skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously comedies will still get made on some level - and certainly times will adjust ...

... but I am I am listening to Conan O'Brian's podcast with Sean Penn at this very instant and they've literally brought up the challenges of comedy writing in cancel culture. Literally today's episode.

These are comedy/acting figureheads discussing the problem, so I'll take the word that it's an issue.

Casting is far more controversial that it's ever been, with an ever developing set of rules for who can play what under what terms. 'Progress' in the 1960's was allowed more expansive casting, i.e. breaking taboos. We are now in the process of establishing taboos.

Sean Penn just said 'I would not be allowed to play Harvey Milk in today's climate'. He then indicated that it's important to support people who have not had opportunities, but said in private conversations (this would be Hollywood 'elite' - Sean Penn is extremely connected) - the view is universal that anyone should be allowed to play anyone and that it's only on podiums on TV do the more radical voices come out. He and Conan then both agreed to terminology as 'Virtue Signalling'. It's a thoughtful discussion I recommend the podcast episode.

Kevin Hart was cancelled for the Oscars and that's a 'huge' thing as it's a global brand and they were left without a host. They've made all sorts of adjustments due to popular outrage. Just as a quick example.

It's not so much 'cancellation' as the mobs influence over the very sensitive Studio Execs and their various decisions.

Superbad would not get made today. It could (if they cleaned it up a bit) but it's just not thematically right: it's way too young white guy, crude, the tranny jokes, the 'girl on period jokes' - it just wouldn't make it past the ideation stage. Seth Rogen is now doing 'Social Progress' movies aka 'Long Shot' with definitive feminist values. Nothing wrong with that at all (it was modestly funny) - other than to say - that's what's being made instead of Superbad.

Tropic Thunder is comedy genius and it simply could not get made because of the main character's blackface, and the other major characters portrayal of mentally handicapped people. They couldn't adjust the script around that. So forget 'ideation' even if it was pitched it would be a 'no go'.

The Hollywood system is very sensitive these things and all sorts of deviations are made. A lot of it is good spirit, but a lot of it is just suffocating.
Why would anyone use this, wait 2 days round trip and give Amazon their COVID-19 detection status when there are literal at-home *tests* (eg BinaxNOW) that you can buy off the shelf at a local grocery store for half the price and get results in 15-20 minutes?

Even the fact that it's PCR vs antigen isn't a motivator, if I test postive with antigen test I'm likely not going to have any issues accessing a PCR test from a local provider.
It seems like a mis-match to me to try to use React for 3D. Like if all you have is a hammer than everything is a nail. 3D is not a tree, only the scene graph is, geometry and materials are not leaf nodes.

Think about HTML and Images. Image tags `<img>` live inside the DOM tree but the image itself, the actual pixels, are referenced only by name and those resources are managed outside of React. From React's POV doesn't know about the actual images. It only knows about these HTML tags called `<img>` that are references to the actual image. Two or more img tags can reference the same image by using the same src and something outside of react loads, frees, and otherwise deals with them.

In 3D you have the same problem a geometry, or mesh-data, like a cube or human, might be referenced 2 or more times. If you want to cover a globe with cubes you might have 1000 cubes. But, like an image, all you want is references to a single cube and that single cube, following React's example with HTML, would live outside of React. It can't be part of the DOM hierarchy because it doesn't fit the definition of "hierarchy". Its references do but its data does not.

The same with materials. In React, if you want 2 elements to share a style you use className="nameOfStyle" and the actual style lives outside of React in CSS. You have the same issue with materials in 3D. You might want 247 of your 1k cubes above all to share the same material as they represent the same area so that you can highlight them collectively, but now you're creating something that doesn't live in a tree, just like in className="nameOfStyle", nameOfStyle doesn't live in the tree.

