skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The damage to democracy can last for generations, though.

In 30 years Germany went from 19th century democracy, to socialism, to nazism. What they had was a filter-bubble where the people were constantly told that the cause of their problems was some particular scapegoat and the solution was more state control.

Social media produces these filter-bubbles in a far more powerful fashion. Worse, it's setting up conditions for a civil war where one big bubble is told that the problem is "The System" and the other big bubble is told the problem is "those lefties" and both sides are told the solution is to stamp out the other side.

The Morgans, the Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, the Astors, and the Carnegies never built anything like that. They built infrastructure, and leveraged economies. Oil, railroad, finance... not the same thing as social connection engines.
I wrote [1] to create disposable profiles for browsing, cleanly instantiated from pre-configured (with optional extensions) "root" profiles.

It's also convenient when researching a particular topic, as I can keep a dedicated per-topic browser instance self-contained in its own directory, for as long as I need it.

It does a good job in bypassing backend "personalization".

[1] https://github.com/atomontage/chrome-private
TCP/IP is used for ransomware. I hope regulators save us from these criminals!
Yandex gives good results.
My guess at what happened at Google. Stupid tech guys high up in the hierarchy with too much power that overrides what the marketing people are saying. One of the most amateurish things you can do is thinking that the data from product A is relevant for product B.
Reminded me of Steve Mould's explanation of Entropy (using the example of a Sterling Engine).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2iTCm0xpDc
These "because why not" projects are my favorite sort. I'd love to build something like this with four keys representing bit pairs (00, 01, 10, 11) where you could type bytes by repeatedly pressing keys. Bonus points for mounting it on the back of a phone for one handed typing.
start/stop isn't triggered by the accelerator. The engine starts immediately when the brake is released. For most drivers it is unnoticeable.

I don't like it but that's because there is little intelligence deciding when it should stop in the first place, though you can kind of regulate it by being extremely light on the pedal.
This looks promising!

If I had 20 friends I would try it /s

One question regarding the "Free plan", is there a pricing page somewhere that I didn't find? What would a "power user" do differently then someone on a free plan?
I don't disagree with the content of the article or the authority of the authors. Just pointing out it was worded as a clickbait and I did not expect that from Nature magazine.

I have had the opportunity to work on a few scientific publications and the titles are often more technical. For instance, "Preliminary Characterization of a Plastic Piezoelectric Motor Stator Using High-Speed Digital Holographic Interferometry" not "analyzing the world's first plastic motor".
In a secured system, you don't run MacOS in the first place. It's a catch-22.
I never understood why online merchants wanted me to sign up for their newsletters so bad until reading this older post. It's because (so argues the post) if the customer doesn't click to your store from their email, they are likely to search Google for your merchant name and click the ad you had to pay for to stop your competitors from taking the space, costing you several dollars per sale.
Maybe render the Jargon File in this format? Although it might be too large for a single page.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/
The problem with using your example to start this conversation is that there's good reason to believe that GPT-3 memorized your name—username relationship precisely because you were so causal in linking them. There was so much data out there that it ended up embedded in the model.

It's hard to get worked up about privacy in language models when the big scary case in front of us is one where the person in question admits they never cared much about maintaining anonymity.
> Each position in this lock has a bottom pin, five thin master pins, and a special top pin.

In case anyone else struggled with this phrasing, it means the five master pins are thin like pancakes.

I initially assumed thin like drinking straws, which was impossible to reconcile with the photo.
I've read a lot of anecdotal reports just like yours. I think it's way more common than people think when they get into meditation. Especially for people who had any trauma growing up.

I think the IFS model offers an interesting hypothesis for why this happens. According to IFS, we have parts that experienced extreme pain in childhood that hold onto that pain and become "exiles". Other parts are put in front of them as "protectors". Meditation seems to quiet the protectors, which can unleash the pain of the exiles unexpectedly, leaving us without the ability to deal with it.

IFS takes a different approach by working with the protectors, not against them. You only go to the exiles (the deep pain underneath) with the permission of the protectors.
> Like all PoS tokens, they have no value

Then what's special about PoW tokens that give them value?
I laughed then I stopped in a kind of shock because I realised that's becoming a sane and reasonable question.
Bitcoin Cash Pay-to-Script-Hash (P2SH): Past, Present, and Future
Honestly I find I check my phone mostly when I'm bored. So I find productive or healthier but fun things to do.

Also, IMO, phones aren't worse than what my parents' generation did to waste time which is watch TV.
Yes, this is one of the new “talking point” but it literally assumes that entire medical teams are going to sit on their hands all across the country and let women die.

