skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This would lead to a large number of injuries and overdoses because of the drug use. IIRC this was happening in soccer with heart attacks happening because of drugs.

Yes, but this is a choice. We still like to imagine that sports must be "natural". There is nothing natural in how the top performers are bred (my wife was a national junior champion and in the very top of Europe and did not continue despite being invited to the national team - all the fun of sports is gone).

Since we accept that we breed people that do competitive sport I see no reason why not to give them all the opportunities. This includes taking risk with their health and life.

The only problem is that sport starts at 4 years old and there is a risk of parents who would be ready for anything for their children to be sport heroes.

My children did al lot of sports and they stopped after their black belt in karate because it was not fun anymore. They were not really interested by the competition so it did not matter. They love sport. I play volleyball in an amateur team that almost always loses. But the fun is incredible.

> The distinction between men and women teams is arbitrary but fairly sensible. If you didn't separate them then you'd have men at the top and women at the bottom, which does not fun make.

I know but since it looks like the gender is becoming a mater of choice, I do not know how this will be deal with.

I was thinking the same thing when I read somewhere that the "appartenance to a racial group" in the US is by choice as well. I wonder why some, say, white people do not assess themselves as "Afro-American" to make use of the positive discrimination for admission at universities (or whatever this is called in the US)
Your first citation complains about incompetence in the presentation of data, but does not suggest any sort of attempt at a coverup.

Your last three citations have nothing to do with covid. They are about a real-estate scandal involving Prime Minister Abe, an article from 2015 about people dying alone, and an article from 2017 about the Fukushima nuclear disaster. There is nothing remotely convincing here to back up your assertions that the government is hiding something.

Furthermore, if there were more people dying from covid than official records suggest, you would see it show up as excess mortality. But Japan has seen very little excess mortality in 2020. [1]

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.09.20143164v...
Big tech are censorship platforms all over the world.

Twitter censored “news” that was favorable towards Trump like the Hunter Biden story. They even suspended the twitter account of the NY Post.
Youtube downranks leftists.
Facebook censors BDS, Palestinian and other issues.
There are so many examples of their censorship and being arbitrary with “facts.”

Why would they exclude Vietnam from their censorship??
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FWIW, this is how I feel about every crypto-so-called- "currency".
I used FMDB in a number of iOS apps (although it's been quite a few years back) and it was a pleasure to use. It was simple, well-designed, and with no surprises.
Thank you! Ravi
What? How about nobody cares about trans men in male competitions because they are at the bottom, so have no visibility because they don't make it to the big competitions where real money and fame is achieved?
I have commented on similar articles in the past. Fraud is a massive issue with all online payment processors. It's incredibly easy to open bank accounts online and register with stripe online. Somewhere in here I have an email with PC @ Stripe, but I can't dig it out now.

This is just step one in the typical process. Once you build some level of history on your store it typically escalates to using stolen payment information. You pay $10-$15 for a card and use it on your own store.

Stripe will shut you down or ask for additional verification after ~20k in processed charges. What do you care? You can just open up a new store.
What about a Gopro? They are quite sensitive to good light conditions but otherwise lens and resolution is very good, not DSLR grade but lots better than webcam/phone. Fisheye can be disabled. Audio is also decent, maybe not studio-grade indoors but when moving in the wind outdoors it's a lot better than phones or other non-professional gear. Lots of avilable mounting-gadgets and tripods available. Price is just above 300€ for last years 8-black model or sub 200€ for used or older models. Then you can use it for other fun stuff as well.
> In a purely functional language all four are purely functional, but this is (IMO) needlessly restrictive.

I concur. My two favorite languages nowadays (Elixir and Clojure) are far from being purely functional. They are functional enough that mutating state is awkward, but if you do need it it is there.

I also think having immutable data structures by default is a saner choice IMO.

> It leads to recursion where iteration is more natural, awkward choices of data structures or even plain impossibility of certain algorithms/data structures

Anecdotal, but I rarely use recursion/for loops, opting for defining auxiliary functions that works in one element and using map/reduce instead. Really, I don't remember the last time I needed recursion to solve a problem (for example, I know recur exists in Clojure, but I never saw it in the code that I work everyday).
Recommendation:

If you prefer old.reddit.com to the new, try the RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite) add-on for Firefox mobile. It seems to be unaffected by these changes.

There are better ways to use reddit on mobile, but the reddit app isn't the way to go.
I lost faith in FSF when they sacked rms
On the internet I often identify myself as "European".

The reason is usually because americans seem to assume that everyone is an american, so it is to clarify that I have a non-american perspective.
I would say it's even more basic than that. The "marketplace of ideas" paradigm only works when there is in fact positive incentives to sustain the marketplace. In a environment where it costs next to nothing to disseminate bad information for personal gain, there is no economic mechanism to stop people from doing it.

