skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some Etruscan words may have found their way into very modern English:

- antenna

- satellite

- people/person

- ceremony

- serve
At this point, I truly believe (despite this can sound utterly obvious) that social networks are not just products for "entertaining" the masses (In reality is just a honey pot for gathering your data, make a consumer profile out of your interactions and sell stuff to you later roughly speaking). I mean, it might be the case that initially were conceived strictly for this purpose, but the side effect is that it also provides with a huge vector for spreading propaganda and manipulation, not only by local actors, but also for foreign countries. Basically is a direct communication channel with the vast majority of citizens from a region. So, maybe with the right amount of persuasion ,good strategy and time, external governments can be destabilized.
Impressive headline wording where the concept of borders simultaneously exists and doesn’t exist so people can feel fearful of their home lives being threatened and also fearful because it’s a scary other doing it from so far away. “Invade” lol
My timely steps away from my desk have been VR boxing, table tennis, and mini golf. There's no better way to destress after a meeting than 3 rounds and a knockout. I think it taps deep into the limbic system and evaporates stress through a full activation then resolution of the fight or flight response.
Deal breaker sadly. I will pay 3x for a hackable/free setup
That's exactly my point: 99% solutions are the worst. Every 99% solution will eventually find someone relying on it, willingly or not. And it's always someone else cleaning up the mess (or failing to find the cause).
There were multiple factors of which brexit was maybe number two. People stopping working due to covid was no 1. Also the diver license folk knocking off.
What's wrong with a browser engine monoculture? It'd make development simpler as you could just test against that one engine.
Wasn't aware of Waterfox and I mistakenly thought Pale Moon was just a de-branding. Looking at Pale Moon's site, it's clear that it's a whole other branch now (like Blink/WebKit/kHTML).

I'm happy with Firefox (and Mozilla) personally but I'll be sure to recommend these if/when I hear people asking for an alternative to Google and Mozilla in the future.

Thanks for sharing.
Nothing about budget and costs? This was a significant part of my time as a manager.
Isn’t that exactly the same method?

(Still a useful link, though, as it’s a great writeup from a slightly different perspective)

Edit to add: doh, you’re right! I was too quick on the draw. Cube versus octahedron.
They were more local, more flexible, and were used to combat highly-deadly epidemics such as the plague or spanish flu. Such previous epidemics were more deadly, and were perceived as such by the local population, who therefore probably found the measures more justified.

Also, the 2020 quarantines arrived at a time where global resource inequalities were at unprecedented levels in human history, and when popular insurrections were growing across the planet (Liban, France, Soudan, etc), so they were interpreted (in my opinion, rightly so) as a political repression measure more than a sanitary measure... which was confirmed by the lack of sanitary measures from most governments, including the French government who during the pandemic cut public hospitals budgets by 800M€, continued to shut down hospital beds while the bodies were piling up, and covered up their failures (such as destroying the national mask stocks before the pandemic) via heavy propaganda campaigns.

Finally, opposition to the quarantines was fueled by how unevenly the measures were applied. Government officials and rich people have been publicly documented eating in restaurants and throwing parties, while common people like you and me were routinely beaten up by the police, fined or detained, for daring to go out and breathe fresh air (which here in France was illegal by decree for most of the 1st quarantine, before that was relaxed).

I don't think social media is entirely responsible for the growing conspiracy theories (Qanon) and other forms of popular opposition to quarantines, but they sure played a role in giving more facts to the population to know for sure the government can't be trusted to protect the local population (at least here in France).

PS: For historical context on a previous epidemics, you may be interested to take a read at this article, which offers an anarchist perspective about the 1884 cholera epidemic: https://crimethinc.com/2020/05/26/the-anarchists-versus-the-...
Yes, that is a system level software option in the Oculus menu, along with brightness control.
This is still pretty pointless if you need your phone to log in. If your phone is lost then you still can't get to your messages unless you logged in previously.
Anecdotical: 1987 I was on holidays with my girlfriend and we decided to take the TGV from Lyon to Paris: it was a blast!

There was a bar with beer on tap and whilst traveling with 300km/h, you would lean on the bar, standing, and enjoy the (for that time) incredible speed.

Never used it again, we enjoyed the freedom of the car too much.
>But its not higher quality than digital, its just more work to operate.

There are desirable differences aside from "more work". Many people listen to vinyl rips because the original mastering had greater dynamic range. Here's a decent looking article on the subject:

https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness...
Hello! First I would like to say this is a very cool writeup. I'm not a computer scientist but do dabble a bit in neural networks. Is it possible this could be used to build a convolutional neural network?
What github did was not table partitioning but schema separation. Splitting tables between separate disk partitions works well when the storage is local to the engine and historically got around the size/io limits of hard disks but not necessarily suited to modern scaling problems.

