skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>While killing the individual members of a group is a common mechanism of genocide, the killing the “-cide” in the term refers to is the killing or destruction of the group as a group, not the killing of the individuals who constitute the group.

NO. I never said associate killings with individuals. That is your own error.

I said killings without specifying the context assuming that you had the capacity to assume killing a group rather than an individual as the oxford definition specifies this.

Again you're getting into technicalities but your technicalities prove nothing because the oxford definition has "killing" embedded in the definition. Think about it. We have several sourced definitions here and they all seem legitimate so which one is correct? There's no way to verify this on a technical level but we can talk in terms of common sense.

I don't know how big your capacity for common sense is, but think about it this way. When someone says "That dictator is conducting mass genocide" do you automatically translate that sentence to "That dictator is sterilizing the population" ?

No you don't... we think "killing" and the oxford dictionary accurately captures our thoughts. As does the latin -cide which you yourself cited. You have no choice but to jump to common sense here as the sourced definitions are conflicting.
The small effects of political advertising are small regardless of context
I've gotta watch 30 minutes from some tech tuber to get your point? C'mon dude.
Obviously not boot support yet (or anytime soon) - but does W10 support booting off non ntfs at all? Fat32/fatx/iso/udf? Just being able to use it for mostmight allow a boot/rest-of-disk split like with Linux?

I don't know, but I think it's an interesting idea. ReactOS on zfs...

https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/ZFSin
If you look at the death rate compared to March, it is dramatically lower, even though we're having 2x the cases. This could be because of better treatment, or because the virus itself is getting milder.
They are maintained and supported by RedHat, but you can't find for example AMD Radeon drivers for their latest generation for RHEL6 (though they do have them for RHEL 7.9).
You’re pretending marketing is zero-cost. It isn’t.
Psychological Ownership of (Borrowed) Money
How to Set Up an SSH Jump Server
Not a fan. Please do NOT simulate this type of gaming when the platform experience is vastly different: human hands versus a touchpad (mouse). Why do I need a 3d view?

We played a TTS game where we needed to pay coins, make change, and take resources each turn. We tried to stack the coins and they would not stack. We tried to take multiple resources and it would not let us, so we took them one-by-one. A painful experience.

We use BoardGameArena, Yucata, and Boiteajeux. All which have interface problems, but vastly superior for speed.

One of my pet projects is to make an open source, self-hosting, modular tabletop gaming platform, so this way ANYONE can write a 'module' and share it, and leave the hosting up to the individuals.
Indeed. Is Wordpress "no code?" I think of it as legos.
It's good for them to aim that way, but at present the car/computer is much less safe than the driver.
> I'll repeat: please tone it down, this is not the way to contribute to open source.

I don’t have a dog in the Wayland-X fight, but I don’t see any excess or unproductive rhetoric in GP’s contributions here. They seem factual and specific with some background thrown in. When you twice asked for it to be toned down, I went looking to find offense and couldn’t.

Contributing to open-source by stating concerns as a user of the system is a minor positive way to contribute. Writing docs for workarounds is a greater positive. Contributing code patches is a yet greater way, but those don’t take away from the fact the filing bugs (literally or conversationally) is still a positive action.
Precisely. And the second fundamental prerequisite is frequency. Make public transport frequent enough, and with privileged access (eg bus lanes) and it will be more convenient than private cars.
I wouldn't put it past NVIDIA considering their scummy history[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0L3OTZ13Os
Thanks so much for the support! And great questions regarding the marketplace. To answer:

- re: interview requirement - Since launching we've had a lot of interviewers (moonlighting journalists) come inbound and we feel lucky for this. It's also a great help that George, one of my co-founders, has been a journalist and editor for 15+ years, so his network is deep and he's developed trust over the years. This is fine for the immediate future, but we will need to build out an interview portal in the future. Just not there yet.

re: interviewer vetting - We ask for writing and audio samples in advance. Each interviewer will then conduct at least one and sometimes up to four practice interviews with Artifact team members or friends of the company to collect feedback. There is a lot to build out here over time but we feel good about the quality of interviewers. It's core to the experience and so I'm really glad you asked about it!

re: interview <> guest matching - We make note of interviewer attributes like language proficiencies, skill at speaking with children, grandparents, subject matter expertise, etc. Based upon the information an Artifact buyer provides in their Artifact creation flow, we are then able to match an interviewer appropriately. That said, this is also something that we will build upon heavily going forward. Early days.

I hope the above helps and very happy to answer additional questions you may have!
I'm not associated with the project in any way, but your well researched comment did miss at least one important factoid.

This comment:

> The closest to any discussion of these numbers that I saw was a mention that it may take up to 20s on mobile; for comparison, the much-hated image CAPTCHA takes about 6-12s on average for native English speakers, and 7-14s for non-native speakers.

