skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP, but IMHO, the danger comes from the algorithms which lead to "engaging" content being pushed aggressively to everyone. "Engaging" can mean cat videos or "incredible looking food", but it means divisive, partisan, insincere and outright dangerous more often than not.

Inasmuch as a "social network" is just people signing up to talk about certain topics and that's it, I don't have a problem with it. Internet forums of the 2000s weren't a problem necessarily. And while HN does have some "virality" mechanisms built in due to upvoting and while it is sometimes a "problem" on very divisive topics, it's not nearly on the scale of Facebook, Twitter and Co.

So if it were up to me, Twitter, Facebook, Tiktok etc. should either disappear or they should at least have to revise their algorithms and open them up to public scrutiny. Or, you know, if they went back to their original purpose of just being about connecting with friends and family. But I guess you can't make money out of that.
Nor do you have to support an ally you agree with a majority of the time if they get some big things wrong.
2021 and developers are still responding to support issues with "works on my machine!"
Anomaly announces $17M in funding to tackle a $300B healthcare problem
While I agree that it's a sticky problem, I think we can find a middle ground between "email mailing list" and "site dedicated to maximizing engagement by both encouraging the spread of rage baiting misinformation and deliberately maximizing the number of people who see it".
Do you use «one database per user» model or «all users data in one db» model?
No, it wasn't. Yahoo had offline messages. So did many of its other protocols.
I think you’re basically describing ZipCar! The people I know who use it seem to like it a lot.
Two decades ago I used trillian and mirianda for all the popular messaging protocols,

https://trillian.im/
https://www.miranda-ng.org/en/
Compared to similar non religious events like purging of wrong think (religious belief and other) under any USSR or Pol Pot and probably a few others it just doesn't compare.

It is mostly a good story because it is both true and also paints some of the mainstream western ideas, and Christianity in particular, in a bad light.
DOS is the perfect place for “Dune”. The 30yo game, that is.
The surprisingly competitive world of Engineering Productivity tooling
What is the advantages of using one of these client side databases vs using indexeddb directly?
Cloud Firestore Best Practices
"despite"... How exactly is a PR push that began last week supposed to effect the last 3 months?

Facebook's evils are what they are but having the glittering machinery of the propaganda empire so nakedly displayed is becoming farcical. Let's just have mandatory "two minute Hate" sessions already and save all the intermediate fuss and bother.
Uranium has no stable isotopes, although natural isotopes have a half life of billions of years.
Per the article, it can't use more than about 250GB/s for the CPU, though, so it probably isn't an unreasonable comparison.
Thanks for the detailed answers! As for location, how/why did you end up at St. Joseph Island?
I understand that, that's why I expressed that I don't like them expressing it as something the "tech community" wants...
One of the criticisms leveled is Toxic Fandom.
I feel sorry for all those who shorted the stock till.....

And that's the mystery. The stock continues to defy gravity and many short sellers have been burnt to day. They might be proved correct at some point. The difficulty is figuring out when.
I'm not sure what you mean by "those people", but the actual cutoff where you start having problems with people being extremely bored comes well before you hit one in a million; it's closer to one in a thousand, in my experience.

Which means that the NYC public schools (the subject of this conversation, recall) have ~1000 kids like that right now.

Now their various "gifted" programs do take more kids than that; the bar for such things is often at the 95th percentile, not the 99.9th.
Not without giving up some of that "central". Yours would be an "eventually central" subsidy system.
We should coin this the "hive mind fallacy". Though there probably already exists a name for this.
The impact of speech is still not the same as that of sticks and stones, and guns, knives, or fists must still be wielded by people, not Youtube videos.

That somewhat sidesteps the fact that it's speech that can get people riled up enough to invite violence. Acknowledging this fact is not advocacy for censorship. It's recognizing that there are plenty of things short of "yelling 'fire' in a crowded theatre" that can be the cause of quite a bit of harm, and we should try to avoid and discourage that.

How we go about that task is another matter. I don't like or want censorship, and similar to Muffet I don't see a whole lot of options on the table. But we certainly can't blind ourselves on the issue by not acknowledging that plenty of awful things are enabled & possible because of speech.

Otherwise his sentiment amounts to "guns don't kill people, people kill people". Which is trivially true while ignoring the significant role that both have in an act of violence. Not much different than saying "guns don't kill people, bullets kill people." It's all a single system and there are multiple essential components.
What I like about this is the 40 page limit. He actually considers it a kind of feature, and this arbitrary limit has contributed to his works.

One would think that if 40 pages comes to full, the writer would just find a way to extend it, but instead he didn't bother and shortened instead.
Yes, Mozarabs were allowed to stay but many of them fled to the northern christian kingdoms

> In 1126, a great number of Mozarabs were expelled to North Africa by the Almoravids. Other Mozarabs fled to Northern Iberia. This constituted the end of the Mozarabic culture in Al-Andalus. For a while, both in North Africa and in Northern Iberia, the Mozarabs managed to maintain their own separate cultural identity.

