skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If corporations gain rights from the people involved, I don't think those same people should be exempted from liability for what they do as a group
It's because going from 100 songs to 10K is more of an experience than going from 10K to 1M. A human can only listen to a limited number of songs.

Also, you were 20years younger and so were more enthralled by novelty.
Secular philosophy has failed to produce enough value for ordinary people living ordinary lives embedded in the ordinary matrix of threats and opportunities presented by every day life.

I don't there's much, if any, evidence for this claim. Religion is in a steep decline in Europe but there's little evidence for more anti-social behavior. The American mid-west, where your quote comes from, in contrast is especially religious for an advance industrial area and it's noted for it's horrific social problem.
Someday when I'm about 120 I'll write a knowledge work manual for the young lad and lady and start each chapter with "My child, "
DRNets can solve Sudoku, speed scientific discovery
You wouldn't wipe your phone turning it in, even a work phone?
Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate for New York City Teachers Blocked by Federal Judge
Discord does not require a phone number, just verifying an email address.
> After only eight weeks of study with a Buddhist lama, 50 percent of those who we randomly assigned to meditate daily spontaneously helped a stranger in pain.

I'm waiting for the follow up study after 520 weeks, where a certain percentage of them become radicalized zealots.
Wow so just more ad hominem and still nothing to rebutt.

Get over yourself.

You don't get to lecture me on hiw to treat people when you came at me unbidden and for no better reason than to talk shit.
I'm pretty much the same. I used to believe in gov and rule of law but when you see how many criminals get off and how selective all these agencies are in whom they prosecute, I am disgusted at how corrupt the whole system has become.

>Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
> One can find examples of both religion and secular philosophy promoting irrational thinking.

Can you please give one example of secular philosophy promoting irrational thinking?
In order to help the people that need fuel the most the price of fuel should be increased. It's a basic self-healing mechanism.
Bill Atkinson may have contributed a few masterworks. I was always take by this small store of the development of the Apple Macintosh.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_...
The person under surveillance in this article is a friend of mine.

I am today very happy that I have NO Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc accounts: none of my private conversations with this person are possibly subject to this fishing expedition.

Yet another reason to delete your accounts on these ad surveillance systems. (This includes gmail, for those of you still donating your entire purchase and travel history to the world's biggest ad company.)
My family never bothered with a CD player even though we had an otherwise decent stereo system since we couldn't justify the cost. It wasn't just the hardware that cost money, but the music collection as well. That didn't stop us from getting audio CDs though. Between our home business and school, we could justify the (then steep) cost of a CD-ROM drive. It didn't take much for me to convince the family to move the stereo system from the living room to the office. I was likely the only kid in school who was digitizing and editing audio in addition to playing it.
TL;DR: Apple and Google banned a Russian voting app due to local laws. Telegram has to follow rules set by Apple and Google in order to remain available to users on iOS and Android.
higher powered cards tend to be high-end and thus have better safety systems built in. that‘s why you often hear of people going 250km/h in some top of the line mercedes, crashing and getting out eith barely a scratch.

and how are SUVs not safer, given they have more mass and a larger crunch zone? also, since the driver is seated higher he can see more what is going on in front of him (a fee small cars ahead)
Exiting the Matrix
Try it from a VPN. It requires a phone number. If you do it from Tor, it requires a phone number and like 27 captchas.
Thank you! Only a couple of pages, but he mentions many fascinating things.
Take on more responsibility, it's the guaranteed way up the ladder in any context.
>how violent are cultures of hunter-gatherer

WW2 killed 75 million people. Tell me again, who has the more violent culture?
IIRC you're referring to the wife of Michael Cowpland, who founded Corel. They were another hot tech firm at the time in Ottawa, but not related to Nortel.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
If you can use the decoder, the reverse engineers will use the same, no?
My thoughts are that it's a good thing to have agents in the world that can operate in the dark, keeping their actions, and sometimes the consequences, hidden and secret. It's not hard to envision nation state level threats that could be mitigated by illegal assassination of a warlord, or stealing all of a drug cartel's money or so on. That only works in the context of strict oversight and principled direction by an incorruptible chain of command and leadership by elected officials given privileged access.

Take the oversight and principled direction away, and you're left with state funded villains whose activity will almost always run counter to societal well-being.

Our institutions are failing because we eroded and ultimately lost our social cohesion and embraced the cultural balkanization instead of seeking new shared values.

