skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone is disputing the idea that technology in this arena can/will/should advance, but rather that this specific set of technologies come with consequences that are, to many of us, absolutely terrifying.

I also don't think we truly understood how susceptible so many people are to made up nonsense until recent years, so this particular kind of made up nonsense suddenly looks like a serious threat to social stability and cohesion.
This comment resonates a lot with me. What I observe is that people mistake "fact" for "truth". A "fact" is the _interpretation_ of something that has happened. While truth is what objectively really happened. Most people can't detach their personal world view from an "absolute" reality and hence their "facts" are biased by the way how they _perceive_ the objective reality. But what's an objective reality? Everyone lives in their own subjective reality! And this is where their "facts" come from.

TLDR; The discussions around "facts" are totally useless to me. Unless you accept that someone who pushes through their "facts" does nothing else than pushing their worldview onto you. Everyone is free to learn "truth" through their own perception. Other people's "facts" don't support this much.
> The glorification of politicians and celebrities will hopefully die.

> The realisation that celebrities aren't intelligent or have a better grasp on a situation will become clear.

These do not seem to be the current effects of social media.
But again, is that comparable? Seems like apples versus oranges.

What’s the connectivity into your 7+ year old asset cost? What about the space, power and cooling to provide it a home?

What happens when your environment gets attacked by a volumetric DDOS, is that 100Mbps circuit going to get overwhelmed?

I’m not arguing AWS is cheaper, simply that there are lots of things around the physical server which also have costs and complexities.
Everything is not immutable or even becoming immutable. Content is merely endpoints. Unless extraordinary care is taken, like publishing hashes, the response from the endpoints can change over time. Lots of content has changed, for instance on Wikipedia. In theory you could wade through the wiki history. I don't know if that is protected by hashing or not. Lots of content gets shoved down the memory hole.
> The framing of the issue influences what conclusions one draws. Here, the authors think of the economy as a "pie" created by "factors" that gets "divided up". What naturally follows is that if some get a bigger "slice" than others, it is inherently unfair.

I don't think inherent unfairness logically follows - in many cases, this is not true (which I think is your point). However, from the ~fact that it is not always "unfair", it does not then logically follow that it is always "fair". Reality is extremely complex - clever semantics and non-comprehensive, low-dimensional perspectives (intentional or not) can easily hide the full spectrum of all that is happening. This phenomenon can be observed in many domains, from relationships to economics to geopolitics.

> But a free market economy is not a pie. It's a collection of people that create wealth. Some create more wealth than others. Bob creating more wealth than Fred does not mean that Bob took it from Fred. There's nothing unfair about Bob creating more than Fred.

At a given snapshot in time, is there not in some sense a finite pie, the makeup of which derives from an individual or organization recognizing and exploiting opportunities(!) for wealth creation that existed (but were not yet discovered) in reality? And is it not at least sometimes true that the one who happens to ~unlock this opportunity first [1] can realize a significant advantage over competitors who may have only been a few steps behind? And once dominance is established in certain categories, are there not other phenomena [2] that sometimes kick in to further expand and cement this dominance, potentially permanently?

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/firstmover.asp

[2] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/network-effect.asp

There are many different perspectives from which one can view and evaluate reality - it is not difficult to find two perspectives that are perfectly valid (within their constrained domain), but also diametrically opposed. This norm we seem to have developed in society where an articulation of a single constrained/non-comprehensive perspective (out of a pool of many possible accurate perspectives) is broadly accepted as comprehensively true, or an evaluation of reality that is singularly sufficient for setting policy, seems not only highly flawed, but I would say getting into the realm of immorality, in that: if the one who is positing/marketing such a perspective has the intellectual capability to see the other valid and conflicting perspectives, but ~chooses not to (to the detriment of broad swaths of society)...I don't think their mother and father would be very proud of how their child is conducting themselves in society.
But people will always prefer to blame others and when you can blame a corporation for your problems its always an easier target.
From what I understand though, generators always have an advantage because the generator is allowed to "see" the discriminator's gradients during training. [0]

>The model for the discriminator is usually more complex than the generator (more filters and more layers) and a good discriminator gives quality information. In many GAN applications, we may run into bottlenecks where increasing generator capacity shows no quality improvement. Until we identify the bottlenecks and resolve them, increasing generator capacity does not seem to be a priority for many partitioners. [1]

Put another way: GAN training ends when the discriminator can no longer meaningfully distinguish real from fake. By definition then, the best generator will have no useful discriminator that can distinguish its output from real data. (conversely, if you did have such a discriminator, you could use it to train a better generator)

[0] https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/gan/generator

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/gan-ways-to-improve-gan-perfo...
In terms of using deep fakes to impersonate political figures, I do think we'll ultimately be okay on that front. I can see the entertainment industry being flipped on it's head and fabricated conspiracy theories hitting a fever pitch but with initiatives like CAI* cropping up, my hope is that there will be a digital wax seal of sorts to make sure what you're seeing is what the author intended.

