skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a polarized society, means there is a big problem in that society that needs fixing. Like when a project is forked because people think it should have other goals/values. I don't think we can split society, so that problem needs to be found and addressed, so people can trust each other and the government again.

Meaning having all the correct facts, and information, will not fix polarization, only societal evolution
> The authorities have long since stopped recommending cloth masks

That depends completely on where you live, there are plenty of places that still have indoor or outdoor mask mandates, despite them being completely useless.
Well but that's like saying consider yourself lucky to not have been to a Russian or Nigerian jail. American prisons are famously bad and known for it worldwide. I'd compare this cell to a cell in a country that doesn't have a completely broken judicial system and then yeah, it's nothing that special. It's a cell, maybe the bed looks "nice" but at the end of the day it's a place of incarceration not a hotel.
in the USA.

Here in the UK we have CBeebies and CBBC.
Ah, so they are using the translation app solely for the translation functionality.
Usually they ban every part they can get a SN/unique ID for, TPM being just another signal. Modular TPMs are being phased out anyhow, with new AMD and Intel chips having it built in.
Are we supposed to believe Instagram isn't a virtual sacrifice zone for people who aren't teenage girls? Social media is inherently toxic because that what happens when a bunch of undersocialized techies with no grasp of psychology turn a chunk of the internet into a never-ending high school reunion.
Damn, I see more negative news from Firefox than Chrome lately…
So, reading here what I understand is that startup stocks/options/whatever are worth nothing because this is a private company, an opaque box with many tools to screw you. Anyone with a different experience? If you had a positive experience/return, what was the cause, your negotiation or the founders/investors behaviour?
There's privatezilla too. If you consider Microsoft Defender (real time scanning & sample submissions) to be a spy tool, there are easy scripts available to permanently disable it, apparently recent Windows versions decided not to honor instructions disabling WD via registry or local group policy.
Well, for one, iirc Secp256r1 was pseudo random and can be seen glowing in broad daylight.
1 year old safari. it was added april 2020 - https://caniuse.com/?search=datetime-local
They definitely don’t do this.
> but it hasn't put a dent in our ability to engineer the earth to suit our needs

We'll see about that when most soil is barren and most bees are gone. That is, very shortly.
Ngwenya Mine
I use podcasts for:

- entertainment on walks

- sleep inducement in the wee hours
The classic suggestion of how to solve a large population of restless young men is to invade somewhere. That’s not exactly a comforting thought, even if China is unlikely to invade the US.

Certainly China would not be the first country to ramp up nationalism to respond to dissatisfaction at home.
It also feels amazing with all the animation and kinetic scrolling. I just wonder where to get the "Apps" showcased in the ssh demo and the screenshot.
> Making data "non-relational" is not a cure for the above.

ACID imposes a limitation on scalability, there is no way to escape that. If you want to claim that approximately nobody reaches that scale, that's true, and if you want to claim that you don't need to ditch your data schema, that's also true. But relations aren't worth much without global coherence, and global coherence requires ACID, and will only work up to some size (that fits almost everyone, but not literally everyone).
Says the person who made the very first comment about this, a moment after it was posted.

You clearly didn't read my story even though you said you did. It's here: https://www.ashleygjovik.com/ashleys-apple-story.html

Yes, this is Ashley. Now please everyone stop claiming anyone willing to criticize Apple is me.
How the world’s biggest brain maps could transform neuroscience
Thank you for pointing this out. Non-paywalled info, plus even more & nicer graphics:

https://nasa.gov/mission_pages/lucy/overview/index

http://lucy.swri.edu/

don't miss

http://lucy.swri.edu/mission/Targets.html
Nintendo 64 and the original PlayStation were a paradigm shift in home consoles, with their native support for 3D.

At the time of the announcement of these platforms, Super Mario 64 became a symbol representing the Nintendo 64. Sony wanted a mascot to represent them, and Naughty Dog convinced Sony to pick Crash Bandicoot as the mascot for the original PlayStation.

