skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember those guys who let their house guest attack the US a little under 20yr ago? Last I checked they're in the process of getting their country back.

The "but they have tanks and nukes" argument has been long debunked. To actually run an oppressive nation you need boots on the ground which requires very strong support from a very sizeable minority (e.g South Africa, Northern Ireland). The less firepower the peasants have the smaller the minority you need is. You can't fight a insurgency with tanks and bombs without destroying the things you seek to protect. If you're England crapping all over Ireland or if you're the US crapping all over Iraq you can kind of make it work as long as you have political will and keep the death tolls low because your supply lines and political support are isolated from the violence (notice how quickly the Troubles wrapped up once the bombs started going off in England). It's much harder to fight an insurgency when people are sabotaging your supply chains. See the 4chan copypasta someone else posted for other details.
(footnote missing?)

I'm not entirely convinced by this, since there are a lot of local laws and I don't believe 4chan keeps a big database of which posts are visible in which jurisdictions? Do they have an equivalent of Twitter's is_nazi flag? ( https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/tweet-withhel... / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strafgesetzbuch_section_86a )
Most people installing these games don't even know what a rootkit is.
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Have to say this was a life saver during lockdown. 100s of full colour pages later and still not a dent in the ink levels. Really amazing
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What?

” The European Commission has told its staff to switch to the encrypted Signal messaging app in a move that’s designed to increase the security of its communications.”

This was February 2020, has something changed?
The US military is the militia >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_%281946%29
Retailers aren't marketplaces. They're retailers. Generally they're buying goods from manufacturers to stock their shelves. Amazon isn't doing that.
Yeah, that matches my own analysis. I think it also comes from a time when people considered the source code to be an artifact and creating a source distribution was just checkout+zip. So you'd make a release commit with a version of the source code where the version is hard coded (the git flow page uses a "bump_version" script). Nowadays most projects can build an artifact (source or binary) from any version of the source code and derive their version number from git at build time.
I was taught years ago it stood for present working directory.
I haven't heard about those other results so I cannot comment on them. I agree a journalist should know about them (unless they are so flawed in some way as to not be worth my time, which a good journalist should know but most don't).
Haha, here I was thinking that I had 'all versions'.

I have in my library:

AoE

AoE 2

AoE 2 HD

AoE 2 Definitive Edition

None of them show up in my Linux steam library.
Oh hey Ernie! Oh hey Bert!
But how will we provide backdoor access to the police?
My brother printer is actually 20 years old and still works. Have had to replace the roller once and the ink a few times, and it's not wireless but for how rarely I print I've definitely got my money's worth.
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A Color Laserjet can be bought for roughly $450. A high-capacity replacement for all 4 toner cartridges will cost just over $700. That makes my Laserjet disposable - once the toners are nearly empty, I will sell it on eBay and replace mine with a new one.
The smaller the company providing software, the more likely they are to be unstable and therefore a risk to your own operations.

That doesn't mean they are rejected, but it means they must be world-class in their solutions and service to mitigate that risk. If they are, they will grow and become stable. You buy from small companies when they prove they have the capacity to be long-term viable solutions to your problem, not because they are 'indie'.
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Apart from other excellent answers, there will also always be a need to run legacy software. Surely we don't want to lose the ability to play old games, for instance?
> It’s mathematically better, I think that armed populace has a higher chance of revolt

US is the only country in the western World who only made one real revolution.

And it was to not pay taxes, not against a true tyrant.

> And I also think the reasoning is that the anti-tyrannical populace will be much larger

The only thing that will be larger is the anti everybody else populace (tribalism, to give it a name).

USA had one major civil war and they keep killing each other like nowhere else in the World (like ten times more than the west average).

It's mathematically provable.
https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/saas-tutorial
DOS actually has "chdir" as another name for "cd".

And of course, the POSIX interface for changing and querying the working directory are wonderfully consistently named chdir and getwd (or getcwd, where "c" stands for something).
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Hire open source consulting companies like Collabora, Igalia, Bootlin etc to work on Linux/graphics stuff. IIRC Valve is doing this work via Collabora. I note that both Igalia and Bootlin have done crowdfunding campaigns to support their Linux, graphics and web work:

http://open-prioritization.igalia.com/
https://www.igalia.com/2020/09/28/Open-Prioritization-Experi...
https://bootlin.com/blog/tag/crowdfunding/
https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/Resources#employer...
It doesn't matter where they are from. This was the work of a group of dedicated individuals working together. Their national origins are irrelevant. If you want to end the "open racism", focus more on individuals and less on groups.
> One more sad step towards de-humanizing the enemy.

