skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Taken to the extreme I'd rather hit a feather than a bowling ball at 14 km/s.

But what matters here isn't what you would rather do, it's what both you and the feather/bowling ball would rather do, in context of minimizing the size of the resulting fragmentation.

Intuition tells me that a hypervelocity bowling ball will barely notice you, much less have time to deposit lots of energy into you.
Not all cryptocurrencies require a ton of electricity. Some, such as those based on Proof of Stake are extremely efficient and use very little electricity so it's not fair to disparage them all on that basis.
In other words: The lines are a result of the Right using media to create distractions and issues that allow them to get away with these types of repressive acts. Without their propaganda machines working in sync, enraging their audiences with false fears, (non-existent voter fraud for example), they cannot do get away with these things. Its classic distraction, just played out over a decade, instead of a few minutes.

The lines are one example of this because they have leveraged their media to make people HATE the other side enough to literally cut of their noses to spite their faces.
> cancellation is a business decision, not a story decision

Of course, but I'm not sure you can entirely separate them. Story decisions impact customers, who impact the business.
The idea that I could have an account with hundreds of games I purchased be taken away from me without reason, or without recourse is absurd. Facebook, or really anything holding licensed content needs to be regulated.
Thanks, adding to fix list! Though I gave it rudimentary testing and a grumbling Safari EventTarget shim, I didn't chain myself to a mac and play for any extended period. Being an old desktop machine/FF fart, I'm kind of eyeballing mailing mice to people instead of tackling this. Much appreciated!
We need more startups like this that aim to help people and save lives, not another tech-centric b2b saas. Very exciting to see Silicon Valley begin to realize the potential of psychedelic medicine for mental health care.
HashiCorp Boundary
I think the larger point is that the goal of vast majority of intelligence gathering programs - and judging by the slides this seems to include PRISM as well - has nothing to do with stopping terrorist attacks, which is a tiny subset of what intelligence agencies do. Judging their utility by counting the number of terrorist attacks they've prevented is mostly a meaningless exercise.
I didn't cherry pick, I picked a county I'm familiar with because I live there. Maybe some other people can chime in with their local areas. But since Georgia was one of the two areas mentioned in the article, let's look at Fulton county, which is where Atlanta, GA is located. It looks like there's about 30 early polling locations [0] vs 380 or so polling locations on election day [1]. So still 12-13x differential.

[0] https://www.fultoncountyga.gov/services/voting-and-elections...

[1] (PDF) https://www.fultoncountyga.gov/-/media/Precinct-LocatorNovem...

EDIT: I forgot the address the first sentence. I believe I made it quite clear that I see missed opportunity here.
A very nice web page, too! Snappy, no javascript apart from analytics, tastefully designed, mobile-friendly.
Little-known Homebrew tip: Python applications are installed in their own Homebrew-managed virtual environment, which means you can run pip in them to upgrade to the latest version of packages even when the tap hasn't been updated yet.

I just tried this and it worked - now "vd" gives my Visidata 2.0 on my system:

/usr/local/Cellar/visidata/1.5.2/libexec/bin/pip install -U visidata
In English both hen and hun are feminine.
Given that Facebook creates shadow profiles for "users" who have never had a Facebook account, I wonder what "deleted" really means in terms of Facebook's social graph. Is your identity back to being treated as a shadow profile or is there now an empty hole in the graph?
... Battle Fatigue!
Most of them can be mass produced, like the usual crime story nonsense.
There should be an option for "none of the above" or "withdraw consent" if voting becomes compulsory.
I use docker secrets[0] and a script like this[1] to inject them in the ENV hashmap in my app.

[0]: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-secrets-management/

[1]: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2029832
> I think what actually killed Wave was an insufficient focus on making the UI really slick. It may have been too early for its time, needing some of the Internet technologies that were invented later.

I think this is what Jetrel means when they mention that the good engineers were/will leave. For GMail they pioneered the technology needed to implement the UX and UI they wanted.

Why couldn't they do it again? Because they're not the same kind of company with the same kind of mindshare?

If you look at where webmail was when GMail came out and compare it to where corporate chat is now, Google just don't seem to be (successfully) taking the same advantages. I know plenty of companies who use G-Suite plus Slack.
What in this article, specifically, is a lie, distraction, propaganda or amplification of an issue that doesn't exist?

Voter suppression is real. It alters election results; look at the Georgia governor's race in 2018 for a recent egregious example. The US is continuing a proud tradition of disenfranchisement — from only giving voting rights to white men at the country's inception, to poll taxes, Jim Crow laws, felon disenfranchisement, gerrymandering, voter IDs.

