skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My view is that the big AdTechs (mainly Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tiktoks and the likes) are one of the worst poisons that humanity has ever created. They brainwash you, destroy democracies, create drama in order to shove ads down your throat.

In my humble opinion they are worst than that. They are a gateway for ultimate mind control, on a scale and effectiveness never seen before in human history. Selling ads and making money is scratching the surface of this complex and ever expanding machines of power and deception.

My theory is that Governments and Old Perception Gatekeepers are realizing this in full scale, but instead of regulating or stopping, they want full access to the Perception Control Mainframes and Perception Spyware Receivers that we care around and keep alive 24/7. https://bit.ly/3nJmFTH

In the recent years the coordinated attacks from Governments on free speech and encryption increased drastically.

Recent example is Apple's attempt to normalize on device private user data processing and policing with Government approved criteria trough third party private corporation "partnership". Setting an example to be followed by others. https://bit.ly/3nFE2ox

This is the beginning of Big Tech and Big Government convergence that will form the future of mankind. One unified social system presented to the masses as an inevitable implementation for a common good.

The sad part is that we are now working not only for AdTech companies, we are working for the Global Surveillance Apparatus and accept that this is the only way forward.

>And then they turn around and pat themselves on the back pretending to be good actors "making the world a better place". Leaders of those companies pretending to be good humanitarian beings drive me absolutely crazy.

Sounds pretty political to me. To survive and protect their existence and profits FAANG invested tons of money in lobbing and now have Political partnerships and Politicized UX.

Users are like party members, they are not only using the tech, they participate in brand awareness exercises and protect whichever brand they are selected to belong.

For me FAANG are implementing Edward Bernays abusive psychology on steroids, without any remorse or ethical boundaries what so ever. They simply don't care.
Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn. And taking big money from the process.

P.S. As I recently stated, down-voting only makes the message more relevant.
To add to this: this elections are run independently in every region. The government's ability to rig them in one area does not affect the outcome in another.
It looks like this is a bug in the Windows driver that talks to the PSP, and not the PSP itself. Yes, the PSP is AMD's equivalent to Intel's ME - both horrible security threats. Unfortunately I'm not aware of any successful efforts to neuter them on recent processor generations, as there has been enough time for the manufacturers to get them "right".
What argument? I was literally just asking a question. If you thought I was making some statement about gun violence, I suggest that you calm down and stop reading too much into random comments on the internet.
Ridiculous article about an interesting rock formation.

Aliens with lasers? Please.
In that link it is due to the wavelength used (extreme UV, which shows only active regions as bright, and the prominence layer surrounding the limb.)

However, in many amateur pictures taken in the H-alpha wavelength (like in TFA), the artistic choices come into play, as you said. In the Simon's first image the prominence layer (just outside the limb) is shown as-is (positive), while the disc interior is shown inverted (a negative; note e.g. how the sunspots became white). This is done to get a somewhat more "3D look". In a normal, non-inverted image, the mottles and filaments show up as dark features on a bright background, while inverting may make them look more "natural" (to some) - sometimes downright "casting shadows" (a solar filament often has a brightening around its base - which becomes dark after inversion).

Source: I'm the ImPPG's author (and enjoy solar astrophotography myself).
>1- US probably predicts that China is gonna breakthrough the first island chain in the next 10 years.

I think the nuke boats / unicorn tech transfer is sweetner for AU hosting more US assets. Starting ASAP. Just announced more US bombers will be stationed down under. With bombers come ABM, and with ABM, might as well as throw in IRBMs. IMO, it's foot in door for improve US positioning in AU, who has already sunk cost too much into US orbit that the only thing left is to double down. PineGap, Geraldton, Exmouth communication hubs, US is absurdly dependent on AU facilities for Indo-Pac operations. Aforementioned facilities will be targeted by PRC if US containment efforts become kinetic. Ditto with IRBMs, every other country in region has rejected to host because sigifnicant US assets paints target for PRC, but AU is on the hitlist due to existing assets by default.

E: To complete thought, these subs are distraction until they leave the drydock. Chance of smooth aquisition process is 0. At least 8, i.e. only 2-3 deployable at a time. Realistically won't be ready by 2050s if ever since AU has no indigenous nuke industry and struggled with the Collins sub construction. PRC shipyards is primed to launch 2 SSNs per year once design finalized. 6:1 disparity in hulls + host of unmanned systems. A few nuke subs won't shift strategic landscape that much in 30-40 years, but immediate US basing will.
I thought this was the mainstream opinion of Go, outside of its own community?
Their competitive advantage in deliverability is their client list. You can't divine yourself a massive volume of legitimate and engaging traffic. MC had to answer to literally no one, and we got to fire any customer we wanted.
It's hard to parse that example, because the citation it contains is to a meta-analysis that provides and effect size of aspirin for MI in the PHS in the form of an odds ratio that is much greater magnitude. Digging a bit more, heres the actual result - the difference in relative risk was 44% not 0.77%.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM198907203210301

> There was a 44 percent reduction in the risk of myocardial infarction (relative risk, 0.56; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.45 to 0.70; P<0.00001) in the aspirin group (254.8 per 100,000 per year as compared with 439.7 in the placebo group).