As such, the marketing material and the press coverage talked a lot not only about N64 vs PS, but also gave a lot of attention to Super Mario 64 and Crash Bandicoot.

And in turn this meant that those of us who were kids at the time ended up playing these games a lot on N64 and PS respectively.

Is it just nostalgia, or is there something more? Hard to say, but either way I think both these games will forever hold a special place in the hearts of many.

Beyond that, porting efforts in general are interesting for their own sake.
this is genuine question

but why lately everything is Edge?

Edge Computing, Edge Devices, Edge Infrastructure, Edge Browser, Edge yada yada.
I often would internalize the idea that I was "wasting" time by enjoying video games when I was growing up. I can trace my entire career back to gaming sparking my interest in computing. However, having experienced childhood trauma and lifelong depression, even though what I was doing was perfectly acceptable behavior, I would spin it into evidence that my negative self-perception was accurate.

I still struggle with this idea, and have been working to overcome feeling immense guilt when I take some time to blow off steam playing a game for a few hours.
Fair. I was mildly triggered when scanning this thread, so thought I'd make the metric clear to anyone else.

Back on topic, if you sort by Leasure/Travel or Economy/Labor, it is pretty clear that red states have the lead.
Is this at all realistic at this point?
>Small, Reliable, and Easy to Repair. Pick two.

(A comment on the website discussing MS Surface devices)
I absolutely think they will and it will be problematic. But that's NK territory. Not superpower we need to be afraid of on equal terms. They are still very different.
> today, we’re announcing a new monetization policy for Google advertisers, publishers and YouTube creators that will prohibit ads for, and monetization of, content that contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change. This includes content referring to climate change as a hoax or a scam, claims denying that long-term trends show the global climate is warming, and claims denying that greenhouse gas emissions or human activity contribute to climate change.

I think covid-skepticism is also part of this change, is there a concise list of topics that are also verboten?
When power reaches a certain level, it isn’t about being seen doing the right or ethical thing. It is about demonstrating that it can and will be used against whoever they want with impunity, even if it’s clearly wrong, and they will get away with it.

It stops a lot of people from even attempting to challenge them, and just do what they want without question, which has many advantages. In some situations, it’s even legitimately necessary. It’s also prone to abuse of course.

In order to keep this kind of power, it’s necessary to demonstrate from time to time this power exists and will be used, since if people start not being afraid of having their lives ruined if they challenge said power legitimately, they also stop going along with demands from those in power unquestioningly. And a lot of the ability to destroy someone for whatever reason (including legitimate ones) depends on that unquestioning compliance.

You can think of it as a form of ‘bend the knee’.
War reduces the number of young men, including single angry young men. I hope that is not how the demographic gap will be resolved, but it is a possibility that weighs heavily in my mind.
Interesting. It hasn't been that long since I've seen a bumblebee. Are there different kinds? I'm in Oregon.
I really miss the addons for this, especially Rat Race. Me and my dad would bet candy on the rats and then yell at them when they turn around and start walking in the opposite direction.

Also the Totally Twisted addon was hilariously office-inappropriate, from lawyers being eaten by piranhas to a guy in a trenchcoat flashing a clock.

So much nostalgia from all this. They just don’t make 'em like they used to.

[0]: https://youtu.be/r81V4PAz_rg

[1]: https://youtu.be/ZsKYXftB68M
This is a real shame. As a long time Safari user (and Chrome user only for web dev) I was about to move over to Firefox this week.

This was driven by wanting to get away from Chrome (Google in general) and the appalling UI decisions in the latest Safari, which were so terrible I’m lost for words.

Having installed Firefox, I sadly was not impressed with its UI either - coming from Safari 14 which is much more elegant in my opinion.

And now I’ve been reading this steady trickle of worrying articles over the last week which are just totally putting me off.

This is a really sorry state of affairs for web browsers. How do we collectively fix this mess….?
Thanks! I wasn't aware of these, despite being a subscriber for a couple of years.

