skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought violent video games had the opposite effect of aggression - desensitization. At the beginning of playing "The Last of Us", I sort of felt bad whenever a (non-zombie) human died (either by my hands or part of the story). I especially felt bad when I made a 14 year old girl kill someone. But by the end I remorselessly hunted and executed every human I came across no matter which character I was.

Of course, that didn't translate to any real life loss of empathy (I don't think), but it was interesting how quickly the game desensitized my regard of fictional humans so that I stopped seeing them as anything of value but rather an enemy/monster to be unquestioningly destroyed.
Also, way more kids got devices for playing games today than before, and them carrying it at all times is new. Being connected to the internet 24/7 is new too.
People were unwilling to pay for mobile games, which lead to the rise of the free-to-play model. Zygna with their Facebook games found an incredibly profitable variant of this: make a game that's addicting and has to be played in short intervals on a regular schedule. These games are reliable and easy to make and very profitable, so they exploded. Now lots of elements of that leak into console and PC games.
There are three use cases for DSL to consider. They can be used as alternatives to:

1. libraries for general-purpose languages
2. general-puprose markup languages
3. graphical user interfaces

Of those three, I'd say your complaint is a compelling criticism for the first use case, but not the other two.

Probably not coincidentally, the first one is also the only one where Turing completeness is almost certainly a requirement.

For the case of alternatives to general-purpose markup languages, I would present as exhibit A that the readability and tooling support for gRPC's *.proto files is far ahead of that of OpenAPI's JSON-based format. And that's not just down to popularity. Now that the language server protocol is so well supported, it's generally easier to get good tooling support for a homegrown DSL than it is a format that reuses an off-the-shelf markup language.

It's harder to find well-known examples for #3. All I can say is that, in my experience working on in-house software, I've seen that there are certain classes of problem where DSLs are generally more successful than GUI-based solutions. Usually these are situations where people need to manage complex and subtle configuration. In those situations, DSLs tend to be both less expensive to develop and maintain, and easier for end users to learn and use, than GUI-based solutions. A solution that uses a general-purpose markup language like XML or JSON may be cheaper to develop, but tends to be the worst possible option from an end-user perspective.
I recently noticed that my high-frequency hearing was going (40-yr-old man). My GF (works in a hospital) brought home a digital thermometer that beeps when it's finished a reading. My GF can hear the beeps clearly, but I cannot. She has to tell me when the thermometer is ready to be read. Perhaps I should go to an audiologist to get a proper exam.
Unless you mean right now because of carona, I'm not sure what about “this day and age” is more dangerous than when you grew up.
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You're right, my bad. I had understood it differently from reading this elsewhere
I fault companies like Apple for doing business with companies who do these things.

But I'm not sure if anything changes if local governments aren't interested in stopping it (or actually support it) either.

Markets don't care about human rights... and if the local government supports this (in this case China, but other places too). I don't see how this ever changes.
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I still don't understand why the pilots of ETH302 weren't primed about this issue. I seem to recall it being common knowledge within the aviation community that there was a likely trim system fault that downed LNI610. With that backdrop, I'd expect anyone sitting in the front seats of a 737-Max to be aware of the recent crash of the type and reasonably fresh on the systems procedures/memory items to remedy.

It's certainly true today, but I suspect it was also true on 2019-03-10 and being primed wasn't enough.
> The guidelines made it extremely difficult for hospitals to give photographers the opportunity to collect visual evidence of the pandemic’s severity.

> Americans do not respond to statistics,” she wrote on Twitter in June. “They respond to stories. Every hospital needs to let cameras in and show what dying of Covid looks like. Instead, PR depts silence us.”

Awww, so they weren't allowed to put out more panic porn. Boo. Hoo.

The media could report the >99% survival rate but instead they pound on cases, deaths, and individual stories. Had the media had access to hospitals they would have driven the public into a frenzy with their reporting. Do you think papers would post rational stories or would they play it up as much as possible for eyeballs and money? What have they done in the past? Have they done since day one?

I don't trust the government but they did the right thing here. The media would have done nothing but create hysteria in order to get more eyeballs and revenue.

PS: Change it from Covid to cancer. Would you want yourself or a loved on to be the object of some reporter's story>
> They can't just call up their lobbyist who's already scheduled to golf with a congressman every other weekend and tell them to bring it up on their next trip.

I think you're vastly underestimating the impact of lobbying and overestimating the cost

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/708195702

Tax Professor wants to try to get a policy (automatically filled out tax returns for CA state taxes)he thinks will be good for the public passed.

He gets nowhere.

Hires a lobbyist at a discount

> BANKMAN: They gave me a deal because they thought it would be kind of fun to work for this crazed professor.

> VANEK SMITH: They were working for you, just you?

