skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is the proposed solutions really just entrench existing providers, specifically net neutrality policies: They legalize monopolies as long as they're "following the rules!"

_You_ _cannot_ _legislate_ _good_ _behavior_ _into_ _monopolies_. So while I appreciate the spirit of Net Neutrality rules, the solution is fundamentally flawed.

Let's say you want to open an ISP in your neighborhood. Based on their history (When Google Fiber moved into my area), Comcast will call their existing customer base and offer them services below cost but at the price of a 3year contract. This delays profitability for you as a new player into the space. Comcast can take money from one market (another state) and move the profits into subsidizing a loss to prevent players from entering the space in another market. By breaking this cash flow, you end the stagnation of consumer choice, driving innovation forward.
I did not make any of these arguments. Nor did I say anything about whether piracy should be allowed.
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For me, it's either to youtube-dl music onto my phone (mostly stuff from CDs I had bought but were stolen or lost), or run a small Python script to cheat at word games (finds all combinations of letters in a dictionary file).

Things that don't rise to the level of deserving an app, but are nice to have.
The upcoming features sound really interesting, but I wouldn't market it as "a more complete toolset" until those features are actually implemented. Probably the other tools will also have those features at some point, I think customers are more interested in what the product does now than what it could do in a few years.
but the volume to surface-area ratio increases as the size of the object increases, bigger is better
A good example of how Windows 7 worked better is Skyrim, in windows 10 it has a memory cap of about 4 gigs while in windows 7 it doesn't. If you run a ton of mods and you know that we do this presents a situation where technically windows 7 runs things better.
Sennheiser headphones with ALC might help - they do a pretty good job for me in evening out volume levels.
I think the biggest problem is people running with a heel-first contact to the ground because thick shoes make that feel comfortable and effortless despite the human foot and legs never having evolved to take such hard impacts. Take off someone's shoes and tell them to run on any surface and 9/10 will automatically start running on their toes to reduce foot and leg impact. Heel striking bare foot is not pleasant. The only problem is if someone never runs on their toes and suddenly do run on their toes because they get told it is better, they will quickly tire their feet and calves out and assume the person was full of shit because they ran far longer and easier heel striking because that is what they are use to and built up endurance to do.

You can often tell if someone exclusively heel strikes and doesn't stand or walk or run on their toes at all because they will have super thin calves. You can see it in some people in how they place their foot on bike pedals too, toe runners pedal with their toes, exclusive heel strikers pedal much closer to their heel.
This, 100%. Choose your follows very carefully and you will be rewarded with a goldmine.
That's why I decided to get a PinePhone this year.
I remember how depressed I was when I crashed my RC plane on its maiden flight. Took a turn that was too sharp and didn't have the piloting skills to avert the subsequent nosedive.

I crashed my first Phantom drone as well since I didn't know you have to warm up the batteries in cold weather. Live and learn I guess :)
I'm not convinced you understand the studies you are citing but let's posit you do understand them. If a study came out tomorrow that you felt contradicted what you just cited, you would retract it? And therefore it would be obvious what you wrote here today was false?

Maybe, again, you should show a little humility instead of spreading stereotypes as if they are objective facts.
Love that free trade!
Yes but the article mainly focuses on the slavic languages, Serbian, Montenegrin, Croatian and Bosnian are there any more non-extinct south slavic languages that can be considered as one pluricentric language?
Maybe a Banana Republic puffy?
Do they really? I can't remember the last time I had a printer problem, and I print a lot. Printer hardware and software have gotten a lot better since 10 years ago.
Wikipedia calls them all Serbo-Croatian [1], more or less:

> Serbo-Croatian – also called Serbo-Croat, Serbo-Croat-Bosnian (SCB), Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian (BCS), and Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS) – is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin.

There's also some story about how these all derive from Shtokavian via Eastern Herzegovinian, so those might be useful names too.

And, of course, how could we forget the Balkan sprachbund [2]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbo-Croatian

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sprachbund
In most Muslim countries religion and culture are distinct. For example in Bangladesh the religion is Islam but the culture is more Indian. In my experience, American Muslims are more similar to Catholics. People who aren’t actively practicing might just be going through the motions, but ones who affirmatively reject the underlying beliefs would usually identify as something other than Catholic. There is also a strong social pressure to “return to the fold.”
>effectively-unlimited

I mean, that's what everyone in the US has.

