skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I agree with you, those noises are terrible, but at least, they only happen when you use the appliances. Aside for your fridge, which I find strange. Mine isn't running particularly often.

In my apartment, which is open-plan also, by far the worst offender is the building ventilation. The extractor sounds like a jet engine, 24/7, and I have to cover it with something to not go crazy.
There's even some potential for a small market of those. Lots of guitar players I know but Kemper models, or convolution impulses.
Nurses pretty much run my local hospital.

This hospital might the be the only place, I have seen, where doctors egos are put in check. Maybe too much?

I remember feeling sorry for this one doctor, whom seemed like a decent guy.
CIA trained and funded rebel groups, some ended up fighting alongside Al-Nusra (Al-Qaida in Syria). US weapons also ended up with Al-Nusra. In the same way there where islamist rebel groups in Libyan civil war (LIFG) and CIA did clandestine operations during that time too with different rebel groups.

And every US bombing campaign against the Syra regime de facto helped ISIL/ISIS.

Turkey, a NATO member, trained their own rebel groups and also made sure to have allow every jihadi to pass into Syria. Turkey is strongly anti-kurd. (Parts of this jihadi militia was this year sent to Azerbaijan by Turkey to fight against the Christian Armenians)

It is almost impossible for us outsiders to know what rebel group fought with what group and what objectives CIA actually had, however just the fact that US helped create a terrorist hotbed in Syria, together with a NATO ally, which in turn lead to terrorist attacks in Europe. Or the terrorist hotbed that was sprung up in Libya after the fall of Gaddafi.

Depending on the level of trust you have for American intelligence services you could either say that because of unintended consequences it resulted in terrorist attacks due to incompetent management or that working with the enemy of my enemy is part of their tactics and collateral damage is part of the game.

On the surface it looks like a failure for CIA because Bashar al-Assad is still in power, however it was not a failure for the coalition behind US/CIA, like Israel and Saudi Arabia, e.g. Israel has now permanently annexed the Golan Heights from Syria. Syria war was proxy war against Iran, which is an ongoing conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran, see the Yemen war.
Part of the context here is that Denmark like so many small European companies allowed the American military industrial complex to infiltrate it's military and security services to the point where it cannot actually operate independently an hence have to say yes when this kind of request comes in they cannot really refuse.

And this is by design as the US military "tech transfer" projects like the JSF/F-35 is explicitly designed to lock recipients into an bond with the US military/strategic establishment.
fab? m1?

For fab, Google says:

> British an expression of agreement to, or acknowledgment of, a command

m1 is a carbine, ok no surprise that makes noise, but in the house?
Casino. It's a very successful casino.
The math behind encryption cannot be broken. But the implementations can. When you have so many math PhDs attacking crypto implementations, you are bound to find a bug you can exploit. Look how long heartbleed was around.
What does Denmark get in return? Better f35 prices? Hot goss on fellow EU countries? Do Danes have geopolitical competitors?
How can you tell that OP is a person that thinks race is the most important thing about a person?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12274092
> After 50M€ of fines, they seem to finally understanding the meaning of the word "privacy

[X] Doubt

All the incentives are in place for them to find novel ways to abuse the user's privacy. Their share price, which they have a mandate to maximize, pretty much depends on it.

50M is a drop in the ocean for Google; they can justify amounts that are orders of magnitude larger than that as a cost of doing business.
Not in July :P It can get very hot (>40C) & sticky in the valley.

Can be very cold in Jan/Feb, but often too cold to snow so it can be more sunny than say Toronto, and there's a ton of outdoor activities nearby to enjoy like ski hills & trails, snowshoeing, and skating.
> We got to make sure the work life balance is in order for people to have the time and money to afford a family and give adequate support like daycare etc.

Stuff like this can and does result from bureaucrats / policy-makers deciding what an ideal number of children (for the well-being of the society) is. You say "that regulates itself", but clearly the things you listed (work-life balance, economic prosperity, daycare, etc.) are not self-regulating. You also mention specifically that this matter doesn't need centralized solving, but that's different from what you went on to say, that the factors that go into determining how many children are had are self-regulating. A decentralized approach does nothing to guarantee that.