It's bad enough that we don't trust the media, but the CIA being off the leash is horrifying. The war on drugs is a crystallized example of this social failure mode.
I wonder if this was posted to suggest a path out of the current toxic social media.
If you want a sincere answer: it provides a huge state space of how unexpected input can produce much more unexpected results. If nothing else it’s educational about how you really shouldn’t trust input, and REALLY should scrutinize how it’s used.
> If they do not push spirituality onto their customers, and ministries still recommend them, would those ministries stop recommending them

Yes, this would definitely happen in many parts of the US.
> The idea that religion is such a big source of suffering throughout all of our history is one I stopped believing

The Irish Troubles

Muslim/Hindu conflict in India

Church-run residential schools in Canada and the US

ISIS

The suicide rate among LGBT youth

Rohingya genocide

The Taliban

Israeli/Palestinian conflict

The destruction of indigenous cultures by missionaries

9/11

- should I start on the 19th century?
Is the man still traveling? It says the last modification date was 2002 on the web1.0site
Note also that everything in this article also applies to Gmail, which likely contains your complete travel and purchase history.
At least we can sleep peacefully knowing that Tim Cook will make another million by improving the lives of oppressive governments thwarting change by knee-capping the only modern tool of communication.
Made me remember Vangers [1], an insane trippy game from 1998. Originally in Russian, it featured a very different world with a very deformed imagery and language. I don't know how this feeling survived the translation into English.

It's main game mode featured racing on (hostile) surface of various planets, which utilizes a voxel engine, which gave it a very distinct look.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vangers
Mechanical Turk an ai-made patent launderer, how hard is that?
It is not clear it was done with a warrant. It may have merely been a subpoena for the account details but not really contents. Since FBI refuses to respond to me or my attorney (Jennifer Granick of ACLU, one of the top in this field), we don't know.
I'm curious why Vietnam is greyed out. My Vietnamese partner says it would be McDonalds, and that seems to jive with the neighbouring countries also not liking McD.

Apparently McDonalds has never been successful in Vietnam because the local preference is heavily focused on freshness, and McD is considered to be too expensive for the frozen (non-fresh) products it is offering when there is so much better food available everywhere else for less than half that price. Also in Vietnam they like freshly roasted (on site) coffees, which doesn't par with McDonalds' offerings in that department, even if they had a McCafe.

Additionally, we're in Canada and I was surprised that they listed Orange Julius since it isn't a very well known fast food joint. However, I have had various food items from Orange Julius and I do not like them, so there is something there to the survey.
No-fault divorce and legally sanctioned child support were put in place to give women more choices. I don't think we need to return to a time where women and children are effectively chattel. The overall effect of these policies has been positive.

There is an untested assertion here that Bangladesh has better outcomes for marriages because the practise of religion is higher. Yet you should also see lower levels of violence against women in Bangladesh from all these happy families but it seems that isn't so. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740706/

I'm not sure how far we are going to get trying to work out whether the chicken/egg situation regarding dysfunctional families and poverty in the US is causal. All we really know for sure is that poverty is a reliable cause of family breakdown.

We shouldn't force people to stay together because some religious folk think that piling further misery on unhappy people is OK.
It‘s basically a case of „I swear I am a good driver, even though I am a 22-yo in a sports cars, please why won‘t you just believe me“

now you have a way to prove it
My astronomical 6502 assembly routines (ca 1987) compile and run fine in embedded simulators. Through the years it has always been in my todo list to port them to C, then Lisp, then C++, then Java, then Python, then Rust... But alas they do exactly what they need to do so the priority to rewrite them falls out of the map. And the main project why they were written in first place, a telescope interferometer controller, still remains unfinished.
Yes, I edited it to say that
The only music services that I find provides a similar experience to the discovery experience within Napster are Bandcamp and SoundCloud. Both encourage you to "snoop" at other users' collections, and provide an enormous range of independent and esoteric music.
Sports packages should license more camera feeds. Make the normal cheap package like it is now. Add in a deluxe package where you have 4+ camera options to look at. Bars would eat it up. Everyone has a large TV in there home. Very few people have the space for 4 large TVs in livingroom.
Please tell me who you work for and the website where this is deployed so I can avoid both.
if(predicate) {
return true;
} else {
return false;
}

Can just be written;

return predicate;

So, your code above can be:

return &.type(string) === “string” && /regex/i.test(string);

Reg-exes like this are truly hideous though, they may as well be written in Brainfuck for all their lack of maintainability and readability.

I will never understand why regular expressions are considered the best tool for the job when it comes to parsing; they are far too terse, and do not declare intent in any way.

Software development is not just about communicating with the computer, it’s about communicating with other engineers, so we can work collaboratively. Regular expressions are the antithesis to that way of thinking
The articles premise that Americans acted kinder for a little while after doing some Buddhist meditation.... Completely ignoring the fact that Buddhism has extremists just like other religions...