Let me make my prediction right now that this will never happen.
Life is short in a sense that I know I won’t have time to learn about everything there is to learn.
I won’t have time to study and understand the proof of Fermat Last Theorem, the latest breakthroughs of physics. I won’t be able learn piano like a professional or violin. I know that I won’t have time to read many classic of literature, etc.
I can choose to do certain things but now I have to choose where to focus my time.
A poor to rich country should be measured by how quickly they can build high-speed rail networks and their capacity to turn raw input into finished goods. In addition, rich to poor decline should be measured in how quickly the opposite is occurring in terms of decline or inability to improve public works, education, and manufacturing.
Internet protocols are all decentralized. We tried, users do not want to be an agent in a distributed system. They want to watch TikTok on their phone, not setup a home server or a wallet for decentralized finance ideas. Coinbase and similar firms success is proof that people do not want decentralized anything.
Life is short because society takes so much of it. School wastes so much of your time, employment likewise. Some sort of drastic change is needed.oog
If AWS is as profitable as he says there must be a huge opportunity in offering lower cost cloud infrastructure.
Harbor Freight has a 4in blade "mini table saw" for about $40, iirc. not "quality" probably but may serve the need.
in any reasonable society, these problems would be absolute cause for public intervention in the industry, possibly even as far as a publicly owned search engine. but somewhere along the way, corporatism has wormed its way into everything. the left, the right, academia, media, everything. and the message they've left is:

criticise corporations all you want, but don't you dare suggest an alternative
Solaris and beyond – Stanisław Lem’s antidotes to the bores of American sci-fi
>there are plenty of animals that are only parasitic for a specific time and will later live outside any host getting nutrients in a “normal” way

Off course there is plenty of any thing in biology, I was describing every single parasite I know of or read about.

You can remove that requirement from the list if you want.

>I sure hope you don’t mean manipulation in a sci-fi brain controll way,

That would be ridiculous. I meant 'manipulate' as in "cause something to happen for your own benefit" which is an extremely boring way of saying that the parasite has all the agency, the host body is not cooperating with it. Unlike a baby, which the host body is bending over backward to host and nurture, the parasite is 'making its own living'.

>how the hell knowledge even come into the picture

Did you just mis-quote me on that? Because I remember quite clearly that this isn't my actual 4th point, it was a philosophical remark that I said could be a 4th point, my actual 4th point was

>>the host(s) don't host the parasite willingly or deliberately, and usually fight a constant arms race of anti-parasite adaptations followed by counter adaptations from the parasite.

Do you have problems with that as a necessary requirement for parasitism?

>So I really have no idea where you got these ridiculous made-up requirements

3 out of 4 of them are true when you take the time to interpret them as I meant them, and the 4th isn't exactly wrong either. I'm curious as to your definition of "made up".

>Oxford’s dictionary

Dictionary definitions are frequently less accurate than domain specific definitions.

>an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species

>this is absolutely true of human babies

Uhm... human babies are another species?

>the female body is not made for bearing children.

The entirety of this statement truth value rests on a semantic game played on 'made'. You define 'made' as necessarily requiring an intelligent design, whereas I define it simply as whatever happens when a process produce behaviourally-consistent artifacts. The vast majority of planets revolve around stars, therefore planets can be said to be 'made' to orbit stars. The vast majority of female bodies are well-equipped to carry babies, therefore female bodies can be said to be 'made' to carry babies.

When I say 'made', I don't necessarily imply a 'purpose' or a 'designer', I'm simply pointing out the sheer consistency of a form to its function, the female body is as suitable to carrying children as a planet is suitable to orbiting stars.

>Rh disease (where the mother’s body literally attacks the fetus)

Well, every program has its bugs :). How common is Rh disease? How many healthy babies are born for every baby attacked by Rh? Your own immune system turns mad sometimes and start killing you from the inside, does that imply that your immune system is not a machine with killing threats as the main purpose?

>good enough

This is underselling it. It's not hit or miss with a 50-50 or 70-30 %, the things you describe are extraordinarily rare, rarer than computer bugs and manufacturing defects in human-made machines.
Yep. I remember shaman tanking, and warlock tanking as well.

If you didn't care how fast the instance or non-instanced outdoor "dungeon" was progressing (and you had to manage a certain speed, or you'd eventually get swamped by respawns, when that was still a thing), you could do it as long as the group could balance aggro (and/or kite, when that was also still a thing), with damage and healing. We did some really wacky group compositions back then, because that was what we had. And the old talent-trees encouraged it, as a shaman or paladin or druid (or even warrior) could take some talents to let them tank better, while still keeping their character viable for solo-questing or as a dps. And the game and other players didn't actively punish you for being sub-optimal. (I.e. you could, to an extent, successfully aim for breadth instead of depth, because other players were more accepting of the trade-offs involved, for a variety of social and practical reasons.)