> BANKMAN: Yeah. They were working for me. And so the normal price, I think, would have been $140,000 to get Mike's services. But he gave it to me for only 35. So I paid 35,000, I believe.

Got a lot closer (opt in automatic filling) despite massive opposition from anti tax groups and tax prep software lobbyists
It could be done with interrupts. With something like a raspberry pi it could be done with thread sleeps that yield non trivial amounts of process time so that the CPU usage is low.
[Edit] The problem with public addressed end nodes is the Operating Systems we use aren't secure. Linux and Windows are unfit for purpose in a world of persistent connectivity. Suitable alternatives do exist, but aren't well known.

Once I get Genode or GNU Hurd running, I'll gladly hook it straight to the the full IP4/IP6 public addressed internet. Until that day, nope.
Its not unoriginal but it ignores the issue where the professionals and government officials want to interfere. They want you to believe you cannot handle the situation properly so that their existence can be maintained. Sadly there are enough abusive parents and such to keep them in existence to interfere with parents who are otherwise doing just fine
> And I agree with the topic, better 2 people somewhat immune "now" than half with the full vaccine immunity.

the 90%+ effectiveness is only with 2 does, who knows how long and if it works with only one dose... it's likely not half and/or not for very long...
> Most people never sync with the chain and those that want to only need bandwidth far less than watching a low res youtube video. [...] I would love to hear how you can rationalize a statement like that.

Except you know, the storage costs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570915
The main trouble I have with Substack right now is that it looks so much like Medium it's hard not believe it is going to turn out the same in the end.

Unlike Medium, however, it's attracted some quality writing. (e.g. Medium seems to attract writers who are (a) blown away by much easier it is to get usage numbers compared to a real blog, and (b) are blown away by getting 70 "views" on an article.)
An AI might not have a reason or the ability to expand everywhere.

It can depend on what purpose it had when it was created to practical limits imposed by physics and luck.
For those that live around Tampa, they can always join a Pirate Krewe https://interkrewe.com/ They started out of the Gasparilla Festival http://gasparillapiratefest.com/ but have become more like the Rotary club or the JC's. They tend to attract members from mid 20's on up.
Came to see how HN's Apple Cult would handwave this away...was not disappointed. The cult is so fucking pathetic.
What other way would you suggest companies could link shareholder incentives and ethics?

Hitting ESG metrics / recieving ESG credentials is a way for companies to benefit from doing the right thing.
This sounds like the 'Cocktail Party Effect', which usually gets worse with age. I've started to experience it in restaurants with lots of hard surfaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
Brigham Young University, the employer of the two authors by paying their salary. The paper states that «No funding was received for this article.».
I loved the aesthetic of the Cube, but I feel like Apple has basically created Cube replacements. The Mac Mini is basically a G4 Cube, just smaller. If you're looking for the same dimensions as a Cube, the trashcan Mac Pro had nearly identical dimensions as a Cube, but as a cylinder.

I think it's likely that we'll see something similar to a Cube or trashcan Mac Pro in the future with M series chips. Apple was able to pack 130W Xeon chips into the trashcan Mac Pro. Seems reasonable to think that a Pro-class M series chip could fit within that power/thermal range. The new Mac Pros are 205W which probably necessitated moving away from the trashcan size. Given that the highest-end Mac Pro is around 2.5x faster than a Mac Mini while the Mac Mini is only around 10 watts, it seems like there's a lot of room for Apple to create a Mac Pro without dialing up the heat too much.

I guess I'm wondering: did you like the cube, but not the trashcan?
Perhaps, but is depression the outcome of video games? Or videogames are a popular activity for depressed people? If you don't have friends, can't go out, socialize, you are likely to either watch TV all day or play videogames.
OPML (I am familiar) could be used as a basis yep, but it's a file format which is more akin to vCard, vCal and iCal - CalDav, CardDav and WebDav are the transport(?) layers (API layers, operational layers, call them what you will) which sit on top of the file format standards providing the interoperability.
It looks like it may well be going that way, sure, but making this about Apple is headline bait. It's about China.

The fact is you can't buy a single thing made in China and be sure it isn't implicated in this in some way. Think of the last few things you bought that were manufactured or sourced some parts in China. Can you honestly say the manufacturer audits their supply chain with the same rigour? At least Apple is trying to keep their supply chain clean, but ultimately that may prove to be impossible.

