skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to identify themes absent from media is a powerful tool. There’s certainly conversation to be had here—I’m no Stalin apologist, and the USSR is endlessly fascinating to compare to the US. American war crimes do not cancel out the crimes of the USSR.

The article doesn’t advance substantive values to take fault with. It doesn’t levy much criticism against Stalin, allowing existing American culture to do the heavy lifting. The climax of the article is the man confiding to his son that he believes Stalin’s deeds are justified. Robeson is dead and not quite the “towering social figure” the author says he was; at least not anymore, and likely not to most people reading the article. The intended communication must be the paradox of a man committed to social justice who supported a mass-killing cult figure. This is a claim of hypocrisy very comparable to claims that people levy against the US daily. However, in attempting to critique Kissinger or Abrams, I hope to critique the imperialist nature of American culture and particularly our sense of nation that is blindingly obvious since the wall fell, my entire life.

Meanwhile the USSR is long gone; what is the end the authors hope for? If we applied the same standard to the kinds of people American politicians openly associate with at public social functions, half of congress would be “canceled” for idly chatting over champagne with war criminals, let alone confiding their support in private to a child. Hell, most Americans are complicit in American crimes by the logic illustrated in the article. I’m fine with a high standard, but that’s not what they were trying to imply.

This is an attempt to frame contemporary political movements on the left that are ostensibly domestic and material as national security concerns, even if only in the back of your head. I’m open to other interpretations.
Can be done skiing as well.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=At3xcj-pTjg
> 30% of question consists of "how to do this on my homework, please submit a full solution"

I've suggested a few times already that part of this problem might be that asking questions is the first privilege you get and you get it for free.

If it costs something people would be more careful.

The cost can be anything:

- Classify 5 answers correctly

- Pick answers from a multiple choice

- Pay a dollar

- Wait a few days to activate

- etc

Ideally the user should be able to choose a method that suits them but make the account worth something.

As long as accounts are free, activate instantly and comes with a free right to ask questions, stop being surprised that new accounts pop up to ask silly questions.
Do you remember Bonsai Kitten, and the breathlessly horrified email campaigns against it? People have had difficulty determining real from fake for a long time.
> But invoking thermodynamics (except as an upper bound for calories in) is not justified by our current understanding of metabolism.

The problem is when people claim that they can lose weight without running a calorie deficit. This is what's obviously wrong, and it is completely fair to invoke thermodynamics as a way to immediately and soundly refute such claims. When someone claims to have anecdotal evidence of losing weight while not running a calorie deficit, the error is not with the "calories in = calories out" equation but with their poor accounting of where the calories are going.

In my experience, people who promote their pet dieting theories (especially ones that promise dramatic weight loss without requiring exercise) using thermodynamically impossible claims are far more prevalent than people who mean lab calorimeter data when they talk about the calorie content of their food. Your comments about gasoline and wood chips are an insulting straw man, because nobody is ever referring to those numbers in a casual context. They're talking about the calorie numbers that can be found on nutrition labels, and those are meant to approximate metabolisable energy, not heat of combustion.
It doesn’t, but the major webkit ports all have bridging APIs to make interfacing from a <gtk,qt,wx,corefoundation,cocoa> cleaner, and potentially lower cost.

I recall there being a desire to make it easier for bindings to be done entirely through the API, but as said elsewhere the API is somewhat clunky. Of course any level of abstraction adds costs - for example by being tied to the innards of JSC the various bridges are able to directly bludgeon the tag bits in JSString (the jsc raw string type) so there’s zero copying.

It also theoretically means you can do automatic object bridging (see the objc bindings).

So it’s not “JSC has to have UI bindings” as much as “JSC can be built with bridging APIs for major embedding frameworks”.

There is a trade off to be made, and long term I’m sure everyone in the JSC team at Apple would rather they could pull the bridges out of core build, but API design is very hard when you are having to think about long term support, coupled with continued support for the existing APIs.
Yep. If it's locked then it shouldn't be useful. If it's locked and useful then there is a problem.
>I start getting head-aches and feel awful long before that.

Well, people often also get cramps when they first start working out. After keeping at it though...
As mentat pointed out, it shouldn't be locked.
Assume all Internet connections are party lines and just encrypt all the things.
I completely agree that rebase and manipulating the graph history is part of the design of git. But also you can use git effectively without manipulating the history (in a non-incremental way). And you don't lose anything in terms of branching and merging - in fact you gain in terms of safety and simplicity in a distributed system.

The argument I guess is about what you consider the cost of inflicting "irrelevant noise and cognitive load" on other users. I believe it's not significant and is mostly a function of the deficiencies of the history browsing tooling. On the other hand, I believe that the cost of making rewriting history part of the workflow is significant in terms of the load it places on users to learn features like rerere, for example.

