skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a serious threat to other countries’ sovereignty but because it is happening in a decentralized, slow-moving manner, it is hard to recognize it as such. The power of US media and culture is overwhelming and if not managed, can drown out other worldviews. In the cases I’ve observed (in countries I’ve traveled to / lived in), it feels a lot like a sort of cultural colonialism (or perhaps cultural genocide), which is leading to a global homogeneity I find both boring and threatening at the same time. It’s especially dangerous because the values and political perspectives of Silicon Valley are used to shape information that other societies receive when social media companies decide to limit or amplify certain ideas. If any other nation did this to the US, we would be complaining loudly about foreign propaganda and influence.
Yes a simple SCRM will do.
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Opal discord bot is a project that I worked on for a couple of months to learn javascript and how to deploy a project. The build is now stable and hasn't been edited in 6 ish months, but we have over 120k users in 1,200 discord groups. Opal offers features such as mass text messaging, crypto price data, timezone converters, fee calculators, and about 20 more awesome features.
How come TCL/TK or GT+ isn't an option? They're both far better.
> I don't know how much of the file is frameworks and how much is responsible for making editable code

I don't think very much. This is a contenteditable <textarea> element with a CSS transform to project it onto the screen in the photo.

From digging through the minified js, there's just a small amount of code that sets it up and puts some canned text in there (of which there are a few choices, but still not a huge amount).
>On her 61st birthday [...] [s]he told her guests she had devoted her first 30 years of life to herself, the second 30 to her children and that the last third of her life would be dedicated to God.

Even if it was just a joke, she probably at least knew it was a possibility.
Depends on how bad your current job is. The better the current job, the harder it is to find something still better.

There can be a halo effect - the better your current jobs, to some degree the better offers you get - but I still think that on net, you should be more reluctant to leave a decent situation. If your current job is in the top 10% of jobs, then the odds are 9 to 1 that switching will get you something worse.
Yeah, I did find that gimmicky too. But if you click on that screenshot, it leads to a webpage typed completely in that font, so you can properly admire that.

Anyway, I'm genuinely surprised some people here don't treat that as a joke and are really using it for code editing, but whatever, anything is legit if you can read it. So I wouldn't complain about the diagonal screenshot either.
My comment was strongly upvoted (50+) so I believe the HN community understands this dynamic.

I mean if you go outside Western bubbles e.g. all of Asia Latam etc. 99% of women seek to marry a breadwinner over having their own career, closer to how it was 50 years ago here in the US, a dynamic that's hard to miss.

The 50% I mentioned is from a competitive ivy league school where you get a major career leg up. If 50% of female friends who went to an ivy have tapped out from career making, yes, it's easy to imagine how it's still the widespread norm even in US
Seriously, give it a shot if you haven’t already. It’s dead simple to install and “just works.”
Hinduism is not a religion in western sense. We don't have a set list of doctrine and rules to follow.

When I say I am allowed to be atheist or agnostic according to Vedas, your typical dumb Purohit also screams and tries to justify it's not that.

It's almost like Vedas or Upanishads or the values they emphasize have no place in preist centered medieval / modern "Hinduism".
Wait a minute, did you just "verb" noun? I'm adjectived
I don't think that came close to cross his mind. It's simply an absurd request, that's why people in the audience started chuckling.

Maybe the prevailing demographics of HN is getting too young to get it, but FB asking Roger Waters about nothing less than Another Brick in the Wall, Pt. 2 to sell more of their business... that's either being cynically obtuse or being simply too dumb. In any case it's a waste of time for everyone.
Lol. Calvin & Hobbes is amazing.

Randal Munroe has one in a similar vein: https://xkcd.com/1443/
I generally agree with that culture is getting generalized, but I despise the trend of diluting terms to associate them with your enemies. Using colonialism and genocide just to exaggerate their badness is just like how "nazi" has gotten diluted to mean "right".
Too bad Crassus and his fire department wasn't around anymore

That man made a fortune

Private fire brigades persisted until the past century in NYC, they were not always effective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zoXk1vnmcg
Maybe.

In Australia the anti lockdown / anti Vax stuff got shut down quite quickly.

Same goes for the BLM protests that tried it on without the right permits.

Kind of glad I don't have to put up with the same crap here or the media trying to call it peaceful.

I think it has a lot to do with the multi party system.

I don't have to align myself with one party or the other party, and all its polarising crap along with it. If one party has too much polarising rhetoric I can just pick a more moderate party.
Huh, interesting. I imagine a lot of knowledge bases–personal, corporate, etc.–might be represented in that format.
and ecological collapse, it's funny because abraham just got done with like 15 years or more of raping himself. makes sense his children would just follow in their leaders footsteps. there's nothing else they can do
But replacing small isolated components is not a very interesting option. It means you're paying the costs of a multi-language codebase, in terms of build complexity, having to duplicate infrastructure, and siloing of developers.

