skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Brexit is a perfect example of what I am talking about.

People think Brexit was democratic because there was a vote.

But only something like 37% of eligible people voted for it. over a third didn't turn out (in part because no one expected it to pass?).

And the vote was very regional: Scotland and London wanted to stay. But we're getting dragged out.

And the people who voted for brexit didn't vote for brexit, they collectively voted for one of at least 3 different, mutually exclusive things all called brexit, so they are mostly disappointed.

So you have less than 10 percent of voters getting what they actually voted "for". And that's for a permanent change, not a government who's policies can be reversed next election.

And that's without getting into the fake news, lies, impossible promises, broken promises, etc.

You may be a brexiteer, or a remainer like me. But we should all agree, the only thing democratic about brexit was that there was technically a vote. Which is about the same as North Korea or China manages...
The question it begs is if the CEO is not the right-person for the job (which they don't appear to be) then why keep him on as executive chair? That sounds like dragging things out for the sake of it, if he doesn't add anything useful, buy him out and send him somewhere else, it sounds like his experience is not really needed any more?
Not the OP, but indeed I never eat raw sugar nor dissolve it in hot water in order to drink it.
Practically speaking, you're going feel the gender ratio of your geographical region/metropolitan area. Sure, men will be at a ratio disadvantage more often than not in the US, but there are definitely zones where the ratio is inverted. I spent half my 20s in NYC and half in SF and the wow was the difference glaring.
Non vitae sed scholae discimus. (Seneca, epistulae morales ad Lucilium 106, 11–12)
Glad I'm not the only one that has noticed this scam going on. I've seen a number of sites doing it. One site I saw this on you had to wait an entire minute. Guess it's time for a new set of laws...
It’s worth noting that MMS is also how group messages are sent (SMS is 1:1 only).

> The most popular messenger app in Switzerland and worldwide is WhatsApp. However, we do not recommend WhatsApp or Telegram for security reasons (problematic encryption and non-transparent data protection guidelines).

But compared to MMS...
You can get addicted to anything, including things generally considered positive like sport, meditation or charity. Do you want to ban all of that?

As long as it doesn't have negative impact I don't see how "it's addictive to some people" should mean "it should be banned". What matters is how it effects you, not that it does at all.
As much as we make fun of the new Agile/Startup/SV world, it looks like I'd absolutely dread work on a 90's Software company (though granted this is exagerated for comedic purposes).
> mostly-harmless noise and flash of light

Not that harmless. They don't throw fragmentation shrapnel but they are strong enough to punch holes into people when in direct vicinity. US police regularly throw these into cribs and kill or maim babies and toddlers.
And Denisovans, and still have raccoons. The raccoons shouldn't need more than another 10My.
Scaleway was interesting. It had some classic technical whiteboard interviews but the difficulty and the topics did seem appropriate. It also included an escape game with some other candidates interviewed on the same day. The HR was watching us through the cameras. It is hell, but I kinda enjoyed it. We also got offers even though we didn’t manage to escape. The offices were very weird, some kind of old luxury hotel in the centre of Paris, but with strange decorations. For example the salary negotiation was done in some kind of white cocoon meeting room with a table of white fur from memory. I enjoyed the walls full of motherboards and the design of some rooms. Never seen anything like this since. They moved to another building since my visit though.

We had cheese fondue at lunch and while I got an offer I didn’t work for them after all so I have a positive memory of this experience.
I'm missing this information from the news, so maybe you could elaborate if you know the answer.

Didn't they apply for the permission or it's not as easy as you claim (at least in the times of COVID and lockdowns)?
It's not the cost or complexity that really bothers me (that was just a side rant hehe), more the vendor "productisation" of all the tools. After all, in many ways open source stuff is often lower level with the extra complexity that involves.

With open source tools (hell, even they are often turning into products now) there was always a feeling you could dig in and understand them, then join the community and contribute, and even shape their future. Now tools are just things to consume on the vendors terms.

Maybe the open pendulum will swing back again in 10yrs - probably at the hands of something like the Cloud Native Foundation, rather than the last peak 10yrs ago driven by Linux distros and some key apps/languages as well as dissatisfaction with MS etc.
This guy's work always impresses me. He had a nice Blackhat brief as well.

This list is great and all for redteamers but as a defender, I would like to know if any actual threat actors used these techniques even after publication. Even with all the secret/private and public threat intel I am aware of, none of them register. Not knocking down on threat research, I am honestly curious because I can't tell if I should be on the look out for any real threat actors using these techniques.
> Interesting to read that from a vocal proponent of UBI - which would, by design, allow people, including men, _not_ to get a job.

UBI replacing means tested support doesn't (unless benefit levels are also boosted) help people with no outside income, but it does make it easier to improve one’s condition by earning outside income.

