skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what sad gatekeeping of what is permissible to write about. i was more about the Valleywag days, not on Gawker, but there is legit public interest in just being nosey as shit, building a practice around it, & being non-discerning in what you publish.

most media coverage is polished & spun. having a raw read on what important people are like, what they get up to: that is a worthy thing for the world to be tracking, to have some sense of.

you seem just to not like it. and be willing to judge on ultra simplified shallow assessment, of the lowest easiest to hit points, without respecting that even low journalism has a function & role. you revert to slandering & badmouthing at the end to impress your "moral" point ("a sign of a trashy person who religiously watches the Jersey Shore") which reads to me as narrow minded in it's refusal to consider gawker's truth telling value & heavy handedly belttilting in it's moral judgementality. I expect at least some sign of recognition, some acknowledgement of the value of showing the unfiltered truths. we people imo were greater for having some ability to see the unseen background of the valley's famous, it seems obvious & clear to me, even though it was often an inglorious reality. without this we have no context. we have only the manufactured, the presented, the PR. the world needs more than prescriptivist upstanding reporting, in part because the world is just too interesting & weird & odd, and that's okay too be part of the story too. even when it's not spit and polished great stories.

there's countless stories of internal Google etc dramas, the weird execs & their odd lifestyles behind these shifts, how they allies & clashed that Valleywag/Gawker gave that no one else would ever have brought to light. an extremely informative moral service. because the point was to be undiscerning. the point was to tell, to fill in some of the background in the paintings. that seems to be too much for many. people don't like hearing this part or that, like you seem to oppose. I don't get how people can turn their nose up at this stuff. they probably judge only by what few small sensationized examples they know: they probably aren't fit to judge, don't know what they were missing. unlike jersey shore, unlike most celebrities, these are real people with colossal power being described. having some context, some view, meant everything, made the companies look like a collection of people. something no one else does. and that was taken. by the powerful. worth mourning.
> Sorry, that's just how the world and its laws and policies have worked for centuries.

And that's why we created the first amendment, because we found out how bad of an idea is for gov's to censor.

How well do you think this is going to go over with the moderates and the right? The only reason you're supporting this atm is because it supports your side's group think.

Parent poster is right, in normal discussion you'll have disagreements. Only one side is calling it misinformation.
That would indeed be killer, but I wonder how difficult it would be for the Deck to push those sorta frames, even at 720p.
This depends on the market, though of course it's not the case that a market would naturally tend to the best kind of competitive environment serving it.

For example, there is an argument that markets with one incumbent among several competitors can serve a market better, since the incumbent will have profits through it's economies of scale with which it can reinvest into R&D to serve the market better, that it needs to maintain its incumbency.
Almost like a dumber version of using public and private keys for auth!
Yes, but I should add that I'm from the Netherlands.

Let's for the sake of simplicity use the word "woke" for the type of politics we're talking about.

We have it too, but it's far smaller. Most of our media is more left than the actual population it broadcasts to. However, our left is more traditional left, not woke left. So it's marginal.

Politically, we're a very different country. We have tons of parties, and therefore are a coalition country. Extremism has no place in such society as it can't produce a working coalition. Hence, dutch society moves between a narrow band from centre-right / center / center-left.

In practice, usually centre-right as the disconnect between left wing ideas and what the population actually wants is stunningly large.

The absolute dumbest thing left wing movements have ever done, and this is an international thing, is to abandon white workers. In white-dominant countries.

Anyway, the dutch are extremely sober, based, down to earth. We immediately reject anything that makes no sense.

So to finally answer your question (sorry): wokism has no place in general society here. You can't speak it at a birthday party, it will be the last one you're invited to.
Canadians who want to help, be sure to read this part:

> All donations by Canadians will be matched by the federal government, up to a maximum of $10 million. The campaign runs until Sept. 6

https://www.unicef.ca/en/what-we-do/donate-to-coronavirus

If you donate $20, that covers 4 people, and the government will match it to help 4 more people.

A lot of us in tech have done pretty well during the pandemic. It seems only right to help others now.
The 'other Chernobyl' nobody knows
I'm not going to comment on epilepsy because I'm not a physician or a medical researcher. To me, epilepsy seems too powerful and independently energised by local neuronal activity to be overridden by a voluntary thought directed at the vagus nerve.

The examples the author gives of experienced meditators being able to influence what in non-practitioners are autonomic systems, makes sense, given that there is evidence for example of Tibetan monks surviving freezing temperatures. The investigations into that phenomenon show the physiological mechanism is to burn a particular type of fat. How do the monks access that physiology? The meditation switches it on. How does that work? That's the interesting part. It takes many years to learn and decades to gain the skills, but can be stated in one simple sentence. They use visualisation.