This seems to be an online collection of these articles:

http://www.rcollins.org/ddj/ddj.html
I thought they became airborne by being expelled in a droplet ang the droplet evaporating.
I encourage people to have a look at the leaked document that is being referenced here.

https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/teen-mental-hea...

p24. Teens are about twice as likely to state that Instagram improves their mental health than to state that it harms it.

p28. Teens who were already unsatisfied with their mental health tend to think Instagram harms their mental health more than teens who are satisfied with their mental health. Still, teens who are not satisfied with their mental health (in the USA) are more likely to think Instagram is a positive influence on mental health than a negative one. This is not true in the UK.

If you're the kind of person who hates when statistics are abused for a narrative, this should be something you dislike. The "damning internal documents" actually show that 80% of teens have a neutral or positive reaction to Instagram, and teens are two times more likely to have a positive reaction than a negative one.

Zuckerberg's comments about Instagram having an overall positive effect on teen mental health look a lot less like an obvious lie from this angle.

My personal opinion/guess: Instagram and social media does deliver harmful content to some people and can have negative effects on people's mental health. However, in the discussion we've been having this week, every possible positive effect has been discounted to 0 value. That's not really fair, doesn't reflect the actual results of the leaked studies, and certainly doesn't match my anecdotal experience using social media (including fbook, reddit, hn and insta).
Mozilla is still a hell of a lot better aligned with my interests than Apple or Google. And do we not value browser diversity anymore? I understand the irrational fury directed at non profits when they're less than perfect but it's kinda embarrassingly self defeating when applied to software. The environment we are coding in in today was built by companies like Mozilla.
Most commentators obsession with China possibly invading Taiwan is flabbergasting. How many countries has China invaded over the course of say the last 200 years and how many the US? Violating Taiwan's airspace from mainland China is fairly easy as due to their geographic proximity both countries airspaces actually overlap in places. Just a question on how the media paints the picture.
This is like something a kid would write, or someone new to programming. Like someone wondered, "I love tiling window managers, what if my xterm had a tiling window manager in it for all my text applications?" That story is even suggested by the name. So the author either is relatively new to programming, or they have a Buddhistic "eternal beginner" mindset. That may be the most charming thing about this piece of software.

Note that I'm not trying to impugn the author's competence, but praising their mindset, which is that of someone who's discovered that programming a computer is a journey of infinite possibilities, and is unafraid of judgement of their choice of name, application, programming language, etc. because there is sheer joy in the act.
Elon has said numerous times Starlink will be split off into a private company, just as soon as they get a handle on what it's revenues are going to look like long term.
Well, at one point, "West" meant Ohio.
Portsmouth NH had a somewhat flowering tech scene in the dot-com era. Don't know about today. Might want to reach out to @sogrady about "real" Portland :-)

ADDED: I'd add that if living in "downtown" (such as it is) isn't a major consideration, I'd point out that aside from some places like the Bay Area it's pretty easy to live outside many major cities like Boston but easily go in for meetings or evening events.
please refer to him as The Enlightened One
Uhm, so? Please come back when you have successfully ported it to the original Sony PlayStation or the Sega Saturn.
On Mac, Panic’s Nova is starting to look pretty good. A native editor with a profit model of “you use it, you pay for it” is more attractive by the day.
Agree. In US, 500 kids have died. That's in over a year, and in a time period which didn't include vaccine.

Every year 800 kids die from drowning. About 200 kids die from the flue. Driving kills 4000. Suffocation 1500.

The risk to kids is very very small (especially considering vaccine can probably prevent almost all the above deaths), and certainly less than many other risks we tolerate.
At a 100B valuation you'd be kinda late to the party.

Non-SaaS, non-tech platforms and non-biotech companies have a really hard marketcap ceiling.

SpaceX builds stuff in the real world, macrostuff with millions of moving parts, that's like black death for economic margins, they also aim to go into an environment such as space which is very hard and has slapped us time and time again.

