not authoritative".

Maybe if we had leaders that were less hubristic and lead with uncertainty on scientific matters and are careful to get buy in on nonscientific (i.e. ethical or self-serving) grounds this would happen less.
That's a Wikimedia thematic organization, not a Wikimedia chapter like Wikimedia Taiwan. And neither of them are the Wikimedia Foundation.

* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_thematic_organizat...

* https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters
Making harmful drug dealing illegal while providing support to those addicted would be a good way to handle it IMO. I DO NOT want opioids or meth legalized, they are entirely too harmful to the user and those around them.