skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is the case that physical violence generally is okay in video games. For example, if you learned that someone played very realistic torture simulators you might feel uncomfortable about that, or about leaving your children with them.

I think the idea is that guns and bombs and such are cool, and probably lots of people have the impulse to just let loose some destructive volley, blow something up, shoot stuff, run people over, etc - and video games let them do that without consequence. If you saw someone playing GTA and they were running over drug dealers and having shoot outs with the police - that seems like a pretty wild and fun fantasy. Conversely, if they murdered an NPC, then found that NPC's grieving family members and kept dragging the murdered NPC's body in front of them to make them depressed - that would be more atypical.

In other words - if the fantasy you're indulging is being powerful (guns, bombs, using the car destructively) - then that's pretty normal. If the fantasy you're indulging is sadistic, that's pretty abnormal.
> The only real purpose I can see for these things is being able to travel quickly in rough terrain

This reminds me of the (alleged) Tom Watson quote: "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."

These robots will be everywhere in twenty years. The cost and the software aren't there yet, but it's only a matter of time. Flexibility and time to market will beat purpose-built robots in many cases once the cost comes down. Many purpose-built factories will disappear. Local, distributed generalist factories will spring up, staffed by robots. Drones and autonomous vehicles will deliver "hand-crafted" products directly to customers.

With autonomous vehicles poised to replace the most common job in the majority of U.S. states -- truck driver -- we're on the verge of massive systemic changes. That's at best. At worst, with economic and political tensions already high, we'll get violence and bloodshed on a global scale.
Your original reply to the GGP comment was:

> So yeah, it's not "that hard" if you use a product which has already had millions of developer hours put into it like Unity or UnrealEngine.

What point are you making? The GGP correctly claimed it's "not hard" for small teams to make games. The games they referenced were made by small teams. The fact those games used an off the shelf game engine is immaterial. There's no "point" to make about it.

Your "point" comes off as a qualitative judgement about those developers using an off the shelf engine. If you've got no problem with someone using Unity what point are you really making?
And yet, despite all that annoyance for the ways Americans use the language, a significant number of French derived words are butchered on that side of the pond (e.g. lieutenant).
Since you seem to have some expertise in this area, I am going to use the opportunity to ask a bit of a diagonal question I've wondered for a while:

I've seen claims about increase in airflow from bladeless fan designs (I know it's a bit of misnomer, as the blades are just hidden) for home applications. Is there a reason bladeless designs haven't been used in the UAV realm? I assumed the claims were just marketing, or the weight increase offsets the effeciency, or something like that, but thought I would ask.
The article is talking about something very specific.

Muslims being forced into labor camps against their will.

The US has it's share of problems - nobody sane would deny that. But, what the US does do that the CCP does not is allow the open discourse of it's problems, and to change it's policies if people agree.

Even the very numbers that come from the CCP regarding their prison population are extremely suspect - they do not allow independent auditing, and we discover new slave labor camps like the ones in this article nearly every other day it seems. Flatly, the numbers put forth by the CCP are not to be trusted because the CCP has done nothing to make the numbers trustworthy.

Bringing things up from the US' past, nearly a century ago or longer, or equivocating paid voluntary prison labor with mandatory forced labor based on religion is flatly wrong.
> Your theory is that if other large companies do something, it must be morally acceptable

You left something out, "as long as it doesn't effect me (yet), and large companies do it, it must be morally acceptable." I don't know why we defend them. Without Google we still go on. Without us, or support for their practices, they dramatically change or they disappear.
This is insanely cool. Thanks for sharing
exactly, currently those clone-pi are sold as a devkit basically, but they're essentially used like an official product which is 'illegal', I never got the idea why the vendor did not certify their boards, it is really not much when they are shipping (tens of) thousands of these boards.
That’s ridiculous, maybe familiar to a few node devs who are knee deep in code all day but let’s not pretend that he’s a household name on the level of Steve Wozniak
> don’t you think it’s a little premature to compare it with 5000 years of carrier pigeons and horse drawn letter delivery?

No. It is almost as if the two situations are not related.
See link in my OP.
This happened to me in the jungles of Indonesia.. [0] I literally followed google maps and rode my motorcycle into the jungle.

It started off a reasonable road and quickly became dangerous and then deadly. I rolled down the mountain side with the motorcycle and got very, very lucky that I was only mildly hurt (on top of the brutal sunburn I got on the ride). I ran into the local village (more like hobbled) and the first two people didn't believe that anyone could be stupid enough to do that (pantomiming because no one spoke English). I needed to find a teenage boy before anyone thought it plausible.

Happy to live to tell the tale, and I certainly won't be following maps blindly anymore.

