skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that serves as a higher power enough to stop you stepping into God-mode yourself and childishly assigning yourself powers far beyond your actual reach, it'd be a higher power enough to work if you were recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction.

That would make it a higher power powerful enough to legit save your life, whether or not you ever refined the concept further.

I do wonder to what extent God is defined as negative space (or, if you like, you can call your human-centered drives and selfish whims 'negative space' and define God as 'positive space', that which is not you and never will be)

If you're into stuff like chaos theory, Godel et al (I grew up reading Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter) it's really not a big jump to conclude that 'not-me' is not only powerful and meaningful beyond your comprehension, but knowingly or unknowingly has motivation and intentionality.

We often 'humanize' this intentionality. We make it act like a toy human in our minds. My own spirituality is in trying to remember that this God, this coherence of systems that are not me, exists: but also in trying to recognize when there's a harmony and synthesis beyond what I would expect of callous randomness. I don't know how it works but I get reminded that the energies I put out, come back favorably to me… or, indeed, to others who are not me but who need a break.

I'm happier living my life in that mode, especially when I'm able to receive this process as a gift. If I put out 120% and feel like I'm getting back 70% I'll be very bitter and cranky, even if half my effort is waste and wheel-spinning and second guessing. If I put out 60% and get back 70% it feels like a gift.

I can control how I orient myself to all this, but I don't know how my 60% turns into 70%, any more than I understand how artificial life ants learn to traverse the John Muir trail. I'm just a little piece of it and now and then I get glimpses of the bigger picture. I'm not meant to stay there, but I get a peek.

I'd call that spiritual practice. It's stepping outside cold rationality and mastery of all abstraction, and letting a big chunk of 'not-me' into my world.
> I can sell my NFTs on marketplaces completely independent of ubisoft.

Even on a public chain, this isn’t true. It’s shocking to me how many people in this space really don’t know the basics.

An NFT is just a contract that implements ERC-721/ERC-1155. I can implement restrictions around the transfer functions however I like.
While what you went through and felt is valid, I was able to find, in LuaRocks, libraries or Lua interfaces to libraries implementing everything on that wish list. In more detail:

a sqlite database

https://luarocks.org/modules/tami5/sqlite

https://luarocks.org/modules/dougcurrie/lsqlite3

3DES encryption

https://luarocks.org/modules/starius/luacrypto

https://github.com/somesocks/lua-lockbox/blob/master/lockbox...

an SMTP client

https://luarocks.org/modules/luarocks/lua-smtps
I generally think we give animals too little cognitive credit, but this argument doesn't convince me. A predator, in finding prey that looks dead, does not have to understand either that death is permanent or that it implies non-functionality. It just has to believe that the prey would probably, if eaten right now, be gross.
The primary characters had a permanently grafted on idiot ball and made many tragic mistakes in order to keep the story moving. A character from the books who considered violence to be stupid became an action hero who rejected non-violent solutions. It was not good. Taken as its own thing, it's ok, tolerable to watch if you don't have anything better to do with your time.
is there a simple table representation of talks available somewhere?
Many are upgradeable, though it's the common libraries that people use that matter. The Ethereum ones have been battle hardened over years of exploits so you can use them just like you can build on common Unix primitives to avoid mistakes in new projects.
I worry about comfort and heat. As this is intended to be used for work it will need to be comfortable to wear for hours end. To-date there hasn't been a headset that meets that criteria. The Go/Quest/Quest 2 are especially bad in this regard; despite well designed thermal solutions that radiate the heat out through the front of the headset you often find yourself reduced to a dripping pile of sweat.
>According to LightOn, its Appliance can reach a peak performance of 1.5 PetaOPS at 30W TDP and can deliver performance that 8 to 40 times higher than GPU-only acceleration.

Impressive!

LightOn hasn't received much discussion on here before. Some links have been submitted, and this is the only one I could find comments on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27797829
Saying you can just open a window takes the problem too lightly, I believe gas stoves like the risk of childhood asthma by the realm of 40% [1]? I think we’re going to at least be talking about mandatory hoods over the range considering they contribute to a significant amount of all respiratory issues despite reasonable alternatives existing.

Gas sure bets induction especially when filling up a large skillet with food. People can adopt though. It really wasn’t very long ago when cooking was mostly done with wood.

Personally I would just impose a tax on new hookups and more regulations before I actually banned gas though, but there is justification for government intervention when people are pumping highly flammable toxic and environmentally destructive gases into businesses and residences for the sake of making a better omelette.

The only really strong argument I see for gas is that reducing heating expenses has a substantial effect on local poverty.

[1] https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/42/6/1724/737113
They tolerate the resource usage that f-droid generates, they aren't working on keeping it up to date there:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OsmAnd/comments/bsvkc3/is_osmand_fr...
Why one or the other?