This is an important issue, and I can't fathom dismissing an article about it as "sensationalism".
HN doesn't allow you to down vote replies to your own comments so that was someone else. Rather than accusing me of hypocrisy, you could read my other comments on this article to know my position on free speech.
Immunity and Re-Infection
You should read the papers associated with the simulation argument. There are, of course, loads of simulations you could run that don’t fit the confines of the argument. But if you don’t have a well-defined definition of simulation you can’t reasonably talk about the probably that you’re in one.

Yes, you can simplify a great deal. You don’t need to simulate the moons of Jupiter before Galileo comes along. You can’t simplify an algorithm that is at its theoretically most efficient. That’s when you start running into the 1:1 problem.

My argument is that the only way to avoid the 1:1 problem is to craft the simulation in such a way that it’s not an ancestor simulation as defined in the papers.
Earth's core is pretty hot IIRC.
That's unacceptable in my opinion, but it's not the norm at all, even in traditionally democratic-voting areas.
The mere thought of paying to government for the privilege of keeping my shoes on is nauseating. How can you even consider that? That program exists as a pressure relief valve to ensure anybody with political influence (businessmen, etc) don't have a motive to lobby for reform.
I think this is a pretty well balanced article. There are a lot of problems in the USA but there are problems elsewhere. People are allowed to make the choice to move, and probably right now a lot of people in the USA are considering just that.

I've lived in several cities in my lifetime and two countries. I definitely feel like each place has different forms of stress. Things that you can't get around that swallow up your energy. But they also have certain charms that nowhere else has as well. This article captures that nicely.
Voting issues have been happening in the US for a long time (when the US was founded only property owners could vote).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_St...

Its only been 100 years since women were allowed to vote, and that barely squeeked through.

Historically they had "Poll Taxes" (Pay to vote) another form of voter repression (struck down in the 1960s).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_taxes_in_the_United_State...

States set their own voting rules, even in national elections. It got so bad in the 1960s the Federal Government passed a "Voting rights act" to try and fix thing. That of course has been dragged through the courts and in the past couple years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_St...
Don't worry guys, there's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.
As is "Homeland Security"

Also, it seems Biden bragged about writing the bill for the Patriot Act.
Some states have allow for ballot harvesting, where you can legally take someone else's ballot to the drop box. So these boxes are a bit of a grey area, as ballot harvesting is legal in CA. The NYT article from this morning said the CA AG has issued a cease and desist order, so its likely to be challenged in the court.
I would expect more digging and investigation before inferring that criminal activity was not reduced in a more significant way. The linked source is a NYT article that makes conclusions based on a few selected reports.
How do you even start to build something like this? What frameworks could I use?
Sounds like this was on election day, which is 3 weeks away in the US and there will be significantly more polling places open then.
Current also picks up force as it moves in a magnetic field, but it's not like the electrons are going to fall off.

Magnetic fields can saturate ferrites and affect coils, but the slight deviations in few components should be nothing the closed loop circuitry won't handle. You'd need a stronger/closer magnet for that.

Solid state circuits usually have tiny sensitivity to static magnetic fields as opposed to EM waves, which they need to handle gracefully.
Index is awesome but you also need a well spec'd PC, have $999 on hand, and wait a few months for one. I believe the waiting list is 2-3 months now. I missed my reservation the first time, so if you really want one be vigilant in checking your email and Steam account.

Pros

- Knuckles controllers, still nothing like them

- External base station tracking, the only option that opens up full body tracking and makes it easy to do feet based movement

- High Refresh rate

- Good FOV

Cons

- Knuckles still isn't universally supported

- LCD screen and no OLED

- Reverb G2 has a much better screen

- Wires

I would recommend the G2 but its tracking and controllers just aren't as good as the Index, unless you're just going to use it for driving and flying games.
Converting UTZOO-Wiseman Usenet Tapes to with PostgreSQL back end using Python 3
Am I the only one who misses the 25 episode long seasons for shows like the X-Files? Sure it would have a string of episodes that weren’t great, but it gave more depth to the show than can be achieved with shorter seasons.
You're probably looking into heat pumps. We added one when we moved in and we got another 10 years out of the furnace. What killed the furnace was 27 years of moving air. And parts were no longer available to replace the "squirrel cage".

Heating the house with natural gas (from the replacement furnace) is now cheaper than using electricity, which is not what I predicted when we put in the heat pump. But I didn't foresee fracking.

Anyway, heat pump gets us hot air in the winter, cold air in the summer, and lowers our bills.

A neighbor put in a well-based (as opposed to air, like ours) heat pump which I was very interested in. But it took them 3 days of drilling (rocky soil) and tens of thousands of dollars. So probably just as well.
What it does is show up something that is true anyway for unit tests: automated tests are software and they should be designed like it.

