skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Military personnel are trained to be apolitical much more than you might realize from the outside. My information is from a cousin-in-law who just retired.

If a few generals who sided with the president, they would face a lot of resignations all the way down the command change.

In Germany in the 1940s, Hilter got control by literally assassinating the generals who opposed his takeover to take control. But even that would have likely failed without the massive economic crisis caused by the punitive settlement of WW I and without the unusual characteristics of German society. (no, Trump is not Hilter and the US in 2020 is not Germany in the 1930/40s.)

We have tested it a couple of things in the US. Truman recalled MacArthur for attempting to publicly influence political opinion. I forget about the others.

So... the mostly likely thing if it is close is that it takes a while but the political establishment throws it to Biden, Trump sulks into the sunset (maybe even prison eventually), and the Republicans don't care because they have just got a 6-3 on the Court for a generation.
I'm a software engineer. I think he's made real impact on my life with his "don't inflate your lifestyle" advice.
I wouldn't say that I agree. I don't think a delusion of any sort is produced. If something is beautiful (which is objective), saying "it is ugly" does not make you ignorant so much as it makes you simply incorrect. Calling beauty ugly is equivalent to saying "truth is false", which i would argue is a "problematic" view to hold.
> Android tablets rigged to do PoE....

From the other comments here, it looks like this thing is basically the equivalent of the iPads we have running Envoy outside every conference room at my company. We weren’t nearly so clever. Our setup just has an ordinary Lightning cable going to a plain old, standard-issue charger to keep it going.
It's magical thinking to believe that there could be a book that convinces people of something despite being wrong.
Every worker deserves the same opportunity to spend time with their children.

The government wouldn't be forcing any father to do anything. The government would be forcing companies to provide all workers the privilege of time off for parenting. A father who didn't want to bond with his children could use the time off to go fishing, take up woodworking, watch youtube videos, or work on a side-business.
Is there a reason for AWS being stuck with RSA? It's not like they lack money or engineering talent.
Sounds like a good reason to never go there as a tourist, actually.

And no, that is clearly not what they’re trying to communicate (although the actual goal remains unclear). If the premise was “don’t write a review, they’re corrupt and will spuriously jail you”, then they wouldn’t offer the hotel chain the benefit of the doubt.
> certainly enabling these things to be trafficked does not provide net positive to the world.

Yes, it does, because the alternative is the moronic drug war strategy that's been followed for the last 50 years.
The CCP is waging ideological warfare on Western liberalism. And they’re the aggressor. Blocking a medium for them to wage it isn’t hypocrisy.
Why? Is this Foone known for playing with random hardware and posting about it on Twitter?

Edit: misplaced edit lol.
Sure, it's easy enough to find network-attached screens. The hard part is giving those screens access to anything without them showing up as vectors for every Red Team exercise.

Gizmos are used for basically any screen at Facebook that needs to display "live" information -- conference rooms, building maps, monitoring dashboards, etc. Each one has a provisioned identity protected by secure boot and hardware root of trust. They have a minimum of onboard storage (maybe even nothing mutable/persistent after boot?) so they're not a foothold for persistence.
I’m trying to get out of my downward spiral.

I’m married with one 18 year old son at home. I put 11 gallons of gas in my car early July and still had half a tank mid September. I realized that I only leave the house every two weeks to get a haircut. My older son who doesn’t live with us needed a car and I just gave it to him. I didn’t need it.

I had former coworkers/friends who I would meet up for lunch. But none of them are comfortable even eating outside. The married friends that we had, we don’t get together with anymore.

Working out? I had started going to spin class at the gym pre-Covid and was planning to maybe start back teaching fitness classes once or twice a week like a did almost a decade ago, but that’s cut. We have a gym at home that I use and my wife turned another room into a studio where she teaches online fitness classes.

I’ve really become a hermit. We are going to venture outside to eat out for the first time since March next week. Of course we are going to eat outdoors. We use to have date night at least every other week - dinner, movies, live music, etc.

