skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think everyone knows about COVID and can decide on their own whether they want to get vaccinated, wear a mask, avoid other people. If you know you are infected you should avoid other people. Beyond that I don't think there's much else you can do. Unless you are knowingly endangering other people I don't see how you're morally responsible for their choices, or for a highly contagious virus doing its thing.
> this is having a real world impact on human procreation

Which, like it or not, is one of the best things we can do for the environment.
Nomads did not traveled for the fun of it. They moved either because of business - buys stuff here, move over there and sell them. Or because of environment - the sheep have better environment here in summer and over there in winter. And places where we could stay all the time are already taken and they guard them, so we have to move.

When nomads find a place where they can settle stably, they overtime tend to stay.
Yes! We have several language-specific models we train against to see which performs the best for your data. Which language (or languages) do you need? (feel free to email me at dan at nyckel dot com)
Sorry, I can't continue a good faith argument with someone who defines this as malware. It's delusional.

I won't edit my comment above except to note what the original parent comment was:

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The author committed malware to a package many relied on, that they had not made a commit to in 3 years.
My point is not that the author committed a ransomware package but that the idea there is a blanket waiver of warranties that covers whatever you wish it to is trivially falsifiable."
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I suspect a large part of it is caused by facial expressions and how the people pose. Having your picture taken was very serious business, so no smiles were allowed. Show your most serious, regal pose.

If you look at the "Happiest man in China" photo, it doesn't look like an old photo - it looks like a modern photo of somebody dressed up in old time clothes. There is no hard evidence, but many people believe that the man just wasn't aware of how people were expected to pose for a picture.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2017/09/story-behind...
If you are looking for an alternative, try Neeva. Being ad free means we aren’t beholden to advertisers, and unlike the other alternatives such as DDG, Neeva isn’t just a wrapper around Bing results. Hope you enjoy it.
I saw The Validators open for Judas Priest at some casino in Palm Springs a couple of years ago.
Did you have to get a whole new set of pots?
Just asking can be coercion.

Rattner v. Netburn (2nd cir) held that government officials simply asking for more information about a previously anonymous author of a published article is coercion based on this language in a letter. That a lack of cooperation...

"raises significant questions and concerns about the objectivity and trust which we are looking for from our business friends"

And therefore was unconstitutional under on the first amendment.
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Lets's say you run a company and buy a piece of software. The business you're in is regulated and deals with people's personal information.

Would you let a random coder come in an attach their laptop to your network and start digging around for a problem in their software? Especially if it's your ass on the line if any regulated data is seen by the wrong pair of eyes?

Or would you just ship them the logs from their own software and tell them to figure it out.
Not necessarily mathematical savvy though a lot of deeper understanding can follow from a strong grasp on the fundamentals. I think it has more to do with the alignment between intuitions and outcomes, and this is not taught well in most academic programs as far as I can tell.
any agency you can recommend?
To be fair, I think the question is asked for whether today's cultural/national entity of Britain ever had a revolutionary monent. Not societies that were ruled by the British.

Those distinctions can become vague in the case of the American Revolution, I agree.
lol do you actually think people care about providing the 'best quality software they can create' https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-even etc
Maximum number of moves to solve any configuration. Minimum number of moves to solve for a given configuration.
I remember struggling with this also. But if anything good came out of that era, it was
Given..
When..
Then..

which is the template I still use to this day. It works for developers writing the specs, new devs reading them and surprisingly it also works for non-techie types who request features. If a request comes in that doesn't state those three things, I'll walk the person through it. And occasionally they will have an epiphany of sorts.

An enlightening moment where they finally "get it". They get where communication has suffered in the past. I really love that part of my job. It's like being a translator between humans and aliens where previously they both just wanted to eat each other. But due to G/W/T they now want to build interstellar highways together and have hybrid babies.
You are correct that calling it malware is borderline - it was malicious software designed to cause harm or nuisance (to some degree) for users. However, I have amended my comment to for clarity of intent.

The definition of malware for the record is:

... software that is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.

Seems close to me, the modifications were designed to disrupt the users of this package. This is not strictly relevant.
Anybody wanting to get into this might be interested in Gavin Webber on YouTube [1]. Makes all sorts of cheeses, I find watching it interesting and I’ve never even made any and not particularly a cheese enthusiast!

