skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider it hands down better than any Star Trek except possibly TNG. And that's giving TNG some grace due to being a bit older; take that away and I'll give SG-1 the prize. I will agree that people can reasonably disagree about Deep Space Nine vs SG-1. But that's the level of quality we're talking about, in my opinion. It's top tier, and much less well known.

Also strongly recommend binging the first season in particular; they did a very good job of conveying the feeling of humans blundering about not really knowing what they are doing in the big new universe, and it really comes across when watched relatively quickly on top of each other. It is reasonable that as the seasons rolled on and they got their bearings this toned down in favor of other plot lines, but I think this is one of the more unusual tones in sci fi that a show managed to successfully convey. Enterprise really whiffed on this, in my opinion. (They should have had a first season more like SG-1's first season and saved the "temporal cold war" plot arc for later. Or perhaps even not at all. That would have been OK too. There are a couple of episodes that convey this sense but not enough to hold the tone IMHO.)

Also, if you are starting out, I kinda recommend the Stargate movie first... it isn't strictly speaking necessary but it will contextualize some things, even though it's only sorta half in the continuity with SG-1. But I will say that if you kinda dislike it, continue on to SG-1 anyhow. In my opinion it's a big step up in a lot of ways.
IRC and mailing lists are still the most important communication channels for a lot of projects (see: kernel.org and similar projects). It haven't changed for 30+ years and I hope it won't change in the future.
Show HN: Replimat self-reproducing building system
Horizontal-Vertical Thinking for Startups
A method for defining and executing your strategy at speed (in uncertain environments).
Also the US has five times the population of the UK, and 40 times the area.
Maybe he'll go back to evangelizing PIA under it's new shady owners, and leave freenode to rot.
Even if iMessage is E2EE (I don't think it is) the backups mean the messages end up on Apple's servers unencrypted. Either way Apple is able to access them when subpeonaed.
I've always found it relatively strange that in the JS world, where the frontend is moving really really fast, Express has always been the main choice for backends with no real challengers through the years. Is this due to a difference of culture between the frontend and the backend? Or maybe the lack of backing by a big company? Angular was backed by Google and was replaced by React backed by Facebook, since then Vue and Svelte became popular but not at the level of React. On the other hand, Go (backed by Google) became really popular on the backend.
The Demiurge
As far as I can tell he bought it in 2017 and promised not to change the operating model or interfere with the staff. In 2021 he started doing just that.
death/cases yes, but they became a "hermit kingdom" in the process.
their attitude re covid put me off from ever considering them as a place where i'd like to spend the rest of my days.
* The author mentions higher dpi displays, so maybe this is null and void now. Is 96 dpi still what we should use for the average user?

* I liked the idea of pixel fonts (developed for the material of pixels), are these set for 96 dpi or always lower for aesthetics?

* I found a repository with 3 pixel optimized fonts, including Garamond, open sans, and special elite.
https://github.com/teryror/pixel-fonts
>> the US had from ending WWII is sadly running out.

Right there is half of the animosity behind the cold war. Try telling a Russian that it was the US that "ended" WWII. Remember to duck. The US bombings of Japan were bad, but worse was the threat of a Russian invasion of the home islands. Japan decided that it would rather be occupied by Americans than Russians. And it was Russian troops on the streets of Berlin. They suffered far more losses and killed more enemies. It isn't "WWII" in Russia. It's "The Great Patriotic War". Despite what Texas highschool textbooks say, the US did not end that war solo.
Kids can be real boredom-removers. Exhausting at times, stressful at times, but commonly they don't leave you bored.
My main concern right now is that an increase in interest rates is going to cause a drop in home prices and possibly trigger another crash. For example, the relatively modest rate increases in 2018 caused a fairly noticeable swoon in the SF/Bay area housing market.

For those that think buying a house is a good hedge against inflation, it is worth considering that the best tool to combat inflation is to raise interest rates. And considering most buyers budgets are created by working backwards from the monthly payment that they can afford, higher rates naturally translate to lower prices.