Whether you like it or not, the government has a large influence over all of these matters. Choosing to not regulate them is a choice that will affect how they turn out. Likewise, the very structure of the economy and social systems will affect these things. A government can not avoid determining what those are like, whether by the government's active influence over them, or its more laissez-faire approach. When you have a monopoly on violence, you cannot truely recuse yourself from what happens in the society around you, and if you lack a monopoly on violence then you aren't really a government.
One of the steps was included, the comment notes:

> ...the problem here is that no one really wants to reign it in...

Why shouldn't it spy on people? If the state is fundamentally on our side, that is a win (fuzzy abstract principles like privacy vs. concrete benefits like stopping specific illegal activity). Ditto if the state is neutral. We have no need to keep secrets from a neutral but fundamentally principled entity. Privacy isn't really important enough to worry about if there are just a few bad actors working individually. It'd be a battle of a luxury (privacy) vs a need (security)

It is only because the state is fundamentally not on our side that people should be trying to reign it in and use concepts like privacy to do so. At some point any information the state has will be used by your political adversaries to attack.

Privacy (from the state) isn't worth anything if the starting point is that the administrative state will be a reliable, proper and responsible bearer of power.
ICRCs can easily run awry of constitutional issues; more to the point: being an elected official is a job: gerrymandering improves incumbency rates. Why would you write yourself out of a job?
I keep my fridge on a porch, mostly for energy efficiency reasons but also to keep it out of living spaces. But when I am on the porch and the fridge starts to annoy me, I just ask it to pause running for an hour or so. Having control over noise makes it much less stressful.
Yeah... maybe (obviously) I shouldn't have commented without listening, caveats or no.

That said, this is also true of heroin addiction. It is highly related to other, often social, malaises. This has been experimentally proven in rodents. Lonely, unhappy rodents are far more addiction prone. It has been observed in people too, notably the vietnam war example.

I don't even think there is a common treatment for alcoholism anymore that doesn't relate to "underlying" issues. AA, and related group therapies are all about creating a supportive community. Social isolation is a major factor in addiction.

That's kind of what I meant. These hard lines don't exist, and I think many that do exist for research purposes. Hard to study something that isn't discreetly defined. Physical withdrawal symptoms were once a primary researchers' definition of addiction, even though addicts rarely think of it that way.
Understandable why this is a issue for a homelab but most industrial UHV chamber have cryo for this reason.
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The criteria is 'What I find interesting' but, since I'm a typical Hacker News reader, the interest profile ends up similar to Hacker News. It's mainly tech but with splashes of startups, science, productivity, etc. Like Hacker News, I omit politics. Unlike Hacker News, I try to omit product/press releases, big corp stuff, and stories that would be covered by the mainstream tech press.

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Feels like you are drawing a distinction between harms, and recursive harms.

Harmful things can be analyzed; the risks can be quantified and weighed up against the benefits; the downside can be limited.

Recursively harmful things - which not only cause harm but precipitate further rounds of harm - are harder to analyze and have potentially infinite downside.
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I suspect they really couldn't do anything much about it, given the scale of these things. It's one container buried amongst thousands of others.
The first time I had my motorbike.

Second time just hired a car.
Car hire from the airport is quick and easy (it's Hertz).

Without transport, you'd be severely limited I'd say, but it depends how you like to travel.
Mine has gotten stuck under my couch on several occasions when I forget to properly block it off. It tries to push around for a while but eventually I have to reach under and pull it out.
Yep. This is why I don't leave tips at US restaurants, because the servers' base $3/hour salary is still "sky high" compared to a comparable job in Sri Lanka.

/s
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In party list systems you also often vote for a candidate: "Voters may vote for the party, as in [...]; or for candidates whose vote total will pool to the party/parties.
This doesn't seem intrinsically terrible to me, particularly if it's done through incentives and doesn't involve say, murder or sterilisation.