1. https://m.youtube.com/c/GavinWebber
In the Princess of the Yen book it was shown that in the post-war Japan BoJ was primarily controlling amount of credit creation (in addition to selecting sectors which got it) and that interest rate was a just secondary tool. If a central bank does not have such degree of control over its domestic banks, then it has to use the rate policy, but it's a quite blunt instrument with significantly lagging response (since you can not easily cure systematic risk-aversion, even if loans are dirt cheap). But there is another tool which can be used by colluding with domestic government: debt monetization (a.k.a. "money printing"). It results in the financial system being flushed with newly created base money, thus reducing the need for additional credit. As noted in other comments: many have option to leverage, but prefer not to. Not only because future looks too uncertain, but also because today they have enough cash to get by.
I like the ship you’re sailing :), I’m onboard. Sadly, I don’t think this sailboat has enough of us on it to change the momentum of capitalistic incentives or US policy.

I hope one day it does, but until then “who’s gonna pay for the salary increase?”
Maybe close cooperation with the deeply corrupt and unjust police makes you complicit in the outcomes.
> Therefore, if the first amendment is applied to Twitter, it means the content not allowed to be restricted is Twitter's speech.

If there exists a bulletin board in the community square, and I put a poster on it, it is still my speech even though it exists on the bulleting board. It is certainly not "the bulletin board's" speech.

Twitter also mentions legal precedent that directly contradicts your claim here. Legally speaking, in the United States, my tweets are considered my speech, and not twitter's.

> But they do this selectively: they'll only allow government censorship when they feel like it

Yes, this is their right, as protected by the first amendment. Twitter is under no obligation to treat all users, content, etc. in the same way. They do not have to be impartial. They are allowed to treat certain users better than others (and they do, in all kinds of ways!).
its the smallest number that tells you how many moves are required to solve a rubiks cube, regardless of how that cube was scrambled. lower is better, so its a minimum.
Some cultures still eat monkeys and it's not really a taboo.
I've taken this possibility into account after the numerous recent threads about this, but I don't think it holds up. I'm very often able to find exactly what I'm looking for after 15 minutes of massaging search terms on 3-4 different search engines. The reason it feels like search has gone to hell, for me, is that for 20 years I took for granted that I could type the first terms that came into my mind into one search engine (Google) and the result I wanted was the first result.

Outside of programming-related topics, anything I search returns pages of pop psychology listicles or news articles. Since I am literally never looking for pop psych listicles, Google (and, to be fair, the other search engines as well) has become a lot less usable.

I agree that the open web has deteriorated, with crap drowning out real content. But I maintain that Google et al have failed, or been beat. The content is there, they just can't find it and/or rank it anymore.
Banned from the internet? These scumbags need to be hunted down and be given long jail sentences, at the very least.
Pigs don’t pull sleds. They don’t hunt. They don’t play with children. They can’t manoeuvre a flock of sheep. They won’t even try to ward off a bear. They’re bad at sniffing truffles, because they eat them. They won’t run ahead of a fire engine, clearing the way. And they most certainly won’t cuddle up in camp.

Dogs are extremely versatile and have helped humans over thousands of years. Pigs, on the other hand, are tasty.

It’s not that arbitrary.
This reminds me of a poem by Berthold Brecht:

Questions From A Worker Who Reads

Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
And Babylon, many times demolished
Who raised it up so many times? In what houses
of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?
Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished
Did the masons go? Great Rome
Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom
Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song
Only palaces for its inhabitans? Even in fabled Atlantis
The night the ocean engulfed it
The drowning still bawled for their slaves.

The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Did he not have even a cook with him?

Philip of Spain wept when his armada
Went down. Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the Second won the Seven Year's War. Who
Else won it?

Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man?
Who paid the bill?

So many reports.
So many questions.
Google search is OK for me in English. In my native language (central Europe), it's almost impossible to find content that is not eshop or someone selling something. I'm looking for HTML4 articles, phpbb forum discussion, etc. where people actually share knowledge, but I only get super-SEO optimized crap. The best I get is a blog spam from an eshop.
Even without mods, Minecraft supports programming mechanisms (albeit not robots). redstone blocks can be used like logic gates, to construct traps, play music, open doors or build factories. People have implemented ALUs in redstone.
>The EU has majority approval in every single member country and even the UK

Yeah, just not the EU power centers (the Commission for one), which were never voted for, and increasingly moved state power over to bureaucracy and unelected shadow bodies.

>Apart from survey data, there have been many referenda on EU membership or aspects of it over the years, with similar results.

Yes. And when they failed, they were repeated to taste or merely ignored.

(And ahead of those, the EU bodies devoted lots of funds to "educational" campains on those matters to promote the desired results in the press, yielded bribes, sorry, developmental packages and exerted pressure, in a carrot and stick manner, to get nation states to vote favorably).
> what's your personal definition of free speech

there's no personal definition imho - free speech is the allowance of the citizens to say anything, regardless of whether the state wants it heard or not.