* https://contentauthenticity.org
It's not worth it.

First, I believe conventional wisdom is you can recover 1-3% of total battery capacity, which in a 400Wh pack might be as little as 4Wh, or one AA battery worth.

Second, you can only actually do regen with a hub motor, but mid drive is much more popular.
I thought email addresses were case folded on the right hand side and site dependent on the left hand side.

The right hand side is more or less forced by the rules of DNS.

As for the left hand side, if I run the email for a site, can't I decide whether to deliver ABC@ and abc@ both to the same mailbox or to different mailboxes? And can't someone else make a different decision for their site?

If a site administrator does not have the prerogative to decide this, what rule prevents them? (And if there is such a rule, can you rely on it being enforced?)
Ongoing civil wars don't help much either:

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project, which monitors incidents of conflict around the world, found that there had been 21 600 incidents of armed conflict in Africa in 2019 (up to 30 November). For the same period in 2018, that number was just 15 874. That represents a 36% increase.

Conflict is still Africa’s biggest challenge in 2020
https://reliefweb.int/report/world/conflict-still-africa-s-b...
One case is DJ equipment - FLAC support wasn't standard for a long time so DJs may be forced to stick with WAV to be sure of compatibility with the pro kit installed in clubs.

Also now that many sources provide 24bit audio you need to check for that and resample to 16bit to be certain it'll work.
This discussion would be more fruitful if you carefully read my responses. I'm not actually disagreeing with you, but you're missing my point. I don't mean to be rude, but you really appear to be suffering from man-with-a-hammer syndrome here. As I've already shown, what can be mechanically verified with a model checker has no bearing on a programmer's ability to formally derive totally correct software. It would be extremely surprising if it were otherwise, since that would mean that one of the most fundamental theorems in computing science is incorrect.

> Anyway, I encourage you to try to affordably write ordinary software in this way

I already stated in an earlier response that I've been doing this professionally. And I have been for over a decade.

Regarding the Shuttle, you'll have to hit a library, the only online source I can find is Feynman's minority report and it doesn't go into great detail. It does however show how properly decomposing a complex system into component parts is necessary to keep it intellectually manageable. And bear in mind that while Feynman is best known as a physicist, he knew enough about computing science to write a book on it.
I'm using 5.65v (2013 release) on win10 without issues
I am kind of waiting for both of them to become extremely right wing.
While I agree on your first point, the rest completely misses that the public will continue to be tribal and instead only believe the talking heads of their given tribe as authentic in a world rife with deep fakes.

I fully expect the outcome to be increased tribalism, when faith in your tribe's leadership and information sources is the only source of comfort, confidence, and "truth".

I don't think it will be the opposite where everything is questioned and critical thinking suddenly becomes prolific as you seem to imply.
A pet peeve of mine is also the "bullshit cloud". For example OnShape is basically running a CAD software on a virtual machine. Fusion 360 is saving files on the networks or launching batch jobs on a farm, 1990 banking style.

The cloudiness provides very little value to the user. Whereas computing the fillets concurrently on a bunch of server and the client and accepting the fastest answer would be useful, instead of locking the UI for 2 minutes, same for toolpath generation.
Find and Get Email Database of Right Person/Customer/Business
Oh this is new, great! Thanks :)
> If you're at the size where slow CI negatively affects your projects, then you're big enough to own your own CI (at least the build agents).

Strongly disagree. When I joined my current company, as an early engineer on a fairly new product, we had an 8 minute deploy time and I see that as a fairly critical component to our rapid iteration cycle that was critical to the company at that stage.

We had 3 engineers and had no time to spend on owning our own CI.
Sure but this is about relationships and how our government should be run.

I'm not required to be friendly to racists, even if they're family. I am not required to be meek and silent in order to preserve family unity.

I can't even say that certain "opinions" on basic human rights are even valid. Allowing it to be mooted is already giving it more credibility than it deserves.
Plex build there own Winamp with Plexamp: https://plexamp.com/
> deepfakes are going to kill plausible deniability in audio and video

Huh? Don't deepfakes do the exact opposite - make plausible deniability in audio and video a much stronger argument?