We are still trying to figure out a nice, safe, drivable getaway.
Where are you getting this claim? Natural gas costs somewhere between $40 and $70 per MWh [1]. Storage costs for batteries range from $100/KWh (very optimistic) to $300/KWh [2]. But that's per kilowatt hours. That's $100,000 per MWh to $300,000 per MWh.

Solar and wind's dispatchability remains its key weakness. Storage at anywhere near the required amounts remains a fantasy. That's why Germany and California are still burning fossil fuels for ~40% of their energy, while France's share of fossil fuel generation is under 10%.

1. https://blog.aee.net/the-numbers-are-in-and-renewables-are-w....

2. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73222.pdf
I guess that's pretty cool. The 65% is not 65% IMO, but the Drop 65%. There's a key missing left of the arrows.

Also would be nice to have keyboard height, split keyboards, switch types and keycap types.
Thanks! I guess this means I'll need to make "smart detect" more obvious in the page.
I have a few friends that I made at work that I still keep in touch with and we tried to schedule meetups every month or so - pre-Covid.
I also dislike Typescript. Like the author stated, the typing comes across as an afterthought. This half-measure results in uglier code that still doesn't come with enough guarantees. The language's supporters tout this as a strength: that this incremental progress is more approachable to vanilla JS devs. I completely understand that point, but it may be more beneficial in the long run to transition to something like Purescript or Elm, and it may not be too difficult to get there.

There is a tendency among aging millennials to liken every news event to Harry Potter, which has made the response "read another book" popular. I think some web devs need to be told "learn another language." Not everything should be hammered into a JS shaped hole.
Unless I’m missing something, none of those reasons sound terribly compelling to me, given we’re talking about a social media company. Facebook is fundamentally not a hardware company, things like Oculus notwithstanding.
That’s not unique to Thailand, a sizable portion of the American population appear to be very confused about how defamation law works here too.
Exactly. I would feel much more comfortable going out, eating at restaurants outside, etc if people would be responsible.
I am in my early 20s, not exactly "young" I suppose, but I have been using Emacs since age 11. I think it is fine the way it is.
I would really like to understand the ramifications and benefits of that.
> But nothing has caused more harm and more deaths and suffering over the centuries than religion.

Colonialism and racism have also caused a significant number of deaths.

> I consider religion to be the worst human invention of all times.

I somewhat differ. I am no historian but religion does add some discipline to a society which is in a complete mess. In today's times, as long as religion is at the periphery of one's life, it seems fine. The problem arises when religion becomes life.
I’d guess they are known outside FB, just that a fancy terminal / conference room system isn’t very exciting.
The first part, yes I 100% agree. The second part, I'll pull into a deeper discussion because I'm curious and I want to bounce some ideas off of you.

The argument for online drug marketplaces, as I understand it, is that it reduces violence since there is no longer a physical 'turf war' component. So, if people were going to buy drugs anyway, this offers a safe, nonviolent space in which to do it. It avoids an environment where dealers are shooting each other and innocent bystanders.

With regards to violence, just because Russ was silly enough to think that you could hire a real hitman over the internet doesn't mean that it's a real thing that happens.

Again, I'm not disagreeing with you. I just want to fling some spaghetti and see what sticks.
I’ll note that the UK has notoriously terrible defamation laws. They’re so bad that Congress passed a law to make defamation rulings from the UK unenforceable in America, just to stop the libel tourism.
A mature bourgeois democracy cultivates a wide variety of interest groups that hold power of various kinds. For example: churches, labor unions, professional associations, businesses, trade organization (eg. California Avocado Association), environmental group (eg. Irish Peatland Conservation Council), and other kind of activist organization (eg. Southern Poverty Law Center, Cato Institute), educational institutions, fraternal organizations, political parties, ...