I learned to suppress sneezing after much practice. I don't have the language to describe the technique, but I go almost to the point of sneezing, doing the inhale, and then I sort of meditate. I neither try hard to stop the sneeze or do anything active - I just let my mind go blank, and set my expectations that the sneeze is going to fade away. And it does.
Python wants you back in 3.10
That’s just semantics, it means the same thing.
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As someone who's been using a Umidigi phone (F1 Play) for like two years, I think the real corner cut was the camera.

The software was pretty vanilla, as best I could tell. It seemed far closer to a stock Android than, say, a Samsung product. It had one obvious nonstandard app-- a clumsy "wireless update" tool that would suddenly and immediately demand a reboot for the grand total of three times it actually had an OS update available (zll within the first 6 months or so). But I didn't see any obvious adware, at least.

Honestly, I've liked the device enough (big battery, 3.5mm and MicroSD) that I would have considered another of their devices. This, OTOH, makes me a little concerned: should I reject them due to their affiliation with the Maga Patrol, or should I appreciate their ability to mark up and sell rubbish to fools?
> I was detained for an hour because the computer said that my face didn't match my passport

The "excuse du jour". Always blame the computer and you will have a free pass to do anything as you want without being blamed for it. I had seen a similar pattern other times in airports.
>And you can get them "everywhere"? lol

You think otherwise? Lol.

This is like a choir boy arguing weed is hard to find and "nobody they know does it".
I have confidence that Valve isn't going to deliver a product of this caliber and then deliver a subpar screen response time.
The parent appears to conflate general orders with technical orders; your interpretation of the second scenario appears to do the same as well.
This sounds a little like Chaitin's constant Omega (Ω), which is very roughly a number in [0, 1] which is the probability that a randomly chosen program (for a universal Turing machine, U) will halt.

This has the interesting property that knowing the first n bits of Ω allows you to determine whether any program (for U) of length up to n will halt, in other words you could solve the halting problem for programs of length up to n.

As Wikipedia puts it:

> Because many outstanding problems in number theory, such as Goldbach's conjecture, are equivalent to solving the halting problem for special programs (which would basically search for counter-examples and halt if one is found), knowing enough bits of Chaitin's constant would also imply knowing the answer to these problems. But as the halting problem is not generally solvable, and therefore calculating any but the first few bits of Chaitin's constant is not possible, this just reduces hard problems to impossible ones, much like trying to build an oracle machine for the halting problem would be.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant
They operate independently, but both are funded by bezos. They don't need to be owned by the same company. They need to both be good at their respective goals and cheap launches will follow.

But to be clear, none of this matters. The business case to sell a $1000 terminal for under $300 isn't closing. They're subsidized right now, and public perception will be very different once the real sticker shock comes in.
Only optimizes for how much noise, not how much signal.
That's certainly one way to get the expertise that they need in house to remain competitive (and to ensure their own supply) - certainly if rumors about their current capabilities being less than stellar are correct.

It'll be an interesting move if it comes through to fruition. TBH this would ironically probably be a good thing for Taiwan and may be a good thing for TSMC.

It is somewhat amusing that they're picking up AMD's scraps.
"something better" was referring to the MD5 algorithm in particular. It'd be really easy today to make a fair firmware and a rigged firmware with identical MD5 hashes.
Having just a top 2 percent iq which is Mensa cutoff is about 5x as exclusive as being a milionare .pretty amazing
I thought that "pollution" chart showing it dropping off sharply in all scenarios (due either to clean technology or societal collapse) were unlikely. If you are counting CO2 as pollution (and you should) then it's very hard to get it back out of the air, especially in a short timeframe. So in all cases the pollution line ends up in a steady state at roughly wherever society either weaned itself from fossil fuels or collapsed.
That's the opinion of many prominent scientists and social work experts, counter-lol.
I do this with myself constantly. I think if I met my younger self I would hate me.

I don't know how far back in time it takes for a disconnect of 'who was I then to do that?' or 'I can't believe I did that' but sometimes I think back to recent things and get so embarrassed my face turns red and heats up.

