skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me preface this by saying that I'm not a simulation theory supporter, and my opinion is that if the universe is a simulation, it's probably NOT one of the two most commonly-supposed types: ancestor simulations and matrix-like virtual realities.

> its a casual display of hubris that the universe can be hypothesized as a simulation rather than perhaps acknowledging we are reaching the limits of what we can percieve

While I'm not completely sure why these two points belong together, I think it should be stressed that science already operates largely beyond the realm of human perception. Our tools, namely sensors and information processing, are exceeding our un-augmented biological capabilities by an almost comical margin.

> Do you not think there would be hard limits to such a fragile system?

Absolutely, there are always hard limits. They don't even have to exist by design. Again, not a simulation hypothesis fan, but it may well be fundamentally impossible to ever tell if we're in one, because we could never operate outside of the simulation's rules and gain any insight into anything outside of our dataset.

> I find it a leap of logic to jump from there to the universe might be a simulation which in a sense, it already is

I agree. I think where we diverge is the implication that knowledge is impossible unless everything about the universe is already perfectly known. For example, gaps in our understanding of photons do not necessarily mean that perception is a worthless concept. Likewise, I'm averse to the notion of hiding postulated supernatural concepts in corners where the light of understanding is still dim, although that's a personal decision everyone has to make for themselves.

In this context I'd consider a postulated simulation also sort-of supernatural, although it doesn't feel like it so much because the concept at least doesn't strongly imply a willful entity with a special interest in humans. But all things being equal, my feeling is that simulation hypotheses are just as superfluous as deities.
The Chinese people are not less ethical than any others and their government knows that. The way they keep people blind to injustice is to filter all narratives through the systematic surveillance of communications and push for more technology to control people's lives under the guise of convenience or the promotion of "social harmony".
I believe for Pfizer the preclinical DART and teratogenicity studies in rats are still ongoing, but nobody expects the readouts to be anything bad. That was in the last update I saw, so my info may be out of date.
I'm obviously not arguing for zero moderation. You would trade one Nazi for another. I believe you are incorrect. That's what the downvote button is for.

What good is karma is it's not adhered to? If you can just remove things because you disagree with them?

Perhaps you should read Aesop's fable: The Wind and the Sun. I believe you would have something to learn from this fable about motivating people in the right direction.
I would say the major thing separating GameStop from me, the random guy on the street, is that GameStop has a large network of brick-and-mortar stores conveniently located throughout the nation, plus existing relationships with publishers.

Throwing all that away because you have email addresses for a bunch of known gamers and will therefore... do... Internet... something... seems like a losing proposition.
> the right to privacy is a fundamental human right

no it is not.
On a few occasions in C++ I have found few boolean flags are superior to enum in code that evolves. What happens was that code changes effectively turned deterministic state machine into nondeterministic one. Modeling the relevant parallel states with bits is very natural then.
*work forces
So, there's a few things to unpack here.

1. I don't (personally) agree that the 'black lives matter' protests should be considered as 'terrorism', because fundamentally they began as a protest against the systematic mistreatment of a certain race/demographic of people. While it can be viewed as political, it's not quite the same as 'storming the capital of a country to overturn the result of an election', which is undeniably a political goal. While some BLM rioters eventually did conduct what could be described as terrorist acts, it fundamentally isn't the same thing.

2. You're welcome to disagree on that point, but it's not what's being discussed in this thread.

3. Yes, media overreach is an issue, but it's not the topic of the conversation.

4. I am still sad that people are trying to downplay the issue, and not just because some people don't want to call it terrorism. People saying 'oh in the future it won't even be remembered' etc etc is also problematic as it's downplaying the event itself.

Edit: Added point 2
Some vehicles will unlock the door with the fob in your pocket when you touch the handle. Many vehicles still require you to touch an unlock button on the fob even when standing at the door.

It would have made it even more awkward as the car screams at both of you though.
> How large is the security team?

More importantly, how big is their whiskey budget?

It's not the greatest proxy, but how regularly your security team drinks is a not-terrible way to gauge how much trouble your org is going to be in should something happen.
Check jexer for TUI
If their sincere belief is that the election was fraudulent, they would be trying to uphold the government, not overthrow it.

Reverse the situation - Trump wins the election, but you believe that many of the votes cast for him were fraudulent. Would you consider yourself to be "overthrowing" the government by rooting out the fraud and putting in the person who you believe justly won?