In return you'll only be getting limited benefits from it, since the usage will only be restricted to few cases and a full migration can never happen. Every single decision on what language to use for a component in becomes a hard to reverse ("will this component always remain a leaf node with a really simple interface?"), slowing down decision making and ossifying the architecture.
Racial essentialism is toxic. America and the Western Liberal ideology (which I cherish) will only survive if we ruthlessly destroy it and similar critical theories which derive from it. Otherwise we will quickly perish into a ward state, at best.
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> Whatever happened to use the proper data structures for the job? PostgreSQL and MySQL are, at the end of the day, b-trees with indices. Throw in relational properties and/or ACID too. Those aren't properties you need or want in a queue structure.

How is relational storage engine with support for transactions, document/json, ACID, hot-standby "the wrong data model" for a queue?
Religious people often think they are righteous as long as they follow set rules of their religion. They are not often very smart either.

Just to note that preistocracy tends to be corrupt in almost all religions.
If you dig down the email chain PDF you get to email from the head of Epic bitching about how a search for “Fortnite” comes up with ads for competitors first. He then goes on to use the ad for Files that showed up at the top of a search for “Dropbox” as another example.

Half the time when I search for any app on the iOS store I get an ad for a knockoff at the top of the search, barely noted as an ad, this is a big problem. Though you get the same shit when you search for anything on Google too. Except a lot of those are ads bought by the very thing you’re searching for, because they have decided giving Google protection money to keep anyone else out of that spot is worth it.
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The article suggests the stories could have been propaganda.
From LHCb results summary https://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/Welcome.html#Deltamc :

(m1-m2)/(D0mass) = 3x10^-15

10^-38 is an absolute measurement, not the ratio.
Program that interfaces AutoHotKey and youtube-dl so that I can easily play or download things with shortcuts. Haven't played a youtube video from the actual website in years (don't tell anyone).

Program that lets me keep track of the last time I did something (brush teeth, exercise, vacuum the floors, etc), which motivates me to do these things more regularly.

Program to convert between various units of bits, mostly so that I could do a calculation regarding download speeds.

Program to run programs without a shell, so that I could run certain commands on startup (it was faster to implement than to find an existing solution) [1].

Library to dump various useful information out of a Pokemon ROM, so that I could play the game more efficiently [2].

Playing card library, so that I could simulate certain solitaire games and figure out the chances of winning [3].

Program to quickly parse and generate markdown files from source code comments, existing solutions being too complex or not working quite the way I wanted [4]. This one ended up being a real winner, because it let me stop worrying about presentation and get back to writing code/documentation.

There's this sort of multi-tool I've been working on for game development on Roblox (very niche) [5]. A high-level overview is that it uses scripting to streamline certain workflows that would otherwise be tedious, such as parsing proprietary file formats, interacting with web APIs, or assembling a project into a final product. It's a winner because it lets me make even more tools for myself.

[1]: https://github.com/Anaminus/nosh

[2]: https://github.com/Anaminus/pkm

[3]: https://github.com/Anaminus/cards

[4]: https://github.com/Anaminus/qdoc

[5]: https://github.com/Anaminus/rbxmk
Is parallel tempering related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennett_acceptance_ratio ?
Europe has long had bellicose politics, they didn't need the U.S. for that.
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I just uninstalled Dropbox and upgraded my iCloud storage.

I’ll admit it’s an experiment to see if it meets my needs, but for my use case(syncing between my desktop and laptop), they are absolutely direct competitors.
“Ask” has had a noun form for as long as I can recall in British English. Phrases like “that’s quite a big ask” and “what’s the ask?” are commonplace IME.
It's so funny when people intentionally define anything as kind of religion in order to fit their worldview. Take it this way, scientific thinking/method is about a system to analyze. It can be used analyze anything(yourself, math, religion). It's like a function, where you put input data and try your best analyze critically to get an reasonable output. And it can even be used to analyze itself!(like higher order function). And sometimes u produce solid results(maths, physics), sometimes u don't (whether god exists). You start to learn what's scientifically provable, what's not provable. There is a difference between the process of analysis and analyzed results.

