skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The United States asked its ally countries to manufacture charges to imprison a foreign journalist for exposing many of its war crimes during the Iraq War, and they complied. We are no better than your imagined, contrived scenario.

This hubris that we are somehow better, more moral, or more able to investigate and correct mistakes is a long disproven farce that needs to die.
CGI can be beneficial, it just can't carry a film or show by itself. think about star wars OT. for a trilogy that's ostensibly about a galaxy-wide struggle for freedom, we spend an awful lot of time following a few people around in small rooms and remote earth biomes. as a product of the time, they hold up just fine, but like, where are all the normal people? are the rebels fighting for the freedom of a few dozen moisture farmers on tatooine and some small bears? the crew of a single star destroyer must be larger than the combined population of every world we see in the original trilogy (note: we don't actually "see" alderaan). the prequels (for all their faults) show that there was a very large part of the star wars universe that george lucas simply couldn't depict in the early 80s. I suppose some might argue it would have been better if he hadn't, but I digress.
I think it's even worse. "Justified" means "we issued a document that says that in in order to kill more terrorists, killing a lesser number of civilians is justified, then we issued a document that declared 90% of the civilians terrorists."
Oh God, we had to go through a "personality test" seminar at work, with absolutely no basis in science that was this exact thing. Break up into your ECBR groups (I forget the exact abbreviated systems), and discuss how you're similar. It felt like seeing a psychic, starting with vague generalities and narrowing it down to specifics in a group. This was our "entertainment budget" for the group for the quarter, to give you an idea of the cost, when most of us were not only on a deadline to ship, but would rather have spent those two hours with our families or at the pub.
Just get out of the game development industry and move to another software development type. It's much better on the other side.

It was obviously bad in 2004 with public exposes, and it is still the same today: https://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html

Game development will improve its working conditions when nobody wants to work for a game company, until then they will be underpaid and overworked compared other software development types. There is a crazy hot hiring market elsewhere in the industry, do your part by walking away.
You can print the QR code at your local library. The onus is still there, but it's on the business. On the other hand, I've been 'checked' in a few places but nobody has a QR scanner, they just look at my name on the card and my ID
Carbon recapture is essential for humanitarian purposes. Countries like China, India, and Bangladesh, won’t forgo industrialization to go to net zero CO2 emissions. I’m from Bangladesh and there’s just zero political will to do that. Maintaining the 6-7% annual GDP growth is literally what the legitimacy of the government is built upon. So it’s imperative for the developed world to build the technology to recapture that carbon.
If you want data, prove your opinion.
What do you think the the future of learning to program is? Something like this or repl.it for beginners to not have to understand the environment?
Nice work. One thing though, I completed the demo puzzle and created an account but then under completed puzzles in my account, the list is empty. I wish the puzzle I had just completed when it prompted me to create an account to play more puzzles, would be added to the list of completed puzzles.
I don't install apps to be a customer. Most apps are spyware that collect tons of data on you, despite Apple's marketing claims.

I think I am the only customer at my gym that uses a physical fob.

Push back. Say "no, sorry, I can't install apps". Or use a dumbphone for a month per year.

They do this because they can get away with it.

Make them bring you a printed menu.
Simple product (almost everyone wants more or less the same things and/or things are hard to compare, like security) and zero cost of switching is how it happened. It is expected that it would produce this distribution.

I've started on Firefox before it was Firefox (2003?), then switched to Chrome when Firefox became slow, then switched back to Firefox when something annoyed me about Chrome (I don't even recall what), then switched to Firefox when I wanted more customization (how do I still live without custom tab colors? sigh), then switched to Chrome again because Firefox started to clamp down on extensions/customization and also it was kinda slow again. As far as I can tell, Firefox is currently in really bad shape... but I would switch instantly if I thought it was better.

Google makes the best browser (IMO/so far/for an average user). There only compelling reason for an average user to use a different browser is lack of information.
The cool thing about solar is you can fix it on top of current infrastructure. Sure the solar roadways are a ridiculous idea, but putting solar panels on roofs actually makes use of space they can't be used otherwise
You jump to random conclusions and "knowingly??" do not outline the whole picture.

What is the estimate of the authoritarian rules of increasing mortality? E.g. by a war? By racial cleaning, by collapse of social structures?

You spread half information and consequently fake. The legislation is there for a reason and you throw it away. You just took a decision for the uncaccinated people by eliminating their freedom. They never did it to you.
The Firefox implementation should work now; someone sent me a fix.
> But let’s clear up something right away: Trader Joe’s says it has nothing to do with this.

