skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might not be "idiomatic", but it isn't "unsafe", and so it is now providing a guaranteed behavior that... is it a bug? I certainly think saturation should always be considered a bug... like that's even worse to me than truncation as the semantics of truncation are at least interesting and related to mathematical basis of von neumann computing and sometimes extremely useful as a way to interact with memory-oriented systems, while the semantics of saturation are just subtle corruption that is almost useless to "use" for anything valuable (and are inconsistent, unless they are also doing it for integers? like if I cast a floating point to a 64-bit number and then to an 8-bit number do I get a truncated result instead of a saturated one?... I hope not, even though I reject saturation as a reasonable semantic). But if it is defined legal and guaranteed behavior, what should a tool do in this scenario? It can't say "you have a bug here" as maybe you wanted that behavior.
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Robin Hood isn’t exactly in line with American principles either. Guy against the law robs from the rich to give to the poor. I feel like Peter Pan is the replacement figure.

Cultural manipulation is a little woolly, does it have other names you like?
If successful and untraceable, yeah I agree with you. (Great in the sense of impressive, of course, not morally laudable.)

But, in fairness, they haven’t actually made it yet though: it’s not cashed out and everyone’s watching the address like a hawk.
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What you are calling monoculture is somewhere around 1/6th population of the world. If you take into the account the inroads that China has made into Africa, Middle East and Eastern Europe we might be seeing ourselves entering another phase of the cold war.
It's a valid concern. Even a gun range or concealed carry class won't teach you what you need: Situational awareness, proper draw technique, muzzle discipline, etc.

Sheepdog Response - headed up by Tim Kennedy is another good org. with an aim to prevent responsible (safe) self-defense training. [1]

Tim is an (active) green beret and retired UFC fighter, and their org. is geared entirely towards teaching the average citizen how to safely defend themselves (both armed and unarmed). It's the real deal, and their classes are pretty much 2 full weekend days.

1 - https://sheepdogresponse.com/

edit: I do not represent them in any way. Just believe in their mission.
I didn't say always, but when there is riot police and they're telling you to move you should definitely do what they tell you.
I am not an expert at distributed systems with Elixir/Phoenix, but would Mnesia (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnesia) solve that problem?
> That is, if a user watches a bunch of videos about a specific topic, it makes sense that it would recommend more of that same topic, since that is clearly what that user is interested in.

For how long though? In a short session it does make sense but having that trail you along for weeks to months is not only annoying but misguided as well, it diminishes the richness and the variety of the content and kills exploration.

This should come with a reset button or simply be based on your last search or something like that.

And there should be a way to block channels that you don't find interesting. There are some channels that I am not interested into their content that keep on showing on my recommednation list no matter what I am searching for. I want that to go away and without a plugin or some hacks that is not possible on youtube.
That's true with implosion but not gun type
Was. These days the labor involved in hand-forging a part dominates and cast alloys are everything anyone uses for anything, outside of oddball boutique communities like fancy knife aficionados.
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It's not black magic but knowledge and that's what brain drain means.
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There's data that is factually correct but contextually useless in a vacuum to the point of being harmful when cited for advocacy reasons. It's not difficult to figure out when people cite that data and why.
Please don't. You may not owe the CCP better, but you owe this community better if you're posting to it. We want curious conversation, not denunciatory rhetoric. Those two are mutually exclusive.

The idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Here's another way to look at it. When posting, ask this question: what's the expected value of the subthread of which this is the root? If the answer, as in this case, is "poor to destructive", please don't post. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Hmm interesting. These other people not only seem to disagree but seem to rely on different facts entirely. Perhaps there’s ongoing external disinformation campaigns and many are simply misinformed.
But some people expected that: "The observers set up a betting pool on the results of the test. Edward Teller was the most optimistic, predicting 45 kilotons of TNT (190 TJ). [...] Others were less optimistic. Ramsey chose zero (a complete dud), Robert Oppenheimer chose 0.3 kilotons of TNT (1.3 TJ) [...]" (Wikipedia)
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Because most attacks aren’t this high profile. In cases like this, they’ll be a little more determined.
Actually there were women who dressed like men, pretended to be men -- and if it, surprisingly, turns out this was the case with GW, then that won't make QE a man.