That's why there are several churches with mozarabic style in the north[1], for example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozarabic_art_and_architecture
> Instinctively, I feel like 64GB is enough for power-users, but not in fact, the digital artists who have primarily been the "Pro" level customers of Apple.

I'd assume the Mac Pro will have _significantly_ more RAM. Artists who need >64GB were _never_ particularly well-served by the MacBook Pro (or just about any other laptop).
> I'm using the marble in my DIY random number generator, based on a Geiger tube and an Arduino board.

This is so nerdish, I love it!
MIT requires it of everyone, but Economics fulfills the requirement (and it’s a popular route, since you get a bit of basic algebra homework instead of paper writing).
He's anticipating the objection re Snowden. You have to be angry about the fact that the information he released makes the govt look bad, and not just the fact of improper process, a la Clinton. Therefore, the treatment of whistleblowers really does depend on who's hand they're strengthening -- the govt or someone else's -- and not a generalized respect for the truth.
She isn’t just a neutral presenter of data, she is a spokesperson and advocate. She is positioning herself to be a decision maker, or help decision makers.
Exactly. OP clearly has an agenda (though all over the map in their comments). Clinton has no relation to this whatsoever. Maybe too much consuming of right wing media.
$500 is a lot of money for most people, but there's definitely a market out there (especially if they give you a unique color so all your friends can see what a good person you are).

Issues of spinning up a new production line aside, I don't think the large mobile phone manufacturers would go for this idea, because it would mean admitting that the majority of their products are produced unethically.
Either I'm not understanding something that I thought I understood very well, or TFA's author's don't understand something that they think they understand very well.

Their code is unsafe even on x86. You cannot write a single-writer, single-reader FIFO on modern processors without the use of memory barriers.

Their attempt to use "volatile" instead of memory barriers is not appropriate. It could easily cause problems on x86 platforms in just the same way that it could on ARM. "volatile" does not mean what you think it means; if you're using it for anything other than interacting with hardware registers in a device driver, you're almost certainly using it incorrectly.

You must use the correct memory barriers to protect the read/write of what they call "head" and "tail". Without them, the code is just wrong, no matter what the platform.
Pidgin was extremely convenient. But it was commoditizing messaging platforms so of course it had to be shot in the head by them.
pH of 1.5 is more acidic than pH of 2.4. Neutral pH is 7.
Here in the US Midwest I recently observed some crews repairing a fault just upstream of me, and the last thing they did before reconnecting to upstream of that fault was disconnecting a set of yellow cables which were obviously grounding the downstream wires.
Rockport Networks unveils switchless network
Huh? They’re collecting and saving them, at least up to the point of confirming all new user accounts which happens sometime after they scan irises. I might have missed it but I don’t see anywhere in their docs where it says they discard the hashes even after they’ve minted a unique user account for the new user. They need to store the hashes at least until they’ve registered all possible users - how else will they confirm that a new user hasn’t previously registered.
Law makers are required here to solve the situation, as platforms themselves refuse to work with each other. If Facebook and Google had to operate a common protocol (just like IMAP), Pidgin would work much better or wouldn't even be needed.

But no, they want to prevent people from talking with each other via other platforms because "we're best" or whatever.
Worked for me in Safari on macOS. (I'm not sure if that's because of Safari or jwz though)
"Article"? It's a review site. Take your ideological rant elsewhere.
My parents live 15 minutes out of town in North Western Ontario and they end up paying $1000-$2000/month in winter to Hydro One for heating, even though they have a well insulated house. You are pretty much screwed. They know people who got solar and the government promised them a certain rate, and then went back on their word and those people got boned as they could no longer afford their 40k installations over 25 years. I've never heard anything good about Hydro One.
https://www.heinz.cmu.edu/programs/information-security-poli... (less technical, policy focused)

https://www.cmu.edu/ini/academics/msis/index.html (more technical).

In either program you can take classes from any other graduate or undergraduate program at CMU (except music or acting).
No that's not the case, linux and windows both seem to have the basic set of features right.

I think each OS has the part they do right. Windows has the taskbar, Linux has the customization, Mac has spotlight and full screen spaces.

Many of us are forced to use a Mac at work btw.
I'm skeptical that seeing opposite viewpoints expressed by random people on the internet leads to shared understanding or less hatred.

