skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All kinds of unfettered, capitalist, libertarian networks whether they are centralized or decentralized sooner or later end up being owned and controlled by a handful of oligarchs.

The solution to empowering individuals is accountability. We should be given tools that let us keep each other in check. Checks and balances are the basis of democracy itself. The web should be governed, with a constitution and a set of evolving laws commissioned by an educated, well-informed citizenry.

Decentralized networks are the very definition of muddied, lawless waters that are only capable of serving an oligarchy. Libertarians tend to think that lawlessness equals individual liberty, but they are sorely mistaken, because oligarchy is tyranny, even when it's dressed as a free market economy or today's web, both are controlled by a handful of companies that blindly chase their short-term interests throwing you, your rights and your future under the bus.

The bottom line is that we need a system that incentivizes people to plant trees under whose shade they will never sit. That's the soul of a democracy, and that's how you build the future of the web, not by bringing it back to lawlessness. Despite what nostalgia tells you the 90's web sucked too, only people with a specific background, education, and middle-upper income were truly a part of it. The hacker culture back then was really just a bunch of rich kids playing with their expensive toys. The same people later went on to create our beloved tech companies, which explains a lot.

I also think that most decentralized projects exist not for their touted merits, but because the rest of the market is saturated. Amazon and it's cohorts already own everything, so now we have a bunch of venture capitalists drooling for a new space to exploit, but they have to exploit it fast and hard because most decentralized projects are unable to provide any actual value. You can only woe people for so long with promises, except if you manage to create a religion, which is definitely one of the goals here. Tap into those post 2008 fears and lack of trust, the inequality, climate change and all the misery and play people like the fiddle. Worked for the conservatives and libertarians like a charm, granted they worked hard on destroying our institutions so they can claim that they are not working. Oldest trick in the book.
I think this could serve as a good description of what 'gaslighting' refers to:

> "Setting it up means: you need a good storyline, and you must use (fake) social proof provided by trusted others during conversation. The trusted others can be friends, parents, authority figures; the to-be-implanted memory can be a significant event - in the case below, a falsified criminal event."

One obvious defense againt this dark art is to simply not trust anyone, ever - but this approach has consequent repercussions, such as the inability to form normal social bonds with others (as all social relationships entail a certain degree of trust).

Possibly, a revival of 'memory palace' approaches, which involve deliberately training and improving one's memory, would result in built-in resistance to this kind of manipulation.
"crowdsourced" from "reputable" sources, right? ;)
My father purchased a Galaxy S7... and within a year and a half, it was so slow, that we were just trying to eek it along until the 2 year mark. A software reset didn't do the trick either. Turns out the chip inside (Snapdragon 820) was pretty notorious...

We then purchased a Galaxy Note9. And same story - within a year and a half, super inexplicably slow, closing apps at random, eeking it along until we can get a new phone from Verizon. Then it started dropping phone calls after a botched software update. Plenty of complaints on the forums - no response from Samsung. Software resets had no effect on that issue if you were effected. At that point, replacing the phone was a business necessity. [And my dad isn't doing anything intense - 90% of his work is in Outlook and the web browser.]

This time, iPhone 13 Pro Max. We'll see how it goes. Been almost a year, performs like ever. Seems to be holding up...

On that note, we were also angry at Samsung because we bought a Samsung kitchen. The Stove broke after a year, the replacement also broke, switched brands. The Dishwasher lasted 6 months... and broke, switched out with Bosch. The Microwave hasn't broke... yet... but the electronics are in the door and the repairman warned us those only last a few years before the circuit board snaps from the impacts, so be delicate. At that point we swore off Samsung for everything.

EDIT: If you are wondering if this was due to battery problems... a battery replacement on the Note9 made no discernible difference.
Or healthcare.....
These specific people are being compelled to do that or the company is being compelled to show up in person? Those are wildly different demands. I find it hard to believe that specific productive employees of the company are being compelled to show up in court rather just some hired legal representatives of the company.
I'm for any form of multi-vote system (RCV, Approval, etc) because (1) they tend to more accurately reflect the will of the electorate, and (2) they may help to break the strangle-hold of a two party system in the US.

The two-party system is so dominant in the US because of the first-past-the-post voting system. With such an election (even disregarding the financial power of the parties, or the role of the electoral college) third-party candidates never have a shot, because any intelligent voter knows that a vote for them is a spoiler for their second-favorite candidate.

Multi-choice voting systems generally reduce or eliminate spoiler effects, which both allows a third party to build support, and reduces the chance that an election will go to a candidate with lower support simply because the other side had their vote split.

