skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The expanse has a lot of problems. Mainly the fact that the creators dislike "disaster porn". Thus making the show completely devoid of any emotional impact.

Like the rocks falling was filmed in such a way as to be the least emotionally impactful to the viewer. I don't think they could have done anything more than they did to make it un-emotional. It is incredibly bizarre.
Michigan Doesn't Know True Nursing Home Death Toll from Covid
Not affiliated with either side, but I saw that nobody mentioned the blog post by freenode about this topic yet: https://freenode.net/news/for-foss

Sadly, it doesn't mention what they actually changed in their policies or why. Just that in general they seem to feel tricked by OTHER parties kicking people from freenode channels for NOT going to Libera.

My take: Instead of participating in the flame war, the best approach may just be to help both sides keep a voice, document what happens, support reasonable decisions. As long as both sides block and kick users there are no reasonable decisions to be made. Personally, I probably won't even open either chat tool until things calmed down.

As a side note, I also want to remember the time when Matrix was trying to get users by building interfaces to other chat platforms and mirroring the communication in both platforms. That sounds like a reasonable decision to me.
That point is not invalidating the parent's.
What other notion of year would people use? There's clearly a repeating cycle of that takes approximately 360 days. The seasons cycle, the stars come back to their same spots. I don't think there is any evidence that ancient people used a different version of year. In fact, given that we still have Babylonian influences like 360 degrees in our circle, I'd argue that we have continued in their tradition.
Take a look at the GPD devices in that case, they might suit your exact need if you're ok with the price they're asking.
What makes you think Mars will have better laws?
Here's the graph out of my prometheus: https://i.imgur.com/iUkkqAK.png
Ha! Good catch. :)
https://i.imgflip.com/5b0hgl.jpg
Alpha will merge with Omega. 8)
There are at least 10 different clients, and I'm only referring to those that are listed on the Matrix website.
Also, I don't feel people talk about this much but gaming desktops tend to be noisy, ugly, and/or gaudy on top of taking up lots room. I'd love to just get rid of this box but I don't care enough about games to buy a gaming laptop, which just only slightly solves the ugly/gaudy problem for me. I'd love to just stream going forward and never have to put together another PC or buy another expensive video card again and having the ability to do this on a handheld sounds very tempting!
"You could also type `cd` when SSH'd into a remote machine and Fig will list the folders within your current directory on the remote machine."

This is excellent! :)
Interested to know how they arrived at the 45% number? Does anybody know?
I've seen a few myself. They probably don't hit as hard as when they were new, but certainly a few still hold up acceptably. Especially compared to some mass produced content today which is cringey and predictable.
Curiously, it is still nearly impossible to buy an external display with “retina grade” resolution. (The only one on the market is the LG Ultrafine and I’m looking at one right now… don’t get me started on this fucking dog.) And while laptops are certainly much more popular than desktops, retina grade displays are still an option for most non-Apple computers.

So yeah, we haven’t dug ourselves out of this hole yet.
Amazon workers are rising up around the world to say: enough
> locked down hardware

not every register!
A lot of secular buddhists tend to identify as humanists instead. It's a very popular saying: "Don't use buddhism to become a buddhist. Use buddhism to become a better whatever you are."
People are social.

I don't only watch a movie or a TV show for the intrinsic entertainment quality, I also do it so that I can talk about what I watch with others.

That artsy Swiss movie from 1929 is not as popular a theme as the latest episode of Ozark.
For me, it was the "Adobe Flash Player is no longer supported" message that gave it away.
https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Buy_n_Large

It's a Wall-E reference
I also said if you respect your users. They pay millions to continue the status quo as best they can, not to adapt to the new rules. The millions were to cover the marketing dept's desire to continue cramming Hotjar and all that other creepy guff into the page.

Why do it? Because Americans and other non-EU citizens deserve privacy too mate
The US’ One China policy is just to acknowledge that the PRC claims that Taiwan is its territory. The US has never recognized this claim.
>"Shell will adjust its policy so that it will also emit less CO2 in real-time."

Yes, they will just dust off their magic wands and wave them round a bit and poof! No more CO2! Because up until now they have just been ignoring all the calls for climate change.

I'm incredibly cynical about this. Not because of the naive sounding statement, nor because i care too much about Shells bottom line. It's simply because this will most probably affect not Shell, but drivers at the petrol stations.

Also, it sounds unreasonable to tell a company whose principal product produces CO2 to stop making it. Especially when it's extremely necessary.

But wait! The litigant actually says this!

>but the company will not be able to continue pumping as much oil and gas as they do now.

Imagine this. You need some wooden shelves, you go to IKEA and they tell you that the court ordered them to stop selling so much wooden furniture, so no more shelves for you. I'm not sure people would accept that. I'm very, very cynical about this ruling.
It seems while the initial reading is that this is an inevitable process, the more sapient technological perspective would be that they've discovered a key mechanism that can now be investigated and adjusted for improved results.