Like Bill Burr sometimes I have to scream it out and wriggle to release the shame.
I am waiting for the headline "AMD to buy Intel!"
Correctness alone is not sufficient. A crypto implementation also has to avoid introducing side channels. He describes how he avoids introducing a timing side channel (can't have any conditional branches that depend on the data) so it seems he took care to get that part right.
Machine-learning used to detect Alzheimer's during phone conversations
New inorganic material with record low thermal conductivity found
> If the theater starts advertising scams, they have a brick-and-mortar address, they’re in the same legal jurisdiction as the visitors, and everyone sees the same ads

That’s something else that drives me crazy with both YouTube & Twitter. The number of scams that run in their ads.

Some falsely referring to some local celebrity only to sell some dodgy pseudo-financial product. Others selling medical products that would be heavily regulated if they did anything close to what they promise, sometimes vaguely citing "medical research" and "new discoveries".

Almost as if they didn’t review them before letting them go live!

But we never hear a word about that, no.

Governments try to have all our online chats preemptively monitored to chase after pedophiles[1] (and then it’ll be terrorists, and heck, after that, why not copyright infringements while they’re at it? ie Hadopi)…

The news and our Dear Leaders keep ranting about Facebook, Google and Twitter because of how they are used to spread disinformation to further some political goals…

They also all keeps bashing Facebook & Google for supposedly causing the ruin of the news media (all of which then rants on about it whenever given a chance, mostly spouting nonsense, even those I like).

But big, supposedly (and probably wrongly) trusted platforms spreading scams at scale all over the world? That’s apparently not worth any widespread effort, fine or headline.

Sorry for the rant. As I said; drives me crazy.

[1]: https://european-pirateparty.eu/parliament-approves-chatcont...
Ok, so we've got $320k debt for NYU grads. They're at around 6.5k students graduating each year. I don't know what portion have "useless" majors paid entirely by debt. Let's say half. That's probably one of the worst offenders, but let's imagine there are around 10 more schools in a similar situation. Ok, 30k students out of around 4 million students graduating college each year in the US ... that's a tad less than 1%.

More than I thought, and enough to call "many", but perhaps still an acceptable level.
So your argument is that if given time data will show your argument is right? I feel like there needs to be a little more support than that.
Sure, of course. But suppose you're standing on the precipice of WW2 or the Black Plague and you can clearly see them coming, even if there's some uncertainty about when, and what exactly will happen. Wouldn't you try to prevent them?

Historically, people always have, and sometimes they've succeeded. The Cuban Missile Crisis is maybe a good example of this. During that era, there was a widespread feeling that we were dangerously close to nuclear war. Surely that sense of danger was a critical part of the reason cooler heads prevailed in the end.
His entire point seems very narrow minded. We could fill a dictionary full of all the measurable medical issues that stress can cause. We know that things like a smell can trigger memories in the brain completely involuntarily. So to act as if a memory of something that was happening during a previous seizure couldn't be a catalyst for a future one seems naive to me.
> there was an attempted coup in the US

No there wasn’t. A rowdy protest is not “an attempted coup”. All actual institutions behaved according to the law.
First, we need to increase the uptake of carbon from the atmosphere.

In the last few days, I've been radicalized. I now believe the biggest problem is that our farming processes are net carbon emitters instead of carbon sinks. If we stop strip mining the soil and farming in an extractive process, we can take huge amounts of carbon back out of the air, and into new soil. I've been watching a lot of talks by Gabe Brown who makes a pretty darned convincing case.

Many of the problems "caused" by climate change are mis-attributed, and are actually the results of extractive farming processes that just don't work now that we've mined all the topsoil.

On the other side of the equation, we need to reduce the use of fossil fuels. Saving energy in general helps.

Work from home needs to be normalized. Mass transit, particularly rail needs significant upgrades to coverage quality.

Financialization of the economy has lead to perverse incentives, and regulatory capture. Both need to be reversed.

The pandemic has show us a hint of what is possible when we divert from our culture of consuming for social status, instead of for quality of life.

We also need to keep funding adoption of renewable energy. We should also push as hard as we can on the various technologies that may result in actual working fusion power that can be replicated and produced in quantity large enough to supply the entire world.

A good stopgap source would be fission nuclear power. There are many good designs which can be produced in mass production, which allows more engineering talent to be applied in design and tracking and fixing of issues. The era of one off Nuclear Power Plants is over.
No ovaries required: viable eggs grown in a dish
Yes, if your bot understands that particular website's API. If your bot only scrapes one website, that's great. If your bot needs to scrape 100's of SPAs all with their own homegrown APIs, have fun.
Why would intel need patents??
When I lived Brazil, they used to do like 1 ad (plus trailers), so it was pretty quick, and because everywhere (where I lived) had numbered seats, you could just be 5 min 'late'.

