skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That started happening long ago with Anders Breivik. And possibly earlier examples.
I couldn't imagine living your life man. You must be a really strong person. I hope you turn it around.
My impression is that most Hollywood work is now done with Pro Tools on Windows. For example, I know for sure that Expendables 3 was mastered this way.

For classical music and bluray mastering, I hear the most from Nuendo users on Windows. Their cheaper variant Cubase is popular for audiobook production.

For music production, BitWig and REAPER are currently the rising stars. Both are popular on Linux:

https://www.bitwig.com/download/

https://www.reaper.fm/download.php#linux_download

BitWig especially fits in with the hacker spirit because you can modify and script almost everything.

They also have many features for live shows and / or DJing. That market used to be squarely owned by Ableton on Mac, but the latter has recently fallen out of favor over plugin compatibility issues with newer effect VSTs.

For broadcast, meaning TV shows and live sports streaming, I heard that BBC and the likes are using LAWO which are custom integrated hardware+software solutions capable of loading Linux VST plugins.

https://www.lawo.de/up-to-date/news/nbsp/floating_earth_uses...
> Nobody is “disputing democracy” at this point. Bush vs Gore took an entire month to sort out.

The trump campaign is literally putting forth the unfounded conspiracy theory that Democratic-party-affiliated groups some how placed fraudulent ballots, and that this is the only reason Trump lost.

> Biden has very likely won, but first there will be some court cases and recounts simply because it was extremely close.

There aren't actually. Biden doesn't need to carry any states with recounts to win. Pennsylvania isn't going to a recount, nor is Arizona. Even if GA and Wisconsin flip on a recount, Biden has carried the electoral college. All of the court cases so far have have been thrown out or withdrawn.

Despite this, Trump continues to claim that there was election fraud (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13277501276798894...), even after his own lawyers have dropped suits in Arizona and Pennsylvania, and have yet to, in any suit in any state, provide an example of fraud. There's no substance to his claims, and when in front of a judge, the lawyers admit that. And yet.
To be fair, I've largely stopped using twitter due to the incessant politics, pretty much what you described above but just in a different flavor. Ironically manipulating elections was one of those "incessant" topics, however it was all coming from a completely different crowd then (around when I left).

I also remember seeing a ton of racism against whites and (ironically) anti-semitic comments and conspiracies that would be alarmingly praised (likes and retweets) which I assume weren't really taken down if they were able to get thousands of impressions.

I like places like stack and HN because you're able to usually escape it... but its hard to find any social network that pretty much doesn't turn into an echo chamber of one side or the other.
Every day. Combination of acute/situational and long term trauma/PTSD. Will hopefully get better when I leave my job in a few months and take time out to recover.
2020, or more likely 2016 will perhaps be seen as a turning point in the fortunes of the US Republic, when the democracy began to unravel, the law was used as a weapon against enemies, and the rule of law was replaced by mob rule with different factions warring in the streets.

The parallels between the US at this moment and pre-war Europe or Rome at the time of the Catiline conspiracy are striking - the centre cannot hold, and the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
"Fringe conspiracy theories" instead, you can stay on the "main sites" and get mainstream conspiracy theories about Russia and Racist White People.
That is a nice conspiracy theory, what is your parler handle?
The PE magic number doesn't need to be at offset zero, which is why you can do this. Mach and ELF do need to be at offset zero, so you can't have something that's Mach and ELF at the same time. In theory, this is possible, if you can recover from COM executing the header.
Asserting that Benford's Law can be used to identify election fraud is a disputed, or just downright misleading, claim. Academic research has shown Benford's Law is not applicable to election tallies. (Also so does common sense when you think about it.)
At the rate law firms are dropping Trump, those cases next week will have to be argued by Rudy himself. And god willing, he'll give us some more press conferences as a bonus.
This has been floating around design blogs for years, I wonder if over supply of tiny condos + covid is finally going popularize the design. Wonder what safety features there are to prevent people from getting crushed/trapped.
You're playing by rules which fascists don't respect.
I lost my father some back too, though he lived longer, I can relate.
Hit me up, my email is in my profile, would love to connect
Was already running on empty since a long time, then got hacked and lost a friend to covid, didn’t see anybody for 8 months, suffering from chronic and acute health conditions and hate where I live. It will get better but for now it sucks.
America was created by people who fled persecution, and turned out pretty well. It is the most attractive country on earth. What are you talking about?
Apart from security implications I can see multiple privacy issues here. Apple's services may attempt connections to non-Apple resources as well as Apple's.
My understanding is that trustd (Trust Daemon) will be allowed to report/validate (OCSP? CT?) certificates anywhere issuer points it to, and that nsurlsessiond (NSURLSession Daemon) will be allowed to attempt any connections other Apple processes will tell it to. From what I observed, opening a single podcast in Podcasts.app sometimes results in nsurlsessiond connecting to resources under multiple different domains.

