skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"CD Burners"

Yep. They used to be premium in the 90s and even early 2000s. I remember how you were special if you had a CD burner on your computer instead of a regular CD Player :). Kinda like difference between a VCP and VCR for even older kids.
I don’t think passing a law intends to change individual peoples’ worldview. I wasn’t able to find an article with a my example of things that would be prosecuted after the bill was passed that could be controversial, only hand-wavey claims.
I'm guessing GP is referring to how eBay banned third parties from selling used copies of the Dr. Seuss books in question. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26347654
I don't what the research is in question, but I absolutely think that political extremism, particularly in the context of two party systems, can quantified in at least a semi-meaningful way.

Create a list of policies. Poll a large equally split group of registered voters from either party. Assign each policy an extremism index based on some combination of the amount of cross party support, and the percentage of total support for each.

Now you can use that list to make a reasonable assessment of political extremism based on which of the policies an individual supports.
That's not about not running up the score though. That's about doing the absolutely safest thing to run out the clock. Teams will do that even if they have a small lead because it's almost foolproof. (I'm sure some quarterback has fumbled though.)
I actually heard the exact opposite argument being made that it was not sportsman like by Germany to allow Brazil that one goal against them, since it looked like they stopped caring or allowed it out of pitty
I'm often surprised at how those who insist of the independence of sex and gender don't correctly or consistently separate those terms in practice.
Nobody is forbidding Myanmar to launch their own satellite. After all, the Chinese and the North Koreans pretty much do whatever they want up there as well. But if you cooperate with others to put something up there, it would be very unusual if you wouldn't have to compromise. This includes limits on what purposes the equipment can be used for.

Actually, according to TA, it seems Myanmar's government hasn't quite decided what to do with the thing. It's probably quite low right now on their list of priorities. And the Japanese still have to consider whether to toss it out or not. After all, the thing is up there already (sunk cost fallacy and all that). It seems possible they can work something out.
> Cobol has a feature whereby dissimilar structures can be assigned. The structure members which have the same names are identified between the structures and the data is moved accordingly. Or something like that.

This horrifies me on several levels, though I suppose it could be considered a sort "cast to a superclass".
Roblox games tend to be stuffed full of microtransactions, which is really annoying as a parent because kids eat that stuff up.
I run an independent film/animation/music/interactive studio- I have never owned any mobile phone and don't use any social media except for youtube. Our studio is not on any social media platforms. We are the counterculture.

Our studio has released torrents of media over the past 15 years that I would classify as counterculture but you would never know because we aren't hustling on Zuckerbergian platforms or playing the "please look at me" game on Youtube etc.

Trailerjacked trailer for counterculture game that makes animations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrMEQPtMO4c

Scene from a counterculture animated feature film in progress made in a game engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgMeIaqjRvY

Counterculture is not dead, its just not playing in the sandboxes everyone else is playing in, because those sandboxes are lame as fuck.
Yes, it isn't only about pure performance numbers. Better performance with much lower heat, much better battery life. "Blows it away." Every laptop seems to have a drawback or two however.
> By the way, a lot of people here seem to think that the term "counter culture" has positive connotations. It doesn't, necessarily.

I would expand on this to say:

If society and culture are unjust, then to be moral and just necessitates dipping into counterculture. Example: Participating in the underground railroad would be counter-culture in a society built on slavery.

If society and culture are truly just, then the counter-culture is perhaps necessarily unjust.

Of course, real life is never so clear-cut (we will never live in a truly just society), but I would argue that society now is substantially more just than it was for most of human history, and consequently this reflects back on the sort of counter-culture that exists.
Continental Europe was by far their largest market just a couple years ago. North American expansion was always a matter of discussion (if not investment) but it has only really picked up steam in the last year or so.
Imagine the Instagram posts profiling the weirdos like myself who simply have not been using Instagram for the past decade for the Instagram audience.

"What do you do when you visit a scenic vista, if not take pictures?"

"I look at it for a time and leave."
And why do you require the username to be 8+ characters?!

Update: Submitted an issue already: https://github.com/diodechain/diode_drive_feedback/issues/55
Pipe characters aren't present in the character set. I think ^ was the pipe character then.
You are describing a core concept called liberalism.

As a liberal myself, we've become increasingly unwelcome in the United States' only viable left of center political party.

We've allowed regressive, illiberal religious fanatics to take over our party. Just like the Republicans allowed regressive, illiberal religious fanatics to take over their party in the 80s. In both cases, they were considered useful idiots to be appeased while the adults in the room winked and nodded at each other. In both cases, the game theory quickly devolves into pandering to them, and increasingly alienating segments of the population. The wokies have increasingly demanded Mao-like public concessions from elites, and have been universally successful in getting it. This echoes what the evangelicals were able to demand and solicit from GOP members in the 80s-today.

