skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2018 - this is so bad that it deserves some kind of disciplinary measure from administration.

This is absolutely unacceptable for students needing different accessibility enabled tools other than vi /vim.

For example, if using an alternative screenreader or a vocally/sound enabled ide or if needing to interact with a text editor via a brail enabled tool that doesn't work with vi, does the student just get failed out? That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
We also had advanced warning, as did the Iraqis. They even knew the timing. I'm sure we moved troops out of harms way. Iran's not just going to lob some missiles into a foreign country without first telling them, because they (Iraq) weren't the target. We picked up on that chatter and/or the host country informed us after they knew.
Perhaps, but I can certainly imagine a day where someone voluntarily creates a plan to create a new product that is extraordinarily valuable to a lot of deep-pocketed customers, that competitors cannot match for years potentially, and even reduces customers for the current product on the market that their competitors can match (cocktail). Not to mention that 1) new vaccines will need to be created to match virus mutation, and 2) thousands of new customers will enter the market daily by sheer virtue of population expansion, especially in areas hit hard by HIV [1].

I'm sorry but there isn't a global conspiracy to stop development of an HIV vaccine. Much of what big pharma does is incredibly cyncial and deserves scrutiny, but even viewing it within that lens, there is a clear business case here.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
>reality, you're getting nothing. It doesn't work

Some people do it just to challenge themselves or to learn

Free software wouldnt exist if everybody used your approach.

You sounds as if you tried to say that putting effort into something without $$ as result is bad?
There's a site I used to look at that does something similar called mindsumo.

They do more than just tech problems though, and the solver doesn't really maintain ownership
Nothing is going to change on that front until government mandates minimum lifetime for equipment.

In Norway these devices are covered for up to 5 years after date of purchase. This follows the product, so unlike some warranties it also covers second hand purchases as well.
> And you say z is close to control - does that mean you use emacs without shift lock as control?! (I mean sure, still closer than b...).

Presuming Shift Lock means Caps Lock, that and Control are both close to Z on my (Apple) keyboard.
"...and are now in a much better position to decide what to do next."

...if you deliberately ignore the small "issue" of accumulated nuclear waste, that somehow has to be handled for the next couple of hundred years. For many people, this seems to be neglectable compared to the ugly sights of wind turbines.
Are you seriously comparing a noxious gas in a closed mine to methane leaks from fracking?
Not sure if only taking into account the % of voters that precisely mapped where Iran is located is enough, as it would put someone that selected Egypt and South America in the same group (wrongly identified the location).

I would prefer an 'average distance from the border' analysis, in which we would be able to compare which group is clearly unaware of Iran's location (selecting Europe or even North America, for example) and which group at least has a basic idea of the location (Middle East).
> The Merkel government attempted to roll some of that back in 2010, but was blindsided by the Fukushima accident that caused public opinion to become much more polarised again w.r.t. nuclear energy.

In a democratic society, the will of the people is relevant. Fukushima caused the end of nuclear energy in Germany.
Clojure. Faster than Python, just as good libraries.
I had never heard of this, but thank you.
This is a great point, but I think it cuts both ways. If a place doesn't get electrified until it can be done so with renewables, then there are people who e.g. are dying from the pollution from their wood cook fires in the meantime. I think I've also read though that being able to deploy solar and wind on a smaller scale makes for faster electrification in some place where it would be harder to build out a giant power plant and grid, so maybe you're right in any case.
What do you do with the note cards? I love note cards, but now I just have stacks of them filling boxes.
> Try to replace some Vim sessions with Emacs.

I thought you said quit Vim, not go running back into its warm embrace.
But ... they do. It's right there where it's supposed to be.

https://morningconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2020-P...
Debatably the JS ecosystem rivals it in size, but it’s a different scope and lower quality in a lot of ways.
But there isn't any win. The US is switching from coal - which emissions are known and reported - to fracked natural gas, where the emissions from directly burning the gas are better but the overall emissions from producing it are much worse. It's just that the fracking process has no tracking of emissions. All that has happened is that emissions have shifted from reported to not reported. There's no climate win here.
Open source ideas:

https://github.com/open-source-ideas/open-source-ideas
I have JS disabled, and just viewed it in both the legacy mobile view and the legacy desktop view. Neither have what was originally described.
Because "functional decomposition", a method of threading where you allocate threads per function like physics or rendering, fell out of fashion. Modern game engines instead use a task system where tasks are spun off a main thread and asynchronously computed.
A well-developed statistical model should be able to take that into account. My understanding is that the academic consensus is fairly strongly leaning towards nuclear being the safest energy option, based on robust statistical models. Would be interested in hearing the opinions on this from someone actually in this academic field though...
I wonder how many of these schemes will be used when CMMC certification is required by DOD.
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I'd be interested in trying this when the JS library is ready. Any ETA on that?
In 1974 there was no such thing.
Those memes were indicative of the feelings around the seriousness of the US attacking another govt. It is very rational to feel scared that a war with another country, a UN member, with backings of two other UN security council members wouldn't extend farther than Iran given their vested interests in that country and the region.