My pessimistic view of today's techworld tells me to follow the money on this and that I might not be able to block in-system ads in some future.
I remember those chips as they were the ones in the ZX81 16K RAM Pack. 8 of the little beauties.

The RAM Pack itself was a nightmare. If it wobbled the computer would crash. I held mine on with blu-tack - lots of it. Every now and again I'd have to take it off and clean the contacts by rubbing the oxide layer off with an India rubber. It used to run quite hot too.

Despite the problems, the RAM pack was the best upgrade I had!
What made you finally start doing something? What was the most obvious (in hindsight) sign you ignored?
Book Review: Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
However, the interpretation is very different from the American "everything goes" approach. France has a specific ban on Nazi symbols, for example.
It's often assumed that, in an all-out nuclear exchange, everybody gets it, even if they haven't launched themselves yet. Because if you go down, you want all your potential opponents to be on the same level.
Mikhail Gorbachev, as a person somewhat responsible for collapse of USSR, had an incentive to paint USSR in a certain light in his interview, wouldn't you agree?

I grew in USSR (I was born in 1971 in Moscow) and I do not remember any scarcity of stockings.
They don't stand between you and the bullets, they are the ones firing bullets at others. There is next to no military risk of the US being invaded, if only because you are surrounded by two oceans.
How are they “verifiable” falsehoods? E.g., conspiracy theories are famous for being almost always unfalsifiable. These views usually are a mix of low prior hypotheses, politically incorrect semi-truths, marketing propaganda (with few empirical assertions), and lies.
I*m not convinced. Pretty much every gas station here in Norway has a convenience store that sells coffee - not really much different in that regard from the US (I'm from the US). Not as many fast food restaurants, though the gas station fare is better here than the US.
It makes more sense when you realize that Twitch is owned by Amazon, who is trying to break into the music streaming business via Amazon Music. The RIAA could make Amazon Music functionally cease to exist tomorrow, if they chose to pull their music licenses, so I suspect that plays a big part in why Twitch has suddenly become so accommodating to RIAA takedown requests.
It is not the pandemic, it is the lockdowns.
When you have a good broadband, it gets so easy to assume that internets grow on them trees, latency is negligible, and servers are fast and always up.
A surprisingly vast contingent of software developers do not know SQL, let alone know it very well. And as others have mentioned in this thread, data science looks differently at different companies.

For many, the math and "ML-specific stuff" ends up being a very small part of the process. For them, data quality and data cleaning take up the overwhelming majority of hours in a given project, and SQL chops will take you much farther in that kind of an environment.

Plus SQL is not going anywhere anytime soon. So worst case scenario, OP will learn a skill that's not likely to be dated in a few more tics of the hype cycle.
For me, modal editing is great because it's comfortable. I almost never need chords save for those using control, which resides in its rightful place below the tab key.

Lots of typing, zero RSI.

Modality also enables the vi "mini-language" that makes editing actions and movement composable, which is nice.
For the third time.

> your faith believes false accusations against perceived heretics are acceptable tactics; your word against them is less than empty.
Very curious, what's opaque about a uniq developer id of an app you start? Sure looks like gaslighting.

"You should be aware that macOS might transmit some opaque information..."
You actually need root on macOS to modify anything under /System, and this was the case even before SIP. This is why some installers ask for the root password.
Unity has a large percentage yes, but by and large UIKit and Cocoa dominates, those are the developers Apple cares about.
Not to mention it’s super wasteful.
It must be powered by an enormous library of automated tests.
Switching one private plaform for another is dumb. You'll spend years building a following only to have the rug pulled if you start to matter.

A public platform is the only solution that fixes our free speech problem.
That was a lot better than most "FFT translates waves to frequencies"

I enjoyed looking at the square sound, as it now makes sense why a square sound is a lot fuller. It simply has a lot more waves for your ears.

Also the short JPG intro was really good!
In mid October I deleted almost all my tweets and likes (but Twitter being so shit they are still showing my likes except it’s not liked anymore lol) and have not been tweeting anything anymore.

I found Twitter too toxic, it made me angry with people for no reason, so I deleted all my tweets and the app. No more notifications, no more “just checking Twitter quickly”.

I now go to Twitter like once a day just to have a look what is going and and oh my god, the more I am absent the more I see how rotten Twitter is and all of its users. Everyone is so negative, pessimistic, judgemental, sarcastic in tone, confrontational, and self righteous. People are posting so much shit it’s unbelievable how much time they waste of their lives there. One huge thread after another, people crying for attention.

