skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In roughly five years, I went from reading Skeptic magazine to believing the CIA killed JFK and traffics drugs into the U.S. to support its black operations, MKULTRA is an ongoing program and had a hand in creating the Manson Family and the Jonestown cult, (rogue elements in) the U.S. government at the very least had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks, and pedophile sex trafficking networks are commonplace and widely known among the ultra-wealthy and powerful elite strata of world society.

This happened because of a consistent, observable and undeniable pattern of elite impunity and abuse of power, most blatantly exhibited by Epstein's death in prison (via murder or facilitated suicide), which led me to take a closer look at the holes in many official narratives we're told to accept in place of explanations which imply that the ultra wealthy & powerful exist beyond all law and morality and use whatever means necessary to maintain their grip on power.

When it comes to these matters people are guessing at the truth with the limited picture of the facts available to them, and conspirators are actively poisoning the well by associating good theories with bad ones, so of course the conspiracy theory world is full of disinfo, misinfo, and just plain mistaken takes. But until the bluepilled crowd represented by this article accepts that at the very least some conspiracy theories are true (hell, just look at the history of things which were dismissed in those terms until incontrovertible documentary evidence emerged), they'll be fighting a losing battle.

> It’s a defense mechanism: we’re primed to be suspicious and afraid of things that can’t be explained.

That's funny. I see the public's need to dismiss conspiracies with mundane explanations as a defense mechanism -- especially the really obvious and undeniable ones like JFK's assassination or Epstein's death. The idea that conspiracy theories represent some source of psychological comfort is just 180 degrees opposite the truth. It's not easy to admit to oneself that your vote is in meaningless in an important sense, that the media you've consumed your whole life is mostly controlled propaganda, and that the avenues to fix these things are risky and uncertain at best.
This doesn't have any of what makes lisps nice, in that you cannot, as far as I can tell from those docs, operate on the data structures the code consists of at all.
My brother in law’s brother is the founder of ClearGov which sells SAAS to municipalities for reporting budgets and such. If relevant shoot me an email, include some information so I can lay it up for him and I will make an email intro. Can’t promise other people’s time but never hurts to ask.
I’m gonna guess it was Le Relais de L’Entrecôte, I went a number of years ago and I must admit I really enjoyed the simplicity of it all !!
> It seems to me that when we allow ourselves to be distracted by the category conflicts, we are distracted from the fight between those trying to maximize our well-being and those happy to throw us all under the bus to optimize for their individual circumstance.

That's a reasonable point I agree with. But you're just practicing bothsideism here.

It is quite obvious that the ones throwing everyone under the bus to optimize for their individual circumstance are the Republicans. Pretty much every Republican policy is a form of "screw the poor, screw the planet, it's all fine as long as I become richer".

Sometimes it's a bit disguised but it's often quite blatant. For example, all the gutting of regulations at the EPA so that the coal industry can keep polluting to their hearts content.
Should we trust Rust with the future of systems programming?
This is not "no code". This is code, imperative code even, in a really bizarre format.
Folks should parse the article and the platform carefully, it actually reads "existing and advanced nuclear". This could be interpreted as maintaining existing reactors and building advanced (fusion?) reactors and NOT building new fission reactors.

From my perspective this interpretation would be desirable (although probably wishful thinking) given that nuclear energy is too expensive in practise (really only existing plants are competitive with solar), too slow to construct (10 year average construction time in the US?!), centralized and generally poorly managed. The construction of new nuclear fission plants for grid power in the United States isn't going anywhere, since it makes absolutely no economic, environmental or political sense. Yes, most of us on Hacker News know it is better than fossil fuels - but renewable energy is the new competition. Nuclear is going directly against solar with (or without) battery backup and it's been losing for years now - even China has slowed down the pace of construction.

Nuclear grid power advocates should take their arguments to Mars where they will actually have a case. Not much of an atmosphere to spin a turbine, far away from the sun and an environment that makes the Antarctic look like a Garden of Eden should anything go wrong.
If you are only willing to avoid GoodRX if someone else subsidizes a lower price for you, then you are acting against your own self-intetest.

The point is that if you think paying a lower price now is good or necessary, you are hurting yourself and others. You should stop focusing on the lower up front price and take actions that don’t hurt yourself or others.

Asking others to subsidize a lower price for you is a rhetorical deflection. It’s not connected to a greater point, it doesn’t prove anything, it doesn’t compromise the other person’s position if they are unwilling to subsidize your lower price, and it doesn’t address the issue - your desire to do anything for a lower price in the short term is directly antagonistic to your own self-interest and cost savings in the medium term.