If I've understood you correctly then I think neither of us can be right or wrong - it depends what each of us considers a greater "cognitive load" or cost which is going to be based on our personal experiences and preferences rather than something empirical.
Please take my upvote. I don't understand why some on HN keep trying to equate "a calorie is a calorie" with nutrition and satiety. The first is a unit of energy and the other two are not. It is that simple.

I do 16:8 Intermittent Fasting. Are there health benefits to it? Maybe. But I know for sure that if I want to drop a bit of weight, this style of eating makes it a lot easier for me for reasons of hunger more than anything: I'm not that hungry until I eat. I also know for sure that I like eating big. If I have a couple small meals early on, I can have a great big meal near the end of my window as if I were a lion taking down a zebra.
Ted Bundy's mom Louise refused to believe her son was a murderer despite all evidence to the contrary. Her son admitted that he was the culprit and only that made her come out of her denial.

In a lot of third world countries it is pretty common and even expected that the average Joe will vote for whomever appeals to their emotions. Every sin of the politician is forgotten and forgiven even if the said politician has a history of inciting murder or being corrupted etc.

There is a good chance that people who voted for their candidate made up their minds long before any kind of "fake news" hit their newsfeed.
An important factor often overlooked is taste preferences. I have many friends who are lifelong vegans, and tried vegan myself for a while before deciding I couldn't do it, and in my experience healthy vegan food (i.e. not French fries) is overwhelmingly on the sweet or sour side to my taste. I actively dislike both sweet and sour flavors, you'll never see me eating desserts or fruits, which greatly reduces the spectrum of palatable vegan cuisine. I imagine anyone with similar taste preferences as myself would have similar issues with a vegan diet. Vegetarian cuisine, by contrast, has a more balanced spectrum of flavor profiles in my opinion.

I experimented with many diets to find my own optimal tradeoff between great tasting food and healthy diet. I landed at low-carb diet where I am de facto vegetarian multiple days per week, but still eat a modest amount of meat and I don't feel like I am sacrificing anything because I built up a large repertoire of vegetarian (and even vegan) dishes that I happen to love that are also low carb. I think it could be properly characterized as a vegetable-heavy ketogenic diet, but I am not that formal about it -- these are guidelines for good living, not rules. Both Indian and Mexican cuisines are good starting points for low-carb vegetarian fare that is rich and satisfying.

You can adopt a vegetable-heavy diet that is tasty and satisfying even to an unrepentant carnivore, but it requires doing a lot of work, exploration, and experimentation to find vegetable-centric dishes that you actually love and find delicious. I think the big gap for many people is that low-carb, salt-forward flavors, a common preference for meat eaters, is poorly represented in popular vegetarian cuisine. Even though I eat vegetarian much of the time and live in a vegetarian friendly town, I won't eat most vegetarian restaurant food.
And, do could you also have anything to do with a city in the Horn of Africa? Your username kind of sounds that.
What kind of replacement, Stack Overflow has? I never saw something similar, more curated that would please these people...
Similar goals, very different implementation.

The goal is memory safety, but rust has the borrow checker which is rather different than reference capabilities.
Bah, I messed up the Pascal-bar conversion in the text. Carbon nanotubes have S = 100 GPa = 1 Mbar. Too late to edit now. Thanks for catching this.
I read through the article and wondered, how did they determine which questions were fake news and which weren’t? That wasn’t really addressed. Oh well, I guess I’ll just believe what I was told by the WSJ...
Here is what OP wrote :

> I wish SO had the courage of its convictions and stopped all locked pages from being seen by search engines. That way unhelpful links wouldn't waste people's time when searching for answers.

Something completely different in my opinion.
What is this, a 16 year old's blog? This is bad advice through and through...
SpaceX is planning to put 12,000 more satellites up, so their refusal to move to avoid a possible collision they caused is notable.

They've also refused to comment, and Musk's reputation doesn't engender faith in their reasons.
He's out on bail
> Do you also have a Sanyo battery?

No idea

> Did you often completely discharge it? I heard that charge/discharge patterns can have a large influence on the capacity.

yes. I heard recently that there was also the trick/settings of not recharging it completely but I may be too late for that.
Also wondering if the Linux battery management may have something to do with it.
Javascript/Typescript, and yes, pretty much.

This are how you make objects, this are how you make functions, here's constants, here's variables. Use let instead of var for the scoping you're familiar with. Here's a standard library, it's a bit spartan but pretty much everything is familiar.

Later on I stopped using 'class' and 'this' and just used closures that return objects (I consider it more idiomatic, YMMV). I got a good feeling for when to use an object and when to use a Map.
https://www.google.com/search?q=greenfield+software&rlz=1CDG...
Putting P-T into context, the conditions involved in synthesizing some forms of lanthanum decahydride are enough to create diamonds.[1]

The cubic phase of LaH10 is synthesized around 170 GPa and 1000 K.[2] The SC properties arise ~10 centigrade below the freezing point of water, but still under enormous pressure (190 GPa).

