skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for posting this article OP. It's just what I needed to read right now.

It seems so common these days to think of leaders as "captains of industry" or any other exhausting exaltations of strongmen, literally or figuratively. And yet such breathless smarmy dreck belies that the world is on fire; figuratively, literally, interpersonally. We are more isolated now than we have ever been, and the great flattener of technology and capital threaten to steamroll us or those less fortunate than us; and we are, as always, powerless but to watch aghast. We see the suicide numbers tick up in lock step with the virus. Perhaps we are on some subconscious level forced to admit that people are truly dying of broken hearts. Perhaps we are all much closer to that precipice than we could ever be comfortable with.

I think that in times like this, spiritual leaders are forged from the crucible. Spiritual leaders speak to the human; they inspire, they bring hope. But a demagogue is no diplomat; the former seeks to strategically amplify and wedge, the latter to soothe and balance. I think that all great spiritual leaders must actually be competent writers or perhaps world builders. The diplomat trafficks in details, personalities and emotions, and the ways in which their exchange can accomplish coordination. They are civic servants, first and foremost. No amount of clever marketing or messaging can shortcut this necessary and exhausting toil.

And so too is this the case with the writer. The skills that make for great copy, sloganeering and samizdat unfortunately do not make for relatable characters and narratives that stand the test of time. To depict human nature faithfully is to depict it in all of its flawed, earnest, conflicting and vulnerable fragilities; it is to be able to write not just the epic but the anti-epic.

I cannot help but think of what a colossal waste of perfectly good life it is to reduce human existence to the drudgery of the coliseum. And yet, when confronted with reality, I must almost everyday glumly admit that such a reality is the one we live in. I wish we lived in a softer world, a world more accommodating of the spirit.
> despite evidence against Amnesty ?

Please share those that are relevant to this case.
I boil vegetables and tip them into a strainer when cooking at home. I don't see how the same process done at a larger scale would be worse for nutrition.
There was ClubNokia where you could pay by SMS for ringtones and on certain phones - games. Many 3rd s60 app stores were just credit card collection places and malware distribution centers. None of the stores were preloaded on the phone.

Steam probably had first "app store", but it has to be installed separately and usually you don't have to use it for the most part - you often could buy it online directly from the publisher or on CD/DVD.

PS Store launched in 2006. That's closest to what Apple did. Actually, exactly the same for most part until Apple added in-app, subscriptions etc. Difference was that to get listed on App Store you just had to pay $100 and make application that follows guidelines.

Here is where there are lot differences:

- Legally you can't sell any software for PlayStation without Sony getting a cut.
- That includes physical media
- Steam can only get it cut from sales on its store
- Publishers/developers can either sell directly to you without anyone getting a cut
- Or they can sell you a steam code and then steam doesn't get a cut

This is why I'm saying that Apple is closer to Sony than Steam.

I don't know where 30% cut came from, but I know steam has the same cut.
I know that, because we already got ITER, which is widely expected to be energy positive. Moreover, the ITER approach is known to scale upwards: in fact, the ITER is so large, because it's the smallest size that is expected to work.
Polish miners' blood boosts search for new Covid-19 drug
I hope the debugging story for Rust gets better: https://nbaksalyar.github.io/2020/05/19/rust-debug.html
On the scale of a personal blog, its approximately 0 minutes per year to maintain HTTPS certificates using Lets Encrypt with something like certbot (or use Caddy, which handles it on it own).
"I love Terry Pratchett, but is there any evidence that this is true in our modern economy?"

Certainly. It is well-documented that the supermarket chains that pop up in economically disadvantaged parts of the USA while established supermarkets pull out, are actually more expensive. While the package on the shelf might seem the same price as in a more mainstream supermarket, it in fact holds less contents.
There are alternative approaches though? Coating it with wax?
Data isn't locked to one platform.

You can transfer photos, mail, browser history etc between phones and app data is of course managed by the app.
I'm about to start down a road that might lead to where you are, but my target audience is a bit more mature and laid back so it might not be an issue.

But what you said reminded me of a conversation we had here a month ago. I think it may be that I reserve image upload functionality for users who have proven their humanness (and their humanity).

In my case image quality matters much more than quantity, so I can afford to make that choice.
Forcing people to use headsets protects everyone from feedback, not from ambient noise.
Fish functions are just gorgeous, and what made me drop Zsh like a hot potato. Suppose you want to make an automatically loaded (that is, not defined in the shell's rc file) function called foo. Here's how you do it:

- Make a file named ~/.config/fish/functions/foo.fish

- Inside it, define a function named "foo"

That's it. Now when you open a new shell and try to run the command "foo", Fish will look for the file named foo.fish in that directory, load and execute it, then call the foo function from in it.

