skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Additional context from Wikipedia:

"StarLogo is an agent-based simulation language...It is an extension of the Logo programming language, a dialect of Lisp. Designed for education, StarLogo can be used by students to model or simulate the behavior of decentralized systems."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarLogo
It was also a ploy to cement the fragmentation of the Socialist bloc and precipitate the decline of the Soviet Union.

No one with half a brain thought anything else would happen. Even if China was a liberal democracy, this would still happen.

It was just arrogant and short term thinking.
I remember when mencoder wasn't just a frontend for ffmpeg, I literally just saved a text file with the ridiculous command required to convert a DVD to an avi.

Their man page even had a like three line long example for basic stuff. ffmpeg is at least a bit more consistent with syntax though only barely!
If people still understand english in some form (a good bet. We still understand latin. English has more reach than latin did at its peak) understanding charsets is pretty easy. Just assume its a shift cipher.

As far as media goes. That's true, but its a bit of a numbers game. After all you only need one unusually preserved specimen. The dead sea scrolls survived after all. Not to mention intentional preservation efforts. I know github has its artic vault thing. There's even a copy of wikipedia on the moon! https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_to_the_Moon/Wrap...
problematic For whom? Somebody who gets obscure ISO standards confused with linting rules?
> Solar + transmission lines. It’s always sunny somewhere

Unless it is sunny 24/7 in a given country or even group of coutnries (e.g. the EU) this is not viable.

Countries will not give up their energy security and put themselves at the mercy of the other side of the planet (where it is sunny) plus whoeever might want to damage those transmission lines and cripple a country. It is already an issue with oil and gas.
But it is "DOLT", right?
Procrastination is flight, deadline is fight, freeze is staring at the screen
A curious side effect of globalization is mutual dependence, which prevents wars. Full scale hot wars might not happen because of nuclear deterrence, but cold wars attacking financial systems or utility grids could be prevented... Actually, that’s what’s happening, so maybe it doesn’t deter cold wars at all? I came here to write one thing and now I’m doubting it.
Why not just ban Chinese from entering the US at all, just like in the good old times [0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act
Is state driven media possible in the US?

If so, is it possible that the mass accumulation of hatred for the Chinese is a byproduct of state driven media?
For years I watch co-workers take 1-2 sick days a month yet I take 1-2 per year (none last year).

I have a realization every year that I should be spending my worst feeling days as sick days... But I do not.

What is wrong with me. How many years have I gone feeling like I cannot miss 1 day of 'work'
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> In order to sue them, you need to come up with something that they should’ve done but didn’t.

How so? If you sue for damages, you only have to prove you were harmed by Google's actions, no? And actively misrepresenting your website as dangerous and deceptive to your customers is sort of libelous and clearly damaging.
university spinoffs?
This reminds me of a recent tweet: https://twitter.com/searyanc/status/1349890653132505088?s=21

> Obnoxious: come up with a set of style preferences, write some post-hoc justification, and then name it in a way that implies anyone who has different preferences is doing something wrong
Maybe would be better to separate content links from more technically links that come from standardized templates which aren't really part of the article content in a certain sense
To me it seems less like they think this ought to be forced upon or adopted by the entire Ruby community or whatever.

The big benefit to me would be as a maintainer of an open source project. I can use this, & I never have to consider whether or not someone’s suggestion to change a linter rule is worth listening to or not.
How isn't it derogatory? It seems to me to be something to laugh at (not with) and/or be afraid of.
> So far X has included a theory of everything, a conspiracy by academia to keep wages low, a nobel prize worthy discovery by his brother on mouse models and a nobel prize worthy economic theory he helped his wife develop.

He's basically a anti-authority (/anti-expert/?) a la Alex Jones in [0]. Weinstein has been full of shit enough in the past that him claiming something is, absent any other evidence, evidence that the claim is false.

0: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/28/bush-did-north-dakota/
Any info on how this differs from Dat?
My wife is a great Austen fan. Not sure what she will make of this but sent it anyway...
Most of the uses I've seen so far seem like nonsense to me, though I could imagine a known and popular fine artist creating some digital art along side physical works as a way to create a more affordable entry point to their fans, much in the way that prints are already a more affordable entry point than paintings.

I think in such a fine art case there needs to be some good ways to display such NFTs though.
I'd like to do this. Can you recommend a good starting place to learn how?
I've been experimenting with RPN user interfaces for a while; https://asciinema.org/a/391001 is a screencast of a recent prototype that uses the terminal and builds up an infix representation of the expression that generated a given result. http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/rpn-edit#50_iota_2_ln_*... is an earlier prototype that runs in the browser.

