skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have bought a device from them (Z18 which comes with their own Android flavor and the ratio launcher) and my personal experience wasn't very good: updaters that don't work, their community support board that is not very active, I had to download and flash a ROM from a dubious website using some obscure Mediatek tool just to get a recent version up and running.

It was a bad purchase and it doesn't inspire much confidence about their other products.

I have spent several days over the last year or so to try and get an alternative open source Android distribution on it but no success yet. I wish I could install LineageOS on it so I can at least have a functional device.
Then normalise for crime rates. Ah, the wonders of slicing and dicing a dataset.
Firefox for iOS has a dark mode built in, it's how I always read HN on my phone these days. The only downside is it can make some websites look very strange as it will invert a lot of the colours, but for HN it works really well
> And I certainly don't think Amazon would put so much effort into fighting this if their employee treatment, benefits and compensation and general employer track record made employees genuinely not even consider the Union option.

You can say the same thing about any political campaign!

Do you think people must not really want Joe Biden as president because he had to spend $6 billion to persuade them through campaigning?
People have written books about habit formation, e.g. Tiny Habits. The principles are fairly convincing.

Choose one of [walking more, eating healthy, strength training, sleeping early, etc].

Anchor: use an existing habit as the trigger for your new habit. For example, if you tend to eat lunch at the same time every day, and have free time after it, your anchor could be "as soon as I finish lunch". Maybe set a phone reminder if you're not good at remembering.

Behaviour: do a tiny, accessible version of the desired behaviour. e.g. if you want to walk more, this might be "I'll leave my house". You're going to ramp this up over time, so starting small is fine.

Celebration: do something simple to provide positive feedback for engaging in the habit. Even just something like "I will smile and let myself feel good for five seconds".

Do that for a few days, scale up the behaviour slowly, and eventually you'll have built the habit. Then add on a new habit.
with exclusives, including making games exclusive which were previously available on other platforms.
Must be noticed that plants are not animals.

Animals have immune systems; plants deploy defensive responses. Talking about immunity in plants is a nonsense.

Plants don't have blood, therefore they don't have white blood cells or are able to make its own antibodies. Plantibodies [1] only work in animals.

Most of the time, they just seal the attacker for a while in a tomb of resin and keep with its normal chores.

[1] plant substances modified genetically to work the same as antibodies when inoculated into an animal (or to act as precursors or helpers to build antibodies in the same scenery). You could then mass produce antibodies for healthcare system in crops and fields. The problem is that plants can produce allergies and you don't want both actors in the same room.
> With bitcoin the cost is terrible because ASIC hardware only works for mining bitcoin and by definition has to waste huge amounts of electricity forever to keep mining.

Multipurpose mining hardware would compromise security of the network. An alternative use for the hardware would effectively be a subsidy on mining Bitcoin.

This would imply that the costs of securing Bitcoin
are not being paid by Bitcoin hodlers, and are not fully internalised by Bitcoin.

This is similar to the reason that Proof of Work must not have economic uses external to the network.

If such a subsidy were more valuable than rewards intrinsic to the network, any variance in that subsidy would cause variance in the security of the network, with the likely case being reduced security, the network now being dependent on that external use case.

E.g. if the alternative use is valuable, it might incentivise me to acquire enough miners such that I control majority hashrate of the network subsidised by the alternative more profitable use of the hardware. Any attack on the network is then subsidised by the external use case for the hardware.
> Independent fact checkers agree

They agree on a very different question. Even if we want to reframe it as an allegedly completely harmless "VoA can now broadcast to Americans!", the embezzles the fact that outlets like VoA/Radio Liberty&co. are very much the US equivalent to a Russia Today.

With the difference how their US versions have been broadcasting globally, completely unopposed, for literally decades. Yet whenever RT is linked anywhere it doesn't take long for somebody to go "That's Russia bad/propaganda/all lies!", usually derailing the discussion from the actual topic.

> Again, if you want to convince a bunch of people to overthrow Putin, those daily active users are on VK - not Facebook.

You also want to dampen any criticism, propaganda is not just a game of offense, it's also one of defense [0]
That's where it's really helpful to have more than just two eyes, like Five Eyes [1]

> Your second link plainly states that the US created an entirely new social network to try and influence Cuba, they didn't do it on Instagram.

Cuba actively blocks Internet traffic when it's convenient to them [2], Instagram can't sidestep that, SMS can [3], it can even reach people that still only have dumb phones, something quite relevant back in 2012.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsehood_in_War-Time#Summary

[1] https://theintercept.com/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/

[2] https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1333495221712265217

[3] http://cubamoneyproject.com/2019/09/21/zunzuneo/
This is a good point t I hadn’t considered. The App Store neatly abstracts sales tax/VAT for all markets in which the App Store operates. For a small to mid sized developer that’s a huge boon - especially for those with operations in the EU.