If we accept that any biome will eventually have a finite carrying capacity while the possibility of human reproduction is exponential it seems inevitable that there must be some limits to reproduction. Regulation is crude but might be less bad than "direct environmental feedback" such as die-offs or drastically decreasing quality of life.

Of course it's a co-ordination problem, which is very difficult.

I can imagine many cultural and technological approaches to population control, some of which already exist, and might not be terrible.

It seems to me that in particular any engineered habitats with well-defined carrying capacities, e.g. mars, would have to deal with this quite early on.
I find it very dishonest that your only reply to me is to down vote me. By doing so I believe strongly that you're abusing your down voting powers.
>> just after the speed bump only to then jump on the squeaky brakes for the stop sign a few meters further.

Speed bumps and stops signs annoy me too. Get rid of those, reduce the unnecessary acceleration/braking, and such cars should sail by quietly.
but the coolest thing is that you can share and download models of one-of-a-kind amps or effect chains, which cannot be bought
That sounds about right, as I read it. The sources seem to be 9 (former?) employees, confirming a classified internal report from 2015.
Why would anyone need to care who sits in the management? The trust was broken by a company.
1 seems unlikely to me - why would Google do that? It would always be in exchange for something, which is pretty much selling.

2 seems more plausible.
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Ahh ok. Thanks for clarifying. I never used DRM that much on linux
I'm no scholar or researcher, just someone who's experienced impulsive behavior as a regular old human. I'd categorize any activity that attempts to short-circuit the usual reward center of the brain as potentially addictive. Using an addictive substance or technology isn't in itself an addiction, rather the point we start making unhealthy choices to support our use (e.g. choosing to stay home instead of hang out with friends, skipping meals, lying, etc.) is where the world of the addict begins.

Video games short-circuit our reward center with achievements, making the effort involved in feeling a sense of accomplishment much less than it should be.

Pornography and casual sex short-circuit the effort involved to consummate a fulfilling relationship with something much less than it should be.

Drugs short-circuit the process of personal growth, removing pain and introducing happy feelings that don't align with our current situation.

Food as a drug can combat feelings of loneliness, though the effects of the resulting obesity can drive us to isolation.

None of the feelings or sensations brought on by these things are inherently bad or wrong. They all share in common the fact that chasing after pleasure or sensation puts the cart before the horse, as if one could actually be fulfilled by these things instead of them being effects caused by the real things, those things we're short-circuiting. Addiction fine-tunes the brain so that real, wholesome things start to seem unfulfilling, even boring. It's a real shame because those real, wholesome things are often the only way out.
Rewriting whole paragraphs for clarity is very much the kind of thing that should be discussed on the talk page. That's why the feature exists.
It seems to me this is the first era where the content is practically endless, which I think is a meaningful distinction that can make phone/social media worse than prior technologies.

Growing up I spent a lot of time on AIM and then texting with one of those keyboard cellphones, but I only messaged with my immediate friend group - so it was limited for the most part to a specific after school window. My grandfather's day used to revolve around his favorite radio shows, but those had a set air time. When they were over, they were over.

Getting invested in books or video games is a bit different, but even those were limited in the sense you would have to pay for each particular book or game, or at least make regular trips to the library.

Now a days there is 0 cost or inconvenience to obtaining more content, with no real time restrictions. So it is all too easy to not realize how long you've just spent on social media or to stay up much too late scrolling on your phone. Filling time with your phone is the path of least resistance moreso than it is something to look forward to.

I think the fact the content has no clear stopping points also contributes to that feeling that you haven't actually done anything after hours on social media. Obviously it is not productive time, but it somehow manages to feel like nothing.
Yes..yes i did ;)
This framing makes it sound a little like the space race ended in a tie.
Is anyone else getting sick of women "giving advice" about things they don't understand.

Women seem to think they are actually as smart as men or something, it's hilarious and horrible at the same time.
The holiday bombing in Nashville provided clear evidence of what we've lost in terms of PSTN resiliency. I don't think there would have been region-wide loss of service for greater than 24 hours in say 1994.
> I didn't know you could have the variables in the Compose file directly, does that really work?