[0] http://www.cultofquality.com/index.php/2018/02/on-glory-and-...
See my other replies about reliability (or lack thereof) of M-DISC.
Time for who to ease up? Does it include the woke mob?
Brexit Deal: What Startups Need to Know
I don't know. Has any BC enthusiast calculated it to counter this argument? Using BC exclusively doesn't mean we don't need a military anymore btw.
True didn't put that down my bad.
What do you think should be done about Xinjiang? Do you believe the U.S. and Americans will do nothing simply because it has issues with prisons (so different that they are practically unrelated)?
And if they steal a gun from your house? Or a gallon of gas for your lawnmower they use to burn down your neighbour's house?
> Expert disruptive innovators

Is that tech industry slang for “murderous child-killing bastards”?
Another possible reason to get rid of npm scripts is performance.

I'm using esbuild (https://esbuild.github.io/) in a monorepo setup currently and the time to build the whole repo (~200ms) is the same as the overhead of running `yarn command`.

Running `yarn esbuild ...` is ~400ms, running `esbuild ...` directly is ~200ms.
Yea once you have beanie babies inflation doesn’t matter. What matters is it’s performance as an asset class relative to your other options.

[edit] The point of inflation is manifold but to answer your question specifically inflation is meant in part as an incentive to invest. It’s function in a capitalist society is to encourage group evaluation of equities and help pick winners and trim losers. It sets the benchmark rate of performance for your investments.

Money is only useful when it moves. If it’s not collateralizing loans, and changing hands, economic activity slows and stops. This economic activity is jobs people do day to day.

Deflation slows activity because if your money is worth more tomorrow than today it encourages inaction. In its worst incarnation you get a deflationary spiral where prices fall to stimulate buying but deflation continues anyways, and so on.

We can talk about whether that’s a good thing or not but it’s very much not what the coiners are advocating for.
Because it advertises a shorter time to arrival?

This has been an issue with Google Maps for some time: being more optimistic than e.g. Apple Maps just so you use the service, as suggested by this article: https://arturgrabow.ski/2018/02/19/navigation-apps/
I wish there was an automatic translation for anime but translating it word by word as they appear in the japanese order of the sentence, just as an assistance to listening
Where is the reporting on these companies lobbying against a bill to support the Uyghurs?

The only company I'm aware of that is getting any press on this issue is Apple.

Apple fans would rather jump to whataboutism than tarnish their favorite company. None of this is good, and the wealthiest and stingiest company in the world should do better.

I said my piece.
Except they did when they said “ Most people would also agree, providing a purpose - jobs, training and skills to inmates is a net win for everyone involved, and is a core component in rehabilitation - directly combating rescindance.”

I’m not down playing the Chinese labor camps, I’m taking issue with claiming the prison labor in the US is some moral good. It’s exploiting people, not attempting to rehabilitating them.
Thanks for putting that together. Great list!

I use Hy (a thin Lisp skin/wrapper for Python) for a few personal projects (not at work) and great libraries help make applications shorter and easier to maintain. Best code to write is no code.
> Some tensor products don't factorize

I'm sure you know this, but it's that some elements of the tensor product space don't factorize (i.e., are not tensor products).
> How much of these attacks could be avoided by moving away from Microsoft Windows and EXE execution model? What is the cost of going back to thin clients?

I bet the great majority of them.

> "It's actually not that sophisticated," said Christian Beyer of the German company Securepoint. "You open the Word document, the document contains a macro, and the macro downloads the malware from the internet." A macro is a kind of shorthand instruction for the computer.

Why the F does a text processor needs to execute anything at first place when reading a document? this is madness.

And yes, the solution is, on top of every possible IT security practice, and linux everywhere, make enterprise computers dumb terminals with the help of browsers and webtechs. Nothing else should be executed on them. The people who refuse to unlearn MS Office and co, well too bad...
Convict Leasing is different, and people felt strongly enough that it was bad that the laws were changed (nearly 100 years ago!).

Now the prisoners can get paid some wages in return for labor, in a mostly voluntary labor system.

Unlike the CCP, every inmate had a trial and was found guilty of some crime, and is now repaying their debt to society - as it were.

What did the million Muslims in the article get convicted of in China? Being Muslims? What about the Uyghurs? So now they are slaves for the rest of their lives...
As a Brit this is pretty standard. Some of our delivery apps (Like Just Eat, one of the biggest ones) don't even have the ability to tip but it's always opt-in if it is (Uber Eats have a tipping option). Personally hate it as I feel guilty for not tipping and Uber Eats guilt trips you into tipping using COVID as a catalyst. Of course I usually 'give in' and tip.
Most people don't know or care what engine is in Edge, so the message of "now more compatible" (which is probably true) sounds good.
Young girls picked them, every one.
>So there was also some human error in the ID then...