And as you alluded to, in a rising interest rate environment, there are no more "escape hatches" for folks that might be struggling to make ends meet. In a rising rate environment, refinancing is off the table, selling might be off the table if you are underwater on the mortgage, etc...

I have been waiting for an opportunity to buy for quite a while now. It has always felt like our household income was a few ticks too low to comfortably afford anything but the dregs of the market. And as our pay increased, the market would rise another 20% and slip out of reach again. And right now I am seeing a few niches in the market that might work for our budget, but the interest rate situation has me spooked, so once again, I am leaning towards sitting this one out. I guess on the plus side, I can buy cryptocurrency at a 100-1 leverage ratio which was something that wasn't available to my parents generation!!!
> but that executive may then go on to help champion data science and develop a data-driven culture

That's not an end in itself, though, is it?
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc, which is the MGM Amazon bought is not the same company as MGM Resorts International, which is the MGM that owns casinos. The casino people become an independent company year and years ago.
I read Sinclair's new book Lifespan and saw Patrick in a podcast. I got really excited and installed the Habinator app, because it's all about the lifestyle and habits until we get a breakthrough how to fix our bodies using pills or whatever.
FYI I'm no doctor but an internet search suggests heart rate rising 15 beats per minute when someone stands is normal:

"Normally, the heart rate increases by 10 to 15 beats per minute when standing up, and then it settles down again."

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic....
TL;DR over simple answer, it smooths the output by ramping up and down power supplied by predicting what will happen in the future based on history.

Eg: The water is about to boil so I am setting the burner to medium from max to keep it at just below a rolling boil.
I rent an AX41 from hetzner and from outside my activity looks like mining - I run all 4 cores at 100% 24/7. However I don't mine, I use it for machine learning. Wonder if they will axe my setup too? what are the criteria?
you would then be surprised that it's the same everywhere else.
The legal entity purchased in 2017 isn't the Freenode network and wasn't intended to be able to assert control over the network. In 2021, it started to do so.
An open letter from Atheme's developers and community
MGM the studio was spun off from the much more profitable and burgeoning casino segment around the early 80s. Since then, tons of different buyers have gone in and out for the casino. Maybe MGM the studio too.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27287716
hmm. It magically becomes very useful if you were to actually read the book and not just flip through capriciously.
Sweden has life expectancy of 82. Ukraine - 71. Most of the deaths happens are in 60+ age group. You can't compare stats like that.
Isn't this a common phenomenon with all conversations... unless there is a moderator with a strong mandate to keep things on topic? Or if all participants agree and self regulate.

I agree that there are many tangents, but I frequently enjoy them. I wouldn't be here if I didn't enjoy the comments, including the tangents.

Edit. I feel like I see similar behavior on reddit, but I guess you have a different experience.
Comes down to UX. If your frontend isn't ergonomic, you're doomed. OSS chat protocols suffer from too much choice. Users don't want to go app hunting, they want one stop shopping and be told what to use. Having a centralized platform is making the choice for the consumer and they're happy to oblige.
There's a lot of interesting people in this space

Many I've discovered through this podcast, which features a number of people on the above list as guests: https://peterattiamd.com/podcast/
Thanks! Especially Django looks interesting and might already be enough for me. Will check out the other recommendation too, though.
I was introduced to The Things They Carried in my freshman high school English class. That was a tough row to hoe as a 13-14 year old. I never understood why it was in there.

Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong and Style were especially weird in the in-class discussions. That was 25+ years ago, and those classroom talks still stick with me. That teacher was either an unbelievable genius, or an insane person. Not sure.
Fun fact: Lenin's grandma is from Kalmykia and have Mongol origin
I'm hoping they'd drop $1+ billion into making a SG game.
I have had numerous comments on my mic sound quality, so people certainly notice it and appreciate it! Is it worth 380€? I can't say. You'll also need an audio interface, cables, and probably a pre-amp, so the kit ADDS UP.