Even if we had unlimited bandwidth, it would be wasted in such a war of attrition.
The art makes the walls look like they have low-quality textures, I was convinced it was 3D renderings at first.
Do we need good webcams anymore?

Take a few selfies with phone -> reasonable deep fake avatar that commodity 720p sensors can animate. Bonus massive bandwidth savings. I think there was a 2m paper on such research. Isn't Apple already redirecting eye gaze to mimic staring at webcam when staring at screen.

Also get a tripod and use app that turn phone into webcam, feature should be baked into OS.
To be honest I have no idea what photo and video lights cost now.

When I looked into it a couple of years ago a minimum set of two strobes, mounts and a reflector would have cost more than 300€.
Looks interesting. Where is the data from services stored? I went through the docs and code, couldn't figure this out
How real is the evil maid threat model where they open up your password manager but don’t have enough time to install a key logger? And even if this threat model matters, 2fa defeats it.

This entire horcrux system feels like cleverness for cleverness’ sake rather than actually addressing a meaningful threat model.
There could be n numbers of ways to prevent this but saving user inputs without validation is always a bad idea.
Thai people can keep being Thai. No issues with that.

But the axiom of “I should avoid doing things that harm others” still stands. We should all (globally) work towards that goal.
https://dflat.io/

Very different trade-offs. Focusing on separating mutations out and provide change subscription mechanism to facilitate one-way data flow UI design.
Then you have an electric car, and you use the fuel method and add a special case for isElectric handling inside. And some other dev uses lamp.fuel since it already handled isElectric internally. But later, we have to differentiate between different types of charging and battery vs constant AC and DC power. Then someone helpfully reorganizes the code and breaks car.fuel because the car does have a battery too. And then ....
If the phone is going to have spyware (Android with the Google proprietary services), then maybe?
China's new Long March-8 rocket makes first flight
In Canada, "Engineer" is a protected term...you legally can't use it unless you are a p.Eng. The idea is that Engineers are bound by a series of standards and assume responsibility of their efforts...especially around designs where human health/safety are concerned. And I get that. But, to say that engineering, as a rigorous discipline can only be practiced by engineers, seems wrong to me. Good practices are (or should be) universal and executable by anyone, and not the blessed few.
The main implementation is called horcrux.

https://github.com/jesseduffield/horcrux

This is basically a low tech (and much more unsecure) version of the n=2 case.
Look this is a great answer, and I love Martin Fowler. That's one rational explanation. It may however be a rationalised explanation that misses out on the difference that makes a difference to understanding what's really going on.

So here's another perspective, that of a software anthropologist ..
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Common patterns of networked systems were developed over decades, and as it developed over decades it built various advanced features on top of the core network call/response features
- service busses
- routing
- useful abstractions like decoupling services from host processes
- propogating security contexts through the chains of service calls that can develop when these systems evolve
- strong typing, which enabled layers of tooling to replace manually doing jobs with these systems and various advanced features.

That was called SOA, because it looks at software architecture as a set of services.

Then along came a bunch of programmers that weren't very studious, started from scratch just doing basic message passing without all the advanced features that had been built up by the decades of previous hard won lessons. That was called microservices. Note the removal of the 'architecture' from microservices!

slightly /s
Got a Sony hybrid camera that's basically plug and play after you install some software. It does 4k and event though most video conf tools only allow 720p, the image comes out stunning.
Abstractions are often formulated even when there is only one call site that currently demands it in anticipation of a future need- don't. Just write the whole thing in a straightforward way and observe which parts chafe whenever you need to make a code change. Then refactor those parts out. Don't be prematurely abstracting into higher concepts before you're sure those are the right concepts to abstract.
These things are broken, sure. But they don't spoil my fun at all. Buggy NPCs are the worst on your list, but that rate at which this happened to me is kinda ok for a freshly released game.

I am playing purely stealth (where possible) so the weapons imbalance doesn't really affect me. I am not saying that this is an okay state of affairs, but for me the game was worth the amount I paid already and I am not through with the story line yet.
It has a fan and heatsink identical to the intel Mac mini, which was a 45w part. It was insufficient for that task but more than enough for the M1 running all out.
Nazism doesn't exist without propaganda, and the Nazi propaganda is something people defend to this day as free speech. The dissemination of genocidal ideas and the inhumanity of the Jews to the masses laid the groundwork. A lot of people on the "free speech at all costs" side defend that there is no problem with that, we have to accept them as equals and fight them in the battleground of ideas, as if they played by the same rules and we just have to make good arguments against genocide in order to convince them.