I've heard enough stories of people in SE Asia having to pay by the megabyte to know that it's not the same everywhere.
Not necessarily, Voyager 2 is pretty far angled below the ecliptic plane by 48 degrees [1]. If you were to point the Goldstone dish (35 degree N latitude) directly at the horizon you can reach as far as ~78 degrees below the ecliptic plane if you are pointing in the direction of the tilt of the earth (I don't actually know where Voyager is relative to the tilt of the Earth). If it were in the opposite direction, pointing the antenna at the horizon means you could only point at something ~32 degrees below the ecliptic. And Madrid has a slightly higher latitude at 40 deg N.

[1] https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/fact...
This is really cool.

Does anybody know how you implement multiversion concurrency control?

I'm trying to implement it in a toy project that simulates bank accounts withdrawing and depositing money in a multithreaded scenario where no money should be lost or created.

I found that the algorithm only worked when I considered only write timestamps. If there is a write timestamp that is greater than this commit's write timestamp, then abort and retry.
> The majority Americans have a choice in ISPs...

Not really, no.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fcc-data-indicates...

> The major takeaway of this report, which provides policymakers in D.C. and the states a wide-ranging view of available data to see trends in the Internet, is that competition for broadband only looks good at slow speeds while a vast majority of Americans (EFF estimates at least 68 million) are facing monopoly or no access to high-speed broadband.

> Instead, in a handful of markets we have reviewed, we find that the average price consumers pay ranges from 200% to 400% above competitive rates and that cable prices are established surgical precision in order to extract monopoly rents. For example, I myself would have to pay $159.95 for a gigabit service whereas my coworkers would pay $40 for a superior product.
They were also purged from Google Play a while ago: https://reclaimthenet.org/google-play-bans-bitchute-app/
You do need to understand that there was a point in history when Science™ and Progress™ turned into the things that brought us world wars and atomic bombs.
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There is an important space to explore here. Right now my contacts are either trapped in my phone or centralized/monetized by SV. The idea of a bottom-up, democratized sharing of relationships is worth rapid prototyping and exploration -- good start!
Pension funds speculate on Wall Street. It’s all connected.

I am just saying that ..at least in the Bay Area..there is an incentive for the govt to keep home prices high.

Increase in home ownership doesn’t address affordable housing. It only addresses more tax collection and it also increases debt.

People can be housed if there are rental units. And yet that never happens in the Bay Area. Just talking about my zip code. And it seems to me that it’s by design.
Governments have a history of bailing out the financial system. Lenders take that into account and will take on riskier loans since they effectively have a put on them.
Isn't Legion more different then just faster? Last I heard the big change was switching to an archetype based ECS which gains speed in some scenarios but does worse if you regularly add/remove components (so temporary effects are just a component you add for a brief time then remove).
I don't think it's basically CAS at all. You need the name in advance before you can narrow it down with the digest.
It's a shame as it you can make much more powerful apps with a native API.
I played with termux a bunch. I found it to be lacking when not rooted though. If i remember right it also lacks a lot of access to most of the android api, making any kind of serious development not really practical.

The one i really miss though is SL4A.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripting_Layer_for_Android

It's a shame it ended up being killed off. I wrote a bunch of lua scripts with it. Including a small app to fetch bus schedules from a current stop. I could add scripts to my launcher and run them the same as a native app.
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When it's ground nobody's covered before, it's hacking.
BitChute unavailable the day before US elections. Coincidence?
https://www.bitchute.com/
Yes, indeed, though this seems to be an experimental drone. Most common commercially available DJI drones fall if single motor or propeller fails, though in future they may gain such functionality, which would be great for safety.

A nice example of a different approach is a variable angle of attack propellers which are driven by a single motor [1]. See after 0:52 and 7:13. In case battery is dead since all the propellers are synchronized they auto-rotate and stabilize the drone (near the earth the pilot activates the motor just to land softly, but likely similar effect can be reached by properly adjusting the angle of propellers in proper time, like in case of auto-rotation landing for helicopters).