> “This isn’t a TJ’s thing,” said Tara Miller, a Trader Joe’s spokesperson. “It’s being implemented by the landlord

I feel like the headline is misleading and shouldn't mention Trader Joe's if it isn't Trader Joe's direct fault.
The call for NATO to act just further embarrasses the EU. How can the EU not handle something basic like protecting its own border? How can they allow an EU airplane to be taken out of the sky to kidnap an EU resident? How can they even consider a natural gas pipeline with Russia when Russia invaded Ukraine less than 10 years ago and is amassing nearly 100000 troops on the border today?
> Our farm has mainly been hay producing for fifty years

For those who don't know, Boulder has a bunch of land outside the city that is designated openspace/'farm' land. Being from the midwest I always sort of laughed at these land parcels being called 'farms' since economically it really can't be farmed outside of selling niche products at affluent farmers markets. I am glad to see that Boulder is finally letting the land be used for something more productive.

And this is a very cool idea. My family grew strawberries in eastern Colorado for a few years and one of the big problems was the extreme sun. In order to extend the growing season we used low tunnels to shield to plants from frost. However, the low tunnels during the peak summer months would act like a lens melting irrigation lines and even damaging produce.
>While it may impact GDP, it may not impact productive output. Less stuff will be consumed for the same output.

I think you got the first sentence flipped? GDP will stay the same, but actual productive output (eg. stuff being produced) will go down.
I don't like this terrible article based on the free part.
Yeah, Boulder considers it's green belt to be the fence of their little gated community. They're terrified of the idea of development around Boulder. The city even owns a bunch of land in surrounding counties so the perpetually undeveloped land is some one else's tax burden.
Python String Lower()
>You can iterate this problem space with Microsoft Excel.

I believe this! If you can format your data in excel in such a way that people can easily answer their questions with pivot tables and vlookups, you're most of the way there to a good schema. And it's a much lower cost to produce some test workbooks in excel for people than building and populating full databases using new/prototype services.
Also: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/tiger-tests-positive-f...
Would be nice to have Nuremberg Trials 1.0 for Hiroshima and Nagasaki first.
It is even weirder if you carry cash and leave your payment cards at home. This is a fun one, too.
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ABI is what you use when a Papa process and a Mama kernel love each other very much.
Oh, great timing. Just ended a conversation with some friends who had bought a dishwasher. The display for these new machines had been removed, so the only way to tell when the machine was really finished was to... Guess what? Download an app! I suppose I don't need to tell you all the permissions it asked for...
Going full solar and wind is going to take some time(20 year-ish?) and in the meantime energy storage will get there in terms of scale and cost.

LiFePO4 packs already started trading below $100/kWh in 2020:

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/a-no-go-fantasy-writing-...

CATL is pushing sodium-ion batteries:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/catls-new-sodium-ion...

You don't even need a lot of storage to greatly increase maximum stable solar and wind share.

Exiting times ahead of us.
The movie industry has a long history of callously risking its own workers lives. It’s gotten somewhat better than in the 1930s, but clearly there is more work to do.
I saw a good video on YT about this idea. It made the excellent point that it has a fundamental problem:

1. It's excellent for everybody, except...
2. It's a sub-optimal use of land for the farmer, and ...
3. It's a sub-optimal use of land for solar PV

Trying to get something adopted where the two primary parties both end up with a suboptimal solution, even though the overall solution is great from a broader perspective, tends to be difficult.

And it does generally need both farmers and the solar PV folks to collaborate; the former have the land and systems for growing, the latter have the capital and process for solar PV.

This doesn't mean it cannot work, but it does require some creative "marketing" to get people to take up the idea even though it may appear sub-optimal when viewed through a narrow lens.
That's actually a feedback we've been getting a lot lately! Thanks, we're definitely switching to OLED/LCD screen eyes.
Subsidies can be about ensuring crops are produced in-country instead of imported from cheaper countries. This is not the same as saying there is no market for the produce.
GNU sort has support for month names.
That's cool. I did that when I lived alone in an apartment, and it was awesome.

When I researched the best projector setup, I read that a gray wall may actually be better than white because it can result in darker blacks. I couldn't try it, though, as I was renting at the time. Have you ever experimented with that?
"Moved unlike CGI" is what i meant.
DLP response time is insanely fast (~2 µs) because they're basically using PWM to modulate the brightness, but instead of each pixel getting a specific pulse width they're essentially sending bit-planes where the per-bit-plane on-time corresponds to the bit-plane's weight.
Microsoft Doom Simulator 2021
We have a walking prototype, which we are only showing to investors, due to it not being consumer-ready yet. We will start actively showing Teddy on social media by January 2022.
$30 used on ebay
I, for one, find it inspiring that Abishek_Muthian takes this seriously enough to think hard about the name, rather than going with something bland. Just the length conveys the depth of his though, and now we get to know exactly what he meant by it as well.
In rich western pockets like Norway and SF Bay sure. Globally though your median car owner can in no way afford to replace their car with a new one
It is ironic as Bangladesh is going to be one of the countries hardest hit by rising sea levels and climate change.
The problem is that the whole farming industry is proped up on subsidies and if you ended it tomorrow almost every small to medium farm would fold and get bought by a large farm or sold to build a housing development.
Stress Free Programming
Yes "emissions" engines have a reputation for unreliability and costly maintenance.
> Obviously the entire reason for a companys' existence is to make money why should we expect anything else? Also this is true for every company in history.

