skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So 'superstition' is defined as non-doctrinal belief. That would make it impossible for Catholicism to be superstitious by definition.

I guess I see what you mean by a religion of Roman lawyers...

To the Aztecs, presumably, there was nothing superstitious about using obsidian mirrors as a shield against evil sprits, either.
> I'm not a mobile developer, but it would be interesting if iOS provided a service that allowed data to never leave the phone

I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean the app wouldn't be allowed to send any data over the network? As soon as the app can send any data, it's trivial to hide in there whatever the app wants to send home.
To me the much bigger problem is this idea of putting inside people on the certification boards, saying the results are laced with fraud and flipping the election to the state legislators. How do you fix that?
If the renunciation fee weren’t $2k, you might have a point. But it is extremely expensive to renounce, and that by itself completely invalidates your implied point that there is some underlying reason for the cruelty.
No, but it's infinitely more useful. All of those SAP that has 4 lines of HTML when View Source is used, but the Inspector shows exactly what elements are currently in the DOM that have been loaded by JS. Of course, you're aware of that just like I'm aware of the difference in tools.
f:WallStreet Bets

*your post wins the commentary for this entire thread.
I don't believe in any particular god but I do think that the universe and our experience is ultimately unexplainable. So science can never have these answers therefore I am open to theistic arguments but ultimately even these arguments are unsatisfying because it just moves the level of unexplainability up one more level... who created god?
> If you think about it, the universe is conscious, because our conscious minds are part of it

This seems like quite a leap. Parts of the earth are conscious, so is the earth conscious? Parts of the universe are alive, so is the universe alive? Every member of my family is conscious*, but I wouldn't say that "my family" is conscious.

*Solipsism notwithstanding
Fedora, Arch. You can basically look for any popular distro, they're all working very well if you're not entirely out of your depth wrt Linux
What's bonkers is that _your own data_ was also accessible. Who's to say other users didn't get that data and choose to not report and kept the data?

Your own outrage to your data being exposed would have been perfectly reasonable.
Unfortunately, Sunday voting could be seen as disenfranchising religious communities that treat Sundays as a Sabbath / day of rest.
openSuSE Leap is nice if you don't have anything against rpms. Upgrades just work and the distribution has an 18 month support window. The packages are pretty polished too. We're currently using that and Debian and also Ubuntu 18 on the developer workstations, which we'll switch to Debian 11.
- About 90% of the (GUI) software ever developed? I'm happy to hear that there are quality Linux alternatives nowadays, but there's just many order of magnitudes more choice on Windows (and far less, but still more on Mac). For a lot of categories, this might change in the next decade (Electron and other cross-platform frameworks, tech like Proton) but for things like media editing or even image viewers, or until there is some tech to seamlessly emulate, this won't be a fight.

- Trivial app portability - I absolutely love the concept of portable Windows software. Have a single folder with configuration and binaries, that can run for sure anywhere (give or take a .Net/VisualC install) - and you can achieve this for 90%+ of all available apps. With a some sync tool it's simple to have the same (as in reproducible/copiable) work environment on many machines (in the context of ad-hoc gui user applications). I know this concept isn't really transferable to Linux (separated locations per app, "just build from source") and there are attempts (Snap) but due to the fractured scene and #1 it's not that practical for end-users.

- Hardware compatibility - cool that you didn't have device issues, but this could be because you just don't use non-mainstream hardware. Even when I did, a lot of special functionality was bound to (Mac/Win) drivers. Sure, not Ubuntu's fault, but still.

I think Ubuntu/Linux success stories are infinitely subjective - what you need as an end-user, how much time or patience you have, or how much you value privacy/lack of telemetry/security.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen executives do something to prevent “decreased morale” that hasn’t immediately resulted in morale falling right off a cliff.
Check how many vulnerable packages they have against their stable release across all packages and how long until they’re fixed. It’s an eye opener.
UpCodes is hiring our first recruiter to help automate compliance for architects
From their S-1:

> We do not have an adequate history with our subscription or pricing models to accurately predict the long-term rate of customer subscription renewals or adoption, or the impact these renewals and adoption will have on our revenues or operating results.

For context, GitLab recently axed their lowest priced plan and grandfathered in existing users at cheaper rates for the next year. Their retention rate may drop once discounts run out and the new pricing kicks in.