The people didn't act kinder because of Buddhism. The experimental setup primed them to act in a certain way.
At least 3 people are dead after an Amtrak train derailed in Montana
What consumers currently use isn't evidence of what they want, it's evidence of what they want out of what's available to them. The widespread "piracy" epidemic was also pretty good evidence of revealed preference, and I doubt it would have changed so much if not for the draconian crackdowns on people without the tech savvy to get around enforcement.

I think at the point where you agree that IP isn't fulfilling its purpose, the burden is on the concept of IP to demonstrate that it is a valuable legal concept, and all extant implementations simply fail to correctly realize it. Since we're playing the game of making wild extrapolative comparisons to arguments we haven't made, your line of argumentation reminds me of kids who balk at using the Soviet Union as an example for pure command economies being a bad idea.

I think property rights are, if not a necessary part of a functional society, at least something that we don't have a reasonable alternative for. In other places in this thread, I've contrasted situations in which property rights make sense with the ridiculous results of trying to apply the same principles to abstract ideas. The claim that it's not sane or coherent to consider ideas property is in no way equivalent to an objection to property rights in general
Also: 16-bit/44.1KHz is literally orders of magnitude better at reproducing waveforms than vinyl. If you like the sound of vinyl, you can return a turntable’s output with a good ADC and then listen to a near-exact copy of it as often as you’d like. It’s impossible to do the reverse.
I think I see Steve Jobs' face there ... (if I stare at it long enough)

/s

(well done btw)
Recently read an article https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/09/24/china-great-power-unite... which presents the argument that China, a declining power that is desperate to regain economic momentum by "dominating critical technologies—such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and 5G telecommunications", and creating exclusive spheres of influence abroad, will likely start a war much like Germany in 1914 or Japan in 1941. Got me thinking that if the war was guaranteed, would it have to be in Taiwan or south east Asia islands. However, both areas are under a magnifying glass and highly contested. And sea battles do not favor China. But what if 声东击西

- Iran attacks Iraq, and China/Russia gives support? Would Nato/US still have the stomach to go back into Middle East? This would allow China to fully utilize its full ground army force and massive train network that now stretches into Central Asia and Europe. And if Iraq falls, Saudi Arabia, United emirates should fall easily, and those are oil countries that will give China massive resources and wealth. US is fairly self sufficient in terms of oil resources, but not Europe! Europe, under gas and oil resource stranglement, will acquiesce to any demands from Russia + China.

- Turkey attacks Greece on grounds of islands contestations. Again, this would allow China to fully utilize its full ground army force and massive train network that now stretches into Central Asia and Europe. After Greece, Russia can easily retake most of its former colonies, and give China a way into Central Europe.
This is a hilarious lie.
Yes I hope all the old C code will be replaced.

There might be some awesome C developers on the planet, no doubt. But most legacy, last millennium C code was written by ordinary guys, with no internet, stack overflow and code reviews. The last "experts" (only guys who understand it and can change things) who were writing it, will soon retire and then nobody can add major features anymore or it will take forever plus fluctuation suddenly raises (of course 0 unit testing was done, variable names at max 10 characters long, 6000 lines per file and sometimes function, at least 100 mutable global variables with undecipherable short names, raw pointer magic everywhere, and 3 times as many mutex locking as needed - just to be sure no data races happen, programs crashing on teardown, because of all the lifetime issues, etc.).

I hope more and more companies choose Rust for such ports in 2029. The ports to C++ from the last decade were mostly done by C++ devs with C practices mentioned above (sometimes the same guys while learning C with classes style), making it worse ("Singleton lets me program like C, pretending I'm doing OOP yay"). I've seen so much of this stuff that I lost a bit of my trust in technology, at least in certain areas like automotive and embedded devices with lots of generations. And I know there are a lot of awesome C and C++ programmers also. But sadly not in these generations of legacy code I had the honor to work with. And this stuff is waiting to be rewritten for sure. But please not in C, now that mankind has Rust (yes fanboy here, but you can rewrite it in Go too and I'm fine with it, heck use JavaScript... but please get rid of these legacy C codebases).
You can't abstract further than bits. 0's and 1's all the way down!
Speaking as someone who has converted from rabid anticommunist to latent Marxist, I definitely highly recommend engaging with his thought. Capital is obviously the sine qua non, but I got my start listening to old Michael Parenti lectures on YouTube. You might be surprised where he lands on issues like taxation or gun rights.
> future employees see them unlike an email chain.

This could also be done by using an internal forum or NNTP server so that those discussion threads are available to those who weren't present at the time.
What I usually use Amazon for is physical media books and videos. (There's some irony there, similar to watching a music video on MTV.) Nobody counterfeits them (there are counterfeit Chinese DVDs, but I've yet to get one), and you don't have to worry about bad workmanship. They don't get fake reviews, although you have to ignore all the reviews of the wrong version, and they don't expire. And you don't need to look at them before you buy them.
I had a similar experience with a BASIC game I wrote in 1987, which I revived recently in an emulator - the code itself was copied directly from ancient hard-sectored 5.25" floppy disks into a virtual disk image.