My own personal reflection is that I have no regrets and going semi-pro audio quality was the right choice for me. YMMV.
The same is true for any open protocol, at least at first. Any open protocol has to reach widespread usage first, and only then will incumbents have to adopt it. That's an extremely difficult task, but hopefully not impossible.
I believe that's possible, but seems equivalent to there being multiple universes, none of which we can see.
Names are similar because they were one company until 40 years ago

Edit: comment was edited a bit. Before it mentioned the names are similar but unrelated.
I would split it into three things:

1. They have the size and market control to crush and/or acquire all competitors e.g. diapers.com https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-29/amazon-em...

2. They purport to operate a neutral marketplace where they aren't responsible for the end product while also controlling what products you see and what company you will buy from and choose the ones that give them the best margin. The huge problem of counterfeit and faulty products on Amazon directly harms the consumer and because of (1) there isn't a general market remedy.

3. They leverage their position as market maker to figure out what products to manufacture and undercut innovative companies with their massive scale. In the short term this is a net benefit to consumers who get a cheaper product but it creates a mess of bad incentives down the line.
Gross, man -- he actually brags about raping/coercing girls.

"Oh, you'd like a taster? Well how about the time when Vorkuta boasts of forcing a young hitchhiker to give him a blowjob in exchange for $6. On the threat that if she did not comply he might leave her in the middle of nowhere as they were travelling alone in a car on some deserted highway somewhere in the FSU. You can only imagine how scared she must have been."

From the previously linked: https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/judnlm...
The fight was started when Andrew Lee hijacked Freenode.
And more strongly principled and aware/care about issues like security as well.
Us Billies on the Hill use them in our stills.
> It's like they want to bring cable TV back to the internet, and you had massive bills just for channels subscriptions.

Basically, yes. More precisely we have a handful of companies who worked to "disrupt" the cable TV business only to realize that in fact, they could become the new cable TV.
Github has every right to do that (subject to the term of their user service agreements and applicable local laws, etc., of course).

It'd also cause the utter destruction of their current business model. They do NOT do this, because they recognise it is utterly incompatible with their goal of being a trusted hub for open source collaboration, which in turn is a key step in their larger strategy of achieving fat profits and market dominance.

> GitHub is a for-profit company

Yes, and they want to make a profit, so they don't do dumb stuff that, to pick a random example, a rich guy funding a small volunteer organisation as a hobby might feel comfortable doing.
Mark Ruffalo apologized to Israel last week when he commented on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
There are no long-term studies for mRNA vaccines.
That’s false. The Outer Space Treaty means anything launched from Earth remains the responsibility of the nation who launched it. SpaceX most certainly is under the jurisdiction of the US and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
It seems like a single bit available to all apps but that no one is really using now. I wonder if a easy software mitigation could be just polluting it intentionally.
Original HN discussion from 2010:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1598513
Thanks - I am indeed discontented with software, though not exactly for those reasons. It's interesting that you think it's a young person's game, that's probably true when you're an employee (at certain companies) but I think founders above 30 are generally known to build better businesses. IIRC one of YC's founding theses was that younger (than 30) people deserve a chance to get funded and prove their worth.

I think software, like science, isn't anything like what it was supposed to be. Not in the sense that the world has changed, but more in the personal sense. Playing around with pipettes in your kitchen is a vastly different (and oh so apolitical...) world than the ivory towers of academia.

Even so, what I'm actually unhappy with is the idea of being a cog in a machine, however large and impressive the machine may be. It's not about the insignificance of the cog - it's about the unimaginative and inextensible role the cog plays. As someone who has many talents beyond software, I think I'd be able to employ myself more efficiently than any third party could.
All they have done is kicked the can.

They can vaccinate but at some point, probably years after the world is back to normal, they will need to reopen and then Covid deaths will occur.

Australia have also been brutal with regards to lockdowns and civil liberties. Citizens literallly cannot leave or enter their own country easily. They still have years of short sharp lockdowns to contend with.