I'm not saying they are correct about there being fraud. I don't think they are. But the assumption is they the know the fraud is a lie and they are just deliberately lying to provide an excuse to illegitimately take over the government. I don't think that's necessarily the case. I think even Trump actually believes there was fraud to extent that he actually won.
You might have add-on that redirects you to some gateway?
There's no point in "streaming" if you're not using the data as it arrives. That's the entire meaning of "streaming".
When antifa storms the Capitol and gets Congressional representation (i.e. folks like Marjorie Taylor Greene), do let me know.
PS C:\Users\Kuinox> Get-Alias -D Get-Alias

CommandType Name Version Source

----------- ---- ------- ------

Alias gal -> Get-Alias
I’d also add that despite the hatred Facebook deservedly gets, I find Facebook Marketplace way better than Craigslist for everything besides the actual product discovery (since it lacks clean-cut categories, but it’s still pretty alright). Since it’s actually moderated either by FB or by buy/sell groups, and people have their identities tied to the things they’re selling there’s way less scams and it makes recognizing people when you meet much more possible. Feels way safer than Craigslist ever did.
First preserved dinosaur butthole is 'perfect' and 'unique,' paleontologist says
Bullshit. Nobody can force me into buying wonderbras.
Sure, immense wealth translates into power, monopolies suck and antitrust regulations are the for a reason.

Still it's a far cry from running an oil state and killing adversaries.
Totally agree, I never use my horn for that reason.
Yes, you can. "Native Supports" means that Brave has a native IPFS node in their Browser and you don't need download IPFS-Desktop or use public gateway to visit websites in IPFS network.
Is this really the "best of both worlds" or does this just double the number of commands you have the learn?
> Every single person here uses high powered encrypted communication without a license, it's a cell phone.

Your cell service provider holds the license.

Ham radio exam is not hard, and does not require special training, just some basic knowledge of how radios work and what the regulations are. I don't see what the issue is.
Remote pairing with VS Code Live Share + Slack/Zoom call has been a blessing. Great for focussing on work as always, but now also general conversation about random things that you can no longer physically do when in a lockdown.
Leverage, the goods, kompromat
The author uses "nonlinear" but means "superlinear", because I guess sublinear cost behaviors don't cause the same kind of dramatic problems, and so we can get away with not thinking about them most of the time. I think it says something about the ways that software systems give rise to a particular flavor of problems, that allows us to (relatively effectively) ignore sublinear cost behavior, whereas in other areas those would be really important dynamics.
Was Trump participating in the conversations on Facebook?
Also, over 100 people have already been arrested in connection with the attack, virtually all of them people who were detained or identified from video within the Capitol. And, per the FBI, there are more than 300 current active investigations, and that number is increasing. The “less than 100 wanted” simply doesn’t map in any reasonable way to reality.
Thousands of data points suggest GP's claim, and you counter it with one example?

/r/AskHistorians is one of the more unique subreddits, in that it has evolved to become what reddit envisioned a subreddit to be. But running counter to that are a thousand other country subreddits, where if you don't hold a hard line (lefty) view to politics, you will get banned. I have seen Labour shills with premium reddit accounts allowed to post content on r/uk that's downright against the rules, but hey, apparently agreeable to the majority of redditors, so it stays. Likewise I just assume that all of the country subreddits are internally influenced directly by political parties themselves. I have seen fake news being spread by all who have a vested interest (such as Armenians during Nagorno Kharabakh on r/Europe) and mods not even lifting a finger. We all know how r/Conservative and r/The_Donald mods just kicked out people who put forward views that were marginal to the rest of the sub. And why do subs like r/Sino, which openly peddle fake news, even exist? IMO reddit site moderators are largely sleeping and only wake up if something hits the newsstands.

Moderators should be empowered with the ability to censor and delete/flag comments, and to ban people with repeated infractions. But to ban somebody from a country sub and/or letting mods ban people with one or no infractions, while selectively applying the rules? No way. They should not even get filters imo. If it makes their job harder, then so be it.

That being said, one sub that I've found really nicely monitored is the r/casualuk sub. Politics is a strict no no, and they have some sort of bot to filter out such content based on keywords. The mods aren't some silent grandstanding keyboard warriors but people actively involved in the community who actually go so far as to organize real world events.
I remember at the start of the pandemic Bill Gates was funding mass production of, I'm not sure but I believe 8, several vaccines before trials were completed. The idea was that there wouldn't be a delay between testing and having enough doses for everyone. He said some of the vaccines would fail their trials and the money would be wasted but he said it was worth it to kickstart production.