I leveled my pally back in the day as a holy/prot hybrid pretty much exclusively via group questing and dungeon runs. Having decent gear for both roles and understanding the abilities was even more important than talent choice, although good talent choice helped. I remember a great deal of my healing set was leather or cloth, because that's what had the best stats for it, which in turn made it problematic to switch roles mid-fight. I suspect that today, even if I could re-build the character as a working hybrid, it would be an unpopular choice because I wouldn't be as fast as a specialist. But "In the Good Old Days" success and good play still mattered.
That's really interesting, if PR's aren't allowed to have multiple commits then why not just enforce squash-and-merge for all PR's? Then it doesn't matter what you do on your local branch, because when the PR is merged it's squashed into a single commit.
What on earth makes you think the Vanderbilts, Rockefellers and Astors aren't part of the ruling class?
With all due respect, I feel there is a time and place for some emotion to come through. The tone policing and courtesy concern isn’t well warranted here, even if well intentioned.

We’re not the computers we program.
https://archive.ph/6niS9
Sure, which still means that they managed to get the password.

But they neeeded anyway the login (here it is a customer number, usually).

I was referencing the parent post because - like everyone else - is talking about SMS interception as one of the major flaws in the authentication process, the way this scam has been carried seems instead to make it (the SMS code) the only thing that would have stopped it (if the victim hadn't revealed it, several times).
>iOS

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/vj40qq/noumenal_my_3d...

Does this count?

And we’re soon shipping Rust components to several hundred thousands of iOS (and Android, but it’s technically Linux) users at my day job, so there’s that.

As for Windows, I wouldn’t know, that’s your speciality.

But I’m pretty sure there is quite a sizable amount of VSCode users on Windows, all of whom are running a certain Rust utility written by the person you’re replying to.
As someone who has tried to do this before, this is very very difficult to do correctly and completely.
This is pure FUD and very dangerous. Firstly, you're talking about a different sub that what I linked to, grouping these together. The subs I linked are female led and moderated, at least BFHS.

Secondly, they also have large numbers of participants from a range of backgrounds with a range of motivations. The subreddits they are discussing tend to have 10s of 1000s of followers actively engaging in various levels of harassment, I doubt that's a single sock puppet.

Thirdly, do you have a source for anything you're claiming?

Finally, if what you're saying is true then someone is posting child pornography to Reddit. Regardless of his intentions we should be concerned about that.
API Calls from Excel
Bubblewrap is cool, but not exactly a like comparison. Bwrap is a tool with a lot of different sandboxing tools, some of which work and some of which don't. OpenSnitch simply looks like an abstraction over your OS's firewall.
> You're blatantly ignoring the white supremacist views and actions of literal neonazis

>Sorry, but I don't care if they're being actively violent at that moment in time because their views are centered around oppressing others and committing violence against minorities and other "nonwhites"

Okay, let's compare apples to apples then. If there was a "literal neonazi" on a subway car and he was unmolested by fellow passengers, would you conclude that public transit users are nazis? This more or less follows the thought process of the parent comment, ie. "you do an anti-vaccine-mandate rally in Canada, one idiot with a swastika shows up, and then media goes on for weeks how everyone opposing vaccine mandates is a Nazi".

>So again, sorry if I don't have any sympathy for literal Nazis

You totally missed the point of my comment. I'm not defending "literal Nazis", I'm pointing out the fact that not enacting vigilante justice on "literal Nazis" is pretty common, so the fact that a "literal Nazi" was roaming around the protest unmolested isn't really indicative of anything. Outside of far-left groups, I suspect the amount of "punch a nazi" type of people is minuscule.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220625115247/https://www.theat...
> Which is why we tend to not keep former people without higher brain functions alive with technology forever/until end of natural lifespan.

Is there a well defined reason for this or is it actually a question of limited resources?

Would we keep people without higher brain functions alive with technology forever/until end of natural lifespan if the cost was 0? Why or why not?

A pragmatic viewpoint probably gives a quick answer but a ideological viewpoint could go eitherway.
> Wealth tied up in art is not doing anything

Wealth* that is not doing anything has no effect on the economy. Suppose I had $100 trillion in cash (or art, or other useless commodity) in a vault somewhere, and never spend a dime of it. How is it impeding the economy? If I didn't tell you about it, you wouldn't even know it existed.

It's only when I start spending it, to redirect labor per my wishes, that I start affecting the economy. If I spend it all on yachts, that will cause a lot of labor and materials to go to yachts that won't contribute anything to the economy once built, instead of going to something more productive.

*Using "wealth" to mean fiat money, or art, or anything that has no productive use. E.g. if the wealth was instead in the form of idle farmland, that would be used to grow food if owned by someone else, then yes, that would be impeding the economy. So one must distinguish between wealth with inherent value, and wealth that only has value because people are willing to pay for it.
I wonder what percent of pre historic large settlements have been found? Probably something like 0.1%. That small sample size and the sparse remains will heavily skew our assumptions about how these societies operated.
Usually when I want to use a search engine it is to find quality products in an area I know nothing about. However, Google has become useless for this, as the results are flooded with "top 10" lists that are seemingly auto-generated and full of affiliate links to garbage on Amazon.