I don't think RPN is a super great fit for multitouch screens but it works really well for keyboard interfaces.
Yeah, I don't see this having the same sort of diligence around additions (or even the initial ruleset) that would be present in languages with inborn opinions like Go and Rust.

It really seems like a bunch of arbitrary linting rules that this company likes to use, and they are trying to push it on the masses as "Standard", which the uninformed won't understand the nuance of.

I think the name is really predatory.
He appears to have been trying for many years to convince people that he's discovered a unified theory of physics, without producing a single technical paper on the topic. I think that suffices.
Sticking specifically to art, NFTs solve a problem with digital art (non fungiblility) and some platforms provide artists with new benifits (tracking ownership, price and commission on sales, etc).

I think it's an especially crypto centric mindset to not see their value but if we take crypto aside do you appreciate works of art, collectable cards or limited edition runs as having value above their fungible copies (copy of art, copy of card, same product but regular edition)?
Indeed it does, doing it in a system that allows the economic elite to direct the government into geopolitical disaster because they are largely unconcerned with the common good of their nation is really quite unique to capitalism.
Since you've hosted it on GitHub, would you also consider providing a JavaScript client library for read access?

Could pave the way for single page web applications (hosted via GitHub Pages) working with Dolt as their database of choice.
I stoped reading here:
“One effect: face recognition in cameras is notorious for its racist bias, ”
If you’re going to say stupid things, you don’t deserve my attention.
Celldemo
You achieve exactly the same by insisting your project, your linter rules. There's no difference, because someone can just as well argue you should replace your use of this project with something else.
Welcome to the wonderful world of implicit/dynamic typing. ;-)
I imagine because wikimedia has lots of bandwidth (once your website gets to be a certain size, bandwidth gets sold very differently), new versions come out regularly, and there is a relatively small number of people who want every single one of these and keep them around to seed.
I'd never really thought about a tool like this but it looks really nice. Shame you had to spin it down but that's life I guess.
All the Weinstein defenders here should really read the article first. This excerpt gets at Weinstein's massive credibility gap:

>> I also became increasingly skeptical of Weinstein’s claims when I pressed him about his alleged discovery of the Seiberg-Witten equations before Seiberg and Witten (see here, here, here, and here), a set of equations which was the central focus of my PhD thesis and several resultant papers. When I asked Weinstein for certain mathematical details about how he had arrived at the Seiberg-Witten equations, his vague responses led me to doubt his claims. Though Weinstein proposed to host a more in-depth discussion about GU and the requisite math and physics, no such discussion ever materialized.
Yeah, the name really annoys me as well.
It's an article written by Floyd E. Toole, Ph.D., who was Vice President - Acoustical Engineering at Harman International from 1991 until he retired in 2007.

"His research focused primarily on the acoustics and psychoacoustics of sound reproduction. Most notably, he established methods for subjective and objective evaluations which have been used to clarify the relationships between technical measurements of loudspeakers and listeners’ perceptions." From https://www.torontoaes.org/floyd-toole/

> ...there really is such a thing as being "good enough for rock and roll".

Here's a lecture by the same author, given at CIRMMT Distinguished Lectures in the Science and Technology of Music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrpUDuUtxPM - Floyd Toole - Sound reproduction – art and science/opinions and facts
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can an AI make the right decision 100% of the time?

Can humans make the right decision at a rate better or worse than AI? If AI makes the wrong decision, is a human empowered to step in and overrule that decision?
I never had to use it since I never had anything complicated enough, but next time you relearn things, I've heard good things about ffmpeg-python [0] , it supports multiple inputs, outputs, custom filters, etc.

Their example from the readme:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i overlay.png -filter_complex "[0]trim=start_frame=10:end_frame=20[v0];\
[0]trim=start_frame=30:end_frame=40[v1];[v0][v1]concat=n=2[v2];[1]hflip[v3];\
[v2][v3]overlay=eof_action=repeat[v4];[v4]drawbox=50:50:120:120:red:t=5[v5]"\
-map [v5] output.mp4

Which turns into

import ffmpeg

in_file = ffmpeg.input('input.mp4')
overlay_file = ffmpeg.input('overlay.png')
(
ffmpeg
.concat(
in_file.trim(start_frame=10, end_frame=20),
in_file.trim(start_frame=30, end_frame=40),
)
.overlay(overlay_file.hflip())
.drawbox(50, 50, 120, 120, color='red', thickness=5)
.output('out.mp4')
.run()
)

[0] https://github.com/kkroening/ffmpeg-python
Patterns are good but the minutiae that most linters deal with aren’t that. A discussion over formatting rules is more often than not a distraction and a waste of time — if it’s not there, better discussion can come out of code review.
Hum... that photo does not fit really there...
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[...]

