skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems inevitable for all nations. In the end I expect everyone will get infected at some point. I wonder if the best strategy was always to let everyone, but especially the young and healthy, go about their lives. Those under 50 who are healthy have almost no risk of death and their subsequent immunity would help flatten the curve for others anyhow.
There are many left and far-left forums out there too, though yeah they aren't billed as "free speech" clones. Lemmy [1] is an explicitly leftist friendly type of forum and Tildes [2] while not explicitly leftist is in practice very leftist. There are as many communities out there as there are strands to human thought I imagine.

[1]: https://lemmy.ml/

[2]: https://tildes.net/
There is a big problem with your first sentence, possibly semantic. You said: "I think legalization is the only real solution..." Legalization alone is NOT a solution, and it WILL result in increased rates of abuse, addiction, death, and human misery if other changes are not implemented concurrently with legalization.

I understand why people want to focus on legalization of drugs. It's a simple idea, with precedent in th US and many other countries, and it doesn't require expanding goverment spending or power. But it's just too simplistic to be useful. We cannot limit the harms caused by addictive behavior with pure Libertarian self-interest, because addiction IS a self-interested response to larger problems that the addict lacks the capability to handle, emotionally.

If we want to truly reduce the addiction, death, and suffering, we need to develop real, effective social services that help families and individuals on many, many levels. We need to plug the gaps in our children's emotional upbringings, which means permanently repairing the jagged indifference of our society that inflicts so much harm, in the first place.

In short, we need to let go of our fear of collective social welfare programs, and start truly giving a shit about each other.
I was going to offer a garbled paraphrase of that: thanks for finding the real thing.
That's pretty ridiculous on its face. It was impossible for the communist bloc to outproduce the rest of the world by its size alone.

Without being able to outproduce rivals, all it takes are a few arms races and your economy rots, no matter the system.

The destruction wrought by "any kind of communist policy" still led to outcomes that were above the global average. Yes, they eventually lost, but they were very much in the same order of magnitude as the rest of the world, and were slowly catching up until political factors caused destruction, which was arguably the greatest weakness from a competitive point of view.

Economic policies that are immediately devastating don't cause 60 years of frenetic existential anxiety. If communism was as obviously devastating economically, the USA wouldn't have spent so much time worrying about losing its economic dominance.

As far as attributing deindustrialization to social democratic, all I can say is that this is laughable. Exporting your capital to countries where the wage share will be lower is the cause of deindustrialization, and it's simple economics. You need government policy in the form of direct or indirect capital controls to prevent that from happening.
Add something like this to your /etc/fstab. Will save a few touches to the SD card and enhance system security a little. My last SD went for 3+ years on a decently busy little Pi.

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tmpfs /tmp tmpfs ddefaults,nodev,nosuid,noexec,noatime,mode=1777 0 0

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tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults,noexec,nodev,nosuid 0 0
"Conservatives"

>Ruqqus failed - and all similar projects will continue to fail - because the userbase is spectacularly, impossible-to-satirize levels of unintelligent. They have no interests whatsoever besides anonymous, impotent rage at demographics they want to blame for their failure to amount to anything. They have no personality. They have no value as people, individually or collectively, socially or politically or economically. They have no future. Their only purpose is as a cautionary tale.
That's not a problem. If they believe the original mission is not relevant, then, dissolve and form a new entity that espouses their new-found points of view.

'We do longer believe in our founding principles, therefore we will dissolve and form a new entity and will evangelize according to this new set of principles, if you agree, come and join us. Those who believe in our old principles are free to re-form around the cause'.

Imagine a non-profit that believes in abolishing the death penalty. It has a change of heart at the top and decides it's for the death penalty. I think this deserves dissolution and forming a new non-profit or PAC, whatever.
That Forbes post is by a contributor, which is just a blogger, not an actual Forbes employee. Forbes didn’t cover anything here.
Gab, Parler and 4chan are still up, just so you know.

The forever mission to stop them is still incomplete. It is only going to get harder as they keep on being resilient and censorship resistant.

Done by none other than the ones who love chasing so-called 'nazis' for a living.
It'd be interesting if there were any country wide experiments that are similar to the approach that has been taken with tobacco. Basically legalize it for those over 18, slap it silly with warning labels and then tax the heck out it to make it prohibitively expensive. And raise the tax every year. And then fund ad campaigns and social media campaigns which make it generally look dumb and unfashionable as well as treatments.

But perhaps the addictive qualities and treatment is much greater than tobacco.
I really like this. We try for small PRs as well. Has all of the benefits listed!