A large player like Epic obviously doesn’t care as they have to built that anyway for their PC store.
Only in the short term. Lifting people from extreme poverty drastically reduces birth rates, accelerating demographic transition [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition
> - Help incapacitated astronaut into suit (temporarily removing own suit if necessary)
> - Once both suited up, open airlock again to admit remaining astronaut

These steps don't seem to be necessary. Since the CM can be opened from the inside towards the LM, the third astronaut could just wait in the LM and be let in that way.

I think the only question is really how quickly can you repressurize the CM.

It was basically a cone-shaped pressure vessel 3.23m tall and 3.91m wide, that's 51.71m^3 of volume. I'd estimate about 50% is taken up by machinery, so how fast can you repressurize 25m^3 to 1/3 sea level (which was apparently standard for the spacecraft)?

My guess would be it could be done pretty quickly, maybe 2 minutes?
I think that might be a signal that you have already gone too far into the convo too!
> And yes, the "media" as in the NBC variants, CNN, CBS, ABC, NPR, etc. seem to all mimic/amplify each others reporting.

TIL by watching multiple DVR-ed news shows from the same night while visiting family...

It is eerie the extent to which the nightly national news stories are the nearly same across the various old networks. With a whole country of stories to pick from the network news is, anecdotally, 80%+ the same many nights. Not only the topics but also the story structure, the chosen sequence of video clips, etc.
The thing with ideologies (and other kinds of socioeconomical hypotheses) is that they're hyperstitional in nature - you can't prove they're realizable without at the same time deliberately trying to realize them, using people as fodder. (See, communism.) And at least one of the ideologies promulgated in meme-space must have some basis in potential reality (otherwise people wouldn't be at all prone to believing in world-changing ideas). Might be this one, might be not.
No, as a matter of fact it's the opposite, Italy has relatively low violent crime levels.

What Italy has, though, is very violent and abusive law enforcement, to the point where it's unbecoming of a first-world country.

So I can definitely see how that would be a concern.
The problem with UML diagrams as a design tool is that all the culture around them is using them in a really fine grained manner, with every class and even methods stuffed in there. A map in 1:1 scale with the territory gets unwieldy really quick.
> Nearly 50% of the nitrogen found in human tissues originated from the Haber–Bosch process.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#Economic_and_env...
Can you answer whether you believe that a football player being constrained by rules against maiming his or her opponent is a constraint that "[goes] against the primary driver of human motivation, competition"?
American software has been under "boycott" since PRISM - it's kinda getting old. Additionally I feel that people are bit tired of USA's evilness and the results of it are not so apparent but we hear of chinese protesters disappearing every week.
Just because you "don't celebrate it" doesn't mean you should call their boss, harass their workplace, place demands that they are fired from their job, mark them as bad people, and so on.

And yet many people do just that, and feel good about it.
I feel no-wave also might have been influential. ESG could easily be read as proto-techno in this context. 'Erase You' and 'Dance' have that same kind of reductionist, tribal sensibility.
It’s like either you read the report backwards or the author doesn’t know their arse from their elbow — I’ll go with the later. Nintendo said they’re moving away from mobile because of how disappointing revenue has been, not to it.

Rest assured, Nintendo’s console business remains their focus. All games they’ve announced in development are for Switch and rumours of a Switch Pro may actually have something to them. They haven’t released a new mobile game for a long time, just content updates to existing ones.

Switch is Nintendo’s cash cow at the moment; they haven’t had a console do so well since the Wii and software sell so well since the NES and Game Boy days.
There’s a point where things can go too far. When we have machines violating our privacy and manipulating social expression (behaviors change when people know they are being watched and tracked), that’s a problem. In the end it’s corporations and governments doing this, why all of a sudden have we forgotten how most of the time they don’t have our best interest in mind and only greed and power?
Speaking from experience: absolutely not true.

Many kids (like my own) prefer the mobile form factor and mobile controls.

That said, they're not playing Fortnite and likely don't even know what Fortnite is.
I always have to force myself to remember that users will actively avoid reading any kind of error message you present to them, and just clear it away or close a modal automatically. There's an entire dark art to presenting this information such that it breaks through that conditioned response.

The other thing I'm always kicking myself about is forgetting that users will just start poking at things and reclicking if they don't immediately get some feedback that things are happening.
So are VC unicorns.
Before I discuss anything complex with another person (politics, religion, etc.), I check to see if they're an idiot. Do they think for themselves or parrot a standard position? Can they explain how they came to a conclusion? When they say "I think . . . ", did they? It doesn't matter they subject; either they think or they don't.

