skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not the existence or propagation of misinformation, disinformation or lies or truth. The problem is the attempt to control any of it by decree. You cannot trust anyone with the power to be the sole arbiter of truth. Everyone is human and everyone is fallible no matter how educated or credentialed. Democracy is the best of all the imperfect forms of government because it allows a plurality of opinions and convictions to exist and for everyone to freely choose among them. Governance can swing from one set of ideas to another peacefully and with the legitimacy that a majority have decided that things should be done a certain way for a limited amount of time after which we all re-evaluate the decision and can make changes if needed.
> (...) tensions began to rise between the French and the U.S. military personnel stationed in the country, with the former seeing the latter as arrogant and wanting to flaunt their wealth, and the latter seeing the former as proud and resentful.

Well. I mean...

Joking aside, the text is amazingly blunt and honest, in a rather refreshing way.

"The French don't bathe."

The French don't bathe often enough. They can't. They don't have real soap. (...) The Germans took the soap.
>That is maybe true with science, but not with living breathing things.

Are you saying living things have some irreducible complexity that's unexplainable or undetectable by scientific methods?

>Just one example: What is the best system to live in?

It's a pretty bad example. There's necessarily an answer which, if nothing else, is the best for the largest number of people. People aren't infinitely variable.
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One of the 'gripes' is:

"One Frenchman told me the French practically gave us the statue of liberty. How do you like that?"
The answers to each gripe are simple, straightforward and convincing. I love how it's written.
90eu a month is a fraction of the rent I was paying for a shared house room in 1999 in a cheap city. 90eu a month office must be in south east asia or something like that.
I hope you are wrong as that would be economically and environmentally wasteful.
The play your own music and customize your car to the owner is in theory transportable. Just sync your settings in a standard format and take that with you to whatever car you use.
Computers beat humans at chess, but players are still trying to become good at chess.

Cars can travel faster than humans and horses, yet we still have running competitions and horse races.
Not sure if you are joking?

> France is the country with the deepest, most sedimented reservoir of anti-American arguments. Its long genealogy has been well documented over the years, most recently by Philippe Roger, who argues that French anti- Americanism is older than the United States (Roger 2002).

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/meunierces...
Ask HN: Best commenting system for website/blog
I'm trying to implement a comment section into my blog but am unsure which tool to use. Here are a few crucial factors:
Privacy,
Ease of management,
Security,
Regular updates.
I have only taken a look at Disqus and a self-hosted alternative name Commento (which is great but does not seem to get updated anymore).
Why many people who make over $100k will likely continue to work from home
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For home use cases, a even lower-budget option is to just give up full-depth server racks, and buy a bigger power/Internet box then throw the Pi(s) in instead. That way you don't need a chassis or many other components listed in the article. And since usually most of these boxes are installed outside the range of "living space", the fan noises should not be a big concern.

I have a super low-budget setup for my two SBCs (not Pi) in my parents place [0]. It's been there for more than 3 years now, running a Docker cluster. I'd say it's fairly stable for non-production use.

Of course, the box in my case does not allow fan installations. So the cluster runs fairly hot sometimes during summer time. Currently it runs around 60°C (140.00°F) under light~medium load. In the winter, the temperature could drop to as low as around 20°C.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/bfBlUb4
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I’m wondering this too.
Depends on the geometry of the object, orientation, print settings and material.

This being a closed shape, split in half, printed hollow-face down and supported by the inner structure _and_ the other half?

I'm pretty sure you can use the cheapest PLA filament on the market, and you wouldn't be able to break it will all your strength even at very weak settings (2 perimenters, %20 infill).

Want to factor in the possibility to throw the controller on the ground? Next cheap step is to use PETG. Higher impact strength, almost perfect intra-layer bonding if printed correctly. By the time the shell is broken, the components are too.

If this was a controller in the shape of a PS controller it would be different due to the possibility of leverage. Still, we now have FDM filaments which are good enough even for that.

You always need to factor in process limitations. What you don't see in everyday object is how they're designed to fit within the manufacturing process they've chosen and optimized accordingly. FDM has limitations too, and one has to design with that in mind.
It's completely possible to love a game that has deep flaws. There's a guy on twitch that I watch occasionally who has very different tastes than I do. I love Ocarina of Time and Outer Wilds, for instance, and he hated both. Thing is, when he lists the things he didn't like they are all perfectly legitimate complaints.
Microsoft is known for bad security practices, and even worse practices when it comes to rectifying consequences of such.

I bet with windows update being habitually turned off to prevent forced reboots, it will be a wave of exploiting when full details of the fix will be analysed.