So, that kind of free speech definitely drove a movement of people towards radicalism. The alternative is believing that millions of regular Germans had a little homicidal maniac inside of them just waiting to get out, and that Goebbles really had no part in getting them to hate so viciously. You can either: believe people are inherently evil and will support genocide at the first opportunity; or people can be influenced by pointed words from a group intent on manipulating them.
I like that they have a vision for the ecosystem they are building, which includes gaming. If I understand correctly up-front payments for games should be possible? "Not paying for games" does not seem to be a selling point for PureOS.
I challenge you to do it. You'll instantly be shadowbanned by bots from multiple subreddits, people will actively seek out your posts and point out you're an extremist on unrelated topics (again, triggered by bots pointing you out), and people will use your post history against you in arguments unrelated to whatever you said in those posts.
We Need to Ditch 4K Video in Order to Fight Climate Change
> IDK why the author thinks a "good" webcam should be able to do 4k, just to show one's face??

I don't think it's very useful. I think it will be very problematic to sell a webcam for $250-300 that can't do 4k.
But the expectation is that something does change (the 2fa). If you use this system without a second factor then a hash breach screws you. And if you do have a second factor then this system achieves almost nothing.
I've been working on Koto which is intended for this kind of use case. I've been thinking about extending Rust applications with scripting, and I have games in mind but more generally I'm interested in rapid iteration in creative applications. It's still very early so I haven't shared it more widely but I'd be curious to hear what you think.

https://github.com/koto-lang/koto
> There are 5K monitors out there, maybe even 8K? Or just get a 4K one but in a smaller size?

The whole point of this thread is people complaining that, outside of LG's fragile Apple collab, there aren't any 5k options widely available.

Go on amazon and search for 5k 27. There's the Apple collab LG UltraFine, and then nothing.

Ditto for 22" 4k, which would provide the same DPI as your laptop screen for that given size.
This doesn't seem particularly insightful. The author managed to get in a couple of completely irrelevant adverts for his startup and his brother's twitch channel.

Save yourself some time - the titular question is answered (with the obvious, unsurprising answer) in the penultimate sentence: "you can't buy a good webcam because existing players seemingly don't think it's a good opportunity, and for newcomers the market is hard to enter."
Funny, as most programming is plumbing too (e.g. how do I get this value out of the database and into this UI widget; or how can I connect this library to that program).
Thank you Bradley-backwards, this was a good talk and first I’d heard of April.
Deep Learning for Programmers book Release Candidate 1 is ready
thanks Alex for all your work in k8s ecosystem!

i have 3 cheapish VPS with public IPs and no VPC . Am but struggling to find a way to get k3s HA working with MetalLB, I dont have EIP /NodeBalancer resource, and dont want to resort to mere 1master+2agents cluster. Any tips or links are appreciated
Next feature: put a Live Chat !!!
Stopping using Facebook is easy. Stopping being used by Facebook is just as hard if not more.

Facebook has its spyware embedded in the majority of apps out there, most companies willingly share their customers' personal details with them for ad targeting purposes and Facebook uses social engineering to trick people into sharing their contacts list which includes your details.
Not to be confused with ripple, the original: a small propagating wave.
Hey everyone! Author here, just thought I'd let you know I'm currently working on a mobile app to automate this entire process through OCR. With a little bit of luck I'll have a prototype ready this week.

Thank you for sharing this asicsp. I actually made a submission to HN as soon as my post went up, but I think it was pretty late at night for most readers so maybe people missed it.
He's not saying they're part of the middle ground. He said extreme communities like Voat are the result of not allowing a middle ground and pushing people to one of the extremes.
We even x-rayed feet to see if shoes fit. The shoe industry of course rejected health concerns:

"Representatives of the shoe retail industry denied claims of potential harm in newspaper articles and opinion pieces. They argued that the devices' use prevented harm to customers' feet that otherwise would have resulted from poorly-fitted shoes.", from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
>> but his camera can't output a live stream into HDMI

> Buy different camera.

He did :)
Jech/galene: The Galène videoconferencing server
Maybe I should expand a bit more...

I think being scared of coming into contact with bad ideas (and tackling them) just stops people from understanding why they are bad ideas. E.g. if we create a cultural taboo long enough, I do believe people will stop caring if something is bad.

Just look at all the edgy teenagers who think Nazi stuff is funny -- because it's taboo and not talked about enough. Sure, teens will be teens.

