skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential anecdote.

I was reading a book about dry stone bridges, and one of the bridges featured was built across a stream in a protected watershed. The builder said he was surprised the permit for it was approved, he told the client to expect it to be rejected. Talking to the government bureaucrats & scientists, he found out that they had to approve a permit every now and then. Not just because of political reasons, but strategic ones -- if they denied every permit, people would start ignoring and circumventing their department. By approving one every once in a while, they kept themselves in the loop as gatekeepers and prevented more harm than they would have by denying everything. His own bridge project was minimally harmful, and was the token approval so they could keep denying the real problem applications.

I feel like there's a lesson there for other gatekeepers trying to fight the good fight.
I actually did go through the process to switch my middle and first names around.

Surprisingly, Canada needed a lot of documentation, over and beyond the traditional "two pieces of ID".

If I recall correctly, I also needed my birth certificate, the original passport used when landing in the country (as I was born abroad), and the landing papers.
Was really looking forward to playing Helm's Deep maps on Bnet with the new WC3 but alas
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Like mainly sleep “aids”, DPH just puts you into a fatigued state that is unlike naturalistic sleep. If insomnia / rumination / etc would otherwise keep one up and the diphenhydramine allows one to fall asleep and get a night of suboptimal sleep as opposed to no sleep, it’s of course worth it, but otherwise stay well away.

Interestingly almost everything that induces sleep harms the actual sleep quality. However I remember reading that GHB appears to improve sleep architecture, although I’ve never tried it personally
Sure but that dam is already there. So why not use the spare energy on something?

Or is there energy being "stolen" from other uses?

As I wrote: is there any reliable data?
Yes, and examples of evidence might include that some election facilities were administered by people with a seething hatred for one of the candidates, and election observers in some areas were prevented from being able to meaningfully monitor the election process. Of course there are many other potential forms of evidence, but those two right there would be enough to give anyone pretty good reason to believe there was election fraud, provided it happened outside of America, since election fraud can't take place in America.
I'm seeking to normalize community accountability practices that are pretty core to many indigenous cultures, including my Irish ancestors.

So, yeah...I'll pay for that in every organization I get involved with from here on out.

Just cause it's not normalized doesn't mean it isn't useful. The reason to do it is for the sake of actual accountability, as strictly internal accountability is nonsense.

This is the business version of "keep it in the family": it gives all kinds of toxic behaviors a shade to hide and grow in, while keeping the public from actually choosing who gets their business based on their values.
I believe they meant that they were allowed to publish critical research, just that it was not acted on.

In other words MSFT allowed them to publish freely, it just (allegedly) ignored the implications of the research.
I think the opposite - hold the highest standards for the quality of the data and it's interpretation, but we need to allow the wildest of hypotheses to be tested without judgement. Conservatism at the hypothesis step is the biggest reason science today sucks if you ask me. I'll say the job of being conservative belongs to engineers, and is one of the main differentiators between science and engineering.

The most amazing discoveries even in the recent times often come from scientists testing some of the wildest hypothesis - a rotation student in Andrew Fire's lab thinking he's injecting RNA into the gonad of a worm when he was stupidly injecting them into its mouth, or when a young Yamanaka had no clue basically and did a random experiment in his new lab adding a bunch of genes to cells to see if they do something.

I've sat through sessions seeing scientists laughed at for their wild hypotheses, by what I can only call as old, over-congratulated high school valedictorians who are only actually good at playing politics and writing grants, with a self professed love of science and discovering things that's as genuine as a Republican saying he is all for facts.

Let the crazies risk their lives on the wildest hypotheses. Fund them as long as they are systematic and methodical in their efforts to prove them. That's how you make science take the leaps it needs to be truly transformative for civilization. That's how I intend to do science and I learned clearly that I don't belong in academia. I have no intention of even swinging the science bat if I'm not at least trying to shoot for the moon!
In this context, it's very likely that you can translate "exfiltrating thousands of sensitive files" to "downloaded some of her emails", perhaps related to fear of retaliation
realMyst is amazing, easily recommended!
Same here! Pagan got me into RPGs.
I use my Ergodox full-time and I love it, but I feel this way about an Atreus I just picked up: there are only a few keys, and some are inaccessible (!) so I'm stuck putting stuff like colons and quotation marks in a layer. Feels bad.
Passing documents outside of Google is going to get you fired. There are no exceptions, unless you are talking to federal investigators or regulators.
How are they doing machine learning with PPC from the late 90s?
We just say "the echo" when we want to refer to it without triggering it. But you can change the hotword in Echo devices anyway, if you don't like "Alexa".
Because managing the correct way to handle downtime and how to respond to problems is vastly different when serving one person that will generally be actively using the device less than half the time of the day or far less, and serving thousands or millions of people using it such that at any one moment multiple people might be actively using it.