I agree if you said from the start you meant general incentives, especially in pharma development, but that is by and large a different conversation.
I am helping a few people getting started with web dev, and I have had good success using Svelte. It's not necessarily the best choice if you're trying to start a resume to get hired, but if you're trying to get comfortable with the foundations of all of the possibilities (javascript, html, css) it's a lot less intimidating. I think it will be a big player in the future, and you can make just about anything you want with it.

https://svelte.dev/tutorial/basics

In my case, I always have to do video tutorials to get started with a new stack. I use Academind ($20 a month) since their courses are comprehensive and still manage to split topics into shorter videos. When I get confused, I can usually find a good refresher on what I'm having trouble with. They have a course on Svelte specifically and 101 guides to all the technologies involved.
I agree. The modern hip thing to do that many consider as “having character” is to wax hyperbolically about one’s most likely pretty janky code. I see this a lot with neovim packages and it’s rather annoying, though I can appreciate the enthusiasm.
Yes and Leica sells a black and white digital camera for $6,000. There are a lot of dentists and doctors out there looking to spend surplus money, they may as well capture that.
It entails in the case of US subs 95% enrichment uranium.
That's exactly what has happened here, but it's difficult to see how this improves "America's standing in the world" vis-a-vis Trump. Anthony Blinken is supposedly a seasoned diplomat vs. Rex Tillerson or Pompeo, not to mention the clearly more experienced Biden. Is this hamfisted diplomacy what we get by replacing Trump? Not much finesse there no matter who's occupying the hot seat, it appears.
Same here, we bought a new Subaru Crosstrek the end last year. Looking at the depreciation curve we found that the car didn't really depreciate more the first couple years than it did later years, so going for a new one made a lot more sense than I initially thought it would.
I would have walked out. But the emails I sent always made it clear I am only discussing total price, inclusive of everything. The few that were not able to clearly respond to my emails, I ignored.

I have only bought 2 cars in my life, the same way, so my data set is not extensive. But I did get the idea from reading about it on forums, so I presume others are getting it done the same way.

Actually, Costco has a program where the total out the door car price is set and non negotiable and I would assume the dealer would not want to screw you as that could cause you to report them to Costco and then Costco to sever ties with them.

What I did is start at the Costco price and email a bunch of dealers and let them know I am interested if anyone wants to beat that price.
... and, generally, if you have to insist on falsehoods to make the case for depending on your GC, you haven't, in the end, made a case at all.

It is a fact that the majority of programming in modern non-GC languages, such as C++ and Rust, involves no manual memory management, no GC, and no reference counting (which is also GC). The memory-management automation provided by the core language and the standard library are equal to almost all challenges, all by themselves.

Thus, users of modern non-GC languages do not experience the pauses seen in GC languages, or the unavoidable pointer chasing, or the cache poisoning, or the "reachable leaks" that are GC languages' dirty secret. They are not, in fact, obliged to "trade off" anything at all for being free of those failings.

That is not to say that all design goals are easy to achieve, but overcoming a GC's failings is is not among the activities needed achieve them.
It is an inherently biased statistics, where drivers will let the car drive on parts where they are confident it can do its job, and will take over for the rare, more complex situations.

Also, the NHTSA dataset will contain old as hell cars, comparing it to a fresh out of the factory one will by itself skew the data.
wouldn't this need some sort of lubricant, or it would wear down over time?
I mean my personal purchase is everything a retail highest trim offered, same trim name, mechanical, electronics, accessories, brochure, warranty. Not all rentals fit into same mould, rental companies do have basic trim, mid trim & high trim of same models based on their negotiation with manufacturer/dealer, prices & many other things.

Other trims were also available.
No irony, it’s dangerous. Wait until you get into woodworking youtube … you might be missing parts of your fingers, and you’ll definitely be missing most of your wallet.
Haha that UI branch name thing is hilarious. Everyone at work has the same problem and has had it for the year and a half we have been using gitlab but the gitlab devs insist it doesn't happen for them.

You can workaround it by pressing the right arrow at the end of the text.
As a programmer I prefer to avoid the semicolon cancer, so I think best is to get rid of the final period.

> Dr Johnson kicked a large rock and said, as his foot rebounded, “I refute it thus”
I agree that it's wrong for rental car companies to use the term "reserve" in this was, but it's by now standard practice. They absolutely do not have a physical car (or one of a set of a class of car) guaranteed to be available. Instead, they make statistical predictions; usually they do have the car, or at worse a nicer car that they will upgrade you to for free. But when there is a supply shock, all bets are off.
> Free (open source) is good. Free (cost) is bad?

