skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the rise of the Chinese movie market and U.S. studios catering to it has any bearing. Obviously they can and do create a foreign edit, but it might be possible the economic incentives to just create a "cleaner" movie to begin with is a factor here.
Quote 1: " Lately, however, the number of goTennas in operation seems to have declined. Aside from the cost ($189 for two units) ..."

Quote 2: "...using the LoRa protocol for extending ..."

Based on these 2 points I have a question / proposal. How about RaspberryPi, as mesh network, using its WiFi capabilities and definitely faster than LoRa, which is snail in comparison? I mean RPi's are like ~$30 each, 3 times lower than goTennas and WiFi speed, yes?
In my experience big tech is no more ethical than startups. I respect where you are coming from though, there are plenty of other reasons startups are hard. Much of the ethical tapestry at a startup is on the founders.
My pleasure. As iainctduncan mentioned, the authors are wonderful teachers, and the book serves as a good warmup before diving into SICP.
I think because prostitution is considered “dirty work”, must like many other dirty professions.

Receptionism is “clean work”, consequently a receptionist cannot be forced to lower himself to dirty work. — this would apply to working with human waste or various medical work as much as prostitution, I would gander.

A receptionist can be required by contract to serve drinks, play the piano, and various other things that a receptionist does not ordinarily do, but weeding through garbage, performing sex acts, or changing diapers, — that is off limits.
I think many people have the opposite problem: They followed their dreams and the work, their industry, it wasn't all it seemed. It is hard to overcome the disillusionment, feeling all of your work and passion has brought you to the wrong place.

This sort of happened to me. I wanted to do software. I had an idea in my head what that would be like. I started my bachelor of computer science degree just before the iPhone came out. Facebook was still new and novel.

When I finished it was all smartphone apps, web 2.0, open offices and agile assembly lines. Gone is the dream of working in a private or semi private office, hell even cubicles seem unlikely these days. Gone is the dream of going to work and solving novel problems, instead most of what I do is data plumbing.

Maybe the software world was never what I thought it was. Maybe it was on some level always this way. Maybe my dreams were bullshit from the start.

Either way, my dreams about my future didn't exactly pan out the way I wanted.
If you play a defensive setup like push D, E pawns one step ahead, fianchetto both the bishops, try to castle early, the computer just flings all the pawns forward, even from the king side: https://imgur.com/a/Nt4x7TP

Anti-computer tactics in chess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-computer_tactics

EDIT: GothamChess used a similar system to defeat a bot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5MD6hn5PgI (from 1:59)
The thing with flat-earthers, covid-doesnt-exist or stolen-vote believers or what not is that they often have a collection of refutations ready for their opponents. And in my experience this often cause the opponents to exit the discussion because they now are one argument late and it becomes even harder to bring anything to the table and the effect is amplified with each refutation. The worst is when they use their list of examples, people cancelled, doctors that believe covid is a lie or whatever premade list they have. My take now is to not fight windmills, they will believe something even crazier soon enough and even forget about that one or just tame it enough to say "i'm not convinced but it is what it is"...
the network is also barely functional these days. resyncing is so slow its hardly worth running a node. oh also pretty sure PPC is proof of stake, it was the first widely traded (maybe first, period?) crypto to implement PoS.
Looking ahead more moves requires zero more code -- depth is a loop variable.
Karma is a bitch, has a long memory, and delivers retribution.
At Home with Our Ancient Cousins, the Neanderthals (2020)
All metrics are gameable. I think I once saw a study that suggested that every metric applied to professionals ended up having a net negative effect on actual productivity - by and large people understand their job and want to do it well, and while a metric may incentivise the few that don't, it also ends up distracting the majority.
Even the R-rated ones don’t axtually deal with sex or nudity much - see John Wick
No need to go to 1934 for that, just look at David Bowie. His teeth were crooked until he got them fixed in his 50s (and supposedly ruined his vocal signature). Or even more recently, Hugh Grant's teeth were pretty bad in 4 Weddings... and Notting Hill.
Thank you for your answer. VS has indeed changed a lot, especially in the "ReSharper" department. My only qualm would be the performance (startup, loading solutions etc). JetBrains might be better there too.
> it really shouldn't be the job of the audience to figure anything out in the first place

Words to avoid living by.
Haven't read article yet - did they reinvent BGP or tuned it for small scale networks and kept full view on each node ?
> This article is BS.

it's literally called ``Raspberry PI for Kill Mosquitoes by Laser'' not quite sure what you were expecting
Sharing other people's amazement that such a tiny amount of code plays so well (I'm an inexperienced, infrequent player and it beat me once and drew once), I was pondering that there's no absolute reason to think that small programs inherently must play games poorly. For many abstract strategy games, you could write an explicit game tree search in a relatively small amount of code and it would, in principle, play perfectly if you somehow gave it enough time to search the whole game tree. (That wouldn't be feasible for most abstract strategy games that human beings like to play, but would for small games like Tic-Tac-Toe, Hexapawn or Octapawn, Nine Men's Morris, maybe Hex on a small board.)

