skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about it through the lens of an actor called on to play the character. As an actor I'm not here to judge the character, but I look at the moments that strike me as problematic and ask what brought him to that mind-set.

So I'm talking here about jumping-off point, the beginning of a process, not the end of it. The process would take weeks or months of rehearsal.
They were also the first, as far as I know, to pioneer the concept of video game "let's plays" aka watching others play video games with commentary for fun. On the English side of the Internet. Probably would have happened organically without them anyways but just saying.
Narcissism is charisma + these behaviors:

- lack of empathy
- entitlement to special treatment
- superficial
- constantly seeking validation and admiration
- manipulative, exploitative, lying

Note that covert/vulnerable narcissists are mostly like that but they trade charm for a ton of passive-aggressive behaviors and snide remarks. Charisma is the favorite tool of classic, grandiose narcissists.

https://youtu.be/4qbam9R6BOo?t=87
Did you have to send a fax?
Germany sees 6,638 daily virus cases, highest since start of pandemic https://news.yahoo.com/germany-sees-6-638-daily-035339283.ht...
Scanning Columns vs. Rows
> I know ftp is not secure

FTP isn't inherently insecure. The protocol supports TLS, Kerberos, GSSAPI. It is just that quite a few clients (including major web browsers) and servers don't implement those extensions, or even when they are implemented people don't know about them and don't use them. A lot of people are under the false impression that the only way to secure FTP is to move to SFTP.
I concur that provider projects are a mess. When I've reported issues, I've been told "That's not an issue, just do your plan/apply manually in two steps" which is pretty contrary to what you should need to do with Terraform. So many providers github repos have it set to automatically shut down an issue if no one commented on it for 30 days, which means a lot of things that are unaddressed get swept under rugs.
Your bias is clear for all to see.
It's kinda funny this new Apple initiative's abbreviation/name also starts with an "i" ;-)
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"They also restrict your account so you can't do anything, but they leave the ads running and keep billing you."

This smells like a lawsuit.
"I perform rituals with my team chanting a praying that azure will stop acting wonky." so accurate it hurts
I like Dr. Roberts (Stanford) definition, so I'll just paste it:

> A "backdoor" in computing is a method of bypassing the normal method of authentication. Backdoors are usually inserted into a program or algorithm before it is distributed widely. They are often hidden in part of the design of the program or algorithm. In cryptography specifically, a backdoor would allow an intruder to access the encrypted information without having the correct credentials. The backdoor would either a) allow the intruder to guess the access key based on the context of the message or b) allow the intruder to present a skeleton key that will always grant him access.

Probably the most famous backdoor is the Dual_EC_DRBG which I believe had a weakness in the random number generator that leaked its internal state.
Why should Hashicorp hand-hold "new Go engineers" through PRs? If you don't know how to swim, stay out of the deep end of the pool. If someone contributes a complete, tested, documented, useful PR, that would benefit the community at large, I suspect it would be treated with the respect it deserves. It's not on them to teach people the basics.
If you don't support someone saying something you find disgusting / horrifying / etc, you don't actually support free speech.

'Free speech for my side, but suppress the other side' is not free speech. This is what Facebook / Twitter is engaging in.

You didn't see ANY suppression from them when Trump's tax returns were leaked like they're attempting to do with Hunter's emails.
That's a lot of goal post moving, and for Europe I think you're fundamentally mistaken. Needless to say that this doesn't convince me, why you'd treat the same policy completely different in a moral judgement. Principles that don't hold when transported to new circumstances aren't principles.
You shared it without enough nuance, and that turned it into misleading information for most people out there. The fact that you wrote a lengthy piece and gave yourself a lot of credit as a marketer only further exacerbated the negative learnings for anyone who read your first piece. I am glad you received an immediate rebuttal, which leads me to hope that not too many young entrepreneurs were led to turn their back on what's arguably one of the most important marketing channels, and for many companies the only viable one.
And in what way are YouTube, Twitter and Facebook qualified to determine what's bullshit and what isn't?

What really happens is that those services just end up forcing their values/beliefs on their users.
the communication is done using lan messenger(the reason being internet access is restricted to keep data privacy and disable file transfer to outside the office network), but some people use slack for purposes other than work in my company.
I'm a software engineer and even I struggle to understand how some of the applications I use work. This month I had to figure out why my laptop's monitor brightness keys randomly stop doing anything and it led into a rabbit hole of systemd, udev, ACPI, the intel xorg driver and other unpleasant things. Next month I might run into a sound issue and I'll have to dig deep into completely different areas like pulseaudio and ALSA. And all this knowledge won't do me any good on Windows or MacOS.

