skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not punish the disruption instead of banning bodily function breaks?
It's not interesting though, except to the handful of people who did it, it's even more boring now than it was at the time.

The main consequence of that flooding, disrupting and destroying of newsgroups is people moved on to the shiny social media sites, and Usenet was effectively killed off.
I didn't have an impression that line numbers were important. Most of the time they did nothing and were unwieldy to maintain, they were more nuisance than anything else.
This isn't people working 24 hours a day, these are people working 8-hour shifts (day, swing, and night.) Just like every factory job.
I'm not ra-ra US on this issue, but "might" is operative here. The world was lucky that the marginally better US came along, and that's even granting, which I do, that the UK empire receding was good. The problem is that there is nothing guaranteeing that the successor will be better (or less worse) or worse.
The key to why the Oklo reactor was possible was not that a natural process separated U-235 from U-238 from a Uranium ore, but that the reactor existed 1.7 billion years ago. U-235 has a half life of about 700 million years so the ratio of U-235 to U-238 in naturally occuring Uranium decreases over time.

U-235 was about 3.1% of Uranium in ores 1.7 billion years ago and is what can be used in some reactors today. Uranium ore today has only about %0.72, so an Oklo type natural reactor could not form on today's Earth. See [1] for a good description; the atlasobscura article is poor and factually incorrect in places.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reacto...
> and Oculus is the primary driver of progress in VR today.

Eh...I'd hand that title to Valve.
I'm not sure it's still really cognitive dissonance when they admitted their error in marketing it that way, announced they were working on exactly this to provide what their claims said, and now they're saying it's done?

Sounds like they got a sudden spike in interest, realized that their customers were angry, admitted the error, bought keybase, and provided what their customers asked them for.
it was actually a private school, so it's primary purpose was to satisfy its customers (the parents). in a way, that makes it even more baffling.
Summer 2020 is infinite.
That specific example is most certainly privilege. Being able to find gainful employment where you live is usually hard to come by. The overwhelming majority of people who _have_ to leave their home country in order to find work are definitely not privileged.
And to think Facebook wants to get into cryptocurrency and payments/wallets. You'd have to be really stupid to trust them with that especially after this fine demonstration.
One comment mentioned that the CUPS lead developer, Michael R Sweet, is now working on PAAPL[0] as a replacement. It looks like PAAPL works by integrating directly with applications and talking to printers through IPP Everywhere instead of using something like CUPS to handle the process.

[0] https://www.msweet.org/pappl/
No. It's actually a zero (1) ohm resistor. You can buy one too.
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/koa-speer-electro...

(1) Please read the terms of the data sheet carefully and consult your local engineer before using. Certain restrictions may apply. 0 ohm not available in all jurisdictions.
What they're referring to is more specific than environment variables in general: you can use the ENV command in a Dockerfile to bake in a secret at build time, and that's what you generally shouldn't do.

Injecting environment variables at runtime, however (through docker run -e or whatever orchestration system you're using), is good.
Other VR headsets are far more expensive and some require tethering to expensive gaming computers. Oculus Quest 2 has no true competitor at its price point, and some might say any price point.
Yeah sometimes I think that too. I just don't think people will put up with it. They'll vote in anti lockdown politicians. I hope so anyway.

If trump wins, then who knows.
Perhaps we'd simply adapt, say via a global wealth tax or something similar.
Trucks help advance our self-driving technology
Pappl – Printer Application Framework
Considering just my own observations they did well because for the most part many of them totally ignored any of the quarantine advice that was given out an only were impacted by it when establishments they frequent were closed or enforced rules.

If anything it drove more gatherings at each others homes. I have seen an entire wrestling team at homes along with parents around. Seems there was this super brief restraint that suddenly blew out especially when so many didn't want to be inhibited.
Yes, this is true for a great many things. If I compile these pseudo-static binaries for use on multiple different linux distributions or libc versions, I compile on the oldest/lowest common denominator so that it runs everywhere I need it to.
Scientists who have done the math disagree. It's a major current issue.