The key factor of humans getting to where we are (both good and bad), is our ability to see something that is, then figure out why it is how it is, and then change that structure/process/sequence to rearrange it to meet our goals.
Moving from the EU to GB seems like a brilliant idea these days.
and then the world be magically better?

I don't get this sentiment, what exactly do you think will be the benefits of doing this? It's a drastic action, you don't just break up multi billion companies in an afternoon, so you better come up with some very good concrete points on why this is necessary. Not just vague statements about improving competition.

Also you know what a huge role Silicon Valley companies play for the U.S. internationally? And you want to cripple them?

I don't understand how here on HN, where the majority is in the tech industry, the people are begging for government intervention and regulations. Be careful what you ask for, I'd rather have them stay out of the industry, thanks.
You seem to be ignoring my point. The death rate is not because there's something special about the virus itself that makes it highly lethal. It's just that it's novel, so our bodies have to work harder to learn how to fight it off, and the frailest people don't have the fortitude to do that.

Ergo, as it becomes endemic, and all of our immune systems learn how to respond to it, it's completely reasonable to expect that it will become benign to most people. (After all, it already is pretty benign to many/most people, compared to the original SARS and MERS).

Repeating "we don't know" is an easy response, and something you can say in response to anything like this, but it's not really addressing the logic I'm presenting. You really have to demonstrate why this virus is substantially different to all the other respiratory viruses that have become endemic and mostly benign, which you've not attempted to do. You just keep saying "we don't know". Sure, but we actually have some solid historical precedent, and this virus is so-far showing no signs of being any different from all those before it.
you might consider updating your hn profile. ;) (it currently lists oftc & fn)
Moving My Phone Numbers from Google Hangouts/Voice to an Sip/XMPP Service
I think it would be interesting. But even at the end of SG1 they had already 'jumped the shark' as it were. They tried to make up a new bad guy but it just was not as good. I think reviving it would detract from what is there.

Now more Bob and Doug McKenzie I would be down with that.
It could have just been one spambot, they don't say from how many users the messages came.
The age of non-stop self-promotion
I consider that axiomatic as a living organism.
This needs to go to the top
I thought that is exactly what the researchers were looking at
PathAI Raises $165M Series C financing
To be clear, it's not like there were never steam machines for sale, but manufacturers stopped making them.

Here, you can see five for sale in 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160225105722/https://store.ste...

I don't know that Valve were ever going to make physical devices themselves (other than the 100 they made for beta testers.) From pretty early on, and definitely by Steam Dev Days 2014, it seemed to me like they were trying to make a platform for hardware manufacturers to build linux computers made for gaming, rather than manufacturing their own computers.

As for the Steam Controller, and Steam link, I completely agree. Steam Link was a poor showing, and the Steam Controller, while neat, really could have used a V2 upgrade.

More generally, I don't know that Valve has made a truly successful product or game other than maybe Halflife Alex in well over a decade. And even with Alex, the player base is so limited due to being a VR exclusive.

It's pretty sad.
What Robots Can – and Can’t – Do for the Old and Lonely
> But fortunately the Internet came along

Yes, that’s the difference. There used to be a gatekeeper to reaching your audience, but now there is none. A kid can take their 4K phone and make their own TV show with their friends and distribute it worldwide, or a company can get a professional crew and spend a couple billion dollars and distribute it worldwide.

If the contention is that a few companies owning all the content will raise the prices, then that solution would be removing/reducing copyright protections, or compulsory licensing, but in the current environment, who owns what is mostly immaterial to customers.
Thank you for the clear description of the change. It seemed like this was a teapot typhoon, but I was not quite interested enough to lift the lid myself.
The ease at which one connects to Libera with an IRC client, it was like nothing had happened, at this point (especially after recent events) you'd get a very close experience of what Freenode was like, with the same people, topics and all.

Grateful to see it flourish!
Arxiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.16149
Also, considering the dismissive tone of your post and your choice of handle/username, it seems you are here (just?) to grind your axe, and not for genuine and honest discussion.
Knockout City is the best team-deathmatch game we’ve played in years
Not surprising. I can't see how that would help their brand.
The Mounting Cost of Stale Ad Blocking Rules (2018)
I wish this could be shown higher. Sadly they have already replaced "country" with "region" despite it in fact is a country like Scotland is (or at least a state like California is).

By the way Tatarstan, another country in the Russian Federation even is officially a "sovereign state integrated with Russia". There even are such things as citizenship and constitution of Tatarstan.
Yeah, I should have been more specific. I meant the Arch Linux IRC channels article.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_IRC_channels
What is the point about that? Nobody is worried about "geographic Europe", people care about actual Europe, not some technical term.