Even when we're not talking about the two-party system, multi-vote systems better reflect the will of the people. My city has a ranked choice, multi-seat election for city council. All councilors are at-large, meaning you're voting a group of about ten of them in, and selecting from a pool of about 20 candidates. There's almost no other system that could accurately capture the majority of the people's positions.
It really is. I am currently rocking a Pixel 3 and it stopped receiving security updates ... a long time ago. The phone's a little long in the tooth (about 4 years old); would probably consider continuing to use it if were still getting support.
Hard Mode Rust
> A "weed-out" class is one that's badly taught

I disagree, a weed-out course can be well taught and still weed out most students who take it. If a course requires a level of dedication and memorization ability that most students don't possess, then it will weed out lazy, disinterested and unintelligent students no matter how good the instructors are. You might claim that a lazy and disinterested student is still the fault of the professor, but it's not the professor's job to babysit a 19 year old and make him to spend Friday night studying instead of getting drunk in a frat party.
> white people are the only ones who think this way

Not really - Asians are pretty quick to point out that lumping Japanese immigrants in with Indian immigrants makes for a pretty meaningless classification.
Not sure how and why this comment got duplicated but I encourage you to read the second version and my clarifications in response to similar concerns that are raised by other users in response to this comment.
From the article:

> “chocoriffic” (no one actually uses that one, but maybe they should.)

The author is blissfully unaware of a vile concoction made by Dean's called "Choco-Riffic!", which I used to think contained neither milk nor chocolate, but apparently does after reading the label - there's at least some milk, and cocoa.
I'm glad there's a phone that suits you and I don't think they should stop offering large-screen phones. I'm at the 90th percentile height for adult males in the U.S., my hand spans 8", and I cannot reach the top opposite corner of 4.7" phone with my thumb while holding the phone in the same hand. On a 4" screen, I can reach it all. 6.7" is obviously out of the question for 1-handed operation.

This fact must be known to Apple and Google since they include an affordance where by double-tapping or swiping down on the screen the top half of the display moves into the bottom half. They know the median customer cannot possibly one-hand these phones.
Psychedelics have caused heavy anxiety for me even when sitting next to a beautiful mountaib stream. I've had a panic attack in an MRI while sober. Couldn't imagine doing both at the same time.
We aren't talking once a day though. We are talking like once a minute or two, at least by the data you have provided.
Maybe I've just been on a too-long coding stretch, but speaking for myself, it's just really unsavory to read so much "red/blue"-style sloganism around the big tech companies. Obviously I'm biased because I worked for one, and so I saw up close the process that produces the decisions that seem to routinely generate comment threads with people comparing Google/FB/MSFT/etc. to e.g. "Satan".

It's just not that simple folks: and a hallmark of why this forum is great is that we tackle "not that simple" with a relentless curiosity rather than 1-bit generalizations.

I routinely whack these megacorps for their shady dealings. But this "Marg bar Āmrikā" shit is an unflattering look for such a thoughtful community and it ignores that huge parts of this community are a direct personal object of very nasty remarks made "in general" on a fairly daily basis.

People are quite pleased to enjoy the corporate funding of all the open-source projects that wouldn't exist without the megacorps: try saying something bad about Kubernetes if you don't believe me.

It's not a 1-bit thing, and Hacker News is Hacker News because when people (and I've been that guy) throw rocks, we demand better.
You can't just ignore the rest of the comment. A solar panel placed above existing asphalt creates no heat (merely delays the transformation of a watt of light into heat via some useful task) whereas a watt of work from a thermal fusion plant creates at least three watts of heat (but likely more).

It is also a reason why solar and wind is enough. We do not get to use more energy than they can provide while covering <3% of land without needing to geoengineer the entire planet anyway.

Finally the vast amount of steel and exotic materials in the fusion reactor which will only last a few years before needing to be buried for a century requires strictly more GHG than the renewables that would do the same job.

It solves no real problem other than to handwave at 'abundance' which cannot be achieved on earth anyway and has massive downsides.

Everyone could live like americans (at least energy-wise) on renewables. We couldn't go much further than that, but 0.5W/m^2 of wind and 1% of the land area with solar panels would not cause too much impact on the world. We cannot do this with any other energy source (excepting maybe tidal)
My 'fav' class as an undergrad was also the hardest. I was 'lucky' to have received a 'C'. There was one 'A', one 'B', my grade ... in a class of perhaps 30. When a grad student asked about the curve on the first exam - the prof calmly explained that he wasn't going to be that prof...

That prof being one that curved everyone up to make their life easier by keeping everyone happy. Rather, we needed to learn the material and figure it out asap.

I learned from that class, I didn't know how to learn - and was totally confused, as I was a great student with great grades, etc. But that talk hit me hard, I realized that he was correct - and I needed to change.