Before if you denied a video of you was genuine that would not be plausible. Now it would be plausible.
What is the alternative for accurate scraping?
The author should specify that he is referring to black Africa. At some point in recent history Lybia wasn't doing that bad I understand (oil money).
I get the sense that this was related to the content of OP's blog. The fact that he was concerned that he would get blocked from gmail and facebook sounds like a level of paranoia, from my perspective, related to the content of the site that's why they didn't push farther. I do see how if you were naturally a paranoid individually you might be concerned about losing those connections, though seems high unlikely they would cut access unless you were putting up shady content.
You can set breakpoint inside useEffect and it will work as expected, you can use something like

if (somevar === 42) debugger;

and you'll see all of the internal call stack and all variables in scope. moreover you can use the console to evaluate your code. Worth mentioning 99% of strange issues in react (in my experience) are caused by mutation or not declaring all deps in hooks.
Answer is simple. Two words.

Corruption, Geography.
Conspiracy theory is a fun 2020 buzzword because it’s such a powerful rhetorical attack. You can take something that is fringe and proven by data to be untrue (such as flat earth) and then lump it together with something that is simply unknown or politically embarrassing (what is on Hunter’s laptop?) and then treat them the same?

The new way is actually just to suggest it’s Russian disinformation, and then suddenly that embarrassing thing about your family simply goes away.
For the record, there have been cases of companies (IIRC Cisco wifi routers) that attempted to do this retroactively - pushing a firmware update that "helpfully" made the hardware cloud managed only.

So indeed, buying open API stuff only is a good start, unfortunately one still needs to be vigilant.
Yeah, the mathematics around herd immunity are often misused.

People seem to always assume independent identical random variables. Corona Virus are seasonal - infections highly locally clustered.

The spreading might refuse to follow slow brownian motion of the herd. If e.g. an aircondition blasts an entire room of people with bad air, how much do herd effects really help?

Does the term "herd immunity" make sense for a seasonal virus at all?
Having used both Zoom and Meet extensively now for the past 6 months, my experience is:

1/ Your internet connection, especially upload bandwidth and latency matter a lot.

2/ Zoom's desktop app performs very well, but its web version is atrocious. Not just because of the dark patterns they use to force you to install the desktop app, but also its performance is terrible compared to its desktop version, as well as worse than almost everything else. Unfortunately, I don't trust them and refuse to use their desktop app on anything but my iPad.

3/ Meet used to be bad like Zoom on web 6 months ago, but has improved a lot and is slowly approaching Zoom desktop in performance. I have noticed that Meet on my work GSuite calls at work perform much better than on my personal account. This might be explained by #1 above I.e. my family has worse internet connections than my coworkers, but I am not sure if all improvements have been rolled out to personal accounts.
> ...China, which leads the world in published scientific papers...

Try to publish in China a scientific paper with real COVID numbers and you will see how democratic the country is.

> ...the Soviet Union, which definitely assigned a lot of value to objective science...

Unless the objective science throw a threw a bad light on the soviet system in which case science was dismissed. Just take a look at the story behind Chernobyl.

You won't find objectivity in a totalitarian system.
Modern Test-Driven Development in Python
It's sounds like a teenage Solipsism, and its really boring and tedious for other people.
AWS spot pricing meets SETI@home?
Funny how the image caption is "Parker and Stone at a pre-corona premiere", when the photo is like, 20 years old, while the epidemic has been this year.
Let's remember their politics, though - they used to market themselves as "both sides are bad" indpendants/libertarians, but now they're full-out Trumpers.

I could see clips from this show making the rounds on lower-information parts of social media like Facebook that are already prone to being hoodwinked by conservative fake news like Alex Jones and the like. Professionally-produced deepfakes becoming the exact attack on democracy that other people in this thread are proposing will "innoculate" us.
The risks of MySQL release policy
> This makes me nostalgic of hours of 15 year old me downloading every skin to find the "best one",

It's classic isn't? :)
That's what I was thinking about as well when I saw it. It's very reminiscent of the VIC-20 and C64. A tinkerer's computer. It's really cool that products like that exist again today, and are so affordable. Almost anyone can buy this for their kid for Christmas!

I guess Python is the modern BASIC? I feel like what it's missing is an easy to use graphics package for drawing lines, circles and other basic shapes (kind of like the JS canvas, but more oriented towards beginners). I wonder if there's a pip package that does this well (and doesn't require installing a bunch of dependencies)?

I'm also thinking this computer could be further made easier to use for beginners by having a kind of breakout board that plugs into the GPIO and has written labels, makes it easier to connect things (screw terminals?).
And yet you find out about these facts and stories. So there are a couple of possibilities:

* The mainstream media is unsuccessfully hiding something from you.

* You yourself are getting a biased version of this story, treating it as ground truth, and then treating any alternatives as suspicious.

