skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Casual racism?

The Chinese government has 100% power to do whatever they want. If they want to kill you on an invented charge and send the bill for the bullets to your parents, they can do so (and have done so).

Yes Western governments can use force to intervene with private companies and have done so in the past, but it's unusual for them to do that because people and companies have rights and they can contest the action in court. That's nothing compared to what China can do with no recourse, see Alibaba or the Canadian Michael's for a recent example.

You cannot pretend that the two are similar situations, and doing so is whataboutism. It has nothing to do with race and everything to do with the difference between a free country and a totalitarian country.
That I never understood. US is an extremely rich country. Of course there are poor people, but there are lots of not poor people. In my country we don't have money if one does not work. He'll die from starvation. Well, probably some friends will help him not to die, but you got the idea. If you don't have a house, you don't really have any recourse, you have to live in basements under buildings and you'll eventually die as usual temperatures at winter are around -20 Celsius degrees. You can be beaten to death by some crazy person (well, at least you can't be shot, as guns are prohibited). People drive like crazy, so you can be killed by a car accident. If something unjust happens, you can't really rely on police, it might be corrupt and it happens in everyday life. If you need something from government, you might need to bribe the officials and I'm talking about ordinary person needs, not some enterprise stuff. I don't think that there are many grown-up people who did not bribe officials in their life.

Life is miserable here. And people don't run to hang themselves. They are trying to find happy moments and relish in those moments.

It's absolutely normal for a man to live in misery. Our humanity lived in misery for thousands of years and billions of people are living in misery right now. Our brain should be adapted to it by now.
I think this year will be very interesting to see how it adapts and evolves, given the network congestion. Higher value tickets wouldn’t really be affected though and need the immutable provenance more for now
You think your kids won't be white? My father wasn't white when he came here 30 years ago. Somehow magically I am. The same thing will happen to you too.

I call it Schrodinger's whiteness. You are white enough to be blamed for right wing racism yet not white enough to not be the target of it.
IIRC the Fend/Strafe bug is only a visual bug, and you can spam click to restart the actual attack. This may not be true for the vanilla game; it's what I remember from Eastern Sun.
I am convinced being a skilled machinist with proper engineering background will be one of the hottest career tracks in the next couple of decades. Seems demand for small batch production is only going to increase.
> I don't consider the majority of drop-shippers to be economically productive businesses: they are charging a premium because their customers don't know that they can buy the exact same SKUs from AliExpress.

That's certainly selling drop-shippers short.

They provide products, at prices people are willing to pay for convenience, trustability, etc. They handle complaints, shoulder the risk of returns and/or damaged in shipment items, pay for their own advertising/marketing and more.

Many Tier-1 distributors enjoy their relationship with drop-shippers... and many customers enjoy that very same relationship too.
If you actually watched the video that you've linked, you'll see that the platters in the drive has shattered. That's completely different from your initial claim of "You can’t transplant a (unshattered] platter into another reader"
The problem is the IMF can't get them anything. At the speed of light they can't even ask us to send anything, they and us are at the mercy of what the other chooses to send.
...then you get addicted to configuring your Linux machine for gaming. Double-edged sword!
Tibia was absolutely HUGE in my country (Poland) around 2002 and it was my first and last major experience with MMO. I remember it was the only time back then I voluntarily woke up early in the morning long before the school because the servers were usually empty at that time and the spawn locations were full of monsters which meant quick exping :-) Trying to sign in after the school usually took a looong time but once you did it, it truly felt like going to a different universe.

Some time ago I got a craving to play the Tibia version from my childhood and it turns out there's an active server called [1] Classictibia where you play using the 7.1 client version on a faithful recreation of the world from that time - a real blast from the past!

[1] http://classictibia.com/
Do you have any interest in remembering your dreams? Taking a magnesium glycinate supplement may help.
As someone who does not belong to the old-timer crowd, and in fact pays an extra $25/year for an archival account, the news that Pinboard is even being maintained comes as a blessing.

In the past year things have happened like the API returning invalid JSON for weeks[0] and the search returning an error whenever I wanted to use full-text search (one of the selling points for the extra archival fee.) Not to mention the ongoing issues with page archiving in general (things frequently fail and need to be manually re-queued).

I really like Pinboard, I do, but the reliability issues have made me want to look somewhere else. My subscription is set to renew at the end of March and after seeing this I guess I'll give it another year. Here's hoping things trend upwards.