Ants and termites are intriguing examples because they can sometimes send warning signals to others in their community before they've even been properly infected, as early as 15 minutes after exposure to a pathogen."
I also had a similar first impression from reading the name of the project. I thought it was going to be related to standardizing Ruby implementations / the Ruby language itself.
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This is pretty insane mental gymnastics to rationalize the free market taking control of the US political apparatus as communism.

Like, actually impressive.

It has nothing to do with infiltration or influence. It's simply the basic structure of the American political system that, since its very founding (who was able to vote?) oriented the government into the facilitation of profit above all else.

That is actually the realization the US has to do, but it seems somehow even more embarrassing than the conclusion that the US government is infiltrated by commies, for some odd reason.
That's a great use case, let us know how we can help. We have a discord if you want to chat about it:

https://discord.com/invite/RFwfYpu
Wow, I'm getting downvoted for pointing out something relevant to compare against the article. It's relevant because what is a $40,000 SSD today is probably going to be 10-20 times cheaper in 2030 if trends over the past decade hold up. A 32GB SSD cost $85 in 2010. A $99 SSD in March 2021 gets you 1TB. It follows that in 2032, a 30TB SSD will be costing around $110. I don't see how a 100TB HDD will compete in that kind of market.
I avoid Go as much as possible in part because I find its syntax horrible, so I can't really tell whether or not I'd be annoyed by go fmt's formatting if I had to use Go more regularly.
Money in a bank account gets loaned out to others who use it productively.

Something rare is just that, something rare. It produces nothing.
>Is state driven media possible in the US?

I'm sure there's some of that, but I suspect that even if there wasn't we'd see much the same results. In the US, the state and the mainstream media are essentially the same thing. The people who run the state and the people who make up the mainstream media are part of the same social circles, they go to the same restaurants, they tend to have the same worldviews.
I guarantee you the decisions behind what you're describing are not coming from the programmers. This is the realm of product managers, UX designers, and other decision makers.

Adding a few extra steps to your Amazon Prime cancellation isn't great, but it's not exactly worth throwing shade on fellow programmers somewhere who were tasked with implementing the designs as decided by the employer who provides their paycheck.
I don't think there is any harm in laypeople being involved. The current state is that the answers aren't clear. You don't have to be a theoretical physicist to understand or appreciate that. Interested people, expert or not, should be free to follow along to the extent they are able or interested.
People do this using OBS already, don't they? I've definitely seen streamers do "talk over" streams of press conferences or "watch party" streams of tournaments..
I would guess that most programmers who writes such code don't consider it as dark pattern work - they may have a vague inkling that it's not the best, but probably have many rationalizations about why it's fine.
Is there more information on the compounding interest of 5-hour rule? Like a book?
Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are leaving San Francisco
Can OBS not do that? I haven't used it much but I have had some success merging video streams from different sources without a lot of effort.
That’s a fair point, should probably just include stuff like than in READMEs at this point
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> All the lives lost across the world to COVID and the economic impact of the previous year has demonstrated that "make peace" with CCP is not a good idea.

The US has been the origin for not only the literally largest pandemic in the history of humanity [0], but also responsible for the last pandemic before COVID-19 [1].

Would you be okay with holding the US similarly responsible for disease emerging in it's sphere of influence, or is that something you only reserve when looking for why "evil countries be evil"?

[0] https://academic.oup.com/emph/article/2019/1/18/5298310

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic
If you don't perform a task frequently, a discoverable interface (e.g. GUI) is dramatically more productive than reading documentation.
Here's hoping she finds it interesting!

Though it tells of some of the not so pleasant aspects of living at that time ...
Correct. However, a well functioning shoulder is a pretty complex mechanism. If any part of it is removed,the others struggle or fail altogether. A removal of the entire arm, offloads all the work onto the edge of a shoulder that would normally receive help from the arm and its connected muscles.
I did break humerus in my left arm,which resulted in functional degradation of my arm: I can't lift heavier things in a certain way, some movements are restricted, the arm gets stiff if I sleep on it,etc.) All in all it's not too bad but that's the result of some muscle damage,so try to imagine how bad it is when the whole arm is missing.
The question that a company need to answer is if its better that the primary forum is hosted by themselves or by a third party which they have zero control over. There are distinct benefits and drawbacks. Tesla has a much harder time to do damage control and manage special circomstances if the platform moderation is out of their control.

