skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Lots of these people do not believe racism exists as a serious problem in America. They think it is fake, in no small part because they’ve been told for years that they benefit from and perpetuate an inherently racist system (i.e., that they themselves are racist.) It doesn’t square with their lived experience, so they write it off as “fake news.” They also discount claims of Trump being racist for the same reason.

Concepts of privilege and structural racism require a lot of nuance to discuss. I won’t speculate as to how much nuance is intended in the way these ideas are delivered, but I can tell you as a lifelong resident of “flyover country” (who also has ties to the coasts,) the message is being received bluntly, without nuance, with a lot of skepticism and, frankly, anger. These are people who aren’t doing well and haven’t been for a long time. To them, it beggars belief to be told they benefit from and are orchestrating a massive racist conspiracy.

Anyway, that’s my answer to OP’s question about what would resonate with this group of people. Stop calling them racists all the fucking time. It is not helping anyone. ( Unless your goal is to eventually start Civil War II. Then it’s on point.)

If the left can demonstrate a little empathy, they might find their superior policy positions gain mindshare in the heartland.
This is all anecdotal so probably not enough to be conclusive but I've noticed both a somewhat nootropic but definitely a significantly mood-enhancing effect from it.

Color were brighter after the first few days. Not psychedelic brighter but bluer blues, greener greens. What I felt was reminiscent of that child-like awe in experiences along with remembering instances of those awe-filled moments I had as a child.

Looking at the sky and watching the nature (which is something I hadn't been doing in years) made think "I'm lucky to be able to observe this". Looking at the sky and watching the way clouds move brought back flashbacks of probably the last time I had done that as a kid.

Very interesting chemical indeed. I believe it has a lot of potential.

After using up my supply, there was no withdrawal or crash. I guess the color enhancement went away gradually over a few months. However I could argue I got permanent memory enhancement from it. I have no data to support it but I became the kind of person that can remember the most obscure things and follow really long chains of connotations. And if you asked me, I wasn't like that before experimenting with NSI-189.

But that being said, I even tried Cerebrolysin months before that for nootropic exploration. So for all we know, the memory enhancement stems from that. In hindsight, I must have been very daring to have injected myself with peptides purified from pig brains. :)
Obviously Atlassian would have to think a high-quality search would result in $1MM of additional profits for them. Judging by what Atlassian is actually doing... they apparently don't think a search better than they've got is in fact necessary for their profits or a good investment that will be returned in profits, right?
Where do you take your certainess from? If even Stephen Wolfram could not produce such predictions, then I doubt anyone else could. In all likelyhood, it is just not a good physical model.
What happens when the older version does not understand the newer data?
What I've seen bumping around this area is that the cost increase is in engagement.

I don't know any conventional farmers, and I don't know anyone who has known one in thirty years, so I can't tell you what sucks up their time all day. But I've heard reports it's a second job to keep the farm solvent. In a way, restoration agriculture is asking them to double down on the farm and hope it's profitable.

One of the louder voices in this space is known for compartmentalizing his operation by starting tons of LLCs that collaborate. He really enjoys that sort of thing (or it makes him feel safe) but this is a lot of responsibility on a few shoulders.

I don't think the import of what he's done will be appreciated until either his kid get old enough to take over from Pops, or he files bankruptcy for one of these LLCs due to an accident or a product recall.
I'm sure batteries would be immensely better if the military would spend money into research towards better batteries.
Speak for yourself.

This reminds me of the moment where there's always one person in a group who realizes that they are the only one in the group who wipes their ass standing up.
I guess you could consider North and South America, together, an island.

Eliminating all the megafauna there (leaving only bears and, depending on how you count, moose and bison) should count for something.

The article is correct that these extinctions and near-extinctions are not themselves a disaster for the natural world, which after a million years would hardly differ, so much as indicators of criminal mismanagement of our own behavior.
Most of standard solar panel installations in homes and buildings don't actually provide decentralization, as they tend to be linked to the grid in a way that they will not provide power at all if the grid is down.

Enabling decentralization requires extra hardware and installation costs, so it's usually not done. Essentially you need a solution to disconnect all your house from the grid in that case for safety reasons - so that your panels/batteries don't send voltage back to the grid potentially killing the repairmen fixing the broken lines, and when the grid does come up, re-linking to its frequency safely is a bit tricky, etc. It's not very hard, but it does require some extra stuff and thus expenses.
I read through your article and I found it to be silly and naive. I would highly recommend actually reading someone like marx or even von mises.

Here are some specific silly parts:

"This means we can predict that a universal basic income will just self-adjust to treat $1K/ month as the new $0."