Now, create an autoloaded function in Zsh or Bash without looking at a man page.

There are a million little niceties like that where I'd assumed that a certain task had to be complicated because every shell I'd used before had made it complicated, but then Fish came up with a nice convention for making it simple. Want to make a function to dynamically set your shell's prompt? Create a function named "fish_prompt" in the file ~/.config/fish/functions/fish_prompt.fish. Ta-da - turns out it doesn't have to be a pain in the neck to do that.

I completely agree about using it as a scripting language, though. It's great for making functions for your interactive shell, but stick with sh or bash (or Python) for writing more sophisticated stuff.
The dark side of plant-based food – it’s more about money than you may think
What a beautiful study resource.
I remember first time seeing Elastic Search around 2012. Shay Banon was the sole commiter for over two years at the time. Never underestimate determined founders.
I haven't seen any machine where the sensor dry worked.
Do those people know they've been hired for show, so that Amazon can deny that they're not trying to solve the problem that they're profiting from?
From the blog linked in the comments: “We don’t want to know what you do on the Internet — it’s not our business”. So they built a product that allows others to track what you are doing. And they don’t fingerprint, because “users have no way to opt out”, so they track server-side with no way to opt-out. I feel gaslighted.
There's something that feels so archaic about using a nuclear reactor to... boil water and spin a turbine. It's disappointing that we haven't figured out a better way to convert to electrical energy than what we were using in the 1800s.
Just noticed that the OBS project makes about 2.5k per month on Patreon. That's a bit sad, considering basically all of Twitch and the most of the YouTube scene uses it to record and stream their videos, and they tend to use and recommend Patreon to their own viewers.

They'd be in a pickle if tomorrow OBS Studio were to disappear.
> this is still exciting given how anemic advancement in the fusion space has been for 50+ years.

"Nuclear fusion. 30 years away since 1950"

Joking aside. I too am glad to see some progress of any kind, and new (seemingly credible) initiatives being funded and pursued
I personally know several(!) instances where “the smart and brilliant sibling” went for university, the “quiet one went for an apprenticeship” - and the pay off has been substantially more beneficial for the people taking the apprenticeship road even though the “college siblings” didn’t exactly fail or end up unemployed

I think it's fairly easy to see this type of outcome if the major was a humanity and the trade was something like plumber, electrician, or climate control, even in the US.

The problem is, no family ever considers both to be valid options.

There are families where it's just assumed you'll go to college and no one even questions it. (They don't even stop think, wait, this gal would be a great plumber and easily make six figures as her own boss!)

There are families where college is something "extra" that's not required.

I know of no families (though I'm sure they exist) where plumber is considered an equally honorable profession as accountant or teacher.

There's a kind of social stigma attached to the trades, for want of a better word.
> I don't think it's cheaper, it's just that a solution has yet to exist. Once it start working, it will go out at breakneck pace.

I don't think this is a single problem. There are several dimensions to it, and you can trivialize some at the expense of others. Stop storing things compactly in bins and you can make it a lot easier to grab those things with a robotic arm. Give everything very robust packaging and you no longer have to worry about appropriate grip strength.
How hard can it be? Keeping inventory from different sources separate should go a long way to fixing things. Right now, as a customer I can't rely on the trustworthiness of the seller because they may not be the one who supplied the product I ultimately get.
People seem to have really grabbed on to me supposedly holding the view that “debating immigration is offensive and therefor off limits”.

Perhaps I wasn’t clear enough (which is likely; English is not my first language).

This sub-thread started with an ancestor complaining about people being afraid to discuss certain topics because people are too easily offended, this was expressed as a bad thing:

> The only thing worse than people who are offended by everything is having to be afraid of offending over-sensitive people.

The comment keeps going by pointing out that adults should be able to handle these “offensive” topics and debate them like adults.

A grandparent pointed out that there is truth in this point of view, but this is often used as a critique on “the left” which is unfounded since “left-leaning folks [...] _do_ engage with many people whose experience and world view are very different from them”.

I then point out in my comment above that I agree and—further—being insulted and angry when these topics spring up is perfectly natural:

> A number of people have full rights to be insulted when points are raised on a number of subjects.

I think a lot of people have taken the view that since I think being offended when debating the rights of disenfranchised people I must be for shutting down all debate about it. And while I think that is the right thing to do in certain cases I certainly don’t think that nobody is allowed to debate immigration on a public forum.