I'm not saying they're aren't solution, just that off the top of my head, declaring <Scene><Cube/><Cube/><Cube/></Scene> is wrong. It should be <Scene><Renderable geo="cube"><Renderable geo="cube"><Renderable geo="cube"></Scene> and now you're left figuring out how to declare what the string "cube" represents but it will look nothing like React JSX. I get that react-three-fiber does the former but it's arguably wrong as it's pretending something is a hierarchy that's not a hierarchy. See the image example above.
Sadly, not a whole lot of detail here.
There's historical reasons why bucket shop gambling is illegal, and why derivatives are regulated.

Crypto is still speed running the past 150-years or so of financial misadventures.

And pointing at how the NYSE is becoming more of a casino doesn't validate crypto doing it as well.

Crypto is starting to look more and more like the det wire that could set off the next financial implosion.
One of the nice things about YC is that we have the luxury of being able to take a long-term view. YC itself didn't show massive results for 10 years so we're used to that.
Yep, that’s the theory. You can look to this past winter as an example — things got way worse than they were over the summer
If we accept the (unconventional) view that the Cold War was WW3, then it could be argued that the countries which escaped Russian domination learned the value of privacy (even if their appreciation of it has waned over time).

You're right, though, that it's probably not worth getting our hopes up about what sort of societies would exist after WW4 (based on that numbering system).
> The attackers were able to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in the VSA product to bypass authentication and run arbitrary command execution.

This is all that we have so far.
Kaggle competitions rarely produce interesting algorithmic results.

But I highly encourage you to read the winners' solutions. They are full of clever data insight, augmentations, regularizations, feature engineering, and preprocessing and postprocessing tricks.

But above all, compared to the academic literature, it's shocking how much time and creativity they spend on validation. Maybe I'm reading the wrong papers, but the flashy new neural architectures rarely even mention their validation setup; Kaggle winners sometimes devote half of their explanation to it. It's part of their secret sauce.

Two personal favorites:

(1) https://www.kaggle.com/c/severstal-steel-defect-detection/di.... The "random defect blackout" was a really clever data augmentation.

(2) https://www.kaggle.com/c/ieee-fraud-detection/discussion/111.... Particularly how they reduced overfitting with adverserial validation. They trained a separate model to distinguish between train and test sets, and then dropped features that ranked highly in feature importance on that model. That's probably a well-known technique in some circles, but I had never seen anything like it before.
so what's the alternative? Just run things silently?
You can move away from your family, but not from government control.
This is why I refuse to fuck around with "smart" banks / credit cards of any kind.

It's just not worth this kind of hassle, where the best case scenario is waiting around 3-4yrs for the government to print your money back to you...
As I began reading that comment I assumed it was a satirical response but it seems the user actually believes humans can “purge” emotions.
Oh boy… time to shut down the whole world for 3 weeks.

Edit: Arr! This post is a sinking ship! But really, most countries are locking down and getting rid of the virus. Just not at the same time… that’s a shame, because it just moves all around the world in waves. In Australia we eliminated COVID several times, just to catch it from India and the US… over and over.

Yes, we have a few vaccines here. But not available to anyone except medical professionals. Vaccination rate is very low, perhaps the lowest in the world. Yet in between lockdowns and catching COVID from other countries, we live normally. Isolation of 2-3 weeks easily defeats COVID, even if delta strain and hundreds of cases, without vaccination. Global coordinated isolation seems like the safest and fastest way to end the pandemic. It works in Australia.
My understanding is that it's not about motivation.

It's not about whether it's boring or not when it comes to intermixing versus blocked practice.

It's that intermixing require more thought and thinking rather than just following steps by rote.
The recommendation system, historically (i.e., in the long-long ago of spinning disks), was insanely good. But then Netflix moved to streaming and, as a consequence, its own--and generally less good--content.

By analogy, Netflix went from being a sci-fi future of having and being able to recommend on the basis of _everything_, to having a handful of good offerings and a huge amount of b-movie-level offerings.