And that's where so called 'atheism is just a religion' got it wrong. No, it's not about getting a result. Scientific method is a way of processing information. It's about the process, not the result. It's not about believe the god exist or not(the result). It's about find out a way to prove (process). And it's perfectly fine if u can't produce a solid proof(provability). 'I don't know' is perfectly fine. You don't even have to believe, use the scientific method to analyze, do you best to deduce, and move on to the next topic. 'Religion' is just a topic to study. If people can't really grasp how scientific method and critical thinking works, they would never move past 'to believe' or 'not to believe'.
That sounds like a significantly different meaning to me. If they were still using that branding in a significant way, and treating an app that does that as a match, that would be more understandable. But that's not what the files app is.
Rational means you'll make choices that benefit yourself. It's one of the core assumptions of game theory, economics, and policymaking. All the math breaks as soon as that's not the case because irrational is unpredictable. What's nice about rational agency is that it makes cooperation without hierarchy possible so it's been known to rustle the jimmies of the first estate.
It's definitely being brought into other countries one way or another. Back in university, I went to study abroad in Japan and there were several American professors at the university. The one's teaching arts courses such as English, Journalism, etc. would definitely sneak America's political rhetoric in their lessons. Now, I work for a Japanese company in the US and often go take business trips to Japan and can definitely see the American influence in the company's culture, namely because management is looking at what American companies are doing in order to be competitive on a world stage.

One of my Japanese friends also noted to me that his peers who studied abroad in the US definitely brought back American style politics with them, and would view their Japanese school / work environment through an American lens, bringing up similar complaints to Americans, which Japanese who haven't studied abroad in the US, would think little of.
Thanks for sharing, old stuff in the field is still quite relevant. One of my favorite reads in the last few years was The Psychology of Computer Programming, 1971. Very interesting to read about some problem or difficulty they faced then, and that we still face now, or that we have somewhat alleviated with certain technologies.
this doesn't make any sense at all. have you not heard of the inquisitions and crusades? hn is seriously a bunch of pompous clowns with inflated egos, this is gonna get so funny soon, way funnier than its been
George Floyd protests in Australia [1]

I'm not saying this is good or bad, but I'm saying all sorts of movements cross the US border in an organic manner.

Edit: if you read the headlines in the Guardian or the Daily Mail, they mirror US issues to a great extent, much more so than they do in Germany or France, for example. Definitely the CBC in Canada. It's natural as the cultures are aligned.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Austr...
- D.J. Trump
My dark suspicion is Azodicarbonamide:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azodicarbonamide

It's a bread additive. It's also a highly labile chemical activating agent. It kind of blows my mind that we added this to bread; it's a VERY highly reactive compound, remeniscint of peptide coupling agents, which you can rapidly get allergic to in the lab from contact exposure, and of all the food proteins you don't want to screw around with, gluten practically screams immunogenic agent (peptide, hard to digest due to high proline and glutamine content).
This inferred charge of hypocrisy would make sense if the Files app competes with Dropbox. I can see why that would be assumed. But while there’s certainly some overlap, Files isn’t a replacement for Dropbox, or vice versa. Perhaps controversially, I would argue that they do not compete.

Files is a built-in app that ostensibly fills the role of Windows Explorer on macOS Finder, to the extent that the concept of a file browser makes any sense on iOS.

The purpose of the Dropbox app is to access the Dropbox service and to buy their cloud storage. Apple’s Files app does not compete with this—except insofar as it shows you the cloud storage that you are currently paying for (potentially including Dropbox) or local storage that you have already paid for.

Let’s be real here, if anyone typed dropbox into an App Store search because they wanted the dropbox app, literally nobody is going to be confused. Literally nobody is going to be misled by an app that isn’t called Dropbox. We all understand this sensation when doing Google searches—even when a competitor’s ad is bigger and more prominent, we can be functionally blind to it when exactly the result we wanted is right there underneath.

(By they way, let’s also remember that the word dropbox is a generic term. It is a word that has been used for file sharing before the Dropbox(tm) service existed. Companies shouldn’t get to own generic words just because they were first to commercialise them. Microsoft wouldn’t have a leg to stand on, legally or morally, if Oracle or postgres wanted to market the offering as an “SQL server”.)
Living in an expat destination country currently as an American, I regularly get crap from friends, Australian, British, South African, about the perceived madness of American political culture that's now popping up in their work lives and home countries. Slightly reminiscent of living abroad during Bush-Iraq years as an American where you become a target of blame.
> I believe OP is pointing out that secular groups (at least those within view of OP's demographics) mostly fail to have explicitly defined value systems.

I read it like that as well. I've seen this idea illustrated this way: a kid raised in a religious community gets drilled from an early age about morals as an umbrella abstraction (in the form of allegories from religious texts), so they don't need to be micromanaged about the moral implications of every individual scenario under the sun ("don't run in the supermarket!", "don't push your sister!", "don't yell in the hallway!", etc etc) because they are explicitly exposed to an underlying set of values to govern every scenario.

That's is an obviously religious leaning take (I heard it from a jewish person, though I'm not jewish myself), but I think there's a certain grain of truth in the sense that non-religious people don't have a standardized way of talking to kids about morals as an umbrella abstraction on a weekly basis, in a way that church goers do.
I have a stud finder with this feature built in. Really nice for not drilling into wiring.
What's a bit ironic to me is that this extension of US cultural hegemony used to be derided as cultural imperialism back a few decades ago before other cultural exports became vogue (Anime, K-Pop, etc.) when it was the US vs everyone else.