"At present in the United States, there are more empty homes than homeless people on the street. The flaw with the current economic model is that if these homes were given out, that would incentivize people to become homeless in order to get free housing, and a free house is a loss in profit."
I didn't say anything about the US, dashcams are used in many countries. Maybe you should unwind a little.
Understandable. I've been fucking with them for years as a professional programmer and I think they suck eggs.
Ok sure I’ll give you an honest and candid answer. It’s basically analogous to top schools. Yes the average engineer at Google is going to be better than the average engineer at some random company because google generally has a higher hiring bar. Similarly your average student at Harvard is going to be a better student than your average student at Random State University.

As a result you will on average learn more than at most other companies. Of course there are trading firms, quant hedge funds, and a few other big tech companies with even higher hiring bars where you will learn more. And some of the things you learn, anywhere, while very useful to getting stuff done at where you work, will not be readily transferable elsewhere.

But large companies as I’ve said before are basically all the same. The people you interact with are a vanishingly small subset of the entire company so it doesn’t even really make sense to speak in terms of what it’s like at the entire company.

The interviewing filter mostly does one thing which is that it biases the engineers at google to be generally good at solving data structures and algorithms. This, by the way, is a skill that can be taught — and even though it might roughly approximate engineering ability it doesn’t map directly.
Another hierarchical organizer: AGPL, desktop- and keyboard-oriented, highly efficient, I use every day because org-mode was more awkward to me: http://onemodel.org . (My progress has been slow lately but I have plans: feedback welcome, especially if on the mailing list.)

Anything can be nested anywhere, so I put effectively all my notes in it on everything. In college it would have been a huge help. It exports to text outlines (w/ or w/o legal numbering) which I've found useful when sharing info before the real sharing feature is implemented.

(The idea behind it is to reduce knowledge to an atomic level, as an object model: things we know have relationships to other concepts, can be expressed as measurements, etc. But it is cumbersome to create an object model anew, for every app. Right now, it is really good at supporting a big, efficient list of lists (based in postgresql), with attributes, and very minimal support for defining classes on the fly as a side-effect of use. But I really hope to be able to add anki-like (spaced repetition / flashcard-like) features, internal scripting, hosting, and secured sharing of info between instances, so it becomes like a wiki in convenience, but more efficient and computable rather than piles of words for everything).
For two hands, assume the second hand is to the right (edit: to the left may be a bit easier to do) of the first one (the keys pressed _could_ overlap, but such combinations can be played with non-overlapping hands, too)

Then, use the above to compute how often there are x keys to the right (edit: left may make computations slightly easier) of the first hand for x in 0, 1, …, 87, repeat the exercise above for those smaller keyboards (derive a formula to speed things up), and multiply/add up everything (for the second hand, _do_ count “no key pressed” as a valid option)

I’ll leave doing the additions as an exercise.
Fossils. Micro or nano scale tracks of chemotropic entities. Unusual small geological features indicative of anything other than normal random chemistry going on.

We can see all this in the rocks around us. TFA is about finding such things in mines deep underground. Remarkably we can even find such evidence in fossils more than 3 billion years old.

Yet.. the oldest things we find are microbial sedentary structures indicative of remarkably complex life: with genes, ribosomes, proteins, etc. We know this because those same life forms still exist today and leave pretty much exactly the same tell tale signs. We call them simple life, but that is just by comparison. They are insanely complex compared to the random geochemistry going on alongside them.

Why don’t we find ANYTHING older than this which differs from expected geological features? Where are the fossils from the origin of life? Also, the oldest fossils we have are of an organism that still exists: simple life remarkably doesn’t get competed to extinction. It turns out that simpler life forms have some advantages from their simplicity allowing them to be more adaptive to micro niches. So why don’t we have extant examples of even simpler life forms, surviving where complex life doesn’t fare as well?
> Wish I could share my leads, but I kinda want the money and glory... :)

Well, like Prof Baez says, unless you've solved other major open problems before, it's probably unwise to believe you'll be the one to crack it. You are likely to gain more by sharing your leads and seeing what mathematicians have to say.
I agree but so does the math syntax.
In your previous comment where you alluded to trespass. Surely you are aware that mere presence isn't proof of having committed vandalism absent other evidence that would render the DNA identification moot.
If you did not have credit monitoring when you submitted the claim, then you submitted a false claim. And if you did have credit monitoring, just verify it with them to get the money.

I'm failing to see how this is a problem from their end, especially when they are giving you weeks to amend the claim to be sure your information is accurate.
I'm not sure I agree with your analogy. I enjoyed the Todoist client when I tested it, but if there exists a hackable, self-hosted version with even a subpar UX, I'll choose it over the freemium/hosted option du jour. Point being, even if the cool CEO who's in the comments says he won't sell out, he still is YADS (yet another data shepard).
It’s probably worth it for locations that see extreme heat throughout the year though. Phoenix, LV, etc would probably be cheaper markets at scale with specially engineered batteries.
Now you're just trolling. I know you know the phrase 'perfect competition' is a term of economic art. I guess I will have to weigh your commentary less seriously than I used to.
> This is despite an increase in evidence that actively investing in sustainable practices helps business thrive. An example is provided by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, a series of benchmarks assessing the sustainability of companies around the world. Research has repeatedly shown that those at the top end of the benchmark outperform those at the bottom.