It's extremely difficult to produce useful proteins from random DNA chains. As in, if I took all of the atoms in our galaxy, paired each with random DNA, and allowed you to pick just one (blindfolded), only one of those DNA strands would contain the DNA necessary to produce a valid/useful protein. Literally every other atom has garbage DNA/proteins. The human body contains between 80,000 and 400,000 proteins.

DNA looks far more like "information" than it does like random bits written to disk. It's analogous to trying to find an x86 program of at least 160 instructions that computes a valid mathematical function by randomly splatting 1s and 0s to disk and then "running" the "code". Eh, maybe it'll eventually happen, but you can see how hard it actually is in practice. Heat-death-of-the-Universe hard.

Give a long enough timeframe, even unlikely things will happen. However, the Universe isn't very old—which is why it's a major current issue.
> superconduction along huge distances is a likely no-go given pressures involved,

Pedantic note: they said only for this material, not a no-go in general. Not sure if you caught that.

"Strained silicon" is a technique for achieving faster frequencies in modern CPU by applying force to the lattice with another deposition layer. I wonder if properties of the lattice under pressure can be instigated either by similar process, or even during phase change when creating the material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strained_silicon
Culturally this is the common excuse. So if you're making a situation comedy, you might have a character announce this is why they're late, and then maybe another character observes that it's currently May (The UK is in the Northern Hemisphere and so leaf fall is associated with autumn and early winter in maybe October through December)

In practice this is not actually a very common cause of unanticipated delay, although it can happen. Where deciduous trees (the kind with annual leaf fall) grow over or very near to railway lines, leaves may accumulate on the rail and will be crushed by the tremendous weight of the train, this creates a potentially very low friction layer on the rail, which makes braking difficult, leading to problems with the train service. Of course both the most trivial (don't have so many deciduous trees in places where that's a problem; re-schedule trains during leaf fall to allow for worse braking) and sophisticated (fit special equipment to trains to destroy the leaves) solutions are in use to reduce the likelihood of this happening.

Because leaves don't seem like a big threat to a bipedal human the juxtaposition (seemingly unthreatening leaves actually causes big problems) is good comedy.

The actual most common reason announced is "Signal failure". This too is misleading and an opportunity for comedy, since it might seem as though it refers to e.g. an incandescent bulb burned out in a signal lamp - why not just fit two or use LEDs (they do). But in reality "signal failure" means any part of the entire signal system, including every sensor and component, might have failed and as a result the system has degraded working. For example perhaps in one of the sixteen motorised points ("switches" in US terminology) at a busy junction a sensor that confirms the metal "lock" to prevent undesired movement is in place has broken and its output is floating instead of tied. A human needs to go there, stop any trains nearby, take the machine to pieces, replace the sensor, put it all back, confirm it works, and then re-open, until then that part of the junction mustn't be used because the computer isn't sure it's safe, and all resulting delays will be reported as "Signal failure".
I don't think the author is talking about loading secrets from the environment - I think they're specifically talking about hardcoding secrets into the Dockerfile and using the Dockerfile ENV directive to set secrets for the processes running in the container (baking them into the image), instead of passing them at runtime, which sounds just horrifying enough that I'm sure people do it in real codebases.
Tandy PC compatibles (and the IBM PCjr) used the same chip. (Modulo differences in the RNG for the noise channel)
https://jo-engine.org

Is a fantastic open-source homebrew platform for the Saturn that the Z-treme engine is based off of.

I recall watching all the phases of the Z-treme's engine's development on the jo-engine forums as XL2 was creating it. So cool to watch. :)
One of the very best features of ST:TNG is it's lack of major season-long arcs. I find shows with deep season long plot to be much too stressful to watch. Unfortunately, this is common with nearly all Netflix shows.