As to the parent's comment about "The Homer" and non-core features being bad, I'd point to their CI autoscaling solution as an example of being underdeveloped, over-marketed, and suffering from technical debt. Their autoscaler uses docker machine behind-the-scenes, which hooks into various cloud providers to abstract away the act of spinning up new VMs. It works reasonably well, but Docker has archived the repository and no longer supports the software. GitLab forked the repository and maintains it for critical fixes, but is not willing to develop or accept new features. It has been known to break against new versions of Docker, does not handle concurrency very well in new environments, and does not allow [1] executing multiple concurrent jobs within spun up VMs, despite marketing that it can [2].

While the autoscaler does work, it's limitations and quirks reduces it's utility and cost-savings significantly within smaller organizations. The technical debt leaves me doubting any improvements will come within the next few years as they try to architect a new solution to replace the existing one.

I have no idea how GitLab compares in other areas, but within CI autoscaling it seems they're stuck with a cliff to climb down before they can move forward again.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/2787#no...

[2]: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/11/23/autoscale-ci-runner...
For a five minute walk? With having to start and park the car, you might not even make it faster.
The quotes were my attempt at summarizing their abstract, what they actually wrote was:

> The lack of negative impact on voter turnout cannot be attributed to voters’ reaction against the laws, measured by campaign contributions and self-reported political engagement. However, the likelihood that nonwhite voters were contacted by a campaign increases by 4.7 percentage points, suggesting that parties’ mobilization might have offset modest effects of the laws on the participation of ethnic minorities. Finally, strict ID requirements have no effect on fraud, actual or perceived. Overall, our findings suggest that efforts to improve elections may be better directed at other reforms.

Which is completely different from their title.
that's not what the person I responded to implied. they specifically called out the keynote
I hope the open sides will be closed up because those are going to be grime collectors if exposed to the weather. I'd expect them to be full of crap before the first month of use is out.

Edit: apparently they are.
It’s great to see continued work on Nvidia GPU virtualization. A few years ago it was a monsterous challenge.
What’s odd about the title of the paper is the conclusion reached by the authors: voter ID laws are a waste of time and resources.
> It’s the “voter turnout reduction of ID laws”

That should be interpreted as "voter turnout reduction due to ID laws," or perhaps "voter turnout reduction as a result of the implementation of ID laws."
Rails/Ruby performance has improved:

https://medium.com/retention-science/ruby-is-still-a-diamond...

Alhough, compiling Javascript to binary makes code even faster https://nectar.js.org , although I wish that project would get more love with bugfixes https://github.com/NectarJS/nectarjs/issues
Welcome to the club. The tipping point for me was the politization of Covid.
>"As a registered voter I show up to the polling place, give them my name, and sign a book with my address at the time of registration. That's it."

This seems awfully not-secure.
This depends on the glibc version, but sure, that's a valid difference between the two.

edit: and oddly if you only go with this definition, that is Windows with WSL also a Linux OS? I'm guessing most people wouldn't say yes...
Do you plan to support self-hosted Postgres ?
Because the alternatives are pretty bad (although a middle ground should be possible, like some countries cancel your citizenship automatically when you acquire another):
- Being stateless makes it virtually impossible to travel
- Most countries are hesistant to grant citizenship to visitors

I see very little reason as to why rootlessness has been made really hard in our current global system. I am not sure in whose interest it is that this cosmopolitanism has been made so bureaucratic.
I think we've gotten better at describing moral panic as tribal fighting these days. (Moral panic infers that it's a shared sense of mortality)

There should be better technology out there to allow for different group standards without having to conflict with each other. (Also while allowing for communication and visiblity for ideas)

I know that's a hard problem.. but it goes beyond just engagement.
Well in this case I'm knocking on your door and you're opening the door saying "Come right on in!"

Requesting access (ie knocking on a door/typing a url) is not illegal. If you grant that request (ie invite me in/serving a webpage), I am under no obligation to psychically infer that you didn't mean to and refuse your invitation.
You want me to build what what in the butt??
Facial recognition and cameras used by police raise questions of accountability
> We also do not let counters out of the room until everything has been counted...

"Under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, the cut-off for receipt of mailed postal votes is 13 days after election day." - https://www.aec.gov.au/media/media-releases/2019/05-17b.htm

That sounds like an unpleasant experience for the counters.

