skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. It was Germany--the same one that exists today--that marched into its neighbors, conquering them and enslaving segments of their population. In the U.S., it's common to hear people say "The Nazis invaded Poland" or "The Nazis bombed London" but if you go to Poland, they'll say "The Germans invaded us" and if you go to London they'll say "The Germans bombed us."

I don't know why it's common to pretend otherwise.
Why did Facebook ever dare to enter the world of fact checking. It's not feasible for Facebook to be the arbtiter of all truth.

It's like Facebook cannot decide if it's a news organization or a tool for posting baby photos.
RHer buying VOOG beats hedge funds all the time. It's the safest thing to do over large periods of time. Guy using eTrade buying VOOG does not do much better than RHer buying VOOG. Guy using Ameritrade buying VOOG does not do much better than RHer buying VOOG.

That's because the magic is VOOG, not your platform. And if RH gets you to buy VOOG instead of storing excess dollars in your savings account, then RH is the number one option.

All the returns are in the activation energy of getting to stock one of VOOG. Whether you buy it at 198.86 today or 198.85 will not change your outcome to any significance. What it will do is put you ahead of many hedge funds ten years from now, even if they spend 200 on their portfolio where you spent 198.85.
No, people just get detained and disappeared in China, with families sent to labor camps if you're Uighur minority. That doesn't happen in the United States.

Does the United States have problems? Yes. Are those problems on the same level as China? No.
Ah ha that explains it perfectly, thanks.

I've always been curious what a real day+night satellite image looks like. The simulated ones always show urban areas as absurdly bright.

Does anyone have links to satellite imagery that shows the actual full real transition from daytime to nighttime, at a constant camera exposure so without exaggeration?
I wrote a response, but then I focused on your username, so I assume you're being ironic.
OSB's given me way too many splinters to want to work with it even if it's a fine material :p
This was a fun read. We still joke about "keeping the unit fed/clean", and he's twelve now.

https://www.amazon.com/Baby-Owners-Manual-Instructions-Troub...

Is it the best? No, but it's not just a joke either. Lots of simple things, covered in a lighthearted 'like a car manual' kind of way.

With a newborn, sleep is your challenge. We discovered my wife needs 8 hours, but can be interrupted. I need 5 and CANNOT be interrupted. So I handled things until 12:30am and then Mom took over until 6-ish.

And on that note, during the first few months, if one getting out of bed wakes the other, consider the couch or a guest bed. You do not want to let notions about marital sleeping together turn into being sleep-deprived and hostile toward each other.

If breastfeeding doesn't 'take' right away, get on the phone and have a lactation aid come help. Every kid/nipple situation is different. Trying to figure it out on your own, while sleep deprived (see above) is maddeningly difficult. Hire a guide to get it sorted.

Bear in mind, some kids are slow feeders, so that 4-hour feeding interval might be closer to 3 hours.

As the kid gets older I found it's best to not ask the open-ended "what do you want to do?" Because that leads to tears when the impossible can't happen. Rather have 3-4 plans YOU want to see happen and present it like THEY get to choose. You help them learn agency without setting the situation up for failure.

And it's not until they're about 2.5 years old that they won't accidentally kill themselves. It's up to you to make sure they don't walk into traffic/off ledges, eat/drink something bad, pull furniture/stove pots over on themselves, etc. But at about 2.5 they start to realize they've got some skin in the game and start exercising a little care. I emphasize START, you're still on duty to keep an eye on them.

I was fortunate to be able to handle being Dad at home. It was fascinating witnessing the bias. As in, when we were out and about, people (often women) assuming that it was just a single "Day out with Dad"... oh no, dearie, EVERYDAY was Dad day. And during kiddie gym/exercise/music classes it wasn't until they realized I clearly knew more about strollers/diapers/formula than they did that mothers started to come around.

Pro-tip, babies don't understand words. They do understand emotions. It seems obvious, but yelling at them or telling them not to do something in a drawn-out sentences is as useless as yelling at the goldfish.

Help them, guide them, let them see you as someone they can trust and that loves them. Don't set them up to see you as angry/stressed/disinterested.
> I'd just kind of like to see a version that showed real nighttime imagery, even if it was mostly super-dark (but they could HDR it which would be fine too).

It wouldn’t just be super-dark; it would be black. The GOES visible light sensors do not produce any useful data after dark. (See it yourself: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk_band.php?sat=... ... this is the blue channel.)

The image that’s being used here (for the US imagery) is what CIRA calls GeoColor: true-color imagery during the day (with simulated green channel; the GOES-R satellites don’t have a green channel), and multispectral IR composited on top of a static city lights image at night.
Paul Saffo writes, "I will force myself to make a tentative forecast based on the information available, and then systematically tear it apart."

That's similar in spirit to scientific method: Formulate a hypothesis and then set out to disprove it. (Overly simplified, of course.)