Free speech isn't the idea that other people must have the opportunity to hear one's speech.

So sending emails or photos to people (ostensibly to harass) doesn't constitute free speech.
I can pretty much relate - I cannot wrap my mind around Web3 /cryptocurrency / NFTs either. Fortunately, they have no bearing on my life whatsoever, so I tend to ignore them.

I think I get your feeling: there are giant Internet-based monopolies out there (e.g. Facebook, Amazon, Google...) which seem to be driven entirely by greed and power. Google's "Don't be evil" disappeared long ago. Those monopolies are no longer a force for the good and their technological allure has faded over the years.

If you are looking for exiting technology, you need to look outside the Web. I find autonomous driving and robotics really fascinating. I mean , the SpaceX rocket boosters return to Earth in a powered landing - how cool is that?
That strikes me as a wonderful idea for a new search engine: Just politics. Authors and sites could create a mini profile to refine the results.
This is correct - Windy explicitly says that they don't do any forecasting on their own and they don't have any meteorologists on staff. The usefulness and the quality of apps such as Windy is really a testament to how good the public (and free) weather forecast models are.
Intentions matter. The 'provided as-is' helps cover the author for unintended behaviors that are a result of some non desired bug.

You can't just update your extensively used code to add some ransomware or virus and be let off the hook because you warned users in a text file. The legal system will check what did you know and what your intentions were.

In this case, not that the author did a bad attack, but it's still a jerk move when the intention was uniquely to disrupt others and break things.
I don’t know about all that. Here’s a simpler guide:

Diet: 90% of you are consuming complete junk and making excuses for yourself or pretending you don’t know better. Cut it out. Here’s stuff you already know: Drink a gallon of pure water every day. Make all your own food. No sugar. No added fat. Mostly vegetables, legumes, lean meat. Eat when you’re hungry. Stop eating when you’re not hungry.

Time: Budget three hours a day for the rest of your life. Yes; three. Get over it. This is required human maintenance. Cut out useless reading and scrolling on your phone/internet (guilty). Remember how easy this was before you had a smart phone and a laptop?

Start by stretching. Stretch everything in every way until you don’t have any more pain and tightness. Yes, three hours a day, probably for about a month, and nothing else. When your body is ready, you will feel it, and then you will end stretching early and start cardio.

Next, move to cardio. Get a heart rate monitor and do whatever you feel like to get it around 170 minus your age. As you get more fit, it will stay higher for longer. When you can hold that for the whole workout, you’re in great shape, even if you’re still weighed down and covered up by fat.

At which point you move on to high-rep fast-paced calisthenic strength, and your heart rate should stay high during this as well. And when you get stronger and move to bigger weights, guess what, your heart rate never actually drops even when you are doing 5x5 at 500lb deadlift.

But if you start with heavy weights, and your flexibility sucks, and your cardiovascular system sucks, you’re going to get hurt, and not burn calories, and not see progress, and drown your sorrows in Dunkachino. This is, by the way, basic fitness for most people. Elite-level performance is a little bit different, starting from the end and going somewhat backward through the steps.

To summarize and emphasize:

1. Your diet habits suck and you know it. Stop reading fad BS and do what you already know you should.

2. Start from the beginning. Eliminate pain and tightness, then get your heart working, then your muscles.
I will continue to wear a mask on airplanes and airports. I'm really enjoying not getting sick with a cold or flu
> Great, so lots of mixed invisible characters in the same line. Yea, that's never caused any problems, cough makefiles, cough python, ...

Of all the ways you could object, I feel like listing makefiles and python might make the least sense. Makefiles require tabs and python has zero problems using tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment. In fact, python will make it harder to accidentally indent a line wrong than almost any other language.

I'd just say people are more likely to screw up, or something like that.

> PS: I know some projects use tabs (go, linux) for example. I don't work on those :P

Linux requires 8 space indentations so it's the worst of all worlds.
Yeah, I think it's safe to limit it to the popular conception: there has never been a "popular" or "workers" revolution, no decisive break with the past that enforces a modern-style explicitly written constitution, that affected mainland Britain. Outside that there have been revolutions, in the Empire and especially in Ireland - once a key part of the United Kingdom that sent MPs to Westminster!

The Civil War and "Glorious Revolution" don't really fit a modern revolutionary politics mode. Fundamentally they're part of the older Reformation politico-religious conflict. Also they were elite-driven rather than popular. The "glorious revolution" was really collusion with allowing the country to be invaded by the Dutch on the condition that they didn't touch the existing power structure.