It's likely there are more Windows machines now which have autoupdate disabled because of forced reboots than the amount of machines with default settings.

The decision to add forced reboot was one in line of many "shooting yourself in the foot" acts Microsoft did when it comes to software security.
The original is a delight to read. Sadly, I can't help but wonder how many would be "triggered" by the answers today.

How do we, as a society, start accepting rational self-criticism again?
And one day, successive iterations of OCR, copy & paste, and machine learning will have us remembering the events of Peary Harbor.
An Alabama lawmaker just wants NASA to fly SLS, doesn’t care about payloads
Nonsense. Tourism was 3 % of our GDP in 2019 and half of that number is internal tourism (Czechs traveling around their own country). Nice to have, but far from crucial.

This is an old industrial country, a former industrial hotspot of the Austrian empire. A few very old cities (Telč, Český Krumlov) really live off tourism and would collapse without it, but Prague is a modern metropolis and mostly lives off normal economic activity, just like any other major city in Europe.
This is complete bunk, like most nutrition epidemiological studies. They start by assuming a causal relationship that we simply don't know actually exists, using biologically "plausible" pathways that are, again, unproven. And even then, they don't seem to account for the reduction of cancer risk that many wine and beer studies have shown (though, again, from equally spurious epi studies). And here again we have news outlets just uncritically parroting the findings to their audiences.
> some of you guys don't obviously have that much experience with what you are talking about (not you)

Thanks for adding the caveat. Most people on this thread are pretty ignorant about drugs, except for me, you and the person reading this comment.
There is a lot of subtlety hidden in "a ^ ~a is a contradiction", because physical reality is more complex than it appears.

For example, one of the stunning consequences of Special Relativity is that there exist situations in which an observer says that event A happens before event B, and another observer says that event A happens after event B, and both are correct. Nature does not appear to be at all bothered by this "contradiction", however, and the world works just fine. Even more puzzling "contradictions" arise in quantum mechanics.

For all we know, it appears that reality is indeed dependent on the observer at a deep level. Maybe there is an even deeper level at which statements such as "a ^ ~a is false" hold, but so far nobody has been able to discover any.
Military personnel on average have more formal education then the general public. High school drop outs aren't even allowed to enlist anymore without a special waiver. Almost all officers, and many enlisted, have Bachelor's degrees. Senior officers usually have Master's degrees.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat...

Sorry i don't think there's a torrent/peertube for it (yet). The embedded video is from Youtube. youtube-dl may be an option in case you don't want to "consent" to Google's horrendous terms of service but still enjoy videos Google did not produce and should not have a monopoly on distributing.
Ask HN: Can you share some of your favorite human language learning resources?
Including games, puzzles, audio etc. basically anything that would be enjoyable to use and learn a new language at the same time
As Steve Martin once said, “Those French have a different word for everything!”
Despite others talking about patience and walkthroughs, Maher rarely uses walkthroughs because they taint the experience of the game. I think what he's saying here is that once you strip out all the annoying parts of the game there are only two hours of actual game left.
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There was a time in the west when having a vagina made you property, it does not stop any of us from judging those societies or criticizing current societies.
> The author of this article compares Full Throttle to Day of the Tentacle to show why it's a bad game, but Day of the Tentacle is one of the very greatest adventure games ever written. It's like comparing a movie made today to Citizen Kane.

Which isn't at all unfair. When discussing something that doesn't work it is often helpful to compare it to something that did that thing right.
Something not in the comments yet - many people who are motivated by money build businesses around money, the finance sector.

It's a way to stick to what you're interested in, and makes it fairly easy to 'keep score' if your goals are measured in $€¥£. I get the impression too that being close to flows of money often gives good opportunities to make a cut.
Reasonable or not, this is reality.
Disruption:

"One major implication of NASA's $2.89 billion award to SpaceX in April for the Human Landing System is that the contract provided significant funding for the Starship rocket and its Super Heavy booster. This advanced launch system will directly compete with NASA's Space Launch System rocket, which is built by traditional space contractors and provides thousands of jobs in all 50 states. If Starship works, which seems increasingly likely, it will launch more payload than the SLS booster, for substantially less money, all while being reusable. In short, it should be superior to NASA's SLS rocket in every conceivable way, except politically."
Hah. The first encounters between the French and the US in WW II were hostile: The US landings in Morocco against French resistance.
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There’s nothing wrong about that, but if you crunch the numbers - or look at the results of people who did - you’ll see that from a purely cashflow perspective, founding a startup is probably not a good idea compared to a traditional career in existing enterprises.
> How do we, as a society, start accepting rational self-criticism again?