So, there's definitely something here. But in my experience, the phrase "Strong Opinions, Weakly Held" is mostly just used to excuse bad behaviors.
Well, most people these days cannot grasp what anonymity means. Anonymity doesn't exist, therefore you have to wear a mask to blend in.

I mean, TOR browser is great and all... But the traffic will be suspiciously obvious for outside actors that look for statistical behaviours before they take a deeper look.

I hear a lot of (even CS people) that say things like "oh it's encrypted via TOR so nobody can listen" ...which is just such a wrong statement and makes people careless about everything else, including starttls email and http requests by default with their web browser.

People assume they are safe, but nobody mentions how they should use their own biggest piece of spyware correctly: the web browser.

If ungoogled-chromium dies, there'll be pretty much no safe alternative available.

PS to avoid potential errands: And no, recommending Firefox is just as uninformed as recommending Switzerland. Use mitmproxy to verify.
Many of the negative health effects for shift workers are caused by the different timing mechanisms in the body that are affected by circadian rhythms being out of sync. For example, some systems will adjust to being asleep in the day, where others (like the liver) have less flexibility. One might imagine that when we eat would also matter in this context, since bedsides light exposure, access to food is notable for an effect on the circadian system. Evolutionarily, humans would have done far less eating in the dark, and we tend to stay up after dark on the regular, but our digestive and regulatory systems may not be staying up with us.
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/COVIDNet/COVID19_5.html

This shows clear counter evidence to the claim of hospitalization rate being ~20% for all age groups. This CDC data shows a steep increase in the hospitalization rate as age increases.

Not sure where you are getting your information.
Having not lived in an Eichler house, I'm just obsessed with the indoor/outdoor mixed space.

Is there a good takedown of eichler architecture anywhere? Just to satisfy my curiosity?
Note that a riot is a really loosely defined term, literally any civil unrest or any gathering which the authorities don’t agree with can be labelled as “a riot”.

The actual charges given to people after a “riot” are usually unrelated (jaywalking, illegal lodging, etc.) and are mostly dropped before this goes through the courts.

I haven’t looked at the figures but I would be very surprised to find the percentage of protestors arrested for the Black Lives Matter cause that are guilty of rioting is more then a single percent. To reword: I claim (though I don’t know the figure) that less then 1% of people arrested during a “riot” are found guilty of rioting.
There's probably a bit of "know who your users are".

Ultimately the "ease of use" thing is valuable to the developers (the stakeholders above couldn't care less), and Stripe seemed to identify that getting developer buy-in is super valuable for at least one segment of the population
Booby traps are illegal.
How's that going with Elon's pronouncements on Covid-19? I only saw lots of him assuming he was right against clearly better informed medical opinion.
Yes. Federal crimes. Rioting, unless it is specifically vandalism on a federal building, is not enforceable by Federal agents, because it isn't a federal crime.

When I'll see the warrant signed by a federal judge against these people for a federal crime with probable cause, then maybe. But so far, no one was served with a warrant.
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Was hoping to read about developers participating in Stripe themed rituals that resemble Eyes Wide Shut, a UFO cult, or an End-of-Days Revelation cult. Instead, it's just something about executing business processes with customers and good documentation. American business culture is something to behold.
> Serpent Linux is not Serpent GNU/Linux because it is not going to be dependent on a GNU toolchain or runtime.

I wonder if they have GNU coreutils replacement? or bash? or ncurses?

Is it going to be all busybox based, rewritten from scratch, or ported from BSD?
If we are going to allow law enforcement to behave like this, you don't really have a check on people being disappeared. Even if the secret police are absolutely perfectly 100% scrupulous in only taking "bad guys" off the street for good reason, anybody could impersonate them, because they don't have identification or keep records.

For the sake of argument, stipulate the US is not right now on the same level as some despotic states. What is going to tell us that we've arrived, next week or next year, if anonymous security forces can grab people off the street with no accountability? What sounds the alarm, that the feds are not doing things correctly, or that someone is pretending to be the feds, who kidnap people?
A. That's Seattle
B. It's not a thing anymore
C. There's evidence that a lot of that was far right extremists

What's your point?
It turns out the docs [1] try to explain how it works:

> The method finder will take the input objects (receiver and arguments) and perform their permutation to be able to find more results.
Then, it will lookup in the receiver's hierarchy the approved and forbidden methods to run on the hierarchy and run them on the permutation of objects.

which sounds like an exhaustive search.

I dug a little further and found this [2] which points to the actual implementation in the `MethodFinder` class. I don't know enough Smalltalk to decipher it :(

[1] https://github.com/pharo-open-documentation/pharo-wiki/issue...