Yep, it's because the build args get read in from a .env file by default and then from there Docker Compose sends those build args to Docker when it builds the image.

This was one of the topics from my talk at DockerCon last week (creating a production ready Docker Compose set up). The video and 6,000 word blog post for it will be coming out tomorrow. Both things will be added to the talk's reference links at https://github.com/nickjj/dockercon21-docker-best-practices.
> I think it makes my teeth feel different.

I definitely feel something too, like the surface is slicker.
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Wow... I can't believe you're advocating for something completely normal, like choosing to decide how many children you have, and how creepy it is that some governments literally dictate to you this most private aspect of you and your spouse's life, and you are being downvoted. The shills must be out in full force today.
I'm far less concerned about the plastic pellets than whatever else was released in the fire, the majority of it going into the atmosphere.
That was my point. This is a roughly year old article about a relatively minor space mission that mostly served a symbolic mission. The question becomes why is this being posted now? The answer is probably that For All Mankind rekindled interest in this mission over the last couple months and even if the submitter didn't see the show, it is possible that whoever shared this with them did.
>Another one is that the companies that we work for make insane profits despite the sky high compensation.

I guess that's at the core of the discussion. Wikipedia isn't seen by many as yet another tech company there to make insane profits.
Maybe it's not that much for a single in parent of two wanting a life that's beyond "just comfortable"?
Because the article is worthless but written by a woman so no one feels they can say anything negative about it.
Seriously, this is about the equivalent of telling somebody with a substance dependence (I think weed is likely the best analogue, with a weaker physiological dependence, that is) to just quit it. These devices are not inhaled, injected, ingested, but they are very much a tool in releasing hormones.
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Honestly, if you're not translating for market X, then I can't see a moral reason to object to making a complete fan hacked release in that market. If the company is interested enough to do their own translation, that's a different issue.

But for things which you'll not be able to enjoy in a legal way, even if you want to spend the money? I'm all for piracy of software / books / music / art in that situation.
Wishlist for presenters to address the following

- GraphQL performance issues

- GraphQL makes tasks more complex

- GraphQL schemas confuse junior devs, higher entry level

- REST cache easier

- REST if you understand what you are doing ... can do the same

- REST is better for error handling and tooling
The short answer is yes, it's a human rights violation, and it doesn't matter what others 'consider' it. But no one will say anything because it's the Chinese Communist Party.
Are the 20 trials pre registered?
I’m a pretty staunch critic of China, but population control seems like a pretty good thing. I suppose ideally it would be promoted but ultimately voluntary, but I don’t think their single child policy was the worst thing they’ve done by far.
Little Ant's and Bee's are even more impressive...well not on a bike but otherwise.
At a US restaurant it's sort-of relevant that the server is in the US. In contrast, when using a website you get 0 benefit from the people building it being in San Francisco.
Does anyone else just wear ANC headphones all the time?

I have setup Bluetooth on all my regular used devices and wonder if there is a way to synthesize them to one source so I don't have to switch devices all the time. I don't really know where to start, get a bunch of blue tooth receivers and somehow combine all the channels in windows and then transmit to my headphones?
Poor nations of the world send tons of athletes you've never heard of, and some nations carve out a niche and do really well.

Of course, money will always be a factor but it's not 'class within a nation' that's the issue, it's really nation v. nation.

Also, the current version of the Olympics was a little bit of a club for the elite have friendly competitions among gentleman of the elite, i.e. amateurs, not some 'pursuit of the absolute best'.

Instead of having the Olympics in 'one spot' they could simply tone it down and use existing hotels and facilities.

No reason that instead of Toronto you have 'Southern Ontario' for example. And keep the same sports co-located so that athletes don't have to be on transport 5 hours a day.

The requirements for size of opening ceremonies are rubbish as well. You can use a mid-size stadium and that's that.

Finally, recognize that the Olympics are a huge graft opportunity for countries to pilfer tax dollars. They can build '$500M stadiums' that only cost '$100M' where $350M is a kickback to Putin, $50M goes into developer pockets ... the stadium may nor may not get finished ...