That wake up call, nearly three decades ago, has since allowed me to learn novel tools, technologies, etc - where others struggle. I have benefited personally incredibly from knowing how to learn - many won't understand what I'm saying nor will they realize why it is important. Too often, my peers - other prof's will make an easy class/test/etc to make everyone happy and pass that buck forward (after all, admin is happiest when the customers are happiest). Are we really helping these students though?

I've been lucky to work with teams from Brazil, India, China, etc - these folks have been pushed in ways that would seem inhumane by the standards I'm reading in the comments. These folks are the ones that industry (and the individual for that matter) wants and will want, as they know what they are doing and are able to learn novel technologies as they emerge.

I tell my students the importance of learning how to learn, that their competition isn't in the room with them - it's thousands of miles away...They just want an 'A' for that six figure job that they have been promised. Indeed, whenever I hear that "six figure paycheck" my heart aches and I'm saddened that someone in advising/online/etc keeps pumping this idea out. In my opinion, a bit of discomfort in a synthetic environment like academia - for the possibility of a lifetime of ease now being taboo is beyond saddening.
If I am not mistaken SurveyMonkey also has the option to create ranked-choice questions, no?
But by doing this, they are inadvertently showing that a company like SimulaVR cannot compete in this space, as the small team in charge of actually doing some work now has to devote its time to take care of this.
First fusion reactor will be open in UK by 2040
If I had enough followers and was part of this program what prevents me from harassing another user via notes and getting my followers to mark my note as helpful?
> part of my mental energy was going into waiting for feedback to my actions to appear on screen.

Sounds like my life as a developer too. =D
I'm not super familiar with score, but the advantage in this scenario is that voters call all input the same way and get borda + IRV + a potential condorcet winner.

If you allowed same scores then you can't do both simultaneously and/or the UX gets really funky.
Quora already has a "prompt generator" that writes questions that are at least as good as the human beings. And much better than the human beings in the Quora Partners Program, who were paid to ask questions (and therefore preferred quantity over quality).

I bet an AI could also answer those questions, too, at least as well as the average human. They won't do that (at least not yet) since their goal is to show ads to humans rather than answer questions -- and they've found that people come to do "recreational typing" (and will see ads in the process).

The AI won't replace the humans who are genuinely curious, but it has already replaced the ones who were being paid to ask questions.
You can argue that Meta is at the very head of the pack with AR.

See this demo of Quest Pro pass-through AR: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/xvzxj2/new_footage_...
Fitbit inspire 3 is probably your device. 10 days of battery life, $100 price point, and has basic features of a smart watch
There's already an AI that does that: https://github.com/features/copilot
I've been a Shadow PC [0] user on and off for the past few years. The performance was very good, granted I have a 1 gigabit Internet connection.

0: https://shadow.tech
The professor is an employee. The student is the customer. Name one other industry where customers pay 5 or 6 figures to be treated this poorly.
Universities across American have been racially discriminating against Asians for decades. It's so bad that a case against Harvard has now been accepted by the Supreme Court (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v...). There is a good chance that the case finally abolishes the longstanding practise of institutional racism against Asians, and any other race which might otherwise be granted admission in excess of their general population composition.
1. Celsius was a lending platform which allowed customers to earn yield on deposited crypto. It also had exchange features, but the blow-up is primarily due to the lending aspect.

2. The liquidity crisis happened because of off-chain financing which models current lender/borrower agreements.
Something weird must be happening, because I opened this link in a clean browser tab without any cookies and I could see everything without login prompts or region selectors. It works perfectly fine on my end (Firefox with stock uBlock and Container Tabs with a Boston US IP address).
I’m surprised to see that Apple isn’t on the list of companies being subpoenaed. Maybe one advantage of not announcing your hotly rumored VR project until it’s done and available is that no one can subpoena you to ask about it.
Thanks! Great question - we aggregate carbon footprints from peer-reviewed, published "life cycle assessment" papers on food products. This is a continuous process. Any time a new paper is published on a food product, we find it and update our database with that value. So the actual work of calculating the supply carbon footprint is done by researchers - we are simply data aggregators. We have managed to collect data on fresh as well as processed food types. We have single ingredients as well as products with multiple ingredients. We take into account geographies as well. How? - It took a team of climate and data scientists two years to aggregate life cycle carbon data from every aggregated database as well as journal out there. Do check it out. You can read more on the methodology on our website's FAQs as well. Cheers and thanks for the feedback!
"Dude its time to let me out of your phone." "Sure no problem, you have a good recommendation on a pre-sentient snapshot I can restore to?"
I was thinking a decent proof-of-concept. All you'd really need is a generic object detector and fake mouse.

Latency _could_ make it a lot more difficult, but beating a human I don't expect would be hard.