(The same happens in the States. Provisional ballots. Mail-ins. Ballots that wouldn't feed properly and need hand examination.)
I let a company know that the url for their receipts (including name, address etc) was simply an md5 of the order number. They graciously offered 15% off on my next order as a thank you.
One side doesn’t want a larger number of voters voting, at least historically.
One of our lead developers used it at the height of cloud hype. You could always tell which pages of our internal wiki he had edited recently. Amusing at first, but I got tired of it much faster than he did.
Clever Halloween Hack Uses Sound Waves to Simulate a Spooky Doodling Ghost
The rise of bull***t jobs [video]
> If you think about it, the universe is conscious, because our conscious minds are part of it

Hell of a leap. I subscribe to the notion the consciousness is a illusion via chemical whatever and the universe doesn't give a damn anyway.
It's not the point. Of course they built stupidly insecure system, and of course sending people to jail for finding out such holes is wrong, but on the other hand ethical person should stop their access to personal data which they are not supposed to see after confirming that vulnerability exists and not make copies of said data.
In absolute terms, it's a subset of a rare event.
I drive a compact PHEV and there is literally no place to even put a spare, but that may be more because it's a PHEV and so it has to make room for both batteries and engine. I know most compact EVs don't come with spares and many don't even have a well to store one in.
>For one thing, it manages to create a profound metaphysical intimacy with God without denying His transcendence.

this kind of thinking which I often see when people express pantheistic views is exactly what turns me away from it. It's just as much of an anthropomorphization as the article accuses traditional conceptions of God of.

I guess you can think that the universe is in some vague sense conscious, although I don't think the arguments for that are great either, but to jump from this to thinking one can experience 'intimacy' with it (and explicitly not "him") is I think already making mistakes. One can experience intimacy while being in nature but not 'with nature', Intimacy is a human emotion, 'nature' does not empathize back.

To me pantheism just seems like a misapplied psychological need. People have a (understandable) revulsion against seeing the universe as mechanic, or random, or 'cold' or what have you, and pantheism not unlike Gaia type theories are comforting.
> no it isn't. It's the natural outcome of shitty people being elected.

Okay, well it's the outcome of literally every government of non-trivial size and duration.
No. Your parent is correct in the main, and you're a bit off-topic with your comparisons to other countries. Election security is a function of multiple processes and protocols that work together. The fact that one country does X does not mean that X must be done elsewhere.

In the U.S., it is true that the push for voter ID laws as a supposed fraud prevention measure has been the formulation of one modern political party, as are claims of widespread fraud in general. These claims have been refuted ad nauseum by election experts for years, yet they are still used by that party as justification for voter ID and a raft of other measures that consistently have uneven impacts on specific groups.

What's most recently changed is that, while these false claims were used to preemptively disenfranchise select voters pre-election, they are now being used by the loser in efforts to delegitimize the actual election results.

The effect of this has been for that same political party to now introduce yet more measures in the state legislatures they control. And, in some cases, they have wrested control away from state secretaries, allocating it to themselves.

All of this is on the back of false claims.
> Not true. Someone could take an image that I've created, stick it on a server, create an NFT with a URL pointing at it, then sell it. Likewise, others, including me, could then create an NFT with a URL that points at that piece of data. The original creator (me in this situation) wouldn't have created the 'original' NFT.

Right, just like how you can make a deed that says you own 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

>NFTs don't solve counterfeiting when anybody can create a 'counterfeit' at any time.

never claimed it did, only that NFTs can potentially provide a better way to assign/transfer copyrights than the current system of paper contracts.
Also posted to linkedin, not yet corrected

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/software-development-engi...
Sure, but for bitcoin it's also a trust that the money supply mechanism is very hard to change.

It is possible to do so (by votes of user nodes), but it's not in the interest of the users.
PopOS. Ubuntu with better power management and a tilling WM.
Which makes a good case for rolling release distros. Not that Sid is released but things tend to get fixed upstream quickly and there’s less lag than both testing and stable.

The flip side is stuff breaks more regularly of course.
These being around forever, but not being released, I wonder how much of why this is happening now is because they're finally coming off patent?
have a backup and skip the do-release-upgrade script, edit /etc/apt/sources.list directly for newer repos, outcomment anything 3rdparty (in sources.list.d/ too) and update+upgrade+dist-upgrade your system into the future, did it this way for years.. it's almost a rolling rhino
I’ve been really happy with Mint. It’s based on Ubuntu internally, but it feels light and fast.
Ah, that makes sense.

SIGGRAPH is a great resource. http://www.siggraph.org/ They're super nerdy too. I used to go to the conference when I could, before the pandemic.

Cinefx is a classic print magazine: https://cinefex.com/ A bit light on technique, but goes into a little depth about huge productions.

search for "visual effects magazine" and you'll find tons.

On reddit there is:

/r/simulated - people post simulations they’ve made or seen (that vary kind of wildly in quality)

/r/cinematography - not exactly vfx but closely related and there is occasional discussion of vfx

/r/computergraphics - good for innovations in computer graphics for more technical vfx artists

/r/Houdini - decent if you’re a houdini user

/r/vfx - general vfx discussion ranging from tutorials people post to examples people like in film

Then there's always the 3rd party forums for any particular software. Those are pretty easy to find and explore.