What github did instead was to separate out whole sub-systems from the main db cluster to separate clusters so that requests could hit completely separate engines so that the number of connections to each would be reduced and the chance of breaking something by a mistake in a cross-schema query is reduced by physical separation.

I think you could still do this with SQL Server but why bother if you already use MySQL and the tools exist there.
Odd that an academic paper would fail to mention the work of the UK company Bell Pottinger that conducted a deliberate, paid Twitter campaign with thousands of false account in 2018 with the intent to stoke a racial war (nevermind overturn democracy) in South Africa on behalf of the former president's faction and a family of Indian criminals.

From what I understand it bloody nearly succeeded. Perhaps the Chinese learnt from the great job the British did?

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/04/business/bell-pottinger-g...
Some songs aren't even available on CD anymore.

I've been thinking about writing a Spotify ripper.
Bioplastic Production from Microalgae: A Review – MDPI
A command line file compression tool
We had two hi-jacking of a train in NL a long time ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Dutch_train_hijacking
But definitely not lose money, that would be a blasphemy!
I will repeat it here again. Delete all your friends and content on facebook, and use it as a shell account for logins, events and messenger.

Change starts with you. This is simple.

I have done this 2 months ago. It works great so far. Most people have moved onto IG/Whatsapp already anyways. I know those are also FB owned, but do this as a protest.
The reason was Postgres' write amplification issue, though I've read that has improved recently.

Before a MySQL Innodb table could handle 20 indexes while Postgres around 5 with similar performance on updates.
You’re right that spaces aren’t useful if you’re only in one room(!). Just like a mail client doesn’t need to support mail folders if you only ever have one conversation going on. As others have said, we’ll add the option to hide the spacepanel if you want. Also, you may want to just use a much simpler Matrix client (eg https://hydrogen.element.io - the lightest element!) if you’re only in one room.

In general, Spaces reduce bloat though - they speed up the app by reducing the amount of data the app has to juggle as you filter based on a given space, and they stop your UI and brain being clogged up with irrelevant rooms.
Considering all the shady practices that online ad companies engage in, there is zero moral responsibility for users to support it. As an example of such shady practice, here's an instance of the biggest ad company in the world caught exploiting browser bugs in order to circumvent privacy protections:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/time-make-amends-googl...
Huh wow, you weren't kidding!

I remember going on the front page of Imgur once a couple of years back and it seemed less entertaining and more rage-baity than now -- think I'll revisit that decision...
If you have any requests and ideas to continue improving Imgur, let them know here [1].

I just sent one asking them to never change it.

[1] https://www.medialab.la/contact-us
How does it differ from http://sqlfiddle.com/ ?
>Sam Harris

>independent media

>https://samharris.org/

Of course an Islamophobe like Sam Harris was happy with the invasion of Afghanistan and got VERY upset when the US left. Not only does he want the murdering of Afghan Muslims to persist, but he also has no issue with a group of rapists and murderers ruling the country and wrecking havoc while militant atheists like himself maintain their interests in the region.

Blood is not only on the mercenaries' hands who participated in the war, but also on people like Sam Harris who strongly propagate for it and try to shift public opinion and the political climate to return to war. How many innocent men, women and children must suffer to make people like Sam Harris happy? Likely no limit.

>To me it is unconscionable that dissent can be punished and deterred in this manner, especially in America. The optics of it are damning and moreover it is actually unethical.

It's ironic that someone who wants more Afghan Muslims to die is lecturing people about what's unethical.
It did for me. I went back to firefox a year ago.
I like trains but a connection from NY to LA makes little sense. There's nothing in between to make the infrastructure worth it.

But hight speed rail down either coast, why not? You'd share the same infrastructure as slower commuter trains, have large towns from N to S to stop by, and surely there's a market for people who want to travel in comfort from Seattle to SF.
Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't you want to build a semiconductor fabrication factory somewhere cold?

Or is it because Arizona is dry?

(honest questions, I don't know what impacts the location of a fab)
> It's not easy to control police – even with a law

FTFY.
After having a burnout I came to accept this is how my work schedule should be working.

When I don't force myself to 'work' when I don't feel like, I end up with may more productive days that (objectively) also last longer.
Recently, Technology Connections on YouTube had an interesting theory¹: Long-range trains will never be popular in the USA, since people there have so little vacation time. It’s not reasonable to blow a few days (in total) on just train travel if your entire vacation is a single week. Other places don’t have this problem, so trains are more popular.

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDV1R1j1n5I
not available in other regions outside of Switzerland
The amount of people being prescribed glasses is growing each year due to phone and computer use.