If someone is worried that Arab Muslims, or for that matter Arab Christians, will not assimilate into European culture and are incompatible with European values, how is it even remotely relevant that there is a tiny federal subject in what is technically European Russia where there's a lot of Muslims?

Only someone entirely unfamiliar with Europe would think this makes any difference. If you want to talk about Islam, focus instead on Bosnia, in the heart of Europe. While definitely not without their issues, comparing Bosniaks and Assyrians show that culture is more relevant than religion when it comes to integration.
That was pretty hard to search for https://www.remedygames.com/games/control/
Seems like a good thing to make illegal!

It's really weird to me how CO2 emissions are casually justified, and so many people resist the idea that companies could be held legally liable for knowingly causing harm. For pretty much any other situation, a business based on those terms would be heavily chastised and scorned, but for some reason companies like Shell get a pass for 1) doing research to discover that they are doing harm, 2) lying about that research and what they know, 3) conducting public misinformation campaigns to deceive people, and 4) deceptively influencing government policy to allow their continued harm.
Good catch! Done.
If they vaccinate adequately, why would they have Covid deaths anywhere near the same magnitude as the US/UK?
> approval for basic freedoms like buying land. That's how you end up with a dictatorship.

That escalated quickly. Nobody argued you need approval to buy land. We’re talking about purchasing thousands of acres of land, and exerting that kind of influence.

This is exactly a temporarily embarrassed millionaire example - you wanna buy yourself some investment properties, so you’re sitting here arguing on behalf of the richest man on earth.
Colonial Pipeline’s branding is a disaster. That should’ve been a warning sign
Why Schemas Matter
Same here. I expected some channels to move and some to stay and that I would just have to connect to one more server once the dust had settled.
That is not at all what I am implying. When you buy that much amount of land, which is a basic human necessity, at minimum the public needs to know what the plans are for those lands, right? If someone buys 5 acres of land, that is a different story, nobody cares. The scale is what making the difference here.

Let me ask you another question - recently (2019 I think), Bill bought 14,500 acres of land for 171M in a single deal. 171M is pocket change for Bill. According to your logic, he can continue to buy farmlands across the country (because "freedom") with nobody asking any questions. What happens if he ends up owning half (or 75% or whatever) of all available farmlands? You want one single man to control your food supply?

He can buy all the Ferraris/Picassos/megayachts etc on the planet, that would make zero difference to anyone (except maybe other billionaires). It is when he starts buying water sources, land etc it becomes a problem. It has nothing to do with dictatorship.
I mean, just imagine, you go the the slave market and they tell you that the court ordered them to stop selling slaves on the basis that some laws say that you cannot do so!

Burning fossil fuels is bad. Shell is in the business of producing fossil fuels to burn. Shell needs to leave that business in the very long term. What's the problem here?
> it is run by all the people who have been successfully running Freenode for all these years

Not all: 2006-2021 head of staff, Dahlskjaer, resigned in February 2021. Some sources maybe hint that there was some drama involved.
The Problem with the AP’s Firing of Emily Wilder
Seeing the numbers spelled out like that really drives home how niche IRC has become. The largest network has less than 100k users on it. You can comfortably fit that many connections on a single server these days.
Developer here, open a detailed issue on Github and will give it a look
A PID controller is a suspension system for data. And just like the shocks in your car or mountain bike, the components need to be tuned to make the ride smooth. PID controllers are used in ovens and thermostats and brushless motors and all kinds of things you probably already use.
I am a signatory to this letter and I am glad they are taking reasonable steps to safeguard the community.
You can't answer that question any more than I can. This is a question for Andrew Lee.
Ironically, in the first book they talk about how a station is always lit to simulate daylight 24/7 :P Something about how they used to simulate a day/night cycle but stopped.
There are Telegram channels that post full episodes of tv series. It is really convenient to watch them as you can download for offline use.
It's a Banks-style Outside Context Problem.
This has been the major reason why #haskell didn't try to move more forcefully.

We'd like to get some of the old logging bots moved over, etc.

We have some number of users who connect from tor, from matrix, or from webchat that simply can't move right now. These are things being looked at from the libera.chat side, but that work isn't done.

I very much value those users being able to continue to ask and get their questions answered.

That said, we used to have like 3-4 server ops lurking in the channel, and 15-16 channel ops that were active on the server. We just don't any more. This makes me rather concerned from a spam perspective.

On the other hand, there are < 80 people in the channel now, so perhaps spam is less of an issue now that we're a much smaller target.
It seems to me that they shouldn't be fighting individual cases, but rather the entire principle behind DMCA.