Finally, I am willing to pay towards that cost for you - please tax me more and provide universal medical care for all. Are you voting for single payer universal healthcare? Are you vocally supporting candidates who will enact that policy? If you want me to pay for your prescription prices to be lower, I will absolutely do it via taxation and universal healthcare.
I’m continuously baffled by those that claim that nuclear power is safe. Look at Fukushima for example. It seems hard to imagine a nuclear power plant design, even Gen III or IV that would be immune to any possible natural disaster.

Analysis of nuclear power should take into account Black Swan events: no matter how well designed, some fraction of plants will cause INES Level 7 disasters. If the resulting cost (ie $100s of billions for cleanup), environmental damage, and health impacts are still less than wind or solar, I’m all for it, but pro-nuclear arguments continuously give the tired argument that with new designs “this time is different.”
Direct URL to the SVG Icon page: https://tablericons.com/ (discussion from 5 month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22623970)
But that's the problem with oligopolies, the reward is fictional as all that happens is the existing market players stop taking so much. This means the ROI for a new competitor is much worse than what you'd assume on it's face, it could even be negative.
I believe mutable pointers like that are outside the scope of IPFS itself, instead within the realm of name systems like IPNS[1] and DNSLink[2]. I'm not sure if/how those systems track history.

Unsurprisingly, some people want to use blockchains[3][4] (those definitely have history).

[1]: https://docs.ipfs.io/concepts/ipns

[2]: https://dnslink.io

[3]: https://www.namecoin.org

[4]: https://ens.domains
Morality is rooted in authority.
It’s the common colloquial usage of “exponential” to mean “a lot”, rather than its technical meaning.
DCS is quite like that, in that if you want to learn the systems there are some decent lessons for some planes but none of them cover things like BFM or (server!) etiquette. Luckily there is a thriving online community to help you learn the ropes, although it is rather annoying sometimes to be just fumbling around.

The F-14's AI RIO "Jester" can actually guide you through startup, which is very cool
Longer-form article from 1992, which talks about the history of the phone system and covers this event: https://stuff.mit.edu/hacker/part1.html

> On January 15, 1990, AT&T's long-distance telephone switching system crashed.

> This was a strange, dire, huge event. Sixty thousand people lost their telephone service completely. During the nine long hours of frantic effort that it took to restore service, some seventy million telephone calls went uncompleted.

> Losses of service, known as "outages" in the telco trade, are a known and accepted hazard of the telephone business. Hurricanes hit, and phone cables get snapped by the thousands. Earthquakes wrench through buried fiber-optic lines. Switching stations catch fire and burn to the ground. These things do happen. There are contingency plans for them, and decades of experience in dealing with them. But the Crash of January 15 was unprecedented. It was unbelievably huge, and it occurred for no apparent physical reason.
plenty of these people leaving super hateful comments all around the internet are just everday, nice friendly people who choose to say whatever the fuck they want on a forum or chan. It seems a lot of people throughout this very thread, would rather reduce them all to a certain ideology or hardcore stereotype all 4chan users as only white males. You couldn't be more wrong about that. Tons of people get on there and talk a bunch of trash like it's a video game and then go back to their "life."
Well, you don't have to write a parser. The parser is already written for you (yaml parser). But I have no idea why that'd be an advantage, especially for Google, they surely know how to write a parser...
The Computer Tree (1961)
The problems AI has today go back centuries
This language isn’t a lisp, nor is it homoiconic. It’s just a tree-structured language.

It may be fair to compare the syntax and structure to s-expressions, but not to lisp itself. In the same way this language could as easily be expressed as XML.
Nuclear also got much, much more expensive than it was in the previous century, making it economically completely unreasonable in the west.

Nuclear is also the only energy source where people get displaced from their homes in thousands of square kilometers in catastrophic events.
Carbon's a doomsday cult
Ludo is a minimalist front end for emulators
Yaml is the new xml
Humanity Is at the Dawn of a New Era with Bitcoin
It feels like how I treat junk food and snacks: I’m welcome to have as much as I want, but I have to go out of my way to get it every time. Never stock up, which in this analogy would mean never install the native app or subscribe to newsletters or notifications.

For reddit et al, I only view it on the browser. Sure, I get bombarded by popovers and alerts telling me to install the app, but I have to work my way to get to the content if I really wanted to view it.
Yeah, usage of the phrase "exponentially more" is widespread and always almost meaningless. It drives me crazy, especially as a CS theory person, where this phrase has a precise meaning.
Dam failures would like a word.
Because obviously you can do loops, it's even there in the example.
Sounds like he has a productive setup.