I would hazard a guess that both Microsoft forums and Apple forums exist because of that reason.
To be scrupulouly fair, it's entirly possible to be notorious for something you didn't actually do, and social justice warriors have certainly tried to make that the case for facial recognition's alleged racist bias, to some degree successfully. So the statement you quoted is technically correct[0], at least among certain sufficiently credulous groups.

To be less-scrupulouly fair, the rest of the article is actually fairly on point and has little to with the author's susceptibility to memetic disease (yay compartmentalization bias?).

0: The best kind of correct!
> like this well enough to prefer a 32GB FAT32 volume for EFI, so there's enough space for some Live Linux distributions, along with all the boot files I can muster

Great idea, so it's always there when you need it!

> Under the latest Windows 10 GPT scheme, the MSR by default now extends from sector 34 to the first sector of your system volume, and for performance your system volume is hopefully aligned at a location such as 8192, although 1024 was common for a while. So all these sectors are now well spoken-for. This is fairly recent and until then sectors 34 through 8191 for instance were being unused by Windows 10, out-of-partition, and unallocated by default.

It must be very recent because it never happened to me. If it did, I would just move the MSR. I guess Microsoft is just trying to use the leftovers to be less intrusive? But with a large enough EFI, I don't really care.

> Revocation of previous Microsoft-signed Linux keys

Use your own keys! Don't depend on someone else's keys!

> Take a look at what might be happening/proposed with SYSTEMD for booting and with the proper input plus great care a new Linux bootloader could arise to overcome remaining obstacles

It has already happened: I follow the Arch way of a "fat" EFI payload using systemd EFI stuff: so I have a kernel + initrd (+ cmdline) in one EFI file - and no need for a bootloader anymore, as the UEFI can directly boot this EFI payload.

Sign this file with your own keys (MOK) and you're king of your castle

> There simply needs to be a single Microsoft-signed bootloader that can boot any Linux, or Windows, from a user-configurable menu

A menu is a waste of time. I keep my EFI payload on the EFI partition. I never need to change the kernel cmdline. One less piece of software (a good thing as grub2 had recent vulnerabilities)

> Along these lines a focused amount of work needs to be done with UEFI Shell programs, and that might be all it requires

There are a few good ones, that can help you in case of problems - but booting a live distribution is almost faster. Your idea of keeping it right in the EFI partition is great - we simply need to change our habits and create larger EFI partitions. It's the ideal place to put it, as Windows or anything else won't dare touch it there.

> So it looks like Microsoft is still lying at least about one of the most important things.

Maybe - but we don't really need them with MOK keys and the systemd EFI stub.
heh, if those are gone, good riddance. :)
I do my taxes every year in dc...
grifting implies he's doing it for financial gain. I think there's more lucrative ways for him to make money than publishing physics papers.
Rubocop can autocorrect strings to use the "correct" quotes based on context. The rule for "Standard" is silly and unnecessary. The argument about readability falls flat with me.

At the end of the day, let the tools enforce this nonsense, but I'm still a performance wonk at some level and it drives me crazy seeing interpolatable strings without interpolations.
No problem! My wife’s family is from Bangladesh, so it’s largely due to that. Plus there’s tons of great Bangla poetry and literature I’d love to be able to access eventually.

Unfortunately there’s not that many resources for English speakers, although between family and a great tutor I found on italki.com (and Anki) I’ve been making progress.
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With enrolled keys and a password protected bios that refuses to add boot options to the boot menu, and refuse to boot existing options if the signature no longer matches, you can't be booting malicious files.
Naive question here. Aside from it being mysql, what is different here than just using git + sqlite.

Update: When I posted, I'd forgotten that SQLite db file is a binary. Not sure what I was thinking.
I didn't see evidence in either direction. Maybe I missed it?
Well it is free. It's also open source for those of us that believe that's important in its own right.
Notice how in these threads, the people who think that the specific formatting doesn't matter tends to be the ones supporting tools that tries to force a specific formatting.

To me the formatting does matter. It is a major factor in how comprehensible a code-base is, and often having freedom to deviate from the expected rules to line things up in certain ways helps to convey patterns and similarity that matters.
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I absolutely hate this kind of nitpicking, and am loathe to see it enforced, especially if the org has the bright idea to try to wire this up as a precommit hook.

Single quotes, double quotes, who cares? Oh no, you might have to change some extra characters. Such big cognitive overload, very hard...

All this 'standardization' is stripping the individuality and artistry from writing code. Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who likes being able to look at code and know who wrote it by the style that they use.

In Ruby, especially, where expressiveness and being a little weird feature so prominently in our cultural heritage. If I wanted to be a conformist I'd write Javascript for a living!