The car is a relatively simple machine compared to a desktop computer, and unlike computers, most basic knowledge apply to all cars regardless of brand and model. Our computers are patched together with gaffa tape, they're not some timeless universal design the way the clutch in a car is.

In fact, in a way I become worse at using them because I know more about them - think about "just turn it off and on again" vs wanting to debug it and understand the root cause of whatever issue I'm having.
> This is just filter bubbles and various cognitive biases. Stories from any cable news network are regularly full of major holes, which you overlook when they're on "your side" because you're not invested in finding fault with them.

Everyone is wrong about some facts. Surely I'm wrong about some facts, as I'm not omniscient.

However, this does not imply that everyone is equally wrong about the facts. Some people are clearly more often wrong about facts than others.
Obviously don' open the border to terrorists. The government is already watching everyone in the world, it wouldnt be that difficult to mark people as security threats.
Thanks for the explanations. I realise that the spatial file manager is missing these days, but I prefer the navigation file manager. Whenever I use BeOS I find the plethora of open windows for each directory unnavigable.

You can get Finder to open each item in a new window and hide the sidebar to make it spatial-like, although I am not sure if there is a method of making "open in new window" the default.

I think the separation of account and profile is a difficult concept, unless the directory had a specific UUID associated intrinsically with it so that permissions could be applied to objects that didn't know about "users"?
Not really. As the intro of this article says, it's possible to disable GC, but you loose most of the libraries, which is one of the strengths of Nim.
Sciter's author has been thinking* about making it open source for years, but despite saying it, and so frequently, it's not clear that the author has ever been sincere. The real intent of those messages probably has more in common with Steve Jobs's claim that FaceTime was going to be an open standard that any serious commitment to openness: all of the hype, none of the deliverables.

So considering all three of (1) the platform, where years of Kickstarter campaigns have failed to produce what was promised, (2) the history of Sciter itself, and (3) the author's claims that it would be delivered approx. 2 months after funding (er...?), it seems very unwise to hitch any hopes to this campaign.

I wouldn't be surprised if these exact factors are what has led to the campaign's poor reception.
> certify and emphasize content that is grounded in science and verify content creators of such

Respectfully, how does this help? My impression is that the majority of the people who believe that e.g. vaccines are detrimental think that credentialing by traditional sources that don't agree with them (e.g. mainstream media) is simply evidence that the party has been compromised.

You'd be creating a subset of YouTube that is easier to ignore for the people who wish to.
Use Argon2.

https://password-hashing.net/

https://github.com/mheyman/Isopoh.Cryptography.Argon2
3 billion Americans is the goal
I'm going to have to send your post to our QA person who keeps complaining that stuff I make doesn't exactly match the design, which design was made for her Apple iMac 27, and is unable to understand that basically she is making the design version of a developer saying "but it runs on my machine".
Pandemics and inequality: A historical overview
Depends on the use case. For instance, it is just barely ok for music but I honestly find most earbuds inadequate when it comes to listening to music. For phone calls, podcasts, etc (basically spoken word) which is what we designed our earrings for, the audio quality is just fine. Keep in mind that this is just an MVP. We will improve the sound quality as we make progress.
Maybe it’s not free speech if it’s part of or promoted by a for-profit platform?
> you won’t be able to advertise bleach as a way to get Corona out of your system.

you can't do this in the US either if you're actually selling bleach. are you saying in europe ordinary people aren't allowed to publicly speculate about cures for the virus?
> And these bleeding heart liberals

This doesn't really give the impression of actually deeply caring about homelessness...
Why can't you 3D print a nozzle? Or are there electronics in there too?
> In Japan you can print via USB stick, sd-card, wifi, cloud, etc at pretty much every convenience store

So you walk 1 minute to the convenience store, spend a minute fiddling with the plug, another few trying to go through the menu. Finally get your print, and walk a minute back. Say it takes 10 minutes total.

Meanwhile I just press print and in less than 10s my printout is on my desk.

I can see why some people don’t need a printer, but I need one often enough that walking to the conbini and doing that dance is a major PITA.
Hold on. The richest city has that because the richest city allows that. Policies in these rich cities are saying, it's inhumane to lock them up. Now you're responding, ah hah, see how messed up we are we a society that this exists. It's proof of my thesis. But you think it was better in the 80s? The answer is that it was worse in the 80s, but the policy response was different.

You'll need a different gauge than that. I'll give you life expectancy. But I'll raise you obesity and other self-induced problems that have gotten worse statistically.
My front door exists as a result of my labor.
I think they should ban the least amount of content possible. Most problems stem from DMCA, although partisan issues are even more dangerous.

> everyone talks about how misinformation is rampant on these platforms

There is no tangible evidence for that, supporters of this strategy believe in conspiracies themselves. Same strategy as with Nazis on the net: ignore them.

