skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A high percentage of high elo League of Legends players are 16-25. Pro players average age is like 22. Not necessarily because younger people are better but just because they grew up playing the game and have lots of spare time on their hands.

Imagine if someone played chess for years and were still at the lowest rank you can reasonably sink to. You would think that person has a learning disability.

It doesn't add up that someone that went to MIT in physics, something that correlates well to logically consistent thinking, would be this bad. He must have declined from drug use, a mental disorder, sleep deprivation.
A good idea would be to pool up every fine where a plate was obscured, and then every time the police find someone with an intentionally obscured plate, they get put in the group that has to pay off the whole pool of unassigned fines.
When you say Live Sports, are you talking about watching a sport live on television, or attending a game live and watching the jumbotron?
Nope. When you buy a widget from the company, the company will use the revenue to do whatever it wants. Same with nonprofits. It's not like they guarantee that your donation only goes to X, unless that was specified. Otherwise it just goes into their general fund.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

LemmyBB, a federated bulletin board - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438493 - Nov 2022* (186 comments)

Open Source federated link aggregator in rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31712332 - June 2022 (37 comments)

Lemmy – A link aggregator for the fediverse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28453165 - Sept 2021 (213 comments)

(*Reposts are fine after a year or so but a major thread 13 days ago makes the current submission a dupe. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)
Couldn’t they just charge for the additional ad space?
But these systems are not used in real-time. Run a light, get a ticket in the mail weeks later, kinda thing.

If just one symbol is obscured, they could get the subset of plates that match on the other letters and numbers and then narrow it down by make and model, from the photo.
> But when they illegally cover their license plate so they can avoid tolls, evade red-light cameras and speed cameras, and generally put others at risk, we say go for it.

Nope. No. Don't.

It's bad to obscure your license plate. It's bad to vandalize other people's cars.

Both of these are true.
40,000 people die in America every year from car collisions. Accountability is necessary.
> In general, if you are going to put your hands on other people, or their stuff, you better be prepared to explain how doing so was necessary and that you had no alternative.

He was prepared—he took photographs. The police reportedly ignored them.
The problem is that at least in my experience, people who are trained in mathematics are generally rather aware of the limitations of models. I find that it's mostly practitioners of other disciplines (sociology, economics, sometimes also CS, etc.) who cargo cult mathematics without understanding it deeply enough.

That said, I'll agree that it sometimes feels like there's two types of people, the ones that think everything is amenable to rigorous and objective reasoning and the ones that think nothing is. But it's important to realise that both these modes of reasoning are important. For example, a mathematical proof can show that there exists no perfect voting system under some reasonable definition of "fairness"[0], but the theorem itself cannot decide whether that definition of fairness is really the one we care about.

But it's one thing to say that "there are more modes of reasoning than ones that lead to objective outcomes" and quite another to say that objective facts play no major role in our society and that getting people to understand that you can't always bend reality to your preconceptions isn't incredibly important.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theo...
Admittedly, I am not qualified for the type of position I selected in the questionnaire, but it’s interesting that there (appears to be?) a manual acceptance filter before I would be able to see posted positions.
I missed the x13s, thank you for bringing it up. So... now that I moved my gaming to Linux on handheld, I can move my laptop Linux to Arm. The current possibilities feel both weird and exciting.
Are you seriously saying that we need modern "push" marketing because doctors can't be trusted to google a cure for smallpox?

I agree that sometimes it's true that people need marketing to discover solutions, but, in the vast majority of cases I've encountered, marketing is self-serving, manipulative crap. For a concrete example, see cigarette advertising, corporations funding climate change denial, or most political advertising.
I bought an ebook from google play once, found out it was some DRM crap instead of just a file, so I pirated it.

I'm at the stage of my life now where I can buy stuff, don't punish me for it.
They used to be hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.Net
In this case, it's relatively easy to avoid the ads in question by not watching sports. You're not losing anything that you would otherwise get without ads: US sports wouldn't exist on the scale that they do without advertising.
It’s pretty wild how the FBI has been basically creating crimes out of thin air by infiltrating groups with informants and then encouraging the breaking of laws. Not just proud boys but also with Islamic radical groups.

I know entrapment is a fine line, but they’ve clearly overstepped it in a few instances.
Two methods:

- duplicity for daily backups to the S3 cloud encrypted with PGP (about 1GB in the bucket, excl. most photos)

- weekly Time Machine backups to two different alternating disks (one rotational, one SSD)

I've been backing up for ages. I used to use floppies. Then R/W CDROM. Then I switched to RAID. Then I switched to cloud. When I discovered how awesome time machine is when switching to a new mac, I started using that about 8 years ago.