I have to agree with your friend :-)
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There is so much to unpack here that it's difficult to even get started. The US government has encouraged companies to work with China for decades. I remember it being big news when GM opened a joint venture in China in 1997.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC-GM

The Clinton administration pushed hard to increase trade with China and make it easier for American companies to outsource manufacturing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93China_Re...

This continued unabated through the Bush and Obama presidencies, even as it became increasingly clear that US relations with China were going off the rails. There were significant signs that the Chinese government was not playing fair, particularly around IP theft, but the legislative and executive branches did nothing visible about it. Hundreds or thousands of American companies (including google) were hacked into or had intellectual property stolen with no legal recourse.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-probes-hundreds-of-china-s...

Chinese military groups also hacked into the employee database for the US federal government.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-25-million-affected-opm-...

Tech companies, like google, are acutely aware that the current Chinese government is extremely capricious and will block an entire company from the country to incubate their own competitor. Many tech companies want to work in china, but of major american companies, they seem to be the most cautious.

Given all this context, for Barr to turn around and say that US tech companies are "pawns" is infuriating. Virtually every large american company needs clear laws on working with China. They are not getting those laws out of Congress or the Justice Department, and everyone is the worse for it.
Quoting Ernest Becker from his "The Denial of Death" which is again derived in a way from Plato's Ideas/Forms:
"In man a working level of narcissism is inseparable from self-esteem, from a basic sense of self-worth. His sense of self-worth is constituted symbolically, his cherished narcissism feeds on symbols, on an abstract idea of his own worth, an idea composed of words, sounds and images, in the air, in the mind, on paper."

> Can we point to any other historic examples of people being deliberately (mis)led, by coordinated and powerful actors, to believe certain things to be true, that are not actually true?

I think the whole Public Relations (aka propaganda) movement would be an example of this delibrately misleading people to believe in certain things and force them act accordingly. The modern pioneer of this would be Edward Bernays [0] how he profited the industry by convincing people that they need to buy material things (for example, new fashionable clothes) to express their individuality or helping the Tobacco industry to get rid of the taboo of smoking among women.

But I would argue that this idea of misleading masses goes back in history. I would go out on a limb here but isn't the whole idea of Church based on fear of hell in order to make people act according to "Christian" values to seek eternal heaven and save their soul? Seems like delibrating misleading people in a coordinated manner to believe in ideas that are not actually proven to be true.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
This may have been part of the reason, the other is that there was a significant portion made up of irregulars, the equivalent of militia members in the states. They didnt have uniforms or insignia covered vehicles with which they could transport weaponry, and they weren't going to spray the cow with an insignia were they.

Don't be a fool for the PR, they didn't purposely not wear uniforms, in the same way that the Taliban dont wear a uniform. In general these are not armed forces but irregulars, locals protecting their homeland. If the US was invaded do you think every gun owner is going to sign up and dress in military fatigues? Or are they going to fight back regardless of what they happen to be wearing?
> As for Chinese domestic human rights, the thing is doing coups etc. as was done so many times in i.e. the Middle East and Latin America won't lead to a better outcome because a coup is a forceful, violent and sudden, unnatural event

There is a political theory that any transition from a repressive to an open society involves going through a risky zone of instability:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_J_Curve_(book)

Now if you consider that this involves a country of 1.5B people, and take into account past experience with radical political changes (e.g. the Cultural Revolution), it seems that even for the most enlightened political leadership, both domestic and foreign, there may not be any easy answers how to proceed.
Yes, it's easy to change teams. You just find a new manager and ask if they have openings. You don't want to leave your old team high and dry, but the only requirement was the new manager saying yes.

Obviously in reality there were most likely some negotiations amongst the managers, as the new manager wouldn't want to get a reputation for stealing people.

But I saw people change teams pretty regularly. Not just because of bad managers, but because they just wanted a new challenge.
Yeah maybe, but these hardcore algorithmic "leetCode" things are like asking the warehouse worker to design a logistics system instead of seeing if they can carry 20kg boxes. The vast, vast majority of software jobs out there involve more soft skills (requirements, planning, scrum and other processes) and "plumbing" libraries/frameworks/data layers together than implementing algorithms from scratch. I'm not saying you'll never have to do it, but it's going to typically be a small proportion of your day job, so why test this stuff so much at interview stage?
> On the mainland if you are a leading expert in this field or that, or belong to specific establishments (such as public security or state security) you cannot exit the country without permission from higher up the food chain.

Why don't you just call it what it is: A Prison!

Say no to political correctness!

