skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue is whether the democratic process in place is enough to dislodge the incompetence/corruption (or whether the process can be uncaptured by powerful interests if it is). Without an alternative, support will be granted to illiberalism or an authoritarian that promises to fix things themselves.
That is a checkbox on the bankruptcy form, it’s not a free text field.
To your last point, are most American shows aired in Quebec translated into Quebecois French? I’m from Ontario and had no idea, I always assumed they watched the France version. That’s very fascinating!
Yes, OpIndia pushes far-right agenda that doesn't change the fact stated in the article I linked that Md. Zubair has deleted his facebook page after people started reporting his post.

BTW, what agenda Alt News promote? Regarding injustice, if you are alive atleast you can hope for justice.

What justification you are going to provide for beheading of Hindus?
Pull the lever and house someone homeless if you have a spare room.

Don't pull the lever and let the homeless people die over the next few years.
It just shows the usual knowledge on the topic of its critics, not even knowing the target program.
Ignore the issue of tribal-level consent

I don't understand how that's even an issue. A tribe has no more right over its members DNA than someone's parents or pastor do.
What are the concerns for vendors?
there is also a huge amount of work remaining to be done in programming models and consistency.
Like a dishwasher but for teeth?
I used to be on the BSD side about software freedom but the way non-free software has been abused to go after my mind (along with the people around me) has made me a GNU zealot. All of the machines I own (including my phone) run GNU/Linux and virtually no non-free software.

IMO if you can't handle free software (and some people can't) then you should just stay away from computers for your own good; they'll use you rather than the other way around.
If you had 3 wide monitors instead, would that make the ultrawide less appealing?

It would solve the “center bar” issue, for example
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There are metasocial reasons for this that are probably best illustrated by one of the classic variants on the trolley problem. Imagine you're a surgeon in a hospital. You have a healthy patient who is under for knee surgery or something. At the same time, five people come into the trauma ward from a trolley accident down the street, all of whom will die without an organ transplant. All of them are compatible with your patient.

What should you do? If you're going to take the view that failing to save a person you could have saved is morally equivalent to killing, then clearly you should kill your one patient to save the other five.

But think of the longer-scale effect this would have. Would anybody ever go to a hospital and get elective surgery knowing they might be killed to harvest their organs? A more general form of trolley problem doesn't necessarily present that exact dilemma with such clear consequences, but at any scale, think of the consequences of being concerned with what happens because of your inaction. Do you donate blood once a week or whatever the max frequency is at which your body can regenerate the red cells? Do you still have both kidneys? Do you ever spend money on anything except bare minimum shelter, enough grain to stay alive, and every other cent going to the AMF or whatever the maximum QALYs saved/dollar donated charity is? How many people have died in your time on Earth that could have lived if you'd done something different? If we all seriously made that a primary concern in our daily decision-making, virtually all productive action would be paralyzed. Everybody would be trying to become a hedge fund manager living like a pauper and giving all their money to the AMF, but the AMF would no longer be able to do anything, because everyone would be a hedge fund manager and there would be no one left to manufacture mosquito nets.
Some of the New Chronology is delightfully whacky. In particular I love the idea of historical events documented by independent sources result in appearing to be two or more events that cause the timeline to be expanded. One example is that Suleiman the Magnificent and Solomon were the same person, just documented from two different perspectives. And thus the Hagia Sofia and Solomon's Temple are the same building.

His criticisms of radiocarbon dating are interesting (while not completely supportive of his hypothesis). But it is an interesting rabbit hole to dig into; the relationship between radiocarbon dating and dendrochronology, and the attempt to get an accurate historical record of carbon isotopic composition over the last couple of thousand years is a surprisingly difficult problem, and in many cases has circular dependencies on known ages of artifacts.
It seems overly simple to me to reduce it to "more is better". What if the five people are 100 year old dementia patients moaning in agony and the one person is an infant? Do you still pull the lever because "more people alive is better"? What if the five people are infants and the one person is an elderly convicted murderer, does that change how easy it is to pull the lever? In "more is better" neither shouldn't change your view, but they feel different.

> "(eg utilitarianism, which says the outcome is what matters)"

Speaking of the outcome - before you are involved, the person who tied six people to the tracks is attempting murder; if society finds the person it will punish them. After you pull the lever, should society try you for murder? For aiding and abetting a crime? Celebrate your rescue? A society where any individual can kill any other individual, if they think it is for the greater good, feels like it would be unable to hold together. The outcome of more people being alive but the destruction of society seems like it could be bad enough to outweigh the loss of five people.
I was surprised to discover that wxWindows still has regular releases. I figured it would be one of those projects that has like a single volunteer doing the occasional bug fix in the evenings and weekends.
Have you read any of the mass shooter manifestos? I haven't seen any that are far right. The closest was the buffalo shooter's but his also had a lot of far left ideas in it and anyone who's truly part of the Right knows that just going after random Black people is a waste of time given the homicide statistics among them.