My gut sense is management tried to paper over this "content loss problem" by making changes:

1) to the recommendation system to push Netflix content[1]; and

2) making changes to the UI to force users to be more reliant on the recommendation system.

I suspect these changes have, generally speaking, made user-consumption metrics look decent--in my mind the core of almost all Netflix's post-streaming decisions. But, as you suggest, it is all papering over a problem of user dissatisfaction: Netflix recommends you mediocre content, and you eventually give up and watch it--and then feel meh.

[1] I can imagine Netflix executives being unwilling to report that the content Netflix had paid mightily for scored low on Netflix's own recommendation algorithm. Philosophically, Netflix went from being, essentially, content agnostic (e.g., it just bought more of X DVD), to having incentives to see particular content (e.g., its own) rank highly.
I don't know if it's deployed in this case, but some facial recognition process in Chinese apps like Alipay requires the user to turn their face left and right to a certain angle, and the whole continuous movement is used for verification.
Because Republican (Trump) propaganda has convinced millions of conservatives not to get vaccinated. Fewer than 50% of Republicans have been vaccinated and of those, 75% say they will never get it. This is compared to over 85% of Democrats who have received at least the first vaccination shot.
It seems unlikely that we would try to colonize other star systems by sending meat there— meat doesn't keep well over the necessary time scales.

It seems a better plan would be to send artificial intelligence which can remain dormant for hundreds or thousands of years. A planet could be "colonized" by building a data center on it and then running a detailed simulation of a habitable planet. In fact, that would open up far more worlds to colonization, because it substantially loosens the requirements for habitability.

Or if a simulation truly isn't good enough, then an AI could at least bootstrap a biosphere.
Think more like Mussolini than Mao. China is more like a fascist state than a communist one
I have to guess that the busy travel season of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year plays a part as well. These are peak crowd-gathering holidays, at least in the U.S. Lots of visiting relatives, lots of transiting through crowded airports, lots of cramped airliner cabins and recycled air, etc.
Data? There have been really flawed studies to bash video game playing (just like there was for playing chess...look it up), but I've yet to see any that withstand scrutiny.
However the housing stock grows, the remaining stock needs maintenance anyway.

So, well, indeed, a good plumber should not see extremely lean years.

(Anecdotally, my son works as a building systems maintenance engineer, without a college diploma. Of course the market for such jobs ebbs and flows, but seems to never dry up: city buildings still need their elevators, HVAC, fire alarm, access control, etc systems working, no matter what.)
That is, indeed, the week spot in these constructs.

Commonly, oracles are composed of an aggregate of multiple independent providers. So roughly a majority of them have to collude to manipulate the price and you would have to take multiple oracle providers down to stop the price updates.

Any token derivative that relies on one or a few providers are very risky.

ChainLink (the mainstream choice today) doesn't seem to be officially providing stock prices, but to give you an idea there are currently 16 providers for gold-USD prices: https://data.chain.link/ethereum/mainnet/commodities/xag-usd
The people living there want this. People in the Soviet Union believed in a lot of ineffective things too. If opposing viewpoints were better accepted there would be no restrictions. People aren’t stupid, the system just ill informs them.
There are a lot of compounds that are poisonous to most species, but where some species have adapted defences against them, rendering them harmless. (IIRC capsaicin is like this in humans.)

There are also compounds that are toxic to basically every animal species for low-level common-animal-ancestor reasons, but which exist in the plants/fungi they exist in, in concentrations dictated by what’s required to kill/ward off the particular predators that plant/fungus had in its evolutionary environment. Aspirin, caffeine, nicotine, cocaine — these are all effective pesticides. They kill or severely harm insects. But we’re orders of magnitude larger than insects, so they have orders-of-magnitude less effect on us (unless we make orders-of-magnitude more concentrated doses of them, of course). That change in quantity, is reflected by a change in quality — i.e. having “a little bit” of caffeine does very different things to a body than having a lethal dose of caffeine.
I'm completely okay with this. Binance still hasn't explained why basically none of their leveraged tokenized assets nearly all failed to perform as intended[0].