Many shows are like movies, where stopping between two episodes feels like you're stopping a movie right at the most intense spot.

You either binge watch the whole show, or rage-quite at 3am never to watch another episode.
Does anyone think that the social advances of the recent centuries would have ever happened, if there was no death? If we had the same society with the same people with the same prejudices?

Womens rights. Democracy. Anti-racism. Religious tolerance. Gay rights. Environmentalism.

All of these would have never happened if had managed to kill "the dragon".

Death is not just suffering, its a critical part of the cycle of renewal. Author is nuts imo.
Former2 generates Infrastructure-as-Code outputs from your AWS account
> This gives the writing team the bandwidth to properly conclude all of the main plot lines.

I remember watching Lost (the TV series) and getting into this around Season 3, and I remember hearing them saying they were "waiting to start telling the ending of the story". I found a recent article [1] talking it in more detail:

> "There were all of these compelling mysteries and so we were saying, ‘We wanna have this stuff answered by the end of Season 1, this stuff answered by the end of Season 2, and then the show basically ends after about three years.’ That was the initial pitch, and they were not even hearing it. [....] they [ABC] were just like, ‘Do you understand how hard it is to make a show that people want to watch? And people like the show? So why would we end it? You don’t end shows that people are watching.’”

You can't keep dragging out the mysteries forever, you have to eventually resolve something. You also can't just keep introducing new ones forever, because it doesn't make sense. You can't keep showing the same flashbacks, and you just can't introduce major new chunks of history to people's backstories that have never been brought up before.

[1] https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/news/lost-ending-original-pla...
Better yet, only COPY the actually needed needed files instead of the whole working directory. That way, there's no need for a `.dockerignore`.
Wasn’t it an inside job? Or Arles the heavily speculated?
[]u.s police departments have dropped cases that relied on evidence collected by stingrays. Anyways, using Intel to build a case so the Intel and methods aren't exposed is called parallel construction and it should be illegal to do against citizens except in extraordinary circumstances. Certainly not when police departments get bored and use the ray to take down the boys slinging bags on the block.

[] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140620/10271327635/new-e...
As a counterpoint - to me, the second season of the OA was one of the most audacious, crazy things I've ever seen on television, and its cancellation bummed me out to no end.
Why it's still hard to find a can of corn
Easy and Powerful Nvidia GPU Computing for Everyone
https://archive.vn/YxkM1
I realize this is probably a dumb question, but the bit about combining hydrogen and carbon made me wonder: has anyone tried just, like, compressing high-density polyethylene and seeing what happens, maybe with some sulfur or whatever else involved? If you want hydrogen and carbon in close quarters, I would start there.
Looks cool, I think I'm gonna buy one.
Szép munka. ;)
Except that ease of movement and communication have nothing to do with moving one's home, because you can't bring your land with you.

It does however have everything to do with elections.
Insightful and an important thing to keep in mind.
How much good has the United States really done in the world?
No those are actual forces pulling you apart.
I would argue more importantly than you knowing it was single season, the creators knew they wanted one season so the entire season was bundled tightly together.

A longer but similar thing for me was Mr. Robot. Esmail knew he wanted 4-5 seasons when he started, and he got his 4 seasons to the ending he intended to write.

Should shows be planning tighter arcs then we seem to get anymore? Yes. If you need more show finish that entire arc and make a spinoff with the most popular characters in a new story.
No, but not trusting them doesn’t mean that I accept any old bullshit people want to say about them without supporting evidence.
Maybe they think the entire market is drying up? The AAA blockbuster everybody thought would make VR mainstream (Half Life) seems to have fizzled with great reviews but not many sales. Maybe Facebook now believes VR will prove to be a bubble and they want to juice it for all they can while they still can.
Moreover, the obvious response when you see the poor company is in such distress from too many customers, is to do them a favor and stop being their darn pesky ol' service-wanting customer.
Looks good, I think I'm gonna buy a copy.
Köszi a kedveskedő kedvezményt :D
To play devil's advocate: historically, VR apps like VRChat have had an absolutely massive "4chan" problem. Harassment, bullying, vulgarity, NSFW/NSFL content, viral memes, brigading, etc. The gender disparity is also alarming (like 90%+ men!). Many feel unwelcome.