There is no convetional ROI for us up there, there maybe is in the form of artificial economics such as the morale boost that the country gets when a rocket goes up.

But if that's the case the US could just push for having the Olympics every 2 years given that it sweeps the gold medals everytime.

A 200k usd on a public SpaceX is a bet on Musk being able to convince people other than yourself that SpaceX is in fact a tech-platform a SaaS or a biotech.
> Literally any time anyone says a greek letter before the word "male" you are seeing that tactic working.

Not exactly. The pickup artist community and the alt-right use alpha and beta a lot, but the "sigma" stuff is just pure parody.
I think you are missing the point.

There is a definite connection between pericarditis & myocarditis with the 2 shot vaccines. It is most pronounced with 2nd shots, with the ages of 13-23, particularly for young me, according to VAERS data [1]. Now, I don't know that they know why yet though.

This is similar to the AZN/J&J thrombotic thrombocytopenia syndrome seen in a fairly small group of young women in Europe. While the data on that did indicate it is sometimes not related to a known issue, it is also worsens pre-existing platelet issues, meaning it should likely be contraindicated for a select group of PTs already on thinners or coagulants.

[1] https://openvaers.com/covid-data/myo-pericarditis
The link was established quite early and it wasn’t fruitless:

https://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/theory.1.pdf
I happen to agree with you.

There are many others who make different bargains of course, and for their own legitimate reasons.
Every time I drive past this place, I get an uneasy feeling. An organization I thoroughly detest, setting up shop with one of the largest data centers, right in my home region.
Yes. We are! :)
It's not only wikipedia. Also on HN you can find people paid to have an opinion - articles downvoted really fast, comments downvoted, tentatives to canalyze the discussion.
I am more shocked by the fact that i can't read the article linked anymore without installing an app. This is pretty shady product development.
Another interesting historical analogue to the current situation with China is the Soviet Union - who some of us can remember was also poised to massively overtake the American economy at one point. History had other plans and in particular, things like the belts & roads initiative feel like very large echoes of this not-so-distant past.

You might say that China has learned the lessons of the failing Soviet Union's plans for expansion and domination, but so too has more democratically focused allies as things like AUUKUS & TPP (with or without USA) can attest.

Bloomberg had a good piece about this worth reading

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-08-12/soviet...
A lot of the people who care this much also use Linux, so this is somewhat of a moot point.
Never thought about that angle. I have no doubt that fact has been considered by officials at some point.
> These curves were chosen actually for efficiency not security

Isn't this enough?
Generally BRTFS seems to be fine until it breaks, and then it's just painful and difficult to recover from (if at all possible).

I'm sure it'll get more stable in the future, but right now I wouldn't trust it with any production data the way I would trust ZFS.

With ZFS on Linux being a thing now, I'd choose that over BRTFS every time.
My first memory was that it was the first 3D platform game that didn't suck - they designed platforming challenges that worked without the player feeling like they'd been screwed over by the camera. You barely needed to touch the camera, and the stick responded very intuitively to what's on the (very low res) screen.

(In 1997, directly controlling a character with one stick was not an obviously correct choice - some games had "tank" controls where one stick rotated the character/camera and the other went forwards and backwards! Imagine how much that used to suck)

Plus it was a huge game, full of secrets, without being overwhelming. The castle & level structure was easy to understand so you weren't lost.

Also it was tremendously charming by itself, but nostalgic for the crowd who'd grown up on the NES and SNES, like suddenly this kids game we'd known for 14 years can be a whole 3D world - and no other game franchises had reinvented themselves so successfully over such a long period.

Finally it came at a time when the PlayStation was so dominant, and asserted that grown up games didn't just want EDM & edgy violence (to parody Sony's 1997 marketing). In contrast Nintendo had produced a masterpiece through game design discipline, and without compromising this charming childlike aesthetic.

I guess these days some views might look a bit flat but I'm not sure they've improved on the Mario formula since.
Pericarditis & myocarditis are actually side effects of other vaccines too.