It might affect multiple tests, but all you should have to change is one or two places in some shared code pulled in by those tests. Too many tests have too much repeated code, and so become expensive to maintain, exactly like normal code. Refactor, think about shared functions etc. exactly as you would do with your production code.
I have experience with the original pc tethered oculus, the htc vive and the valve index.

The valve index is a very nice upgrade over the original htc vive and the original oculus. The 'screen door' effect is all but gone the new controllers are very comfortable and the tracking is stellar. The index is heavier than the original oculus but the way the weight is distributed and the way the strapping works makes it a non issue. My only complaint is also a problem in the 'gen 1' headsets. Reflection off the fresnel lenses can cause some banded 'flare', especially noticeable when most of the screen is very dark but there is some portion of very bright light.

Sadly I have no experience with the 'upstart' headsets from Microsoft, HP, etc.
On hot days when I’m going to sweat, I would just bring a change of clothes.
I'm guessing this is the story refered to: https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/senate-committee-investigating...

I hope that even if facebook doesn't trust its users to form their own opinion on this, hackernews at least does.
It's smooth.
The only person doing this mental chase here is you. Why don't you just come out and say what you mean?

If you're really this confrontational about "the color" black being tied to darkness since pre-history (not much of a stretch there) and the significance of darkness being the physical manifestation of something like "evil" (also since pre-history) EDIT: and why "evil" is "intimidating", then nobody should take your contributions to this discussion seriously.

EDIT: I just don't understand how your response of "if black is intimidating, why do they paint them tan for military use" is in any way an honest argument. Did you simply not even think of camouflage? There are more important tactical advantages in warfare than intimidation. And now I feel like I did the job that darkserside was trying to avoid.
I agree with the core thesis, and have had multiple discussions/debates about the importance of decentralization for promoting robustness through diversity (avoiding monocultures).

A common complaint against federated structures (whenever I’m involved in this debate) is the claim that it’s much harder to fight spam & malicious actors than centralized systems operating at scale (which can afford to devote resources to this problem).

I find that claim quite unconvincing, and believe that the problem is manufactured by the existence of centralized systems. In decentralized systems, effects of malicious action (be it spam or misinformation of any kind) are localized and controlled — and cannot scale to have large impact (thus also providing some disincentives for malicious action).
Amazing! That's literally the prettiest code comment I've seen in my life. And a perfect way to document the inner working for the curious!

Thanks for doing it (and telling about it; I'd never guess it's there).
If you take that definition and follow its logical implications to the extreme, you'll find that you can prevent a lot of terrorism by just legalizing handgun possession. Well.. ever heard of a country called United States of America?
Are there any alternative OS options brewing? Its mostly just an Android device. It can't be that hard to root.
In the Catholic theology, there's a concept of Saints, who are basically humans that intercede with God on the behalf of ordinary mortals. People will sometimes address prayers to saints in the hope that the prayer will be more effective. Probably similar in other religions too but I'm pulling from memories of catholic school
Clearly you don't remember the lines of people camping out multiple days to pick up an iPhone...
Cancelled my subscription a while back and I honestly enjoy watching tubi, crackle or vhscast more.
The republic-vs-democracy debate distracts from what we should be debating: is our system of representation fair?

Obviously we are a "democracy" (we vote) and a "republic" (for most of history and the rest of the world, this means we don't have a monarch. The US is the exception, where we take it to mean that we have a representative democracy a la Fed. #10.)

Let's say the popular vote (i.e. the mad crowd) votes 45% party X and 55% party Y, but party X get 55% of the representative seats and party Y gets 45%. Why is this fair?
Why shouldn't party Y get more seats? Why can't the members of party Y act as a "damping factor" (instead of a "counterweight") to the demands of their own voters?
I agree, and I think there's kind of an elephant in the room with respect to all Terms of Service Agreements.

Anybody with a mobile phone (as well as a plethora of other products) has inevitably agreed to dozens of pages of legal doctrine which they don't understand, any probably wouldn't without a competent lawyer on hand. But nevertheless, every minor service update, we all hit "I Accept", despite having no understanding of what we've agreed to.

Is this not massively problematic? What happens if a company actually tries to draw significant action against consumers using the terms of service as their contract?
Why this does not make sense? Can you elaborate?
I disagree and I believe most developers would agree that it would have been a far better use of time to learn 6502 assembly than Apple BASIC, at least if one's goal was to actually learn how to program computers.

To this day if I saw 6502 assembly on a resume I'd be intrigued and if I saw BASIC I'd view it as a yellow flag.
I tried to look for some kind of statement from him, I found this verge article from 2014

https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/30/5563440/john-carmack-face...