All of this makes society quite stable because if you try to change anything you'll discover that you kicked up not just a hornet's nest but a high complexity hornet's nest -- that is you are not fighting one opponent but rather an ever-changing network of organizations with different motivations and fighting styles.

A movement might start out "raw" (protesting in the streets, occupying a factory, etc.) but if you engage with the "system" you will (over time) grow old and less bold, understand something about how other people see the situation, get some wins, feel like you have something to lose, someday tell young people they'll have to wait their turn, etc.

The "system" will exhaust the energy of attacks from below, above, or the side. That "Avocado Association" would keep its head low when the shooting starts, but could become the nexus of a major conflict a few years down that line because of accidents that accumulate over time -- simply because it wants things and could have wants that get in the way of what the state wants.

The peace of our society depends on the state practicing radical liberalism that doesn't perceive the "Avocado Association" as a threat.

The prosperity of our society depends on all of the above as that anyone succeeds at a goal through civil society and everything from avocados to finance, high technology, salvation and a clean environment and depends on those groups.

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As for the military.

Generals in our military are part of a strong culture acted out through a long career. Today they are at the top of a highly respected organization that taps a few percent of a tremendously productive economy.

Donald Trump has thrown many of his greatest supporters (eg. Jeff Sessions) under the bus when it was convenient for him.

Generals who rallied behind Trump would throw away the good will the military has worked to build, leave them tapping a few percent of a drastically smaller economy, to probably find themselves discarded in a few months or not weeks.

What would you do in that situation?
yeah, I bought Trump on prediction markets between .10 and .30 to ride those up to 1, so sounds about right
If someone accuses you of speeding and you don't think you should get put in jail for multiple days does that mean you are against speed limits?
Yes, the magic is in the tagging. Tagging also solve the issue of `Maybe (Maybe a)` that the other reply mentioned.
That is enough time to have another kid. I have 12 so far. If I lived in Sweden, I wouldn't have to work. I could keep it going for decades.

It's odd that Swedes aren't taking full advantage of the situation.
Because it's made up. No sources, as usual.
It's not very surprising.

It is a reasonable assumption that the CCP, which has expressed ideological opposition to the spread of democracy, will not be using information it gathers on US or European citizens in order to defend or promote democratic rights and freedoms globally. It's a reasonable assumption that western governments, who do have an ideological intention of spreading democracy and western-style freedoms, probably would want to promote individual rights and freedoms (and that is why China was wary of them).

How you see a stick depends on whether you think the person holding it will brandish it for or against you.
What are the common applications for these sorts of GPU-accelerated FFTs? We mostly just solved problems analytically in undergrad, and the little bit of naive coding we did seemed pretty fast. I feel like this must be used for problems I would have learned about in grad school, if I had continued in electrical engineering.
It's less that we've lost a technological capacity, and more than we are no longer leveraging economies of scale. France and the US built a lot of nuclear power plants in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s (well, mostly just France in the 1980s). Nuclear power plants often require specialized parts that aren't found in any other industry. That means when one-off plants are built an entire portion of the supply chain needs to be rebuilt, but when a serial run of plants are constructed (as was done in France) overhead costs of setting up the supply chain are spread out across all plants.
> After The Times declined to provide the records, in order to protect its sources

no sources. It's made up.
Seems like a strategy could address both demographic needs. But people in rural areas don’t ALL need F350s and the like...
As sort of an extension of that, the fact that prison rape is socially accepted as just a part of going to prison is absolutely terrifying to me.

"In 2001, Human Rights Watch estimated that at least 4.3 million inmates had been raped while incarcerated in the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_rape_in_the_United_Stat...
Posted my reply here: https://davidsterry.com/blog/2020/09/on-difficult-free-softw...
Yup. Example from a few weeks ago, modding a pregnancy test to run Doom.

https://twitter.com/foone/status/1302820468819288066
Coming from Haskell and Scheme, I'm now waiting for them to unify the syntactic handling of variables.