I don't believe for a second that they would not intervene if their economies are affected by another Middle East war where this time it is one of their significant business partners.
Part of the problem is the life of a power plant is on the order of decades. Every new natural gas plant is a plant that will exist for 50+ years. Because investors need to make their money back.
I'm a bit dubious about the state of gaul civilization. History books weren't super solid and recent archeology uncovered new commercial routes and production sites (wine jars). The Roman Empire was great, no question, but I'm not sure if other countries were so far behind.
I suppose that I look at gifts differently than a lot of people. For me, the gift itself isn't really the important thing, and it doesn't matter what it actually is. The important thing is the thought (as trite as that sounds), and what the gift reveals about the giver and my relationship to them.

In other words, I think of gifts as a kind of communication.
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This perspective makes sense pragmatically, but in philosophical terms it’s a little absurd.

Going back to Turing, the argument was for true, human creativity. The claim was that there is no theoretical reason a machine cannot write a compelling sonnet.

After spending the better part of a century on that problem, we have made essentially zero progress. We still believe that there is no theoretical reason a machine cannot write a compelling sonnet. We still have zero models for how that could actually work.

If you are a non-technical person who has been reading popular reporting about ML, you might well have been given the impression that something like GPT2 reflects progress on the sonnet problem. Some very technical people seem to believe this too? Which seems like an issue, because there’s just no evidence for it.

Maybe a larger/deeper/more recurrent ML approach will magically solve the problem in the next twenty years.

And maybe the first machine built in the 20th century that could work out symbolic logic faster than all of the human computers in the world would have magically solved it.

There was no systematic model for the problem, so there was no reason to conclude one way or another, just as there isn’t any today.

ML is a powerful metaprogramming technique, probably the most productive one developed yet. And that matters.

It’s just still not at all what we’ve been proposing to the public for a hundred years. To the best of our understanding, it’s not even meaningfully closer. And that matters too, even if Siri still works fine.
"Iran has a very backwards military with almost no air force and no serious navy power at all."

Iran has been developing a variety of land-based anti-ship ballistic and cruise missiles. Given that their naval interests are limited to the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Sea of Oman (and the Caspian), that's probably enough naval power. Your air strikes are going to have to track down mobile launchers.
I'm pretty sure this was just an internet survey that people didn't answer seriously. About 1% of the clicks are in the water and a lot of answers are in North America. I have trouble believing anyone is that ignorant.
There are more mobile users than there are desktop users, and for them it's just the same to type.
I’m not sure we “deserve” the unprecedented propaganda efforts, the weaponization of social media, the think tanks that have been iterating more and more sophisticated manipulation methods, gerrymandering which makes voting useless in key districts etc.

Also see the work of George Lakoff. Enlightenment thinking is a myth. We’re super easy to manipulate and that’s where the effort and money goes.

Confident good looking people on tv repeating carefully constructed lies with authoritarian voices and straight faces. It is impossible to argue with their viewership.

Propaganda works.

Do we deserve this almost impossible to navigate environment where it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s not?

In my opinion this is the result of criminal efforts to normalize crime.
FYI, xn stands for eXtended Names.
> Install an OS without Vim.

The hardest of the steps ….
There were great strides in increasing the overall percentage of renewable power. If the proportion of nuclear power had stayed constant, that would mean usage of coal could have been reduced even further than it already has been, which helps fight climate change.
It has to open something, and pico/nano, at least, has a menu that tells you how to quit. What else would be a preferable default?
Why would we invest in and build more very-high carbon systems like fracked natural gas when we have so many incredible low-carbon resources around like solar, geothermal, tidal, hydro, nuclear, and wind!? This seems really backwards to me considering the gravity of the climate situation.
That sounds insane -- how do versions updates work then? One of the best parts of only allowing customization at well-defined points is that you can upgrade software and it is likely to keep working.

Or is the Smalltalk idea that you never update your software?
How how do you account for the guy who dies from cancer 500 years from now due to nuclear waste materials stored in dodgy facilities?
Propagating Christianity was an explicit goal of the show:

"Their aim was to produce children's videos which conveyed Christian moral themes and taught Biblical values and lessons."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeggieTales
> differnt people learn in different ways.

There's something intuitive about that, but I think the data show the opposite. We all learn the same way.

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/learning-...
This issue is exactly why (imo) Plex has shifted to focus on features it’s core base actually doesn’t care about.

They’ve been trying (desperately) to present Plex as a business supporting only legitimate and legal usage.