I'm in no position to tell you which possibility holds. I just raise it to suggest that you consider both. Much of the time, when I hear somebody telling me "the story they don't want you to hear", it's because that story is itself twisted but fits their preferred narrative. And it's often difficult to tell them that, because they've already rejected any news sources that I might use to contradict them. Even if I happen to know personally, that makes me part of the mainstream.
Or alternatively, how hard is it to plug in and use another keyboard instead?
Analysing the WebSocket Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat (CVE-2020-13935)
>perseverance with endosymbiosis

Sadly, in her later years she became a bit too persistent with it, trying to apply it in cases where it clearly wasn't happening. The notorious example is this 2009 paper, now retracted: https://www.pnas.org/content/106/47/19901
I suspect it was basically legit--somebody used it to try to spread malware, their spider found it.
There's an old quote that I'm probably butchering, and I don't know who said it, but it goes along the lines of "you can't use logic to get someone out of something they didn't use logic to get themselves into."

I used to be someone who would perpetually argue with friends and family members who believed in all this conspiracy crap, usually devolving to me sending links to Snopes and Politifact and whatnot, but I later realized that it was completely irrelevant, and probably just made them feel stronger in their beliefs, since they could always just dismiss me as "in on it" whenever I said something they didn't like.

Nowadays, I honestly just don't talk to family members and (former) friends who believe in really problematic nonsense, since by the time that they've fallen into the QAnon rabbit hole, it's not like a beautiful and logical argument from me to going to have any effect.

I'm not sure what the best strategy for fighting this kind of weird mass idiotic groupthink is. There's a part of me that thinks that the best thing to do is to make fun of them and mock them, but of course that's a lot easier to do when it's not your friend of family-member on the other end.
Same interface as an SD card, but better firmware and probably higher quality flash. SD cards are really aggressively cost-cut, often coming in than less than the price of raw flash of the same capacity.
If this isn't evidence of a monopoly, I don't know what is.
Has anyone tried the Scaleway Elements? Looks pretty feature-complete (hosted DB, Kubernetes, object storage). Just wondering if there's a reason it's not talked about, i.e. is it too good to be true?
Jobs: Data Scientist versus Data Analyst
Wouldn't be surprised. While searching him on Youtube I even stumbled on Peter Serafinowicz's appearance on Stephen Colbert where they're talking about him even doing 'bad lip reading' videos for trump in different personalities, one of them being 'Sassy Trump', so he might have had something to do with this show coming about in general.

I don't think he's doing the voice for Sassy Justice, though. That sounds more like Trey Parker to me. But they probably brought him in to do Michael Caine.

https://youtu.be/Oe28UOFNlxk?t=138
I've been reading about that, can't seem to wrap my head around the difference between refinement and dependent types.
We aren't a very gun-heavy family and so the crisis actors subject has not come up.
Doesn't the olson DB track when offsets changed based on UTC time, and thus UTC timestamp+timezone is enough?

(If your datetime library handles historical information in the DB correctly, that is!)
On my ebike I might drop from 100%->70% on a summer's ride to work and 100%->60% on a cold winter day. (It doesn't get much colder than -20C though)

So there is an effect, but it isn't terrible. Ideally your battery already has extra capacity in the first place- everybody knows that some buffer capacity helps extend the life of the battery.

I find snow & ice are not a big deal for range either, even with studs & aggressive tires, because you reduce your speed & assist for safety.
Here's a video of at least part of the incident: https://twitter.com/truthserum4all/status/132239359596236390...

At the start of the video, the bus is in the second from rightmost lane and looks like it's starting to merge into the rightmost lane, which will put it directly in front of the black truck. There's a white crossover SUV that is directly behind the bus and will no longer be directly behind the bus once the bus finishes merging.

The camera turns away unfortunately, then pans back to show that the bus has merged and the white SUV crossover which was behind the bus before the lane change is now trying to merge directly into the black truck, in order to stay behind the bus. The black truck then pushes the white SUV crossover back into its own lane.

Obviously what the white SUV crossover did was illegal. I think the most charitable interpretation of its behavior is that the driver didn't see the black truck.

The black truck driver could have rapidly decelerated to allow the white SUV crossover to merge in front of it, but I don't think it's fair to characterize pushing back on someone trying to force you off the road as "attacking." A more accurate description might be "defending." I probably would have done the same, since I don't like bullies and don't like to endanger the innocent people behind me by rapidly decelerating due to distracted/angry driver next to me.

This isn't the best video, but if you pause it and determine which lane each vehicle is in, it seems fairly straightforward. Do you have a different interpretation of this video, or perhaps a better video?

EDIT: clarified wording about "attacking" vs "defending"