At the moment, you have to put a $ in front of most variables, and no adornment for when you want to call something as a function. Reminds me of Common Lisp with its two name spaces for functions and other variables.
This is probably a trimmed down version:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1306249404156751872.html
I was specifically referring to damage.
This is such a backwards way of thinking. Like modernizing math by using little colored blocks with symbols written on them, because your tired of using boring old white and black pencil and paper... It's what you do to entertain children into being interested in something, not how adults get stuff done.
Julio 29, 2020/ 1 Emoción, 3 Frases y 1 Idea
I feel like you could write an entire FAQ based off of the weird biases and things you see here on a daily basis. Maybe even a PhD dissertation.
> - physical activity reduces the risk of many cancers

Logical fallacy.
Probably not many houses in Sweden can fit 12 kids?
>will not be using information it gathers on US or European citizens in order to defend or promote democratic rights and freedoms globally.

And when was America doing this? I seem to recall the last 15 years as being full of America attacking and occupying foreign nations to claim resources.
The argument cuts both ways:

Early tyrannical states and back-breaking agriculture outcompeted relatively free and comfortable hunter gatherers.
Yes, not all land is the same. I think people who worry about land are thinking about the land they see every day, which is in populated areas. They don't think about the vast quantities of very cheap land outside those urban areas.

> How many ecosystems should be destroy by covering it in panels,

Many fewer than were destroyed covering far vaster areas with farms.

> How do you figure? You are going to have transmission from the desert to cities, and you will need last mile delivery either way.

That doesn't contradict the point I made.
There's some projection-psychodrama to it, but it goes along with the tape on Zuckerberg's webcam: they really don't want Google, Amazon, or their Chinese competitors on their corporate network, especially not with cameras and microphones.
The phrasing though sounds like I’ve better got to know about it “or else”.
Look at it from the opposite side...if the company were going to lay you off. They would give you maybe 2 weeks, or payment in lieu of notice. You might get a severance that in theory could cover a few weeks while you search for a new job. But even if you could not afford to lose this job, under no circumstances would they ever give you 3 months' notice.
> all the A-suffixed functions now intentionally crash on post-98 systems.

Do you have a source for this claim?

I find it hard to believe that Microsoft would drop support for ANSI applications.
After my last job with a noisy open office, I was so happy that we had to start working remotely. I loved my company, coworkers, the technology I was working on, pay was decent, etc.

But, pre-Covid, I was desperately looking for a fully remote job to guarantee that I never had to work in an open office again.

Then Covid happen and I stopped looking. Management was trying to get us back in an open office in July. It was even going to be worse. No one was using conference rooms for calls and quick chats before. They definitely weren’t going to do it post Covid.

I was desperate to find another job before July. I was lucky enough to find a fully remote role.
>The best color scheme for programming is the one you like and can comfortably look at for extended periods of time. Your eyes are different than mine

No, your eyes are not different than theirs or mine. We share a common psysiology and optical mechanisms. Eyes work (in the absense of some mutation or disease, which covers most of us) the same way, with the same wiring, etc.

Your preference (e.g. like vs dark backgrounds) might be different, but that's not the same as your eyes being different.

And you could very well slow down/hurt or dellude yourself that your preference is better.

This is akin to someone saying a salad plus chicken is healthier than a McBurger and another replying that they like McBurgers, that what's important is what they can "comfortambly" eat, and that your mouth is "different" than theirs.

The preference part simply doesn't matter as to whether something is better on the eyes or not.

And while the "Pulfrich effect" might not be a good or enough justification, it's much less absurd than the above, which implies that there can't ever be a justification because whats easier/faster to process/etc on the eye is just "taste".
It's always fascinating to read about people reverse engineering obscure tech like this. I don't even know where to start to acquire the skills to do something like this.
Would you really want to be in meeting rooms post Covid?
To be fair, “because it is FIPS-140 approved” is also a reason some people give for avoiding an algorithm.
Yes. I think programming provides a lot of interesting examples of eg functors and other such structures.