First it was “curated” podcasts and “web shows”, then News(??), TIDAL integration, ad-supported media, and so on.

Originally it was very clear that they wanted to help you organize and play all your content without judgement and with the most beautiful experience possible.

Clearly Not Any More.
I'd guess the trope comes from a combination of men traditionally doing more of the driving and having a stronger desire to figure out problems on their own.
As an American, police in Europe seem to be more like "Beat you with a stick but keep you out of jail type" and treat citizens in a rational way according to how the industrial world works (as well as protecting workers from losing their jobs, especially when innocent until proven guilty). In the US, it's basically the lottery that nobody wants to win. Cause if a cop wants to ruin your day, month, or year, he absolutely can with 0 recourse.

That's why I'll always view the US government's approach to policing as repressionary unless they actually give workers rights preventing them from being fired, and actually funding the legal system to be more efficient. They run it like a business and intend to keep it that way.
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I'm European and California, New York, Hawaii, Florida would be easy (and relevant for me).

Missouri...to tell you the truth I don't even know what is interesting about it (I'm sure it has a lot of interesting things going on though).
For someone who doesn't know anything about this subject matter, can you explain why? I mean, is it a technical or legal limitation? Maybe a practical, statistical or strategic decision?
I've made quasi-regular attempts to get truly comfortable with both Emacs and Vim at various points over the... last two decades, honestly. Strangely, I was always a little more comfortable in Vim, even though the other editors I've been comfortable with through the years have been modeless. Last year, though, Vim actually took for me, and I think there were three reasons:

(1) Buying the book Practical Vim from the Pragmatic Programmers, which is aimed at people who kinda-sorta know Vim but don't know much of Vim. I still haven't truly internalized a lot of what I've read, but just understanding the magic of ":find", "." and a slightly greater number of the Ten Thousand Ways to Select has been amazing.

(2) Trying to do as much as possible with "native" commands rather than plugins, then adding a smaller number of considered plugins back in.

(3) Having a real project -- of sorts -- to work on and sticking with Vim for that project. In this case, the project was going through the entire Pragmatic Studio course on Rails 6. (It's good.)

I'm pretty sure these same three steps would work for learning Emacs, too. (Obviously with a good book on Emacs in step 1, not Vim, yes, yes.) But I'm actually pretty happy with Vim.

Also, the proper way to quit MacVim is clearly to select "Force Quit" from the Apple menu.
The HAARP system was shut down a long time ago, and was recently handed over to some university.
T1: A Modern Programming Language for Constrained Environments
Twitter bot generates answers to Jeopardy clues
https://www.reddit.com/r/AppIdeas/
I don't understand why this comment unvoted :-)
Basically "never breaks/reliable" and "easy to fix/repairable" is orthogonal things.
Lada Niva (4x4) as basically all Ladaa is really easy to fix, but not reliable. If you are riding Lada you have to have toolbox and be ready to perform small repairs weekly, if not daily. But every repair is easy, spare parts are cheap and available (at least in Russia in time of Lada popularity).
Modern car: basically visit dealer once per year, something rarely breaks, but if they do, car not fixable w/o expensive special tools
A small thing in a pocket is much more likely to go unnoticed into the washing machine than a large thing.
I enjoyed the Great Courses Rise of Rome course (which can be listened to audio-only). Covers the founding of Rome up until the first Roman emperor.
I dont think "beef begins to smell" really matters all that much. CockroachDB has built its self a sizeable fortune, and its name is cockroach.
> If the author does not consider it culturally insensitive, then there is no problem.

The author can do what he wants, but if he wants adoption, then it would behoove him to consider cultural sensitivity, especially if it is offensive to enough people to stifle adoption.
I just downloaded it and it actually seems pretty good, albeit I haven’t done much yet. Thanks!
> Stop making up silly, false, fake identities.

The irony of course is that "Celtic" is a silly word to begin with. There's plenty of circumstantial evidence that the 'Celtic' culture of Gaul was reasonably similar (and quite close in cultural 'ancestry') to Roman culture anyway, making assimilation relatively painless. The British isles may have been a somewhat different case.
> I don't want my passwords stored unencrypted on disk.

Passwords are always stored encrypted when you save them in Firefox. You can read more about it here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-securely-sa...
Raising money is hard, unless you are a church, they seem to guilt that 10% out of their parishoners.
It's how I do it. I use a Sony NW-WM1A and plug it into the analog input in the car. Sounds fantastic.
I did it to learn about computers and security. It's a form of sport too. Feels good to bend the rules and outsmart your opponent. (Opponent as in security controls, not in-game players). You get a rush when your hack works, and using it in a highly interactive environment makes it all the more fun.

From a high level view, you learn:

* Fundamentals of computer security

* Fundamentals of computers, operating systems, and number systems.