In GOFAI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intelligen...) there's a clear pattern where "intelligence" in abstract strategy games represents, in part, being able to prune game trees well without having to search them exhaustively. In some cases that means having a good evaluation function for positions, and in other cases having a cleverer search strategy in another way.

Thinking about this made me realize that it's not just impressive that this program plays decently while being tiny, but especially that it plays decently and quickly while being tiny.
If you want a laugh go and download the tizen SDK and you will soon understand why nobody develops for it.
This made sense in the days before modern telecommunications, when investors may not have otherwise heard of this info. Is there reason to think this dynamic still has value?
>Strange how the meaning of "political correctness" has shifted, since it was coined to cover the deployment of "political officers" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_commissar )

What makes you say that? I did a word search on your link and don't see "political correctness" in there anywhere.
I feel like this article pretended like the excellent love, romance and sex scenes in the first Deadpool movie weren't there.
>Thinking about this made me realize that it's not just impressive that this program plays decently while being tiny, but especially that it plays decently and quickly while being tiny.

Yeah I wonder if there are subfields of chess programing that optimize for that, something like "quality of engine per unit code size".
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Can Advanced Type Systems Be Usable? [pdf]
Thanks for the details.

> Domain names ought to be property, and like any other property should be protected against arbitrary seizure by courts of law.

I completely agree. Some group saying the domain is associated with malware shouldn't be enough to cause it to be seized. They should have to actually prove it in court.
I'm not trying to glorify a life of reckless abandon, but in the context of the actual article, it's a little concerning to me that normal parts of human life like humor and sexuality seem to be a negative to you, and we should instead strive for "sobriety." That seems a rather grim view of human existence. I'm also not sure I can take seriously the notion that somehow this is a more serious moment in history than all of the others that came before it. The Cold War and the threat of worldwide nuclear annihilation? World wars that killed millions and the worst genocide in human history? Colonialism and slavery? Religious civil wars? General poverty and starvation? At what point in history were things less serious than now? When were humor and love somehow more appropriate?
we already have heart transplant procedures, I'd presume the problem of reattaching main blood vessels is already solved
The galaxy s5 had a removable battery and a back plate with a seal, but a lot of users didn't click in on properly and water damaged the phone.
Thankfully some universities have a decently working ezproxy config but still. Then you hit the paywall, or the non working website from the crappy publisher that thinks people want to read pdfs as their enhanced-pdf and require two other clicks to get a real pdf, during that time the 5 (not kidding look at what those pages load!) trackers are loading...
It may be worse in Mountain View or San Jose, I don’t know. It doesn’t seem worse in Fremont, at least the parts that I go to. Also, my relatives and friends who live there aren’t complaining. My friends who lived in SF were complaining loudly before they moved out.
The film “Challenger: The Final Flight” on Netflix includes interviews with the most important participants in the launch decision, including McDonald. (It also has interviews with many of the astronauts’ families and does a great job at putting their experience front and centre.)

The guy whose job it was to send the fax because he happened to be the one who knew how to operate the fax machine is to this day utterly devastated; weeping.

The MTI VP who signed off (although the decision was made above his head) admits that he agreed with it at the time, but acknowledges it was a mistake. He’s being interviewed in a large room full of very expensive furniture.

The NASA manager who bullied them into agreeing to launch because they couldn’t prove that it was unsafe basically says that if he had his time over he would kill all of the astronauts again. Truly terrifying.
The left has a long history of wanting to win by default, rather than winning by actually having better ideas or better explanations. You can see this as far back as the Scopes Monkey Trial. (The right has their own history of censorship as well, for even longer.)

But January 6 changed a lot of peoples' perspectives. They saw that lies can cause massive damage, far beyond just the lives of the people who believe them. They saw that the truth doesn't always work as an antidote to the lies. They saw it spread all over the news.

I'm against censorship. But after January 6, I'm not sure how to answer someone who is pro-censorship.
Nice. Didn't know about that one so I had to Wikipedia it: "LexisNexis is a corporation providing computer-assisted legal research (CALR) as well as business research and risk-management services." if anybody is wondering.
The main characters in Sherlock, sure. But the ancillary characters are much more normal.
Bishop looks similar to a pawn unless you look closely.
Nothing.

The problem comes when it's built into the hardware so you are forced to sign all documents.
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Check out the tents off I-880.
You can certainly make the argument that he was a bad guy, but I don't know if I can continue to draw that conclusion. He built that house over 30 years ago for $60M. While that is certainly excessive, its not like he just bought a $200M house while trying to be philanthropist. At least $45B in charitable contributions, so the house is worth 0.4% of that. Is the house really relevant?