Enough to build your intuition at least, and then start learning category theory from there. (And then try to use that knowledge to kick off some further investigation into the other areas of math that category theory historically comes from, if you are so interested.)

I think it's a bit like learning Spanish first and then Latin later. Vs learning Latin first and then some romance languages.
I’m unsure why you’re being downvoted. But it’s true. Unless you’re jaywalking in a busy area and causing distribution to traffic. The police don’t really mind if you jaywalk providing it’s safe for you to do so.

Edit: I guess the truth doesn’t matter on HN.
A book of tweets? No thanks.
Fully documented and annotated source code for Elite on the BBC Micro
The big improvements here are in more support for FIDO2, but the config file env var interpretation smarts are very welcome.
No conflict of interest there. Nothing to see folks. This is total BS. At this point I am about to cut ties with my family that supports Trump. This is beyond anything approaching reason.
Military officers and enlisted persons have political views, but it is a matter of professionalism that they don't talk about them.

Jim Webb (Marine officer who earned a Navy Cross in the Vietnam war, novelist, and a Democratic Senator from Virginia) wrote that many military people who served in Vietnam became lifetime Republicans because they blamed Democrats for starting and managing the war, and then they felt abandoned by the Democrats when elements of the party aligned with the anti-war movement.

I think many military people serving recently and serving today had their bodies battered and bruised in the Iraq war working with an unappreciative population for a poorly administered war based on a lie by a Republican administration. You don't see them going on TV talk shows to discuss this, but you do see that Virginia (which has a large and growing percentage of those people in it) used to vote Republican and now it votes Democrat.

As I told a friend, "they want to keep their pensions."
I love how all of the Americans are sticking up for this guy.
This reminds me a lot of CyberChef[0], which has a lot of similar features. That said, it's a web application(though it's easy to run locally). This looks like a nice native-UI version of some of the same ideas.

0 - https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/
I’d say it’s probably more like there aren’t many Swedes who could deal with a house with 12 kids. The after school logistics alone must be a nightmare.

Either that, or there’s something plugging the loophole the GP mentions.
> I think the smartest people can explain things to a child. If you can’t explain it to a child, then you don’t know it. It’s a common saying and it’s very true.

This is really true. During covid, I think a lot of us parents are learning that with our children. The subjects we know really well we can explain to them in easy to understand language, even advanced topics like programming and math.
The wurst is over: why Germany now loves to go vegetarian
I wonder if someday it'll be considered woke to oppose abortion because trans women can't have abortions.
Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg Refused to Step Down
I am guessing that you haven't been to the north of any of the Scandinavian countries I mentioned. Stockholm is indeed pretty moderate. Luleå in winter, not so much. Svalbard, not moderate at all.
Yep. I put all my new stuff on GitLab. It's just a better tool. Especially it's issue-tracking and CI (even considering actions)

I just link my GitLab very obviously on my GitHub
So this is essentially a Sun Ray for use at former Sun HQ? Like for some irony’s sake?
I have no idea how you pulled that one from the cobwebs of undergrad!
Nice, now absorb https://regex101.com/ too!
Paternity leave can be a great thing for father/child bonding, and for equalizing opportunity for women (who face greater social/practical pressure to take their leave), who can fall behind male colleagues by taking their leave. Unfortunately, it's hard to force men to take their leave, and in the US a lot of men don't because it is frowned upon socially in many companies.

One possible way to incentivize men to take paternity leave is to do so indirectly, by rewarding companies where a large percentage of eligible fathers take the full leave. This would reverse the current dynamic, which is: if you take the full leave, you're putting your family above the company, and not being a team player. Instead, taking the leave would make you a team player and help the company fulfill the goal.
Would you mind telling which word? Fellow Swede wondering.