skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think this is reasonable because it seems to place enormous regulatory burdens on almost all businesses depending on how you define moderation. For example, if I am a physical business that has a code of conduct banning certain behavior (which I would say is analogous to moderation), am I now liable whenever someone doesn't adhere to it and I don't catch it? If I am a small forum, am I now liable for policing potentially hundreds of users if I have any sort of eula?
There is a risk of contagion though. When Evergrande fails, they could drag down other companies with it, which in turn …
Some languages use the form also used for masculine as generic - officially, as part of their grammar, long before the political matter about what is appropriate exploded. To find that the English language does not follow this rule ("he" as generic) leaves some confused, and even unconvinced: 'she' looks like a modification of 'he', so 'he' looks generic.

In fact, their "close" relation is just apparent: it seems that 'he' comes from variations from the demonstrative 'ki' ("this/here"), but 'she', while still coming from a demonstrative, comes from a different demonstrative, 'so' (feminine 'seo') - the source of 'the' -, which came into use to disambiguate as original feminine 'heo' collapsed into 'he' in spoken language.
Who'd want to (voluntarily) look at these stupid ads anyways :-/
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It seems surprisingly hard to find a video of someone using that proficiently (I couldn’t find any videos on their website, and youtube was mostly just unboxing demos), though it sounds interesting to observe.
I haven't heard of any recent update breaking keyboard input. If you post more details on the help forum, I can help figure out what's going wrong.

https://forum.tinypilotkvm.com/
This is a classic!

https://qntm.org/abolish
Nowhere did I say anything about good or bad. That’s you making judgements.

All I’m saying is Apple says one thing in one context and another in a different one, but they are not dissimilar so in effect they are hypocrites and don’t mean what they say and their values are relative.

Oh bad bad exploitation! Oh, but in China… never mind, we’ll just mind our own business…
Read the article and your comment. Is the problem then that the value creation was not based on true demand and most of their assets became worthless?
That’s fascinating! Can you please share the name of one of those operations or the companies operating them? I can only find academic papers referencing pilot projects.
Dhaka is to see 30M people by 2030, if not more. The pace of its growth is crazy.
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You'd have to turn the clock back, when we were industrializing Asia wasn't competing, shipping and communications were expensive, etc.

I've heard that for many mass products China can get things onto the shelf for less than US manufacturers would have to pay for raw materials. On that extreme end I just can't imagine us producing those items.

Of course it's a sliding scale, I pay a lot more for certain types of goods that are made close to where I live but it seems foolish to extend that approach to everything.
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Exact same experience. A kanban board with clear priorities was my best experience so far in my near 25 years of career in this field. This was thanks to the big bosses which were pretty chill in regard to when things would be ready, as long as it was "as soon as possible" they were happy.

All the Agile an scrum bullshit get introduced the moment the higher ups want to have exact estimates and deadlines and just shipping features is the only prioirity. Despite all the stupid effort to predict task sizes and times in the end they're always wrong, things take more time (or less) and we wasted a ton of time and mental energy on the shared taboo lie that we're estimating stuff.
"Select pictures of field agents"
> I used Linux from 93 until around 2000, and while i'm aware that the state of the Linux Desktop is completely different today

Nope. I just installed Ubuntu 20.04 and within a few days I was messing with xrandr commands to get the HDMI resolution set to anything but 800x600.

Linux will never be good on the desktop. Not because there are too many cooks in the kitchen, but because there's too many biochemists in the commune.
On Android, I highly recommend Firefox with the ublock origin extension.

On apple mobile devices, I bought "Adguard pro" which seems to work pretty well.
Using two keyboards at once for pain relief
On the one hand, this isn't surprising. An plain description of how the ad market works demonstrates why - one way of looking at it is a mechanism to run your code on random peoples' machines.

On the other, policing, controlling and maintaining healthy markets is a primary government function. When the cops are afraid to look at a market for fear it will interfere with their jobs, that strikes me as a government failure reinforcing a market failure rather than attempting to fix it.
And adding to our hilarious overuse of plastic shouldn't fly well with anyone. So what's your solution? Mine's "shop more frequently", which I do because I live in civilization and the store where I get my produce is a nice and pleasant walk (even in the winter it's not bad), but I'm open to alternatives.
Sure, I'd say I was also commenting on the idea that "Files and Folders" as anything other than an extremely obvious default (and even perhaps requires help on a forum) is again, terrible and silly.
This is valid and interesting, in fact there are two almost separate problems we have from an environemntal/sustainability point of view: How much energy does a thing cost, and how much waste does it produce.