The worst part about this is that the coalition of regressives on the left is so fractious, because they are all so obsessed with immutable characteristic driven identity. Any time an argument or policy that helps one identity group is proposed, another identity group complains they aren't getting the attention THEY need. Because it's such a fractious coalition, elites within the party apparatus and their allies in the press desperately try to spin certain elements of reality. An example of this is the startlingly weird coverage of the violent attacks against vulnerable Asian Americans in US cities. The fact that they are perpetrated exclusively by young black men is deliberately obfuscated, with significant efforts to conflate the attacks with a narrative of ascendant "white supremacists".

This video is from a mainstream, respected news outlet. It's utterly shocking in it's blatant obfuscation of facts to serve a narrative bias:
https://youtu.be/1lyVzQsXLl4

Meanwhile, the opposition to the fractious regressive left, are feeding off of this. They are recruiting, and are gaining moral license to justify violence. This is extremely dangerous. These right wing extremists, who they are increasingly awakening at an alarming rate, is far more cohesive as a group. Antifa are mainly annoying, and when they use violent tactics, can be mildly dangerous. But they are weak, untrained, and unorganized compared to their right wing counterparts. In the US, they can easily acquire weapons, but the expertise to use them is not easy to come by.

Liberals like you and me need to stand up, and boldly and loudly and aggressively speak out against any and all forms of regressive, illiberal leftism. If we don't, 2022 is going to be an absolute bloodbath electorally, but far worse is the increasing opposite reaction these lunatics will solicit from the right. Trump's voters aren't going to just go away because the tech companies have banned them. This article clearly points that out.
Small feature request for this implementation: Highlight/bold the three impacted regex when selecting a given hexagon, trying to trace it manually by eye is a bit of a pain.

(I guess I could PR on github when I get some time later today)
Similar thing here. I even got a real C64C with games on floppies. My young daughter loves Giana Sisters, like me back in the days. Now a got another one. But with the fire button on port II defective. I repaired it on my own by replacing the according chip. What a great feeling. And the living retro scene is helping a lot! C64 forever!
Another spin on this situation would be "US is going after any exchange which doesn't comply with US regs/guidance and currently Coinbase is the only exchange willing/able to do so"
@keithba I have build a - private - GitHub action around https://github.com/sbdchd/squawk - for Postgres - that lints all our migrations files on each PR. The action extract raw SQL from the codebase and pass them into squawk.
It catches many exclusive locks migration or missing `index concurrently` that would otherwise have been release to production and causing downtime or degraded service. Maybe something you should start doing.
Yeah, I was mistaken, these are not real rules as written down.
But you can often hear commentators talking about it and keepers are being trained to protect themselves in that area. They recently changed the rule that you can touch the keeper in that area (eg. during the corners etc). Around 2006, before it was not allowed. Any body contact, but keepers knowing it was not allowed for the attackers to have proper body contact with them and they kinda hacked the rule often and were fishing them or looking for the contact.
"The Ogallala Aquifer underlies parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming. From wheat and cows to corn and cotton, the regional economy depends almost exclusively on agriculture irrigated by Ogallala groundwater. But according to the Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), producers are extracting water faster than it is being replenished, which means that parts of the Ogallala Aquifer should be considered a nonrenewable resource."

In large areas, the water level has dropped more than 50 feet. (https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/nation...)

Each of the circles in these satellite images is an irrigation system. Many are a mile in diameter.

* https://goo.gl/maps/5m82TyPRSHnQ2xCx9

* https://goo.gl/maps/wveD2BaP8Stp66yw7

* https://goo.gl/maps/yXL2gWEXq9fmz4jj6

* https://goo.gl/maps/VbhjEKYgWhaqgEHR6

* https://goo.gl/maps/erC76vZx34Rhzt9VA
It depends. Of course, if i.e. a malicious ciphertext can do an RCE, the app right now is not vulnerable. But at some point you might let the user backup his encrypted data and restore it. You colleague knows you already have the code, it's only decrypting the data, you checked it for security, what could go wrong?

Of course, you shouldn't panic just because this issue exists, especially if you know it does not affect you right now. But leaving this unattended, especially without the huge exclaimer that you can not accept untrusted ciphertext, can easily come back to bite you. Maybe it was exactly what caused this (theoretical) issue in the first place.
I'm hesitant to even admit that far-left politics are more accepted; I've seen harsher rejection of socialist ideals than legitimate, objective fascism. But I agree with your general point - if the far right was gone overnight, the far left would be next up on the chopping block.

> highly uniform slightly left leaning milquetoast walled city.