I think it's a step in completely opposing direction. If you're in the battlefield, you don't have any possible room to error on the side of mercy, because that kind of error will get you killed.

But when you move to Las Vegas, see your family every day, get enough sleep and don't risk even a light injury, that's exactly the kind of environment where you can allow yourself not to be so trigger-happy.
Begging pardon, 1986, two years after the Mac. It also beat the Mac to market with a color GUI and ADB keyboards and mice. But yup, hardware-wise it was kneecapped from the start (1MHz IO bus, 65816 cpu would never rival m68k, low cpu clock speed) entirely for marketing reasons.
It's clear on that, too. Check the 12th and 20th amendments.
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Vietnamese farmers have a different view point. It's not about competing on an open field, its about not being able to be subjugated. Another historical example would be American snipers in trees picking off the British commanders during the revolution.
Sure, but my point was that this shows the value in making a game that's easily portable to begin with. This is more for future games rather than converting existing ones.
This. It’s already bad enough with segmented Twitter follower graphs and Fox News. Just imagine when they’re entirely walled off from one another
It's here https://docs.m3o.com/faq#fair-usage-policy. Sorry it's not in a clear place. I'll look to fix that.
Ah, you'll need to enable proton for all games in settings

Steam -> Settings -> Steam Play and tick "Enable Steam Play for all titles"
christ... is this the HP idea of Trilogy? Not upgraded to Laser?

I think my age is affecting my memory. Didn't HP did this before... at least twice?
Regarding the Cal Newport i was surprised to find he is very much pro religion.
Milo was more about the grift than the cruelty. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/milo-yiannop...

(entertaining little detail in there of one of the "anti-immigration" activists getting banned from Australia by their, er, immigration control)
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> If I don't give my child permission to have a camera active in my private space, what is going to happen?

Your child will not be allowed to take the exam.
I'm still not a native English speaker, but a Google search shows that non-paying customers are people who don't pay their bills, which is not the same thing as users who don't have bills to pay.

Also as I wrote, Zoom was thinking of selling E2E encryption as a payed feature, that's why the distinction really matters (I would happily pay for it if that would give me a strong assurance that I just don't have so far).
Yeah, the headline should be "...ban[s] 3rd-party toner cartridges".
> There's literally a whole system in place to review the seller.

> Why would I care about

As I said, the world (Amazon, manufacturer, potential buyers, etc.) is lucky that I took the time to provide them with the opportunity to consider my opinion in the first place, so I'm certainly not going to take additional time out of my day to leave a secondary review, and I'm certainly not going to concern myself with what others care about my honest reviews.
Are you saying that facts should be suppressed because someone might use them the wrong way? Serious question.
If there were a way to tag cells in a spreadsheet such that input and output cells were known, refactoring tools could be brought to bear that aren't otherwise possible.

Imagine a variant of Basic that did that... like VB/Excel, but far far better. I like the possibilities this opens.
Yep, hype has peaked. Here's a great article on The Death of Hype: What's Next for Scala: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/TheDeathofHypeWhatsNextforScala...
I'm not a C++ programmer but there are a lot of words like "continuations" and "coroutines" being thrown around here to describe things that look to me like simple lexical closures. Am I wrong?
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Alternatively, instead of `git reset HEAD^` you could do `git commit --amend` to merge further changes into the latest commit
Nobility was nobility because they did stuff that didn't get them (directly) paid.

Defense, research, some higher level medicine, engineering, etc...

They would get money from rents, but were expected to spend that money in weapons, equipment for their civilian profession if they had any (for example building a telescope) etc...

And of course it worked MOST of the time, but not ALL the time, sometimes you had people that became infamous, like that "vampire" lady that killed a ton of random people to bathe in their blood...
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> adds 2M users in a single day

I'd love this to be true. A fast moving populace that can uptake tech quickly.

But I've never heard of numbers like these.