Or at least, not in England. The violence of "King Billy" against Ireland is still celebrated by the Orange Order. You could argue that this has continued to be an issue until the Good Friday Agreement, and that the PIRA campaign was ultimately a successful revolution. Crucially it did win constitutional change - with external guarantors, for the civil and human rights of the Catholic population of Northern Ireland.

Mainland UK has been effective at deploying armed forces to prevent any revolutionary moments, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_George_Square : tanks on the streets of Glasgow.
Can we not post boredpanda.com please? It's basically blogspam; anything on it will have been primarily posted elsewhere first.
> An address is not open to interpretation and doesn't convey any personal meaning.

I've heard plenty of time to not put my address in my CV if I'm not currently living in a nice place. Especially for students looking for job, a foreign-sounding name and an address in a relatively bad neighborhood (where prices are cheaper) can be enough for people to reject your application.

> On the other hand, if the pizza place asks for a "home" address that makes me uncomfortable (conceptually offensive/technically incorrect) when I order to a friends house. I know what it means so I fill in the correct value to get the result I want but the form should say "delivery address".

I think we agree in that forms shouldn't ask for a "personal" information when they need a "practical" informations ("where do you live?" vs "where should we deliver your pizza?"). Names are like that, I think. 95% of the time, when websites ask for a name, they want something to put in marketing emails or when you're connected. I can understand that most people don't mind, but adding an option to opt out shouldn't be too hard.
On your computer

It is possible this is happening, but not likely. A reasonable way out, I think is to purchase a new SSD twice as big as your current drive. Do a fresh install of your operating system, programs, etc.

Be very, very careful with what web browsers and extensions you install on your freshly setup machine.

Now - I am the poster child for advocating for capability based security, and frequently point out that NO computer is secure. Yet, I'm typing this on a Windows 10 laptop. It could easily get compromised by any reasonably angry hacker or spy agency. There's nothing I can do about that. However, those a very low probability events, so I don't worry about what I can't change.

If you work on technologies that are military sensitive, or worth more than a few million dollars, consult your security team for guidance, not this random guy from the internet.

I'm hoping eventually to have an OS that is a daily driver with Capability Based Security. Until then, there's always the small threat to live with. We're all mortal after all, and you can't stop death either.

On Websites

Yes, everything IS recorded and archived. It is, or will be, fed into a neural network as a way to increase engagement, or any other number of commercial and political purposes. Don't type or share anything into the internet you will ever regret saying.
Does the content you're looking for exist in your language, and if so, can you find it on some other search engine? It seems like a lot of 'knowledge forums' are in English.
Non-consensual tracking, on the other hand...
Module-level capabilities is an interesting idea. We still don't have process level capabilities though, at least not for native code. Yet another argument for wasm and friends, I guess...
> It doesn't matter! That's their legal right, which the first amendment (and section 230) both protect.

Agreed! Corporations are people too!

> Examples

Here: https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-rules-twitter-can-be-su...

> Is that really the model you want twitter to follow?

I want Twitter to pick a model. In fact, I don't really care model they pick: they should be held legally liable when they curate an editorial headline that is libelous. If they decide that they're going to be a social "network" again (remember that word?) and not social "media" which steals content from their users, selecting a narrative ("some Twitter users are saying..."), then I don't care. That would be a world in which section 230 protections are valid.

But as it stands, all Twitter is a mass narrative shaping device. All views are welcome, as long as they line up with the ever-changing, unknown corporate values of Twitter. Which is to say: Twitter picks speech to promote and yet is not accountable for it.

> As I implied above, the NYT doesn't need 230 protection because they engage in much stronger censorship than twitter does.

They do need 230 protection, because they've been sued over and over again for libel. Twitter's editors have not yet been, and according to this article, they actively prevent the process of legal discovery by a court when they don't need to.

> That's not a motte and bailey though. That's just how rights work.

This is about their process of argumentation. They used to say they were "The Free Speech Wing of the Free Speech Party." Ha. Ha. That's the ideological argument they're sheepishly putting forward in this legal brief, and thankfully people can notice the argumentative bad faith even if they have legal standing to do so.
The web != your computer.

You can improve your privacy on the web but you can never expect it to be perfect, disconnect your computer from the web and you will have excellent privacy (unless you are a target of state level intelligence services)
All I want to say is that if accepting your argument as 100% true, then corporations have done much worse with software end users have actually PAID for. Yet, this same community that holds this developer of software that is free is held to a higher standard they don't apply to their own commercial projects.