Most of these systems only alert the agencies about possible persons of interest. In the end its the "human" that makes the decision/error but that part doesn't make the story sexy.
They're probably trying to make them as cheap as possible.
[op here] - Yep, when we stumbled across this idea we really, really liked it... however, this appeared to be a really neat solution to a problem that didn't actually exist.

Lots of profs are super busy with grading, securing tenure, research, and ultimately don't really care that much about the fine details of their course content.
Motivating profs to document their entire course, class by class, with teacher notes, is really hard.

Here's an example of an olin college course opened up to the public ... it's a pain in the ass to make a course 'teachable by others'.
https://courses.olin.edu/e4h/

Also on top of the above barrier, +1, creating a strong community out of profs who care about teaching would be hard.
Google AMP lets the gatekeeper control what’s beyond the gate
> In the final phase of Google’s mission to become the internet, websites have few options if they want to get notice. Following the AMP rules, like removing any custom web components or analytics by anyone but Google, allows your content to (hopefully) appear in Google’s top stories carousel. You are essentially getting free advertising from Google as a result of being a good follower of the new rules of the internet.
Beyond that, would suggest Youtubers peer their content on a few of the upstarts. I've started using Bitchute and Odysee a bit more.
Very helpful. Thank you? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Oh, you added more after the beanie baby topic . Yes, I understand that inflation is a way to motivate certain behaviors. Some of us resent the coercion.

I still don’t understand the extreme fear of deflation. Like, if the value of dollars increases over time, nobody will buy anything and the entire economy will collapse? I just don’t see that happening. People can’t eat dollars, or sit and stare at them in the evenings when they are bored.
Touché, but we do agree on les maths.
It's a meme among bitcoin advocates to troll suckers like you. We see plenty of value in bitcoin. Enough to save the world from fiat.
> But if that's the case, why is the realistic simulation of some societal taboos (e.g. physical violence to the point of murder) mainstream, but others (e.g. sexual violence in any of its forms) not?

I think "simulated" sexual violence (that is to say, real-but-consensual violence, as well as other forms of simulated coercion) is pretty close to just as mainstream, people just don't talk about it as much.

Rick is not a real casting agent, and there is no job.
Private Beta for Planning App for Startups – Goals, Tasks, Brainstorming, etc.
Is the post allowed to say if slaves make Amazon products?
If hardware variance is a distraction in a software project. As indicated by this project. Would a VM work as well or would there be shortfalls?
There is a midpoint between "no zoning" and "neighbors can block my toolshed repaint".
Add to this a perverse incentive to increase the 'labor pool' by corrupting the justice system.
Oh agree. It’s another shitty workaround. Just better than nothing.
I believe the author was being ironic, as they essentially go on to make an argument based on intelligence (von Neuman, etc.). The tone here is also a light one.
Small creators who need income will get barely anything, while the ones the youtube algorithm prefers will get all. So yeah support them directly if you want but not google so I think vanced and the like is perfectly fine solution.
It would be nice if it doesn’t wind up like Medium, where’ it’s all productivity porn and identity politics but I don’t have much hope unless they do some sort of signup gating
As I'm writing this, the title is "Top Python libraries of 2020 you should know about". Sure, it sounds a bit click-baity, but what's a better way of writing that title? The only way to remove the clickbait element is to literally list all or several of the libraries, which would make for a terrible title.
Yes it is... will have to give it a shot sometime!
I see this frequently even in newer movies/tv--when actors are drinking out of empty coffee cups.
Just yesterday I see drove onto a Google Maps recommended muddy dirt road road (like a dumbass) with my rental car just in the Mexican jungle. I thought I could make it, until I couldn’t. I got stuck in mud about 5km, walked through mud to the highway, and learned all about hitchhiking in Mexico, and asking locals for help getting my car unstuck. Good times.
Simply do a quick search for Xinjiang forced labor; you will find endless reports from the world's most credible sources. What is your basis for saying it's debatable?

You argue every point, but what do you think should be done?
I'll take financial independence and not needing to work, but getting to work if and when I choose.
The point is that wealth inequality would still exist, even if every person in the world earned the same amount in their lifetime. The equality of outcomes of giving everyone the same amount of money would not lead to the equality of outcomes of everyone having the same amount of wealth.

You can only get wealth equality by taking away wealth from everyone. That's not going to fix any "societal issues", it will simply cause more problems. See also all past attempts.
Kind of insane that there's still a gap there.
It's irresponsible because there's an alternative

"Ethereum Plans to Cut Its Absurd Energy Consumption by 99 Percent"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/networks/ethereum-plans-...

"How One Of The Largest Free Porn Sites Uses More Than 6 Million KWh To Power Streaming Services"

https://fightthenewdrug.org/what-if-porn-is-bad-for-the-envi...
Someone would have to fund an app, much like how Audi is funding the centralized infrastructure that collects the data from cities and vends it out to their cars. [1]

In fact it doesn’t sound like the cities have any significant role except to provide a dump of signal phase timing data. This article suggests that most traffic lights use unpredictable phase timings based on traffic levels, but that is false - most are predictable according to the time of day.