Has anyone used the Working Copy git client? I’d like to use GitHub from my iPad.
Deep Learning Recession
agree 100% with you

To me it's a miracle Facebook is allowed to do business given how many scummy things they do

The Western World claims to be honest and transparent and talks a lot about ethics etc

However, you never see stuff like Facebook or the Tik Tok ban in countries like China and INdia which are supposedly riddled with corruption

America it seems corruption is completely OK as long as there is enough bread and circuses for the common people
I don't understand. Are the models actually missing from Bing maps, or did MS remove them for copyright reasons?
Tell HN: Facebook has removed “Sponsored” from desktop ads in your feed
just noticed this today
Thanks. I suspect not. I'm more interested in things like working on NPO projects and whatnot.

I like helping people help people. What I'm just beginning, now, is a Swift SDK for goTenna devices. These are the types of things that first responders to disasters often use. My goal is to make it open-source, MIT-licensed. I may also work on the Meshtastic project. It's entirely possible that the project may not make it. goTenna likes to play their cards close to the chest. Meshtastic looks good, but I need to get around to flashing these devices, and that's just a pain.

I have some prior art in this kind of thing. I have another project that I did, that is taking off in a big way. It finally got to the point where a bunch of really energetic and talented people piled on, and now it's becoming a world standard.

When projects don't make money, they tend to take longer to get in the air. I started that project over ten years ago. I play the long game, which I learned that from working at a Japanese company.
If you design and sell tshirts globally on the internet or freelance copy edit for clients in and out of country or exhibit and sell your art internationally these are all sorts of things that are not in competition with local employment but currently have limited movement and residency options. They're not pure examples but I think they work for what people are typically concerned with when it comes to immigration and residency.
(1) You're putting words in my mouth, (2) this discussion is completely off-topic, and (3) you managed to write a rather long comment without any question marks after starting with "not sure what you're trying to say". You could ask for clarification if you want any, rather than invent insinuations.

The first point of my comment was to make you not feel like people don't care about your comment but indicate that this is just not the place for it, hence downvotes. You can take that as the positive message I tried to send... or not. The second part (that "I'm also not sure it's helpful..." part), I should just have left out, it was diving into the topic that I wanted to stay out of, and I suppose that's what most of your reply comes from. I guess the last subsentence of my comment was trying to steer it back, but I should just have left it at the first sentence.

I'll not reply further in this thread because I don't think it's constructive for the actual topic that this thread is about. If you want to talk to me and actually understand what I wrote rather than the invented meaning, feel free to use the contact info in my profile. I tried to use yours to explain, but there was none.

> Unless you're trans, or a direct ally

This is not a war. Please realize that the vast majority of us are on the same team.
Yes! `present` is built on asciimatics.
Thanks for the input. It makes sense.
REPLesent looks cool!
And he had a "neck beard."
CenturyLink requested depeering to give them some breathing room and stop the bleeding. Hug ops.
> there are zero benefits of using it

There are many, many benefits from having steps defined in a restrictive, tightly-controlled language that doesn't require sandboxing.

There are also many benefits to not using XML and XSLT, not least of all user experience.
yeah, and almost everyone would

You take a normal parent and tell them - This guy from Facebook is going to follow your teenage daughter around high school, the mall, her room, everywhere she goes, and keep a record of every single thing she does on the computer

and they would be running for their guns or their lawyers

Online, Facebook does all that and most people don't even have a clue
> Nuclear also got much, much more expensive than it was in the previous century, making it economically completely unreasonable in the west.

Because we stopped building them. Of course costs are going to explode when every time you do it the people on the project are doing it for the first time.
Why would c++ help with latency in comparison to say Python with numpy / numba / Cython? All the production critical “this needs to be as fast as possible stuff” I’ve ever worked on has been all Python, achieving complete speed parity with C, at a much faster development speed and with way way less boilerplate code.
I wrote a terminal graphics library! It might be interesting to use something like this to be able to embed graphics into terminal-based presentations:

https://github.com/dheera/python-termgraphics
2+2=5 for large values of 2.

(Calculus and limits revision mid-semester back in the old days. It was funny at the time. You had to be there. Probably.)
the models aren't missing so much as just terrible. bing doesn't have detailed 3d representations of every building and geographical feature on earth, they're creating them algorithmically from aerial photography.

sometimes, that results in things like the sydney harbour bridge being rendered as a featureless rectangle.
The irony in that customer trying to advance his knowledge and at the same time complaining about Noam Chomsky. I would order a ridiculous spicy pizza on his home address if I was that professor.
Apocalyptic Economies: How to Prepare for a Collapsing Society
I think a course like that is pretty standard in a lot of larger CS programs. I saw that Stanford has a free online course: https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ycscs1-compilers

I would be partial to any course that uses Appel's "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML", though that book is getting pretty old now.
Barcelona made this https://decidim.org/
I agree with you - the best way to do the things I talked about is to spend time talking with the person to ensure that they actually understand and can reasonably communicate about the skills they claim to have.