Storing valuable data on site with physical media is just far too risky.

My critical docs are in a single folder. It is about 1GB of data. Mostly docs, but some really important audio, video, and image files.

My photos aren't considered critical (well, some are), so they are on the time machine backups.

Music is 100% Spotify.
Is it ads by big companies or small service providers like private music lessons or local church?
You aren't kidding. I loved GW1 and theory-crafting new builds. I had a tremendous time doing competitive Guild-vs-Guild at a high rank, random arenas, and Heroes Ascent. I remember grinding an obscene amount for prestige titles, and I found the rarest item in the game which I still remember selling for 900 ectos (it was the only sword with a different damage type, useful for min-maxing against an opposing monk, and the only place it could drop in the game with perfect stats was as a reward in Heroes Ascent).

GW2 was easily my personal biggest let-down in gaming of all time. They eliminated GW1's namesake PVP mode and the entirety of its super-deep build and combat system.
Oakland is practically lawless. The police admitted they are understaffed and put out tips on how not to get carjacked, I was leaving a park and someone threatened me with a gun about 1.5 months ago.

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/dont-roll-down-your-wind...
Elon Musk: Relaunch Twitter Blue Verified on Nov 29th
He literally says in the article that the person originally asked for it to be private but then agreed to let him repeat it...
> I think we really need to interrogate this idea that filter bubbles are a bad thing. Some of the biggest negatives of twitter (and positive in terms of engagement) is that you have these groups that are opposed, and then a tweet from one bubble goes viral in another causing a war between bubbles.

"Thing from one bubble goes viral in another" doesn't require two bubbles to exist on the same platform, as in Twitter. If the two bubbles are segregated to different platforms, people will still post screenshots/etc of one on the other, and some of those will go viral. "Libs of TikTok" is a good example of this – TikTok and Twitter aren't federated, but that doesn't stop left-leaning TikToks becoming viral in right-leaning Twitter; and you can find plenty of stuff on TikTok critiquing "Libs of TikTok" (and Twitter more generally) in turn. Similarly, there are whole subreddits devoted to stoking outrage at screenshots of Twitter and Facebook posts.

No doubt a shared platform accelerates this mutual feedback process a bit, simply by reducing the friction of cross-bubble quotation; but it still is going to happen a lot even without one.
lost it in latest deployment, will add it back tomo
Huh, it generated a Wikipedia style page for the prompt "A sci-fi novel about a cat":

> A sci-fi novel about a cat (Polish: Rzeczyca sztuki o małym kotle) is a 1978 novel by Polish writer Stanisław Lem. It was translated into English in 1982.

> Plot Summary

> The book is about a cat who is transported to another world, and finds out that it is not a world in the usual sense, but a world of pure information. The cat encounters several other beings from this world, who all seem to be different kinds of information, or rather data. Among them are the computer, the telephone, the Internet, and even the author of the book, Stanisław Lem.

> The cat eventually returns to the world of its ancestors, and learns that he is not the only one who has been transported to the information world.
> This isn't any different than someone damaging your car ...

Isn't it? That depends on whether, in that jurisdiction, the license plate is considered the vehicle registrant's property.

If that plate is the property of the state, and it is illegal for it to be covered by any sort of decal, then it's possible to regard the citizens as having the right to remove it.
Interesting. Part of my pessimism stems from seeing bad graph engines over the decades but perhaps you are here to change exactly that. I will keep track of the latest developments in your git repo. I wish the very best!
Yes I had this too!

Also at first e.g. people having loud conversations in public or on the train and not having a clue what they are saying meant they were much less distracting.
The earth radius is like 10^8 meters and atoms are roughly 10^-10. The statement seems incorrect.
Non-sequitor. There's no evidence that the actions taken were either necessary or even efficacious.
My thought as well, better to leave. Although on the bright-side this did raise awareness
Hell, they employ nearly 50 people just to coordinate some of the fundraising.
There's the next level. Everyone runs around in green screen outfits. Green vs. blue.
> taking the law into their own hands

Story says cyclist is a lawyer, so this was just job research.
And by vandalize you mean touch?
Pay you to leave is different than a PIP
1B Apples’ Secret Sauce: Recipe for Apple Wireless Direct Link Ad Hoc Protocol
I have wondered the same myself.

My solution is simply practice - making a planned, conscious effort to get back to my work whenever I'm distracted. At first, I could lose up to half an hour distracted before realizing that I'm distracted and go back to work. But after a while, the time-to-realize got smaller and smaller. Once you get to a small enough interrupt window, it'e effectively the same as not being interrupted at all.
Yes, or simply not even apply for jobs at companies which are well known to abuse their employees.

Unions are fine, but can take a long time. In the meanwhile individual action is still available.