[0]: https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/1274055573902774272
I read their comment history. I know that's a bit doxxy but, they have a good grasp of wide ranging use of English.

Your point is well made otherwise and I take it on board. I need to be more careful, thoughtful.
Logging into Gmail on Chrome links my Google Account to the browser
This annoying UX issue has been existing for a few years now; why does Google do nothing about it?

I know they're mining data from Google Accounts and get more value if I am logged in. However the UX aspect of it seems to be horrendous. Two scenarios that bother me:

- I link my account to Chrome. If I unlink my account, and simply login to Gmail in the future, it automatically links the account back to Chrome

- I link my account X to Chrome. Later, I sign into another account Y. When I am done with Y, I logout from my Gmail which has "Y", this automatically signs me out of X, and instantly unlinks X. Such an annoying UX.

Is it time to say goodbye to Chrome in favor of Brave, Vivaldi, etc. ?
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This is fabulous, you could use it to make copies of objects by scanning them and using some form of 3D printer to replicate.
A drill is pointless because it only damages a tiny part of the platter. That might deter commercial recovery companies, but probably not the feds (depending on how big of a target you have on your back).
At this point a fair proportion of the planetary population is affected by FAANG's ethical stance on ad tech. It's looking likely AI is only going to make that worse.

A "community" should also not be an enforced happy smiley corporate PR face.

And mob justice can also look a lot like running people out of town because they're not properly respectful.
I would advise leaving your faucets running when your plumbing reaches near freezing temperatures. Turning off your water supply will not save you from leaks if your pipes remain full of water.
The odd thing, is that every single Dick I've known, real name was actually Richard. People are weird.

My bother in law has one of those names which is is a "joke" and it doesn't seem to bother him in the least. My Sister OTOH, I don't think I actually knew his full name until I was attending their wedding.
Manager or Exec A closes the deal and acquires a successful moneyfountain studio. Good for business!

Manager or Exec B fires a failing, unsuccessful or insubordinate employee, or saves the company money by reducing headcount and the complexity of running a studio. Good for business!

They're two separate, distinct operations. A and B are not necessarily the same person, though they can be. It's not a planned evil scheme or anything like that; the separation of time alone makes them independent events with independent motivations (in most cases, as tearing down another person's sandcastle to build up your own does happen sometimes too).

"Don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower" and so on.
That is very possible. Under GNOME and KDE, you would do that with a gnome-shell extension or a kwin script respectively. Those both give you access to the display server's internal APIs. (potentially more than what the X11 server would give you too)

Yes it's in another API and technically not in the Wayland protocol but the functionality is there. It wouldn't make sense to expose all private state of the display server over the Wayland protocol.
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Considering how easily Elon can manipulate crypto, i'd love it too.
While Torchlight and Torchlight 2 have a lot of "quality of life" improvements and are decent games in general, I've found that they lack the replay value which Diablo 2 (with LOD) has. I can't exactly say why but this is how it felt to me.
No, I think that's just the regular destruction.
So you want your kernel to panic whenever it runs out of memory?
The dichotomy of 'skepticism' vs 'open-mindedness' doesn't capture all that is important about scientific inquiry (specifically, both of those are important of course).

One approach to Science I think is really illustrative is Wheeler's[1] 'radical conservatism': you should accept, and seek, radical ideas, under a skeptical, formal, foundation.

So for example, if someone proposes a "free-energy" device with some outlandish explanation, that a priori isn't radical conservatism, because while the proposal is radical, it clashes with the conservative basis of local energy conservation of all modern physics (or maybe with the 2nd law of thermodynamics).

However, for example in General Relativity, the question of energy conservation at extremely large scales is not well settled. So that's something you could explore, without letting the fear of ridicule stop you (for breaking energy conservation), as long as you retain solid foundations[2]. Not only that, but this kind of outlandish idea is often how science moves forward, not by making the most obvious hypotheses about established theories (which we already largely know the answer for!) -- but it's difficult to naively distinguish from crackpottery.

By solid foundations, I mean you can even revise your physical principles, as long as they explain available evidence and you're able to formalize them to a good degree. Also by 'radical' it is meant that we shouldn't judge ideas by whether they are outlandish or not (Feynman writes extensively about this in his talks) -- Nature doesn't seem to be particularly concerned with seeming outlandish[3]. So to get rid of this bias, you can flip the coin and go after outlandish ideas (ideally simply unbiased, but it's a strategy).