These aren't the same! For instance, a plastic grocery bag costs minimal energy but produces infinite-lifespan waste, while a reusable cloth bag costs like 10,000x energy to produce (between farming cotton, spinning it, weaving it, etc), but if left outside would only last for several years (ie a 1/10,000 lifespan).

We have to consider both these tradeoffs! Bioplastic probably is somewhere closer to a happy middle: costs 2x the energy of a tradplastic but lasts 1/10,000 shorter.

Admittedly I've made up all these numbers but: all compromises aren't equal, we can do better than we do now, the multipliers matter
How many people in the US prison population committed violent crimes?
It's really not that hard to get a working windows-installation for low money, if you actually care. Nowadays, you don't even need a license it seems, just install the official images into a VM.

If you want to invest some money, there are also cheap refurbished PCs, cloud-desktops or some less legal sources for a license from eBay or Craigslist.
Like the sibling comment, I'm against moving clocks around. I used to ease my way into it by not changing clocks until keeping track of old time and new time got to be a hassle. Now-a-days my org does DR activation a few days before and reactivates when the time changes so I'm kind of resetting sleep that Sunday anyway.
They have a license for hobby users that costs $500 (and $750 for 64 bits). It is not cheap, but it is within reach for people who really want it.
Hi, this is Erik here! Hope you all enjoy - I'm also thinking of writing a part 2 about Premortems and Postmortems.

If you're interested in working on code like this that controls a fleet of 100+ mobile robots, feel free to email me :) erik@cobaltrobotics.com
Alpha Centauri has a very active mechanic built into it that uses both global warming (on an alien planet, granted) and also the planet itself being sentient enough to attack with its native lifeforms the factions that pollute it the most.
I haven't actually gone through the math, but my gut tells me the amount of human moderation that would make people happy, basically having a human look at every potentially bad post, is so high that Facebook wouldn't be profitable. The only company that's solved moderation at scale is Reddit. It punted the problem to unpaid moderators, so Reddit only needs to moderate the existence of subreddits, not posts.
Perhaps what you meant is "user friendly". Yes, iPhones are user friendly. No product Apple sells right now, however, is consumer friendly. Not even remotely.

One glance at their history of handling product flaws, repair costs and their tendency to bend the truth until they can't deny the problems anymore will show that very clearly.

But that's not just Apple, it's an industry-wide problem. Apple however have proven themselves to be the grand masters of consumer unfriendly practices.
All of those beautiful split keyboards, and not a single one with a proper layout. Shame. Looks like I'm sticking with my Surface Ergonomic, because it's the only one I've found that has super keys on both sides, and a context key on the right side. I just wish they'd make a mechanical version.
> could we not offer visas to physician immigrants who meet first world medical credentialing standards

Basically, you are saying American trained doctors only then, as American doctors are much better trained.

Because my experience is that a physician immigrant has to do the following:

Receive ECFMG verification

Complete missing medical education requirements

Study a boatload!

Pass US medical licensing exams 1 & 2

Find a residency (matching)

Go through Residency again

Obtain certification from ECFMG

start practicing, or

Complete Fellowship, then start practicing
Bats in Laos Caves Harbor Virus Closer to Covid-19 Virus Than RaTG13
Trade secrets have been an accepted part of society for a long time. Coke and KFC don't have to tell you their formulas. Tesla doesn't have to tell you how Autopilot is analyzing images.

Unless you want patent protection, you have no obligation to show your process.
Yeah kinda sounds like they are using 'ad blockers' to prevent tracking of their, presumably quite large and trackable, userbase rather than blocking the banners on google search.

Plus the fringe benefit of blocking malicious domains that may execute code in browsers of course. The real headline is probably - The NSA and CIA Blockers Chunks of the Internet Because the Internet is So Dangerous.
This site is so hard to navigate/scroll, it's a shame because this seems like interesting tech.
An MoU is not legislation, it's agreement to work together on a common goal. It can be helpful but isn't binding. From the MoU:

"The Signatories retain the right to withdraw from this MoU at any time with immediate effect."

I was demonstrating convergence on USB-C across digital devices. An MoU from 2009 of phone manufacturers agreeing to use microUSB can only partially explain that. Maybe it helped give the idea of USB charging additional momentum. Maybe it would have happened anyway as microUSB was only itself introduced in 2007, and the phone landscape was transitioning to smart phones at this time.
They had to change it from shots of drone footage because they kept failing click on the terrorists
I guess I don't understand why countries so close to the equator ever bothered with DST? Day length doesn't vary much in places close to the equator.
Why?

Think about this scenario. You boot your machine, and it boots to a beautiful environment, with all the software you need to do the things you want to do. But most of it is useless because you have to start this other piece of software that's a blank rectangle, and in that software you must type the name of the application you want to run, and it will fetch the application over the network and render it. This blank rectangle must constantly be updated with new features in order to continue fetching software to run over the network properly. Whole teams need to be employed by non profits to keep this blank rectangle up to date. An operating system inside of an operating system. You don't think this is senseless?