Isn't it possible he has changed since then? What you call a "billion-dollar propaganda campaign" I call billions of dollars worth of charitable contributions. He may not have formal training any any of those things, but he can pay people with the training to advise him and make the decisions. Do you think he is just making all of them in a vacuum? Money can buy you a lot of experts to consult.

What would you prefer him to do with the money, if not attempt to do some good with it?
How does Game of Thrones fit into your theory?
The only way I can focus is eliminating as many ,,shallow’’ tasks as possible (but still do the important ones). One of them would be setting up time trackers and reading self-help books.

If I would be forced to do lots of unimportant things, I’d rather changed job.
So why is 100% sex work less exploitative than 50% sex work?

Gotta say that often questions like this are often as just taken as ways to win rhetorical points and not thought about seriously by those who ask them. But there's actually a good answer. Yes, sex work is extremely exploitative in the sense that you selling a "big piece" of yourself. Which doesn't mean it should be illegal but it should segregated. Why?

Other kinds of work exists that extremely exploitative - dangerous, physical exhausting, possibly-humiliating and damaging. Those should be segregated also and usually are. But let's an experiment:

Receptionist + some danger deep diving
Receptionist + some heavy underground construction
Receptionist + some lion tamer work
Dangerous heavy construction for part off your rent

The reason all those are a problem is because they take a lot out of a person and if you pair them with receptionist, you'll get someone who is paid as a receptionist but often doing these things. Which screws both ordinary receptionists and people paid more to do the highly exploitative labor.
Great read about something I never knew about. I tip my hat to those people who are able to stand up for whats right (and not grandstanding) given intense pressures to do otherwise. It's also somewhat shocking that NASA would push forward given the very strong push back. Seems like some incredibly strange decision logic for such a high risk situation.
How Kenya is harnessing the immense heat from the Earth
"Neuroscientists are trying to work out why the brain does so much when it seems to be doing nothing at all."

Because it's busy maintain a 3D model of it's surrounding environment. When the brain is deprived of such stimulus, in sleep, it is provided through dreams.
Part of me wants to put the blame on the female side for the reduction of sex. Mostly because girls will be slut shamed for doing anything sexual. So girls hold it back. You can't blame them for being conservative in the society we live in. Stop telling the female half of the population that they need to be innocent virgins,sex is normal.

The other excuses don't really resonate with me. Roommates? We were having plenty of sex in college, text your roommate to go away for a bit. Parents? Idk I just used my car or wait for them to go to sleep. 17 - to early 20s just do what you can. I don't get the broke thing, college bars are cheap, or we just went to parks or whatever.
It's a Thermador.
Interesting essay. As a fan of cinema, I've noticed that there is a clinical deadness lately when it comes to representing real people.

I don't agree with the conclusions of the essayist, but there's something there. Verisimilitude is gone. Real people are gone. In their place, there's a clinical, sterile plastic automaton put together by marketing departments. Even when there's nudity and sexuality, it feels like a paint-by-the-numbers thing and not storytelling.

Over the last decade or two, I stopped watching broadcast commercial TV in the U.S. I began to realize that the choice of dramas and advertisers told me a lot more about what the creators thought of their audience and not so much about life and human relations. Cinema has gone to that same place. Now, a common refrain about a classic movie from the past is "They could never make something like that today", and people who say that aren't referring to easy problems with material like racism. It's not the content. The quality has drastically changed. I used to leave a good movie wondering about my own life and the choices I might make. For a really good flick, I could dwell on the issues involved for weeks. Now I leave saying "Wow! Wasn't that really cool?!?" and I've forgotten anything important or meaningful by the time I've gotten to the (metaphorical) parking lot.

There are little flashes. Occasionally big name stars and producers will create a one-of drama that really says something about the human condition. Those movies are getting fewer and the time between them grows. Streaming TV promised a new Golden Age for long-format serial drama. But the glorious days of a thousand Sopranos are not materializing. Instead it's looking a lot like reversion to the mean.

There is a dead, empty, data-driven blandness to modern entertainment. Not pleasant to end up here when we started off with such promise.
Others have explained why certain jobs are "segregated", and how sex work could plausibly fit into that category. But even if it does not, there's nothing we can learn about sex work from the reactions described above.

Isn't it strange how most programmers think that specialist barista work is not demeaning, but would quit on the spot if they were instructed to serve morning coffee to the management?

Oh wait, it's not strange at all! Most people who work as programmmers do not want to serve coffee, and will naturally coordinate to avoid normalizing it, lest it become a recurring part of every job description. This happens even though work as a barista does not fit into the 'dangerous and therefore segregated' category. Indeed, there would be nothing unusual about a receptionist who also handles catering at events and serves coffee to management.

