skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if similar noise reduction strategies could be used to clean up observations of high energy collisions of infalling matter around black holes. It would be fascinating to probe energy levels so many orders of magnitude above what we can do here on earth, even if under much less controlled conditions.
The laws are already there. If you care about this and have some free time you may try to make a complain to the Irish data protection commission.

I'm not sure if it's infringing though. If Apple says that they do not collect personal data and that the information is thrown away and this is done for a legitimate business purpose or for the customers (i.e. protecting customers), it may well be fine according to the GDPR.
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Yes. Is there a good reason for agriculture to be less concentrated than industrial sectors, for example automotive?
Oh please. You think it's the poor who is spending hours on Twitter arguing with each other? Or watching CNN for hours a day? They don't have the time nor is it of any consequence to their lives. They're too busy trying to pay this month's rent.

It's all middle and upper-middle class Americans who have the luxury and time to spend time on social media (often at work).
Yes. We have metrics that are targeted towards business results.
America is funding European academics to spread its toxic ideology. It's also shoving its culture in our news, movies, music, etc. Overstating personal responsibility in this matter is naive and very American.
Is it? You are talking about total combinations though, and nature doesn't brute-force every possible combination, but builds upon valid sequences.
I'm hesitant to participate in IPFS in the context of libgen.

Torrenting copyrighted materials (especially if you are distributing) can be quite expensive in some jurisdictions and I do not believe that IPFS is treated different than regular BitTorrent.
Lying to the customer about what your product does, or having secret functionality, should be a criminal offence in the same way as breaking and entering or stalking are.

Then, we would find out very quickly what people value.

I firmly believe this ecosystem (as in privacy violating ad and data selling business model) is only dominant because companies are able to mislead with impunity, so it's basically a form of fraud
Statistics on interracial marriage on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage_in_the_Un...

Indian Americans are an exception to this asymmetry according to wikipedia.
I mean, it's not surprising given the popularity of much less tangible cryptocoins. Cryptocoins are basically taking that idea to the extreme, going farther than removing all benefits and requiring constant burning of energy to keep them alive.

At least with a museum piece, you own a tangible piece of history. It's much more material than a digital checksum chain to some 2009 Satoshi ones and zeros.
The wealthy as the plotters in this article overlooks a change in the last 50 years. A century ago, private industrial wealth and power were in effect synonymous, but today the industrial wealthy are relative front men to a core of institutional players with considerably less wealth, but who have the levers of policy that pervade every micro aspect of life now.The wealthy people I know are not running the culture wars, they are toeing the party line as an appeasement plan to what they perceive as the mob. In this sense, any opposition they might have had has been neutralized.

The taboo I think is it's not a culture war, it's a class war that sets largely publicly employed people against mostly privately employed ones. For all the rhetoric around race, this is mostly a Girardian schism between white city "burghers" and their country "redneck" complement. The former see their role as global, and the latter see their identity as national.

I don't think even a model with predictive power can do much to mitigate the consequences. It may have festered too long. If you destroy what a culture has built, it will have to contend with you and your organizations to rebuild afterwards.
I've used UP boards at a previous job for resource constrained systems that needed to be x86 and they're actually quite nice: https://up-board.org
Your IP address can be pretty accurately matched to an identity due to PRISM.

Has a third party verified they don’t keep track of IP addresses?
Slow Internet and no Internet are different things though. I have experienced this issue as well — sometimes after boot my regular apps will just bounce and bounce (in the macOS dock) and never start. Then when I plug in to ethernet and shut off my wifi everything all of a sudden fires up and starts working.
That seems a little simplified, specifically just categorizing it as left wing vs right wing.

If I recall from my Sociology studies, smaller minority opinions (in this case what you call "right wing ideas") coalesce into smaller silo'd communities BECAUSE their ideas do not resonate with any majority.

In a wide open environment, the minority ideas / culture would not survive, so the participants of the minority views shrink the environment into the bubbles so their ideas don't have as much competition.
The viewpoint that both groups are just as bad or just as good for wage earners is a problem.

It’s easily verifiable that Democratic states have better laws for wage earners, and have pushed for policies that benefit wage earners. They’re nowhere near perfect, but there’s no reason to pretend Dems and Repubs are the same.
Virtually everything about that Carlin quote is completely wrong. There is no business in the world outside of news media (which includes the author) that makes or preserves money from the middle class fighting with the lower class. They'd rather the power classes get over their differences so they can make money off them. The top 1% in US pay more taxes in taxes than the bottom 90%. Before you ask, I do think that they should be paying more rather than less.
Should we be trusting the experienced folks that say mainframes are fine and editing the DOM directly with jQuery is good enough? I mean zipping up binaries and dropping them on a share is just as good as GitHub, right?