The emulator had a bug in it, though-- it would scroll up the entire terminal if the static 25th line ended with an Enter or line feed, something that didn't happen on the original H/Z-89 hardware. I fixed the game by adding a single semicolon to the end of the PRINT statement.

I wrote a little bit about the game and my feelings on reviving it here: https://jeremyreimer.com/rockets-item.lsp?p=282
> So would not being able to get fuel because there isn't enough of it because no one allowed supply and demand to work.

The UK has strict rules on how much petrol/gas anyone can carry. Consequently this type of law works as an automatic rationing.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/law-rul...

So yes, "allowing supply and demand to work" is a stupid idea that patently does not work at all, as exemplified by the ridiculous toilet paper shortage of 2020.
Same. Who needs an app to tell you that you’re depressed? Memes are writing themselves. Imagine your government mandating stay-home orders, having lost most friends, craving Youtube content, ruminating about previous experiences, and your phone popping up a message saying “That’s it. You’re suicidal. Here are friends you can call.” and the list shows up empty. Or there’s your ex, the local pizza service and your late parents.

When people are depressed, they tend to know it. (but the sibling comments say it may be good to point a maniac episode for a bipolar person).
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I recommend the C reimplementation of iotop btw, it has lots more features and is more efficient and is maintained. It is packaged as iotop-c in Debian and other distros.

https://github.com/Tomas-M/iotop
This is precisely why there isn't a central database of gun owners in the USA.

Some states have even banned the keeping of identifying data in purchase records at the individual stores, too.
Determinism is irrelevant. You can use stochastic equations to simulate human behavior if there are quantum effects involved.

Consciousness is more interesting, and it boils down to the claim that there is something metaphysically and unverifiably (from the outside) special about humans. That sounds supernatural to me.
Between the yoke steering wheel, the farcical promise that is FSD, the lack of physical knobs, the lack of CarPlay/Android Auto, and this new mess of privacy/surveillance issues, I will pass on Tesla. I was ready to make my next car a Tesla despite the other flaws but I think I’m over the tipping point and don’t want to reward those normalizing these things.
That's quite different from the hypothetical earlier, because you're now describing multiple owners rather than a single monopoly.

If a single corporation owns all homes, they can artificially limit supply by buying up any new properties and leaving them empty.

If multiple companies own all homes, then they can try to artificially limit supply by buying up any new properties and leaving them empty, but there's huge incentive for each one not to: if it rents out every property it buys, it makes even more money than if it left any of them empty. It's the prisoner's dilemma - if all companies collude and limit supply they maximize total profit, but if any individual company "cheats" it stands to gain even more for itself.

It is possible for cartels to collude and pull this off (OPEC etc), but it's not possible when there are thousands and thousands of companies and many of them are too small to "take one for the team" and leave a property empty, or too disinterested in any collusion.
If the senior people are allowed to wfh, then juniors would not benefit from being forced into the office because the seniors would not be there to teach them.
I don't like the use of the term "piracy". Piracy is taking a vessel. Common crimes committed by pirates are homicide, kidnapping, rape... It is all very different from copying a file to someone.

Of course, "the industry" doesn't care equating one with another.
You must have changed it a lot, this seems to produces 100s of kb of obfuscate code for with just a tiny input.
Who's a rationalist? I have D&D and hope we can stop climate change at some point. I have so much fantasy and wishfully thinking, no need for religions.
F1's online presence under Liberty Media is a great example of how to do it right. Every race gets same-day highlights on YouTube within hours, along with tons of interview and analysis content. You can be an F1 fan and not spend a penny to watch the entire season. But the premium option to watch full events live is still there, along with merchandising, (quite good) licensed video games, etc. As a result, F1 is growing faster than ever before and is profitable for the first time in years.
Maybe the Fast inverse square root?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Histo...
Have not read that much bullshit in a long time. Will elaborate later when I am on my desktop
What about the entropy of a black hole, A / 4hG? (A = surface area, h = reduced Planck constant, G = gravitational constant.) That seems very well defined.
Thank you for the link, it was much more helpful.
This is it. If you build the machine of tyranny it will inevitably be used to impose tyranny. Building open systems that center software freedom is a moral imperative.
My point is that actors can and do change over time.

Just because you trust who is in charge today that does not mean that said person/organization will continue indefinitely as-is.
The author could have at the least, used Cristoforo Colombo, instead of the anglicized version.