skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you’re trying to make exceptions because the actual rhetoric and logic this leads to is distasteful. Using “well it’s illegal” is just shallow logic to differentiate speech that should or shouldn’t force people to expose to as is that people should be exposed to whatever they consent to be exposed to.

Frankly, if Alice is seeking honest disagreement discussion, Alice should seek to talk with people who consent to that kind of engagement with her, instead of chasing after Bob who would rather not engage. If Alice is having difficulty finding those people, maybe her source selection is simply quite uncommon; lots of highly controversial subject matter applies almost exclusively to small parts of the population, and a minority of that minority is generally available to debate on that subject.

I’m sure Alice can have spirited debate about toppings on pizza, a subject that a larger set of people are usually willing to disagree and discuss about. If she insists on trying to force a minority of a minority to debate with her, I think a friend group is fairly justified in defending Bob by ousting Alice, as Alice is unable to respect people’s basic boundaries like “can we change the subject”.
> I want Cities Skylines VR

that exists. there's a version in the occulus app store as we speak
Google was beloved as an employer for years. Then it laid off thousands by email
I think if you want to try it, give it a shot. Buying or renting in rural areas is almost always cheaper than in cities. Do you already own a car? You'll need one. If you hate it, you can bounce without losing much money at least.

I grew up in a rural town and was ready to leave by the time I was 18. Lived in cities for 10 years and loved it. Urban and rural are very different and each have their pros and cons. I think it's basically a personality thing for which you'll prefer, and of course, each city/town has its own unique benefits and problems. Different strokes for different folks.

Just avoid the suburbs!
yeah but that's Germany
adverb: ironically
"used to denote a paradoxical, unexpected, or coincidental situation."

I did not expect to learn the film was set in 2024 and found it oddly coincidental.
At least stability won't charge you for rugged outputs
You have a good reason to not want layoffs in your company unless by “your company” you mean you are the owner.

I also can’t paste anything in ChatGPT window, there are at least 3 spying/tracking software pieces on my work computers. I will comply.
The 80386 System Software Writer’s Guide.

http://www.bitsavers.org/components/intel/80386/231499-001_8...
I'm skeptical that a change in saddle would make a huge difference for the average rider. I personally find that my comfort on the road bike correlates to how hard I'm working - active group rides I'm fine; noodling around with family on the same bike is a lot less comfortable. The only difference I can see is that I'm putting way more weight on the peddles in the first case compared to the latter.

I imagine your average rider is probably a lot closer to noodling around than a group ride.
If someone tries to sue you for copyright infringement on a model output, you can just produce the parameters to the model that produced the output and the case will be thrown out pretty much instantly.
The paper is not about 'Oumuamua, it's specifically about "highly-maneouverable UAPs":

> We derive physical constraints on interpretations of “highly maneuverable” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP)
I suppose if I have eternity to play with it's hard to rule out.
Immediate submission to /r/NoShitSherlock
"Descent" goes back 28 years and I remember getting pretty disoriented and a little nausea, worse than I ever experienced flying a small airplane.

"Descent" was the game where you blast robots in a very 3-d mine.

One oddity of "VR" is it initially attracts people with excellent visuospatial analysis skills; the problem is the majority of the population is not good at it. It would be like implementing a user interface based on bench pressing 275 pounds of real world weights; it would be an incredibly popular fad among people already qualified to participate, then the general public would LOL and that's it. So that's the problem selling VR to the general public; most folks aren't very good at solving maze puzzles and drawing 3D CAD drawings in their heads so a UI based on that will be a hard sell.
> You patch the vuln and you are secure.

Except you aren't, because there's an endless series of them.

> Are you saying there’s a fundamental flaw in Apple’s implementation of secure boot, code signatures, and sandboxing that makes it irrelevant?

I said TCC, and you said everything except TCC. (Although sandboxing is pretty insecure on the Mac too.) The fundamental design flaw is that Mac OS X started as an open system, and Apple tried to tack all of these security features on afterward, without otherwise redesigning the operating system. There are two many legacy features, including "must not break" features, too many openings, too much interoperation, too much complexity. Moreover, it often seems to me that Apple security engineers are not particularly experienced with Mac OS X, which is why an old hack like me can relatively easily find things that they've overlooked.
Just saying "look at Tokyo" doesn't mean anything.

How exactly would you change London to be more like tokyo? As the simplest question - which areas of London would you demolish to make room for high density Japanese housing? Alternatively, if you're going to build wide, how would you connect those areas with the centre, if building new metro lines is pretty much impossible in London for historical reasons?