Do you think that older doctors insist on using obsolete surgical techniques or less effective medications? Or older lawyers reference laws that have already been repealed?

Ageism is an excuse for being uncompromising and unwilling to accept that someone younger than you might have a good idea or know something you don't.

They might do, sure. But you’ll hit ageism eventually and see younger people reinventing a wheel that you too reinvented.
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I don't believe there was widespread fraud but I am very concerned about how easy it has been to spread misinformation.

There's got to be ways to improve on the status quo so that it's much more clear that someone is lying if they make such claims.

The other related problem is when one party tries to prevent vote counts from being completed such as by objecting to every ballot.

There's got to be a better way. Silicon valley should be doing everything it can to help.
Most of the French socio-fiscal system can be simulated in Python through https://github.com/openfisca/openfisca-france/.
Heck, they still support the original Pis and A+; I just installed the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS on my A+ with 128 MB of RAM, and while it is slow, it works just the same.
That's what people missed about Trump's supporters in 2016. People genuinely believed he was going to work for the common man. He talked about workers rights (in a xenophobic sort of way, but still) he talked about increasing pay for blue collar workers, and about restoring the lost legacy to places that have been abandoned by globalization.

That never got talked about by Trump detractors. Union working class Joe-Schmoe's used to vote democrat, and now solidly do not. There's a reason for that.

Edit: Please note that I never said he did those things, just that they were what he promised. He is completely full of crap on almost everything he says, those promises at the top of the pile. But that is the reason working class Joe love him. He says the things they want to hear.
all comparisons are appropriate, but the question here was whether the mac laptops memory limits were somehow made better by more efficient use of memory. they are not. these are laptops, not phones or tablets. memory is used as efficiently as in previous laptops.
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Yes but you can do a what-if analysis based on the parameter $degree being equal to 'gross', 'egregious' or 'blatant'.
Maybe it's time for a revival of idealism (in the philosophical sense of the term). Its rejection would account for a lot of the current frontiers in physics.
"Shoving"? Are you saying European news organizations don't have the freedom to cover what news they want?

They choose to cover it.
I wonder if a 'google streetview' like system could be used to find library books that have been misfiled.

A robot drives around the shelves taking photos of the books on the shelves, those are then matched to what is expected to be found in that section, obviously there will be some without names or labels on the spines - but hopefully not many. But it can atleast say there are 4 unknown books and 3 unaccounted for in a section.

Obviously that won't help in this case when delicate artifacts are in boxes.
It's a choice between rock and a hard place for India for Cold war 2.0. I have no love for the current govt. (or the past ones, if that matters) but Indian situations simply can't be seen by US-colored-goggles. There are multiple factors at play and there is not much common apart from democracy.
Yup, like many in the civil rights movement, King leaned heavily towards socialism and economic justice (see the Poor People's Campaign) in addition to, and as an integral part of, racial justice. But the Cold War and the boogeyman of Communism meant that that was weaponized against them while the struggle was ongoing, and whitewashed from their history as they became mythologized afterwards. Unfortunately things haven't changed much today - "Black Lives Matter is Marxist" is one of many common tropes used in right wing media where the boogeyman of socialism is alive and well.
Hillary Clinton literally concealed elections. The transfer of power from Obama was smooth and cooperative. Hillary Clinton did not filed dozens of court cases with made up claims that ended up thrown away from those courts. Hillary Clinton did not tried to stop the vote counting either.

Hillary Clinton camp pointing out that they won popular vote is completely within their free speech rights and is not an attack on election system itself. Comparing length of lines in various district and fighting with id mandates or so that students can vote in school and dont have to travel are completely valid too.

What Trump and Republican party did this years is completely incomparable.
I don't think it was deliberate. But after they realized it's a problem, they also realized that it's the best way to drive engagement so they do nothing.
Your system means that when your local garden fails your family starves to death. With the large farm we have insurance so that when (WHEN not IF) there is a crop failure we just buy something from a farm far away. Distance is important here: crop failures tend to be because of a situation that affects your entire village so you can't fall back on a local safety net, you need a large one with a distribution network. The distribution network in turns requires a lot of people not working the farm but instead distributing things around. To make this work you need large farms with surplus.

In short your ideals sound good, but they just don't work out. Too many people are needed off the farm to pull it off, but you put them on their little farms.
Hillary Clinton denied election results in 2016?