Or is serving coffee also "effectively partitioned" by "our culture"?
It's not GNU
Well there is still plenty of flirting in cinema.
TIL the word "gurn". Never once heard it before and even just now autocorrect tried to insist it was "turn". The description is indeed apt for what I see in a lot of thumbnails.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurn
> it was a fair comparison.

Again, what do ISIS, the Taliban, "death to america" and burning flags have to do with the left? When did you last see Bernie Sanders burning the American flag? When did you last see Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez calling "death to America! Death to the Infidels!"?
I think she's talking about 6' 205 pro baseball player physique. The kind of person that looks "normal" in a movie but if you met them IRL they are extremely fit with very little fat and perfect definition.

(I'm not putting you down)
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Think homeless encampment in an empty lot right next door (not the Tenderloin nor SOMA).
Climate change has eliminated electrical storms. Lots of stores claim to carry surge protectors, but they've been out of stock for years.
That doesn't adrress my point at all. You can verify the requisite proof of work was done just by hashing the data in the block header to see if it meets the difficulty requirement.

The malicious actor cannot fake that. They have to produce massive amounts of proof of work to find a value in the nonce data field in the block header that results in that hash meeting the required difficulty, and even if the malicious actor delays transmitting the whole block, they cannot delay transmitting the block header, or other nodes will not even bother trying to extend their block.

So all miners can immediately verify if the block headers they are receiving have the required PoW behind them, and it would be very costly for a malicious actor to generate fake block headers with enough PoW to be accepted, while giving the malicious actor very little advantage in an attack, meaning it would be a completely impractical and ineffective way to attack way to attack Bitcoin.
It's a critical element of the human experience. But I agree the hamfisted non-dynamic insertion of sex is tasteless. Of course sex isn't necessarily a rational behavior all things considered, so spontaneity and hamfisting is almost vaguely appropriate by that virtue.
How does Dr Fauci fair for his field?
Curious, what were some of the demands?
The covid relief plan would prove a definitive counter to your hypothetical concern over tax money.
If anything it is exactly the opposite, when people fought proper modern wars the body shape didn't matter, it was all about use of weapons, aerobics and carrying some weight on your back, but how the body looks didn't matter in world war one or two.

It is is the feminising of males and feminism in general which transformed healthy sexuality to be a sin, unless it is gay sex. Who are the most into body aesthetics and shaping their body? gay men, not real war fighters. It is pretty obvious that Hollywood represent current gay culture where sexuality is still allowed but there is no place for hetro sexuality in the new world we live in.
> no one has put me in movies,

no one has put me in movies, yet.

Julia Child didn't become Julia Child until she was ~60.
The service in itself is alright, but the 35% cut Deliveroo and Uber Eats take is just too much.

It's a very inefficient business. My orders are very often wrong, and they simply refund the whole order. Then the next time I order they get it wrong again and I get refunded again. With Just Eat or direct restaurant delivery, the issue would get resolved on the spot.

There's just no need for such a fat middleman between restaurants and customers. The only reason I'm using it is to exploit the delivery mispricing and promotions, like Uber in its early days.
I was always jealous of the mask as a fashion accessory in East Asian countries, and now that masks are commonplace, I'm much more comfortable walking outside in public
> I believe the stated purpose of the list was to have a set of people that allies could engage with constructively if they wanted to. In other words, it was a list of people whom might be good to engage in verbal discussions with.

Is this some poor attempt at a joke? That's exactly what Twitter mobs do, right? Especially when the instigator calls the targets "fanboys" and "fanatics", and explicitly calls for them to be "cancelled"?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25419871

https://archive.is/9sS3o
No, this is obviously not what I said. Nor is changing employers automatically better. There are (as I suspect you already know) a myriad of factors involved in choosing an employer and choosing to leave.

The implication that this is “the solution” is pretty naive.
Weebly/Wix are pretty good. Obviously has limits but we’ve built some pretty advanced sites with Weebly (e.g. restaurant site with menu PDF). Don’t have too much insight in regards to underlying technologies but wish you the best of luck.
The laws of the state shouldn't go out of their way to get in the way of the laws of religion, doing so for no real reason other than spite.

To do so creates conflict where there should be none, which is against the very purpose of a state.
I recall reading about the Microsoft IPO and how they were forced to do it because their employees wanted to be able to sell their stock.

I wonder #2 is more important for some businesses than others ?

It's also possible over the intervening years the norm for startup companies is to be well-capitalized from the get-go and require #2 to keep going.
That comparison is really the opposite, the open question on the morality of porn does nothing to damage the usefulness of home video recorders.

On the other hand, the morality of NFT's is already mainstream while the usefulness is an open question that's leaning toward "not really".
Homeschool.