"London's issue is political will, because too many wealthy and politically connected people currently profit from the current status quo"

That just sounds like saying "it's the elites fault, dude". Like, sure, but please propose any actual solution.
Mammals? Some do. Most other animal I can think of right now? Nope, a snake just.. does its “pre-programmed” thing, the same way a spider creates its web. Jellyfish are barely alive, fish are also not particularly intelligent.

People really did believe even just a few hundred years ago that animals were just “animatronics”, and let’s be honest, plenty of animals don’t disprove it too well.
Understanding the Cause of Fading in High-Brightness LEDs
Creating your own deck is the way to go. Other people's decks never quite clicked for me the same way a self made deck does. A huge part of it is going through the material and identifying the pieces of knowledge that you actually want/need to retain.

Andy Matushchak's prompt guide [0] linked below is amazing. Supermemo's 20 rules for formulating knowledge [1] is great too, Wozniak is the one that invented SRS.

[0] https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/

[1] https://www.supermemo.com/en/blog/twenty-rules-of-formulatin...
> the substantial effect of subverting or impairing a consumer's choice to opt-out

> In October 2021, the Federal Trade Commission issued an enforcement policy statement, announcing a crackdown on businesses using dark patterns that "trick or trap consumers into subscription services."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern

And -

Roach motel

> You get into a situation very easily, but then you find it is hard to get out of it (e.g. a premium subscription).

https://www.deceptive.design/types
All of this makes sense if you only pay attention to what universities say they are instead of how they function in society. Functionally, companies and students treat university as some combination of trade school and expensive credentialing system. A bachelor’s degree is both a signifier and predictor of class. They are expensive, and every office job requires one at a minimum.

The vast majority of CS students aren’t interested in the minutia of theory, they’re interested in reliably getting a job in a field that will let them have a family. And schools know it too, which is why a degree can command and justify a six figure cost. All of the saccharine scholarly platitudes aside, the cost of learning about Homer or first year calculus keeps going up every year.

Forcing students to pay for their own vocational training isn’t stupid and short sighted at all. It’s a form of industry-wide tacit collusion [1] and it’s working.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
I only knew of the arithmetic mean until I came across the harmonic mean while studying F-scores in binary classification.

To me, the arithmetic mean makes the most intuitive sense, and I can't get an intuitive grasp of the harmonic mean and geometric mean yet. Are there any other areas they are used in?
I have been a thinkpad + arch devoted user for the last 10 years. I just want a nice ARM machine now and it seems the best option at the moment is Macbook Air M2 + Asahi. I do not know how to feel about it, maybe a bit of sadness, but I wish great luck to Asahi.

Also every blog they post are great read!
Most of the time, when officers do this, they get paid vacation.
> a disinformation campaign

My sense of this as well. If you recall the past 3 years, the announcements were coordinated and we had former Mossad and CIA heads pushing it.

So the question is for what purpose would you try and sell the idea of ET visiting Earth to the masses?

My speculation -- this is just speculation -- is that it will be a component of an attempt to create a new unified global religion to basically wrap [and undermine the narrative of] the existing (problematic in certain views) global religions. [You know, ET as angels and prophets as ~abductees.]

p.s. this looks like an interesting read (that closes with):

Like the JFK assassination conspiracy theories, the UFO issue probably will not go away soon, no matter what the Agency does or says. The belief that we are not alone in the universe is too emotionally appealing and the distrust of our government is too pervasive to make the issue amenable to traditional scientific studies of rational explanation and evidence.

CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90, Gerald K Haines, National Reconnaissance Office historian

https://www.cia.gov/static/105bd8290b90de13ee136fecc9fe863f/...

p.s.s.

I see a [dead] comment accusing me of "pushing conspiracy theories" and that is not the case. I am very skeptical of the idea of aliens waiting until humans reached a certain level of technology to make an entrance. If anything, pre-modern humanity was far more accepting of fantastical beasts, beings, places, magic, you name it. ET would have fitted right in. Why wait until the age of reason?

So given that lack of belief in ET (not in their existence but rather in their presence on our planet), coupled with 1st tier media and personalities promoting it, and the fact that ET apparently only contacts Five Eyes countries, the question then arises as to why are they pushing this bs?

A speculation followed.
I am sure the office isn't part of the interview casting processes, trying to be hired at Apple is hardly any different from most game studios, regarding what one is willing to put up with to have the name on the CV.
<< Would you want to hang out in an IRC channel where any time you talk someone says, "shut up woman, get back to the kitchen?"

You, an individual who does not want to see this can set ignore on that someone.

<< logically consistent because I see hate speech as an act that restricts others' speech.

It is consistent if you accept the logic leap made to assume restriction on speech somehow enhances it. Personally, I am not convinced, because I think you confuse safety ( or mental comfort ) with freedom.