He really did seem to be maximizing attention more than anything else.

This last guy they made a big deal about was literally a jew (mother was a jew, he attended a synagogue etc) by the way. They say Hitler was a jew so I guess that's how you can tell the real Nazis apart from normal homophobes. /s
So basically it's a type of Caesar cipher where letters are mapped to something else one-to-one. Very easy to decrypt / reverse. If this tool ever became popular there would be hundreds of scripts to defeat it.

And as it is, it does not prevent "OCR", only copy-paste.
As someone working in consulting, I can attest to the fact that most of the phrases you just ran off are buzz phrases that are the verbal representation for
"kool aid". Leadership has to basically put out reports or justifications for the latest projects and how they will help drive the company forward(whether it will or not is pretty much always in question).

To be honest, you can benefit from it by learning what the terminology is and how it translates into actual changes for the future of the company. If you can identify the places that leadership is putting emphasis in, you can work on things that further that initiative and likely catch the flow into promotions and bigger roles at the company.

For example: A company says they are doing digital transformation by moving their data from Excel spreadsheets into a Salesforce instance. This will be a multi year project that will hypothetically increase efficiency and raise revenues by 50%. If you are working on the Excel side of things, this would be a good time to consider learning about Salesforce!

Not everyone(hell, I would say most people) wants to do this, and that is totally okay. If you're in this camp I don't see a problem of just going about your business and day to day work.
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Speaking as someone on this community ostensibly for hackers, it would be nice simply to have an F-Droid for iOS. (Or the late XDA Labs.) It would be neat if Apple allowed such a community of tinkerers, tech-heads, FOSS enthusiasts, and hobbyists their own little platform to curate apps. Just having the option for such a subculture to exist on iOS would be nice, in this present where both web and native feel like big box stores.

For a long time now, the official App Store itself has been overrun not only by scammy apps, see Kosta Eleftheriou's excellent investigatory work into top-selling fraudulent apps, but also by poor discoverability with outdated UX and obtrusive search ads. If the platform was opened, just a little, one could imagine boutique third party specialized app stores hosting curated apps for curated purposes, which would help with app discoverability greatly. (Apple has banned app discovery tools from their App Store, see the 2013 removal of AppGratis.) It would be a little like the return to the web of GeoCities and Angelfire, when websites had more free expression and control, except on native. A legitimized Cydia, perhaps.

It didn't have to be like this, all regulatory pressure and billion dollar fines. Apple could have chosen to open up the App Store on its own terms, issuing a privacy-hardened AppStoreKit that third party app stores would use, providing mandatory security scan APIs a la macOS notarization, going through reliability processes that Apple approves, heading regulators off at the pass. Apple already has authorized third party resellers and service and repair providers, why not app stores? Apple could have allowed the flourishing of an ecosystem where they are still in control, but as delegated as the code in their apps. Instead they tried to do it all themselves, making themselves the singular point of failure.

> what do we gain?

The freedom of possibility.
1776-1920 is how many years?
There is a name for it, democracy.
> Tasleem Rehmani said something denigrating towards a Hindu God

I watched that entire debate and he didn't say anything degrading towards Hindu Gods.

Here's the context-
Hindu RW claimed a fountain in Gyanvapi mosque (situated in Kashi) as Shivalinga (God Shiva's phallus)[0] which is a part of larger campaign of claiming Muslims mosques as Hindu temples by RSS/BJP. Started with demolition of Babri mosque (situated in Ayodhya) in 1992.[1] The war-cry of the time was "Ayodhya to zaki hai. Kashi Mathura baki hai" (Ayodhya is just a trailer. Kashi and Mathura are remaining)

Many Indians (majorly we secular Hindus) made fun of communal Hindus for claiming anything shaped like a phallus to be a "Shivalinga". I myself shared how in 1990s Hindus in San Fransisco started worshiping traffic barricade as "Shivalinga".[2]

[0] https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/hindu-group-recognise...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_of_the_Babri_Masjid

[2] https://www.freepressjournal.in/viral/san-francisco-people-w...
> sans the 80s fashion inspirations :)

You definitely haven't been paying attention to Gen-Z people then. The 80s are back.
We’re still very early - of course it can't be as good. Could you tell me what you were trying to do and how it didn't work for you?
> or some fun bare metal + PXE combination

This is actually what I implemented for our hypervisor tier, it’s not as scary as it sounds. I could legit completely rebuild our entire stack down to the metal in about 3 hours.