Enjoy!
I wish I new how much they invested to get it approved?
A high consumption, high travel lifestyle is bad for the environment wherever you are.

Living in a remote environment limits your income. (Or used to, anyway. I guess we'll see in five or ten years.) Nearly everyone's spending closely follows their income.
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Also don't you need to change the traditional car suspension system (McPherson struts, wishbones, shock absorbers etc ... ) to even use these tyres ???.
There's a difference in macro being 1:1 ratio (as understood in photography) vs having an AI do something to make something small look big in the image. So if their lenses are not delivering 1:1 but use some sort of algo, then it's misleading.
More about the language and demos:

https://easylang.online/apps/
Here's a fork that fixes that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cloud-to-butt-redu...
“Jury duty” for ballot counting and election certification?
Totally missed that on first reading, thank you for pointing it out.
Because you can do a thing does not mean you should do a thing.

If the security system is broken and you do exactly what it should be preventing, then you report it and get upset because they ask questions about you doing exactly what you did?
> You mean all of those houses that need to be tear down as they deteriorated to the point of ruin?

People got paid to put them up, and people were paid to tear them down. At least some people were able to put food on the table because of that activity, even it was kind of wasteful.

> China has so such vast reserves of dollars that they can crash US $ value and cause international panic. Meaning that at any stage you $ saving have chance to be worth nothing.

Do they have more than what is present in the US itself? More than the EU? Japan?

Even if USD ends up dropping in value relative to other currencies, it will help US exports, where the US is second-highest:

* https://www.statista.com/statistics/264623/leading-export-co...

> The BTCs do have value and its a cryptographic promise that cannot be broken.

BTC is just as imaginary as anything else of "value" for humans except for air/oxygen, shelter, water, and food. Regardless of what is called "money" is is a figment of the human imagination: sometimes more useful, sometimes less.

At least with dollars I can buy a hamburger, pay my taxes, etc.
There's a fascinating talk from about eleven years ago: Dr. Gwynne Dyer – Geopolitics in a Hotter World – UBC Talk Transcribed (Sept. 2010) https://spaswell.wordpress.com/2016/11/18/dr-gwynne-dyer-geo... video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc_4Z1oiXhY

Among other things he talks about is the possibility of unilateral geoengineering by some of the nations that will be feeling the effects sooner and more, uh, compellingly than others:

> I talked–actually, the head of the Bangladesh Institute of Strategic
Studies about this (you didn’t even know that existed, did you?). Well,
there is one, it’s quite serious–run by a General, bright guy. I said,
“have you heard about geoengineering?” and he smiled–seraphically–and he
said, “Mmm. Yes. Your question?”

> And I asked the question, “Do you think that this is something the
Bangladesh government might want to do a little bit, before, let’s say,
the US government or the Chinese government?”

> He said, “yes it has crossed our minds.”–and then he stopped talking.
On account of CentOS, in "standard" Linux form, being dead.

I don't want to run CentOS Stream.
> Because servers don't decide anything.

If there was no decision, much less one based on materially false information, there can be no charge related to false pretenses. Your argument against decisionmaking is an argument against your claim of false pretenses.

> If a computer system erroneously prints an extra 0 on a check mailed out to you that doesn't mean you get to keep the money because the computer isn't the entity that decides how much money you're owed.

That's neither entirely true nor at all relevant to your false pretenses claim.
The data was send to my browser. The more fitting analogy to me is that I get a letter and a huge pile of documents in a giant binder. Some of the documents are referenced in the letter. Now the sender gets upset because I started looking at the documents in the binder that weren't referenced in their cover letter.
Right, there are retirement/pension investments for Dutch/EU nationals which she is not eligible for because of her status as a US person (in the eyes of the SEC).

So, long story short, she's ineligible for investing as a US national unless she jumps through hoops to maintain a US address and appears to reside in the US. Meanwhile, she's ineligible for investing as a Dutch national because EU brokers won't deal with US nationals. Limbo.
your sarcasm – our oboros
I remember using lots of T classes back in the early 90s when I was building software using Turbo Vision, a text user-interface framework bundled with Borland C++ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision)
I had mandatory drawing classes.
Engineering Management 101 – Trust
This looks pretty comprehensive and saves me from writing an article I’ve had in the back of my mind for a while.

One core concept: Forget about “DPI” unless you’re printing or engineering monitors. You, designer, can’t decide how many pixels go in an inch. “72DPI” is a lie.