Maybe the word freedom has become too overloaded with meaning in English language. Maybe we should use something else:

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"

Also, as a very practical measure, even if we do assume that hate speech actually does what it is supposed to do ( identify hate and remove hateful content ), do you really think it is smart to hide it from public view? And we did not even touch that 'hate speech' has recently come, not unlike nazis' to mean 'anything I don't like'.
While travelling, being able to have a rather large library of classic games to play, while using the device that I'm already carrying is a huge benefit. While I wish emulation on iOS was a little easier, using Delta/AltStore is not difficult or anything.

I've carried a Backbone with me and played a ton of GBA games with touchscreen controls and the backbone, and it's pretty great, depending on the game. Carrying the backbone is a lot smaller than a Nintendo Switch or one of the many larger screened android emulation devices that are now available.

This is all up to personal preference obviously, but having one less device to carry is a big plus for me. Game emulation is the one thing that makes me question whether or not it's time to ditch iOS and just get an Android for my daily driver...
I agree with everything you're saying.

I tend to operate with two mental modals because I believe a lot of these divides can be explained by differing educational levels and intellectual abilities.

I think you need to put yourself in the headspace of a 90 IQ dude who has been told his entire adult life that the world is going to end because of climate change. To him the fact that there was snow the other day and the world hasn't yet come to an end is actually a convincing argument that the Earth isn't getting so hot that he needs to be concerned.

Similarly, while this hypothetical person might not be intelligent enough to understand that scientific models are always going to have some level of inaccuracy and there is always some amount of noise in the data, they are intelligent enough to recognise that in the past false claims have been made – and often these claims have been made in a condescending manner.

We've seen similar divides and misunderstandings with Trump, Brexit and the pandemic. We need to find better ways to communicate across social divides – that's what I was appealing to. We have to do a better job at presenting data in a way that's accessible to every while also not being so condescending and overly opinionated that it's off putting to those who remain unconvinced.

Or put another way, a climate denialist isn't going to be convinced by you telling them they're an idiot for not understanding how to analyse the data correctly (even if you're correct). You instead have to recognise the merits of their perspective and try to explain the data in a way that will allow them (hopefully) to come to the correct conclusions.

But like I say, I don't know if this is even possible with climate change. A lot of people I'm referring to here think with their eyes and if they can't see the truth in their own life experiences, and with their own eyes, then they're sceptical of it. Climate change for lots of reasons is unfortunately one of those things that's really difficult to explain to someone who sees snow as evidence of that the Earth isn't getting hotter, but these are the people we ultimately need to convince.

> Do you want to bet your life and the lives of the ones you and we love?

No. That's why I'm saying please stop with the alarmism. It doesn't convince anyone and just causes unhelpful ideological divides.
The rise of the automobile did cause a whole lot of legal and social ramifications that ought to be a good warning.

Drunk driving was legal for years, I think it's a good thing to be wary of how things can change and to be ready, as a society, to deal with unintended consequences of this new technology, even if we assume it to be a worthwhile net good.

As an amusing tidbit: a reporter asking people about making drunk driving illegal, a little before that came to be a reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_tqQYmgMQg
Ad blockers weren't always ubiquitous.
Currently trimodal now
Were you doing anything that even incidentally compared a human to a monkey? Yeah, that's going to hit some red flags on the algorithmic bias bits.
Fully electronic voting cannot be inspected sufficiently to audit. Too many points of failure, too many blackboxes, no way to detect failures.

This has been thoroughly, repeatedly, exhaustively researched and debated. Which is why most jurisdictions (in the USA) have returned to paper ballots.
> i know you're exaggerating

ask someone how 'typing in a textarea in hackernews' works, and you will be surprised (just an example because thats what i am doing right now haha)

> and toxic job market has shown being good won't protect you from being filtered.

of course, who said its going to be easy, my point was, it will be bad for a bit, then good for a bit and so on, it just happens that the youngsters now have only seen the good bit, and are freaking out because they think their job is who they are.
Then why do the mostly stay hidden but sometimes leave exterior lights on?

It seems to me that UFO behaviour isn't consistent with likely alien goals. I would expect them to either announce themselves openly or else be entirely invisible.
Yeah, obviously, or they'd just be offshoring whole teams/departments at a time already. The reason they don't do that is because there's a market rate for good engineering. When an offshore contractor gets good enough, they figure out the market rate and start charging it.

I've been hearing this sort of doom and gloom since the 90s, yet here I am making bank in the USA still
It is almost like they are making it deliberately easy to play with/jailbreak!
It seems it was only removed from the API. Are you really using it there? Can you say more about your use case?
>They oddly hold the view that the EPA can’t regulate emissions that weren’t specifically legislated

>police can purposefully violate our civil rights with what is in effect impunity.