But now, many of the people who would have decried this kind of hegemonic influence delight in it.

They delight in the fact we can establish norms for communication and discourse not only in the US, but any place that plays nice and does not censor the services for not abiding by local laws and mores (as typical media would have to). But because these new media carry water for them, this time it's okay.

Can you imagine corporate policy of SF or Menlo Park sets what people in Mumbai or Seoul can discuss regarding SARS-Cov-2? Or any other issue social media issues a diktat for.

I mean, it's quite ironic listening to people on social media talking down "American Imperialism" (for siding with allies in foreign policy basically) and being totally oblivious to the one they are actively participating in.
Out of curiosity, how does this compare to ZeroTier?
I'm probably not a lot of the things you call me. :)
I first heard of this from Dr. Russell Ackoff's Systems Thinking Speech. I had a mini mind blown moment.
I've deployed it to my larger-than-average home network with great success. A device can roam outside of the network and still access intranet sites and services, and I can remotely access family devices for helpdesk tasks.

My only complaint is that there is no good alternative to authentication other than using Google for small deployments like this. I don't want to pay an auth provider, and none of them offer a simplified plan for 3-4 users.
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As long as you're not in an absolutely massive market position, this kind of forcing won't happen to you.

If you are in such a position, you can sell it for billions of dollars.
That was how I felt about Instagram... I used to be able to search the hashtags about topics I'm interested in and see tons of legit, awesome real content. It has gradually devolved to basically spam and an "algorithmic" feed that jams ads and unwanted crap at me. I can't tolerate that unfortunately. Haven't used it in a couple years now.
In your analogy, by not fighting for the empire you are making choice, and arguably it’s to support the enemy.

But you’re missing the larger point he’s making and the point the article is making, many ppl who claim to be atheist do have a belief system, it’s simply ill-defined. Most atheists arguing in this thread will give answers and do think they know the truth (it’s that there is no god and life is a hedonistic pursuit). And those beliefs build on others and are built on by other beliefs/ideas as well.

You’re making the same argument many make when trying to build on wedge issues: take a tiny portion of a group that is in no way representative of the larger group and then make generalizations to prove your point.

Aside from you (I’m taking you at your word), I’ve yet to meet an atheist who really had no beliefs.
I’m not trying to defend Apple, just adding context around the discussion of “Dropbox” as trademarked term vs in general usage, even by Apple.
Would you be willing to go into more detail about what sorts of things your friend says that are American in nature? I'm interested for the sake of self awareness.
Lysenko was right then. The reason Stalin killed so many people was that he tried to reprogram the human DNA -- boosting the cooperative altruistism gene needed in communism.
My understanding is Bitcoin unspent transaction outputs (spendable bitcoins) are spendable depending on the script (some opcodes that are agreed upon). The most common is pay to public key hash.

So you not only need to solve secp256k1 ecdsa, but your bitcoin utxo is also protected by the hash function which derives the address.

Put another way, starting with an address, you need to reverse engineer a hash collision (super difficult) to find a public key as that has not been announced yet. Then find a private key for that.

So you need to break two technologies.

Also my understanding is that quantum can only reduce complexity by sqrt, so 2^256 problem is reduced only to 2^128 which is unsolvable.

I think we’re safe for now.

And if ecdsa does get broken, it will be more like “we can generate keys in 2 years” and practically speaking, everybody can transfer their bitcoin utxo’s to a new script by only exposing their public key for a short time (tens of minutes) into the transaction mempool. Not enough time to break it.
Perhaps because the passengers in steerage had some choice in the matter, and didn't generally get sold, separated from their family, and tortured on arrival.
While this is an abuse of their monopoly powers, to me this is less bad than locking out 3rd party app stores. I never heard much complaining about that before Epic did their thing.
This sounds like the “intellectual matrix” the French education minister wrote about recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/world/europe/france-threa...

> French politicians, high-profile intellectuals and journalists are warning that progressive American ideas — specifically on race, gender, post-colonialism — are undermining their society. “There’s a battle to wage against an intellectual matrix from American universities,’’ warned Mr. Macron’s education minister.

> Emboldened by these comments, prominent intellectuals have banded together against what they regard as contamination by the out-of-control woke leftism of American campuses and its attendant cancel culture.
I'm usually suspicious about vague generic advices like that, and I absolutely despise Twitch, but this compilation is pretty gold, IMO. Thanks, I think I'm actually going to write that down.
What problems does it solve? Is it just a "shared network" VPN? The web site says what it is but not why.