[2] https://csharp.developreference.com/article/18692966/How+doe...
I don't remember the movie well enough, but it might have been a captive bolt gun (typically used for slaughtering livestock)?
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What genocide, exactly? Also, China is expansionist -- do you think they don't want more power, influence and resources? Why do you think they annexed Hong Kong?
Sure, specifically detention of people in the US isn't as big of an issue as in the PRC.

However, the US has absolutely huge issues that are much worse than anything comparable in China. Such as, I don't know, fabricating intelligence and feeding it to propaga- I mean corporate media in order to justify a war to kill over a million innocents.

The US is not better than China as far as human rights. There are some things that the Chinese do much worse than America, such as due process, in general - not in extreme cases, where both don't hesitate to extraordinarily rendition you into a black site. However, China also doesn't have the habit of turning a few million innocents into pink mist every decade or so, so there's really no argument of moral superiority you can make here. US problems are certainly on the same level as China.

And as far as detention, the direction the US is going certainly isn't the right one, either.
Those are just traffic circles with some spokes.

The generated maps show concentric circles, which is super-unusual in the US. I don't think I've seen it anywhere.

I'm actually curious if it's a common pattern in some other country.
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But we can, apparently, load people onto and off of the train conveniently?
What you have are different eras. Older is usually more chaotic. Look at New York below 14th St., then contrast with above which came later.

You can draw another line when car culture became common. Before then, it was grids accessible by streetcars. After, the cul de sac style and similar becomes common.
I study WW2, and the US had such fundamental problems with bomber design that you could say they were of doctrine in nature.

The B-17 "Flying Fortress" had lots of guns and a crew of 10, but couldn't defend itself against German fighters. It's payload ended up being the same as the 2-man British Mosquito bomber.

The B-29 was the first pressurized bomber, yet that just made it expensive to build since bombing accuracy at 20k feet is random, and Curtis Lemay ended up using it at 5k feet, with napalm.
My Jewish minyan would disagree with that. We've been meeting and discussing the same issues for at least 2500 years.
>Parents are supposed to be caregivers, employers are supposed to be source of opportunities, and governments are supposed to protect and safeguard the state and its people.

This is a bizarrely naive worldview. In democratic countries the government's role is to implement a system of governance decided on by the people. The whole idea behind having a system of "checks and balances" is to prevent the government from unilaterally deciding what constitutes "safety and protection" and what measures it deems necessary to do so. Every despotic regime in history has claimed to be "protecting and safeguarding the state and its people" while stifling the freedom of its people. Ceding rights and freedoms to the government because you perceive them as benevolent overseers with pure motives is incredibly dangerous and absurd to anyone with any knowledge of history.
Rockaway Beach in New York City is definitely like that:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Rockaway+Peninsula/@40.582...
I’ve never seen one of these but my old neighbors from backwoods Minnesota raved about them. In addition to the vast reduction in blast radius from a fire, apparently the outdoor furnaces are large enough to fit big old logs without needing to slice and split so much. And the radiant floor heating isn’t more expensive than any other type in new construction.
That's a captive bolt gun. It's used to kill cattle for slaughter.
We very much do care about Chromium's memory usage. Chrome RAM memes exist for a reason :)
I'm sure lockpickinglawyer will still open it just fine.
What’s changed from when you posted three months ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22929251
Doesn't that use compressed air?
Nobody wants it, except the three-letter agencies who now have this baked into everyone's phones.
How could that possibly be safe in a non-pure programming language? There could be a function that deletes the n first files found in the working directory.
Isn't this a title 9 violation?
> Swap was put in between the used parts of other of the disk. This was tricky to get right, since you had to map out the system.

... one of the classic mistakes, well after the era the author refers to here, was to overlap a swap and filesystem partition. Worked just fine until that last block of swap got used; then suddenly the filesystem's hosed... but it repaired ok and then was good for sometime, until the same would happen again.

gaps in between partitions could provide useful hidden space for all manner of things too.

Someone recently posted an overlapped filesystem stunt that was at the same time a valid FAT and ext2? volume; i think. Can't recall enough of it to find a link now.
This is promising news, nothing for certain, but promising. Thanks for sharing.
Luckily for us, most people who are very good at lock picking (or good at learning new skills) can find better work that becoming a bike thief. Making bikes harder to steal results in fewer stolen bikes.
They have used a cheap angle grinder disk, what would have happened if they took a proper diamond one?
It sounds like you're running these tests on a schedule against production?

If that's the case, curious how you might build a test that can handle something like a MFA token request on login.
>Neat idea, very similar to concept of running a chain through a pipe to prevent cutting

People do that? Also, how does it work?
> Did that happen after the LIBOR scandal?

IB has been fully monitored by compliance since its inception, so nothing changed there. Whether or not firms have working compliance departments is probably the question you should be asking :)
That almost sounds like a domain-specific variant of QDOS->MS-DOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS).