Just like individuals are free to boycott certain nations products or services before official sanctions are put into place. Sanctions(unions) would have a larger impact, but people still have options before that happens.

An important point here is that the skills are easily transferrable to other areas of the tech world. It's not like asking a carpenter to become a metalworker.
Photographs prove the other person's behavior was illegal, not that his own actions were justified.
I make fun of my girlfriend for using Siri to add up numbers, saying it's probably the most inefficient way ever invented to make computers do that. Looks like you've got her beat.
The passage appears in the Phaedrus, and has Socrates quoting an earlier Egyptian, Thamus:

SOCRATES: … Among the ancient gods of Naucratis in Egypt there was one to whom the bird called the ibis is sacred. .... The story goes that Thamus said much to Theuth, both for and against each art, which it would take too long to repeat. But when they came to writing, Theuth said: “O King, here is something that, once learned, will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memory; I have discovered a potion for memory and for wisdom.” Thamus, however, replied: “O most expert Theuth, one man can give birth to the elements of an art, but only another can judge how they can benefit or harm those who will use them. And now, since you are the father of writing, your affection for it has made you describe its effects as the opposite of what they really are. In fact, it will introduce forgetfulness into the soul of those who learn it: they will not practice using their memory because they will put their trust in writing, which is external and depends on signs that belong to others, instead of trying to remember from the inside, completely on their own. You have not discovered a potion for remembering, but for reminding; you provide your students with the appearance of wisdom, not with its reality. Your invention will enable them to hear many things without being properly taught, and they will imagine that they have come to know much while for the most part they will know nothing. And they will be difficult to get along with, since they will merely appear to be wise instead of really being so.”

<https://newlearningonline.com/literacies/chapter-1/socrates-...>

Note that this is actually Plato writing what many philosophers consider more a literary than literal work (see, e.g., Peter Adamson of The History of Philosophy podcast and book series), through his character Socrates, who then quotes another, so three levels of nested narrative and storytelling.

And while we're noting, "Plato" is itself believed a nickname or pseudonym, with his birth name likely being "Aristocles".
> You think if WMF could run with half the expenses they have today but not lower income they'd just choose to run the way they do?

Their own leadership has said, in as many words, that "demonstrably we are able to run with far less expenses than we have".
The ACA mandate afaik no longer carries a fine so as of today at least you are free to go without insurance if you so choose.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 eliminated the fine for violating the individual mandate, starting in 2019. (The requirement itself is still in effect.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Care_Act

Furthermore how many people are covered by that $2400 a month? I'd assume it's at least 4 if not more?
It's even worse when the hockey players' white uniforms confuse the video effect algorithm into thinking the uniforms are part of the board and the algorithm paints the uniform with part of the ad.

see https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/nhl-fans-are-already-fed-up...
That is impossible to believe. Teens AND children only add up to 12%. No lol. The average age of league of legends pro is 22. None of them starting playing the game after 18. It makes no sense.

Then I already pointed out that the rank SBF was in is populated with the worst players, which is more likely to be children that dont have a fully developed brain.
I could go into detail but don't have time right now for your last point. If you spend a lot of money on any given platform you will get good or amazing metrics. I don't matter if your ADs are creative or not, but the metrics will get even better if you use the latest features the platforms just introduced... and for marketing there is nothing better than good metrics to report to your CMO.
“ After thinking about it for a bit, Godsey agreed to let me tell that story.”

The author got permission
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If your goals are 1) pay for it 2) have the convenience of no DRM, then it sounds like doing it this way worked out fine. Except maybe that pirating as a second step is slightly less convenient than downloading directly from the same place you bought it.
Maybe not "everything". The crypto people have desperately tried to invent things they can claim are not securities. Post-FTX, and post SEC vs LBRY, that's not going to work.

The original theory behind NFTs was that they were "collectable art". But then they started looking a lot like securities, with collections, series, "floor prices", fractional ownership, secondary markets, and such. See [1] The US test for whether something is a security is use, not form. If there's a billion dollar market in trading buttons, it becomes a security.

There are NFTs representing land in virtual worlds. Most of the sellers sold land before actually getting the virtual world working. That's a clearly a speculative investment which depends upon on the promoters finishing the project. This is exactly like selling real land in a not yet built subdivision, which is a security offering in the US. See "Swampland in Florida" in Wikipedia. (Although China allows this; there are people stuck paying mortgages on unbuilt buildings, which is not going well.)

There's the DAO concept, where the token holders own the thing and can vote on running it. That looks a lot like a stock IPO in the early stages. In the later stages, when all tokens have been sold, there's an unexpected kicker. Owners of the DAO may be personally liable for its losses.[2] Not just for the amount they paid. A DAO is a partnership or unincorporated association, and debts pass through to the members.