This is absolutely true, though. It's become their immediate point of mockery for any right leaning people. They get to call us robots, NPCs, brittle snowflakes, etc... and the left doesn't have a good retort. :shrug:

It's frustrating, because I think that the left should chill out with the identity politics and at least start trying to focus on larger issues and really drive those points home - healthcare, income inequality, etc... those are issues that have overwhelming public support but are constantly able to be derailed by republican talking points because of the identity politics.
Someone once described Myanmar to me as a "military with a country" instead of a "country guarded by a military".
I should have used more words to express my opinion. I completely support Indiana and Michigan switching to central time. Part of Indiana is already CST because it's basically an extension of Chicago. I assume the rest of Indiana is EST as a relic of railroad scheduling and our proximity to Detroit.

We're going to spring forward and, where I live, it'll be daytime until 10pm. It'd be nice if Indiana just went ahead and committed to CST. I can't imagine what it's like living on the upper peninsula of Michigan and still being EST.
My reading from the outside is, the left needs to realize (I'm sure it applies to the right equally as well) that scolding people into guilt is not a viable approach to affect action or to change perceptions when you're dealing with adults.

This seems manifestly false. A lot of adult behavior can be changed by scolding, a lot of society runs on scolding.

I'm a pretty rational and strongly opinionated person. You won't change my opinions with scolding. But if someone says "don't talk so loud, you'll wake the baby", well, you can certainly change my behavior. But even more, a lot of people do not operate at anywhere near this the level of rationality and a wider area of their behavior can be changed by scolding. Which is to say the population of fully adult humans is a lot less than the population of humans above the age of majority.

And sure, you can't control everything with scolding, you can't replace the police and the army with scolding but scolding, peer (and non-peer) pressure, etc is a tool in the hands of all the different incarnation of "society".
Atomic Increment/Decrement operations in SQL and fun with locks
> The most commonly cited drawback of OS-level threads is that they use a lot of RAM. This is not true on Linux.

I was under the impression this was context switching rather than memory usage, which I haven't seen much about when these models are compared.
He drove at them after driving recklessly through a park. The shooting got lots of press coverage. The city dismantled the protest zone the next day and sent in the police the day after.
RTP? Weather? And how about them critters, do you have any appendages remaining after the mosquitoes devoured them?
Incorrect. If I spam a link to my personal blog on hn the moderator or community will flag/kill them. That is not censorship.
I'm not an expert on this but from what I've heard it sounds like the "government" (which, remember, had 1/4th of it's seats and cabinet-type positions apportioned to the military, by the military) might not have had a "good" option on how to respond to this. It appears they stayed silent on it for fear the military would just stage a coup if they spoke out. As it turns out the military did in fact stage a coup as soon as they saw their hold on the government weakening (right after the recent election and when the newly elected people were coming to be sworn in is when they executed the coup).

On one hand I want to say the "government" didn't care and should be held accountable for not speaking up about the genocide.

On the other hand I see how they might have been too scared to call it out for fear of a coup. Fears that seems to have been well founded...

As with most things it's not black and white.
* You are talking as if there is a linear scaling of how much energy is consumed by a "miner" on the fly. This is false.

* Most renewable/stranded energy mining operations have their own energy source that is not going to be shared by someone else.

* Bitcoin's energy consumption doesn't scale with the number of transactions on each block.

* Most of the bitcoin has already been mined, the incentive to "mine aggressively" is decreasing over time.

* "What if bitcoin uses all the energy", like the top poster on this thread was talking about, they were mocking it to say that all of the energy generated by the sun will be used for mining eventually, is this a fair argument? If such extremist thinking took hold, we could use it to subdue pretty much all progress. Did we think that there will be gold miners digging up land everywhere and we won't have a place to live?
> I think the interesting part is that it's kind of counter-culture but it itself is not really a culture at all.

It reminds me of a chapter from Kino's adventures, where she finds a city, which has a culture of cat lovers. When she leaves them, she meets their king, who tells the story of the land: people had decided they don't need the king and any culture, so they've decided to appear to every traveller with a different culture.

However, the king says, they are not aware that that is their new culture.
Oh, but the Allies did make Naziism illegal (the Soviets of course went further and made most other political speech illegal in their half of Germany)

Not only did West Germany have denazification programmes, but things like denying the holocaust are still illegal in Germany today, as the article discusses.

It's a bold claim to argue this was "futile" or "likely drove some to extremism" when the context was a reaction to the last war so extreme that it resulted in mass public support for a guy who blamed the Jews and geared up for a second war. Failing to defeat those arguments with logic drove an entire country to extremism, and there were a lot more people who still believed in those extremes in 1946 (even after suffering for them) than express sympathy for Germany's much watered down far right today. I doubt that would radically alter if they relaxed holocaust denial laws today, but there was certainly a time when public debate about whether the Holocaust was real or a big lie would have been useful to anyone wanting to follow in Hitler's footsteps and cast Germany as the victim.