See Kip Thorne's memoir, which I haven't read to completion but I'm sure is good:

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1901/1901.06623.pdf

[1] (the great friend from Feynman and with enormous contributions)

[2] In GR there is some very non-intutive large scale behavior: you can move without reaction mass in vacuum, which naively would seem radical, and violating conservation of momentum. However, it's allowed, and proven!:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/886/swimming-in-...

[3] In reality, what defines what's "bizarre", "outlandish", "unintuitive" for us, are (1) Our previous experiences in the world, (2) Our coded instincts and neural architecture. There's no guarantee those will be valid when extrapolated to a different domain: objects at very small scales, very large scales, very high energies, etc.
There is no strict technical limit on the number of transactions per block. Due to the rising price, each block is currently worth something like $350k.

The Bitcoin network rules restrict it to a couple thousand transactions per block. Even with that, each on-chain transaction would "only" need to cost $100 or so to replace the block reward. Infeasible for micropayments, perfectly fine for large scale settlements.

Another possible solution would be increasing the block size limit - the mining effort is a per-block cost, the cost of additional transactions is minimal. So small fees + massive transaction volume could work. With a million transactions each block, $0.35 per on-chain transaction is enough to pay for the current security level. More transactions allow for even lower fees. The Bitcoin Cash fork aims for this.

However, all of this is very long term. The halvings happen a bit faster than every 4 years. Let's assume 3.5 years - that means 20 halvings in 70 years. The block reward not drop to 0 until 34 halvings, so this is not a problem we have to deal with in our lifetime. So for the forseeable future, one possible solution is for the Bitcoin price to keep going up, paying for the same or an increasing security level despite the halvings.
It's not that I want them to get fired, I'm just aware that the whole point of an in-house ethics committee is to excuse the objectionable stuff, not to publicly criticize it. Sort of like when people complain that HR wasn't on their side, but actually just ratted them out to management. Yeah that sucks, but that's their role. Be smart about how you dissent. Be anonymous and leak stuff. You'll still get to keep on cashing that paycheck and probably have a more meaningful impact on the broader world compared to some de-fanged "ethics" committee press releases.
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Monterrey is lovely. Great mountain to hike, great food, great cheap hotels, safe IMO.
I don’t want to reinforce your feeling (I can imagine exactly the pain you’re talking about) but isn’t there a legal requirement for map corrections to be published? They don’t have to go back into OSM, but they do have to be made available because of the share—a-like concept of the license. At least, I thought so.
I'm an old-timer and I haven't actually used Pinboard in years. I'm curious how others are finding it useful in an era of synced browsers and saved tab groups etc. If there is any utility at all, the paid plan is a steal.
Sorry, I meant a few million years, not a few hundred.
AWS employee here.

We purposely say "ALex-uh" in group calls instead of "uhLEXa", because we talk about the service and devices all the time and using the correct pronunciation would trigger 10-15 Alexas sitting on everyone's desks!
There's room for discussion, certainly. If I hired an accountant to keep me on the straight and narrow and I expensed a dinner I'm not supposed to, I wouldn't want him to go running to Twitter and be like "Hey, everyone! Rene expensed a dinner with this guy abroad! That's a violation of the FCPA! He's a violator, guys! Heeeeeee's a violator!"

Like, if he did that, I'd be pretty incensed honestly. I'd expect him to tell me "Dude, you can't go around taking these guys out to dinner. That's like a bribery violation and shit, homie".

If he had to keep warning me, I could see him feeling that his professional ethics are being called into question, and then I'd expect him to either:

* quit and maybe blow the whistle

* stay and blow the whistle and then I'm gonna retaliate within my legal ability
I am with you. Subscription services align customer and developer interests best.

That said, the second best modern model is probably theirs. They sell stash tab space (item storage) and cosmetic items only.

They do not play psychological games that many free to play games do. I imagine that when their revenue starts to slip, they may go down the more dubious road as is the normal pattern. But for now, it has my approval.
What are the underlying issues?
PoE is free because of selling cosmetic items. There is no selling user data. I'm not even sure what kind of data a game would have to sell about it's users anyway.
Right, maybe “conservative” was not the best choice of word as it has many meanings. I was thinking about “cautious”, not “traditionalist”. Sorry for the confusion, I’m not a native speaker.
I've always felt that UW1 is massively underappreciated for the impact it had on computer gaming. It's been attested that John Carmack was inspired to create the engine that would eventually become Wolfenstein after seeing Underworld at a 1990 software convention and saying that he could write a faster texture mapped engine.