If a person doesn't think (many don't), you're not arguing with them, but with a set of recordings.
> Is the grocery store "double dipping" because it takes money from you to buy the food, and also takes money from companies to place products in special promotional end-of-aisle displays? Back when people bought physical newspapers, were newspapers "double dipping" because they charged both for the physical print copy, as well as charging companies to place advertisements there?

No.

> Were Nintendo and Sony "double-dipping" because they charged consumers to buy their consoles, as well as charging cartridge makers for the chip required for the game to actually work?

No.

> Is Google "double-dipping" because they're selling you a phone and then using it to advertise to you?

Yes.

I can go to any other store and get the same food at a price reflecting the competition between them where one gets kick-backs on the backend as well and another doesn't.

With consoles the game makers (non-exclusives) can take it or leave it in regards to specific consoles as long as there is enough of them.

Android and iOS are two separate phone makers (or at least OS in one case), but that isn't enough to sustain market competition on any granularity, so they can make arbitrary choices with regards to charging at all ends and still have a captive market. Consoles would probably be here without PC.

> The iPhone has the Apple Tax on apps priced into it already. If they didn't have the revenue from Epic, they'd have to either find sources of revenue (like spying on you to sell you more stuff) or reduce the quality of the software / hardware.

[citation needed]
> I made an argument based on objective facts.

If you think your first reply was based on objective facts you're delusional. It's full of your subjective assumptions:

> "We've tried the 'rawr girl power, women can do everything men can do' culture, and the result is scores of women being used and taken advantage of because they were not capable, emotionally/temperamentally, to be their own advocate in sex and dating interactions."
> “Tracks aren’t guaranteed to be the same length” problem as in swimming.

In rowing you row between 2 imaginary lines. You don't even have to get the distance of these lines perfectly just make sure they are both in the same direction and neither boat gets the advantage.

With swimming you have to build a 50m long and quite wide concrete structure that has straight angles at all 4 corners and has perfectly straight walls. This is actually much harder to do then it sounds.
I don’t get the facebook meme thing but I last I heard it being discussed was on a podcast called “opening arguments” around the time DeJoy was brought in. The show is a comedian and a Harvard lawyer discussing policy and law. Highly recommended to those who may not know about it. They research and go a lot deeper than what you’d read in a comment or news article on a variety of issues. Well worth a sub
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I don't know how many colleagues I helped with 'git' just by telling them to read what 'git status' is actually telling them.

Some people's mind just goes blank when they see error and it prevents them from solving it themselves. Often times, they are so used to copy-paste and also not being empowered by management and colleagues for some of their approaches diminishes loads of their confidence.
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Doesn't he deserve it? If you were to launch a world-changing project at the cost of disappearing completely, wouldn't you want to reap some benefit from that project if it ever succeeds?
Why Linux requires 4MB of RAM no matter of kernel size?
Hi

I have old 386SX with 2MB of ram hanging around and I wonder:

- Why Linux requires 4MB of RAM no matter of kernel size?

- Why prior to Linux 1.3(?) I was able to use Linux with just 2MB of RAM (Slackware 2.1)

- Is it possible to modify "modern" kernel(let's say 2.4) (apart from lack of support for 386 anymore) to remove such artificial limit?
>You want your speech to be free from consequences -- i.e if you were to call someone a liar / cheat, they can't change their opinion of you based on what you've said? How is that compatible with their freedom of thought?

The issue of calling someone "a liar / cheat" if they're not belongs to libel. Same way yelling fire in a crowded cinema is a public safety issue.

Expression of ideas is neither, and should not have "consequences".

>To me, freedom of speech means I shouldn't worry about legal repercussions for expressing wrongthink.

So is it OK if a mob (not a legal or govermnet entity) stomped on you and beat you to a bloody pulp?

If a church (not a legal entity) asked its members to spit on your face and abuse you on the internet?

If you were immediately fired?
Sure but you need about 300GB RAM for the temporary files needed while creating plots.
I was talking about Google's and Apple's profits.
I would say new segregationism is specifically the third and fourth points.

Only black women are allowed to date black rappers: https://hiphopwired.com/playlist/bobby-shmurda-girlfriend-tw...

Only black translators being allowed to translate the work of black writers: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/amanda-gorman-catalan-...

Only black people are allowed to have a particular hairstyle on their Animal Crossing characters: https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/01/28/nintendo-allegedly...