Glad I’m living in the UK rather than Australia and that’s a sentence I didn’t ever see myself writing!
To expand on this:

Windows also has the Narrator screen reader built in, and in Windows 10, Narrator is a decent screen reader IMO. (Disclosure: I used to be on the Windows accessibility team at Microsoft, where I worked on Narrator.) To enable Narrator, press Ctrl+Win+Enter. Narrator has a built-in tutorial (not written by me) to help you get started.

Mac and iOS has VoiceOver built in. To enable it on Mac, press Command+F5. On iOS, you may be able to triple-press the home button, on devices that have one. Failing that, you can find it in Settings.

Android has TalkBack built in. You can find it somewhere in Settings; the specifics are device-dependent.
for what is worth, Amazon already won a few golden globes:

3 this year https://www.geekwire.com/2021/amazon-takes-3-golden-globes-i...

a few more in the past with Fleabag and others
And the giant gets more humongous!!
Average Joe and Sally want Web 3.0 UX shiny, they don't want nerdy CLIs or overcomplicated setups. The HN crowd has blinders on when it comes to this because we're power users, the complexity doesn't bother us but it's a complete non-starter for normal people.
I suspect the reference is to piracy.
I read through all of qntm's Anti-memetics series a few weeks back, and this is where it all begins. Highly recommended.

If you'd like to support the author, you can buy it as an eBook from Amazon[0].

>This ebook collects all of my Antimemetics Division fiction: SCP-055, SCP-2256 and the complete serials There Is No Antimemetics Division and Five Five Five Five Five.

[0]: https://www.amazon.in/qntm/e/B091P6ZQLW
I've always known that, yes. Yet, as an Italian kid of the 80s I've been raised by American and American-influenced media way more that I would like to admit.
I knew the US were wrong, but there was still a disconnect between that and the depiction of the American War (as they call it in Vietnam) I took as "standard" for so long.
My wake up call was 2017, during the first of a few trips to Vietnam. The War museum in Saigon is impressive. Despite having known qiute a bit about the conflict, for example, I had never heard of My Lai. Boy, that was hard to watch. I also was not aware of Cu Chi.
I'm surprised I didn't get to see pictures from Le Minh Truong in Vietnam, or maybe I did, and I didn't recognize their power back then?
There's also an easy language barrier, as this part of history is mostly told in languages different from the ones I speak.
The issue is, if something is possible you can be sure somebody will try to abuse it.

For this reason I treat extension ecosystem as non-existent.
The vaccines are not sterile, so they do not stop the spread either.
Nothing so pithy anyway. I'm not really competent to advise on chess matters, being a pretty bad player still. Steinitz did little more than provide me with a way of understanding where I went wrong when I make my inevitable mistakes.

I understand that Nimzowitsch's two books, My System & Chess Praxis, might satisfy a desire for fundamental principles. I haven't read them though.
Ban on flavored vaping may have led teens to cigarettes, study suggests
There are multiple Matrix clients in common use. It is odd that you think Element is the only client.
It's pretty easy to get an invite.
Do you have any other suggestions on how to evaluate pandemic planning other than by the effects of putting those plans into action? "a priori"?
It doesn't sorry, I rather mean that one is forcing a personal sense of morality on one's supply chain, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. But what is bad is that one only drops what is advertised to them as being bad which makes one think it was never about the sense of morality in the first place.

The implication being that every single supply chain is bad (e.g. cobalt mining in DRC) but we conveniently just don't uncover everything because we'd have to drop too much. We're terrified (to an extent) to accept the negative impact our existence has in this world so pursue a dream of moral purity to escape that harrowing reality.