What they aren't good at is to show the overall intent of the whole change. I.e. what I've found is that sometimes an individual PR is easy to review and approve because it seems innocuous and totally fine. But in the overall grand scheme of things I'd have "questions". I might even question the overall concept of the whole thing but I don't have the full picture and what seems innocent as a small PR is actually going towards a grand vision I can't support.

I won't deny that I've used the same technique to get otherwise probably more controversially discussed stuff through ;)
* Yes, the new nest do kind of suck from our perspective. Our evolution for Earth is a problem for sure, but humans are resilient - we'd probably adapt fairly well over time (but not without some hurdles)

* My thinking is that even orbital colonies are doable, hollowed out asteroids that are spun up, etc. Lots of ways to do this if the success criteria is self-sustaining but at smaller scale.

* It isn't the depression talking; I've asked myself the same thing. As for depression, if you need someone to chat with hit me up - I've been there and want to help.
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This makes me think that pilots are going the way of cavalry officers. An exclusive club of people with skills that matter less and less. I wonder which activities, in the future, will require the Right Stuff...
It's an impossible problem. Either mom and dad are on Facebook or the kids are. That's why the kids always go to the newest thing: Snapchat and now Tictoc.
You're right, I left some pieces out for brevity. To elaborate, they were not picking up the Tesla from Austin and started for San Antonio straight away. They were vacationing, and as all vacationers do, they went sightseeing, eating out etc. and by the time set off for San Antonio, were not sure if they'll make it, then charging was an issue. Multiple factors combined to convince them that the Tesla is no good when you don't have a plan.
I thought gravity slows down time, so shouldn't time travel slower at the feet than in the head?
Very offensive comment. Insulting and generalizing people and ideology you don't understand.

I am conservative, many issues I find liberals think they have the moral high ground on it's quite the opposite.

Note I use these terms loosely and there is a spectrum of political ideologies that differ between people, even between issues.
> A 1% change in overseas vacation habits has a much larger impact than this hypothetical space program.

Exactly. I'm not sure what motivates many people to push this argument against colonization but it definitely isn't grounded in what they say.
Then I'd really like to see how many of those polled are overweight/obese.
This is basically one of the oldest problems on the Net, spam, back to haunt us. We got complacent, sitting back while Google filtered the junk out of our search results and inboxes. But who watches the watchmen? Now, v1agra ads and Serdar Argic[0] have evolved under our noses into camouflaged and effective predators glutted on endless Eternal September fodder.

Now that the Net has devolved into a political battlefield, how do you draw the line between a censorship regime and a spam filter? Was there ever a difference?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic
"A system called TEMPEST that can tell if part of a computer has been compromised just from its electromagnetic emissions. "

Yeah, hopefully that's some kind of typo or misunderstanding.
this is the case: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J353KH8/ - had to modify it a bit to fit the rockpro at the bottom, use an ethernet extension to connect the cable from the back and a hacky switch to turn it on. But it works now and it's pretty stable.
That's news to me!
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That’s a thing on 13” MBP as well, it happened to me. I needed to use some super antiquated BT USB adapter and provide the digital equivalent of an indigenous rain dance in order to revive it. Apparently Apple was just straight up replacing motherboards because of it but I really didn’t want to be without my machine for a week plus during peak COVID.
Good point. I'm not pro-Musk, just skeptical of BO. I want them to succeed, but I have doubts.
Brain in a Vat
Beginning of the end happened before that because most healthy companies don’t need private equity unless they need a lot of cash for an expansion.

Part of the reason they got in that position is that they were charging to little to make money. It only follows that prices will go up and probably service down as the company stressed customer service in the hopes of attracting better future capital.
I wonder if ForeFlight or something comparable is considering a LoB that offers an API to passenger UAS for filing and wx data stuff. Could be a one stop shop.
Data platform Y42 raises $31M
the camera will have small defects and foriegn objects that we cant see but are very detectable, thus similar to a fingerprint. if you read the wall of legalese regarding permissions there is likely some language that is being interpreted as tacit permission.

this is nothing new, the camera doesnt even need to be on long enough to generate an image just long enough to initialize and reveal its distinctiveness, and yes your right it shouldnt be needed by you, but it[camera] and other sensors are used by many apps and services
In the early days it did - kind of.. Think of Microsoft Encarta and the Encyclopedia Britannica CD.
I would argue that the person who wrote that comment understood it better than anyone on this thread.
Not working for twenty years (in the prime time for earning money) is not "stumbling once".
I thought the observation was always that instruction set was not such a big difference in high performance CPUs next to manufacturing technology which was by far the first order effect. It would be expected for a high performance ARM CPU to reach roughly the same performance in that case (AMD is 1 generation behind here, I think Intel is 2).