I have poorer vision in low light conditions then when I was younger. My optometrist has confirmed my sensitive eyes and advised to wear blue light filters but I choose not to. I have friends who need glasses to drive legally at night for similar reasons.

Don't give people the wrong impression without first asking professional advice as you could do harm by misleading someone.
UK fuel crisis threatens to disrupt health services
Would there be corium though? Isn't that caused by destruction of the container? Seems like there would just be melted Uranium very slowly cooling off.
It is generally not the case in modern construction or outside cities (because you need "gaz de ville" otherwise it is a real pain, and that is infrastructure). This 2015 document indicates 39% natural gas in heating, and 35% electricity https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/3280930/Enviro1.... I am currently living in an old city house with gas available for both heating and cooking.

In big cities like Paris I believe it is discouraged even when available due to the risks and housing density.
Everything is the best and even linux tools can't compare. It also has great command line tools es.exe.

Double Commander is the best FOSS file manager on Windows (TC clone) and other OSes.

You can install/update all via chocolatey: cinst everything doublecmd
> one of the things which long hampered it is the historical and technocratic notion of Paris being the sole hub of the country

Is it really the 'historical and technocratic notion' which influenced it, or just the raw fact that it is the hub of the country, the place from or to which most people want to travel?

Sure, that fact may itself have been determined by all kinds of historical and/or technocratic notions, but I see no reason why the TGV builders need to have been musing on history.
Well yeah, what we see as obvious bots, twitter sees as MAUs which it can include in figures given to investors and shareholders.

Because they haven't developed any systems to identify the bots, they can pretend that they do not know they are bots - and their active user figures are not fraudulent/illegal. If they identified the bots, then they would not be able to lie about these accounts.
Better headstraps are bigger, bulkier, and more expensive. In a market that competes on price, it's most efficient to have the basic version in the box and then charge for upgrades.

Plus, this also allows you to grow your market share by not excluding people that can't quite afford the better version of the headset.
I think it's a little bit more then the worries we see with TV's since children under a certain age are not allowed to use it.

But yeah I couldn't imagine using it for a workday. I bought an Oculus Go once, my eyes couldn't handle it for more then 5 tot 10 minutes.

But I guess everyone is different, can imagine for some people like me it's not healthy
Even some hp printers recently
I work in a niche that is so niche that I couldn't find a full time job. So I work on a per project basis of automation, data analytics (pandas) and general purpose programming & API development (Python). So, trying to pivot to a more full service role of Data Analytics or SQL/Python Developer.

I have been doing freelancing for 5 years now. Not sure how can I develop my skills any further, unless I just study statistics for data modeling and build various projects which I am already doing right now.

Project building has its limitations. My hobby projects wouldn't scale up to a position where I have to learn and apply anything that is intermediate-ish. I can look into learning cloud services but I will never get good at it as I don't have a product based on that.

Edit: I might sound I am making up problems and I am a defeatist person but I am working on web applications as I have nothing else to do. But those projects have very little chances to be a showcase of my skillset as they are not scaled to use cloud services effectively and complicated SQL db.
That does seem to be the case; I wonder why she doesn't have a redirect?
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It's still the very least to even consider WhatsApp a useable aim app in 2021
I don't know about gp's particulars, but over the years I'm pretty sure I've seen competitors do this on strategic dates to impact the userbase game perception.
As I understand it, you want inexpensive power and water. Bonus points for environmental stability over absolute temperature.
Why only tablets? Why not all devices?

For example, I'd like to be able to use Signal on both my main phone and my second phone using the main phone number.
You could also convert them to a lower resolution, just to keep the suspense alive.
> That's because TikTok is way more decentralized than any other photo/video platform

TikTok's biggest strength is in encouraging users to post, but I'm struggling to see how it could be considered decentralized. Are you pointing out that it's not top-down moderated? There's a broad code of conduct, but outside of that it's pretty open on content, and thus I can start an account and talk about whatever special interest I have - and find others with that special interest. (As long as that special interest isn't on an opaque list of bad topics.)
> I think the mainstream opinion is that the PS, LFI and EELV are left parties.

I think that's what the propaganda apparatus is trying to build for a picture, yes. But compare their programs to those of the PS, PCF, and Greens (ancestors of those modern parties) from 40 years ago and you may have a few surprises in how the entire political apparatus has moved to the right over the years.

> LREM is left, center or right if probably a matter of your political opinion

LREM is definitely right-wing. They have regularly attacked the poor and the oppressed, while removing taxes on the rich . It could be considered a centrist policy ("all taxes should be equal") if it were accompanied by a traditional centrist "civil rights" program for political freedom and dismantling of monopolies (separation of investment/savings banks, break up of media from other industry interests, defending the right to protest, etc). Which is was not.

In the political compass, LREM/Macron policy is no doubt categorized in the top-right corner, in the authoritarian capitalist quadrant.