> Edit: Brainstorming here: specifically, I'd like a more accessible UI, automatic updates, sensible defaults on all apps, an easier way to get started and so on.

To some degree, that's sort of like saying "I can drive a car, and cards are simple, why isn't driving an 18-wheeler truck as simple, or a cargo ship, or a cargo plane? I don't see why it has to be more complicated than a car."
If you've got the budget, you can keep the existing simulation under the covers identical, and build a 3d mapping over the top of it.

That's how most RTS games are built. Company of Heroes for instance has a low fps deterministic simulation which provides the multiplayer game logic, and high end end 3D mapping with physics and particles etc layered on top to make it pretty.
I switched to a Moonlander from an Ergodox and am liking it. I ended up not liking their built-in tenting mechanism, so 3D printed my own shims that screw to the back, allowing me to tent the keyboard but also tilt the "wings" upwards. Very comfortable!

One thing I thought I hated about the Ergodox was how inaccessible the small keys on the thumb cluster were, and I thought I would like 3 big keys better. It turns out not to be the case... those keys are useless, but there are a lot of useless keys that are nice to have around (arrows, delete/insert, home/end, pgup/pgdn). I mostly do everything in Emacs and so don't use those keys, but when I'm using non-Emacs software, I do miss them.

(I ultimately decided on Backspace, Alt, Up; Space, Enter, Down as what I use the big thumb keys for. Not sure I love this. This transitioned my backspace key from my right pointer finger to my left thumb, and it broke my muscle memory. I still forget that you can control backspace words to kill them outside of Emacs (where I use C-w for that, which closes your window in every other program).)

TL;DR: it's fine! But still not perfect.
Abruzzi -- I'm 45 and only started dreaming in the last 5 years. I don't know why or how but I do now. It's incredible. Maybe you will, too!
In Australia, 70% of our commercial media is owned by a foreign multinational (News Corp) and most of the rest is one other company (Nine/Fairfax).

Luckily we have two fairly good public broadcasters (ABC and SBS), but the Murdoch media hate them and the conservative party in power are white-anting them away (budget freezes and things all the time which after inflation effectively mean cuts every year), and the quality has dropped considerably over the last few years with editorial interference (technically they’re independent, but reporters there who break big stories of Government corruption, or showing big problems in Government policy just happen to be hounded out, even though the stories were true).
"Maybe I'm wrong, but afaik she has yet to deny doing exactly what they've claimed."

That seems like the natural thing to do if you feel like you may already be in the process of being fired. I assume a lawyer would advise you to be quiet about it, right?
Or speak out publicly. Always an option.
Any lawyer would tell her not to say anything about Google's allegations. Especially before she was fired.
Do you think unrequested snarky comments like this will actually convince anyone?
I'd assume their intelligence services are identifying miners now while the miners don't have incentive to hide. If China wanted to strike at bitcoin they could do it in one fell swoop.
I'm probably not intelligent then. In the early 00's, I did think Google mostly believed in its mission to organize and act as a gateway for the world's information.
looks good. the pixels are gone and the ui where similar and recognizable got a overhaul. i would assume it supports resolutions of our era as well.
I wonder if they are using the same backend servers as old client or if that got a rewrite as well and players will be in separate environments.

I played a couple months of evenings of D2 during the pandemic: the online experience was quite a mess. Got temp bans several times for switching characters soon after login. Rampant botting to the point that people made bot services that would give you waypoints upon request as they spam their d2itemz4sale.biz or whatever URL. Seems like there is no moderation budget so they just have a bunch of blunt automated rules.

Lots of quality of life issues remain in the game, like potion management after death, managing projectile consumables in the inventory, friend system is a bolt on through the chat system. I wonder if they made any changes to address un-fun parts of the game or if this is functionally identical.

Still had quite a bit of fun. Was able to tank Uber Diablo with a Zeal paladin to drop annihilus.
Welp, theres a year of my life going down the drain again. I have spent way too many hours breathing second hand smoke in internet cafes playing this game
The concept of "stealing IP that rightfully belonged to Stanford" does not obviously apply to a research university. There is no way for Stanford to claim ownership of research IP without publishing that IP. If the CCP wants to steal it, they can read Stanford's papers.

Then, on a more fundamental level, the more people who know how to do neurology research, the better. There's no way for the world to be made worse through too much neurology research. The more they do in China, the less everyone else needs to do everywhere else.