In Elizabethan times, company charters (and the subsequent right to create and hoard profit) was granted by the queen as a reward for the company doing the work required by the state. Money was a secondary reason for a company's existence, their primary reason was to further the interests of the monarchy and by extension the country.
I see this as FaaS with new skin, ad-hoc stateless functions with minimal to zero interaction with each other.
In the real world military actions often have unintended civilian casualties. The difference is that some groups don't care (china, russia) or are doing them purposefully (terrorists). If you can't understand the moral distinction then I don't think you're going to be able to add anything but noise to these kinds of debates.
I've always wondered if self-awareness, free will, etc. is an illusion driven by evolution.

You are more likely to defend yourself and attempt to prolong your life if you believe you are worthy of life -- that you have free will, that life is meaningful, etc.

It would be evolutionarily advantageous for us to evolve a hard-coded belief that any time we question our self-awareness, consciousness, free will, etc. the hard-coded belief kicks in to say "yes, of course you have these things" and thus you will prolong your life, breed, and reinforce this.

Curious if anyone has come across this in philosophical or biological readings.
"Nothing is true unless it's been officially denied."
Isn’t that a “gateway drug” effect? I’m similarly afraid of sometimes having wine alone, because I know it’s addictive.
Netflix has special agreements with Apple. Other apps have been rejected for doing the same thing:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/25/21302931/hey-email-servic...
Is it really a screening tool for the company? It more likely just says something about that particular interviewer. It's not like a company has a policy of telling interviewers to scrutinize past job appointments. That can be done by the recruiter if desired.
Who are the people behind this project? There’s no information about the company building this, no privacy policy/tos on the website. Looks like a scam the way it is right now.
And even more extreme gerrymandering by GOP controlled state legislatures.
Ok, I admit you have a good point. I counted the ones I can remember:

- search (although this one barely qualifies in my opinion)

- GMail/GSuite (once provided ever increasing storage, also killed free GSuite etc etc but I'll count it, it exists and has even expanded a bit)

- YouTube

- Ads

- Android

- Chrome

Quite a portfolio actually. Says something about how much I dislike them when I had to think long and hard to admit it.
And Trump and the Republicans decided to give large ISPs a massive corporate tax break just the prior term, as well as remove a lot of pro consumer regulation re: the FCC, in that case. What's the point of the political commentary?
A ABI is the low-level implementation of any programming interface, no matter if it uses interrupts (0x80), sysenter, or long jump to code that the OS put there, etc, etc..

It is the nuts and bolts that do the low level real work of implementing a call / interface.
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The good thing about Algorithm Design & Analysis as a topic is that there is no lack of great resources to learn from! And even better, a large portion of them are freely available online (in forms of lecture notes, or entire books, video lectures, programming challenges with online judging, etc).

In addition to what others have mentioned, here are some example resources you might prefer for a beginner-intermediate level intro:

1. (free online) Algorithms by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani http://algorithmics.lsi.upc.edu/docs/Dasgupta-Papadimitriou-...

2. (free online) Algorithms by Jeff Erickson https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/

3. Algorithm design by Kleinberg & Tardos https://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Jon-Kleinberg/dp/032...

4. Another one specifically for more applied view (esp., how they are used in programming contests such as ICPC) is Skiena & Revilla's "Programming Challenges" book (https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Challenges-Contest-Traini...). Note that this is different than Skiena's other popular book (Algorithm Design manual) which is also pretty good and has a "war story" based perspective to design of algorithms.

5. There are also several resources where lecture notes from university Algorithm & DS courses are very useful. Here is an example from my previous Professor, David Kempe: http://david-kempe.com/teaching/DataStructures.pdf

6. Several programming competition specific tutorials can be found on Topcoder: https://www.topcoder.com/thrive/tracks?track=Competitive%20P... (individual SRM archives are also good place to try problems first hand and then learn from other's approach). In general, if you search for ACM-ICPC resources, you will find a lot more targeted information/problems which will apply not only for leetcode, but also for detailed understanding of the theory too.
No, i got out in 2017 when it hit 18 k. And never went back in.

I'm also not following it anymore.
I talked to people who emigrated to Cuba for around a decade. And it's not comfortable equipment, like it's lacking all kinds of "features" that American equipment has, and that are actually nice, but that never got incorporated into the design. So I'm reading up about it but remote controls were never a big thing, it was not like in America where they were an obvious part of the television, in the Bloc you had to manipulate the knobs mounted on the device, and that meant getting up every time. It was all about the basic bottom line functionality.