Missed this quote from the website:

> As soon as the user starts filling the form it starts getting solved

> By the time the user is ready to submit, the puzzle is probably already solved.

The time spent solving reCAPTCHA is active user involvement. The time being spent on Friendly Captcha is passive and can overlap with time being spent filling out a form.

"up to 20 seconds" was also seemingly presented as a worst-case scenario. Most users' devices would presumably be faster than that, but I don't know how the author researched that conclusion on how performance scales. Friendly Captcha does report back some information on how long it is taking users to solve the captcha, and it looks like website owners could use that to adjust the difficulty based on the needs of their specific audience and how tolerant they are of untargeted spam.

The stuff you point out about Blake2b seems entirely legitimate, and I wonder if an Argon variant would be more appropriate to avoid specialized hardware being quite so problematic.

Personally, I really like the idea of Friendly Captcha. Certainly, there are problems with any captcha implementation. People can rant for many, many paragraphs about websites that use reCAPTCHA... I'm not surprised to see someone ripping apart a different captcha system. The ideal solution would be for spammers to just stop being so obnoxious... but good luck with that plan.
I guess I'm not sure what to tell you here. If we can't figure out a way to address climate change without dragging in all these other controversial issues, I don't think we'll be able to address it.
Another alternative to hanging out in forums is to join a good math discord server. I can highly recommend this one: https://discordnetwork.com/, I have no idea how many people are in the server but I'm guessing at least more than 10k (about 9k online as I'm writing this, and more offline I have to presume). The advantage with such servers is fluid communication, but the downside is because of this in combination with the fact that there might be alot of people, you sometimes have to wait as to not disturb ongoing discussions.

This discord server in particular is good if you want help, although you might not recieve instant help, you will eventually get help if you are patient. There are also other channels in the server just for the purpose of discussion, i.e discussing general topics in math.

This might not give you what you are looking for, but it's a possible alternative I guess.
Ex-Google security expert says new startup will defeat cybercriminal ‘A-Teams’
This is a disgusting hit piece on the recently deceased.
Did it really work, or was it due to a happenstance:

In November, Hillsborough County prosecutors became suspicious when they heard from a state forensic examiner, who had been scheduled to perform a competency evaluation on Landon.

The examiner saw a notice in Landon’s court file that prosecutors had dropped charges; the examiner wanted to know if the examination should go forward.

How would it have been detected if there were no loose ends like this out there or anyone who cared enough about the case to prompt a double-check?
> Most slams against individual languages are meaningless in the overall scheme of things. If you like Lisp, go for it.

Hah

Edit: Lots of people not noticing the scheme pun
Nikola Tesla's Wireless Transmitter Technology
The more I learn about this, the more I start to think that there needs to be some kind of middleware library implementing all these missing features from Wayland that all Wayland compositors are going to to need anyway.

Then the compositors could just use this library instead of every one of them duplicating effort and coming up with their own mutually incompatible ways of doing things.

In fact, this library could even be protocol-agnostic, and be able to talk to both Wayland and X.
What sucks is that if you want to stay developer, people think you are not motivated. In other professions like doctors or lawyers, you can stay IC and no one says anything.

Even IC track is not exactly software development. As a tech lead, I do a lot less technical work, and spend a lot of time doing business processes. I wish we were a lot more like doctors, and focused on what we are good at doing instead of always going for next title on corporate ladder.
Sorry, not a native speaker and reading too much strange english books, which could spoil my writing. Could you point me to one or two specific errors I made in order to help me improve?

If you're referring to s:he and so on, that is our german way of obfuscating the gender of the subject :) I don't like it (at all, since most of the time it just dismisses achievements of women).
I found Roll20 to be quite good, all things considered. Few online spaces will readily replace the actual tabletop experience but it was fun and convenient for a few games. Perhaps now that we've all experienced isolation from the world, someone will rise to the task to make a better version.
I feel like that decision comes down to if people have a PayPal account or Coinbase account.
I can't remember the name of vendor, but they were from some niche manufacturer of professional machine vision cameras from Germany. Each of those cost few 1000s euros.

Almost anything for industrial use cost you a leg and then some. If you want to experiment with CV at home I would take a look at that high quality camera module from RPi.
For some of us the idea of cutting into ourselves is definitely not a no brained. I could easily see myself be paralyzed by fear in such a situation.
Rhel 6 is moving to extended life phase in another month. At that point no bug fixes, security fixes, hardware enablement or root-cause analysis

I wouldn't say that is actively maintained or supported.
For Cloudfront, I eventually got it working. The difficult part was figuring out how to get Wordpress to serve the site when it received the request from Cloudfront. By default, it turned into a weird redirect loop.

I eventually solved it by futzing with all the options.