I think Facebook wants to make VR fun and appropriate for everyone. One way to do that is to tie in people's real identities. Facebook threads aren't great, but they are better than twitter threads, and A LOT better than interactions in VRChat.
To imagine we have to wait for the intolerant to die to have progress is just as nuts, and forces a passive view that no one should advocate for social change in their era...
Change the job.

When you’re inside a swamp (however cool/popular the brand is) - it feels like everything else is just another swamp.

Trust me, it’s not.

Just find the job where office life is good for you.
The question isn't whether you think they're fine if one takes care of them well, the question is their reliability as compared to other manufacturers, all other things (like personal level of care) held equal.
Here's a similar effect made in Unity (https://mmxxxviii.itch.io/volumetric-blackhole), with a breakdown video about how it was made, for those of you that are curious. It's possible this one uses a completely different technique, but it also appears raymarched to be raymarched.
My point is that the cause of the long lines shown in the BBC article isn't likely to be targeted voter suppression because they are happening all over the US, ranging from areas where generally democrat-voting minorities live and voter suppression has been (and still is) an issue, to republican strongholds, to areas mostly populated by upper income white people (many who vote democrat) who have never waited more than 10 minutes to vote in their lives.

Also, everything you're saying is true (voter suppression is an issue in the US), as is everything I'm saying (wait times like the ones shown in the article aren't normal).

A number of people, yourself included, have decided to take the discussion on a tangent, presumably because it's more important and/or interesting to you.

I'm continuing address the questions of "are lines like this normal for US elections" with "no, it's not" (and here's the data backing that up).
any source on the mapping for the sound changes? That's very interesting and I would like to learn more ...
Anybody who's actually seen the Dutch PMs press conferences has cringingly witnessed the lengths he has been going through not to 'tell anybody what to do'. What he is finally realizing his biggest contribution has been creating confusion.

The government doesnt even issue mask wearing instructions for fear of being raked over the coals for having the gall to 'prescribe' the sovereign people of the Netherlands.

Get a grip. Theres a million actual reasons for blaming Rutte for making your life worse, yet all these overnight liberals cannot see more than the mask an inch in front of them.
I'd still take a bad season two of some of them though :D
Becker, Jasper, Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine.
Octoberfest: Test cases should prove this template is secure
This is fantastic. Thanks for making it. I sent you a dm on Linkedin about licensing it.
The issue with GoT is that the weak finish starts in about Season 5, when so many plot lines go completely off the rails, and everyone sticks with it in the hopes that they will be resolved in a reasonable way. You think: "Surely, there's some kind of payoff or consequences to <important, logic-defying event>. After all, in this universe, one person being killed triggers <an avalanche of world-changing things in seasons 1 and 2>".

To everyone's surprise, there isn't any payoff, and there aren't any consequences.
After working with state transition tables I've got an opinion that much more often than not they're write only :(

Large tables are quite hard to understand, especially if there's no tooling around that, or the tooling was one-off hack and now it's lost
This exact problem has prevented me from creating playlists in the first place. I'm a non-iphone Apple Music user, but the same still applies. I have no playlists because I assume I'll lose all that curation work someday. So, I just don't do it.

I wonder how many others are the same way and how that negatively affects their revenue.
And from my response there:

The distinction between macro- and micro-propaganda gets to a few elements:

- Mass propaganda, let's call it Goebbellian propaganda, relies on targeting the same message to a very large audience. Often a Big Lie, but always simple, clear, and heavily repeated.