A good starting point would be to stop using the word "trigger" when someone reacts in a way you don't like to something you say.

Personally I interpret it as a way to diminish the other side position by suggesting they don't have control over their emotions regarding some subjects. Not a good start.
Which SBC did you settle on? Didn’t realise some had built in ssd storage..
If you believe so strongly in the ability of institutions to ferret out untruth then surely you’d be ok with the application of such knowledge. We have the ability to do real time analysis in communications such as email, text and cell phone calls so why not just delete any offending words from those communications in real time so that lies never spread? That way you have perfect freedom of speech, it’s just that your phone calls will be edited in real time so the other person never hears the banned words. Better yet, instead of just deleting then it could reword it ina simulation of your voice so that they only ever hear the accepted truth.
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There are a few other cute tricks (not all of which were in Rust 1.0) to enable this.

Rust's "raw" way to spell all symbols is clever. Maybe some day my function named weigh will be a problem because of a new "weigh" keyword. Rust gets to add the keyword but still talk about my function in new editions by just spelling the symbol awkwardly, as r#weigh. This forbids Rust from reserving such spellings (e.g. "r#weigh") as keywords themselves, but that would be so ugly nobody would want to do it. Overall the result is Rust 2021 could even make "new" a keyword if it wanted to, and the old code which uses that symbol name everywhere still works, it's just a little clumsy to talk to it from next edition code.

Still, I think it's worth remembering that the edition changes in Rust so far have been much smaller than many changes contemplated for C++ Epochs (or any hypothetical actual C++ feature similar to Vittorio's proposal in spirit).

C++ has a lot of problems, and understandably Epoch proponents want to do stuff like ban implicit narrowing coercions, or change how overflow works. Because of how sprawling C++ is these are surprisingly big changes to the whole language, and I don't think that you could pull off something like that with editions.

I have a hopeful note though. Maybe C++ can inspire a much more powerful tool than editions, somehow enabling backward compatibility for C++ while also allowing new C++ to be written exclusively in Stroustrup's "subset of a superset" that keeps most of C++'s strengths but loses so much baggage like implicit coercions everywhere. If it's possible, the C++ community have the right people.
I have an impression that they force at least part of those "UI upgrades", to the point of removing their switch in about:config, specifically to annoy users and to create waves pushing their product into some news while showing off some work being done. There is no such thing as negative marketing or so people say.

Personally, I found almost none of those as useful as to justify the repeatedly broken web-surfing experience and ever-growing userChrome.css.
> That’s not sufficiently true. In fact, asserting untrue propositions is one of the easiest-to-counter ways of misinformation.

Tell that to the children ICE detained separately from their parents.
What you're saying is "a company banning certain forms of speech on its platforms does not constitute censorship", which is true at least in the strict definition of "censorship", but does not contradict what the GP is saying. What the GP is talking about is a shift in American attitudes that leads to the acceptance of such policies, whereas in earlier times they might have been rejected or the companies in question might not have even thought to implement them.
> Surprisingly, polling data reveals that France is not drastically more anti-American than other European countries – even less so on a variety of dimensions.

ibid
I said meaningful. Unscalable DeFi scams don't count.

All these ERC20 projects force their community to pay between $10 to $20 per transaction to Ethereum miners who add no real value to their project/token. No real project based on real underlying value would force their users to pay such extortionate fees to some set of third-party validators who have nothing to do with their project aside from wedging themselves as middlemen between their tokens and their users.
"Every bit of censorship can be argued to be censoring dangerous lies."

This. Former Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and its secret police (StB) did not say "we are evil and we want to suppress information that contradicts whatever we need you to believe". It was a necessary struggle against Western ideodiversional centrals that were sowing lies among naive young population for nefarious purposes, of course.

Every censorship system will cloak itself in righteousness and necessity. Has been tried for hundreds of times. If anybody still accepts this argument at face value, they are likely ignorant of history.
Is there a more appropriate word to describe this? Honest question as a non-native English speaker.

Seems like this is a commonly used term/usage: https://www.google.com/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/us/amp...
Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher education?
Most people understand that occasional drinking with a healthy lifestyle is perfectly fine, and drinking 3 beers every day is probably not: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...
I'm a heavy smoker - an oz of Indica with 2 grams of powder hash added per week is my mix of choice. I've been a heavy smoker since the 70's, and a computer science research scientist pretty much the entire time. I know I am an outlier, but there are more than a few like us: people that find marihuana to aid in their ability to focus. The work that I do is basically all day calculus, and being high enables my to hyper focus on the minutia of the issue at hand. It can take up to an hour to regain the details of what I'm working on in my head, and then it is statistics and calculus for the remainder of the day. I turn off my phone, quit any communications software, smoke a bowl or three and spend the next 8 hours in abstract symbolic land. It works. I'm quite successful, published, and respected for my work and generally easy going personality. It works. Also, I do not drink booze at all - I hate. Can't think!
>In fact, in every single case that we were able to research fully, we found a convincing connection between a mystery package and an earlier order.