Original title was “Free (open source) is good. Free (cost) is bad.”

FTR, Lunduke not highlighted third one type pf free software: "Free (no cost)"
They didn't miss the article you were referring to, they were just assuming you had read the topic article as well.

The article your read refers to 2,000 year old sculptures because it was written years before the research that added 6,000 years, not because they're different camels.
That's a diode though, not a transistor.
All US Presidents and military leaders since at least the 1953 Iranian coup, if still alive, need to be tried for war crimes. US conduct abroad over the last 70 years has been an epic ode to evil.
Here's a good analysis of the financials in the S1: https://cloudedjudgement.substack.com/p/gitlab-benchmarking-...
I had a seven year old forum get deleted with no backups. Internet Archive saved virtually nothing and there is no way to search it. You have no clue which of the snapshots have saved a certain page of any topic or if any snapshot includes it at all.

With Discord you (or any user) can at least run one of the various off-the-shelf logger bots. And someone would still have to make it available, and who knows how nice it would be to consume, probably not very.

So I'm not sure either have much advantage here if the origin dies forever.
There's always been a heavy SV startup scene slant to the user base here, especially around YC incubated companies. The politics have historically been a sort of hybrid Cyber Libertarian/California Progressivism. I sense the SV bias is fading away and also that the politics (tech focused and otherwise) have very much evolved from where they were in 2007. For example, I detect a conservative element here that Reddit has actively been trying to expunge. I think it's mainly a result of the moderation probably taking a more permissive approach and the US political climate getting ever more divisive. Plus, there just seems like there's less to talk about in the startup scene these days, mobile is now long in the tooth and much of the focus has shifted to maturing regulation.
GitLab pages started with the incredible idea that you could provide your own docker container and use the CI to build using whatever tools you want while github only supported jekyl at the time.
yeah, didn't make a dent. cant click thousands videos one by one. you show a video 5 times and if I never click, youtube should get the hint.
Why do devs keep complaining or lamenting the status quo and ask every non-tech fellow to "just self-host your instance on the fediverse"?

Is it as easy to get an FB like functionality with a click of a button? If not, that isn't going to work. Average Joe Schmoe isn't going to just self-host an instance, even if he knew how to do so. Also, if there is a competing service to Facebook, it better have everything that Facebook offers, except for the recommended and sponsored content. That includes most importantly being able to connect with old friends, acquaintances and contacts seamlessly. Does Mastodon allow for all that with just a click of a button?

If not, then programmers should just stop whining about how they wish people were more like them and instead actually build something that can be used by Joe Schmoe.

I've tried various Mastodon clients before. I couldn't figure much out of how to use them in 5 minutes and the UI was crap so I just ditched them. Even if it were a good experience, the fact that I have to go through hoops to set up an instance, then get all my friends from Facebook or Whatsapp or whatever to join me in using it, is enough deterrent that makes me not bother with it (and no, we don't use Facebook either). One app that seems to be getting this concept right, but not fully there yet, is Telegram.
I created a CLI app for controlling my nest
I use BetterTouchTool to create keyboard shortcuts for controlling the thermostat
Hitting Rock Bottom
In fact there was a Seinfeld episode about this!

It has been a problem for a very long time.
Is this the case very large go heaps? ZGC claims sub ms pause for TB heap size.
Build it Yourself Modem for under $50 (Byte Magazine, 1980)
I get it and respect that some people can do it respectfully. I have seen some people do it respectfully and still participate etc, it just sadly isn't the norm. It also can be distracting as you are trying to present and you hear 10 people typing away on their keyboard when you know chances are none of them are taking notes. Again, definitely my own pet peeve but I have heard many others say the same.
Is this still true? This article (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.calhealthreport.org/2018/04...) suggests that it's no longer the case in California.
Yeah I've sometimes helped debug issues in the Rust compiler. People would come with a piece of code that made it crash or something. One task is to minify the example as much as possible. You start by commenting out as large components as possible, but need to watch out that nothing depends on the commented out code in a way that is detectable at compile time. So you remove piece after piece and finally end with a minimal example that reproduces the issue. In complex projects with lots of dependencies you often start out with large dependency trees and somehow have to reduce it. Sometimes it's easier to reduce something, sometimes it's harder. I guess here it's analogous when one wants to find the "core" part of the music that helps with epilepsy. Maybe one can try to vary it in a way that the effect is even larger.
trying to sell weapons to Russia, an aggressive total dictatorship, you deserved that one
Not sure what you're trying to poke at here, so I'll just clarify.