Kick off a new hypervisor version, the inactive side PXE boots all the nodes, installs and configures a Proxmox cluster, slaves itself to our Ceph cluster, and then either does a hot migration of all the VMs or kicks off a full deploy which rebuilds all the infra (Consul, Rabbit, Redis, LDAP, Elastic, PowerDNS, etc) along with the app servers. The hardest part (which really isn’t) is maintaining the clusters across the blue/green sides.

With this setup our only mutable infrastructure was our Ceph cluster (because replacing OSDs takes unacceptably long) and our DB (for performance the writers lived on dedicated servers, the read replicas lived on the VMs.).
Where to wait for an elevator (2010)
Then people will have to wait for the police before they are blown up or lose a limb.
I used to be a big fan of IRC, but I'm not so much anymore. The reason IRC tends to suck is channel operators and network operators that enable them. No amount of technical advancement will solve that problem. Channels on IRC are unique, and much like domains, so there's not much community competition to sack bad channel operators while network operators are very hands off.

What I'd love to see is an open source version of discord take off. Especially if there's a discovery mechanism built in.
Yeah I ditched my 2019 16" for an M1 Max. Was an expensive move but honestly, I couldn't bear to use that thing as a laptop, especially once I knew there was an alternative which doesn't get hot enough to fry eggs on.

For me it was worth it, because I now enjoy using my laptop as a laptop on the sofa or whatever, and do a lot more creative stuff on it than I did with the old one. But definitely not a cheap move!
True. I do allow myself some leeway when I get deeper in the conversation tree but it's still noise I'm adding since HN is much flatter than other forums. I really need an outlet that will fulfill my need for expression but without going full Reddit.

Or maybe I just need physical colleagues and coffee break humor.
Is it possible they took down the blog or blog post? That happens and no amount of google wishing brings that back.
Maybe virtual assistant?
In the works :)
> UnrealIRCd (a popular IRC server implementation) have actively refused to add features in to the code-base that allow IRC operators to snoop on private messages or covertly on channels, for example.

Someone should have told Angrywolf. This module was on every "we used to be on BigNet but we split off because reasons" UnrealIRCd network for a while, haha

https://pastebin.com/EVkudZVb

(disclaimer: don't use it for moral reasons, but also because I've not vetted the code in any way beyond checking it looks a bit like code)
What is a carpad?
This is disingenuous. There isn't a constitutionally enumerated right to an abortion, so the tenth amendment relegates this decision to the states. There is a constitutionally enumerate right to keep and bear arms.

Also worth noting the counter argument is that the fetus and the mother may have competing interest. The controversy and lack of guidance in the constitution means democratic process within the states may not be the worst way to go about this.
But these things are inherent to the problem domain.

Sure, noone will be as angry at a Paint-clone’s maintainer because, well just use something else. But it is not trivial in case of non-trivial problems like booting and audio, both requiring some standard IPC communication besides the inherent complexity of the program itself.
Yeah when I had an iPhone I was really annoyed I couldn't leave an IRC client in the background. I'm certain I wasn't alone.
Oklahoma requires a thumbprint. Electronically.
I think there is still tribalism within a homogenous society with respect to its place with other societies in the world. Within multicultural societies, there's the risk of systemizing economic hierarchies and niches between identities. A healthy society would do well to avoid this pigeonholing.
Reducing all conflicts between different cultural groups to “racism” is an Americanism. “Racism” is a specific concept that explains why, for example, British Americans in Georgia might feel more affinity for German Americans in Indiana than more culturally similar Black Americans in Georgia.

That’s not what’s happening in Quebec. It’s not like rural Quebecois are welcoming of Anglo Canadians either. They simply oppose multiculturalism, just like China or Japan or France itself.
Human Urine-Derived Stem Cells to Retain Telomerase Activity
It's not that absurd to believe mistakes could have been made there. The BC/AD system was invented centuries after Christ and only started to become actually known around the 730s:

The addition of the B.C. component happened two centuries after Dionysius, when the Venerable Bede of Northumbria published his "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" in 731, wrote Antonia Gransden, who was a reader in history at the University of Nottingham, in her book "Historical Writing in England: c. 500 to c. 1307" (Routledge, 1997). The work brought the A.D. system to the attention of more people and expanded it to include years before A.D. 1. Prior years were numbered to count backward to indicate the number of years an event had occurred "before Christ" or "B.C.