* Debugging skills!!! (Can't stress enough)

* Perseverance

* Note taking

From a technical view, you learn:

* Memory Forensics

* Reverse Engineering

* Patching executables (in memory and on disk)

* Anti-Debugging and Anti-Anti debugging tricks

* Packet sniffing and modifying

* Crypto

* 3D Modeling

* Simple algorithms for writing bots

* Memory corruption vulnerabilities

* Programming

That said, I'm HIGHLY against the use of cheats. If you want to show your friends and get a laugh out of it, that's fine! Just don't ruin the gaming experience for others. And don't do anything illegal of course.
>Secure
>8 year old Intel Processors full of CPU bugs

I don't get how you can call this secure. Without those CPU's it certainly would be an interesting device. But advertising it as secure and then using something like Qubes where those bugs break the very isolation Qubes is based upon ...
Unburned methane oxidizes into CO2 in about 10 years, where as excess C02 persists pretty much indefinitely. Calling natural gas "much worse" is misleading. Over a longer horizon, it is about the same as C02.
A model could provide an estimate there, but nuclear deaths are not estimated that way from the posted source. They are only directly attributable deaths. e.g. cherynobyl was attributed from the posted source as 7 deaths while statistical modeling puts it in at least the tens of thousands range. Even the 7 of the link is questionable as reports of firefighter deaths during the accident as 27.

e.g. https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/how-many-people-died-at-chern...
Which? In Taiwan for example it’s easy to get inexpensive Thai the same as it is to get a tonkatsu
>I am not opposed to this, but I am curious how a government would arrive at a "price" of carbon emissions

The conventional approach right now is that you have a limited number of CO2 certificates that give a company the right to pollute. The number of CO2 certificates is reduced every year to meet a defined goal like avoid warming beyond 1.5°C. Companies are handed a certain amount of certificates depending on their size (prone to corruption). If they don't have enough certificates they must buy additional certificates. If they have too many they can sell them for a profit. Supply and demand determine the price.

The problem is that too many certificates are being handed out until now the price in the EU market was in the single digits and shot up to 25€ per ton. Because people are allergic to revenue neutral carbon taxes that are offset by redistributing the tax income the latest approach is to simply set a minimum price for CO2 certificates. People think they understand taxes but they certainly don't understand CO2 certificates. The end result is that there will be very limited redistribution.
In which case see paragraph 2
Sure, but if we count that then let’s attribute all skin cancer to solar.
Yes, it will be released by the end of this month.
That last one is a bit harder these days, as assesment and requirements are usually done by a team and not an individual.
I read a comment from an older white person (on another older white person's post) who said they were afraid for all 8 years of Obama's presidency. They were happy that Trump was president because they didn't have to be afraid anymore. I didn't truly understand the reach of Fox News until I read that comment.
Just want to chime in and say the vast majority of people working on government contracts fall into two categories:

1. Hard working folks trying to do the right thing (approx 20-50% of the people)

2. People who are coasting and nominally meet whatever requirement for the position (some combination of experience and certification usually) who can barely get the job done, but they are friendly and don't cause trouble (by getting in the way of the people who actually DO get something done) so no one bothers them and they get to collect a paycheck. (50-80%)

Many from category one turn into category 2 as time goes by, because #2 is actually the optimal strategy.

Most companies also tolerate #2 because the client isn't complaining and they are making their cut on the person's hourly rate. So everyone's more or less happy and life goes on.

Also note that the distribution of people doesn't significantly vary based on whether the employer is SDVOSB/WOSB/whatever. However, the largest companies (like Accenture) do tend to have a higher proportion of #2s, but also a higher proportion of extremely charismatic "relationship managers" who flatter, gladhand, and overall stroke the client representative's egos and fantasies to cover up for it.

The government contracting business has plenty of well-meaning, hard working professionals in it. But there's also a lot of not so much waste, fraud, and abuse, but "skating by" going on as well.

The main reason is due to the obstreperous rules, bureaucracy, stagnation, and old tech, the jobs pay above market AND tend to provide excellent work/life balance.

Source: I've been a gov't employee, then worked in contracting, went to private sector, now back in contracting. I'd like to think I'm in category 1, and I have many, many days when I am extremely jealous of my colleagues in category 2, who make just as much money as I do but do about 20% of the work.

One last edit: I find it funny that one SDVOSB owner was considered "Service Disabled" because he tore his ACL playing football for Navy. But I'm a little bit in the "don't hate the player, hate the game" camp on that one. I'd start a company, too, in that position. Doesn't mean I'm doing shitty work, just means it's easier to award me the work. They are two different things.
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Huge majority of them was decently close, what's wrong with that?
This is what prompted me to post this, I was listening to it and thought yinz might like it