If that's the case vilifying Apple for it won't fix it, the only way to fix it will be to shun Chinese products completely, but that's going to be a very painful and difficult process for more people than just Apple. Take Fairphone for example, those guys work really hard to do the right thing as much as possible, but they have dozens and dozens of suppliers in China some of them indirect. In their own literature they point out they can't answer for every single supplier. This is a really tough problem.
Maybe that's her approach to working it out!
I think what you may be looking for is a device that allows you to type in text without requiring a surface on which to place it (while seated on a bus, lying down in bed). I've always wanted something similar myself, but mobile keyboards don't make it easy for you to type without having to focus your gaze directly on the keyboard. Perhaps someone could invent a device where your hands rest on a keyboard while the screen rests on your hands?
Actually, yes. Space in which we can put Earth satellites is limited and you can even calculate its volume.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_sphere
It becomes really inconvenient when you have outsourced so much of your manufacturing there. Who is going to make your stuff then? (Maybe something we should have thought of before this, but then China took a turn towards more authoritarian under the current CCP chairman.)
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I spend a lot of time looking at the equations they toss up on the board on TV shows. It's kind of funny how much work is put into drawing things that almost look like real integrals or partial differential equations, but rarely do the equations or diagrams make sense in the context of the show.

Anyway, fun read. Thanks.
Thing is, people find themselves in many situations where they have a spot of free time, and the phone is the only object available at hand. How can one use that time to create/build something rather than using it in consuming some sort of media.
It is all bad, agreed. Was just musing over kinds of evil more than anything else.
Exactly. No one is ditching their iPhone. It’s all about the blue text bubbles. If Americans would just switch to WhatsApp or something else like the rest of the world we could get past the Android stigma.
I think it depends on the kid. You just have to rely on the parents judgement. When our oldest was 4 our twins were 1 and she was very abusive towards them. She was trying to make them hurt and upset.

At 5, now they mostly get along fine. Unless they get in her toys. Then it's bodyslam time.
> for the exchange of DNA profile information

So you're fine that your DNA information is transmitted in clear in an email?
I dont have iOS, but I have similar, and more, complaints with the android and web versions.
I have the same problem. As an additional data point, I have no problem hearing the dialog in documentaries, youtube shows, "casual" TV shows, etc, but I am having a very hard time understanding the dialog in movies and more serious TV shows.
You just reminded me of The Well.

I had the notion their membership was limited, like a country club or fraternity or something, to a fixed number. To join, someone else had to first leave. I can't now confirm this, so I probably misremembered. Regardless, I've always liked this idea.

Wiki claims a distinction between virtual communities and social medias. The Well, MetaFilter, Ravelry and others have membership fees. Some have verified identities. Those frictions would certainly deter most dysfunction, antisocial behaviors now plaguing social medias.

I think curated social media is mostly fruitless. Having done a lot of online moderation, I honestly don't know how u/dang and others pull it off.

Culture and civility is much easier with preventative measures, like verified identity.
Odd that it doesn't mention the sawtooth pattern on the rear of the engine cowling, or the flat bottom shape of the engine as you look into the intake, versus the normal round shape for non-max/leap engines. Either of those is easy to spot from far away.
Note for those skimming the clickbait headlines: this is an accusation found in a report. No evidence brought forward yet.
The CDC tried to have non-medical essential workers ahead in line of seniors.

The argument was that, although more people would die (including more African Americans), it would even out black vs white ppl deaths metric.

[edit] source:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
> a large north-western city... 65% were Caucasian, 12% black and 19% multi-ethnic, 4% other.

What year is this from where Caucasian is still used? And northwest of what country? I guess US since the authors are from there?

Original article is behind a paywall. -1
That comparison could just as easily be said to belittle what actual forced labor is.

I don’t think it’s helpful to compare which atrocity is worse.

There are many societies that have had lots of norms or laws protecting slaves from various forms of harm. That’s of course not to say slavery was acceptable in those societies on any level, but many slaves lived more comfortable lives than those who eventually died of malnutrition at Auchwitz-II.
This is brilliant in my opinion. But I wouldn’t limit it to just classic art, but it’s a good place to start!
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Yet another American institution/system that has failed. The FAA has demonstrated that they care about Boeing profits above passenger safety, and Congress has lost the ability to actually use their branch’s prerogatives to bring the executive to heel.
Touch screens are the worst possible input for anything productive. Maybe if there was far less latency, you could make some decent music but, in my experience, anything beyond basic, unexpressive rhythm, chords, and melodies are the best you can achieve. Nuance can be added in post, but that's tedious and sucks the life out the process.

I don't draw, but I know doing it on a touch screen is far more painful than paper.

I think alternative input devices are a must, at which point you might as well just use a laptop. That might not be practical if you're on-the-go e.g. riding the bus. If you're not, then why use a phone?
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So much this. To get real work done (creative or not), you want a desktop OS and a big screen, keyboard and mouse.
In translation communities the idea of using automated translation even in part in the process of translating manga is frowned upon (good luck if you try to get away with doing this on a paid gig), and even the people pirating manga on websites tend to actively dislike automated translation as well. Heroic efforts from an excellent machine translation stack and a team of quality checkers and editors can help clean it up, but at the end of the day you'd probably save time and money by just hiring someone fluent in both languages.