The B.C./A.D. system became more popular in the ninth century after Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne adopted the system for dating acts of government throughout Europe."

https://www.livescience.com/45510-anno-domini.html

Before the adoption of this system dating was rather chaotic, with dates usually being recorded as "year X of the reign of so-and-so". To line dates up and synchronize them on a timeline was difficult, and synchronization of European, Islamic, Greek and Roman history wasn't even attempted until the 16th century (Scaliger's De Emendatione Temporum).
Non-credible is totally subjective. You are always taking someones word unless you check for yourself. Who do you believe? It's not the alternative it's the way things are.

Evidence to the contrary doesn't discredit anything in the minds of most people... They are more likely to simply attack the person putting forth the evidence for causing them cognitive dissonance migraines.
This is called the JVM and everyone has spent the last twenty years getting really upset about it.
> Texas is underwhelming

Huh? They started construction less than two years ago; I don’t understand how it can be underwhelming.

Par for the course would be “we found a company to dig the foundation” at this point.
Not really sure what you're advocating for that's materially different than what I posted.
To me, this falls under the category of — you can’t have a technical solution to a societal problem. Yes, technology may have made your friend feel better. But the actual thing that protected him was the law, not the obfuscated PDFs.

But, if the judge didn’t care and it made your friend feel better, who am I to judge? But this isn’t a great protection scheme… it just adds a few extra technical hurdles that are easy to get around.
> The main problem was using a machine that had access to half a billion dollars

Going up a level, the main problem was that the company had a system where a single person could irreversibly transfer half a billion dollars away from the company.
> you could actually download large archives from multiple mirrors

I still have this need these days, but for kind of the opposite reason as I did back in the GetRight days. Today my own internet connection is fast and always-on, but lots of files I want to download get shared via file-upload services like Mediafire, MEGA, etc. JDownloader2 does a great job resolving links from disparate sites into a single download and gracefully handles the countdowns/captchas/quotas when I don't want to buy a premium plan for any given upload service: https://jdownloader.org/jdownloader2
Mine's gone in the cupboard and never been used since the M1 Pro arrived.
Some companies have a culture where everything is discussed in meetings, and if you aren’t in all the meetings none of the context is anywhere else to be found.

The best thing to do (if you want to catch up) is ask someone who seemed to know what was going on to get you up to speed after the meeting. Or, if you don’t, just try to get out of the meetings. Nobody realised you had no idea what was going on.. they probably won’t notice if you weren’t there at all.
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For reference, Roadrunner, which was the first petascale system in 2008, used 2.35 MW (according to Wikipedia). So this one gives us 1,000 times the performance for 10 times the energy. From a performance/Watt perspective, this is an impressive improvement.

EDIT: Wikipedia also says Roadrunner was not considered power-efficient in its day, which led to it being decommissioned after only five years of operation.
> Or is it to decouple some services that need to scale in different ways

This is really over sold. You could allocate another instance to a specific service to provide more CPU to it, or you can allocate another instance to your whole monolith to provide more CPU.

Maybe if the services use disproportionately different types of resources - such as GPU vs CPU vs memory vs disk. But if your resources are fungible across services, it generally doesn't matter if you can independently scale them.

Compute for most projects is the easiest thing to scale out. The database is the hard part.
The US has had a gun violence problem ever since we've had big gun manufacturers. The gun massacre terrorism epidemic is relatively recent.
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> Considering the shared GPU memory

Shared memory and unified memory are very, veeery different things.
That's just business. "Omnichannel" is pretty dated buzzword, but the notion of reaching users through different mediums (ads, emails, push notifications, even paper mail) is still very relevant and if you're a B2C it's probably really critical to success and a thing that your leadership are investing in at least as much as building a platform. I recall sitting in a brown bag session early in my career where someone explained a "sales funnel" and it just lit up my understanding of the kind of science that goes into user acquisition and conversion. Developers and product managers spend a lot of time thinking about serving their users, but acquiring and retaining users is a whole art and science unto itself and you'd do well to study up and get at least a cursory understanding. It will open your eyes to a lot of what makes a business run. There are a lot of technically trivial things that can unlock a ton of value in ways that really aren't obvious. Especially, tech savvy people who tend to mute notification, run ad blockers and block email marketing may not realize how much average consumers respond to that kind of thing.
possibly at some point in the future, it's a very early prototype right now. the objective is actually to make a spreadsheet-based video game.