So if a sample of graphite were cooked aside during the synthesis of cubic LaH10, it would have become a diamond by the end of the experiment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond#Thermodynamics

[2] https://sci-hub.se/10.1002%2Fanie.201709970
(This paper shares some authors with the paper to which this post links.)
Names clearly CAN transmit meaning once a context and a vocabulary are a given, to quote Leslie Nielsen, isn't that right mr-poopy-pants? Even five year olds know this, and for some reason math- educated-types (look, i did it again!) are especially against combining symbolic representation AND semantic content in the same symbolic medium, even though the lesson from programming is that even though it can be hard, when it's done well, it's infinitely superior for humans to actually use in practice.

In defense of Haskell however, author does have a point. Names for abstractions and anything you cannot touch and hold and easily categorise as a human in everyday life are really hard because current English is almost void of good words that capture or describe these concepts. Map and reduce, as two examples he rightly points out, are no more meaningful to most people than any other name we could give, and the only reason we think they are or might be is when we come from a context that has already learnt them. The same could be said for add, minus, subtraction, division, if they weren't essentially universally taught in universal education.

Who knows, maybe in the future, when abstract programming becomes widely taught, maybe words and concepts around abstract operations will enter the mainstream language.

Although, as a controversial counter-proposal to that (which I am merely putting forth, not necessarily advocating, i admit ignorance in this regard) if it turns out that various levels of abstract thought are not universally learnable by humanity, which is to say, are there thoughts and concepts some/most people can't think, then such words and vocabulary will always be an 'elitist' language...

/random thoughts
I ran a BBS over SSH and telnet in the mid 90's through early 2000's. All users had restricted shells (the BBS app.) There's many, many BBSes out there, but most of them are dead... almost no activity.

I would really like to see a Usenet / NNTP revival.
"A fireball and smoke rose from the middle portion of the plane as banks of seats began vaulting and somersaulting high above the flames. Some of the banks of seats were thrown far above the fuselage in great parabolas, shot as if from a cannon by the centrifugal force of the aft end of the fuselage swinging in its majestic, flaming arc. What must it have been like to take that ride, alive, aloft, alone, aware, unhurt as yet, and looking down on the green earth?"

Holy shit.
If you are black in America, your neighborhoods got redlined and demarcated by highways, your children were called super predators and jailed, even after the civil rights movement your right to vote was curtailed (and still is), and before that, you were lynched with no justice following afterwards. You are given fewer pain medications even today, compared to white people. You are murdered with impunity by the police meant to protect you. That's a reign of terror.

If you were a native in America, you were not always considered a US citizen until after 1924 (Indian Citizenship Act), and you were banned from voting in some states until 1957, your children were subject to medical experiments by Ivy-educated doctors, taken away from you, or subject to eugenics experiments. All your lands were taken away, or replaced with less productive ones, repeatedly breaking treaty after treaty, after mass genocide. That's a reign of terror.

If you are a women, you couldn't vote until 1920, and barred from the top educational institutions that would've allowed you to make your case why women are deserving of education (that's a catch-22!). In some states, you don't enjoy real reproductive freedom, most states, no maternity leave, and until recently, no guarantee of healthcare. If you were a lesbian, black, or native, you of course had it and have it much worse. This one it is less clear to me is a reign of terror - due to lack of mass lynchings and killings that happened in the previous two cases.

And btw, USA is an outlier in terms of healthcare, and other social benefits, not due its "freedom loving nature" (lack of freedom for most Americans should be clear from above see: lack of voting until 20th century), but because it was constructed as a slave state from the beginning and didn't want THOSE people from getting the social benefits.
ESA performed 'collision avoidance manoeuvre' to protect satellite
They do seem to have star trackers, but rely on NORAD for other satellites

Details towards the end: https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/24/spacex-reveals-more-starli...
Yes, it's the pressure differential that matters, but I don't think it helps in practice. Each pipe needs to have a ratio of inner to outer diameter of at least 100. If the innermost radius is 1 mm, at three layers the outside radius of the biggest pipe is 1 kilometer.
Building a High Available Anycast Service Using AWS Global Accelerator
On Brent Simmons's Funny Ideas About What Beta Means
Which manufacturers offer less on the software side compared to AVM then? All I can think of are the ones that you're given to by your ISP.

Every other 3rd party router I've come across has at least the same configurability as AVM's solutions (went with Netgear, D-Link, Zyxel, Huawei, now TP-Link and happily stuck).

EDIT: Lol, do you work for them or something?
> It's not all about caloric restriction, that is a facet, not the key goal. The goal is to find a meal plan you can deal with that doesn't lead to you feeling deprived and starving at the end of the day.