My point is that—depending on your stance—people might get offended and angry as you are debating this. It might be theoretical to you, but it might be very real to some people in the room. If your stance is really brutal you shouldn’t be surprised if some people—who may have their or loved once lives threatened by that stance—want to “cancel you”. To reiterate, my point is that it is not a bad thing if some people are afraid to voice their opinions in a public forum, when their opinions are threatening to disenfranchised people.
>Like the millenial kids who grew up without father figure or a stable family.

Grew out in a stable family, although very corrupt one, I remember handing money to judges and other officials as a teen, and smuggling goods through the Venezuelan border, about 10 members of my family were killed and military service is mandatory here.

> Like college going students who have been brainwashed by leftists to seek state protection everywhere in terms of safe spaces.

College has never been free in Colombia and I've never been in one, additionally constantly the government is trying to privatize primary and secondary education so the poor can no longer educate themselves, you develop your own opinion based on your environment.

All policies implemented by the right wing have had disastrous consequences and are done with malice.

Additionally the Colombian government seems to fight an endless imaginary war against drugs even though every single right wing politician has ties with drug cartels, like the president [1], or the vice president (her siblings were jailed in the US) [2] and her husband was the main partner of one of the most powerful cartel leader [3], or the Colombian ambassador of Uruguay who had a cocaine lab [4], or the father of the ex president Alvaro Uribe Velez who was the main partner if not the boss of Pablo Escobar [5].

1: https://colombiareports.com/we-got-a-president-and-we-got-fr...

2: https://elpais.com/internacional/2020-06-12/la-vicepresident...

3: https://www.insightcrime.org/investigations/invisible-drug-l...

4: https://es.euronews.com/2020/02/14/descubren-un-laboratorio-...

5: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaciones_entre_la_familia_Ur...
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB131/
I’ve never used Tridactyl, but I switched from vim vixen to qutebrowser and found the full browser allows a much deeper vim integration and customization than a plugin ever could.

I’d highly recommend checking out qutebrowser if you are interested in this type of thing.
>If you want to have a private conversaion, social media doesn't seem to be a good vehicle for it. Much like airing your dirty laundry in the town square has been considered bad etiquette, airing personal greivances on the internet seems to be in poor taste.

An excellent point. Although not a new or particularly profound one.

When the large corporation I worked for back in the mid-1990s connected their email system to the larger internet, all employees were sent a memo discussing the advantages and issues with this.

It was recommended (paraphrasing) that employees shouldn't "put anything in an email that they wouldn't want to see on the cover of their local newspaper." That was back when local newspapers were a thing, but the principle still applies.

In fact, it applies even more strongly to the current social media environment. And it's still good advice.

That said, the rise of online communication and social media have reduced the personal and private interactions that people have.

Many on HN (and everywhere else too) won't answer phone calls at all, instead relying on SMS/Slack/WhatsApp, etc.

And formerly private conversations about one's personal life now take place on online platforms like Facebook, which ruthlessly exploits every bit of information they can get to "optimize the ad delivery experience."

One of the worst offenders is GMail, of course. They read all of your emails as a matter of course. Again in an effort to "better target advertising."

Which is why I'm surprised that anyone with even a passing interest in privacy would use either of those platforms. I certainly don't.

When I have a voice conversation (whether that be on a phone call or in person), as long as I'm cognizant of who is in hearing distance of my voice, I can be relatively (unless I'm being specifically targeted for close surveillance) sure that my conversation is private.

But any text-based communication that utilizes a centralized resource to route such communications is incredibly vulnerable to exposure and can't be trusted to provide a private communications channel.

Yes, this is oversimplified. No, I don't discuss encrypted voice/text mechanisms like Signal, PGP, SMIME, etc. here.

I didn't do so because most folks are unaware/unwilling/unable to use such secure communications mechanisms anyway, so their utility is severely limited.
Not only is the "climate change" analogy strained, it perfectly contradicts their argument, showing both its weakness and their total lack of self-awareness.

The positions on climate change range from "existential threat to all life on the planet within 20 years and our way of life" to "mass hysteria founded by fault-ridden scientific evidence whose solutions are an existential threat to the global economy and our way of life". These positions in particular are held by a significant percentage of the population of the Western world, and most people cluster near one of these two extremes. In other words, it is an extremely polarizing issue that, for many, colors how they perceive other people, should they discover their positions.

The creators of this website suggest that social media and data-mining are forcing people to self-censor and not freely express themselves, but then proceed to frame the contentious political issue of climate change as a believer/denialist modality. The authors make it clear that they don't want people to have a nuanced opinion on climate change, they want them to conform to the "unquestionable truth".