Much of the backlash regarding the acquisition has centered on Facebook's business model — data mining and advertising. This isn't a concern for Carmack, who says he "just can't get very worked up about it ." While he appreciates the need for privacy, "the idea that companies are supposed to interact with you and not pay attention has never seemed sane to me ... I rather like the recommendations that Amazon gives me on each visit. Educate me. What terrible outcome is expected from this?"

So actually he was fine with this from the start? And while he is moving on to AI and whatnot, he is still currently employed by Oculus, which leads me to believe this is his stance today.

I don't know how to feel about it. Even if you look past the privacy issues, he has engineered a product with hardware DRM! It just a shit product.
It sounds like your complaint isn't that Netflix has a 'churn' of available content, but that they don't offer much content of interest to you. If that's the case, then sure, it makes good sense to cancel and either go with another subscription streaming service, or buy/rent what you want to watch. There's not much Netflix can do about that, short of just spending far more money on licensing content, which would presumably mean raising prices.

I've found that disc rental (by post) can be a surprisingly good option, even if it's been mostly forgotten with the rise of streaming. The available library is better than any streaming subscription is able to offer.

> I generally prefer to watch a movie over a TV series

Shouldn't this mean you're less inconvenienced by content churn? If you're part way through a series and it gets removed, that's annoying, but this doesn't really apply to movies.
I think the argument is: It’s normal to the direction of travel, so it does increase velocity, and eccentricity is what you get when you add velocity at one point in an orbit. Same as other burns. If you were to burn retrograde of normal (but still tangent to the orbit’s radius), there’s an orientation where the retrograde component of your thrust matches the component in the component that’s...prograde in a new orbit. Which now sounds to me like it would just be 45° from retrograde, tangent to the radius
Thank you!

Thank you for bringing up the issues around racial biases when it comes to mental health. We hope to address this in multiple ways:
1) trying to incorporate objective forms of information such as digital and biological data that theoretically should be less biased
2) giving back to the community by supporting providers who serve underrepresented communities (we provide our software for free or significantly discounted to these community practices and are working with a number of them already)

And yes, we aim to incorporate various types of demographic information including social determinants of health.
Because when facebook bought oculus they claimed that it would never require a fb account and tracking kept at a minimum. That lasted all of maybe six months and finally totally fell apart with the announcement of the 'facebook only' login.
That would probably a step too far. But also unnecessary.

Make a law that requires them to give you a full refund for all hardware that you can’t use and all software purchased over the lifetime of the account.

That will make them incur a cost that makes it worthwhile for them to be more careful.

Edit: Downstream commenters make a good point. You'd have to put in a formula for "depreciation" of the refund, so you can't just get a refund years later.
This looks really cool! Very impressed that you have navigated HIPPA compliance and come so far since Spring 2020. As others have said, innovating in health care is so difficult because organizations are afraid of change and the consequences of fines. Also, healthcare workers can be very tech-adverse, many who have been forced to adapt to telehealth programs due to COVID-19 hate working with the technology and want to go back to the old way. Too many older people in the licensed positions.
You didn't address the parents main point at all. It doesnt actually matter that few people watched until the end.

I can obviously only talk for myself but can say with confidence that if I'm watching a series which is cancelled without a conclusion, the likelihood of every watching another one by that publisher is miniscule at best.

It's definitely the worst business decision to do for Netflix. Either don't stop at a cliffhanger or do a final episode to bring it to an ending. If you decide not to anyway... Don't expect people to come back after getting burned once

Because at least I sure as hell won't be back
Twice I've started a new game and my first click is a mine.

Feature Request: can you ensure the first click is not a mine?
Aren’t they the same thing (sort of)? The ENV in Dockerfile (or .env if you’re doing docker-compose) will be available during the build as well as runtime.
No AI yet, but hosted search & crawling at a fraction of the price: https://seekstorm.com

30x more queries & docs per dollar spent;

20x speed compared to Lucene
The reason behind this is widely known. If you could easily scroll through their entire catalog as a list, it'd feel kinda like walking through a small, underwhelming Blockbuster.

The whole point of the UI is to give you this un-ending sense of abundance, ie. "You like 1980s action comedies? Scroll through 20 of them here! Like 1990s female-driven drama? Here's 10 we picked for you! Keep scrolling! We have everything!"

In reality, their catalog (while having about 10,000 items) is quite limited in terms of big name films and TV shows you'd recognize.
Yes! While we are focused on treatment-resistant mental health conditions because these patients need the most help, we plan to expand more broadly across mental health. We envision a world where everyone can find the right treatment for them the first time around (rather than having to go through a painful trial and error process) and end all suffering.