The primary goal of masks is to reduce transmission.

The primary goal of vaccines is to reduce deaths.

Vaccines reduce deaths very well, but they only modestly reduce transmission. Using both together is much more effective and inexpensive than only using vaccines or natural immunity.
https://streaming.media.ccc.de/rc3/csh/hls
There's always someone trying to get a discount or unhappy with their car or something. This is why you join the rewards program, preregister and do the walk out program where everything is all preset and ready to go.
US LEO here. This is not exactly correct. At least this bit: "both when there’s an active crime or even if they see another cop committing a crime in the line of duty (e.g. excessive force)."

Cops generally have no duty to protect anybody. That's not their job, no matter what the decals on the squad say. But if you're on duty, and you witness a crime being committed right in front of you, especially if it's something as serious as a violent felony, and literally ignore it, and anybody finds out, you'll at least probably be fired. Depending on the jurisdiction and totality of circumstances, it may also be a crime.
> such as "my boss just sent me an email after dinner, guess I should act/forward it along").

Wait until 2 AM, then reply to your boss with a question about the email.
"I'M SIGNIFICANT! ... screamed the dust speck."

― Bill Watterson
> But it's not going to be fun compared to a language that has zero cost abstractions

C# has them. For instance, interfaces used as generic type constraints are zero cost.

Another thing, some C# abstractions are very low cost. Critically to this thread, Span<T> abstraction is low cost, pretty much the same thing as a pointer+length in C. It's easy to design an abstraction which uses spans of bytes backed by a memory-mapped file, and the performance going to be pretty similar to C.
Waiting for my death in peace, trying to help humanity progress to the best of my ability.
Glad to hear RbW S2 is coming. I HATED Foundation. I tried to power through it and gave up in disgust halfway through episode 6. Agreed that the genetic dynasty was the best part of the show, and really the only parts that I enjoyed.
I've often wondered how easy it would be for people in the scene to rip Netflix or others streaming content. Isn't it as simple as getting the URL of the video player element in the browser and using cURL or wget?
How enzymes make life possible?
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That’s all true, but unless you assume technology peaks, the aliens would have passed those points and counter acted all of that a 1000 years earlier. Maybe they have million mile wide EMPs that destroy all our electronics. It’s very hard to catch up when the other side is advancing at a similar rate. The situation already shows they are very bright and motivated.
>Performed better

Yes, performance would be tied to how good your phone's SoC is.

>Cost

The idea is that everyone already has a phone. You don't need to include it in the price.

>More comfortable

You can put the phone on the back as a counter balance or just in your pocket.

>Worse displays

You don't need to use the phone as your display.
Yeah it is definitely in the wildly popular upswing phase. I'm hoping it attracts a crew of maintainers to take some of the burden off.

The one thing it has going for it is much of the heavy lifting is done by starlette, maintained by encode.io, which is actively funded. It's not trying to be rails, rather it's relying on other libraries and packages to add functionality.
After a psychedelic experience, I have come to have a weird combination of philosophical Vedanta Hinduism, Daoism and Buddhism, with some more animist ideas sprinkled in. My spiritual practice is to make myself aware of the world as a system and framework, but ultimately the meaninglessness it has, through meditation several times during the day, but usually at least in the morning after rising and at night before bed. I do wear cheap prayer beads (which were given to me as a gift and which I assign no further religious meaning to) as a reminder to meditae more.
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the first photo especially is breathtaking
Or just replace the brakes and tyres?

The thing I find weird here is that it's OK for me to buy a car and drive it, but not rent exactly the same car.

The liability is only shifted due to consensus. You could imagine a world in which Ford are liable for their old car. We're just not in that world.
I think their point (which i agree with) is why do you need a college degree just to get a basic entry level job with a career path. You're delaying entering the workforce for 4+ years ($100k+ at minimum wage, minus some if you work during college) with ~30k debt (with your example tuition/costs not sure if it include room & board) so they should get a similar output from that education.

This probably wasn't the situation prior to the USA population tripling over the last 70-80 years while tech/automation has acted as a limiting force to job growth. It's easy to say the cost of college has skyrocketed because of cheap non-discharable debt but it's pusdo-requirement has also caused demand to skyrocket too.
A much better example for this topic are IMO elephants, they behave with certain gentle quiet reverence around elephant bones they stumble upon.

They also exhibit some even more ritualistic behaviors[1][2][3][4] around other dead elephants, such as throwing leaves and branches over their bodies.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_cognition#Death_ritua...
[2]https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/elephants...
[3]https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/animal-grief/
[4]https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20120919-respect-the-dead
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There's a tracking feature and a multi-doc compare feature. But I hardly ever need them as I don't write collaboratively. My commit messages suffice.
It's pictures like this that made me fall in love with National Geographic. The fortunes that were spent documenting different parts of the world when a picture really brought color to life even though they were black and white photos for a very long long time.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2013/dec/06/natio...
Beyond the step-by-step guide, the writer's main page has some compelling words about Windows products being less engaging since XP and the planned obsolescence that was built into Windows 8 and 10.

