skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the parties that were pro reform in the "article 13 fiasco" will still get votes. Unless people grow a brain and start remembering things, they will just get away with anything unless it happens right before an election. Alas, we evolved from monkeys, not from elephants.
Actually, with the data from the servers, they will be able to show when the software was ordered to start switching votes. They will be able to petition SCOTUS to nullify the election because of such broad foreign election interference and send it to the House.

And as far as a coup attempt, there hasn't been any certification of the election results yet. How could there be a coup when the results aren't yet known?

What did you think about the CIA not being invited to the overseas raid? Methinks the Fed Govt. is learning how to do without them, almost as if the CIA's days are numbered.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/K8aPVcG2rvI0/
I, too, would like to live in a world where I do not need to research if a particular laptop will work with Linux.

The reason I don't live in that world is because laptop manufacturers, in the general course of things, don't ship their laptops with Linux; they ship them with Windows.

The obvious answer is to buy from manufacturers who ship their laptops with Linux. You could try Dell or System76.

Incidentally, it would be nice to live in a world where I didn't have to check for MacOS compatibility; I could just buy MacOS from Apple and run it on whatever. The answer is very similar: if you want that experience, buy it from the laptop manufacturer that ships their machines with MacOS.
This is neither here nor there but Nobel Prize winner Gerard 't Hooft has written an opinion piece on wrong-way drivers in science who seem convinced that everyone else is going the wrong way [1] (it's in Dutch unfortunately, but then the Dutch the word 'spookrider' (lit. 'ghostrider') is a lot cooler than 'wrong-way driver' IMHO).

It's a concept that's somehow always stuck with me whenever I hear about people who seem convinced everyone else is wrong.

[1]: https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/spookrijders.html
Finally getting some tidbits of information on CDNA: and there's a few interesting pieces of information here.

1. MI100 supports "Matrix Ops". I don't know if that's just dot-product, or if its a true 4x4 matrix operation. But MI100 is supporting 32-bits worth of matrix ops, which is pretty substantial (NVidia A100 only has 16-bit matrix operations).

2. We know that the MI100 was selected for a number of supercomputers: El Capitan probably is the one that will be deployed the soonest. So some supercomputer engineers saw the NDAs and decided the MI100 was good enough to invest into.

3. This "CDNA" architecture looks different and new. Some rumors was that CDNA was based off of Vega, but Vega never had such high FP16, BFloat16, or FP32-matrix ops. RDNA was 32-operations per vector, but CDNA is looking to be 64-operations per vector. Very curious, I hope that a more detailed whitepaper comes by soon.
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Is he talking about 2008 or 2012? Or the 'truth decay' he is peddling in his newest book.
>Opening the task manager or explorer takes less time than I can measure on both Windows and Linux... what kind of metric is this?

I feel like a lot of people here are devs running reasonably modern computers but as someone running dualboots at home (manjaro KDE) and at work from time to time dealing with the kind of desktops most people use in their day to day life.... (As in they're not actually that old but weren't top of the line when bought either)
....this is actually one of my biggest gripes with it.

Windows really is slow as fuck.
Sometimes it's really noticeable on the somewhat older hardware but on the other stuff it doesn't really annoy you until you compare because we're talking very short delays, little bits of lags....the thing is...It's there for just about everything.
There's not a whole lot that feels instantaneous which makes it all perfectly usable but feel off at the same time.

I didn't even think about it till I switched to Linux at home and noticed just how snappy stuff feels.
MacOS has felt similarly snappy the few times i've used it but I don't use it enough to really comment.

>As for software, on Windows you're free to install all the software you want (just as on Linux), some software is not so nice, just as on Linux. I find it hard to blame Windows itself for that. Microsoft does not curate all the software you can install it, and a user is free to install what they want. The only OSes where this is really different are mobile OSes.

Tbh I thought similar (and mostly it'll still be true) until I tried to use a playstation 3 controller (a very common item at least at the time) for a windows only game.
It worked out of the box on Linux and I believe an xbox controller would have worked like that and on windows as well but to get the ps3 one I had working on windows i had to jump trough hoops, change some stuff so i could then disable driver signature enforcement and tweak a few other things only to give up in the end when it still didn't work after I had managed.
Even if it worked it wouldn't work every time because the ways of getting around permanently disabling signed drivers constantly keep being patched by Windows.
I like that kids (or adults) playing it have to learn to handle the ego check. There is no blaming randomness, teammates, or that the other kid is bigger/faster.