But it is this form of rigid thinking that causes people to self-censor, not the intangible specter of "big-data" and "the algorithm". If you were employed by someone who made it clear that they are only interested in hiring people who were devout Christian, you wouldn't openly share your atheist views publicly. Western society as a whole is selecting more and more topics, like climate change, where to be on the record holding a conflicting opinion is disastrous for your relationships with friends, family, and employers. This fact isn't a fault of the technology, though the technology might be the reason society is becoming rapidly intolerant of dissent.

Conflict and social guardedness like this is guaranteed to arise when we have a political landscape that is so divided and thinks everything is on the line.
Many people experience legitimate problems in life to which the've only been offered solutions like xenophobia.
Thanks again for the reply.
virtual camera will be fun to abuse
Living beings normally strive to make their spices survive as a group. There are billions of cows now. The bad side is that they are not evolving in the way how it could be in the wild, but they are not going extinct like dinosaurs either. Also, cows were hunted and killed by other animals in way more cruel manner than people do this now. I think they way how they are treated will be even better with time. Therefore their life along with humans is way more humane than what would happen to them in wild. Not so bad deal.
Extra compatibility has been added lately, like && and ||. More bash syntax Just Works now.

I think it's fair to say "If it doesn't work in fish, just type `bash` to enter a bash shell and try again."
If you read the article, life went on for the rich. Others just suffered.
It's not live and let live, it's live within the lines or be penalized. This isn't immediately terrible if you actually like living within those lines, but that's a big if. And what about when you or the lines change and they no longer align so well?

There's a big difference between politeness and total conformity to established (by the powerful) norms. Disagreeing (politely) with government policy on a public forum could easily prevent you from obtaining certain positions or status in the future if this is an accurate trend.

Not to mention that the freedom to go outside of convention without arbitrarily large punishment is worth preserving in of itself.
> The reactor (a single one!) uses something like 40% of the world's current annual production of beryllium. If all the world's estimated resource of Be is used to make these reactors, it would be enough for reactors producing just 1% of world primary energy demand.

That's crazy. I guess if the design works out we can start casting about for a beryllium replacement.
An amazing piece of open-source software.

My colleagues keep spawning Teams meetings just to record their screens; meanwhile, I can open OBS, add a screen recording element, resize it however I like, set the bitrate, encoding type, resolution, scaling, and record beautiful 60fps demos.

And that's literally the simplest scenario. The amount of stuff you can do with video compositing in this tool is insane.
Thanks for elaborating.

I think where the disagreement may be is that the internet (defined as the applications, not as the infrastructure), and social media in particular, isn't optimized for open communication or sharing different viewpoints. It's optimized for capturing our attention. Unfortunately, the way it often does this is by hijacking our psychology; one way is by confirmation bias and another is by inducing outrage (which strengthens our pre-existing beliefs). The flow of information is not "free"; it's curated to the ends of the attention economy so even while there is a lot more availability of information, it's passing through some filters that may not be the most productive for society. In other words, it's designed to reinforce our pre-existing beliefs rather than challenge them.

Those filters become social media's own "layers of privileges" to a certain extent. I think the downside with those compared to previous media is that the new filters are much more difficult to interpret compared with, say, a newspaper's political leanings.
CCP's influence doesn't end at China's borders.
I'm not an epidemiologist either, but to this layperson, the viruses studied seem to have been chosen on criteria that select for short-lived immunity. It seems likely that "seasonal" viruses, viruses "that regularly circulate to cause the condition we recognize as the common cold" must induce short-lived immunity.

Would it be possible for a virus that induced long-lived immunity to be seasonal, reoccurring year after year?

And why were the other coronaviruses that infect humans left out of the study?
I wasn't aware of any radioactive waste from these fusion processes. I was also under the impression that fusion fuel is quite abundant (Deuterium and Lithium as an example discussed in one of the videos linked in the comments).
No it doesn't. By your own admission:

> They're explicitly talking about not logging into machines for log access.

Why can't you just admit that you didn't read the thread properly rather than insulting all of our intelligence with these piss poor mental gymnastics where you redefine the context of what people had very clearly written.
In the US, I've seen toilets like this with two buttons distinguished with icons. One had a single water droplet, the other had two droplets.
Is it wrong to suggest that this (if accurate) is a positive trend?

If it's a completely inaccurate trend, I suppose your suggestion then completely misses the hoop, so to speak. If anything, it seems like a lack of privacy has heated things up through the micro-marketing of a hundred types of off-kilter reasons to be angry to a hundred different slightly skewed personality types.