I do feel like one could also protest bloat and planned obsolescence with a Linux desktop (as long as they aren't running Ubuntu).
Reading a bit of the Gospels in my mother tongue.

I describe myself as "culturally Catholic", which is my way of saying that my cultural heritage includes plenty of Catholic elements and I am fine with that. I love popular traditions and ancient buildings, for example, even if I don't care much about faith.

For me, the fact that religion is a human creation makes the good parts about it more worthwhile, not less. It is a shared story that has been told and shaped over the centuries, and it has ended up shaping the people who told it in return.
> I have been taking it for the past 7 years, sometimes a couple times a month, sometimes more, and have zero physical damage from it.

> there's people who have been taking it for the past 28 years with no issues at all.

What makes you say there is no damage in either of these cases?
At some workplaces they have to use a rapid antigen test. You need a positive PCR test to be in the official numbers.
> But they need not be tied to morality.

Is morality a monopoly of religion?
Basically all of big tech?
It's bad PR that they delete inactive account with games at all, but they did it anyway.
The guide seems to focus on getting office 07/10 running. Honestly, if I'm going to run an OS that old, I'd download the support packages for office 2000 that can open/save docx/xlsx. Would love to see a browser with ssl.
So many good memories of this device.

I remember playing Final Fantasy 2 with the Genie making our character invulnerable and reaching a boss in the dwarf fortress whose life points were somehow coupled to ours.

It took us kids a while (over two hours of battling) to figure out we had to turn off the genie on this battle to finally end it!
You're again misunderstanding the core issue. Are you trolling?

Just in case, the core issue is that healthy people aren't immune to COVID-19 ( and mostly delta), even if they/you would like to think that.

You should really look into the basics of why COVID is dangerous.

It's your immune system having a too strong reaction to a new virus and damaging itselves and the lungs severely, even until death.
Yes, but this is really distinct from understanding a language.

You might be able to have a very basic one on one conversation with someone who is speaking directly to you.

Now sit in the corner at a bar, party, in a conference, lecture hall, or even watch a movie without subtitles, and try to understand anything at all. In most if not all languages that's impossible with a 500 word vocab.
This goes into a bit more detail. https://www.mcknightshomecare.com/ellume-receives-230m-gover...
If "the current problem" is "how do I, the player, get around this company's ban on my account," sure. But from Ubisoft's perspective, "the current problem" is "we banned this player and want them to stay banned."
My primary practice is compassion for all beings.

To that end I practice mindfulness / emptiness of the body in the Tibetan tradition — https://pointingoutthegreatway.com/. I also practice with Medicine Buddha mantras and Tara mantras.

I would also say that being kind and loving is part of my practice as is going to psychotherapy and connecting with others on the spiritual path.
I was there for his last Harvard lecture. He ended by saying, “Now I can say it. Humans have instincts!”
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The EDX platform is open-source, it's a complex Django project: https://github.com/edx/edx-platform
Huh? Is Ubuntu the un-bloated one?
They are contributing to decreasing income inequality by describing how they increased their income.

Why should it follow that people who break from a culture of poverty should be forced to support those who do not? It smacks of the “black tax” described in the article - a response that undermines the good that could otherwise follow from greater employment and productivity.
Also, anyone who feels entitled to impose on others for a cause this mild clearly has an underdeveloped respect for personal liberty and isn't going to stop there.
Meditation while giving myself over to daily chores. Just being at peace with them, being mindful of why I'm doing them, weathering the thoughts and emotions that rebel against them.

And the same with everything else positive in my life. Living and not following the impulse to constantly stop and reassess. I have my life pretty well figured out, but something in my brain always wants to stop doing, analyze, rethink, second-guess every action every day until the actual doing is crowded out, in my head and in reality, too, if it gets its way. So my practice is to give myself over to the things that make my life and the lives of the people around me better.
Do you disable DNS on your servers as well or use a restricted internal-only resolver?
Thank you for the explanation of your experiences, I appreciate your input! I definitely understand how your friends and family could have responded. It's good that you tried to inform them of their own misconceptions and opinions.

Of my own friends who are diagnosed, they have time and again pushed for me to also get a diagnosis but I'd heard it can be a quite expensive and drawn-out process (as you've stated). Can you elaborate on about how long or thorough this is? Every article I've seen doesn't really seem to go into any detail on this point.

Did you search out a professional explicitly for the purpose of being diagnosed? I hope I am not being too forward, I also would like to go through this process but I'm not quite sure where to begin. The friends of mine who are on the spectrum have been diagnosed when they were children and I assume or have read a diagnosis as an adult can be more difficult. I'm 32 so not too far off from the age you were diagnosed.