> Depending on when/where you are, left and right can be associated to different side of the axis.

Agreed, but there is a common understanding that left means redistribution of wealth while right means private property. Moreover, i would personally argue that the political compass is good for evaluating political speeches/opinions, but fails to grasp the complexity of facts in practice. For example, the USSR is usually painted as "authoritarian left", while in practice many critiques have pointed out that "There is no communism in Russia" [0].

[0] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-there-i... (1935)
I think the point was that it doesn't make sense to expect that strings in a format like JSON or a programming language will only be used for non-computing related plain text.
As far as I know, WhatsApp builds upon XMPP, a protocol which also includes presence (the first P of XMPP). Good XMPP clients let you choose which contacts can receive presence stanzas. WhatsApp is not one of them (it also does not federate). Use Conversations instead.
> losing control and making himself vulnerable to scams

This! Thank you, this was the one thing I was never able to put into words.
https://mises.org/library/against-neoliberals

In practice neoliberalism does not represent the free-market as presented by Hayek. Mises was also a founding member of the MPS, will you have me believe that he was a neoliberal? These are generalizations leveled by socialist critics and third positionists who would use appeals to the market as a fig leaf. The incentives for distortion are clear.

>Neoliberalism is distinct from liberalism insofar as it does not advocate laissez-faire economic policy but instead is highly constructivist and advocates a strong state to bring about market-like reforms in every aspect of society.

>the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, whose founding members included Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Karl Popper, George Stigler and Ludwig von Mises. Meeting annually, it would become a "kind of international 'who's who' of the classical liberal and neo-liberal intellectuals.

Take the example of neoliberal negotiated "free trade" agreements and contrast that to laissez-faire unilateral free trade. The inability to distinguish between the two paradigms or the deliberate conflation of terms is what I am addressing.
17 vacancies for fuel tanker drivers nationwide at the main UK fuel distributor

http://jobs.hoyer.uk.com/vacancies
It sounds like deflection and rationalization to me.

Not all features are equally important, the one seeing a regression is much more important, it's also the feature with a conflict of interest, and the conflict of interest lies in the direction of Google pushing this through over everyone else's objections.
Wait, are those two Treudeaus relatives?
I would feel the same.

I'm not ophthalmologist but I do wear glasses for myopia. My concern would be emitted light, distance and emitted heat...

Screens are emitted light. Having a screen strapped to your head emitting light into your eyes is very different to having a monitor in a room (adjusted to ambient light) emitting light and in an environment with a lot of natural reflected light.

Distance, yes there are lenses that bend the emitted light and change the perception of distance to the screen but it's still only a short distance from your face emitting light and heat.

You might be fine for a few years but I would be willing to bet you will have some form of eye issue in later life.
journald is not good at handling a lot of data, nor is it good at managing imported data. (It could be improved, probably "easily", but it's main feature is that it's an "always on" not terribly dumb log target, it's not a long term log management system.)
Ahhh how there's nothing sacred in the world no more! One can't even trust people to provide no support! Those Internat services will doom us!
I guess the main problem is the second part of the subOP comment:

>While you're at it, if there is a way you can get the Google Identity Platform PM to let us know when some form of multi-factor auth besides SMS will be supported, that would be great!

When they respond they get inundated with random requests and ailments that they have exactly zero control on.
Brave has ad blocking built in - you don't need extensions.
Let's hope the AR hybrid will be possible soon :).

Sit down and your real room just widens virtually, your window remains and big screens pop up next to it.
Yup. Apparently there's been a 20x increase in people putting the wrong fuel in their vehicle - diesel in petrol or visa versa which is rather dumb.
My wife and I both went to graduate school and had very different experiences. I have a few major takeaways from what happened to us:

1) I was a "failed" PhD student that left with a masters in mechanical engineering. Now I have a Software Engineer job that I love. A lot of credit for that goes to the software I wrote to run experiments as a grad student, and I am very happy with where I ended up.

2) My wife and I compared our advisors and they make a huge difference in your future prospects. Her post-doc advisor sent >95% of the people from his lab to tenure track positions. My advisor was successful at finding people jobs in industry and ran a great lab, but produced 0 tenured professors from his lab in 30 years. Look at where graduates of a lab end up before joining if you know what you want to do.

3) The academic job market is competitive in a strange way. Top candidates are clearly top candidates. Schools will get ~100 applications for an open position, but the top candidates will get job offers at nearly all of the places they apply. I don't think most job searches are weighted that way.

4) Research faculty positions are strange. You nominally get the job by being good at science, but then your job is to run a small business (your research lab). Being a good writer and good manager are probably the most important for running a successful lab, and PhD programs should probably focus on nurturing this more.