One other nice thing about chess versus other board or computer games is that whatever you put into it will still be useful twenty years from now. The game isn't going to change between now and then.
A massive increase in social welfare spending, as a percentage of GDP, IS a massive transition to the social democracy side of the free-market : social-democracy spectrum.

Your mental gymnastics, to argue that the particular composition of social welfare programs doesn't qualify the US as a social democracy, even while government is spending a significant portion of GDP on it, is the old 'No True Scotsman' fallacy the socialists are well-known for, that you are now adapting to social-democracy apologism.

>You're making extra-ordinary claims and should provide extra-ordinary evidence.

No, you should do your own homework on what social programs have been instituted in the US since 1960, given the information is readily available and known to anyone with moderate knowledge of the course of US economic history.

You're being pedantic and acting in bad faith.
This comment makes no sense to me. All over California are neighborhoods (Chinatown) and entire cities (Rosemead) that segregated themselves because they wanted more familiarity, which makes sense.
Well said. It’s the same problem you run into when measuring the length of a coastline. It has no “true” length.
Thanks!

I'm not sure I would have noticed this link unless you had replied to me, I guess now I know to search for "archive.is" in comments...
The same idea can be conveyed in one image with no interactivity: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/12/74/5e/12745ea9bb8bdf389214...
Not really. These are older warheads with a dialed-down yield. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W76
MSCHF’s Push Party raises seed round at a $200M valuation
People are surrounded by advice. There has never ever been a conversation between 2 people where 1 person agrees they are wrong and will change.

In fact, trying to give someone advice on a subject will almost certainly make it impossible for that person to ever change.

Even more important, you are intentionally giving advice. If someone notices you lost weight and you talk about the new diet you are trying. Even though you never actually say someone should try the diet, they are taking it as if you are trying to give them advice.

The best advice someone can give you, never give any advice or tell anyone about anything. Ask other people about things you might learn from them and try it.
What about Blitz chess?
> Books are a classic thing that should just be digitized and the originals sold off.

> The value is in the content, not the paper and ink.

Why wouldn't this logic apply to e.g. paintings as well? Or even sculpture and various historical artifacts...

Edit:

I was asking the question rhetorically, to highlight the weakness of the original observation. Personally I do think there can be intrinsic historical value in the object of a book, regardless of the information that it happens to store.
From the irc screenshot that was linked further down this thread [1], it reads that the "cipher circumvention code" needed to be removed? I can only see some rework being done in the past related to the extractors. [2]

So they gave up on this one, or is there more to come?

[1]: https://twitter.com/t3rr4dice/status/1320660235363749888

[2]: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/2de2ca6659a18b...
They're actually all ambiguous, because so is Japanese writing. The おう of 王 is a long O, the おう of 追う is two separate vowels (O+U).
> Does copyright law end with HEAD on master?

I think the RIAAs technical know-how ends with the github web interface, so in a way, yes, copyright effectively ends with HEAD.
In my experience many videos have it, not necessarily ones associated with the RIAA (or perhaps the overzealous[1] content detector just thinks there's some of their content in there), so it's definitely necessary to decode the algorithm for youtube-dl to work on not just RIAA content videos.

IMHO giving the client both the key and the algorithm to decode the content should not count as any form of protection, but the lawyers don't care...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16075325
It's not really a secret. The music industry has always been about concerts: radio play (or streaming, which uses the same revenue model) doesn't pay anything and artists get pennies on the dollar for record sales. The RIAA represents record labels more than artists.
It is apparently just an app, that is invite only, that you click a big red button, and it sends out a push notification to EVERY USER OF THE APP. There is no concept of friends, or groups, or anything. It is just a button that notifies all other users that the button was pushed by you.
I don't want to fully argue that you should be forced to be vaccinated.
I do however, want to point out that vaccination isn't just meant to protect you from getting COVID. It is also meant to prevent you from spreading COVID to others. Hence an argument "It's my safety so it should be my choice" is wrong, because it is not just your safety at stake here.