Is there anything more out there I can read about the history?
The one shown in that movie uses compressed air. Some other sorts use powder charges, just like a powder actuated nailgun.
> We still don't have vaccines for retroviruses like HIV/Herpes

Herpes is not retrovirus. It just have a latent phase where inactive viral DNA is in the cytoplasm of infected neurons.
"Its just a fictional slippery slope made up to protect hate speech"

Ah, and there is the ugly, authoritarian, Stalinist argument right there.

"We only ban, denounce, destroy those who are GUILTY of Hate Crimes, so how could you have any worry about that?"

People are banned all day long on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Stripe, comments sections etc. for any and all sorts of made up reasons that have nothing to do with hate speech. And FYI you can say things that are essentially hate speech, but in a political context may not be, so it's fine i.e. "White People Are a Disease" is a common thing on Twitter. No problems there apparently.

And speaking as a former German resident, they have some real Nazis there, none of this kind of 'made up suff' like in the US.

This is a problem that needs to be addressed.

'Freedom of Expression' is the #1 Amendment to the US Constitution and the #1 thing in the relatively new Canadian constitution (#11 in EU) for a very good reason: it took thousands of years for 'every day people' to be able to speak their minds without being shot.

We can't leave this issue up to corporate CEO's, mostly trying to read the Twitter tea leaves.
I'd prefer iOS running in Pharo, since Pharo is good for debugging and since all iOS documentation isn't freely available.
> produces particularly pithy progeny

> fantastically fastidious on fruit quality

Great alliterations. Great writing all around. This just made my night.
I feel like it says a lot about the HN audience that the biggest reply chain is about bike locks, of all things.
The text needs to have more contrast on the main page to make the content more readable - that's my only comment. Thanks for building this!
> For instance, Steve Jobs was famous for arguing against one position or another, only to decide that you were right, and then come back a month later holding exactly your opinion, as if it were his all along.

Unrelated to the larger theme of the post, but I absolutely hate it when people do this. I thought it sounded like a silly parable until I saw people do it in real life. At which point I concluded it was some kind of characteristic of narcissism.

To this type of person, an idea isn't good until it's theirs. They will trash your idea, and trash you. When your idea seems convenient they will take credit and fail to cite you as an influence. That's ok, one can suppose, if not for the next part. Likely they have forgotten you gave them that idea in order to help them. They still think you are trash. They will have no qualms trashing your next idea with personal attacks just like the last one.
But your military example literally happened with edmondo where people jogging around secret military bases were found because that system was breached
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One thing I didn’t see anyone mention is availability of data. We used Bloomberg terminal subscriptions and eventually paid of B-Pipe to integrate into our real-time pricing despite the api being absolutely horrendous and costing nearly $100k/month it was still our cheapest option given we would have to integrate with multiple other providers at lower but really high rates that added up to cost greater than b-pipe.

Financial data is kind of a racket.
To clarify I did not mean taking a bike into peoples' houses, but commercial establishments that already see a high volume of foot traffic. The tread pattern and grip on any shoes collects far more feces and other dirt from sidewalks than a smooth treadless 700x23 tire.
If that is true - I can buy a POLICE Velcro badge on eBay, stick it on, and start detaining people? Genuinely, that’d be my fear. I recognize I’d then be impersonating a police officer - but without further identification, there is a huge gap in accountability, right? Someone swipes people off the street - and bystanders have zero recourse to identify and followup on the person detained - they have no idea what agency detained them. That’s how you disappear people.
> A fascinating study of 472 university students

That is... not a representative sample
This rather condescending article seems to define "conspiracy theory" as something that is always by definition untrue, rather than something that may ultimately be true but is "officially" considered untrue at the current time.

It is of course a simple matter to disapprove the notion that all conspiracy theories have been false. Many prove to be true.

I remember well when the notion that LIBOR looked manipulated was ridiculed as a conspiracy theory. Years later it was front page news.

Are most conspiracy theories false? Probably.

But the notion that "talking to conspiracy theorists" starts with a presumption of superiority of one's own assumptions is to be fundamentally unscientific -- and is often merely an appeal to authority.

Take the death of Jeffrey Epstein: I place myself squarely on the side of the conspiracy theorists. How would you "talk to me"?
I hope this thread results in an FP post about this, because I am super curious now and there's only tidbits here ("engine pistons?" "what's a ramset?").
If I may ask, what is the specification/purchase value of the bike? Is it cheap enough to not look like a juicy target?
This seems important. Is there somewhere where this example is worked out in more detail?
China right now has little power projection ability, and invading anywhere would likely start a very costly war with the US. If China had the same global military dominance as the US does now, it would be much, much more aggressive. It openly wants to outright conquer Taiwan, just for starters. There's a whole Wikipedia category on Chinese border disputes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Territorial_disputes_...