Doesn't this just make sense? Companies that are innovative in one dimension of their business should be expected to be innovative in other areas too, with a corresponding impact on the bottom line.
Again, I don't think this is his fault in this regard. I also think he's humble about his capabilities and I'm sure this long project matured his chops across the board.

But a lot of the choices were short sighted, and a devotion to backwards compatibility has limited the ability to clean up.

PHP is now a super fast, relatively mature web programming language that carries a lot of its baggage.
While I agree with your last sentence, I believe you are misunderstanding the purpose of the score.

It is meant to facilitate your risk assesment. Taking your example, A lot of people think RCE is automatically bad and XSS not so much(but yeah,self-XSS is mostly low sev). If the vuln is regarding a bug where theoretically RCE might be possible but there are no known exploits then it should have a lower exploitability score than unauthenticated XSS on a login page right? Similarly, naive people might think DoS isn't so bad but service disruption can be a lot worse than RCE on the asset,data and threat model. CVSS is meant to guide those people so they prioritize based on a standard score rather than intuition.

Threat model is another thing,if you expect attackers that can rapidly develop exploits after discovery then you would increase/adjust the exploitability score yourself (and the score does change over time as exploits are made public).

I guess my perspective is that hygeine is hygeine,either you have it or not.all vulns should be remediated regardless if any scores. I have been responsible to give guidance to IT ops teams on prioritizing patches and this helps,but you have to understand the purpose and meaning behind the scores. It can certainly be misunderstood and I am sure there are many improvement opportunities like what you mentioned but the alternative is to expect resource limited staff to read and understand every vuln (including how specific complex attacks can be pulled off). And even if that was possible,how does someone manage said staff validate things are being prioritized and properly? How do you get an external auditor to properly assess your practices if you interpret every vuln autonomously without any well established and understood priority structure. I mean you can change the score according to your opinion all you want but at least you can say "Because of _____ I am increasing the exploitability score" as opposed to "I dont think it's so bad so I'll score it n". Maybe I just have a different perspective.

Haven't heard of OSVDB in a long time but it exists too. Most orgs need something to feel this need.
And how much of that 75nm feature is getting picked up by a diamond stylus? The stylii used in metrology grade surface roughness and contour analyzers can't pick up features even remotely close to that size and those are far finer and more sensitive that a turntables stylus.
Music I prefer, is usually also quite complex, but

"pieces so powerful they can bring people to tears."

... do really not need to be complex. There are very simple folk songs, chants, gospels, or mantras, which can invoke very strong emotions as well.

Even simple drumming can introduce a trance state and people dancing till extase (without drugs).

Our ancestors did not had a full orchester at hand, yet they still enjoyed music and as far as I know it was part of every culture. And I suspect they feeled it even more intense, than the ordinary person consuming some playlists on spotify or youtube today.
Cool. I haven't followed the language in the last 5 years or so, so that makes me feel better.
Given this, have you or anyone else heard of a "programmer's spreadsheet" that allowed for more advanced computations? I know that the beauty of Excel is that it is ubiquitous, but there's a lot of historical baggage that could be cut out and it could be integrated with a more proper programming language (and potentially SQLite or another database as the backend).
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> This hardly sounds like a standardized feature.

IDE module systems reflect the standard module system used by standard build tooling such as Maven and Gradle.

> That is not true, access control is enforced both at compile time and at runtime.

Right... As I stated: the runtime aspect of JPMS access control is hardly worthwhile; it's not security (reflection can always bypass that). The compile-time module system already in place (maven/gradle) is already supported with IDEs.

> Jigsaw requirements

Reread my original comment.
> Many consumer applications, particularly modern ones, keep their users on rails. Predefined UX paths that execute pre-defined algorithms on data provided by the user. The user is typically hopeless to solve any problem not explicitly anticipated by the creators.

I like to describe this is the difference between “tools” and “solutions”, in the sense of a company saying they “build solutions”. Most of these solutions are frontends to a database with views hard coded based on requirements during acquisition. In my place of work, it’s common to copy the data from the “solution” into excel so you can manipulate it in newly required ways. Excel is a tool.

I don’t think companies build short sighted solutions for lock-in reasons primarily. I think they and the acquisitions team think little of the office workers’ problem solving abilities. So they make “solutions” that try to let the office workers pile in data and pull out answers without thinking.

I think the answer is more Excel-like tools. Just about any office worker could learn to query a database if that became mainstream (and there was an intuitive interface.) I bet you could design an everyman API interface, too, that a non-programmer could get proficient at. (I haven’t used Apple Shortcuts but it sounds like that’s what they’re trying the design.)