Bald is a sex tourist so we'll never watch his channel but where is our cobalt mined from? As long as we don't know (our ignorance gives us plausible deniability) we can keep buying products that indirectly kill children while still showing everyone how good we are by not watching Bald's content. I think there's a hypocrisy here because I think relatively speaking Bald is acceptable but to purge him and just permit the rest (because the subjects are more boring or more distant) I think is bullshit.
I suspect he means that he never stopped, hence nothing to go back to
Yeah I got their history confused with a completely different company for a second then realized my mistake. I haven't had my coffee yet.
The difference between N.Korea and S.Korea is a good support for this. At the time of the Korean war maybe they weren't too different but the difference today is stark. Not difficult to imagine a similar outcome if the south had won the Vietnam war.
Thanks! I've been meaning to read those for a while. I'll start with "Consider Phlebas".
Call it a comeback: Turntable.fm raises $7.5M
Speaking about transition of graphical applications from one device to another, I think this is a rather difficult problem in itself. The only project I'm aware of, which tries to enable that in a seamless way, is the Arcan display server.
I remember a short clip from the development blog [1], where a window with a running retro game is pulled to the edge of the screen and appears immediately on another device nearby [2].
Unfortunately Arcan is pretty niche and I doubt that will change in the foreseeable future.
Using voice commands to control, where your applications is running, would then be relatively easy. Swiping in that direction, while pretty cool, is much harder, as you would need to locate both involved devices.

[1] https://arcan-fe.com/2020/12/03/arcan-versus-xorg-feature-pa...

[2] https://video.wordpress.com/embed/G3vQbGS0?preloadContent=me...
I'd say that if everything stops changing, then time is either meaningless or doesn't exist (I think depending on whatever stances are in your view of philosophy, you can pick either).
The 250k number was not completely uncontrolled. It was apparently supposed to be "optimal" in the sense that it's the fastest way to reach same number of people who would eventually die whether it took 3 months or a year to reach herd immunity. The plan still includes social distancing and things to prevent it becoming overwhelming.
> Today you want to watch an Apple show you must go to Apple's VOD.

When I was a kid, if you wanted to watch an NBC show, you had to watch it on an NBC network. What is the difference?

At least nowadays you can just pay, watch, and cancel at your leisure with the click of a few buttons.
People aren't outraged at a minimum wage worker though, they are outraged at a billion dollar corporation that insists on making those minimum wage workers the only official contact point.
I think it's much simpler than that, they just panicked and handled the situation poorly, and then they keep doubling down and digging a deeper hole.

Seeing the situation from the outside, it's obvious that what they're doing is self-defeating, but I suppose that they saw that they were hemorrhaging channels and users and saw the writing on the wall and decided to enact desperate measures in order to save the network.

Given the health of IRC in general there's probably not enough room for both Freenode and Libera to strive. One of them was bound to become irrelevant, and the momentum favored Libra even before this desperate move.

I'm afraid that we're just witnessing the death throes of freenode.
My point as well. A law to break up content and distributors seems far-reaching. Let the studios do what they want.
Hi folks, Replimat is an extension of my work on reprap.org in the early days of 3D printing. I'm excited to start to share more of what I've been working on since. It's still early days, but I think we have enough CAD and code to begin to communicate the vision. I'm excited to answer questions, and to ask interested folks to lend a hand in the ways they can. Thanks for taking a look!
AX41 is not a shared resource, it's a dedicated server based on Ryzen 5.
Well, that's the point? We're complaining that the guy's speech is unbearable, because he's not a professional speaker, he's just a guy being interviewed.

Although his job seems to involve a lot of talking (management, not just sitting and coding), geez, if I were his colleague, it would get tiring after a while.
I’d characterize more as an entity was created ex-post-facto in 2017 and then sold to an asshat.
> all the deaths from lack of treatment, surgery,

Is there evidence of any of these? I thought this was just a political talking point that wasn't based in reality of any sort, as there hasn't been any academic quantification of it that I have found, and I haven't even found any stories about anecdotes in the media, which is exactly the sort of thing the media loves to sensationalize.
Without moderation, chat often turns into a spam sewer. The ability to run your own server isn't the problem, the ability and willingness to moderate it is.