So I hear that in Cuba the Soviet air conditioning is basic and brutal, for better and for worse. Apparently most Soviet electronics sacrifice efficiency (energy efficiency, and light weight, and economizing materials) for effectiveness. There is a reason for this: under Socialism, capital goods were always short, but they had to be available. Demanding an air conditioning was basically done as a political favor, and the economics weren't good. Therefore what the factory wanted, really really wanted, was for the customer to take his air conditioning or tractor and never come back. No planned obsolescence, repeat customers were the bane of their existence. So they made them last.
I’d say that this is a real problem, but there’s a larger issue: lying — which includes not just outright falsehoods, but the spin applied to facts to make them more widely palatable.

When I look into nearly anything I find some distortion of the truth in service of profits.

The problem is that we’re entirely comfortable with lying, and have done so much of it the truth of everything is obscured by the spin. This I feel is at the heart of what ails the USA and the world.

As a European friend told me once over beers: ”All you Americans are always selling something, and doing it badly, by lying until you get the sale”
The US record in Afghanistan is arguably even more ridiculous (and psychotic) than in Iraq. We went in with a pretty good justification (Taliban refusal to hand over Osama bin Laden for his central role in 9/11 terrorism) - although to be honest, the argument for doing the regime change op in Saudi Arabia was far more robust, as members of the Saudi government aided the hijackers and Saudi Royal family members were a key funding source.

Everything since then has been ridiculous. Getting in bed with heroin-shipping warlords because they were anti-Taliban? Not that the Taliban got over $100 million from the USA in 1999-2001 for opium poppy eradication efforts, which were quite successful, although TAPI pipeline talks didn't go as well in this period.

The whole 'Special Forces' fetishization is also pretty ridiculous. The best of the best of the best, la-dee-dah. Lots of nightime raids, which only pissed off the local population and made them quite willing to hand over power to the Taliban without a fight this year. Didn't 'US leaders' learn that from Vietnam? If the locals all hate you they're not going to support your remotely installed puppet government.

Oh, and the "Afghan Army Training Program" - at a cost of something like $10 billion to train and equip 350,000 Afghan Army members who'd be the nucleus of the new independent government... all that cash just went into Dubai bank accounts, didn't it? Or McMansions in Kabul. Gross blatant corruption (and the 'infrastructure projects' oh god... for a million bucks you get a chain of ten subcontractors backed up by one guy digging a ditch with a worn-out shovel... get used to it, that's coming here now).

American foreign policy in the 21st century - what an absolute disaster. Reminiscent of say, France and Britain in the Middle East from oh 1945-1954. Similar long-term results are to be expected.
> everyone has an electric vehicle with a 65kWh battery sitting in their garage.

That's a solution I hope that neither I nor my children live to see. It's a solution I hope never happens unless a new battery technology arrives that for a start eliminates our need to once again fuck over some very poor countries in order to get our hands on rare resources. Lithium battery tech is quite miraculous, but it's also not appropriate as the basis for the entire electrification of human civilization.

Also, lots of people will have neither cars nor garages.
It comes back out as charcoal which you can throw back in the furnace for the ultimate perpetual energy machine.
> If this is supposed to be related to the article, you've completely the mark.

It was not related to the article but to the comment.

Sorry for the confusion.
The stockpiles got reduced, post-Soviet Union but not eliminated. The bombs didn't go away.

China is building at least 2 new ICBM fields. They are a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, but not any of the SALT treaties.

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2021-09/news/new-chinese-mis...
Cory Doctorow is a self-identified privacy activist. Not proponent, not advocate, activist. If you don't think there's room for activism in this space then his writing is not for you. But he has had a wildly successful career and has done more for privacy and digital freedom than most of us will come close to. I find it a bit rich that a random commenter tells Cory Doctorow that his writing style "hurts more than it helps" considering his success thus far.

If you want something a bit less spicy there's no end of press releases from huge tech companies for you to read.
Yep ever since the smart tv became a thing, every tv company is focusing on collecting and selling data. One thing I ever do is give Wi-Fi access to tvs.

That is why when you sign up for comcast they give you a free set top box absolutely free on top of a free peacock subscription. There is money on the back end of that to be made.
I believe Intel owns (did not outsource) its overseas fabs. Like everyone else, they probably outsource some parts of the manufacturing process (e.g. packaging).
Unless the app itself cost money to download, then it's to late.

You could create a bootstrap page after first install, bit that makes it feel like unfair cause the app was 'free' on the app store.

So once again Apple got it all figured out how to make stuff difficult for creators and make money while doing it