But the even more important problem with your scenario is that it is completely unaffected by whether, at the time she's studying at Stanford, Song Chen is also on the PLA payroll. Learning Stanford's research methods and then moving on with their lives is the entire point of anyone joining a research project at Stanford. If she hadn't been formally employed by the PLA, she would have been not just entitled, but expected to do everything you just described. And it was fine in that hypothetical case. She got a permit specifically allowing her to do it. So why isn't it fine here?
Transactions will move to lightning, and since this allows multiple transactions to be aggregated into a single on-chain transaction, fees will be higher per transaction on chain.
I wish this worked. I tried it. The problem is pressing shift only modifies the keyboard that it is pressed on.
Well, I am not too well versed in this area. I'd be very happy to add a way to enable load balancing. Any tips, help or contributions are welcome ^^
Wow! This is astonishingly similar subject matter!

Just checked the ebook out from my library to read this weekend. Thanks!
Depression is an incredibly complex system of effects. The best model for its workings that I have read was this:

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-precision-of-sensory-evidence

It's a long read, but my short version would be this: "Depression is a mode where the brain underweighs evidence from new experiences in favor of pre-existing negative prior assumptions."
>this time the people who believed the possible-but-highly-unlikely outcome, "Trump actually won", ended up donating lots of their money to the people who believed the much more simple and plausible scenario: "No, he didn't".

No, that's not what happened. People who believed the odds of the courts ruling in favor of Trump made the payout worth it gave their money to people who believed the odds of that not happening made the payout for that scenario worth it.

Of course, courts only have access to the evidence which is given to them by either side, so really we only know that the evidence Trump's legal team was able to get its hands on on short notice was not sufficient to convince the court to take the very significant step of overturning election results. We do not know who "actually" got more legitimate votes.
Sadly a little too late for the LA Crenshaw line. The airport stop is like so many other places, not actually at the airport and a people mover will be needed.
It's exactly what a videogame remaster should be, IMO; use modern technology to recreate the feelings you had when you first played it!
If it is possible to carry out election rigging conspiracies in the US, then how can we be so confident that no such conspiracies were carried out by people that viciously hate the former president? Surely if it is possible for conspirators to get away with it in other countries, and there is no magical means of preventing it here, then it's possible for them to get away with it here as well. They have courts and investigations and evidence in other countries as well, and that has seemingly not prevented election rigging there.
If that's the main concern, one may simply change the MSP crops not to be so water intensive. Completely removing the system clearly has other goals in mind.
are you sure? the first link when i googled this: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333388187_Sex_Drugs....

"We estimate that around $76 billion of illegal activity per year involve bitcoin (46% of bitcoin transactions), which is close to the scale of the U.S. and European markets for illegal drugs"
Why would your desktop users want your weird drop downs? UI consistency used to be a thing.
But power use per capita does not tell us that with any degree of confidence.

If this metric is adjusted for residential use, I would agree, but if this metric is a simple division of aggregate totals it seems of very little use.

The number of people residing in Texas is not a good indicator for how much energy various organizations operating in Texas are consuming.
Between the Hong Kong shenanigans, 2019 layoffs, and abysmal WC3 remaster release and support, it's hard to support anything this company does these days.
In general it works great, but many online games have anti-cheat systems preventing them from running inside VM - for example Overwatch (also from Blizzard).
> It seems like Google really likes firing people instead of free speech.

Because it has consequences in the outside world that need to be smoothed over. Some people think that Google should just let people do whatever and allow themselves to be the whipping boy for what their employees have said.
Yeah, I mean you don’t need to say Facebook and Google are entirely good to say the law is bad. The law is terrible, and Facebook has done the right thing in this case at least.
This was a core feature in Ultima Online as well as Garriott's Shroud of the Avatar. I'm not going to Criticize Ultima Online, but it was never my thing as pivotal as the game was.

Garriott tried to create this level of immersion in Shroud of the Avatar, but it was absolutely done to a fault. I hated going into towns, everyone's houses looked silly and out of place. Cities just looked like giant swap meets. Gamers are terrible designers.

In Ultima 7, it was single player so you weren't there to impress anyone or get a laugh. It was pure immersion. I had such a fun time as a kid discovering all of the weird things I could do in the game.
I don't see anything successful about this comment.
That's a good point. It doesn't make me more optimistic about the situation, but it's certainly a good observation.
I know a phrase that you can use to start the conversation.
Or the vast majority supported Google's actions but the social climate is such they worried about the mob coming after them.
This really depends on what you want to measure and if you want medical grade equipment. While other commenters have mentioned Garmin, there's also Fitbit Sense which offers EDA, ECG, SPO2 and other biopotential -- Great app too.

In the medical/research sphere I would recommend Empatica, but it is quite expensive:

- https://www.empatica.com/en-gb/

Also, recording ECG on the wrist is not ideal. Other alternative placements are the biceps and of course the chest. There are specific sensing devices that measure what you're interested in that cover both locations, but inccur larger cost than Fitbit.
They had some binary fonts and files with "game story"
Probably once people have decades of experience with it and know every single trap or quirk perfectly.