Sure some may want to work in such an environment but this is modern day slavery. Nothing else!
In my experience, anything written by/for hardware manufacturers is done under the management pressure of "Did it meet the minimum requirements? Ok good, now any extra second you spend looking at the code again is time theft from the organization. It WORKS, stop."
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There's actually a pretty fundamental reason that Julia's Base and stdlib makes more use of multiple dispatch than Common Lisp (or any other language in existence with multiple dispatch). It's that in basically every other language, multiple dispatch comes with a non-neglible performance penalty.

Julia's multiple dispatch semantics were designed around having a JIT compiler, and it's JIT compiler design was designed around having multiple dispatch, and this tight integration let us be really good at de-virtualizing the dispatch, removing the hefty performance pentalty.

This is why even basic arithmetic operations like +, * and whatnot are able to be generic functions (with a gigantic number of methods, 184 for + and 364 for * currently just in Base and LinearAlgebra!) without any runtime performance compromise.

By contrast, Nim for instance just removed multiple dispatch in their 1.0 release because nobody was using it due to being so slow.
I'm not all that familiar with Yarvin. Could you contextualize how he fits into the broader rationalist movement? I want to understand how someone with such strongly authoritarian beliefs finds common ground with rationalists.
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Of course people get fired at other companies, but that's whataboutism - it's bad no matter where it happens.
They didn't mention the most nefarious thing you could do - spring an October surprise and throw a presidential election in the U.S.

I'm basing this on the fact that both the Trump and Biden campaign staffers are probably sending a lot of DM's. Releasing the most embarrassing information at the right time could prove pivotal.
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>Bacterial chemolithoautotrophy via manganese oxidation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2468-5
How do you avoid customers changing their behaviours by observing pricing changes? Or when they share it with a friend and go "cute shirt for 10 dollars" and their friend is like "wat it's 15 dollars"
Also, for a Chinese expat the path to permanent residency or citizenship is hard, so moving back would have that as a positive as well.
In some cases the fired people were invited back, but usually if they were good they already had another job.
I have this problem myself. I've gotten around it in the past by taking roles where the visibility is already baked into it, but I've never really solved the root problem. Now I'm a mostly anonymous, invisible contractor at a FAANG, and I don't know that there's a way break through that even for those most determined.
Have you? How many cameras are there in the train station from HK to GZ? I lost count at 50. How many times do you go through a complete search as you take the metro trains?

How many WeChat messages just never quite show up? Only pooh bear knows.
> The culture in America shames those who post upsetting things or express those feelings.

Yeah, because it’s bloody depressing.

You get what your mind focuses on and if people actively look for depressing topics it’s no wonder they’re all doom and gloom.

That’s why people don’t want to hear it - because it affects your psychology.

I will actively run from people who lead negative lives, that complain about things but never lift a finger to make anything better. I refuse to be sucked into their pits of despair because I know there is good in the world, and I want to be part of that, focus my mind and attention and energy on leaving things slightly better than when I found it.

I will try to help ppl where I can but the truth is a lot of people are lazy and don’t want to change. So I leave them with my thoughts and know that I have done my piece.

I’m not saying this is directly attributable to your experience, simply relaying the way I feel to give you insight into perhaps a different mindset and way of seeing things.
Trinity was an implosion type bomb, so the required tolerances were tight
Great countries were built on the backs of subjugated minorities and horrible prison conditions. By great countries I mean the US.
One thing I noticed on music videos is that if I click on the Mix on the sidebar for that video it has a heavy bias for videos I've previously watched even if it has nothing to do with that song's genre.

I have kind of weird tastes that go from old country to happy hardcore to synthwave to many different genres and it's just weird how I get songs in the youtube mixes that are extremely unrelated to one another. I could be wrong, but it seems like it used to be much better than it is now.
[edit] Retracting my unnecessary jab around the moderator's comments being modified several times and their moderation leaving a lot to be desired. The latter was rude and uncalled for.
"Wanna play a game? Just move the ball to the hole with your eyes. Oh and we need access to your camera."
At least on desktop, you can remove videos from your watch history, which I think will drop them from the recommendations algorithm. Search here and click the X on the offending videos: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
How does the name WhatsApp convey a theme of messaging and communication? Signal and Telegram are obvious.

It's worth noting that other services have equally nonsensical names. Skype, Slack. Others, like Line, have only a vague connection that take thinking about to see.