Everyone just posting negative stuff to make other people feel bad, down or guilty about something. I was part of the problem too.

Lots of this:

> “When I was a kid, I once had to work at my uncle’s shop. Let me tell you about <insert bullshit here>. A thread...”

I don’t know what Parler is, but Twitter is THE WORST of social media and if Parler is an alternative then it’s going to be equally bad!
I just did.

They aren’t breaking any laws unfortunately.
Don't forget lead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis

History has _a lot_ of moving parts.
We should also not forget that some people got filthy rich with the whole GWOT.
> My girlfriend of 13 years left me the day after my birthday

This is something I'll never understand. How can someone be with another person for so long and be able to end up things in such drastic manner (assuming there wasn't any toxicity in the relationship)? I mean, if you hadn't any idea that this could happen then did your partner never try to fix whatever problem you had before taking that decision?
Home Office can seem like Groundhog Day. At least to me.

I went to the office for an entire week and feel really refreshed. After 8 month of Home Office, this is like vacation.
Being a non-profit, collectively owned service, which Promise is, will make it difficult to ban users and relying parties.

Just like the DNS can block users, Promise can ban users and relying parties.

This is not something Promise should take lightly, but the fact that almost everyone has a say in Promise, unlike Google, where almost no one has a say, makes me full of hope that this can be solved in a transparent way.
With SIP you can't change some things even as root. SIP has definitely made macos a harder target, though it is still lagging Windows in some areas. Linux is almost comically unprotected.

@grishka
Edit because I'm rate limited:

I've not seen anything that does executable validation for linux and actually works. Needs lots of kernel support. See the response from the old DigSig author: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732927/signed-executabl...

You can check binary signatures on disk (tripwire) but that is extremely tiresome to maintain and does not prevent straight loading of shellcode into memory.

More recently: https://lwn.net/Articles/733431/

Signed kernel modules is on its way though:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/module-si...

I guess that would be a place to start for implementing SIP...
Currently purchasing a full plastics thermoforming line.

Not a chemist, but AFAIK current market available 'biostarch polymers' (AFAIK always PLA; which may be marketed as made from corn, sugar cane, etc.) are actually extremely environmentally unfriendly because of the massive embodied energy required to create the industry-ready polymer from the bio-waste material. Their single benefit is nominal biodegradability.

It is far better for the environment if single use plastics are just minimized, for example by re-using all containers in your supply chain. This has therefore been our focus.

For the last mile to the consumer, however, it's unfortunate that people are now used to disposables, so it's likely going to take a technology shift like Dr. Zhu's or an improved form of traditional techniques such as palm leaf wrapping (common in South and Southeast Asia) or single-use clay pottery (India) to improve the situation.

Our company have been considering sponsoring an open robotics challenge in this space (commercially viable deployments of traditional palm leaf wrapping). If anyone would like to co-sponsor, get in touch.
"Twitter gets to have it's say" Free speech is more than just a law... it's an idea and a philosophy.

Part of making sure "truth prevails" is having open discourse about topics. That involves people with "Wrong" ideas the ability to talk.

When platforms like Facebook and Twitter become the arbiter of what's "right"? Then people will leave those platforms because lawfully they have the "right" to censor their platform... but people WILL talk about it elsewhere.

Facebook/Twitter may win this "battle" by purposefully influencing an election by hiding disinformation they disagree with (while allowing disinformation they are okay with)... but they'll lose the war as other platforms gain momentum and legitimacy.

The internet will route itself around the censorship.
Yeah, cheap things with huge value. But if you want to sell very expensive but completely worthless, if not downright harmful things, you need to go to the other side.
Fixing browsers’ broken monospace font handling
If I may suggest something...

Everybody hurts from time to time, hardships are part of life.

In situations like this it's important to focus on things you can control instead of being sad about things you can't control.

You might consider that now you life is again a blank canvas, and you can rebuild it. Everything's in discussion again, you're not encumbered by a relationship, the possibilities are endless!

Your destiny looked like set in stone, and now it's yours again for designing and implementing :)

Good luck!
I work as a data scientist and have some perspective on this. There's no boat to miss, you'll probably be fine. Just keep a couple of things in mind

- The fundamental skills that you need are mathematics and software engineering. Depending on your background it might take years of additional studying.

- There is a big oversupply of people for the junior-mid level data science jobs. There are more people who want to get in the field than there are jobs. If you drastically switch careers, you'll take yourself out of a field where your skillset is incredibly rare and your competition is limited and put yourself in a place where everyone else wants the same job.