These are separate issues. Congress gives the legislative branch (EPA) certain powers and they cannot exceed those powers without additional power grant by congress. This applies to all 3 letter agencies. Imagine if the EPA decided computers were harmful and wanted to ban them. They don't have the power to do so because congress set limits to what they can do.

There is a doctrine of Chevron deference described here. This is probably what you are accustomed to.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/chevron_deference

>Their justices on the Supreme Court seem to be in favor of unrestricted government when it comes to the anything in the military/intelligence/police sphere.

The doctrine of qualified immunity states any government employee, when doing their job, cannot be sued individually. Judges have a similar protection. This was created from whole cloth and was never legislated. This is an example of "legislating from the bench."

Hope that clears it up. From a layperson, it seems strange, but the judicial system only interprets laws passed and determines of they fall in line with existing laws, particularly the constitution.
I don't want to be rude but a little reality check would be beneficial for you. I recommend reading a little bit about history and how people actually lived in non-modern societies. It was not all rosy.

In life you'll always have to deal with good and bad. You'll meet all kinds of different people. With some you'll click and with some you'll not.

It looks like you're struggling (most of us have been there). As a first step I would remove 'be relatively updated about world events'. It's good to stay informed but try to limit the time you spend on news. As you said it yourself, there's almost nothing you can do about it. Focus on your locality, on your spouse, kids, family and immediate neighbours.
of course, which is why a staggering 1 million of people commute in and out of london every day. But again, I'm just asking how exactly can we address the high price of housing near workplaces in London specifically, if London is already full to the brim and new housing isn't happening not because of regulations or lack of political will - there's just no space to build any more.
Maybe that's true (and hopefully it is) but when I was seeing this behavior earlier today it showed me a series of different conversations with related, but slightly different titles- it wasn't just random unrelated ideas, it really seemed like someone was workshopping an idea over a period of time.
> I can't think of a single shooter where reloading is anything different from just physically doing a reload action like you would with a real gun.

This seems exactly what the OP is complaining about. Why would you want that, rather than just hitting 'r' or whatever?

(I literally have no idea how to reload a gun, FWIW. Having it be "realistic" doesn't actually make it easy or discoverable.)
ChatGPT currently has some issues [0]

[0] https://status.openai.com/
You are totally right, but I would add that even people who take advantage of university also still are only going have been able to hit very few subjects deeply by the 5th or 6th semester.

They are still only 21 years old, and just literally haven't had as many afternoons to spend tinkering.
Job posting: "If you aren't an exact fit on paper, please apply anyway".

ATS system: "Candidate does not have staff software enginer for 5 years of job titles + doesn't have 'SQL' and 'HTML' listed in their skills section" = /dev/null
Deno reminds me of how Python 3 decided to break compatibility in order to get rid of legacy code, and after finally replacing Python 2, has accumulated its own share of legacy.
I've been fairly happy with the Rad Power bikes - I test rode a few many years back and felt they did a good job of "Understanding how to build a good mass market ebike" - they got that a motor covers the sins of a heavy bike, and put the money where it matters. They also, at least at the time, used some fairly generic interfaces such that you could swap out battery packs/controllers/etc without much loss of function (though their console wouldn't work with a random replacement controller). My only real complaint is that they ship with cable disc brakes, which are... eh, adequate, in the flats. I much prefer dual piston hydraulic brakes for any sort of serious hill use.

> Looks like nobody wants to make customer friendly product anymore...

Of course not. Where's the money in that? How are you going to sell all the behavioral data on the backend if you don't have a cell modem in it? (car makers, I'm looking at you)

> ...kids are learning from young age that we need to take care about environment.

Sure! And in practice, this looks virtually indistinguishable from any other sort of consumerism, except it's Green Consumerism. You have to buy the right products to show that you Care(TM) about the environment, and, of course, have to have the money to buy those. How many people purchased Teslas because now a $100k luxury car was an environmental status signal, while living in gigantic houses and having 100 mile commutes?

> And yet I'm unable to buy electric bike WITH INTERCHANGEABLE PARTS...

It's not just ebikes. Bikes in general are going to manufacturer-proprietary parts. Low Tech Magazine had a long rant on it recently - https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2023/02/can-we-make-bicycles...
How will that let people avoid the homeless/jobless scenarios?
I'm a fan of BashBoilerPlate (Bash3BoilerPlate) - https://github.com/xwmx/bash-boilerplate

It uses a similar style of deriving the arguments from the usage declaration, but it also includes some useful logging functions and is all in one script. There's some more info available on their style choices here: https://bash3boilerplate.sh/