Now imagine this scenario: you click a link to a video, the stream opens in VLC. You click subscribe, the link opens in thunderbird. If a company wants to have some interactive service they have to give you a client, they can't just externalize that workload on a browser maintainer. Isn't that the web we wanted?
They didn't take a stand. They just tried to get more money under the BS guise of taking a stand. This was the literal definition of virtue-signaling.
I think it's a fair doubt.

In this case, I don't know if sophistication could mean an evil maid attack with a breadboard and $15 worth of electronic components (which was required to break the tpm 1), or something better than what the FBI has since they struggled to unlock a terrorist's phone. I can worry about the former, and relax about the later.

I'm not an expert and when someone throws that statement with authority I'd like to know if I'm vulnerable to geek or to the CIA
The pragmatism of rasmus, and how bemused he was that people were using his language to program (vs. template), meant that the BDFL was not a great advocate of the PHP model.

The model is this: run-once-and-die + build-it-on-the-server.

Those two ideas are extremely powerful, a little like immutability, in that they rule out a huge number of issues. The issue with PHP wasn't this model which became associated with the morass of amateurs using the language. A shame.
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I found it enlightening with the amount of data an xbox sends home
so factorio, rimworld, etc..
The recommended way to handle this is to use a URI which uniquely identifies the content, such as an IPFS address. Then, while the data is still stored outside the blockchain, anyone who has a copy can trivially prove that it's authentic and you aren't reliant on a particular server. (Just make sure you save/pin a copy of the file on your own system so it doesn't disappear.)

I would agree that an NFT pointing at some plain HTTP(S) URL on some random server without so much as a hash to identify the original content is pretty much worthless.
> I wouldn’t recommend spending your whole life waiting tables in LA. Doing that is also a question of personal choice.

the tables still need waiting, food still needs harvesting etc. You can't run an economy on just middle managers, software engineers and financiers; what do you think happens to everybody else who doesn't get the "personal choice" to earn above the average wage?

> “Complete waste of air” is a little harsh but I’m reminded of the first Marxist I actually met. He didn’t grasp the irony.

I'm not a Marxist, but yeah your college junkie Marxists tend to be pretty useless too. But the point is that wealth does not correlate with hard-workingness or spend-thriftiness or whatever implication your argument from personal choice is meant to create (because presumably "playing politics and knowing the right people" is not the moral economy you're advocating for?)

> I was mostly talking about wealthy, developed countries like the US.

There are people in that class in the US, too. As is well documented by now, many Walmart workers have to rely on food stamps to get by. In the UK, many families rely on food banks, which is literally charity. "Working poor" is a real concept, perhaps one you're too abstracted from to be aware of.

> I can’t help but notice that you’re moving the goalposts considerably, however.

Goalpost, your own quote: "Financial independence is a consequence of individual choices. Most workers can achieve financial independence by the time they are elderly."

It's just not true except for people who can access the middle class and above.

> If you define “working class” as everyone who needs to work to earn an income, to the degree of explicitly denying the existence of a “middle class” at all

I don't. I explicitly defined middle class as people who have to work for a wage but also have access to capital. Working class to middle class to capitalist class is continuous, not discrete.

> you’re talking about people like software engineers who actually do own stock and could retire early if they wanted to.

Yeah, true enough, and good for them (us). But that's not most people.
Thanks, yep, tried a few but am too addicted to the chiclet style.
One thing that I find really interesting about Raku (the implementation language) is that grammars are a built in structure (?) of the language.

https://docs.raku.org/language/grammars

https://codeberg.org/wimvanderbauwhede/haku/src/branch/main/...
Don't the vast majority of people live in apartments?
I use a raspberry pi running https://ropieee.org connected to a USB dac. I can play to it with Roon or Spotify. It's fairly plug-n-play
Separate room with separate PCs I'd guess, internet café style. Regarding VMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine_escape
> On the other, policing, controlling and maintaining healthy markets is a primary government function.

The NSA and CIA are intelligence agencies, not cops. Their mandate is foreign, not domestic (despite not always acting like it).
Trying to click this on my phone in a low-service area (I waited 10 seconds and got nowhere besides a loading screen) is a great reminder of why companies should strive to have at least some of their materials — anything related to fundraising is a good candidate — in plaintext.
Sooner or later we're going to have to accept that C family languages are fundamentally broken and unsafe at any speed for new development.
But battery sizes are not growing anymore. The latest macbooks have under 60Wh batteries.