DMCA limits my right to free speech. That could be still justifiable in case of copyright violations, but at least invalid cases of copyright notices should be punishable. Also, companies like Google/YouTube play a dubious role. No takedowns should happen unless the defendant agrees, because again, that limits free speech.
It does indeed sound like a very smooth migration when taking into account the staggering amount of projects and users involved.
I think that what the industry will move into will be into something very similar to cabletvm, so, instead of buying subscriptions from a few services, you'll buy a package from a bundler.
On the bright side it won't be as bad as it was with cable, because it will be on-demand. But also, probably the MBAs are going to come out with infinite combinations of tiered-services that nobody will understand, at first, it will be cheaper to buy a bundle, but as it becomes popular, the consumer value extraction machine will go full throttle.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27288590
Yes, I didn't see any indication from the article that they verified that the users in question were human, or that they were not paid to tweet misinformation. The effect was pretty small, it seems like even a small number of dedicated bad actors could account for it.
Django is very mature and has excellent documentation (something that is important as anything else). If you don’t mind Python, it is an excellent choice for a CRUD system, or any traditional document-based website.
As far as the community is concerned in 2017 he bought something called "freenode limited" which doesn't own the network, doesn't own the servers, and had no operational control beyond owning domain names.

This would be like if you found out the local little league basball had been sold. It's a community resource that only exists through the continued donation of time by the members. It's not something that should ever be "owned".
How are the incentives any different now? Why would Amazon not want to be paid for a show it does not want but Apple or Netflix does? Swap around any of the company names.

If a different studio was selling to Apple/Amazon/etc then presumably they would have language that lets them sell to someone else if they did not end up distributing it.
The intruder with William Shatner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci4dQ2QzBhE

The story depicts the machinations of a racist named Adam Cramer (Shatner), who arrives in the fictitious small Southern town of Caxton in order to incite white townspeople to racial violence against black townspeople and court-ordered school integration.
Can someone who is more in the know help me: is the move away from the Freenode name (or rebranding) a way to leave the project as it is (keeping existing functionality and thereby ensuring backwards compatibility)? Or is it because of a disagreement between maintainers, or something else?
Where does this leave other companies? If shell can be held liable for carbon emissions, then surely other companies/individuals can be held liable as well?
Because it does not scale. If they did, they would spend a lot of time explaining easy-to-produce fallacious statements, in a similar dynamic to that of people „feeding the trolls“ on the internet.

P.S. Or, in other words, burden of proof ;)
We should allow Xiaomi to sell their phones in US. Reverse engineer their tech and sell knock offs of their phones at cheaper prices. Thereby eliminating them anyways.
IRC has a concept of "ops" or operator privileges, which are per-channel moderation priveleges. The exact privileges depend on the IRC software running, but it usually means that you can change the advertised topic message, mute / un-mute users, and kick users out of the channel.

Hijack means removing those privileges from someone else and assigning them to yourself.
That’s really sad about your friend, but you’re using one anecdotal case to scare people about covid. Young fit people have died from the flu before. If we’re going to make big decisions, they need to be rational ones based on data, not emotional pleas from individuals.
They call REST anything that uses JSON over HTTP nowadays. What I don't get, when they don't know or don't want to do REST, why they are not just calling their API JSON/HTTP?
Families, technology use, and daily life: parents’ role in building resilience
I read it recently. Four star book for me.
Will recommend.
The article mentions complications with this because of existing deals:

Still, efforts by Amazon to profit off MGM's library won’t be easy, or cheap.

In many cases, MGM’s content is tied up in multi-year deals with television networks, the former Amazon executives said. Amazon cannot air MGM’s reality show “The Voice,” for instance, which contractually is in the hands of NBC.

Bringing a new installment of the James Bond saga to Prime viewers may be a particularly difficult task, the sources said. The terms under which MGM acquired the franchise leave control in the hands of the Broccoli family, the Bond films’ producers.
2-3 seems surprisingly high to me, considering the small mass and low speed of most cyclists. Can you describe the most common classes of such accidents?

I realise how odd it sounds weird to ask about 2-3 when car drivers cause a four-digit number.
I wish this site expanded a little to model a few things present in most real world systems:

* Limits. Nearly all systems have a maximum and minimum input value. That should be modelled so behaviours when the limit is reached can be modelled. For example, a car has a top speed - and any further pressing of the accelerator will not make it go faster, but a PID loop will keep integrating any error, causing the system to not behave as expected.

* 'Slack/Hysterisis'

* Asymmetric systems - the force applied when pushing a system may not be the same as pulling.

I really want a system where data can be thrown in like this, and it fit a model to the data and suggest not only PID values, but other types of controller which would be a better fit.
I suppose Bezos and co. will use MGM to push their cultural and political narrative much like they have done with WaPo... I'm fully on the boycott Amazon program at this point, having previously been a Prime member and heavy user of Amazon/AWS/WaPo/etc.