Whole heartedly - fuck Binance.

0 - https://www.coindesk.com/binance-leveraged-tokens-crypto-cra...
FDA approval is a rightfully slow process but we have an absolute ocean of data to support safety and efficacy. Vaccines appear to work fairly well against the delta variant , and sensible lifestyle choices and vaccination are hardly exclusive.

It feels like, especially with your addition in parentheses, that your goal here is simply to anger people.
If you can't afford it, you can get Waking Up for free. If you can afford it I think it's worth the price.
Hmm, I wonder if locking down the boot chain like this is GPL compliant, since apparently even GPLv2 requires the ability to modify GPL parts on the device.

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/
Ah yes, hunger induced delirium.
I mean, he's a licensed practicing physician in Toronto, Ontario and nothing he advocates seems too far out of the mainstream medical science to me.

Also, I just pulled out a copy of the book I mentioned, and in the appendix he's got 467 citations. I'd say ballpark over half of those are peer reviewed medical journals.

Doesn't seem very duck-like, but I'm interested to hear your take on why he's a quack.
My meditation trick is to put all gadgets away and take a nap in my hammock.
Would make more sense to also not be able to drive until 18/21
Vaccine is only 64% effective against Delta variant.
The Conditional Content piece of 'component content" is one that's consistently ignored by every Big Iron vendor that I've ever talked to.

Which is 100% nuclear stupid, because, as you point out, you can't do component content without conditional content. And once you start doing conditional content, you need to have a damn good idea of what your whole product architecture looks like: what works with what, which packages are packages, obsolescence, blah blah blabbity blah. At industry conferences this makes me mad enough to spit, and all those goobers are suckering these writer teams into paying $7000 per person per (EDIT)month (!!) for a system that's going to be nothing but heartache in thirty six months.

Luckily, Asciidoc does have conditional directives, but the include directive is wayyyyy too primitive for what it's being used for right now (also as you point out). The `ainclude` directive is in extension right now, and it will probably be brought into core as a subdoc directive.

Having said that, it really is the best game in town, for generating both modern HTML alongside old-timey PDFs and DocBook XML, all from the same source.
Yes, many times. For example, Google was fined €100 million in December:
https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-financial-penalties-60-millio...
The backdrop to this is how unbelievably predatory f2p East Asian games are when it comes to slot machine mechanics and whale hunting. Most adults in Japan, I read, think of video games as if they are the same as casino games. It wasn’t until 10 years ago that the west really got on that bandwagon, but now I think we’re leaders in this. Eg, blizzard switching f2p games with loot boxes so heavily, and aiming to make a new Diablo as a mobile game
We need one more winter to burn through the rest of the population. There's no way around it unfortunately, in my view. I got the vaccine, forcing people to get the vaccine isn't going to do much either.

I was in NYC for the entirety of 2020 so I'm not trying to minimize here, but the fear mongering and doom and gloom is really starting to get old. If you got the vaccine, resume living normally, wear a mask on public transit (heck wherever you want) but move on. People who decided to not get the vaccine made that choice, if they pay the price... so be it... Move on...
Most of a physics degree is applied maths. If they use their math skills the degree wasn't a waste.
Twitter has likely been subjected to FISA warrants and may have committed to those while remaining silent as the law requires.

Apple complied to investigating Members of Congress when asked by the Justice Department.

When you provide your services in a country you are governed by the laws of the country, e.g. DMCA is applicable in US but not recognised in other countries.

If certain set of laws in a country are incompatible with the principles of your company, you may fall on the sword not offer your services in that particular country. I feel certain that Twitter withdrawing from India will do more good as it may bring increased focus on these amendments and expedite the judicial scrutiny.