Re why I didn't use Strapi/the others? Once I switched to node / markdown, I told myself I'd fit in a real CMS, but never got that far researching it. However, I like the options you mentioned. Thanks for sharing!
It is so odd that as you look at that, what you see is a kind of emerging one party system of government and power that should really concern people, especially people from places where one rule government has wrought nothing but havoc and compelled them to leave … ironically, largely to the USA.

Another rather odd thing is that this highlights that the very people who decry all the world dominating mega-corporations, usually align with the American political party that is fueled by those very world dominating mega-corporations that they say they despise on one hand, and also worship on the other.

It's all very irreconcilable and highly unstable.
Behind a paywall. View here:
https://archive.is/8SvA9
I'm pretty sure you can find the Python language specification in the form of documentation at python.org. Some things that CPython does are occasionally misconstrued as specification, but the docs usually call that out.
451 F = the temperature at which fire burns
Yep, so far "We can't serve you for legal reasons AKA we won't comply with the reasonable provisions of data protection" has been met with a broad shrug.
Just be careful the 3070/3080/3090 lineup are gamer cards and do not have ML drivers.

FP32/64 performance is going to be capped, as with prior generations.
Numpy has a very poor API compared to Julia, Matlab, Mathematica, R. That’s just me comparing to the ones I know. It’s a mishmash of methods and functions, in-place operations and non-modifying operations, confusing indexing and broadcasting API. There are much better things available for array manipulation.
To my knowlege there is no practical way to automate placement AND routing of a PCB design (so basicaly only the a netlist as input). Yes, there are autorouters, but they work under the assumption that there is already a sensible placement of the compontents. Is this still true?
At least Mentor Graphics & Altium don't seem to have any solutions for this.
So many parallels between Brave New World and our current world. It's honestly disturbing. The class divide between rich and poor is in there. The intellectual divide between knowledge workers and laborers is in there. The dopamine consumption cycle that stymies creative thought of the masses is in there. The willful ignorance of there being any problems at all is in there. That book is disturbingly prophetic.

It's honestly worse in real life, because in the book the savages and intellectuals on islands live peacefully outside the regime. There is no option to not participate in our world, given that climate change will affect the entire planet; there is no safe refuge from the regime because it directly affects even those not participating in it.
VW ID.3 scores 5-Stars in Euro NCAP crash tests (video, Model 3 comparison)
Nah. It's always about 4 layers. Hardware/services/data stores/etc, wrappers/models/components, business logic / application, ops/deploy.

If you nest your models/components deep enough that they're forming new abstraction layers, you're nesting them too deep. Backup and use mixin-style stuff instead.

If your business logic or application are nesting pretty much at all, then you haven't succeeded at making good choices in your models/components.
Ah, Varnish - I have heard so many great things. Not sure why I didn't use it this time around. I think I assumed Cloudfront would take care of it.

My biggest learning was that CDN != caching. While it can be used as such, it's not automatically set up that way out of the box.
As these consoles use AMD hardware, future-proof means AMD hardware. The hardware these console games are made for.
The 6900 XT the direct competitor to the RTX 3090. It is not $1000 cheaper. The 6900 XT was announced as $999 and the RTX 3090 is priced at $1499. The RTX 3090 also has raytracing hardware, support for machine learning, and other things. We have yet to see how the 6900 XT behaves in less than ideal conditions and performs with raytracing on. In the end, there might be other things which justify the extra $500.
Over the years I've frequently seen Google search results showing things that require login to the indexed site. Has that changed?
All my CodeJam solutions are in Python :)

While we could certainly go in this direction, we're not planning to, because in our experience optimizations for different workloads are largely distinct, and this use case is already handled well by PyPy.
"PCB Design Service".
After that, you will likely be looking for "certification services" in the form of UL, FCC, CE, etc.
Is a “bootcamp” education worth the cost?
I can see a more passive person preferring death easily.
Isn't that circular reasoning? You descry "the left" and Democrats on the basis of this story, which is about a right-wing Republican, and when called out you say, yeah, but he's acting like a left-wing Democrat.

Well, no, he's acting like himself, a right-wing Republican, who is upset and trying to exert control over Twitter. This has nothing to do with Democrats.
There's no such thing as a perfect crime.
This seems to assume that this power is some permanent, unearned thing. The internet is a cruel master - look no further than Tom from MySpace or Jerry Yang from Yahoo!. The power they possess was given to them by their users, and one day those users will find a new platform as they have always done. This isn't some Ma Bell situation where it's illegal to build another phone company.
$255/month for a 2020 Tesla Model 3 in a garage in Brooklyn for pleasure use. With a 2 car discount. From Geico. A 2010 Acura MDX was just over $200 as a single car, previously.

So just one car's insurance is worth two monthly transit passes.