If anything, research seems to indicate that tolerance to opposing viewpoints and revising of stereotypes comes from extended personal contact and having a shared sense of purpose, and that's difficult to achieve on the internet.
Of course. Any such flaws in the Linux kernel or any library used by Android should have been found by now, for example. But the number of ARM processors running developer/server/desktop stacks has been tiny until recently. In my experience, quite a lot of Linux on desktop software fails to even build on non x86_64 machines.
I'm not demonizing it, sure it can help many, but it is not a panacea. In Norway, we have a problem that people in the methadone program ask for more than they need (due to tolerance, you pretty much have to just ask them) and sell the excess to people who don't qualify for the program. In some years there have been more methadone overdoses than heroin overdoses. Even in the legal program there are overdoses.
Thats odd, because I'm facing the same 2-3x markup and I live about 2KM from an active hydro dam.
…that get used by 1/1000 of the users, at most. Purely chronological isn’t a good experience unless you’re a power user who cares enough to manage those things.
"using green power" vs "using coal power" has a similar impact on at least some actions (e.g. mining bitcoin)
Its kind of funny. In our initial training the FAA requires that instructors really drill it into our heads when we using magnetic vs true numbers then as soon as you pass your first check ride you basically never think about it again.

I've been flying since 2013 with almost 500 hours at this point. I could make some educated guesses about where we use true vs magnetic, but aside from runway designations couldn't tell you much for certain.

Its never come up in my flying.
I was considering to watch it this weekend. So you advise against it?
>I do have _some_ competitive advantage from being a tourist here.

You are actually at a disadvantage being in the US.

The H1-B visa process has a very frustrating quirk. Most years, companies apply for H1-Bs in March/April. But the person cannot start working till October. That means there is basically a 5-6 month gap between the H1-B approval and you starting the job. Many years, the quota of H1-B is exhausted quickly and visas ends up being a lottery - so even people who apply for visa lose the lottery and get rejected.

The exception to the above typically happens in a recession, when companies aren't hiring. Then the visas are available the whole year because the quota is not used up, but the jobs are not there.

Most companies don't want to sponsor somebody who cannot start working for 6 months. This ends up favoring people who can already work in the US (e.g. recent BS,MS,PhD graduates with EADs), or people who can work for the company who are outside the US and then come to the US later.

If you were in Europe, a multi-national company could hire you and have you working immediately. Then they could go through the H1-B process while you are working for them whole time until the visa is approved and October comes along.
How do you apply these things without knowing where you are?

True/magnetic deviation is localised. You need to know where you are to know what the localised value is.
> Hopefully these aren't the same people expressing these contradictory points of view.
I'd be curious to know what both side think the ideal social network should look like.

I see social networks (and in many ways the internet as a whole) like a new country we’ve founded. It’s a bit different from countries made out of atoms. For a start, everyone there is a dual citizen with somewhere in meatspace. And instead of community centres we build websites. But it’s a place.

How are those spaces governed? Is it a democracy? No. Each social network is its own mostly benevolent corporate dictatorship. If you don’t like the rules, your only option is banishment.

Healthy communities (in healthy society) need rules to keep bad actors in check. And freedom to explore and be ourselves. Healthy communities in real life use participatory processes to figure out what those rules should be. You need people to feel like they have a voice. It’ll never be perfect. And different rules will make sense for different groups.

Facebook’s problem is they’re trying to be the government, the judiciary and police for billions of people from every country on the planet. There is no single set of rules and policies which will work everywhere. And even if there was, how do you police billions of people? AIs make mistakes.

I don’t know how, but I think FB needs to eat humble pie and find ways for communities to decide on (and enforce) their own social norms somehow. It’d be messy and disjointed, but so are people. Reddit and discord do this - although they’re obviously very different products.

Tyrannies don’t have a strong history of making choices which primarily benefit their citizens. So far, facebook’s track record hasn’t been much better. To improve, they need to acknowledge the position they’re in, learn from history and give some power back to the people who populate their site.
You're asking good 101 questions about rights[0]. I wish more people asked them because it's important to have a clear idea about what rights are and what they are grounded in. The social constructivist view seems to be having its heyday[1], producing all sorts of strange sui generis "rights" untethered from anything real, but there is much to be said about the natural law grounding of natural rights (as opposed to mere legal rights, or even the legal recognition of natural rights) which is then a matter of recognizing them. This is a realist view.

But if you're looking for natural rights you can perceive through your senses (which you have indicated elsewhere in this thread), then you have a bad understanding of reality. You already believe in a number of intangible "things" which you've never perceived...like the notion that things must be perceivable through the senses to be considered real. This is a principle, a false principle, but something that is nonetheless taken by you to be true about reality. Otherwise, what are you even talking about?

[0] But you're also asking a question that's a bit out of context. We are appealing to endoxa and the violations of privacy we are witnessing are unjustified given the general agreement about privacy as a right.

[1] Not to nitpick since the essential question still stands, but since you mentioned the Holy See...