See the list of services mentioned in Wikipedia's IM template; only half of them mention chat, talk, etc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Instant_messaging

I should note that I'm not saying I agree it's a good name (I don't have an opinion on that, personally), just that it's not unusual.
They look completely different to me. Most of the conspiracist videos aren't even political.

https://www.their.tube/conservative

https://www.their.tube/conspiracist
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What companies are hiring Senior software engineers or Solution architect in Canada, Specially in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, etc.

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Aren't there a lot of pseudoscience-based food allergy tests out there? I've seen ones where you drop blood onto paper cards and mail them in. Somehow they test your old dead blood and then they send back a list of foods and tell you if you're allergic to them... Seems fishy to me, and I could not find how it worked or anything that these tests are legit. Every other type of allergy that causes inflammation in the body is done live, on your body with a test where they prick your skin. But I've never heard of this being done with food. Where did you end up getting your food allergy test done?
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I invited a repost of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23773911. If that leads to a discussion, we could do the same for this one, once enough time has gone by. Feel free to email hn@ycombinator.com about it!
Multiple dispatch is a wonderful thing. It's basically what OOP should have been, rather than the horrible cludge of classes.
Correct, I retract, FYI here's where he said it was a mistake (after signing) and not registering.

[1] https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/444041-former-kasich...
You've submitted this many times over the past seventeen days, you also keep submitting it in a strange way. Leave the text field blank, and only fill in the title and URL fields. If it's not getting traction there's no reason submit it 16 times in 17 days.
> European cities have far fewer cars than similarly sized American cities. Gas and car ownership taxes are are also more expensive in Europe compared to America. The reason for this is that the actual cost of car ownership in the US is being passed on to future generations.

No, the reason for this is that European cities are much older and denser, hence streets are narrower, garages are often impossible to build. Gas is more expensive because most cities in Europe have to import it from far away and because taxes are generally higher, not because we're beacons of virtue while the USA is car owners' heaven.

Here in Austria, the average car owner pays a few 1000 $ per year in car-related taxes plus highway tolls, gas prices are high ($8-9 per gallon) and people are complaining just as much about the cost of car ownership being passed on to future generations or the general public. All while our car taxes/tolls are used to maintain highways and those are used by everyone's cargo deliveries, bus travels and so on.
Implosion is what we’re talking about.
For some perspective:

1. Read the article, it doesn’t support the accusation.
2. Be aware that the article is 3 years old anyway.
As someone who hasn't used Rust, I am curious about why Rust has macros.

I use C++ at work, which admittedly isn't the language I use most, and macros are used quite a bit in the code base. I find they just make the code harder to read, reason about, debug, and sometimes even write. I don't see them really living up to their claimed value.

Is there something different about Rust's macros that make them better?
I don't think there was a way to hide this from Twitter once it was executed, since each hacked account got a password reset email. Assuming that you can't hide it from Twitter, then it's a fine strategy to make sure that everyone, especially potential customers of the hacked DMs, knows that you hacked these accounts.
I think the point is while it will indeed cause serious trouble in real world, it still not enough to "start WW3".
TSMC steals US technology for decades.
Time to stop TSMC!
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Knife laws vary allot by city and state.

In Colorado I believe the maximum length allowed is 3.5 inches in blade length. This sounds simple but can even be a grey area because some knives like Spyderco have a part of the blade thats not sharpened and technically part of the handle.

NYC used to be very knife unfriendly and you could get charged with carrying a gravity knife if the knife could be flicked open in any way. Good news though as it sounds like that changed https://reason.com/2019/03/28/federal-judge-rules-new-yorks-... There was still a case in NYC of a chef who was charged with something for carrying a very small pocket knife on his way home from work. He was charged with something for the pocket knife but from what I remember it was totally okay that he was carrying a bunch of large chefs knives in his backpack.

Its important to read and understand the law as well as how its actually enforced.
Alex Ball is freaking amazing. He did a short podcast about that video last week, which I found interesting. https://www.soundonsound.com/people/alex-ball-making-arp-syn...
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Because we need to focus on an external enemy to divert our attention from our domestic problems.
This might be true if you work at a professional brokerage or hedge fund, but there's no way the SEC can investigate everyone holding a few million worth of TSLA options.

Someone who buys a few million in puts just before hacking twitter is indistinguishable from some random robinhood user who decides it's time to go all in on puts because of a wsb post.