- Targeted propaganda pits individuals (or identifiable, but small, market segments, against an extensive data store (past behaviours, activities, and behavioural models), and machine intelligence. The individual is pitted against trillion-dollar corporations or state actors, yottabyte-sized data stores, and predictive and AI behavioural models.

With macropropaganda at least the message is publicly evident. With micropropaganda it may be impossible to determine what is or isn't manipulation as well as what manipulations are targeted as which individuals or groups.

The targeting element of micropropaganda still pressumes some sort of targeting. To take an example, Cambridge Analytica would have been much less successful if it had to, say, pull data from 100s of individual ISPs' personal home pages, email and chat logs, and inconsistent data formats and standards. Facebook's one-stop shopping of users, activity logs, data standards, and integrated activity across a wide range of services and third-party site integration, created CA's opportunity.

The messaging may not be centralised, but the enabling infrastructure must be.

https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/105024594626128707

Adding to that:

The observation that medium shapes messaging isn't new (see McLuhan), but is worthwhile. Network topology, scale, directedness, and other characteristics, drive and dictate possible interactions. It's not accidental that radio pioneers borrowed both the name and business model of farmers; broad-casting seeds into a fertile medium and harvesting the returns through bulk and undifferentiated mechanical processes.

As I've noted elsewhere, the specific defining property of propaganda is intent serving a cause. Accidental memes are viral, but unless coopted, not themselves propagantistic. In Dawkins' conception, such memes selfishly serve only themselves.
Just wanted to say the Touch ID on power button was planned for quite some time. As rumour ( more like Supply Chain Fact Check ) from Ming pointed it out last year.

The thing he got wrong was that he thought it was for iPhone. Turns out it was for iPad.
It might end up more in an escalating signaling/exploitation game, but in no domains is success formally provable in a way that doesn't depend on social consensus...
And the tests help you avoid accidentally changing something other than the thing you want to change.
Ah yes, that makes sense. I didn't understand they were talking about the ENV command at build time.

It was the heading that got me on the wrong path, I think that should be clarified further:

> Do not store secrets in environment variables
Isn't that what they already do? It's not like they tell showurnners "Leave cliffhangers and unfinished plotlines, your renewal is pretty much a cert". Mostly they give shows 2 seasons and consider renewing after that. That's actually an improvement over network TV, where sometimes you may even be cancelled halfway through the first season.
IMHO the catch is that older people (teachers) translate their experience to younger (students). Teenagers are just naturally better at multitasking because they are yet to be affected by brain ageing. And school personnel can't imagine that someone can be using phone and listening at the same time. Now factor in that most 30+ crowd didn't grow up with smartphones, and teenagers are just used to doing stuff while being on phone from early age and we have an answer.
Left America for - France? Isn't that a bit like jumping from the frying pan into the fire? I guess I was expecting to see the usual Scandinavian suspects, not France. Mind you not that there's anything wrong with France, it's just they're grappling with the same issues the United States is. You don't notice it as much because it doesn't dominate U.S. news. But let me tell you, Western Europe is in a sinking boat as well. To abuse the metaphor a bit all our boats might be at different levels and rates of sinking, but they're all sinking nonetheless. Which is all to say that Western Civilization is dying.

If I were to leave the United States I would avoid the West.
> BMW & VW have managed to make EVs which are great in every other way, but without getting the basics right, nobody is buying.

The Renault Zoe is the best selling EV in Europe so far this year. The VW ID.3 might manage to outsell the Zoe in 2020 even though the ID.3 has only been out for a month or so. It'll be interesting to see where the ID.3 ends up by year's end.
Plenty of use cases, especially if you want to maintain control over your digital presence instead of handing everything over to third parties.

- Ecommerce store via WooCommerce

- Online Course via Learndash LMS

- Lead Generation/Capture via WPForms, or other plugins.
Asking for personal reasons here. What does it take for a person to, for want of a better word, graduate from the county level facilities to the state level facilities?