I wonder if it made a difference? Does anyone know more how his plan turned out?
What do you call CHAZ? Wasn’t it fully supported by BLM and a literal sedition zone against the democratically elected government?
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume this story has little traction in the mainstream, has a limited impact on anything Apple does or how the market perceives them. The real story we've been witnessing for decades now is how little people care about labor rights abuses (particularly if they happen overseas). This isn't the first time child labor has been linked to Apple and I'd be really surprised if it's the last. The headline should read "Consumers of Apple Products Knew About Labor Abuses for Years and Still Buy Their Products". Thats essentially why it took three years to cut ties--because no one cares (above social media finger waving).
The post you linked to literally explains that they're not really a free speech site in any meaningful sense.
Elon Musk said it was ‘Not a Flamethrower’: Police around the world disagreed
Avoid the sideband frequencies except during contests
That difference might not be observable from the outside at all. How do you separate "good old incompetence" from "malicious withdrawal to allow the coup and seize power" from "malicious withdrawal to allow the coup to fail and use the blowback to seize power"? Investigation into the behavior of the Capitol police will be of greatest importance to the integrity of the republic.
I would assume bringing up that username results in a ban because it is now unfortunately associated with QAnon belief, and moderators want to stamp out QAnon conspiracies.
Except in Kentucky (in a motor vehicle), unless you're a ham:

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id...

When I chatted with a SRO about this when programming the schools radios a few years ago, I was told that he didn't know anyone other than the State Police to issue citations for that law, and it would only be a 'secondary' offense (if you were pulled over for speeding, and they saw the scanner, then you'd likely get a citation, but, they wouldn't pull you over if you had an antenna on your car).
> bash set -e.(really really miss this)

Set-PSBreakpoint -Command Write-Error -Action { break; }

similarly:

trap { <# IDE breakpoint here #> }

> Find it hard to set a script to abort with a stack trace.

$script:ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'
# or
throw "Oops!"

> Find it hard to deal with relative imports

That's a very unfortunate limitation that I've never understood myself, to be honest. The typical "best practice" is to not use relative imports, but to use "installed" modules or scripts instead.

> explaining the scoping rules

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

> Disklike explains how your array is now a single object when you returned it from a function

This is also "one of those irritations" that tends to bite people when dealing with search results, e.g.: "Get-ADUser". If you always want an array (even an empty or single-valued array) then wrap functions in @(...), e.g.:

$users = @( Get-ADUser -Filter ... )

This is also the syntax to create an empty array, or an array of one item:

$empty = @()
$listOfOne = @( 'foo' )

> miss native yaml support

But this would be trivial to add. Writing a module to provide commandlets such as "ConvertFrom-Yaml" and "ConvertTo-Yaml" is about a day of effort in PowerShell. Good luck doing the same thing in Bash and producing something useful, let alone full-featured!

In fact, someone has done it:

https://github.com/cloudbase/powershell-yaml

> auto generated help can’t be done via single line comment to function

Two lines for automatically generated help is one too many?

# .SYNOPSIS
# This works...
echo 'foo'
The phrase "hijacking links" is, in a word, a lie. Its standard meaning implies that Brave changes the URL loaded when you click on a link (any or many links) in a web page. That never happened, and would be fatally scandalous if tried by any reputable browser.

What happened was a bug in a keyword and domain autocomplete tier we added. Reminder for those not aware: all browsers add reference codes identifying the browser make (not the user) to keyword queries when you type words into the address bar. This is industry standard. See https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1273327455105773568?s....

The bug in Brave was a flag set wrong for two domain names, which are not keywords: binance.us and binance.com. These should not have default-completed when typed into the address bar with a Binance affiliate code, they should have been suggested completions the user would have had to pick by arrow down and <return> or mouse equivalent. We fixed the defaulting bug and turned off the entire suggested completions feature. As noted by someone else in a comment nearby, we instructed Binance not to pay us for any referred new users who traded (Binance does not pay on the referral, they pay only after if the user trades, sharing a fixed proportion of trading fees).

So this was not "link hijacking" in any case. I'm sorry for the blunder, and we added a process step around any changes to address bar to audit harder.
> if the placebo effect is something that you can scientifically demonstrate, how would you arrange a control group?

Easy, just don't give the control group any medicine. Give the other group a placebo. If outcomes are better for the second group, it's evidence that placebos work, just as clearly as the usual trial provides evidence that medicines work.
Not when you'd need to circumvent DRM, thanks to EU Copyright Directive Article 6.
Your comment resonated with me. 3 kids, (6,4,1) so my days start around 5am with the baby and basically alternating between working and helping with kids alternating every 30 minutes until 8. Every day.
> If China's system is really "open source" then this is really dumb.

I get the sense from reading this that we're both aware that with China that won't be the case.

> Basically, they give out any innovations they create, while shielding themselves from any external innovation.

In a sense I feel like this relies on an exaggeration of the benefits and requirements of open source that most people in the west would have. Thinking about it right now I can see two questions.

1) Do we really need a free and open (as in free speech) internet to bring many people's code contributions and skills together?

2) Is having a walled off system actually better, on the reasoning that developers in China make the best "chinese software" (meaning software that will do well in or be useful to China)?