Neva tends to surface better results on these kinds of things, but I'm currently trying Kagi, which groups all the "top n" posts into a section instead of polluting the entire results with them, which is nice.

More and more I'm just giving up, going to a store I have a reasonable amount of trust in, because they care about their reputation, and pick something off the shelf... trusting their buyers did some work. It's a lot faster and easier and avoids a lot of the paradox of choice issues.
In the age of social media, how do you regulate how much they spend on social media advertising?
I think reddit died for me when they more than doubled the price of premium membership (previously called 'gold'). It's just not worth it anymore.

I always used to love how open it was. Don't communities were toxic sure but there were lots of fringey subreddits with people really enjoying themselves. For example exhibitionism. Conde Nast are trying to clamp down on this a lot to make it more mainstream palatable. IMO this is when such platforms start to decline though I have to admit reddit has so far lasted longer than I expected (especially when considering predecessors like Digg)
If you just open the file in a browser, it provides deployment instructions.

I thought it might work like Tiddlywiki, so I tried that first. Not a bad little hack.

Every time I start work in a different business, I start a glossary. I have considered a specialized web application for that purpose, but always end up just creating a Google Doc or a wiki page, depending on what the company uses.
“Not only has Netflix sharply reduced the number of movies it offers on its streaming platform, but now has a lot of competitors (Disney, Apple, Paramount, etc.) that are also tightly managing the titles they feature.”

Doesn’t this explain why much of Netflix content has been removed. Owners of that content removing it from Netflix to feature it on their new streaming networks? The content is still available just not through a single massive aggregator like Netflix was in the past.
I cannot trust critical infrastructure components to 3rd party kubernetes operators. I don't like operators (I didn't write) in general because I find them too opinionated and obfuscated. It's unbelievable to me that someone would deploy a production datastore using one.
Yes and if naturally wired to worry ceaselessly you need significant practice to overcome it.

This world will teach you everything except how to be peaceful which is the most valuable skill of all.
Non-paywall version of article:
https://archive.ph/ZnX2X
> There's a Radiohead lab episode about money the gov gives the families of the people it kills.

Hey fartcannon, I think you're saying that GitHub surprising open source developers with cash gifts is analogous to governments compensating families for killing relatives. My only thought on this is: I hope that you're okay, and if you need help I hope you'll seek it. It's been a tough few years.
Not sure I can relate to this message. I've been working full time since 14, paying for bills and food.

Mom didn't want to be a "mom", and dad fucked off when I was 5. They should have considered abortion, but they are protestants.

Childhood has no autonomy where adulthood gave me more freedom, I will never go back.
"Beauty is subjective" is one of the favorite rationalizations for those who are so used to live in ugliness that they forgot what a good life can be.
Personal views of pro-life/pro-choice though can be separated from the question of "Does a woman have the fundamental right to terminate a pregnancy?", which seems to have much more support. Would a significant majority choose to do that themselves? Maybe not. But it seems the majority feel women DO have that right, and should be able to make that choice themselves.
Nobody Knows How to Watch Movies Anymore
That doesn't solve the problem...
Proxxon has a vocal customer base with high standards, they should hire some of their customers to address gaps in design, manufacturing and QA.

Customer feedback on the mill stand, http://sigmatechnica.com/proxxon-milldrill-improvements/

> Initially I considered all sorts of screw tensioning and spring loading schemes, as well as worrying about the strength of the solder joints but I have been using these modified nuts for about 2 years now and they are showing little signs of wear or failure. With the above 2 improvements backlash on the X-Y table has been reduced from almost a full turn of the handles to less than a tenth of a turn. I think some fairly radical re-engineering may be needed to get much better than that, new lead screws would be a must as the ones that come with it are not that great.

Customer feedback on the drill stand, https://www.amazon.com/Proxxon-28600-Micromot-Drill-Stand/dp...

> To adjust height, a clamp needs to be released on the rear shaft with one hand whilst still holding the drill in its assembly with the other...and it all wobbles a bit...there’s nothing stopping the assembly dropping and potentially doing some damage if there’s a bit in the chuck. So, a touch of genius....I happen to have a couple of springs that came from an old plunge router. Each spring is about 70/80mm long and they’re just the right diameter to fit loosely onto the shaft under the drill assembly. So now when the rear clamp is released, these springs take the total weight of the drill head which now has to be gently pressed down against the spring pressure rather than simply dropping under gravity. It makes an amazing difference and turns the drill stand into a much more professional tool and more like a full size pillar drill. It’s a tweak well worth doing if you can get suitable springs.

The hobbyist community could compile these tweaks/fixes into one OSS document per model, rather than leaving them scattered across product reviews and blogs.