Is there really "chipheads" who are predicting ARM ISA to buck this trend and start pulling ahead at equivalent technology nodes? By what mechanism do they believe this will happen, do you know?
> That's why the kids always go to the newest thing: Snapchat and now Tictoc.

Even Tiktok is getting long in the tooth, 4 years old in the International market. I would expect the next hot new thing will launch soon.
I'm not familiar with these alternatives, or if it's true they descend into abhorrent extremism. But the problem with mainstream social media platforms prohibiting content is that it fuels the extremism it's trying to combat. I understand it's their right as private companies yada yada yada. But there's an increasingly narrow space within which to have meaningful conversations. And things are getting bad.

Moderates from both sides are being shunned for not following dogma. It's nice to see intellectuals begin to carve their own spaces in podcasts and substack. We need people willing to engage in thoughtful, nuanced and charitable conversation.
Well... you could create a new user profile, install the apps to that user's profile, give their group access to the folders you want the browser to be able to get to (Downloads folder, whatever), then lock them out of anything else....then run the browser as that user only. aka (sudo -u Bob /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/Firefox )

OS perms should do the rest. I don't know if OSX has a firejail equivalent but that would be nice too.
Winners and losers in the fulfilment of national AI aspirations
> I just go solid opaque bar. Way easier to do and harder to screw up.

There may be graphic design reasons you don't want to do that. A big black redaction bar isn't much of an illustration.
I'm not sure if you're shadow banned or what, but every comment of yours I have encountered has been marked dead. I vouched for this and another one I saw elsewhere in the thread.
> there was a longstanding prediction that the arm architecture would overtake x86.

So now the wheel turns and someone will have to predict how long it takes before RISC-V overtakes ARM.
I am a pilot (for the last decade) and i've sat in self driving cars (multiple companies/types) as they "self-drive". My comment was so short because honestly i am shocked and terrified that someone could be serious about this. As soon as I regroup and get new underwear, i'll write more.
Guns. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/17/guns-...

But the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act[1] specifically excludes gun makers from being liable for their product.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_of_Lawful_Commerce_...
Almost might see intel actually come out with a new process node in the next year. Which is a long time coming.
Then argue it. Why?
I mean, sure, yeah, Stormfront is still up too.

I don't think "remaining up" is the totality of their goals. I think what the writer of the post is getting at is that pursuing this direction leads to no outcomes better than a marginally sustained existence.
I, too, experienced this challenge, specifially with meditation.

What helped me, after learning the basics of breath meditation (and reading Wherever You Go) was committing to "trigger-based" meditation.

I decided that whenever I was...

* annoyed by something, anything. experiencing annoyance.

* waiting for something.

* in a work meeting I didn't need to actively participate in.

... I would, internally, begin a breath meditation, and hold it for as long as I remembered to.

This technique by itself has been life-changing for me, and I can't recommend it enough.

It helped me train my attention-focus, and gradually but quickly improved my experience.
People have said this about every social media app that became major for the past 10 years dude, Snapchat, Insta, TikTok, etc. If anything the batting average for social media companies that "make it" in the public's mind over the past decade is actually pretty good despite the field being heavily advantaged to incumbents by default. Snapchat is arguably the "least cool" on this list today and it still recorded MAUs in the 100 millions. TikTok ain't going anywhere.

More broadly, it turns out that once you are a company with access to billions of dollars, you will utilize that advantage to stay afloat. People still have some idea that if a business is outmanuevered/outgunned by a competitor, they will close down honorably, and that because teens are fickle they'll move on, etc, and this is all super unpredictable and unquantifiable and there's definitely not entire departments (with budgets as large as the GDP of Latin American countries) designed to account for this. You know, like the OP's leaks show Facebook has. Those rules might be true for your little mom and pop business, for your silly little thing. But not for these kinds of companies that can do an arms race for eyeballs to stay afloat, and they do not engage in the same rules as you.

You can rest assured, no matter how much it upsets you, that TikTok will be almost certainly be around longer in its current form than like 95% of the code written by people using this forum today, including your own.
I’m thinking Trump’s new social network will be a very interesting new development.

For a long time those who have wanted not to be censored could always build a competing service.

The new risk now is that people will become more cut off from one another. Having opposing views on the same forum was always a civilizing force.

But now we will see an experiment begin on how segregated echo chambers will effect society.

What happens when people become un-cancellable?

It seems inevitable we will see right leaning equivalents of all the tech platforms.

Funny though that everything hinges on the advertisers, whose risk-averseness appears to be the most effective moderating influence on society we have.