It enables people to work and benefit from that work compared to the status quo, it doesn't enable people not to work.
Earth started out very late. Billions of years late.
Is it still like that in Switzerland? Here in Denmark I'd be hard pressed to find a plan without both free SMS and MMS, at least domestically.
I think that's a shame. Some of my contacts only have WhatsApp, and I am definitely not gonna install that Spyware. So to those, I am still sending pictures by MMS.
Here the rule is in office AT LEAST three days per week. They fooled us, said vaccinations was to save lives. Instead it was just to squeeze us back into offices again. :( Productivity must have really plummeted during the pandemic otherwise I can't understand why they are demanding office presence so much. Here Covid deaths are still high (20-30/day) so it's not even a good time to end restrictions.
Couldn't there be a middle ground that allows you to restart/reset a single application?
You can criticize things you don't use.
Is this something in coffee itself or is it the caffeine?
Should you make an open API?
Would your shards have rights to spend your money?
I really hate how Microsoft is leveraging everything they have to push us into Microsoft accounts. I don't want a Microsoft account. I had one to try out Microsoft Family (which is an unmitigated disaster; stay away). I have no desire at all to tie Minecraft to it. But I guess I have no choice.

My youngest son also wants his own Minecraft account; he doesn't have one yet exactly because it's impossible to get a Mojang account anymore, and I refuse to deal with Microsoft accounts because of my earlier experiences. I guess we have no choice now.

They also keep pushing my to link Windows 10 to a Microsoft account, no matter how often I keep refusing. I'd gotten a lot milder about Microsoft over the past decade, but this trying to put their crappy account system down our throats is reigniting all my hate from their worst anti-linux days.
The appstore does jackshit regarding security. The reason ios is stable and not virus-ridden is the sandbox, which would work exactly the same way with or without apple’s forced filtering of apps.
Snapshotting is another solution.
Honestly why would soldiers do such a thing if central command is out?

I think that fears of all countries using nuclear weapons on each other at the same time is frequently inflated with the fear governments will just become kill everyone for no reason or will behave madly.

There is plenty to fear even when we keep everybody rational, let's stick to that
It might in the future turn out to be more efficient with a "few" reactors than, say, lots of batteries and wind turbines and solar panels, from a resource perspective. But I think not even that will come true, if we optimize stuff enough, which we will have a long time to do before fusion is here.
Fusion race kicked into high gear by smart tech
I'm not sure this actually solves the real problem that people have. Sure, reboots are annoying and pretty much all current OSes could be improved in this regard. Back in the 90s, it's interesting that SunOS supported live kernel upgrades, so at the same time the kernel on disk was updated, the running system was also patched so it would act the same way as-if rebooted, but without any disruption to the live system.

However, in the current days where rebooting is seen as normal for an OS upgrade, but most of the time people just put their computer to sleep, the main problem is that all the network interfaces are effectively useless when the system wakes up because most connections will have long since timed out due to lack of connection acknowledgement packets. In such a case, systems will have to tear-down and re-create a lot of state anyway.

The actual issue this seems to solve, that of saving memory state and restoring again, is already solved for most use cases except OS upgrades by using sleep mode. But the hard case about network connections is still unsolved for this system, and by solving the problems it does solve with yet another VM-based environment it'll probably be doomed to obscurity unless common existing applications and virtual machines can easily be made to run on-top of it.
> What is the "intent" behind a piece of classical music?

Depends on which one. Vivaldi's "The four seasons" intends to capture the "spirit" of each season. Beethoven's "Eroica" was (at first) intended as a tribute to Napoleon.

> What is the intent behind abstract art?

Depends on the piece. Some are intended to evoke feelings. Others are comments on art itself - Kelly's "Blue panel" is supposedly there to challenge our ideas of what art is, while Jackson Pollock's art is intended as a rebellion against the art ideas of his time.

> What is the intent behind the tilings found in Islamic art

If my copy of "Habibi" is to be believed, to praise God while looking pretty. More generally, "looking pretty" is a common intent in art.

> What does it mean to have intent? Does it relate to having an objective function? (...) What do we have that this hypothetical "self employed algorithm" doesn't?"

It is superficially about objective functions, but I would argue that the issue is intrinsically related to what free will is. Does your fivver algorithm have the choice not to make art? Can it say "screw this, I'll become a lawyer"?

> When we say a human makes art with intent, (...) do you not eventually reach the evolutionary prime directive of furthering their genetics?

Artists without children would disagree.
Arguably democracy is tyranny of the majority against a minority. Sometimes this gets people riled up enough to start an illegal protest, which the authorities try to snuff out.