I regardless heavily dislike driving in NYC and would rather take Subway or Express Bus to commute.
Big concern I've seen is around btrfs being the default. I was concerned too, especially with the old versions losing data, but I've heard that a ton of work has gone into btrfs and it's maturing/stabilizing nicely.

Has anybody used a recent (last couple of years at the most) btrfs as their main filesystem who can comment on how it has been?
Ah, sunk costs. Where the future goes to die.

And I say this as a 20-year Python user myself, ’cos while it has scratched many itches and continues to do so, I am not the least bit sentimental about it. The best compliment would be to kill it with something far better, that steals all its good parts and replaces the rest.
Instagram servers download any link sent in Direct Messages even if it's 2.6 GB
I would add a few cons to the list (I agree with all the pros):

- Testing can still be improved in my opinion, there's no mutation testing yet and it's still pretty verbose. If you are coming from the JS world, that's clearly superior, if you are coming from the Ruby world however, you will be disappointed a little bit on that level.

- I really don't like the navigation system, it's pretty hard to know the current route and you have to go out of your way if you need to interact with the current route dynamically.

- Webviews are kind-of alpha, which means no tab support, that's a killer for any kind of oauth using webviews.
seeedstudio has something similar: https://geppetto.seeedstudio.com/
> AMD performance is on par or slightly higher. Power efficiency is much higher.

Are there benchmarks showing this?
There's always cryo.
I'm somewhat surprised that BoingBoing published this. It's a slimy hit-piece by a man whose writing includes such gems as "How to Attract Money," which includes advice on becoming rich through visualization and learning "how your mind is a channel of the Higher Mind of the universe". Other titles include "The Power of Sex Transmutation : How to Use the Most Radical Idea from Think and Grow Rich".

He's a less successful Rhonda Byrne. In other words, exactly the sort of person you would expect to have a dim view of Randi.
RainbowSpace: Color Gamut Visualizer
I think anyone knowledgeable using Wordpress realizes quickly that a rewrite will be part of the plan once the MVP is proved, unless you're literally just making a blog or some very simple site.

Maybe we should distinguish between "no code" and "no knowledge."

Even Excel can excel (!) at, say, a small statistical problem, but scale it and you want something dedicated.
I am yet to know people who Review code and use Gerrit to name a better solution.

I belonged to a team that used Gerrit for Review and Hosting, we changed to hosted Gitlab because people missed a "GitHub-like UI" they were used to. It was unanimous that Code Review on Gerrit was way better:

1. You start reviewing the commit message, that is the first touch point with a change everyone has
2. Navigation is done from file to file
3. On Gerrit there isn't two people commenting the same thing, because:
3.a. Messages from different people on the same line change are displayed together, not as different threads.
3.b. The review of a previous version is displayed with the next version, so you can continue the same discussion

I understand that GitHub/GitLab interface is more friendly, but their code-review really stands in the way of producing good software by not favoring good commit messages and long discussions.
Yes, it's a monopoly. No one is forced to use electricity but people don't really have much of a choice when it comes to power providers. If you want to build an audience by micro blogging there is no other platform that comes close to Twitter's reach. They have almost the entire market.

Section 230 protects Twitter a great deal, in a way that neither Fox nor CNN nor any other news organization gets. When those organizations publish false information they can be sued. Twitter cannot thanks to 230. That's a huge advantage. And their meddling in free speech violates the impetus for the 230 legislation in the first place. If they are going to meddle, they don't deserve protection from liability.

If it's useless legislation in your opinion, let's just get rid of it and see what the lawyers do with Twitter. Is that fair, in your mind? It's fair in mine.
I agree with your overall characterization. As someone who works a lot with Python and is very familiar with its package ecosystem, I find the lack of leadership from PSF to be discouraging and upsetting. The past few Python releases have what I would characterize as cosmetic improvements while repeatedly missing opportunities to improve interpreter, packaging, and interface fundamentals. The position that CPython has to be kept simple as a reference implementation is untenable in the absence of an active collaboration or effort to produce a performance oriented implementation.

As far as I'm concerned, CPython as an interpreter technology has not advanced in the past decade - and Python has grown thanks to the data science community efforts and excellent library ecosystem you mention, not due to PSF. PSF can only miss so many opportunities before something comprehensively better starts to eclipse it.
Also, if you work for a big corporation, would you not prefer to design boards yourself?

I'm wondering what the target audience really is ...
I think a lot of these discussions are missing the locale that many people are living in. The amount of people who are contracting or freelancing and raking in FAANG money ($400k+) is likely a lot lower than people are being lead to believe.

If you want FAANG money, just join FAANG.
If there's no availability for the NVIDIA cards, and the AMD cards are actually available, what it means in terms of pricing is that the gap is even bigger than $500.

Considering these NVIDIA cards have capped FP32/64 performance and don't have ML drivers like Titan series do, the one sensible case for buying them is gone.