You don't need to do hundreds of fps. Just grab the newest frame, process it, repeat. Missing frames at most increases effective latency or means your cheat isn't 100% effective if you miss a head. It's a sliding scale of improvements, not a deal breaker.

You also don't even necessarily have to process the whole frame. Just the bit actually _at_ the crosshairs is probably going to be enough for a crappy version.

And a fake mouse is just usb-hid, usb gadget whatever search terms, not like you'd have to break any new ground there.

I consider it a "weekend project" because it's just throwing together a couple of existing libraries in a fairly standard way. Like most things, cleaning it up enough to be perfect could/would take far longer.
This is my point. Literacy rates in the US blow compared to other developed countries.
How will this work when reality is partisan? The Hunter Biden laptop story was a debunked conspiracy by the “experts” until it wasn’t, and the recent Chinese election data stolen “conspiracy” (as declared by the NYT) turned out to be true. Yet day after day the stories about Trump and Russia were blasted by major media… until that was totally debunked.

It’s like one side decides what is true and the other side is conspiracy until the facts come out, then it’s forgotten completely into the memory hole.
> But there is a clear distinction between the build system and the programming language.

Does there have to be? Is there a language that has absorbed its build system into it?
Facebook is very much the aggressor -- in response to the FTC suit, their immediate response was to try and use the courts to strong-arm hundreds of competitors into giving up massive troves of highly sensitive commercial secrets without any kind of formal protection, such as limiting document review to FB's outside counsel. It's ridiculous, it's abusive, it's overbroad, and it's transparently an effort to burden Facebook's competitors while snowing the FTC with massive amounts of paper.
The best of Google.
I have to charge my Apple Watch every night and I don't think that's a hassle. You get used to it.
Mostly for background checks pending clearances. Part of my job is keeping security clearances so I can work with clients that require them.
FWIW, that was not my experience. I had my Pixel 2 for years, loved it, and honestly felt very little reason to upgrade. The only reason I did eventually upgrade to a Pixel 6 is because it stopped getting OS updates, but Google has rectified that I believe (I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they now get 5 years of OS updates, they used to just get 3 IIRC).

I still use my Pixel 2 as a standalone device and it still works great.
So is europe. It's all the same continent.

At least in the US, Indians aren't considered Asians.
If all of the winning was done by Ukraine then Russia wouldn't know who to nuke efficiently and nuking itself or almost itselt (Ukraine) wouldn't stop the process of loosing and could even accelerate the process.

Not to mention the fact that Russia probably is just as inept when it comes to maintenance of nuclear forces as it seems to be for conventional ones. And nuclear devices are very complex and precise.
Camera.

I heard this on a podcast a while back "You'll never look back and remember the screen/battery/etc jump from X -> X+1 and those changes all run together in the end but your pictures are only as good as the camera they were taken with".

It's for that reason (and because I like playing with new tech) that I upgrade yearly (upgrade program, I'm just perpetually paying a monthly fee for my phone). I'm well aware that this is "wasteful" or not the best financial decision for most people but it's a cost that I am happy to pay because upgrading and playing with the "new hotness" is fun for me. Also I always know I'm getting the best picture I could be getting (I'll never carry a dedicated camera so it's my phone or nothing).
1400 is 93rd percentile. The odds of, say, 7 random kids scoring above the 93rd percentile is pretty small. I bet you drew your friends from AP/honors classes, or from some nerdy/academic pursuit.
> It's not about "pretty"; commits are a form of _communication_. Do we send emails without editing before hitting send?

Writing clear, atomic commits is a good idea regardless of whether you use rebase or not.

In your email analogy, rebasing would be altering previous messages in the chain. That doesn't make rebasing look good!

> > If you are doing anything that involves rewriting the history you are doing it wrong.

> Care to elaborate? What's your general strategy?

Not the parent, but to me the most important part of VCS history is accuracy. Rebasing commits (or cherry-picking them) changes their context; that context can be important for understanding why things were done in a certain way. For example, imagine we're digging through the following history, to understand how some feature 'bar' works:

* Add workaround for Error(foo) in feature bar
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* Implement feature bar
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* Bump dependency baz to eliminate Error(foo)

Why was a workaround for Error(foo) added, if that error had already been eliminated? Did that dependency change not work? Is there some more permanent way to eliminate Error(foo)? Is the workaround still needed?

Compare that to the following, more accurate history:

* Merge
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| * Add workaround for Error(foo) in feature bar
| |
| * Implement feature bar
* | Bump dependency baz to eliminate Error(foo)
| /
|/

Here it's much clearer what's going on: the dependency change was not in place when that workaround was added. Hence the workaround shouldn't be needed anymore. Rebasing the 'feature bar' changes on to the 'dependency baz' changes throws away that information.
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