The difference in this case is much higher rates of peri/myo, and also, a larger amount of individuals receiving vaccinations, and, at younger ages.
In this case it is secondary sale between current investor and a new one.

Even from a fundamentalz perspective they are doing really well. They control more than 50% launch market, just won a 3 billion dollar NASA contract, have huge cost advantage over everyone else, their starlink service is in beta with 100,000 already generating in 120 million revenue. This is not even including any future potential of starship etc.

By any standards they are worth a good amount
It appears that user Micropsia is claiming to be Ashley, in this thread. Judging by their past post history, it appears in the past they have participated in discussions about Ashley while pretending to be someone else, using the word "she" when referring to themselves.

https://imgur.com/5bxtTDR.png
Several reasons: 1) it's the ultimate codifier of the 3D platformer genre, 2) it pioneered the idea of a "camera" in third-person 3D games, 3) it was a cultural touchstone in its own day, and is still reaping the benefits of nostalgia, 4) like every physics-based third-person 3D game it has both a high skill ceiling and a bevy of exploitable bugs, making it excellent for speedruns (which are the primary means by which classic games remain in the limelight these days), 5) because of the prior point as well as its cultural impact it was a centralizing influence on the nascent speedrunning community in the mid-2000s, giving it outsized cultural importance in that context as well, 6) it's a Mario game, which remains a relevant brand to this day, 7) it's a pretty decent game (although, naturally, in many aspects it will compare unfavorably to its descendants).
So now you need to define independent, and that definition is made by lawmakers, who are politicians. So news now comes under direct political control. Lovely.
Those local regulations may not be using the best recommendations, either. There’s been plenty of cases of locales not using the best guidance.

My point remains.
I went from perfect system health, progressively ... it got so bad ... decline happened ... I finally gave up had to do a complete fresh PC install to fix

Sounds like every Windows since 3.1. Instead of telemetry I wish they'd focus on making an OS that stays robust and performant indefinitely.
Windows 95 absolutely had protected memory: Every 32-bit process had its own address space without direct access to any other process’ memory.
Great detective work! But wait, the scrollbar is parallel to the edge of the screen. Hmm, did you somehow think that edge of the blacked out portion is the edge of the screen?
It's all manipulated...there is no reason for an oil or gas "crisis". Same as the artificially created port crisis in California...or the so-called chip "shortage"...part of the plan to CREATE shortages, in order to CREATE crises, raise prices and CREATE a reason for govt overreach and takeover. Australia decided not to wait, openly punishing its citizens for no reason...

Openvaers.com
The United States had a formal treaty obligation to defend Taiwan... that expired in 1980.

But such a pact may soon be realized once more.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/reborn-us-taiwan-military-al...
Oscar Vermeulen (who created the PiDP-8 and PiDP-11 kits) is, or at least was, creating a PiDP-10 prototype last year. I think he posts in HN on occasion.

https://obsolescenceguaranteed.blogspot.com/2020/02/inevitab...
Super Mario 64 was a legendary game that basically set the standard for 3D platforming and took a gaming icon from 2D into the 3D realm.

It's also a very straightforward game with few "tricks" to get the most speed out of the hardware. (Matter of fact, it's suboptimal in some ways devs have improved on.) Meaning that decompiling it yields reasonable high-level code. Unlike NES or SNES games, all the graphics stuff was made via draw calls into an API in the console's ROM -- not by manipulating graphics hardware registers directly. So reimplementing that graphics API in terms of, say, OpenGL or Direct3D, automatically yields you high-performance native graphics without having to emulate a hardware part.

So it really is an ideal game for this kind of work in multiple respects: it's familiar, has cross-generational appeal, easy to get high-level code for, and easy to make changes to.
Your English is very good. You should comment more!
Not really, I was more interested in hacking than coursework, so that's what I did. But I dropped back in some years later when the Media Lab started up, finished up my BS and got a couple of grad degrees.