Twitter is straddling the fence, trying to malign the government but more often than not governments don’t blink against corporations.
I’ll admit to being a gun nut and originalist, but “breakdown of two parent families is bad” is a completely mainstream position among non-white immigrants in the US.
The strange truth is we don't know why disease waxes and wanes with the seasons. There's a lot of hypothesis but they've mostly been disproven. In particular any thoughts about the weather and how it impacts behavior are eliminated due to the fact that we have two hemispheres that are in opposite seasons and constant international travel.
It's hot, arid, and just terrible place to live generally.
Except in the Lake Eyre Basin and more eastern areas, generally, the soil is utterly infertile. The land has had no mountain building since the Precambrian, and no Glaciation for similarly long periods. That means that this particular piece of land has been undergoing nearly 250mil years of constant weathering, without any renewal. That does make it fairly unique in the world honestly from a geological point of view, but terrible from ensuring people live there point of view.
I have found the Unity docs to be atrocious. Missing info. Not well cross referenced. Important details buried as notes under other topics. Examples in docs out of date. Are you saying if I pay $200 I get access to better docs?
You should read up on the last decade in Venezuela, which used to be the richest country in Latin America, and having wealthy professionals see their savings evaporate due to 1,000,000% inflation because of the actions of a government they democratically elected.

Belief is the only thing holding together a lot of the things that we rely on to keep society functioning the way it does.

I'm guessing (though not assuming) you're posting from one of the most historically stable countries in human history, but that isn't how most people experience planet earth, and it isn't guaranteed that that's the wya you'll always experience it either.
Imagine some kind of Ice9 scenario but instead with a catalytic everlasting ultra-disinfectant released into the water cycle. Could it be stopped? Do we live with it? Does everything die and the world enters a new age of archae supremacy?

What if it didn’t evaporate so it was oceans only — is the plot about mankind living without fish suppers or is there more to it? The oceans effectively become poisonous to humans too of course. Any city with brackish tidal rivers becomes affected. Does the disinfectant work immediately — do salmon carry it up river? Salmon ladders get blown up by desperate citizens who inadvertently destroy the dams to which the ladders are attached etc.

I like hard scifi plots. I am not suggesting this is an actual risk. Time to re-read some classics.
Waking Up is a great non-mystical type of meditation app. I strongly recommend checking this out if you’re at all turned off by the voodoo surrounding meditation.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that more than half of the younger generation are currently living with parents [1]. Not because they necessarily enjoy it, but because they can't afford their own home.

Building more housing should lower the effective price of it, and allow many new home buyers or renters to enter the market.

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
If you got coronavirus, you can be reinfected, too - especially with the P.1 variant [1].

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33909850/
That article mentions nothing about code signing, and it's well known that the GPL 2 doesn't have anything that would prevent Tivoization.
96% of vaccine candidates are rejected for a reason. So many sheep follow blindly, self satisfied and self important.
Relative rating could also work here, "did you enjoy this movie more than this other movie you recently saw" type of deal.
Leaking coolant is a major problem. The standard for most small heat pumps is r412a and it is problematic.

To make the installs cheap, these systems use flare fittings that almost all seem to leak. Couple that with the fact the 412a systems run at high pressure and you get a lot of leaking refrigerant.

No HVAC techs I’ve met like the 412a systems and most seem to be hoping for more sanity from r32, though that will have its own set of problems (flammability)
I don’t disagree, but the technical term is “synthetic” and substituting “fake” for “synthetic” in a headline and first paragraph doesn’t seem like that crazy of an editorial choice.
> 22. If our society had no social problems at all, the <people> would have to INVENT problems in order to provide themselves with an excuse for making a fuss.
why would the world stress over a dozen people?
This company has a stake in many American companies. How chilling
It’s pretty much a content free blog post. I’m surprised it ended up on the front page.
Importantly, it's still 93% effective in preventing hospitalizations [1].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/06/health/israel-pfizer-efficacy...
The statistics about death-by-gun for the US that I've heard seem to indicate that this theory doesn't translate very well to practice.