That really works and it already has for years before everyone became panicked.
> The reduction in threat of nuclear annihilation of the world

He also walked away from what would have been the most monumental nuclear reductions agreement, including the elimination of all ICBMs and possibly all strategic nuclear weapons in both countries, because he refused to give up the pipe dream of the Star Wars program. [1]

> the freeing of half of Europe from tyranny.

While Reagan’s foreign policy did play a part, the fall of the USSR was more a culmination of decades of economic stagnation, decades of costly arms race military spending, and an incredibly costly and unpopular war in Afghanistan (that sounds familiar). Also Mikhail Gorbachev and his radical policy shifts with Glasnost and Perestroika played a massive part in setting the stage for the collapse. It could also be argued that Bush Sr’s policy shift to a lighter touch in Europe to allow for the revolutions to proceed organically, as opposed to Reagan pushing them with American support, allowed Gorbachev to avoid coups and stay in power to oversee a peaceful collapse, rather than a violent last spasm that many hardliners wanted. Reagan absolutely had a part to play, but he was by no means the architect of the end of the USSR.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/ronald-...
Thank you for saying this. It takes the discussion in a different, but I think more useful, direction. Suffering is caused when you believe something that isn't true, and the rational idealists don't want to accept "it's natural for people to believe in lies", as you say. (There is a juicy irony here, which I will leave as an exercise for the reader.)

The key innovation we require, as a society, are better feedback mechanisms to correct inaccurate beliefs. This means more frequent, but smaller, pain in response to mistakes. To those who object, the alternative isn't no pain, but rather, the catastrophic pain of collapse. Society is really a collection of institutions, and somehow in all institutions, loyalty has usurped principle, and accountability fails because the accuser is shunned, hated, feared. So, institution by institution, we weaken.

The solution, for example in academia, is to shun (fire, blacklist, etc) those "researchers" who cheat, lie, and distort their findings. In the justice system, lawyers, police, and judges who break the rules should be punished more, not less, severely than the rest of us. Again, these are not changes born of malice, or a desire to see more suffering, but rather a price we must accept to maintain healthy institutions with high standards, and so, prevent societal collapse.

In some ways I think "cancel culture" is a reaction to this lack of accountability, as an attempt to replace it, to ape it, almost like a cargo cult. Of course, there are huge problems with this, not the least of which there is not an institution behind it, but rather just mob rule that answers to no-one, not even itself.
The WHO had far more influence than a Facebook group.
As I get older, my theory of charisma is that it's a product, more than it is an innate trait, and that anyone can "become charismatic", although 99.9 percent of people never will, and the worst thing you can do for yourself is try. People seem superhuman-- energetic, brilliant, capable-- when surrounded by people who invest themselves entirely in making them seem so. Steve Jobs had no special social acumen, above-average but not genius-level intelligence, and no more hours in his day than the 24 we all have, but he managed to surround himself with the right people and, for a period of about 20 years, managed to convince the world that he had superhuman powers and a "reality distortion field" when in reality he was just a capitalist who dropped acid once.

Plenty of charismatic people are socially inept, charmless, and unpleasant in close interpersonal relationships, but this doesn't make them any less charismatic on a stage. They often have no genuine friends, but tens or hundreds or thousands of people who will put aside their own concerns to do things for the charismatic individual.

Charisma is a pattern by which other people, for reasons that are hard to parse, and through mechanisms that are invisible, do things for the charismatic person. A charismatic person is threatening because others will kill for him, and he's a desirable benefactor because others will commit resources to his causes, but it seems to be a self-perpetuating phenomenon that snowballs and can carry on for most of a lifetime. It does seem to collapse in old age. This is why charismatic but hideous people like Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, and Bill Cosby meet such ignominious ends. They're invincible, until they're not.

There are skills that enhance a person's charisma. You can learn rhetoric, public speaking, and the norms of social interaction. But that's all they are: skills. Nothing can guarantee charisma. Nothing can guarantee that you'll get that core set of people to follow you that will produce a snowball effect. On that, it seems to be pretty random who wins and who doesn't.

Charisma exists because people want to be the charismatic person. They want to be someone who can wave a hand and bring ruin to their enemies. What they don't realize is that by following the charismatic, they're defeating their own purpose. It is not traits of the charismatic that generate this feedback loop. It is mostly just luck. That said, the way to improve one's odds to find people who are looking for a charismatic to follow, which means finding new territory, rather than hanging around an existing charismatic in a space where such people are already spoken-for.
Right, just as milk and eggs are in the ‘back’ of modern supermarkets - the tension between these maps and other semi-hostile design patterns will be fun to watch in future architecture.
Star wars don't have powerful droids? Really?