[1] https://youtu.be/TnGhEInTXYc?t=52 (this video was posted below by @jcims)
How does this compare to Amethyst or Piston?
A small plug: Toast (https://github.com/stepchowfun/toast) has already introduced a patch for this vulnerability (CVE-2020-15228), so arbitrary user code running inside Toast will not be able to trigger this vulnerability when run via a GitHub Action. I highly recommend using Toast for your CI jobs (with or without GitHub Actions), not just for this security fix but also because it also allows you to run your CI jobs locally. It just runs everything inside Docker containers, so it works the same in CI, on your laptop, on your coworker's machine, etc.
Didn't read the article but I'm almost certain it's dynamic range compression.

I don't know why this hasn't been standard in Every OS.

EDIT: NOPE! It's just an automatic gain control :/
aaah can the youtube player please add loudness equalization? so many lectures have terrible sound interspersed with horrifying loud noises.
"it feels good". I mean, it feels good because they fight for truth.
Those advertisement giants (we should stop calling them tech, btw, they aren't anymore), google, facebook, tweeter, didn't block a group that facilitated French teacher beheading, but sharply alerted by political view that doesn't match theirs.
Most Masked European Countries Have the Biggest Coronavirus Surges
"Meanwhile in Sweden, only 5% wear masks. The authorities have never recommended them believing that they are a waste of time. Sweden has used a soft lockdown that avoided fines and mandates. And the media in lockdown countries has spent the months lambasting Sweden and warning the rest of the world not to use it as a model.

But Sweden isn’t alone. In Denmark hardly anyone wears masks. And in Norway, less than a sixth do."
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Haha how about no. Why the fuck should I follow your rules when you falsely accused me of an attack. I didn't launch a single attack. Literally cite a source.
The nothing serious effect is huge. I lived in an area with out of control covid, and you wouldn’t believe the number of people who say “oh it’s just a cold” “oh if’s just allergies” when they had symptoms consistent with covid.
Sure, but that's an entirely different comparison than what was being discussed above.

All developed countries share the aforementioned facility, personnel, regulatory, and equipment costs that differentiate modern medicine from mid-20th-century shoe stores.

Even developing countries perform medical imaging to higher standards than the circumstances detailed in the article.
Input doesn’t have to be malicious to cause problems, just unexpected. Separating memory-unsafe code into the finest granularity memory spaces possible is just good practice regardless of whether it’s microservices or just process isolation in a monolith.
If you travel to places where you might want people searching
for you from the air to notice you amid many square miles of search area,
a signal mirror is remarkably effective.
https://adventure.howstuffworks.com/survival/gear/use-signal...
It maps between a category with HashedType implementations as objects and a category with
Make implementations as objects. Unfortunately it's not a very interesting functor because to satisfy the functor laws I think the categories have to be discrete. It's basically a function! (And functions are indeed a special case of functors.)

https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/manual-ocaml/libref/Hashtbl.M...
> In fact, I can probably wander the entire Walmart store in about 30-45 minutes and see everything they are selling in that store.

I'm pretty sure this can't be done. Consider how frequent it is to intend to purchase a particular item, which you know the store stocks, and yet be unable to find it even though you're looking for it in the correct aisle.

What if we ran the following experiment:

1. We give the subject a particular item to look for. They know what they're supposed to find.

2. The subject looks through the Walmart for up to 60 minutes for that item. They can't ask for help.

3. We then ask a single question, "is this item in stock at this Walmart?"

What percentage of subjects would answer correctly?
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984381
Interesting article though it doesn't show "how our species battled for supremacy" but that "our species ultimately gained supremacy somehow".

Also, I'm still not sold that neanderthals were a different species. Why can't they be classified as a different race of humans? After all, most of us have neanderthal DNA.
Never start a project by making a logo
I have a Brother entry level laser printer, first printer in years that I've liked. Will never buy an inkjet again, there is something inherently flawed with that technology.
They display the message from Google saying their is an issue with the app which included a screenshot of the offending screen, but the blog post decided not to include that screenshot.