I should say that as far as i can tell, this sort of belief is extremely fringe. The nature of the world today is that a handful of people can get loud on Twitter and get a lot of attention for it.
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Dolphins love overclocking.
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Yes, the same thing exists here. My national id as well as driver's licence are stored on my phone. Forgot to mention it.
So "freedom of speech" is where you can say what you want, except that if you say the wrong thing to the wrong person, then there are potentially serious repercussions, up to and including imprisonment.

I'm curious to know what not having freedom of speech would look like.
No offense, but this post comes across as "because you don't want what I want, you must be ignorant".
I agree with the overall point, there are plenty of sane people on the left, thank God.

However, I want to defend the idea that some right wing opinions make a lot of logical sense on their own; their being valid does not require right-wing-specific value systems.

Let's take one of the points you're criticizing.

> someone who doesn't work and doesn't contribute to society doesn't deserve govt handouts

Here's the logic: the products and services we enjoy every day are all the product of someone else's work. None appear out of thin air. If they're provided by the government, they are still funded by taxes on the fruit of someone else's work. Why would someone who does not produce anything be entitled to any of it? The basic value behind this point is plain fairness, which everybody agrees on.

That being said, I will concede the above point needs refining and nuance before it can be used as a principle to guide public policy. For instance, it makes sense that society should help people who cannot work because of some handicap. The value here is common decency, which is neither specific to the right or the left.

Another refinement: what about people who are out of work and haven't found their next position? It's probably productive to help them with unemployment benefits: we can bet they will be back on their feet faster if they worry less about immediate money problems. The value here is efficiency. Of course, these benefits should be delivered under certain conditions, because the overall point regarding fairness still stands. They are not entitled to the fruit of someone else's work if they refuse to give back.

So here's the refined point:

In a fair society, people who are able to work but willingly refuse to do so should be not entitled to the fruits of someone else's work. However, people who are unable to work, whether permanently or temporarily, are excluded from this point and may be helped through the means of redistribution.

The final point is maybe a bit centrist, but still fairly right-leaning in its position. It's very logical, and only buttressed by the shared values of fairness, efficiency and common decency.
One analysis in a local newspaper was something that blew my mind: in the US your health insurance is tied to your employer?!. Just think about how absolutely insane that is. Your boss has life or death power over you and your loved ones.
Apparently that's how Amazon was able to threaten it's workers.
It sounds to me like you are doing the exact same thing you accuse "the leftists" of doing - oversimplifying the other sides views without actually considering their benefits and drawbacks, and writing them off as "feel good speech", while positioning your own political (and emotional) views as logical and rational.

The "logical" view you have given ("someone who doesn't work and doesn't contribute to society doesn't deserve govt handouts") is purely an emotional view. "Deserve" has nothing to do with any sort of logic or realism. What are the effects of such a policy? What are the effects on crime, homelessness, unemployment...?

Politics is complicated, there is no absolute right or wrong, and the effects of policies are complex and hard to predict. There are many trade-offs, and a lot of those are non-obvious. People also have different values, and will prefer different trade-offs. That is not necessarily better or worse, just different.
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>The RWDSU alleged that Amazon's agents unlawfully threatened employees with closure of the warehouse if they joined the union and that the company emailed a warning it would lay off 75% of the proposed bargaining unit because of the union.

Amazon denies this.

Especially the email, either that happened or it didn't. Either way someone needs to go to jail for perjury.
> It's not about ideas. It's about tribes.

wonder what percentage of our likelihood to survive depend on ensuring we still are part of the tribe (e.g. signalling)? I think all communication other than the functional coordination of mundane things (can you pick the kids up today? how much for X etc) would fall into that category. Why otherwise bother with any of it at all?

It seems there is perhaps a relation between the amount of tribalism and uncertainty in life people face? It's easier to take risks and care about art and talk about very complex topics in a distanced way with people from opposing views when we're not in the thick of it?
Kaspersky is the ever-presiding CEO and the founder of the company. Was CrowdStrike founded by a CIA alumni?

And I hope you realize your whole retort amounts to "Kaspersky is as bad as CIA shell companies".
I believe that's an Anglocentric story: as far as I know, German scholars were very much aware of the same properties of orally composed South Slavic epic poems for more than a century longer.
One thing I read recently which seemed weird at first but has made me really consider a lot of things about current culture differently:

"Taking offence is an act of aggression"
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That's true, I keep forgetting about https://lfortran.org/ Unfortunately in my experience the people I know who almost exclusively code in fortran are not really interested in jupyter notebooks.
I installed the new beta BIOS update a week ago and since then my machine is been ROCK solid.

Interestingly, my fan is running harder now; whilst CPU usage is low but spiking on 1-2 cores. It never did that before; so maybe the problem was caused by a thermal bug in the bios.
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