- The fact that you have a PhD is going to help you. Personally, I don't think that a PhD in a field other than mathematics/computer science is that relevant but employers tend to favor applicants with PhDs mostly because there are too many candidates for any given job and asking for a PhD is just a strong initial filter. There are also research jobs within data science for which a PhD requirement (in a relevant discipline) makes more sense but these are a small proportion of all the data science jobs.

- If you're already employed with your agriculture PhD, there must be a number of opportunities for you apply the techniques that you're currently learning wihout leaving the industry. That's probably the path that I would suggest - it would allow you to expand your skillset without taking big risks and you'll have more options in the future. Use the career capital that you already have and explore your options instead of making a sharp turn in your career direction that might leave you disappointed.
I have to agree that big tech really messed this one up. Their attempt at regulating speech on their platforms (entirely their own right to do however they want) has resulted in both sides being pissed. I had commented on this a while ago that it was like War Games - the only way to win this game was not to play at all. The second they started being the arbitrator of speech they were guaranteed to piss people off. Then they tried to adjust and pissed another group off.

And even before all that crap below up, they had the gov't taking a long and hard look at the anti-trust problem. The platform censorship just threw gasoline on that smoldering fire.

The smartest move now is to fire all their public relations and government affairs folks. They handled this about as poorly as they could.
When people have more money than good sense.
Image stock site 123RF hacked; 8.3M user database leaked
There is huge potential around better data usage & analytics in agriculture & crop science. You're domain expertise would place you in a unique position compared to other data scientists with more of a generic background.

I've personally spoken to a few large enterprises in the agricultural sector who are just beginning to build out their data science department. It seems like the industry as a whole is just getting started in data science.

Also, there are many promising startups that are emerging in space. E.g. Vertical farming
Yeah, my point rests on the idea of dematerialization going forward. I think people have finite capacity of desire for natural resource limited products and it is possible that we are not too unreasonably close to “peak physical stuff.” I can get better more “intelligent” clothing but I will never need 100000 unique clothing items simultaneously. On the other hand, immaterial needs may continue increasing, my desire for AI assistance, computer-human interfaces, and augmented reality may be massive, but those have low marginal cost.

I do also agree that certain things that are scarce by design or by their nature and will continue to be so.
but I did not disagree with the top level comment nor you, I completely agree that remote work is not for everyone, I only wanted to suggest some things that can help making it more bearable.
> If it was about securing US oil, war in Venezuela and Canada would be far more sensible.

Is there not a cold war between US and Venezuela right now (over nationalization of formerly American-owned oil production facilities there), somewhat of a proxy for China to attack us, raging since the second Bush administration? I mean, their nationals factually developed many of the US voting systems (because we're stupid, not because they are stealth) and all we have is political rhetoric that those systems are "the most secure in history" and there is "no evidence of hacking". I think most people here, at least, know that the first order of business for modern computer viruses once they penetrate a system is to get rid of the penetration evidence, neutralize system monitoring capacity and start unwrapping preloaded or downloaded payloads. This all feeds back into what America's government is going to do with respect to domestic oil production over the next four years and how that will affect the world's dependency upon the Middle East and Russia. https://gnews.org/556010/ http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-10/26/c_139467853.htm

As far as Canada, it was far from a cold war, more like two gentlemen getting into an argument at the local country club, but a primary focus was oil (pipelines), no? https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/fs/USMCA/US...
That ends when you start inciting violence and promoting actions that can end other people's lives.

As it should. It's one thing to claim space lizards are controlling Facebook, it's another to start saying you want to shoot up busses full of Facebook workers.

Unconvincing? Replace "Facebook" with "Democrats" and you get worryingly close to Parler.

But there is another problem. These sites don't just happen. If they were bottom-up spontaneous forums - someone starting with phpBB and taking it from there - they'd be tolerable. (And likely less extreme.)

They aren't. These are deliberate attempts to farm and concentrate certain kinds of people with certain kinds of sentiments so they can be used as political leverage for certain interests.

They're not free speech at all - they're farmed speech.

That is the problem. The people who farm them are knowingly and maliciously using them to spread lies and enflame violent sentiment so they can profit from both, financially and politically.
I might give that a try... I dont use any google services except maps, but there are easy alternatives to that. thanks for suggestion
I can't help it there are so many Trumptards saying really stupid things on here.
"colluded with foreign governments"

Russia Collusion itself is an attack on the legitimacy of Trumps presidency - just like election fraud is an attack on the legitimacy of a Biden presidency.
Carefully select subreddits and make sure to only use old.reddit.com It doesn't have all that 'engagement' crap of the newer version