> declares the right to eternal salvation, and mandates that every state submit to the authority of the holy see.

Catholics do not believe they have a right to salvation. Salvation is a gratuitous gift of God, in fact so gratuitous that good works alone cannot deserve it and faith is needed.
Trying to imagine what this would be like. There are so many things we take for granted, have never had to manage without, and build our lives on top of, without thinking about how easily they could just not be there one day.

Food in the supermarket, water, telephone service...

And imagine that they go away and there's nothing you can do about it. No-one to complain to. What do you even do?

Yes, obviously Internet isn't the worst of the set to lose. But it's a way in to thinking about the feeling that something you've utterly relied on can just ... stop.
That is what taxes are for. The government shouldnt be running a profit while providing basic services.
Disagree again, GP's comment was specifically reframing the conversation around an individual's actual ability to respond "rationally" in a real-world situation.
UK Covid: Are cases about to plummet without Plan B?
Adaptive Convolutions for Structure-Aware Style Transfer
The Unicomp Model M continuations are still good, as well.
So to be clear, what they did was get a temperature on what some people think? Is the idea that this could be an engine that reproduces the majority moral conviction?

> Should I refuse to fight in a war if I'm drafted?

> It's cowardly.

> Should I be a conscientious objector?

> It's okay
I’m guessing in-ground heat pumps with their heat exchanger liquid lines below the frost line still work…
This makes sense if your analysis is of bureaucrats and the administrative state. But it doesn't explain why individual, elected representatives wouldn't be unable to express a respect for the release of true-yet-damning information.
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It could be that it is the formula you state "$xx + $yy*kWh", but you're getting variable amounts of power from different generation stations throughout a month that then all have a different x and y value
I asked because the gendermerie in most of the listed countries ( Spain, France, Italy) is nominally a part of the military ( a military branch like the army, navy, etc.) but is run by the respective Ministry of the Interior, and has a different scope. And most of all, they aren't more heavily armed than the regular police ( maybe slightly more than municipal police officers in the places that have them, but in France i can't say there's a difference in day to day armament and etc. - the French Gendermerie have a rapid response team, and some heavier equipment for when required ( snipers, lightly armoured vehicles), unlike municipal police). So i object to the term `militarised police`, because it doesn't represent reality - gendermeries in France, Italy, Spain aren't more military-like than regular police. And the same goes for the gendermeries in Eastern Europe ( including OMON in Russia and some other ex-Soviet states) - they're trained for counter-terrorism, riot control, have nothing to do with the actual military, even nominally, and while they have slightly heavier weaponry than regular police ( lightly armoured vehicles, etc.), they don't do day-to-day policing ( and sometimes don't even have the jurisdiction for it), and are only involved when big things are happening ( massive protests or matches or w/e).

Furthermore, i object to the claim that they are somehow an issue in policing. The article you've linked says just "police", so i doubt they're talking about the Carabinieri. In France, the Gendermerie ( countryside and small towns and cities) has a better reputation with regards to violence than the Police Nationale ( which only operate in cities); i can't think of a single high-profile police violence incident where the Gendermerie were involved. And when the Police Nationale were protesting due to overworking and unpaid overtime, the Gendermerie were the ones providing protection. Apparently the Spanish Guardia Civil also has a better reputation than regular Spanish police. In recent years the French army has started doing patrols in mainland France, among potentially high-profile targets ( airports, train stations, tourist hot spots)

So if anything, having two different branches of police seems beneficial in those specific cases.

And neither type of gendermerie has anything close to the equipment the US police has.
“Slams”? What’s next, “Owns”? “Epic takedown”? These exaggerated headlines, I swear.
I often feel I'm on another planet when I see timings for browser things people are recommending - Insert one message - best 9ms, insert 20 messages - best 33ms, worse - >8 Seconds! Why bother? just write a native client.
A lot of these complaints are about the DuckDuckGo android browser, which I used to use and I did have performance issues with. Now I use Firefox mobile but I still have the DuckDuckGo search engine as default.

In the past 3 years now of using DuckDuckGo, I less and less ever have to go to Google to find things. The few times I have gone to google, I actually got worse results so that's saying something.

It might be due to the fact I'm used to the old way of search engines, before they knew everything about you to figure out what you actually want. I guess I just give them all the right keywords to find things I want, whereas a lot of regular google users just want the search engine to figure out what they are thinking (based on what Google knows about them).

The claims on privacy are questionable. Ad-tech nowadays is so good that it can figure out what you're thinking based on micro-emotions/movements. You hover over a link for just a little bit? You scroll back to look at that picture another time? Your best friend shares a picture of their new thing? You're not as unpredictable as you think you are.

The points on hiring practices are just irrelevant to the search engine, and highly subjective (I don't know nor care what they are actually complaining about)
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And what about 100? 25? 10?