But just enough people slip through the cracks and become radicalised in their little bubble, with nobody to deprogram them because of the taboo status. If everybody was still sharing the same space (i.e. popular platforms like reddit) then there's less polarization going on.
If you believe the many worlds interpretation of qm then there is a much simpler explanation. To better explain it I will return to Abbott’s flatland. Consider a flat universe. Consider an imaginary grid on it that represents the ‘curvature of space’. Planets in this flat-verse look like solid circles. They bend space so the grid lines are more closely bunched together near them. Now consider another universe next door. Nobody in one universe can know anything about the other universe because their senses are 2d. Even light in their universe vibrates the gridlines of space in the plane of their universe. Now the flatlanders have figured out that gravity operates in 3dimensions. Now consider another universe(B) nearby with a black hole in it(a black circle to us). In space A the flatlanders are struggling to understand a phenomenon they have called dark matter. We on the other hand see the black hole in universe B and it’s effect on universe A. Meanwhile, we are struggling to understand our own version of dark matter. In ‘reality’ there is a black hole in a universe a little bit ‘kata’ from us, bending our space.
Thanks for the recommendation. I've read the the free kindle sample now, which is already a couple hours of reading. I found the introduction and and overview very difficult to get through, even to the point of falling asleep. But the "first interlude" and "stage one" captured my attention better.

Although a bit verbose and repetitive at times, I liked the exploration of the concepts of attention and peripheral awareness. I may give the "stage one" instructions a try, and buy the rest of the book if it goes well.
Ring Light in Nude Photography
French law will only put you in trouble if you voluntarily do absolutely nothing. For instance not calling an ambulance when you could have. When the action taken is judged "insufficient" (like not trying to stop heavy bleeding) there is a consideration for your medical knowledge. You'll never be in trouble for not performing everything correctly, especially after 15 years. First responders appreciate someone who has some better understanding of the situation so don't hesitate!

I've been in this situation recently: I had first aid certification in 2004 and then a bad situation happened.
Ancient "training" kicked-in and I took charge of the situation with some mistakes due to adrenaline and having to manage panicked people around me.
4x 5W LED isn't really a lot of light, especially if you are diffusing it. If your webcam can work with that, it's not that bad :)

Edit: I just read your comment again and realized that you are putting the light really close to your face. I guess that's a way to get away with low power lights.
Early in my career I learned important lesson, there is no point buying displays from other brands than NEC or EIZO. Preferably upper tier products. The exception from this rule was Apple Cinema Display and Some Dell models. EIZO FlexScans are reliable and rarely have any issues. https://www.eizoglobal.com/products/flexscan/index.html
The ATMs for my bank in Japan let you do the kind of things online banking allows you to do, like wire transfers, changing your address/phone number, manage loans, make fixed-term deposits. There's a large elderly population which may be more comfortable using an ATM for these features. It's probably safer to use than the average PC too. But it's mostly a holdover from before smartphones and internet banking, where having these features in an ATM was truly useful.
Yea good question. Micro started with the domain micro.mu for the open source project and we recently found m3o works as a nice moniker and were able to get the dotcom so I think for searchability its "m3o" but the name is Micro, that's what we've always been since inception. And yea Go users search for Golang :) so Micro users search for m3o.
That last paragraph is indicative of terribly quality and quality control.

Fortunately that hasn't been my experience with the recent Dell, Asus, Lenovo and HP laptops I've purchased. Each have been without any issues at all.

But my point here is that... it sounds like you're arguing against consumer choice. You can have your Model T in any color as long as it is black. And this is Apple's model. You can have your product in any configuration as long as it's the one configuration Apple offers. Apple tried this, actually, for a long time. The iPhone started out with extremely limited configurations and only more recently branched out beyond 2. In a way, I agree with the confusion, because I know now I can't just say "Macbook" because there is at least one Macbook without suffix, at least one Air, and the Macbook Pro has a myriad of configurations - different sizes, with or without touch bar, etc.

Why did Apple start offering more options? Because that's what consumers want. Dell exists exactly because they were the first big PC manufacturer to accept configuration orders, and then (relatively) quickly manufacturer and deliver those custom configurations to users. Consumers want this. As Apple's share of the market grows, they will have to meet the consumers where they are - or their market share will be limited by the limitations they place upon themselves.

Now, I agree that, for example, the variety of models between different geographic locations is - if nothing else - annoying. Especially when nicer options aren't offered in your location! But I don't agree with the offered example of getting bad replacements. Maybe buying one laptop a year isn't enough to experience these issues.
From less than three weeks ago, too.
1. Garmin ForeRunner 245 watch. It's actually a _watch_ and it doesn't feel like a wrist computer. Plus, the notifications work amazing, and all training-related things are awesome. Software updates over the year brought very needed improvements.

2. Garmin Edge 830 bike computer. Also wonderful piece of engineering, again feels like a thing and doesn't add any overhead to rides as a phone with Komoot or some other app does. Now I'm thinking that a non-sensor-screen 820 would be a better choice.

3. Mountain bike, Ghost Kato 7.9 2019. I'd go for full suspension next time for sure, but it still opened a whole new world of unpaved roads around the city for me.
Investors pour $1bn into buying up small merchants on Amazon
To be sure I don't tell it is worthless to buy a better camera. I just say you may want to improve your lighting first.

Most webcams including the ones in laptop can provide decent quality image if there is ample amount of good light on the subject.