You mean the election where she called Trump to concede at 2.50am the next morning?
> Social media has made it wildly easy and incredibly cheap to propagate any misinformation. Head over 4chan and you'll see a factory line of ideas being thrown at the wall to see what sticks - which is then further spread across social media.

4chan has always been like this. Pre-2007 it was basically the boiler room of the internet. You could find memes before they hit mainstream along with all the shitty ones that didn't make the cut.

I'm sure this natural filtering was disrupted when we brought millions of users online for the first time and convinced them that social media is the internet.
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Don't bring this idiocy here.
While being a very Republican state, Oklahoma has a pretty long history of some very progressive programs. For example, Oklahoma funds pre-K programs for children:

https://hechingerreport.org/why-oklahomas-public-preschools-...
Startups fail for a number of reasons. Success depends on removing as many of those reasons as possible. One of those reasons is building on an esoteric tech stack that, while perhaps interesting to the developers, consumes time, energy and money better spent on things like customer acquisition and retention. However even if you eliminate that one reason, there are still many other reasons that will kill your startup.
The universe has precise laws. Changes in physical constants to the 31st decile would negate the possibility of life.

Genesis occurred through time+statistics (=evolution) just as evolution does.
Does it even matter why?

Of course it doesn't matter. It's a funny little news story about weird rich people and the weird world of high end art that pops up from time to time and that people find vaguely entertaining.

As for it's authenticity, no one is claiming it's a forgery or a copy, the question is if any of it was actually painted by the hand of Leonardo Da Vinci as opposed to perhaps one of his students or another artist working out of his studio.
Also check out https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-compute-...
It seems pretty dependant on where you draw the line. If we have quantum-computers in the near-future, did this come from "general" science, or the development/refinement of existing science?
A bit of experience from the former Eastern block. Censorship is not always perfect. Sometimes the censor in charge of the magazine/public house is dumb, sometimes the staff sneaks it around them, sometimes it is not yet communicated that some person or topic is in the blacklist.
> but only you two have yourselves to blame

This is a very dismissive argument to make. It's just like saying Americans have just themselves to blame for this culture ware and should just stop arguing and move on.

Everyone watches US TV shows and movies. Many media outlets all over the world give way too much attention to US news topics, for reasons that are not really clear to me.

This kind of cultural affiliation is not a personal choice, but brought on by news media and the dominance of US entertainment.
Wisconsin outlawed the death penalty in 1853, so that’s hardly a new issue. What’s changed is how much such things are emphasized. Rather than the 2020 presidential candidates talking about meaningful policy differences it was mostly about token issues and identity politics. Occasionally, they would signal which groups they where supporting, but as quietly as possible.

That’s how unpopular choices can become policy. It breaks down to people with strong preferences deciding issues rather than the majority deciding issues. Farmers care a lot more about subsidies than most people making farm subsidies an easy choice.
Right on. Consider whether forcing someone to unlock their smartphone should constitute compelled self-incrimination. This is a problem that US courts have flip-flopped on. [0] How would an SMT solver derive answer? It can't. You'd need a general AI.

Even ignoring the subtleties of the real world that the ̶l̶a̶w̶ edit legal system must cope with, nuts-and-bolts legal concepts like mens rea can't be mapped to algebraic expressions.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/indiana-supreme-...
There's obviously cultural differences, but the political priorities and overall dialogue are just completely different too. Like in Canada, we already have gun registration and background checks (the "common sense" laws that Biden wants but that the NRA says are radical) and the fight is about banning specific classes of assault rifles. In Canada, we already have state health insurance, and the fight is about whether it should cover things like pharmacare, dental treatments, and counseling sessions for mental health. In Canada, the debates about abortion and gay marriage are long settled (1988 and 2003 respectively)— even discussing them is considered political suicide, and the Conservative party has at various points banned back-benchers from attempting to start the debate (for example, by putting forth weaselly, redundant laws about fetal personhood).

You could easily argue that the "Conservative" party in Canada is equivalent or possibly even to the left of the mainstream Democratic party in the US. So yeah, it gets a bit weird when right-leaning people in Canada then also support Trumpian politics— sometimes it's hard to know if they're there after a considered review of the positions, or if it's just a knee jerk "pick the guy on the right" response.
I don't think that big.

A lowering of app store fees is one thing. Really loosening control of the app store is another thing.

Doubling the fees at the $1,000,000 mark lights up many of my "institution design" danger signals.

Regimes like this usually cause people to change their business so they stay under the $1,000,000 mark. For instance in France the employment law gets rigorous for firms that employ more than 50 people so you find a lot of 49 person firms.