Of course, on the other side the GDR absolutely failed in its attempts to force people to love its state and not realise their friends and family in the West were richer and free-er than them. There were limits to the effectiveness of censorship in achieving those goals, even when the censorship itself was almost unparalleled in its pervasiveness and harshness.

But sometimes not facilitating the discussion terrible niche ideas is much more effective at preventing them from going mainstream than debating them
Original blog article. Not paywalled.

https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-...
We actually use drone, too! It has its quirks (for example, it would be nice to be able to start jobs via the web interface), but it works well for us.
Dependes in how you think about this, SQL is the most prominent.

Also array Langs like kdb+?
So what? Use the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands as junction, and branch from there to Scotland and Norway.

Each branch wouldn't be that different in distance from the part between Cyprus and Crete from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroAsia_Interconnector or the related https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroAfrica_Interconnector
> Inclination changes are so expensive that there was at least one case where an operator sent a satellite all the way to the Moon and back, because it cost less fuel that way.

To get a good rule-of-thumb for this in your brain, you can think of it in terms of vector mathematics.

Consider a circular orbit. Now consider two vectors: one in the direction of that orbit, one perpendicular to it. A naive inclination change from 0 degrees to 90 degrees, with no other change to the orbit's dynamics (i.e. same eccentricity, same periapsis / apoapsis), require the velocity to change from parallel to the first vector to parallel to the second, at the same magnitude. That's a total change of SQRT(2 * starting_velocity^2) ~= 1.4 * starting velocity. If we consider a velocity that is LEO (about 7.8 km/s), our total velocity change would have to be about 10.92 km/s.

Putting a satellite into LEO from Earth's surface only costs between 9 and 10 km/s from gravity loss, steering, and wind resistance. Earth is a deceptively expensive gravity well to be doing inclination change maneuvers in.
I didn't vote either way. Virtual sex and virtual coffee don't sound appealing.
Not in the UK - most free parking for shopping centres use ANPR cameras so that people who are going there for a few hours can do so, but people trying to be cheeky and park there all day to go elsewhere can't.
Well, this steps up the game quite a lot. I’d considered the CPU attacks relatively unconcerning because it required executing code locally. Bring able execute from a web page makes for a broader attack vector.
My first experience with Linux was also after ordering their CD package... maybe around 5 discs? I almost remember first time ever logging in through the terminal after installation. Wow
Try the actual original article: https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-...
Don't Read Links on the Internet
Hey, I was one of the developers on the team at that time. It's been fun re-reading that write up. I learned a lot since then, and I think the whole industry has learned a lot regarding NoSQL databases, their strengths and weaknesses and how to deal with those in your applications.

You are correct that the biggest issue was that we couldn't diagnose problems when they occurred, and therefore we couldn't learn. Some of those problems were for sure "user error", others were absolutely problems with MongoDB at the time. It was a "young" database back in 2015.
"If I was a big agro, I'd invest in both parties. The Republicans to remove regulation that helps big agro compete, and the Democrats to implement regulation that prevents small agro from competing."

They do.

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/cargill-inc/summary?id=D000...
The same question can be asked of literally any useful goods made available for sale. Presumably you don’t shop at grocery stores because they might feed a murderer, or allow plants to grow at your house because they could provide oxygen to criminals.

The question can be turned around. How do you sleep at night supporting centralized information services, knowing they’re an enabling technology for despots?
Good. Crypto is nonsense. Ban it already
> You are basically saying there is no power in integration and that the only effort for reform here should be negative consequences

This an extremely uncharitable reading of my comments. I said a structural problem needs a structural solution, not a personal one. To invoke Chisholm as a counter-argument is offensive.
Most of the arguments against, sound like the same arguments against things like cars (vs horses). "Do you think we'll make all those roads just for cars to go on?", "Cars don't work on dirt roads, they get stuck all the time", "What if you run out of gas in the middle of nowhere?" "You will run over people and kill them in an accident" "Cars cause pollution"
That was the beginning of the end for me. Trying to search for a post I saw a few hours ago resulted in nothing but frustration. What a joke.
Comparing to my comment[0], I think we're seeing a divergence in the meaning of "counter-culture" as either:

a. Counter or opposing the dominant culture

b. An uncommon or rare culture

I argue in [0] that (a) is increasingly likely to be negative as society grows more just. However, as you mention, (b) can include all manner of neutral cultures, which are of course not necessarily negative.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26440512