No wonder the Mandela Effect has such caché when reminding the recipient to look at their purchase history is all it took to resolve hundreds of orders.
You might be thinking of the Kuleshov effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuleshov_effect
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I do not know either. I just expect that the traditional game engine runtimes compile to WebAssembly.
Plasma doesn't support Wayland yet, so there's lots of issues when using external screens with a different DPI. That's why I'm moving to gnome, even though I like KDE better.
Kevin Loney once gave an excellent talk, "Controlled Flight into Terrain", at an Oracle users group conference. As I recall, one of the cases he mentioned of self-inflicted damage involved the company that wanted strict, gapless order for an ID column. It would have been entirely possible to avoid ID conflicts by using the INCREMENT BY feature of Oracle sequences, but the company had European systems fetching the next ID value from a server in the US.

I sympathize with customers who don't expect gaps of 20 (Oracle) or 32 in ID sequences. But the relational model is one of unordered tuples, isn't it?
Driving cuts into other more profitable activities, like shopping, watching The Office, gaming, and defending your social media turf.

Can you image how much money Amazon Retail loses every year due to people wasting time driving when they could be on Amazon.com ??
> Full Throttle was the first LucasArts game, and one of the first in general, to have an “all-digital” soundtrack: i.e., all of the sound in the game, including all of the music, was sampled from the real world rather than being synthesized on the computer.

What a bizarre statement.

I loved Full Throttle though! Haven't got a slightest recollection of it being frustrating, but I was a kid and it was one of the first adventure games I played - I guess my tolerance was still pretty high back then :)
(I confess I replied in a knee-jerk reaction to your set-up, rather than your main point. Sorry for that. Your main point has meat on its bones and seems worthy of further discussion.)
how do toi build a robot that executes Kung fu if you have no data points about how the body should move and behave? You'd still need to record an actual human performing them if you want to build a robot that could emulate that.
I hope your cage is fireproof. Shoving all that consumer gear in a 1U seems… risky.
Fully utilized is highly unlikely. Certainly, if most people travel to work around 7-9 and from work around 16-18, and work and home locations aren’t uniformly distributed, you would end up with cars at office locations that have to go back to pick up people at home (assuming there’s time for a single car to do a double commute)

Cars mostly spend their time in parking lots, but that also mostly happens at the same times and in the same locations.

Also, I fear people will still care it is _their_ car. If not, what will replace it as a status symbol? Being able to summon a nicer ride might, but if we’re going to stratify self-driving cars, utilization will go down further.
"Misinformation is code. It’s designed to specifically take advantage of gaps in our society and spread in such a way that makes it harder to challenge it."

Are you aware that ideas like abolition of slavery, civil rights or acceptance of gays had to spread precisely in the same way, through gaps in the contemporary societies that made harder to challenge them, often because open declaration of such ideas would mean major trouble for the speakers?

Do you think that our current society is perfect in this regard and thus can suppress further functionality of such mechanisms without adverse consequences down the line?

If not, better not touch the gaps.
Lying police officers really defies the most basic and fundamental ABC on how you build a police force that has both trust, and support from the community they’re supposed to protect.

I mean, it’s clearly damaged cops with severe mental issues (most probably PTSD), who have decided that the people they are employed to protect, somehow are their most aggressive enemy..

Like, if the people with a state sanctioned monopoly on violence, decide that beating people isn’t enough, they must also be able to trick people into a prison sentence, you don’t have police you have fascists stormtroopers.
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Israel and Palestine? That would be a good read.
I've developed a Colab to use Blenderbot 2 if you want to try to talk with them. (note, you probably need Colab Pro and a P100 if not a V100, and high RAM set on for the 3B) (also, I am not tech support, I just threw something together.) There are 2 models to chat to, the 3B and the 400M, the 3B unconfirmed to run in Colab, while the 400M model does (with T4 and above) Just change in the last cell the command to use the 3B or the 400M model. https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Idr82UNopKi58xFUDoj...

(another note, it takes a while to run)

(also, if you want to talk to the original Blenderbot, use this Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1NFFSNfX6cDjQrwai0np...
you need a T4 or above to interact with the 3B Blenderbot 1 model.)
Sorry, overlooked that. I browsed through the source, but somehow didn’t see it.