Basically any diplomatic actions that on their face appear to be overreactions, or intense provocations, are better understood as communicating something to a domestic audience in a context that rewards it.

Classic example is "wolf warrior diplomacy", where tweets from Chinese officials can seem to indicate that the PLA is about to deploy tanks when in reality it's just a diplomat trying to look as nationalistic as they can for their bosses' approval.

Or when France opposed the Iraq War in 2003, the "Freedom Fries" nonsense in America was really more about the general patriotic hysteria of the moment rather than a sign that there was any enduring hatred for France.
I don't think you can lose with HBS. If you want to talk scaling and on speak eye to eye with VC's and don't think entrepreneurship is a lottery, then a business school always makes sense. This comes with a but... BUT only if you plan to lead or scale your enterprise. It's only what I see from the outside so far, since I'm just getting ready to dip my toes. Ideas are ideas, everyone has one, like a netherhole. The ability to execute is the determining factor.
A lot of that money gets spent on adding features to win sales and those features are a one time cost so they can be used for free to win new customers later. GitLab pushes hard to be the do everything tool.
Every Year is the Year of the Linux Desktop. The same as every year is the Year of the Mercedes Highway.

Every year has been the Year of the Unix Desktop since about 1987. Every year has been the Year of the Windows Desktop since 1995. Every year has been the Year of the Linux Desktop since about 1993.

Some of us have never had the Year of the Windows Desktop. I began my set of Years of the Unix Desktop around 1991. And then switched from there to my set of Years of the Linux Desktop in 2001.

Who gives a rat's what OS people use? It's the same thing as "Who gives a rat's what people drive?". There are more important things in the world to spend your time thinking about.
I think besides great endurance and ability to recover, being able to turn down the self-preservation knob is important in cycling. This is also true in speed skating moreso than the other endurance sports. Being able to relax on the downhills or in a fast moving peloton is essential to save energy
> Why not?

Not enough people care enough to make it happen. I think most people underestimate the breadth of the work that would have to be done. The people in the best position do do it (the browser vendors) aren’t willing to do that.
> when it's literally been given almost six billion times.

You are putting all of your eggs in one basket AND counting them before they've hatched. That's a pretty serious double whammy.

I'm only half serious but I think the above is pretty representative of some common concerns.
If Labor wins the next election, it's quite probable that they pull the plug on this deal.
Which is "Cited" by an article that says nothing of the sort.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/fe...
Exactly this, there is no liquidity available for this stock ie it has no monetary value because you’re not allowed to sell it and it will never be sold. I think at one point a tiny dividend was paid, once, but it became clear the profits are intended for the principal owners. Which really is conceptually fine as long as that is clear up front.
I didn’t notice it was you Dan g
Paths to High-Level Machine Intelligence
it recommended me (to rent) what I thought was a science documentary about space and the cosmos once and i just trusted it wouldn't recommend me some crazy conspiracy theory and rented it... NOPE.

It was about how ancient aliens mined out the moon and control us or some other crazy pills kind of idea

My actual normal video recommendations are quite good and shift alongside my interests over time quite well without prolific use of "not interested" or incognito shrugs. Rented movies seems bad though, especially since I'm already a paying premium user!
Btw for what it’s worth, Dr Johnson’s so-called refutation was a total failure. He only confirmed he had totally misunderstood what Berkeley was getting at.
First guy over here! Call Ellison.
Had the public health authorities not burned through their credibility in the past, there wouldn't be a massive issue with non-authoritative views.

It didn't help that they changed stories multiple times for dubious reasons.
The litmus test is to measure freedom and not effectiveness of guns on freedom.

It is pretty hard to organize 'Draw A Muhammad' workshop in non-muslim countries like Canada, UK or India. That tells you how less free those countries are.

Secondly, freedom is used (always) in the context of Government. In India, Canada or UK it is not the fellow muslim you have to worry about but the government jailing you. In the absence of a robust violent respons from society government will take away your freedoms one by one to simplify their own life at your expense.

> Let's burn the American flag instead.

Please do. It is an important freedom Americans have and constitutional granted free speech right. American flag is burned, insulted on regular basis in USA. Just like flag insulting national anthem is another form of protest in USA. I have not heard of anyone being punished or killed in USA for burning American flag. Most certainly the government can't punish you for the same.
Though many part of compaction can be moved to a parallel thread, can’t it? The actual stop-the-world time can be quite small that way (using read-barriers though)
Why would you possibly want YouTube without the comments? They are one of the fun parts!
Ask HN: What email service provider are you using for your custom domain?
With Australia's new mass surveillance mandate, I'm in the market for a new email service provider. Who do you use to host your email?
> It all already happened in ... Georgia

Hm, let's see

Russia: https://tradingeconomics.com/russia/gdp

Georgia: https://tradingeconomics.com/georgia/gdp