If I ever get into a position in a company where I could test these ideas, I’ll probably try to pilot new tools for normies and see if they take off.
Looks like an X-ray pic of a system on a chip.
Perl was the most comparable but CGI was limiting and I don't recall a lot of strong, simple frameworks. Also, it was Perl.

I was primarily a Perl programmer at the time, responsible for writing CGI apps that were slow and unreadable to anyone I worked with who didn't know Perl.

I think vbasic was around but that required IIS and was an unmitigated disaster in every way. I sadly had to work in that a lot too.

I never messed with coldfusion but it seemed to get the job done for people who did.
about 3 months ago, in a code audit.
I just posted this in another thread, but there are some very similar ideas I am implementing here: http://onemodel.org

(Its strength is not in document storage, though it can. Also not really about version control but that could come later: it is about brainstorming fast, rearranging things fast, exporting as outline documents, and not being as limited as if the info were all textual.)

A hierarchical organizer: AGPL, desktop- and keyboard-oriented, highly efficient, I use every day because org-mode was more awkward to me: http://onemodel.org . (My progress has been slow lately but I have plans: feedback welcome, especially if on the mailing list.)

Anything can be nested anywhere, so I put effectively all my notes in it on everything. In college it would have been a huge help. It exports to text outlines (w/ or w/o legal numbering) which I've found useful when sharing info before the real sharing feature is implemented.

(The idea behind it is to reduce knowledge to an atomic level, as an object model: things we know have relationships to other concepts, can be expressed as measurements, etc. But it is cumbersome to create an object model anew, for every app. Right now, it is really good at supporting a big, efficient list of lists (based in postgresql), with attributes, and very minimal support for defining classes on the fly as a side-effect of use. But I really hope to be able to add anki-like (spaced repetition / flashcard-like) features, internal scripting, hosting, and secured sharing of info between instances, so it becomes like a wiki in convenience, but more efficient and computable rather than piles of words for everything).
Well it seems to be working well enough.
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Things I always do a few weeks after starting a new job...

Request the backup copy of a semi-randomly chosen file. It's been enlightening.
Is it not also true that Whatsapp is (was) a competitor to FB? I mean, if I wanted to get rid of FB, the only other place I know I can reach the majority of my contacts is WhatsApp. Now since they own both I have no non-FB alternative.
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Java is getting data classes (case classes in Scala), as well as value types.
Yeah, it'd be fun to have a drone, but not sure there's anywhere in Chicago I can legally fly it. Probably need a "drone park" like we have skate parks...
Yeah, that's the really cool thing. Most of the survivors likely live in the deep biosphere, well protected from oxygen. But some also survive on the surface, wherever there are anaerobic environments. Such as in some swamps and sediments, canned food, and far-gone wounds.
Aren't most things like this? mysql, for eg.
Mess with each other's stuff in what regard? Sites could be sandboxed but yes everything was running under some web server user account, and it was a single machine so you could ddos anyone.
How did they think that was ok? A backup that gets automatically deleted when the original is deleted is not a backup.
Very few people know that Perl's regex engine (since 5.10) supports recursion. And recursive matching cannot perform recursive captures, which is why at best it can only be used to validate a string, not parse it, making it not particularly useful in practice. For these reasons I would never assume that someone using the term "regular expression" inclusively of Perl would have in mind such capabilities. IME, such a loose definition simply implies things like zero-width assertions, backcaptures, etc.

Here's a proof-of-concept Perl 5.10+ JSON validator I came up with for a presentation to Perl engineers introducing PEGs and Lua's LPeg module. Of the 20-30 people in the room, I doubt anybody in the audience knew this was even possible with Perl.

my $grammar = qr{
^(?&Value) $
(?(DEFINE)
(?<Value> \s∗ (?:
(?&Array)
| (?&Object)
| (?&Boolean)
| (?&Number)
| (?&String)
| (?&Null)
) \s∗ )
(?<Array> \[ \s∗ (?:(?&Value) (?:\s∗,\s∗ (?&Value))∗)? \s∗ \])
(?<Object> \{ \s∗ (?:(?&KeyV) (?:\s∗,\s∗ (?&KeyV))∗)? \s∗ \})
(?<KeyV> \s∗ (?:(?&String) \s∗:\s∗ (?&Value))) \s∗
(?<Boolean> true | false)
(?<Number> \d+)
(?<String> "[^\"]∗")
(?<Null> null)
)
}xs;

Note: I was trying to fit it all on a single slide, so the definition for String doesn't handle escaped characters. There may be other deficiencies. I copy+pasted this from the PDF slide deck as I can't find the original Beamer source. Any broken spacing and Unicode substitutions probably aren't original.