Looking at the first movie (phantom menace). There are super powerful droids with double guns and shields https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Droideka The only reason the main characters don't get obliterated is because they are master jedi who managed to deflect a few repeated hits and then barely slipped away and escaped.

The next episodes 2 and 3 largely feature battle droid https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/B2-RP_battle_droid that are owning the battlefield. They're again not killing everyone because they only show up in battle against highly skilled jedis and in the full scale battle between armies having rockets and much stronger weaponry.
The problem is if they have the space for a USB-A plug, realize that tons of NEW consumer devices still use that! Apple can convince its customer base to buy dongles, but will all Windows PC users be happy with that?
You tried to twist my words. I called the content bullshit and not one of those services say it is. Anything they ban is considered to be violation of their ToS. If you have a dispute with the determination, you can file a lawsuit against them and have a judge determine if it was a violation of their ToS.
A lot more than 70 billion dollars has been spent on things that not only don't work, but are impossible, even in theory.
Yes I donate around half my income to effective charities every year. Hoping to continually up those numbers.
jSignature looks interesting. I wrote something like that for capturing signatures on Android years ago, where you work out each plot until the user lifts their finger.

I wonder if you could recreate signatures by examining the depth of the ink where the person lifts their pen, since that typically has the largest deposit of ink at that point, particularly with a fountain pen.
If you haven't realized it yet, your ideology liberalism is dying.
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Yes, it was also used in RiscOS. Even DOS applications were really just a folder. It was a common feature of Desktop OSs of the time.
I didn't suggest using an engraver. I was suggesting engraver tech for this thing we're proposing here. The real question is can you get a good result marking paper with a laser? Maybe I worded it poorly first time.
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And last year in January they didn't even talk about it. Why would we listen anyway? I hope that's not your point.
Those charging practices sound like something that either is outright illegal or should be.
"The Black Adder" and "Gravity Falls" memorable and to the point compared to the "The Big Bang Theory" and "CSI" which dragged on for years.
The point isn't how profitable slavery is or was. The point is what would happen if people who don't follow moral norms lived forever having accumulated a lot of wealth. If in this current system wealth is concentrated to a very small percentage of people, surely this would only increase given longer lifespans.
Ignore the downvotes. dalbasal presented concrete facts and sound reasoning. Some people's dislike for Facebook as a company doesn't change the validity of his arguments.
Sorry, I misunderstood you saying that you had them to indicate they were in use.
On the original ARM2 this design made a lot of sense because if you understood how the instruction timing worked, you could essentially perform as well as a specialized blitter. I never understood this at the time, and largely blame that on a popular ARM Assembly Language book I had that said that LDM/STM were just convenience instructions, essentially syntactic sugar. They most certainly were not. With the right alignment and using enough registers you could get 2-3x the throughput of using single word load/stores. I honestly think if that book hadn't gotten it so wrong there would have been a lot more decent games for the Archimedes machines.
How are they going to get the research done if they can't present the hypothesis and supporting observations? How will they get the results peer reviewed if they can't present them because they're not peer-reviewed yet?
Vigna's RNGs are faster and as good statistically so it's not clear why you'd use PCG.

They are a neat theoretical construction however I believe they have some serious flaws when attempting to split and construct multiple streams.

Honestly though RDRAND is cheap enough that I'd take true randomness over determinism.
> It very, very obviously causes damage

It isn't obvious to me. Where has this caused concrete damage?
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Border changes aren't a measure of conflict, and preventing conflict is not the ultimate goal. Preventing total/nuclear war between major power is the goal. Border changes are (were) the way conflicts escalated into the great wars.

This why "aggression," the one international "law" that is taken seriously basically means border violations. The few non voluntary border changes since the late 40s (eg crimea, the west bank) are (despite generations) not recognized by the UN.

All the low power UN institutions cloud people's understanding of the core. The core is the UNSC, non aggression and a few other principle/institutions designed to prevent (basically) the US and Russia/USSR from destroying the world and the cold war cold.

It's not even designed to do last minute conflict resolution. It is designed to take the motive/gain out of war. The lesson is how major war has been avoided for 75 years largely because we can't go from pretence (China's terrible crimes in Xianjing) to war. Pretence will always exist. Major wars are preventable.
A common answer to "the question" is that passably good printers are dirt cheap, and excellent printers are highly complex multidisciplinary efforts. Things don't exist in the open source world unless somebody has a need, or passion, to make it happen.

Given the availability and complexity, the question becomes "why bother." Microdots are an answer to that.

Then I'd ask, is there a legitimate purpose? Supposing the end goal is a totally open source chip foundry: yeah, you don't want microdots on your masks. Edit: oh god, and printers that won't do b&w without yellow dye available.