Where does this number come from?

Where are the campaigns pushing this being run?

I simply don't believe it without more of an explanation. Did BBC fact check this?
Not specifically. If I'm looking for a tool to solve x for me I generally look for the best option - which is a combination of quality and price.

Often the price will naturally drive me to a smaller company, but I consider that as a bonus rather than one of the real "criteria" that went into the decision.
> I use them to stash changes to config files that remain fairly stable across branches but require local paths, etc.

I had to resort to git's assume-unchanged[O] to keep these changes out of commits made in the heat of battle.

>
this isn't a best practice for config files

Have had great results (in dotnet land) with MS' Secrets Manager[1].

[0]
https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-update-index
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/app-se...
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may i ask how much money is “ a comfortable worry-free level of financial success.”? please do not say it depends. please give me your number.

i want to try to reach this level.
Throughout human history, you can find many discoveries that were made before understanding why they work in the first place: we know exactly how the neural networks work, but we don’t know why they are so effective, maybe because of the lack of a theoretical understanding of deep learning and complex neural networks.
For this particular case, BERT is the result of incremental enhancements of existing architectures and training procedures. Fundamentally, BERT is a sequence prediction algorithm, and historically, the sequence prediction models were based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks. Experiences showed that the best performing models were those having an attention mechanism (the concept of directing the focus on some words or sentences). Some researchers proposed a new simple network architecture, based solely on attention mechanisms, without complex recurrence or convolutions! and they showed that some of these models achieve state-of-the-art performances while being more parallelizable and requiring significantly less time to train.
> but we do not have pfind pgrep pls pcat etc ...

find, globally search regex and print, list, concatenate, change directory, make directory etc. are all commands. They all have some kind of imperative verb in there, so "print" fits that pattern.
I really don't follow. The command was named after the multics command print_wdir (print working directory) which had a "pwd" abbreviation already defined. Why would it mean anything other than print working directory?
In the Masters of Scale podcast (1) Eric Schmidt told Reid Hoffman in september that COVID-19 is limiting his ability to do what he loves to do to the extent that he shifted his main focus to COVID-19. One of the reasons for this was his decreased ability to freely move around and meet people.

Getting a EU passport makes moving in the EU a lot easier.

1) https://play.acast.com/s/masters-of-scale-with-reid-hoffman/...
And how did all that military might fare in Vietnam? How has it fared in the Middle East?

Now imagine turning all that might against itself where much of the population has small arms of some sorts.
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I said in another thread... we have 3d printers! Lets make an open source laser printer around a cheap, commonly-available printer cartridge!
I got a bit carried away, but the gist is that you don't measure bow/crossbow power in draw weight. You measure kinetic energy of the projectile.

Formula:
(mass * (velocity * velocity)) / 2

Weighting is simple, but for measuring velocity you need a chronometer.

The great composite crossbow I linked above had 1257lb draw weight, and it managed 420 Joule energy with a 320gram projectile.

By comparison, Tod Workshop's 1000lb windlass crossbow shot achieved 110 Joules https://youtu.be/kHnZo6ELEV0?t=591

This is to give you an idea that crossbows of similar draw weight can vary wildly with their projectile energy. Note the composite crossbow used wood / great horn and it had much longer bow arms.

The 160lb draw weight longbow in the Tod Cutler / Joe Gibbs mythbusting video managed 123 Joules (10m from target) and 109 Joules (25m from target). Arrow weight was 80gram.

And the staff sling I linked above managed 107 Joules with a 3000grain (194gram) stone.
Actually, yeah. It's actually a really great solution, because it means you don't have to write a complicated firmware update protocol for every platform; you just "print" the firmware upgrade, and it gets the job done for you.

Of course, it opens up the printer to some pretty serious security problems, but let's just ignore that...
do you really think the thousands of scientists working on this just forgot to take into account the harm caused by the vaccine in comparison to covid?
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My personal rule is "never go to sleep with a stash on the stack".

They are for short terms manipulations, but it's easy to make mistakes with them and lose data (dropped stashes don't show up in the reflog for instance).

Things to be preserved for longer should be committed and saved in temporary branches.
Apparently the 'Age of Empires 2' from that listing is the definitive edition. It's rated Gold so should work in most cases.