There's probably a place for practical programming tests, too, but whiteboarding algorithms and such seems to be more of a fraternity hazing/secret handshake ritual than anything else. Good if the skill you need to hire for is "Read and memorized 'Cracking the Coding Interview'", not really indicative of anything else.
Afaik, there's an offline mode. It seems like you're forced to complete an online update before you're allowed to start the game proper though and you might be stuck with the original data on the discs even if you could skip that, which would sort of suck.
But what's going to happen with the nuclear waste? I've heard too many times about water getting into permanent repositories and leaking containers contaminating the biosphere. Seems like a bad idea to me...
That is where she goes really wonky with the white supremacy bit and "Fix this shit these are your devs/employees" like what is any manager to do? Go home with people and do a deep seated documentary on each employee, pry into their personal lives and attempt to root out anyone with ideology that she doesn't like? It's fine to not like bigotry and racism, however it's not fine to tell everyone else what they can think or believe. Huge issue right now. You cannot legislate morality. Period.
Yes, and even when you consider those costs, it pales in comparison to the lives lost and negative externalities of coal, oil, and gas usage. These include climate change, particulate pollution, environmental release of mercury, devastation of vast swaths of the environment worldwide, and other factors that may be hard to quantify but negatively impactful.
How did you find cities to bid for. I once did a very cursory look into government contracts and selling products / services to local governments by checking out the sites for some random small cities and a few states. Very few had open bids and the ones that did were typically not for a software related project.
During this years juliacon there was an absolutely amazing termnial based presentation on building terminal based UI's:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TASx67pphw
> Look at Fukushima for example. It seems hard to imagine a nuclear power plant design, even Gen III or IV that would be immune to any possible natural disaster.

For Fukushima, it seems that the panicked response of the local authorities (evacuating the whole area ...) was what caused the most problems.
Many cognitive scientists would argue that it's also about building models which include statistical/Bayesian models but more than that.

To your broader point, it's not hard to find some specific domains of machine learning where there have been huge advances. But zoom out and look at the broader picture and the results aren't so impressive.
> I wish one person who mentioned the long game would also mention that nuclear accidents can make a place uninhabitable for thousands of years.

Meanwhile burning fossil fuels as designed is going to make the entire planet uninhabitable. It's already unsafe to eat seafood very often because of the mercury content. Smog blankets many cities causing numerous health issues. I haven't even touched on global warming yet...
that was my first thought too, but the article says these models are being used by users saving them to the "community" folder in their game install. the models aren't being submitted for inclusion into the official map.

(if they were, google might have something to say about all this)
The MIT Press site implies there might be a Kindle edition for this, but the Amazon store page doesn't mention one. It also offers etextbook rental, but the link goes to a page with no options for that afaict. I see where there are epubs offered online for prior editions, but they look sketchy. Is this textbook legitimately available in any ebook format?
Well said. I had a small version of this debate with someone I know who posts political stuff on FB, who pointed out in absolutist fashion that the poor failure modes of nuclear and the regular emissions from dirtier sources are both bad, and we need something without either downside.

Literally true but has a bit of "perfect as the enemy of the good" to it. I know absolutely nothing about the challenges involved in updating existing infrastructure to a different source but it seems like an immense challenge, and not at all black and white.
Despite a flashy design, Elon Musk's Neuralink has little substance
To be fair, this is following a period of time which saw Democrats funding a lot of "scientific research" structured to study things like "would reducing the number of guns reduce gun violence" etc. Which is a foregone conclusion in the same way that reducing the number of red cars would reduce the number of collisions involving red cars.

It's a government-funded study structured in such a way as to produce a "scientific result" convenient to the politics of the party funding the study, rather than e.g. a cost/benefit analysis of all the possible solutions to reduce violent crime. It's not overly surprising that the response from Republicans was to become skeptical and demand for that to stop happening.
Tangentially related is my YAML pre-processor that performs string interpolation:

https://bitbucket.org/djarvis/yamlp/

Along with Pandoc, it allows common prose from Markdown to be de-duplicated, as described in my Typesetting Markdown series:

https://dave.autonoma.ca/blog/2019/07/06/typesetting-markdow...

Obviously it's laborious insert to YAML keys everywhere, so I'm developing an editor that integrates YAML and plain text document formats (such as Markdown):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_dFd6UhdV8
And the Mac kill ring is separate from the clipboard so that means you can have two things copied at once and insert them with separate keybindings. Unfortunately the kill ring only contains a single element, so has no history.

some other useful ones are C-h/C-d (backwords/forwards delete), C-o (insert line), and the main Emacs movement keys C-n, C-p, C-b, C-f. Remapping Capslock to be a second Control makes using these regularly much more natural. Karabiner is a good app for easily remapping keys on macOS.
The fires covered wide areas, but since they were so frequent, they didn't burn so hot and didn't destroy the forests, just the undergrowth.