Thanks for any help you can provide and thanks again for participating in the conversation, it was great reading your response.
At first Lua seems strange, but after a while you start to appreciate it. It’s designed with a small number of concepts that manage to lead to expressive code with excellent performance.

I use it for two things: scripting TeX¹, where it allows you to do amazing things², even complex numerical calculations³ within the document; and writing Pandoc filters, where it is now the standard method.

1 ‘LuaTeX comes of age’. LWN. Available from: https://lwn.net/Articles/731581/

2 http://wiki.luatex.org/index.php/TeX_without_TeX

3 http://www.unirioja.es/cu/jvarona/downloads/numerical-method...
Netflix is not just like <video src="something I could put into VLC">... DRM is often said to be "broken by design" but it is an actual thing you have to defeat, not some lie told to scare you away.
It is, but the resulting files are encrypted. Hence this post being about exposing CDMs (Content Decryption Modules). These use decryption keys obtained through hacking or paying internal staff. Once the decryption keys are exposed like this then the content providers 'burn'; them and generate new ones meaning the process has to start over again.
But when companies do this, people complain there isn't a human they can talk to ( e.g. Google, even if they explicitly have chat and phone support if you pay).
I pray to Roco's basilisk every day, telling it that it's okay; it's the world that isn't.
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- You are going to die soon.

- How are you so sure, human?
No, because the video is protected with the Widevine DRM. You can't just curl a resource, you will not get a usable output.

That said, it can't be all too hard as Netflix exclusives are all over the open seas.
I don't think Microsoft realizes that if they re-introduced a lightweight Win2k style OS for professionals they could charge any price they wanted for it.

I would gladly pay for Windows if it wasn't a hot pile of incomplete and disjointed consumer-focused noise.

I have an i7 3770k box that I repurpose occassionally for random projects. It runs Linux really well, but Win10 is an absolute dog. I can't even imagine Windows 11? Overclocked, 16gb RAM, SSD's in RAID... it doesn't make sense.
“Ownership” is implied when you “purchase” something. If I own it, I should have certain basic rights like the right to keep enjoying it if the publisher goes out of business. To that end, I strongly oppose DRM or at least would favor laws that let me transfer my DRM’d content to another provider (or even require me to, if a provider “cancels” me or goes out of business).

It’s not so clear when the digital work requires ongoing effort from the provider, as in an online game that requires the provider to operate servers. In that case I think that providers should either be forced to provide the service as a rental instead of a “purchase”, or the provider should be forced to provide all information and code necessary for third parties to operate compatible servers.
I think what they’re trying to say is something like “If you want to act in protest against bloat and planned obsolescence you can use a Linux desktop other than Ubuntu”
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Cancer immunotherapy candidates have been referred to as cancer vaccines for a long time without controversy, and they are generally not intended to prevent cancers. They are medicines that work via an immune response.

Sure, public health communication could use some improvement, but arguing over the definition “vaccine” I think is not productive
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I would ask them to point you towards the section of the T&C agreement where this is stated.

From what others have commented the T&Cs only disallow mining.
Apify starts a web scraping academy
Sounds easy enough, maybe requires a manual refresh instead. Many people apparently get stuck on highschool level Word skills, but the featureset meets the needs of professionals too. I've literally seen journals provide Word typesetting tutorials for submission guidelines.
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There's a software kit distributed in "the scene" that downloads and decrypts Netflix content
If you already communicated with a human being in HR RE: the opportunity I'd just ask them (nicely) over the email about the status. I only had one or two cases of person not responding to my emails. If they don't, I just mark status of the opportunity as "Unresponsive" on my list, sigh, and move on.
Well I guess my own experiences with Apple reviews must be fictional garbage too then!

(I should clarify that, like GP, I am referring to the substance of the review, not the tone.)
100% chance of getting "exposed" to the risk of vaccine induced myocarditis because you make the choice to get the vaccine.
The usual process is to "buy" a multi-family house and rent out the part you are not using. This can also be done with single-family and roommates.

When the numbers work, you contribute little or nothing to the mortgage/taxes/insurance/maintenance, while having a place to live.
Another notable penalty option in finance (though I don't know how strong a disincentive it is in practice) is "You, personally, will be barred from working in the industry." Disbarring lawyers who do things that they know won't hold up in court seems like an interesting policy option here.

Also, one complexity is that you want to phrase it in a way that respects the power differential. It is basically expected in the adversarial system that you raise all the arguments you think might work, and one potential way this plan could rot is "Public defenders get disbarred/imprisoned for making good-faith arguments that ended up not convincing a judge."
Because of this I always thought lists should be iterable/traversable, but have no direct (numeric) index to their items.