People feel resentful when they feel they are being exploited or controlled and some will forgo $10,000 in revenues to save $1000 in taxes or fees.

Two factors that impact this are:

- the "two-sided market" means that each app install creates (global) value for existing apps. (e.g. 100 mini-Facebooks are not as valuable as 1 Facebook)

- others follow the "spray and pray" model where they mass produce a family of apps and since it costs much less than $10⁶ to form a legal entity it makes sense to disperse.
> Note that per [1] "Basic forms of germ theory were proposed in the late Middle Ages by physicians including Ibn Sina in 1025"

Note that also per [1] germ theory was stated pretty well in the first century BC:

> The Roman statesman Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC) wrote, in his Rerum rusticarum libri III (Three Books on Agriculture, 36 BC): "Precautions must also be taken in the neighborhood of swamps […] because there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases."

This doesn't really differ from the germ theory of disease as we understand it today.
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People are less active today than in 1980. They work, and recreate, sitting still in front of a screen far more than people did in 1980. Even in professional jobs there was more walking around because there was no email, chat, etc.

People take in more calories today than in 1980, primarily through prepared foods. The guy in this blog post said he eats out for every meal. Basically no one but the super rich did that in 1980. Prepared food prices have fallen a lot since 1980.

Calories in/calories out is the only way that the human body can change mass, short of excision. However, it’s very hard to accurately keep track of calories.
> A military in a democratic, sovereign nation should have oversight from civilian authority

Would it not be fair to say that in a representative government those elected representatives are the civilian authority? The US Congress approved using military force in Iraq, by quite large majorities in both bodies.

That is not to say the war was good or the reasons true, just that the second paragraph of your critique seems unfounded as there was oversight by the republic’s civilian authority.
Which is why historic small farms tended to be a lot of small fields. You didn't only only one patch of ground you had several. If the wheat field failed, maybe the barely elsewhere did okay and so you can at least survive until next year.
Writing books is hard work and takes a long time. I've written many half-books before abandoning them for the Next New Shiny.

Writing poems is a lot easier than writing novels. Nobody reads poems. There's probably a moral in that fact somewhere.

I give my books away for free. I built the site myself because I wanted to and it was fun - or at least more fun at that time than adding words to my latest work-in-progress. Enjoy!

https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/
The Midori project is always interesting to read about. I'm not sure how much real impact any of it had, however.
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> Russia-gating

Was exaggerated, but resulted in multiple guilty pleas and convictions of Trump associates and campaign workers.

On the other hand, the election fraud theories are utter bunk. As predicted, all of the mistakes which have been discovered in the audits were far too small to affect the result.

> denying election results in 2016 ... Hillary Clinton

Did Clinton go after the election results as-such or are you talking about criticism of the Electoral College and its ability to allow minoritarian rule?

> denying election results in ... 2018 ... Stacy Abrams

The election where one of the candidates was in charge of the election process and refused to recuse himself? The election where an audit was requested but the data just happened to have been wiped?
Perhaps on hover? Like the tooltips on GitHub usernames.
They are SOMETIMES identifiable information. They are not RELIABLE for identification.

If you are going to be collecting information, you are not going to choose unreliable information when you have the option to collect reliable information. That would not make sense.
I didn’t mean to imply that one could not name programs that don’t communicate. Of course they exist. I’m not arguing for this type of behavior, just pointing out that it is pretty much the norm. On macOS I use Little Snitch to find and shutdown must of this extra traffic.
Then I wish they'd just use a thumbnail of one of the images they use at full size in the article.
Ironically, the idea that ethnicity and other signifiers are used to divide the working class against itself has been a pillar of socialist thought for over 100 years- it’s not a centrist position.

Edit: you don’t have to agree with the position I just stated but it is a fact that that it is a socialist position and has been since the days of Marx. I’m just pointing out that the author is trying to paint it as a middle position, and it’s not, it’s a left position. In its most extreme form it has a specific name: class reductionism.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define....

Now I think you can make the case that this is too ideological and not good HN material. That’s fine. But if it is HN material is it not fair to make basic points about the topic of the article itself?
Close your eyes.

Twist the physics plan around, enter the new dimension.

You will see yourself watching the physics plane.

Twist the plane around to watch yourself watching the physics plane.

Do it until you see just a dot.

At this point nothing would make any sense other than your breath.
So you picked your political allegiance based on the party that most aligns to the criteria that are important to you. That's far from universal and other people have different criteria that are important to them.