Whether a free speech platform can find a sustainable business model is a big unknown.
how is it going? do you have a lot of subscribers? any of them landed a job?
Why should strangers pay so your family can receive an inheritance? That's basically paying you because your parents were wealthy.
About 3-4 months in total: took 1.5 month to run a simple Hello World program, 1 month to implement bunch of system calls, and another 1 month to implement features essential to run Dropbear SSH server (tty/pry, bug fixes, …).
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Oh? Could you provide some references for this? Also, what researchers would you recommend instead?
Everyone who did all that human factors research at NASA back before glass cockpits were perfected must just see the picture of the two iPads and weep.
You called them conservatives, not me.

I posted an excerpt from the linked post. That's what a Ruqqus admin said about the people on his site. I don't think they're conservatives at all, they're just very sad angry people.
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I do that kind of quick spreadsheeting on the Apple Numbers app. I can’t say it’s particularly pleasant to use. There’s definitely a need for reimagining the spreadsheet UI for mobile spreadsheeting.
> I come into this game with the mindset that I don’t care how long it takes me to build this product, but if I have a clean slate, how would I build this product?

This is a fun way to think. I don't have a sense for whether or not it's the _right_ way to build a business / be successful / etc. But as an engineer, it's fun to imagine and if they raised the money to attack the problem that way, good for them.

Building data pipelines takes a lot of work and involves a lot of pieces, so it's a worthy problem. As the article states, there is a lot of competition, not just in the individual pieces like dbt and Fivetran, but from similar-minded orchestrators like Mozart Data and others.
Selfbook raises $25M at a $125M valuation to simplify hotel booking experience
Roundup of Bootstrappers Breakfast Events in November 2021
Ok, I understand. That is a regression. The UI piece as a whole is still superior in my opinion, wrt UX at least, even if this is a regression in functionality
Also interesting:

Not everyone has an internal monologue (ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com)

1225 points by altacc on Jan 30, 2020 | 886 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22193451
The ones where you have to blame someone if something goes wrong.
I just forward 51820 UDP on my router once, and use Wireguard. It always works.
TFA mentions that a real pilot was needed for ATC comms and airspaces. As any actual pilot will tell you, actually manipulating controls (what this company claims to simplify) is 2% of the job, at most. In fact, as you learn to fly, at just 10 hours of training you'll be allowed to solo fly (only near the airport and only alone). The hard part is emergency handling, airspaces, comms, weather, and planning. This company does none of that.
Some of these images look incredibly real. Even knowing those are renders my brain refuses to believe these are not actual photographs.

Also, these Xeons are really put to shame here.
I thought you were quoting because you agreed with it, you didn't explain why.

It's an offensive statement, no matter who said it, it's a sweeping generalization.

There are plenty of intelligent conservatives, and either way, they want a community.
seriously, why is spotlight still so bad at finding files?
A human assistant would have endless trouble with that “plan a trip to Dallas” request. When/why? For how long? What kind of accommodation? Your preferences may vary a lot depending on the purpose of the trip, budget, and so on. It’s a pipe dream.

On not having files, you may not remember that iOS did go that route until ~2018, and it was terrible. Tying documents to a single app, proprietary formats and awkward sharing facilities made for a very poor experience. I’m glad they returned to sanity and introduced the Files app.

As others have mentioned, a lot of these concepts predate modern OSes and are tied to universal HCI principles. Some of the best work in the area was done in the 60s.
For one, it would at least solve the issue of MacOS' coreutils being perpetually outdated. Secondly, it would be a nice way for developers to skip the burning dumpster fire otherwise known as the App Store when distributing basic apps, without having to download untrusted third-party software.

As for specific features, I'd really like to see a list of all the different MacOS components so I can remove the things I don't care about (iMessages, Photos, Facetime, etc.) like I can do on all my Linux boxes. It would be nice to have integration with MacOS' various distribution formats too, and while we're asking I'd love to see a declarative approach like NixOS, that would really put MacOS head-and-shoulders above your average Linux distro.
I always wondered why Apple was pushing so much functionality into the iPhone that almost all users really didn't need. I was thinking it would get them ready for coming AR glasses and whatnot, but it was also preparing them to win on the Mac side as well.
I don't think 802.11b was that bad. 128kbps mp3 streaming was considered "high quality" back then, so average quality streams were within realms of bare UMTS 3G(384k down) as well as some wireless Ethernet standards at that time, 11b included.
Agree to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28995247

The shutdowns will happen so long as 1) there's not enough market share for the competing product (presumably from the network effects) and 2) there's market suppression from the current players. In other words: as long as there is a competing first-landing player and that player is actively working against any newcomers will there be a change? Probably not. To put this into a historical context: Standard Oil was notoriously gobbling up or destroying small players as a very successful attempt to own the market. This is no different.