I'm all for a youtube alternative, but it appears to me BitChute is hiding something here.
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23andMe don't do full sequencing, they just map small parts of DNA which are tied to features they test.
> I use it for emacs, mostly org mode on my phone.

I'm not the only weirdo who does this! Although I manage to get by with Hacker's Keyboard.
> and I print a lot

Exactly. Try to print every other month, and very different tasks - scanned images of cashier's receipts, color pictures a toddler drew in MS Paint, pages 87-112 from SICP, Bing Maps directions, an ASCII text from from a flash drive and the likes.

Sometimes you have to reset printer (with a button). Sometimes to cycle power off-on. Sometimes to download whatever's needed from a browser in a form of a PDF. Sometimes nothing works, and only by pure luck you can do something - not always - when completely misremembering steps which led to the printing.

And that's without ink problems.
Draw whatever crazy line you want on a whiteboard, and I can find a 12-degree polynomial to transform it into the desired shape for whatever it is I want to prove. It proves nothing because it can prove anything.

EDIT: Also see the last panel of this XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2048/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_v._Helvering - no obligation to maximize taxes - reinvest profits in company growth is the simplest way to avoid taxes, and arguably better for the economy
If it's talking to the database, it's not a unit test.

https://blog.metaobject.com/2014/05/why-i-don-mock.html
His privacy is a really important issue. People have a right to disappear. No one has a right to take this away from someone else. You own your body.

People seems to excuse themselves trampling on others privacy just so they can be part of a podcast. It's lame. Your family doesn't own you, you don't own them.

> If he cared enough

This bit is wrong. He might have cared and he seems to have gone to great lengths to protect his privacy.

Points of thought

1) Some people think dead people have zero rights. You are in or out on this.

2) We don't know for sure he wanted to disappear after his death.
> they wouldn't even fire people for incompetence, just reassign them, on the grounds that a hiring mistake was the fault of the company.

I wonder how often the problem isn't with a hire but with the team.
I haven't watched the movie, I'll give it an eye! Or two! /s
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The parent post argued about attributing special importance to the exact verbiage and intent as expressed in that 250 year old document. While we do still have laws prohbiting murder, we don't rely on Old Testament for guidance on what killing is permissible and what killing is murder, which details matter, and what shall the punishments be; we do consider the nuances expressed in that old document as obsolete and if people would try to make arguments about treating murder based on the nuances of how exactly Old Testament prescribes to handle murder (e.g. whether all murderers must get the death penalty as per Leviticus 24:19) then we would consider that as magical thinking and not really a valid argument.
At this moment there is only one physical border we have. Planet Earth. Please work and build understanding towards ascending above all borders, both physical and mental.

I am a homo sapiens, a living being from this Universe. Born on the Planet Earth. My mother and father were also homo sapiens. Their mothers and fathers too. Several million generations before, their mothers and fathers were some types of primates, who knows.

I respect the languages my mother and father and their mothers and fathers spoke and taught me, but I do not want to be limited to those.

Therefore, I also tried to learn few other languages. To name some well-known: English. Deutsch. Italian. Basic. Pascal. C. C++. Forth. Modula II. Logo. Lisp. Fortran. Cobol. Java. Javascript. Probably few more that I don't remember :)

Some of them I only studied on paper, without any direct opportunity to apply it in real life. I studied those, just for the sake of studying.

I love to listen to people speaking in many languages and I love when people use many dialects of the same language, that are so different to each other that they barely understand themselves.

Diversity should be considered a blessing.
"It looks like we've been deplatformed on some critical infrastructure that has taken the site offline"

https://twitter.com/bitchute/status/1323741461972594688
Do you have a reference for that, because it just sounds like someone's running a 32-bit version somewhere?
GPT-3: I need 17 billion parameters to create text
Maybe for users who don't pay for Office / Excel (This seems like a free alternative in this regard?)
>one of the remaining zero-stakes disputes of small nations around

Which is the kind of disputes big nations use to influence local policies, sell weapons, create satellite states, etc, to use for their higher-stakes disputes...