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It's spendy, but my OpenBSD router is from here https://protectli.com/ and they do support a wifi card and the Ralink driver works in OpenBSD.

I prefer to run wire up wireless APs though.
Disgusting HP, I've actually liked them for their nice Linux support..

Does not matter though, I got a Ricoh MP C2500 for "picking" it up, the 4 toners ( CMYK ) cost around $320, then here's toner for the rest of my life, and I get to print and scan a4 and a3 in duplex.
Really nice machine, has network support and trays for multiple paper sizes.. amazing what people throw out these days. I'd never go back, this machine is even well enough built that spare parts can be bought for it and it's well documented how to service it.
They completed the task faster, why shouldn't that matter?

Perhaps its unfair that they get no benefit for being better, no?
Apologies for splitting the thread, but I thought it'd be easier to read this
way.

This comment addresses your concerns about me writing the program I wanted
Louise to generate. I like to see background knowledge ("BK", e.g. shorter/2)
as a library of sub-programs from which the learner can select the ones
necessary to compose a target program. The example above is trivial because
I've defined a BK predicate that is necessary and sufficient to learn, so the
learner was indeed served the solution "on a plate".

However, as I said in my previous comment, Louise can learn its own background
knowledge. This can be done by predicate invention, or more simply, by
incrementally learning necessary sub-programs.

Below is a problem definition and learning session that first learns length/2
(renamed llength/2 to avoid name clashes with the built-in) and shorter/2 from
list and numeric function primitives, before using the learned predicates as
BK for ordered/2. Like I say in my previous comment, it's a little larger
than the previous one:

?- list_mil_problem([llength/2,shorter/2,ordered/3]).
Positive examples
-----------------
llength([],0).
llength([a],s(0)).
shorter([a],[b,c]).
shorter([1,2],[3,4,5]).
ordered([a],[b,c],[d,e,f]).

Negative examples
-----------------
:-ordered([a],[b],[c]).
:-ordered([a,b,c],[a,b],[c]).

Background knowledge
--------------------
tail/2:
tail([A|B],B).

p/2:
p(s(A),A).

s/2:
s(A,s(A)).

Metarules
---------
abduce metarule 'P(X,Y)'.
list_rec_func metarule 'P(x,y):- Q(x,z),R(y,u),P(z,u)'.
list_comp metarule 'P(x,y):- Q(x,z), R(y,u), S(z,u)'.
triadic_chain metarule 'P(x,z,y):- Q(x,z), R(z,y)'.
true.

?- time(learn_dynamic([llength/2,shorter/2,ordered/3])).
llength([],0).
llength(A,B):-tail(A,C),p(B,D),llength(C,D).
shorter(A,B):-llength(A,C),llength(B,D),s(C,D).
ordered(A,B,C):-shorter(A,B),shorter(B,C).
% 20,928 inferences, 0.000 CPU in 0.007 seconds (0% CPU, Infinite Lips)
true.

The BK for this problem consists of tail/2, similar to "car" in Lisp (i.e.
matches the head of a list) and the pair of p/2 and s/2, that act as
"dereferencers" to Peano number functions. These are bog-standard Prolog
programs and useful whenever a target program must manipulate a list, or
perform numerical reasoning. In other words, they're pretty much generic, like
a standard library of sorts.

I've added the full source of the experiment file for the learning task on
pastebin. It includes a few more detailed comments and a set of constraints to
clean up the learned hypothesis, mostly for aesthetic reasons:

https://pastebin.com/nPYFKKpx

Of course this is still a toy problem and we know the solution. But I hope it
demonstrates the principle. On the other hand, you'd still not be able to
solve this with alternative approaches, e.g. I see that the benchmark suite
you pointed to is used for genetic programming. I'm also not aware of neural
approaches that build programs incrementally, from a couple of examples of
each sub-program.

That is to say, this is a toy problem for ILP. For other approaches it's
unsolvable.
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Obviously this isn't true; any analysis would require first trying to establish where "left" and "right" might be, then looking at media ownership, and also referencing the extreme Overton Window effects of the US.

Biden/Harris are center-right candidates, which probably contributed to them winning the election, and definitely contributed to them winning the primaries.

(also you'd need to disentangle "left" and "liberal"!)