Now when I moved to Canada: no numbered seats, and 20 (yeah, TWENTY) minutes of ads + trailers. WTF is wrong with you people? I just don't go anymore
AKA "Brandolini's Law": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
But they are interrupting your original purpose! You bought a ticket for a movie starting at time X. At time X the theater is showing ads. This means at time X+length of movie you're still not done. Your schedule was delayed for the ads.
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> previous work experience

In my experience it's underrated, people prefer to gloss over that in order to ask the all important Fizzbuzz questions.
Outliers are dragging up the average. Median would’ve been a better statistic.
Someone once said: If you are a teen and you aren't a lefty, you have no heart. And if you are in your 30'S and you are still a lefty, you have no brain.
Many travel along those lines.

And in analogy to this, I am very optimistic about the future, because the resources are indeed infinite, because the human ingenuity is infinite.
There is no peak oil.
There is no peak food.
There is no peak climate.
There is no water.
It's all bullshit doomer porn.
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Along with environmental and economic collapse, I'm worried about political collapse. Basically, I worry that democracies will either cease being democracies, or become so mired in their own bureaucratic processes that it's impossible to decisively act when an emergency arises.

We can say that the latter has already happened in the U.S., but it could always be worse and the emergencies we have to deal with can get worse too. We need to be able to deal the problems facing the next few generations by making rational decisions based on long-range planning. It doesn't seem to be happening, and when people get frustrated with the political process they don't just give up on their leaders, they give up on the whole democratic system and turn to strong-man leaders who can "get things done". The decline in public regard for democracy has been going on world-wide for awhile now.
If many different initial conditions can evolve to almost the same state, then reversing time must necessarily blow up small errors/perturbations. It's the same reason why driving with a trailer backwards is more difficult than forward, even though Newtonian mechanics are time reversible.
Your comment is literally pure, unexplained opinion.

I regularly find Wikipedia entries helpful and factual. How is that terrible?
A nice short piece with a simple thesis. Should be easy enough for intelligent or ordinary people to understand.
Each of these predict food production will decline starting soon, although the optimistic ones forecast a recovery in production. Any idea why the imminent decline in food production in all cases?

It’s as though they are expecting global food producers to be caught off guard, as if they haven’t been planning against disaster since… forever.

[edit] Food production seems to be a function that is negatively affected by “pollution” but seems to be positively affected by industrial output. The dip in food production is mostly dependent on the shape of the pollution curve.
That they'd be increasing capacity in non-cutting edge fabrication, which doesn't really move the needle for Intel's current position.

If the argument is facilities and staff, that's fine. But buying an outdated fab that won't compete with TSM isn't that big of a game changer, Intel already has tons of that.
Also the blood clots and the facts that a lot of countries are limiting the use… looks like Canada is dumping unwanted stuff to the developing world…
Some of that crap can change you if exposed at too young an age. I feel like keeping it out of reach for as long as possible is a good thing.
China Is Pulling Ahead in Global Quantum Race, New Studies Suggest
"Adapt" doesn't mean things will be better. Or even "okay".

Climate change won't make humanity extinct and the planet will not notice it happening. But you will definitely notice your life being dominated by trying to get the government to pay out on your house (aka life savings) which was destroyed in a wildfire after the insurance company went bankrupt from a "black swan" event.
Feature flags can be helpful here. Even if the feature is incomplete, it’s still ok to commit it.

Another thing that can help is a source control system that supports multiple commits and committing them to the main branch as a contiguous unit. I believe Phabricator supports that.

The next best thing you can do with GitHub is make your pretty series of commits for review, but then squash on completion using the GitHub UI. GitHub retains the individual commits of the PR that we’re reviewed while the main branch history has a single commit that passed CI.
Unemployed workers also cannot afford rent anywhere in America. Creating an artificial price floor on labor will reduce the consumption of labor, leading to more unemployment.
Yes, totally agree. Any code that has complicated logic with few / no dependencies benefits from unit testing.
Then im not really sure what your point is, because I've written zig code that reuses code in a similar way to what you are talking about, with three different forms of parallelism calling into some common runner code each of which has different needs for resource cleanup times (single threaded, cooperative, and independent parallelism). It wasn't a problem.

Have you tried doing what you propose in zig? Ultimately, the only difference between a .deinit() and a destructor is that one is explicit and the other is not. There are cases where you can easily make a mistake for both an explicit destructor and an implicit destructor.
Is Ivermectin for Covid-19 Based on Fraudulent Research?