Of course, both parties have an interest in making this system sound like more of a technological achievement than a political one, and they are marketing it accordingly, using terms like “vehicle to infrastructure”, “networked traffic lights”, etc.

Audi’s end of the deal is to provide reciprocal data to local authorities:

> “We aggregate the recorded data into reports that we will make available to the city authorities. Traffic lights can then be given more efficient phasing and traffic will flow better,” adds Hainzlmaier.

[1] https://www.traffictechservices.com/how-it-works.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition

I think it's called stockocracy :-)
The form doesn't require any sort of authentication, so I imagine someone could write a script to submit all (or a large portion of) the set of card numbers to this API. Might need to work around rate limiting and so on, but seems feasible?
Yes, a lot of literal interpretation in this comments thread.
I'm not sure what they did with the formatting, but it's near unreadable on mobile because of how narrow thr column is.
Self plug. I run https://fastcomments.com, which would also solve this problem, for example: https://blog.fastcomments.com/(6-26-2020)-embedding-comments...
A lack of correlation is pretty strong evidence for a lack of causation though. (My personal inability to find correlation is much weaker evidence, since who knows how many confounding variables there could be)
Thanks for digging deeper. I saw that it was from an academic institution (TUM) so the lack of useful metrics in the release admittedly ticked me off a little. Dice Coeff sounds very similar to Jacard Indexing for image tasks.
An internal team 'hoodwinked' Bill Gates into launching the Xbox project
Flint is one. Used as knives and axe heads in neolithic times. I've had a couple of motorcycle punctures from flint shards.
It looks like with just a billion calls to that endpoint you can opt out every card for a given visa issuer.
> I don't think hacking/cracking should be illegal. If I send you a series of electrical pulses and that causes your systems to do something stupid, that's your problem. You are not a "victim".

'I don't think assault should be illegal. If I send a series of simple kinetic impacts to someone's unprotected body that causes their organs to do something stupid, that's their problem. They are not a "victim."'

Do you see how absurd this idea sounds?
(another) self plug - if you use FastComments, you can get an RSS feed of your comments: https://blog.fastcomments.com/(7-08-2020)-create-an-rss-feed...
Wait, aren't all social media platforms with their rooms and groups not promoting the idea of finding like minded strong communities? Sure its all digital and sometimes it leads to events happening in real. The "moderators" in these groups take their positions a bit too seriously sometimes.
Yes, they did an accelerated test, and M-DISC has performed as good as archival grade DVDs. Syylex, which promises the same lifetime as M-DISC, performed significantly better. That clearly shows either M-DISC didn't live up to their promise, or Syylex and archival grade DVDs surpassed expectations. Either is bad news for M-DISC, isn't it? What am I missing?
There are satellite images of slave laborers in exactly that region.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.courthousenews.com/evidence...

The only news here is that they are using slaves for higher tech work than cotton.
This seems a lot like the “remote calls are invisibly transparent” which most people decided was a bad idea. (IIRC)
Not very wise of you to depend on Discord and Google Sheets instead of more open alternatives when you're organizing a group whose purpose is to literally preserve the victims of corporate censorship.
I agree. The attempts to change the subject to the U.S. are classic whataboutist arguments, and transparently weak ones. It's hard to imagine what's wrong with your points that you would be downvoted.
Tesla: Soaring share price creates army of 'Teslanaires'
Truth be told, I share your frustration in general with tech naming, especially with enterprise tools and web development tools, but I do think that acronyms and initialisms--when the expansion is descriptive and accurate (a non-example being LAME, for instance)--are a reasonable compromise between "call something what it is" (which CIDER and SLIME both do, modulo an extra snarky word or two) and "avoid having a name which is 25 characters long".
Reminds me of The Pump[0] which is a short film about a guy who tries to take a shortcut through California's desert. (you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/MdtZZ3NeQIE?t=47)

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402453/
They deserve credit for changing behavior, but their policy should be proactive not reactive. This ought to be embedded into their branding such that they profit from their stance on human rights while also making it a desirable marketing point for competitors. (And surely they can afford to)
Quite interesting take. People came to their land, imposed laws on them by force, took their land by force, and now here we are with you saying 'oh but it was a lawful command'
How authoritarian of you
This is the sort of thing I find OSM much better at, being an actual map and displaying this sort of up to date information, not to mention actually rendering street names and important landmarks instead of random businesses. Of course you have to navigate the old fashioned way.

If I want to find the nearest ice cream store open at 9pm use google maps, it's a great location database. If you want a map use OSM.
Rough lesson to learn first-hand but it probably won't be forgotten anytime soon! Glad you made it out okay.