It had an enormous impact on me as a child discovering games in the mid 90s. I got a copy of UW on a games CD I got bundled with a Creative Soundcard[0]. This also came with so many other fantastic games, of which another was Ultima VII.

[0]https://archive.org/details/creative-labs-ea-compilation
Dang that's bad, they shouldn't provide it if they can't provide the same protections. No matter what their help articles say.
I understand how fans of the series got disappointed by it.

To me, a total neophyte to the series, u8 served like a nice introduction. The linear plot makes it easier to not get lost (this was pre-internet, if you got stuck you bought a paper guide). The graphics were nice, well animated (for the time). The jumps were not great but not a huge hassle, at least not for someone used to platformers, as I was. I found the different kinds of magic interesting, and I liked the titans. The inventory management system, with bags for reagents, and keys hidden behind cushions in drawers, was something I had never seen before.

My favorite bit was the fire mage that would teleport to your location and insta-kill you if you attacked a citizen.

I had an honest good time with it.
On the dishwasher, a loaded soap dispenser means “dirty” and an empty one means “clean” in our household.

Unload this dishes and load the dispenser. Simple and automatic.
I don't think that's exactly what happened. From my understanding she was backing up emails that served as evidence to support the claim that Google had treated Timnit Gebru unfairly during their termination. Not sure where that legally falls but I wouldn't exactly paint it in the light you did here.
It is literally the job of an AI ethicist to highlight ethical issues, so if they're publicly criticizing you, then you're likely doing something unethical.

If your team of ethicists has repeatedly highlighted issues and you continue to not address them, what should they do then? In the case of a company whose self-image is of openness and directness and benevolence, it seems reasonable that publicly highlight the lack of change is within reason.

If they cared less, they'd just shut up, but employees seem to have a higher opinion of Google than Google does of them.

Firing them in the middle of that suggests an unwillingness to deal with the previous issues, doubling down on unethical behavior.
I'm confused, you seem to say that the parent's opinion is delusional, but then you share their same opinion in the next sentence.
...in that case, can't you just shatter an HD platter to make it unrecoverable? If the goal is to prevent discovery, that seems pretty trivial.

It's really unclear to me whether or not HDs are recoverable from the comments I'm seeing, and honestly I don't care that much so I'm going to stop commenting.
Google doesn’t have any obligation to its Trump supporters. It is an entity outside of its employees and its decisions issue from the CEO and Board. If you don’t like their decisions don’t work there.
Yea, difficulty would drop. You'd end up producing a block more often than every 10 minutes. There's probably some lower bound on difficulty (and block frequency) that also maintains network consensus.
As a manager you have structural obligations it would be impossible to ignore. I believe Mitchell will fail to argue illegal termination in law. I am sure google will have a mixed outcome here, some aspects (reinforcement of hr expectations and contract compliance obligations will be net beneficial for everyone) and some (confirmation of how strongly there is a gap between Google's posture, post "dont be evil" and the actual reality) less so.

I've met and worked with a small, couple of handfuls of google people, men and women, all amazingly skilled. Meredith Whittaker was one of them and I think her termination was unnecessary. I do think less of Google as a consequence.
Well, actually...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140907084949.h...

https://news.yale.edu/2016/09/08/listening-body-study-examin...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5555589/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28470109/

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jir/2019/1462098/

https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/46/suppl_59/OA1453

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-10-millions-high-blood-s...

https://acutecaretesting.org/en/journal-scans/increased-bloo...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2738808/

https://acutecaretesting.org/en/journal-scans/increased-bloo...

(This covers only sepsis and TB, not gonnorhea. For gonnorhea, I also found materials which suggest fasting, but no journal papers.)
Google didn't say where she sent the documents. Forwarding emails to her own employment lawyers would be exfiltrating company documents technically.
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- A Long Time Ago
Out of Place Artifacts
You've got a lot of good replies already, but I think the best example has got to be Black Mesa, the Half Life remake. It even has a better Metacritic user score than the original Half Life.

Lots of remakes aren't very impactful, but that doesn't mean they're unsuccessful. All they intend to do is reawaken some love for a franchise, and provide a more accessible option for people who missed the original game. I can only think of one (recent) example where it went really badly.
It does make you question their sincerity though. It should be in bold, in red at the top of their "tor mode" that it doesn't work as well as the regular tor browser.