That doesn't mean that it shouldn't be your choice, but it does mean that there is a public stake in whether people get vaccinated. Certain people have medical reasons for opting out. I could see you having psychological reasons for the same. But that doesn't necessarily extend to "anyone can refuse vaccines for any reason".
> religious intake of ~3 litres (250 ml per kg)

Intake of what? (I'm guessing water?)
Which makes it much more interesting to me personally.
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I'm with you on this one. I feel like many people these days are overly manifesting 'trust' in newly developed medicines or vaccines just not to be called anti-vaxers ('I saw this facebook post...' researchers kind) or worse ('vaccines contain microchips so that lizard people can control our minds' kind). When in fact there is no data at the moment to support their safeness.
Also claims and data from clinical trials produced by company which develops medicine itself is not really convincing until it gets verified with independent trials. Not like there were no frauds in clinical trials:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340084/#S2titl...
> "oh why do I have to use a standardized set of abstractions for configuration"

Linux config files absolutely do not follow one standardized convention.
While I disagree with the other comment gatekeeping RTS's, which can be played however you want (my father pauses the game in between every action in order to keep up with the gamestate), I do agree that ~15-25 games of dedicated boar lure practice, just restarting the game after each attempt, should be enough to get it right in tandem with watching some videos on how to do it.
Neat project. What were your ideas for storing the content in git version history? (i.e as files itself?)

Shameless plug for a similar project that i did few years back: A (partial) static site generator based on github issues :)
https://github.com/geekodour/gitpushblog
Something like 150-175K people are testing positive per day, if you really wanted to go get coronavirus, pretty sure you could make it happen. If the point of the comment is to make other people feel the same in order to justify your feelings — then screw you.
Nilpferd is my favorite: https://www.twitch.tv/nili_aoe
Beautiful Document Generator for Gitlab-CI: From Markdown to PDF
That was the concensus ... 2021 was possible if we get really lucky and either an existing coronavirus vaccine platform could be repurposed or a RNA vaccine works out.

Just to be clear, there was a real risk that a vaccine would turn out to be impossible for this type of virus. It looks like completely dodged that bullet.
Yes, absolutely. Currently in day 5 of "having trouble breathing". I'm going to paste my comments/experience from a different forum below:

I currently have coronavirus. I'm a young male in my 20s (don't want to divulge too much info), 6'1", 170 lbs, non-smoker, rarely drink, pretty healthy. Waiting on test results.

Started off about 2 weeks ago, rash on my chest, lots of night sweats and chills. Didn't think it was covid at first. given the weird symptoms. I did not feel too sick, in general. Slight fever, slight cough and sore throat. For most of the time, it felt mild. Still have the rash, night sweats, and sore throat at the moment.

However, 4 days ago I started having issues breathing. I felt out of breath multiple times throughout the day, and at times it was hard to even suck in air (like my diaphragm was calcified or something). I woke up a few times at night, trying to suck in air. Today was better but the difficulty breathing is still there. I realized today, that even though it's not as bad as the worst flu I've had, it involved a symptom (difficulty breathing in air) that I have never experienced. Not with strep, not with the flu. This is something to note for everyone, in my opinion.

I think it's both milder AND worse than people think it is - I'm a healthy young male who exercises and eats well, and yet I'm having trouble breathing. This is a symptom that has continued for multiple days, and while it hasn't gotten worse, it's not getting much better. The rash is still there, my throat's still sore. If you are part of the obese/overweight American population (35% of us, including my family), and are a chronic smoker/drinker, and have chronic conditions (diabetes, hypertension, mental health conditions), I think you should still be careful.

Unless you have a respirator, there isn't anything you can take to resolve "difficulty breathing". It's not like fever/sweats/nausea - where you can just take a Nyquil and it's all gone. Not to mention, we have antibiotics and antivirals to attack the flu/cold/strep infections as well. Covid's a bit different - difficulty breathing can only currently be helped by equipment that's located in hospitals. There isn't some magic pill that will get your diaphragm pumping up and down again. This is something to note, in my opinion.

I'm not sure how much longer my symptoms will continue. The initial symptoms started 2 weeks ago, but the breathing related ones only started recently. I hope it gets resolved soon - I may provide a comment as an update.

Please wash your hands, avoid touching your face/eyes with your hands, socially distance if you can, and wear a mask when in public. Having trouble breathing is no joke.
Just curious, how do they detect the fact that the connection is from a VPN? Are they subscribing to IP blacklists, or is there some other method?
I agree with everything in your comment, but I wanted to point something out that I found out recently: apparently Las Vegas is full of independent used/rare/second-hand bookstores.

Pieces like these shouldn't be allowed to disappear from public eyes and ownership, but at least they probably won't be auctioned off next to a craps table.
Very very cool.

The only issue is then your depending on the user not doing something stupid during the 5 minutes of so it takes to process.