Rust almost certainly could do the job now but stakes are so high no one would take that risk when its proven that C can do it and with enough auditing and conservatism, it can be done pretty safely.
Ah, just had a quick glance and thought they look similar in size.
I already know higher level languages like Python, Java, and a handful of others, but never really dove into C much beside the Kernighan Ritchie book years ago. I was able to do some stuff with an arduino with it, but my goal was actually always kernel development, or maybe rockets at SpaceX.
I'm ripping off GRRM (https://athimbleful.tumblr.com/post/177567274245/everything-...)
Lot's of people just chase the next incremental step up, compensation increase, etc. Their not even sociopaths, they just don't know how to find meaning in their lives in other ways.
For small scale miners in China it might be a different story.

However, if Xi Jinping decided to crush Bitcoin for whatever reason large scale mining in China, which is well past 50%, would quickly do what he wanted. As such he has de facto control over Bitcoin, though I personally doubt it’s something he would do.
Probably, but she has been pretty far from quiet on the topic.
Also, dreams are quickly forgotten, even if you make an effort to recall them.

Once I was writing a dream diary. I had a dream, and I was like "this reminds me of another dream I had a few weeks ago". I opened the diary, and saw that the "few weeks ago" was actually yesterday.

So, if the dream from yesterday feels like a few weeks ago, and the dreams before yesterday are either forgotten or feel like an ancient past, it is quite easy to believe that you usually don't dream, even if you actually dream every night.
This is exactly what we do :) check out our demo at https://cloudron.io. Another user commented there is no market for this, but this is not true since we exist and are doing well. Its a niche but this is expected since this is a developing market.
It goes deeper than that. Frickin’ Spotify has a manual toggle for whether or not I want Hardware Acceleration turned on or not. It’s not the only one. I don’t have any way to know which setting doesn’t spin up my laptop fans and burn me. How about just building your app in such a way that I don’t have to manually configure that. We’ve had music players since the 90’s, I don’t see why this is so hard.
This behavior starts all the way at the top with Sergey. See Google's leaked internal all-hands[1] after Trump won basically calling for the end of the world without any regard to employees who may be fiscally conservative or Trump supporters. Google is by far the worse of the big bay area tech companies in terms of stifling speech, equality of outcome policies, and being an echo chamber.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/12/leaked-video-from-alphabet-t...
sounds a little like an experience out of another time, like a live museum with actors.
If anyone is looking to play a modern version of Diablo 2, the spiritual successor is probably more a game called Path of Exile (rather than Diablo 3 or this).

The developers managed to capture the aesthetic while improving the game in the direction of what gave the original game its replay-ability.

Their development cycle of new content every 3 or 4 months with a league reset is unique and keeps things fresh. They're additionally not too monetized. It's a good company with probably more of a future than a Diablo 2 remaster.
I don't know about you but to me what makes D2 so charming is its loot and character progression.
I seem to remember Google being criticized for having a disproportionate amount of left leaning employees pushing a left agenda while simultaneously being criticized for showing/pushing right/far right content on youtube. So which is it?
> They are now resorting to calling Google gaslighting for replacing Gebru with a Black person.

The complaint isn't what they did, it's what they didn't do. There were no substantive policy changes that could address the underlying issues. Tokenism without change isn't improvement.
IIRC MSR was started by Rick Rashid (the inventor of the Mach microkernel that NeXTstep and Mac OS X are based on), and it was always very independent of the rest of Microsoft and its business priorities.
My amateur guess is that because some of these drugs are associated with weight gain and some are not that this mechanism of action is not the primary actor for antidepressants with weight gain side effects.
Fwiw I typed “wrong” when I got my first ergo keyboard. Like very wrong. About 20% of my key presses were with the wrong finger.

For about a week I was smashing the blank space between the halves but then it just suddenly clicked and I’ve been fine since.
It reminds me of the web...

New frightening technology.
I suppose you're right. After all, one is a one-time cost, and the other is an ongoing cost. So that's a positive thing, at least.
Confusion, mainly. Part of me didn't understand why everyone else didn't commit to the team effort. Ah, to be young and have no responsibilities. Another part of me was genuinely confused how an immovable date got moved. It wasn't until later that I understood that there's no such thing as an immovable date.

What keeps me from being jaded (I think anyways) is being able to recognize when an extra push is all that the project needs and when a project is so doomed that not even a heroic effort of a small team will cause it to hit the target.

I also worked with a CEO who purposely gave tight deadlines just to get engineering to finish the work. He said if he gave us more time, we'd just ask him for more. Counterintuitively, I enjoyed that. It was certainly a lot more honest, and you knew the expectation wasn't perfection, it was to release something.
Or they believe the PR win from spinning the story early is worth more than what they'll pay out from the lawsuits.