It's always interesting to see research perspectives on this. I think there's considerable room for improvement, especially given that current translation tech doesn't take into account things like panel layout, horizontal/vertical layout of text, different typeface use, hand-written vs. typeset text, and mixed katakana/hiragana/kanji usage - all things that an author may use to convey tone, implicitly identify the speaker, or add subtext. There are also things with no equivalent in English literature/comics whatsoever, like using furigana to attach a second reading (or dual meaning) to a word.

I can imagine some of this info eventually being pulled in by built-for-purpose MTL tools if a research group puts in the time and energy to do it - the paper appears to be a couple brief steps in that direction because they're feeding in basic information about panel layout and the genders of the people in the panels, but little else. Excited to see what happens in this space even if the idea of even more people trying to translate dense comic prose with Google Translate fills me with dread.

EDIT: I should have done more research before posting this... digging into the authors of this paper, two of them are working at a company that is trying to sell this current technology to authors right now despite the fact that it is not adequate for the challenges of translating comics to other languages. How depressing.
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Whelp, guess I'm wrong on this one. That is extremely disappointing
Lots of industries like that. Look up gun ownership numbers.

Another strange food is dairy. In fact, I think that most Europeans were lactose-intolerant, until they started getting people from Asia mixing in genes.

There was a study, to that effect, recently; where they looked at old DNA samples.

I remember the Masai tribe, in Africa. These are some of the most robust, healthy people you have ever seen, and their traditional food is cow's milk, mixed with cow's blood. YUM.

But I loves my sugar and milk in my tea (don't drink booze, though).
Not wrong, but does it negate the quality of the games? Were they fun?

More telling, could they have sold better with a massive marketing campaign?
Looking at my children, when my wife stopped them from playing video games, they fought much more. Gaming is the opium of the children!
Something overlooked in this (and many other articles about stack based VMs): if the stack based VM requires a well balanced stack (as is the case for JVM), the bytecode can be trivially rewritten to a register based VM: number each stack location and trace all basic-blocks to see which stackslot they hit. Then just replace all the push 10, pop with "move 10 to slot/register-1", "load slot/register-1" etc. The converse is much harder, so I really prefer to work with stack based VMs as they are more condense and if speed is needed a linear (in function size) scan can rewrite it to make the mapping to cpu registers much easier.
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This is difficult to not like.

Nice color scheme!
there is nothing different this day and age except awareness

crime is lower across the board compared to 15-20 years ago

ignorance was bliss, for you
Try making some art. You can use art apps to remix old photos and also to generate completely new pieces.

Not sure about iOS, but on Android there are fantastic apps like Glitch Lab, Mirror Lab, and so on. Here is a link to art made on Android using Mirror Lab: https://www.instagram.com/mirror_lab/
But are you aware of the political and cultural opinions of the owners of the brand you bought instead?
> I would rather have a collection of small parts making up a complex solution than the complexity of k8s.

I feel the same way. If I wouldn't have stumbled over Ansible 6-7 years ago I would have left the industry already. I don't mind complexity in general but I feel it should be in line with company needs. And k8s often isn't.

You are right, FreeBSD jails, lxc, etc are great technologies. It's k8s and related topis I have my issues with.

Do you regret leaving the industry?

I have invested a lot of effort into my career and it would feel kind of stupid to give up on it because I have some issues with today's industry trend.
On the other hand you are right, k8s is the technical side of a people problem in the industry. While I'm hopeful that things around k8s will settle on the long run, I'm pessimistic that the cargo cult and believe in easy answers to complex problems will disappear any time soon.
You are right in your last paragraph. The situation in Xinjang is such that for an Uyghur it is in fact impossible to decline to do what the state says. Any work done with involvement of Uyghur population by default is a situation of forced labour. That’s what the article says.

However, using the term “slavery” gives CCP ammunition to fight back. They can point out that Uyghurs are paid. They can claim they are free to refuse (we know they will not out of fear of retribution, but I suspect the need for such nuance only hurts the case).
So you are against most forms of entertainment? Art, music, movies, books, and games, are all forms of entertainment where you have little or nothing to "show for the time".

I think this focus on hyper-productivity as some form of ideal is a sad way of approaching life and self-worth.
I agree, though chattel slavery typically implies the slavery of offspring. You can still have institutionalized slavery without that, like the Romans and a lot of other cultures throughout history. Slaves could be set free, could have semi-decent standards of living, while still being dehumanized. Or they could be treated brutally and enslaved for generations. The term seems to fit here in the broadest sense of the word.