I personally don't have time for this experiment, but it's definitely interesting
>"Just watch - these Covid med pharma cos are going to cut each other by few points now - just to acclaim their top spot"

It is funny to see the market reaction. MRNA spiked 15% this morning while BNTX (The Pfizer vaccine maker) tanked 13%. All over a few percentage difference in a sample size so small that it came down to the difference of one or two cases.
Why? GitHub didn't do anything wrong. They took this down because they were required to by law. It would have been the same story with anyone else.
I'm running Pop_OS on my IdeaPad and have very few problems. From time to time, the Wifi doesn't come back up after resume (particularly when I've let it in sleep overnight, or switches networks while sleeping) and I have to reboot. As the machine boots in less than 12 seconds that's a tolerable annoyance though.

The machine is Ryzen5/Vega so it requires no proprietary driver though it isn't Linux certified at all. The only piece of non-working hardware is the fingerprint reader (apparently a driver will come someday...).
> But it's baffling to see people not realizing they're being dragged down by cognitive error and it makes them blind.

I misread this initially and I suspect others are as well based on the downvoting. But I think what you mean is that impulsive and/or unconditional bashing is the cognitive error here, right?
Sure, it will work fine for (many) corporate drones. Who gives a damn about corporate drones? "Company intranets" are only one of many uses for VPNs... and a boring one at that.
yeah unlike us hackers who are saving the world with targeted ads and food delivery
> But try to convince someone that the name John ought to be written 「ジャン」 and you'll get the blankest stares.

That sounds like an American pronunciation variant with the 'o' shifting towards 'a'.

Common given names tend to have a fixed romanization though. See ENAMDICT for a bunch of Johns:

http://nihongo.monash.edu/cgi-bin/wwwjdic?1C

You can vary your romanization of your own name to what actually represents it most closely, but with a very common name like John it would be rather awkward.
For my own self, I'm less concerned about mortality and a lot more concerned about lung and brain damage.

For society, I'm concerned about being able to get back to life without becoming an asymptomatic spreader.

This idea that only the deaths matter is mind boggling.
Probably bad writing on my part too, there's 2 sides to every misunderstanding :)
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Is it just me, or has Google become a corporate-AI version of a paperclip optimizer, but for money?

Perhaps it's not just Google, but this kind of "F[orget] the user" behavior is pretty concerning.
Moderna’s Vaccine Efficacy Readout
Thank you very much for the invitation, really appreciated!
well, git is a block chain, so I guess this is already the case :D
No, fiber does not have that big of an impact on absorption. That's why most fruits are a big no on keto diets
Just this morning I clicked to page 2 of the comments on my phone and found 2 (pages appear very short)
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There is this common fallacy when dealing with chemistry that compounds with close structures (or substructures) are the same or have related effects. You can find benzene rings as a substructure of some amino acids all over your proteins doesn't mean eating protein will poison you with benzene...

Sometimes just as little as a change in the spatial configuration of a compound (cis/trans isomers for example) or the addition of a carbon can dramatically change the effect of a molecule on a living body...
Decent program, but try to get some lower back work in there. That's an investment you absolutely won't regret. Sandbags work and are cheap; big rocks too. Bridges if nothing else.
What about the morality of the situation? From a purely self-interested perspective I think its pretty obvious there is limited benefit given the risk. But if you are relatively young and healthy, expecting others to get the vaccine so you can benefit seems immoral.
That's not my experience. Going to https://xn--coronaprver-ngb.dk/ in Firefox presents the invalid certificate, but going to http://xn--coronaprver-ngb.dk/ redirects me to https://www.coronaprover.dk/. It seems Brave always tries with https, and thus it fails. Not that it is confused by IDN.
Evidence?

(My own suspicion is that the lockdowns are better for the economy in the long run, but I’m definitely not an expert.)
I agree. Its hard to counter the feeling that HN is getting too big for its boots. In certain "culture war" threads the easy to digest opinions are beginning to dominate. Maybe I just payed less attention a few years ago but I never noticed this in the past. Will it spread past the culture war threads or will it not? Who can tell at this point.
No offense taken. The wikipedia article makes some of the jargon clearer, but it still doesn't explain what is actually meant by intrusion detection, or even an example of a rule that's more than what a firewall would enforce. It talks about statistics and machine learning being used to apply rules. I am asking what kinds of rules? Keywords in the payload? Peculiar GET requests? Connections from Kazakhstan between midnight and 4am? Wouldn't rules like that have lots of false positives and piss off legit users?

In particular, I am curious about encrypted traffic (eg TLS/https/ssh). Wikipedia says IDS's can't work on encrypted traffic. "...Encrypted packets are not processed by most intrusion detection devices..."

But most traffic IS encrypted. So where do you ever have a situation where you have 100Gbps on a line, unencrypted? What's the use-case?
Huh, so that's basically the excuse TPB uses right? "We don't host content, just links to content."