The second sentence here is the reason why the first sentence is exactly wrong. The best way to maintain the calorie deficit necessary for weight loss is if you can find a way to not feel hungry while maintaining that calorie deficit. But that calorie deficit is absolutely the most important goal of a weight loss plan, and is a necessary and sufficient condition for its success.
Hong Kong protestors using Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based mesh network messaging app
I get that people can take being downvoted personally. (I sometimes do.) And sure, downvoting something that already has -10 points is mean and doesn't serve anything. But being so protective of others in this regard, trying to protect them from receiving negative evaluations from people (random people from the internet you don't care about, no less!) is too much.

I think that thick skin is something to be cultivated. Sure the other guy is mean, but if you feel so bad about it, then you should work on where your self-worth comes from. I'm not saying it's easy. From personal experience, I would say that it may very well be the case that you spend too much time focused on just this one thing (let's say computers) and so lack distance. Perhaps something else. Find out. Work on it.
The "informed" bit really is telling here. It seems to imply that the author knows ESA didn't "ask" for anything from SpaceX. That or the author doesn't actually know what the communication was.

Either way this is sensationalist and worth a flag.
Check out Beeminder[0], this is exactly what their product does.

[0]: https://beeminder.com/
The one in Bergen, Norway is in a historical building and has avoided the excessive branding: https://www.google.dk/maps/place/McDonald's+Bryggesporen/@60...
To think, interactive curses apps like that used to be the norm. It was much simpler building apps that way, compared to web apps. I rarely used curses when I built my own stuff in the 90's. I generated ANSI escape sequences myself...
It could be that they store your data all encrypted, and when you want it deleted they just delete the encryption key from a few well defined places.
That way there is less need to mess with backups, etc.
Show HN: Remove personal data from documents in seconds with Anonymization App
Charles is available on iOS (and I think Android) and lets you intercept both Wi-Fi and cellular traffic without another machine required.
Using technology to bring down tyrants. The CIA should do something useful for a change and see this app is distributed to places like North Korea, Zimbabwe, Syria, Myanmar and Iran.
Security Analysis of Remote Attestation [pdf]
I think what's important to this statement is that regardless of political opinion everyone is susceptible to it.
I read the wiki article[0] about this after reading the article and found it a lot more informative. It says just before touchdown "Fitch noticed the high sink rate and that the plane started to yaw right again, and pushed the throttles to full power in an attempt to mitigate the high sink rate and level the plane". It seems a more complex situation than him just deciding to apply power to the engines as the right wing would likely have made contact with the ground anyway.

I wasn't able to find any speculation if Fitch could have acted differently and had a better outcome in the official report[1]. The report states that the "captain's acceptance of the check airman to assist in the cockpit was positive and appropriate".

Regarding disobeying the captain we can see from transcripts from the CVR that the captain (probably) knew what Fitch was doing:

Records: "Close 'em off."

Haynes: "Left turn."

Records: "Pull 'em off"

Fitch: "Nah, I can't pull 'em off or we'll lose it, that's what's turning ya."

Unidentified: "Okay."

Fitch: "Back ya’ll!"

Haynes: "Left, Left throttle, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left!"

Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS): "Whoop whoop pull up. Whoop whoop pull up. Whoop whoop pull up."

Haynes: "Everybody stay in brace!"

GPWS: "Whoop whoop pull up."

Haynes: "God!"

[Sound of impact, end of recording]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232

[1] https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/... (Discussion of the performance of the flight crew from page 75 [81] onwards)
Just came here to say the same thing. "randomize" should be off by default.
This is the thing we are pointing out:

Again and again we found that Stack Overflow would try to get rid of some of the most helpful ages I had found.

For a while, more often than not it seemed, if you found a helpful answer it was locked or somehow on its way to destruction.

I don't see this as often anymore but I also don't see that many good results in my search engine anymore and I don't know if it is because search engines has become more and more useless or if it is because Stack Overflow deleted a good chunk of the most useful questions they had.

Possibly a combination if I had to guess :-/
I believe job_id is an int in this case. Buy yeah, it doesn't hurt to double-check, just in case it somehow gets called with a user-supplied variable at some point.
Planescape: Torment and the Evolution of the RPG
what if most humans exploit the very same Clever Hans effect? A translation could be deemed correct by the submitting human translator(s), where the translation implies less or more rammifactions than the original sentence.

If one thinks about loose associations that newcomers make compared to experts in a domain, this seems very similar to me.

When designing a vector graphic one can enable "snap to grid", similarily at some point we will have to "snap to makes sense" by means of verifiers or provers. "Why" type questions ultimately ask for a proof or derivation, which in the past (before the advent of logic, to which a philosopher would have to carefully abide) was not objectively verifiable, but at some point it is foreseeable that neural networks will be asked to construct (or append) a formal belief system, predict a conclusion, and justify it by supplying a proof.
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> these aren't military assets

Do we know that for sure?