I don't think videos of protest say much about how democratic a country is. It just demonstrates a shortcoming of democracy.
More interesting stats would be to see which places users tried to nuke the most...
More than likely, expansionists aren't welcome in the galaxy, and are curtailed by non-expansionists when they begin to become a nuisance.
There are generic differences in people's ability to process caffeine, some at a much faster rate which means the effect isn't nearly as long.
For 80 CHF (60 if you're an inOne customer) you get a very high-end plan with extensive data roaming (40GB in a lot of countries) and international calls. Most people don't need that.
Killing strangers for minor violations of your property rights... killing multiple strangers in a rage of entitlement... calling police to kill or punish strangers who are having mental health crises for minor violations of public behavior ordinances... basically killing or punishing strangers for any old reason. I'd venture to guess we do orders of magnitude more of it per capita in the West than people in Muslism countries do honor killings of kin.
Like this? https://www.nuclearwarmap.com/
People falling for these scams can’t remember ctrl+c after explaining it to them for the 1000th time, they won’t suddenly follow detailed instructions on how to enable this deliberately hidden setting put behind 3 warnings.
Well, partly it's because discussing that means discussing the causes, and the most robust claims out there about what's going on boil down to "it's the fault of female teachers".

For example why are boys being diagnosed with ADHD so much more than girls, why are they on so many more drugs, well, supposedly it's because female teachers - who have very clear and proven biases towards girls - are much more likely to react to normal boyish energy by getting frustrated and being unable to handle it. So once the psychiatric world gave them this neat excuse-in-a-box that let them blame boys, and even better, an off switch for children, instead of learning how to handle boys they started just telling parents their children were neurotic and broken.

A related issue is grading. Girls get better grades than boys. There's a neat experiment out there that appears to show this is caused by teachers having a built-in bias towards children of their own gender, but, the bias is much more extreme in women. This would be totally expected - feminism practically insists that female-female loyalty is a a moral virtue and to NOT give the sisters a helping hand makes you a bad woman. Women routinely discriminate in all sorts of ways against men and in favour of women, so much so that feminism is currently ripping itself apart through debates on whether trans women should be treated as women or not (often, for the purposes of allocating perks!). That it happens in education too is only to be expected. Until people start routinely classifying feminism as an unacceptable form of hatred, boys outcomes won't start improving. Going back to gender segregated schools might even help, although I'm a bit shocked to see myself typing that, because I never supported such schools before. It's just so unclear what can be done about these sorts of cultural problems except keeping vulnerable boys away from places where women can discriminate against them.
typo, I guess: the melting point is 459 °C, 359 degrees higher than water but 4.5x higher.
I'm turning 37 this year. And love coffee (medium-roasted arabica is about 99 out of every 100 of my cups), drink it often and feel great.

Don't see any negative impacts on my physical health, and as I enjoy coffee it has a definitely positive impact on my mental health.

Don't have a point to make here, just thought I would dilute this non-coffee drinkers fest.

Hey, while I'm at that, never deleted my FB account. Log in there once a month to see if anyone messaged me, the feed is always full of random crap instead of posts from people I follow -- boring, no idea why people find it so addictive.
This, very much this. Coffee science is still in its infancy, specifically the effects of daily consumption of monoamine oxidase inhibitors with caffeine have not been studied enough.

There are some studies talking about neuroprotection and some about neurotoxicity. The one thing we do know is that the etiology of essential tremor requires a genetic disposition that makes the body unable to metabolise harmane, one of the MAO inhibitors in coffee, and the buildup is what causes the tremor.
> For me, coffee is like any other drug, it create addictions and should be illegal with all other drugs like alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, opioids etc.

In what way does someone who drinks coffee or has a beer or a smoke as a responsible adult makes your life or society worse to the point that it warrants being illegal?

No-one's forcing anyone to drink coffee (a very mild stimulant by any standard). No-one dies of passive coffee drinking, no-one kills anyone because they got (or didn't get) their morning coffee, and there is growing evidence that moderate consumption has health benefits.

There are lots of things to say about coffee, some good, some bad, but jeez, that holier-than-thou attitude of wanting to make criminals of basically most of the planet is certainly something...

By the way, tea and sugar are also stimulants, that should take care of the rest of the globe.
Nobody does that (or almost nobody?). Sugar consumption comes from almost everything nowadays, from white bread to sauces to... everything. Or maybe your comment was ironic and I didn't get it, sorry then.
Once the services that charge transaction fees fall away, will the various free services that replaced them start charging for their service?
Except for very cheap MVNOs, no, there should be no cap with unlimited plans. You'll obviously suffer a bit from the QoS/prioritization but I know several people having no issues with unlimited 4G/5G from Salt, Yallo or Wingo.
That does sound great, but realistically any application needs to be able to recover from a crash anyway - so even with this support from the OS, you just have a new code path to support. Might be nice for users, but it certainly doesn’t simplify anything for developers.
NetApp 2014.