[1] https://www.pymnts.com/nfts/2022/pymnts-nft-series-can-nfts-...

[2] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/voter-beware-personal-liab...
This is a very telling example, and probably not uncommon.
You can't even put the switch in its own dock without worrying about scratches. Considering that Nintendo has always been a company that makes good hardware the switch has been a huge disappointment. All the scratched screens, dead pixels, and joycon problems shouldn't have made it past the first batches sold.
It’s an interesting choice for sure because I heard a lot of ifs and buts for loads of eventually consistent scenarios on why people wanted to not make any changes to their code and don’t really wanna load extensions. Loading extensions is definitely better in terms of transaction control. I did a lot of soul-searching before settling for sidecar approach. In order to not be an interface and stay away from binding complications for various platforms I opted for sidecar. Once done I was already able to scale out of box stuff like PocketBase.
Microsoft will amp up its anti-harassment rules after Gates affair investigation
Russian missile strike kills two in NATO member Poland
Ahh, good point. The act itself I think was still civil disobedience, but the intent directed at the driver. Cyclist had more faith in the police than was justified.
It's interesting that no professional sports team has decided to go full pink as one of their primary uni colors. It would be an amazing branding opportunity.

The closest I've seen is Miami Heat's Vice unis https://www.nba.com/heat/2021-heat-vice-uniform-collection.
Sounds dope
I remember that. Basically the origin of the phrase "don't rely on Google maps"
I guess their point is that we can try to influence people who are from other cultures, e.g. about the value of universal human rights (and I think we should, though which method is the best is debatable). By contrast, we can't really tell a dead person to behave differently because, well, they're dead.
> What are they doing 6x more of compared to ten years ago? 80% more of since last year?

For one, employing people to coordinate fundraising. Ten years ago there was 3-4 people involved, and now there's nearly 50 employees who work on raising funds... very Ouroboros-like.
In general, you adapt to the excel owner's quirks, not vice versa. If you don't like it you should create an excel sheet of your own and copy/paste, which people also do.

I knew a project manager who's job seemed to be reconciling multiple versions of a spreadsheet with different authors.
Also see: Japanese modernization in the Meiji era
Where do I learn more about alternative systems besides the usual one?
Elon Musk says the new Twitter Blue will relaunch on November 29th
That's a very subjective (and I assume unpopular) opinion. Western nations especially do not share you views, with popular addages being "better die on your feet than live on your knees," "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," etc.

Not that I think appeasement would work, but I think a chance of freedom is more important than a life of servitude for a lot of the west (most?)
> We're mostly seeing dramatically increased call volume due to more people being involved in backcountry recreation and less so due to increased comms coverage through cell or satellite devices.

I wonder if part of the reason more people are involved in backcountry recreation is due to it not feeling as dangerous as it used to because people figure (rightly or wrongly) they can always get help from my phone.

Anyway, I agree with your reasoning that it's important that backcountry rescue be free, becuase of people not calling as early as they should because of worry of cost, and resulting injury, death, or just more complicated rescue... but even though you're assuring me of it, I'm still not sure it's true! I feel like I hear stories all the time (which googling seems to confirm?) of people being charged when someone determines they deserved it or something, depending on who ends up responding... which would make me reluctant to SOS too. I believe you the outfits you work with never charge, but when I'm in an emergency or possible-emergency, I have no way of knowing if it's going to end up being that situation or not... which is a problem.
There are males being placed in what were previously female-only prisons, some of whom have sexually assaulted and impregnated the women there. This is what so-called "trans rights" has given us.
Why haven't they IPO'd already?
Dust off my old response to "augmented reality": subtractive reality.

I originally thought of it as "subtracting out annoying people" but "subtracting out ads" is much more compelling.
I generally buy books that came out recently (but pirate 10+ year old books) and the first thing I do to a new book is crack the DRM so I can just save an EPUB that I can read where I want to read it, when I want to read it.
Poland considering NATO Article 4 activation
I came across https://markups.org, in my research, which crowdsources info on dealer markups. It will give you a ballpark if a dealer should be avoided outright.

Calling the sales department and asking for market adjustment and dealer adds info for make/model is also recommended. Most sales people, although not all, will disclose rough numbers.
What is the likelihood that all existing resolvers will be updated to support schemes in addition to HTTP:// and HTTPS:// instead of happening to support a less-than-uniquely-named URL parameter?
See also: Moveable Type (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable_Type>) and Wordpress (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress>).

Adobe Pagemaker was originally Aldus, named after Aldus Manutius, a renaissance printer and creator of italic type.