I think the answer to the first is that the need for free speech for open source at first seems necessary, and is certainly still helpful, but not ultimately needed for this to work. China can block topics like on any other site and chances are the people that still want to contribute ultimately will, just like people still use Wechat, Baidu, etc. I would think that as it stands you can still have a large group of hard-working contributors without some 'sensitive' topics coming up. I really think that the benefits of the open source model aren't as tied to the principles of western countries as a lot of people would initially assume, myself included.

The second question might be worth looking into some more, in terms of market research and what is successful in China. Plus Chinese developers are probably more used to having to work with the government in regards to censorship and surveillance, which GitHub could shut the doors on pretty fast.

Either way I don't think that having restricted topics is going to cripple the benefits of having a much larger contributor/talent pool and open source code. Not having freedoms isn't as good of course but I don't think open source software depends on them as much as some might say.
I just send things to myself on Telegram...works fine.
Members of Congress will use this event as a catalyst for fundraising, soon after the election they will draft legislation that threatens to control and/or regulate the tech giants. Shortly after that the lobbyists representing Big Tech get wind of this new legislation on the horizon and donations will flow like a river to the PACs and re-election campaigns, then the proposed legislation will be shelved.
Don't you guys think it's odd there are so many professional photos taken inside the Capitol building during the "insurrection"?

I'd post links to videos and pictures that might activate the almonds, but you wouldn't believe them because the fact checkers have already debunked it.
Is the correlation positive or negative?
they are Homeless by choice. my cousin was one.
Last year they rioted to protest that their guy didn't win. This year they're going to riot because people are protesting that their guy didn't win. Makes sense to me.
Wonderful, as if I need my browser to censor more stuff.
Dart and the performance benefits of sound types
PS C:\Users\Kuinox> pwd

Path
----
C:\Users\Kuinox

PS C:\Users\Kuinox> ls

Directory: C:\Users\Kuinox

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
d----- 2020-11-30 15:39 .android
[private info redacted]

PS C:\Users\Kuinox> Get-Alias cp

CommandType Name Version Source
----------- ---- ------- ------
Alias cp -> Copy-Item

Every command you listed are default alias in ps.
> they are doing so on their own platforms based on a philosophical opposition to the message of sedition that 50% of the red team is pushing

Agreed. I worded it how I did on purpose - to not take issue with the platforms choosing to censor, but rather with the assertion that all platforms have some duty to censor.

>> (meaning attack red tribe protests with the same zeal as blue tribe protests)

> This is false. Any leader on the blue team will say they would prefer all citizens be treated well rather than all citizens be abused

When specifically asked, yes, but that's not how such calls are received by policy makers. I've definitely seen videos of rioters complaining for being "attacked like Black people" with blue tribe commenters partaking in schadenfreude. But yes my example was a bit obtuse, trying to capture the general attitude of condemning people being angry at the government in the red tribe way.

> this was happening on cable news and talk radio long before it was happening on the internet

I agree that this is part of a longer trend. But there is also a qualitative difference now that pent up anger has turned into mass action, especially over something so clearly farcical. If talk radio had incited something like this in the 90s, there would have been a clear target to blame. Even the gaslighting of politicians' sedition as not-sedition is an artifact of our postmodern media environment.
Exactly this! You can create new subreddits as and when you like it, but country subs are the issue. You can't just simply create a new sub when the old subreddit is the default a person visits.
Thank you for the courteous response to a comment that could easily have been taken as an insult!

I don't think it's about individually high-quality sources as much as it is about how you take in information. Don't consider yourself to understand an issue until you've heard a compelling argument on both sides, or have thoroughly convinced yourself that you've adequately searched through diverse enough fora. Don't read anything, from Alex Jones's Facebook page to the frontpage of the NYT, without spot-checking sources, reading studies, etc. There's no filter that ensures that journalists are the best humanity has to offer: just like all humans, plenty of them are incompetent or dishonest, and beyond that groupthink exists in cultures that get as insular and self-aggrandizing as journalism's. Correctly combine a variety of low-quality signals and you can get a really high-quality signal.

That being said, some general recommendations for individual sources are (in ascending order of obscurity) The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and Marginal Revolution (economist Tyler Cowen's blog). I find they do a better job than most of:

1) representing different opinions intellectually honestly

2) being thorough in their reasoning and analysis

and/or

3) being fairly high-quality
That's one of the biggest differences, yes... did I imply otherwise?

The other two are the trigger and the timing.

The trigger being the President, and the timing, while Congress was in session trying to confirm the next President were what took it even further into the public consciousness.
It's pretty terrible they would go these lengths to ban an individual for disagreeing with them politically.

The punishment does not fit the crime. I think it's disgusting that they are sniffing out IPs for such low level offenses.

I made no threats. I simply disagreed with the wrong person on r/politics.