After a phone interview with the hiring manager to confirm mutual interest, an on-site interview was arranged. 1 entire workday of interview.

The whole team worked towards interviewing their potential new team member. The first one in the morning gave a full tech view of what is going on and practically walked out without any evaluation. A good break, and then the second interviewer evaluates some theoretical aspects very much related to the job being hired for. Lovely conversation and learning out of it as well.
Third team member walks in for a discussion about all the tech the first interviewer talked about in the morning. The goal was to see how much I grasped and how I could jump in to an existing environment, think and approach problem solving. Lovely tech discussion discussing merits of solutions proposed to hypothetical problems.
The team welcomes me to join them for lunch. I was explicitly told it was informal and no evaluations of any kind and just a friendly lunch since everyone’s gotta eat and they’d hate for me to eat alone. Nice social lunch.

Post lunch, another engineer walks in with their laptop and says, “I’m working on this today.. how about we put up my display on projector and we work together on this for an hour?”. A nice times pair working scenario to test my skills and team playing abilities.

At the end of the day, even though I was tired, I was hoping to get an offer from them, and the manager says they liked everything and would leave the final word to HR, but they are going to pass on their OK to HR.

Worked there for four years until I needed to move geographically. Best job I ever had yet.
That's not what is being asked.
I love coffee but I never noticed it getting me more wakey or energetic or anything. If I overdo it - I mean beyond a few cups - I get some jitters (while still being sleepy) so I know not to overdose. But I drink it for pleasure and missing on the effects.
But now since there's no boundary between persistent and ephemeral state, reverting to a snapshot will damage all of your other processes and lose data in unpredictable ways due to the halting problem. The cure could end up worse than the disease.
There are studies linking coffee consumption to alcoholism and heroin dependency. The key search terms are harman and norharman.
I've stopped working on web projects about ten years ago and it's still shocking how much was missing from even the most basic things compared to other UI frameworks that often had it for decades.

It's quite sad that there's apparently no other direction than "JavaScript and the web will replace every type of application eventually". I mean look how well Microsoft Word (native) works compared to Microsoft Teams (some JS hodgepodge). And not just the day by day use, but also stuff like AppleScript support. Especially highlighted by the stand still we used to have on mobile computer CPU's until recently. Everything just got slower and slower.
what a wild single standard
Nitrogen can release energy higher than that of any known non-nuclear reaction
There is two sides to Netflix. One is the content side, which is much like HBO, and the other side is the infrastructure side, which without a doubt is a tech company. They could contract out their infrastructure and they would surely not be a tech company, but as long as they develop that, they are a tech company in my book.
Apple is big enough to have network effect to effectively mandate even facebook et alia to play by its rules.

Put it behind 10 hidden menus inside settings and facebook will not be able to explain to your average user that they have to enable this shady looking setting to download facebook. They can of course choose to ignore half of the US market, but that’s hardly a sane decision.
Oh, perhaps we read the OP differently. I interpreted it as saying "democracy is implemented badly in the UK" not "democracy is inherently bad".
Of course nothing is more diffable than code, but you can get git to store proper deltas between FCStd (or any zip) files:

https://blog.lambda.cx/posts/freecad-and-git/
That's likely already baked in, but then you end up with an infrequently run bootstrap code path, and "resetting" an app basically means nuking all of its data (some of which might be important to you).

This is why we have a clear delineation between persistent and ephemeral state.
There is so much fail missing that it is almost favorable to Forbes. I was really disappointed not to see the OneCoin cover for example. On the other hands it says "incomplete" in the title.
Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority
A lot of what you mentioned was written by Peter Daszak who is one of the main suspects in terms of lab involvement in the origins. The closest wild strain to covid was found in Laos and there is no wildlife trade to Wuhan but Daszak's organisation seems to have been collecting samples there and shipping them to the Wuhan lab. And then when people say "what samples, lets see" you get stonewalling. Before having too much of a go at the Chinese we should subpoena and get the records from that lot (based in NY).
Don't use FSM, use a Behaviour Tree with a predefined spec.
FSM is an anti-pattern and pretty destructive.

TLDR; Any complex FSM can't be read by a human since it has no pre-defined pattern for reading, you end up jumping around states and transitions.

A Behaviour Tree can be read either as a vertical tree with top down and left to right or a horizontal tree left to right and top down.
Hopefully by 2023 the state of RCS will have improved.
It's quite used in France. Technically speaking it has no replacement, it's the only system that works natively with any phone, doesn't require you to install a dedicated app, create an account on a third party and do not push all those constraints on the people you're sending messages to.
Or in general with work. At least here it is common drink also for working class during coffee breaks.

I could see some compounding variables here. With availability and ability to drink it.