Also it's very wrong that voltage is bad for batteries. The voltage going through the cable is transformed down to the exact voltage that the battery charge controller decides is appropriate for the charge of the battery at any given moment.

If you really wanted even more power, which you don't really, there's no reason you couldn't go to 60V.
Samoa is 950 miles south of the equator - relatively close. When you're that close to the equator day length isn't going to vary by much.
This is known as fatalism, and included in this is the clearly false belief that we as individuals have no power to influence our future nor the outcome of our actions. Life is indeed short, but this is not a justification for nihilism, a mistaken belief system that is ultimately harmful to the individual and society. We need all the help we can get, and the Universe will be poorer and less interesting without you. So please consider sticking around longer and effect this by treating yourself and your body better. Undoubtedly there are those that love you and that you love, and you have a duty to do so to yourself and them, at the very least.
I think indeed this is the likely future for the US. There's much stored energy potential in our waste that it seems like an eventuality.
You seem to be ignoring the space shuttle entirely, which handled the heat of re-entry at 17,000 mph and was still reusable. You have to make trade-offs on weight and materials (like heat tiles), but it's not impossible.
I don't think people like that are missing the point. AFAIK the concept of platforms vs. publishers with regard to liability comes from a misunderstanding of S230. Some people got attached to the idea and have backfilled a moral position, but I still think it's worth pointing out that it stems from a misunderstanding.

To me, the position that a platform cannot morally moderate some content without incurring liability for all other content is rather extreme and the precepts are non-obvious. Presumably you mean moral liability rather than legal liability? Can you elaborate on the precepts here?

* what does moral liability mean? is the platform equally morally liable as the poster, or is the liability split between them?
* where does this liability attach? how big do you have to be, or how much of a hand to you have to play in dissemination of content to incur moral liability?
* and finally, why does choosing to moderate some content but not others change the moral calculus? This is totally non-obvious to me and TBH doesn't make a lot of sense.
If one wanted to attack the network, and had the resources, could they scale up the network nodes they had control over to starve participants by making it too expensive to perform operations?
A substantial fraction. people way overestimate how much of it is just drugs. Of course most violent crimes like domestic abuse and rape dont lead to prison sentences
Somewhat on-topic, have there been any updates from Skylon or SABRE engines lately? Single stage to orbit seems so sci-fi I wonder if we'll ever get close.
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I tried some of those, but in the end it was the interface that caused me to quit. As for Steam, that version is not released yet: https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/
Judging by the name, I thought it was something else. They can still make a fuel_exporter though!
I have read the Bertrand Russell biography(its a 2 part set) and absolutely loved the first part. Ray Monk the author describes various ideas in analytic philosophy extremely clearly and does an amazing job on what ideas were circulating during that time in regards to philosophy. I couldn't recommend it enough, in fact I enjoyed the author so much I also got his bio of Wittgenstein and hope to start it in the next few weeks.
The pre-M1 MacBook Air fan kicks in a lot and produces a lot of noise compared to other laptops IMO.
Claiming "this is PHP" misses the point entirely, which is turning PHP-like templates into apps that can react to user input
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it. I really should blog more, I just haven't been "feeling it" lately. Words of encouragement really help, so thank you so much! :D
My arrow and page up/down keys do not work on this website. Very annoying.
Can someone translate this for a relative web dev noob? or can anyone? which may be a better question
This will be the tipping point if it gets hard to find gasoline stations. I won't buy an EV until the very end as the technology is so basic right now. It has to improve and I think we need to get to the point of driving thousands of miles on one charge before it'll be wholly accepted.
Hmm it took me 2 hours when I had to do this a few years ago, but I'm pretty sure I could do it in 15 minutes if I practiced a few times and had 3 drills with two torx and one phillips driver bits.

Swapping the SSD and adding a keylogger to the ribbon cable would be a lot faster too, maybe 5 minutes with practice.
In a nutshell, Wittgenstein showed (or, attempted to show) that much like we can't gain information from logic, we can't gain transcendental meaning (das Mystische) from logic – even, if (or, more precisely, provided that) we discard any meaningless propositions. (Mind that this is in sharp contrast to Kant, who engaged in his Critique of Pure Reason in order to address pure ethics.)

It's a bit like "Gödel for transcendentals". But this has been mostly ignored, while the tools used by Wittgenstein have been an inspiration to many.
> Picard seems to me to fly past realism and straight into dystopian stereotypes

The “dystopian stereotypes” in Picard seem to me to be classic Trek with a very slight change of focus (largely in dwelling in aspects of the setting and social contexts which were indicated in other parts of the franchise but only briefly or tangentially interacted with.)

Kind of like what Lower Decks does, but in a different direction (and played for drama rather than laughs.)
For a second I thought you literally meant Polish