skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
David Corn was the first journalist to directly quote the Steele dossier in the lead-up to the 2016 election, in Mother Jones. We now know that the Steele dossier was propaganda.
I still don't think you know what that word means.

Every non-partisan news source sees through the NY Post and Giuliani which is why it looks like this is being suppressed by the main-stream media, because they require corroboration such as validating the DKIM.

A lie travels halfway around the world before the truth even gets its pants on.

I still wish you nothing but the best in life.
> "A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling: For ex...

That makes no sense, because it is not solving the problem with the English language pronunciation.

To solve pronunciation you have 2 options:

1. Set on 1 pronunciation for any syllable and stick with it. Throw away old pronunciations.

e.g. Arkansas sounds like "are + Kansas"

2. Word by word, re-write it in a way that fits its sound.

e.g. Kansas becomes Kensas and Arkansas becomes Arkanso. Or something like that, I do not get English pronunciation at all.

But, I understand that is not sociable possible. It follows the same logic that using the Imperial system. As we grow old, we like what we know, and we hate that people forces us to learn new things. So, changing how millions communicate would be very difficult.

I see more plausible a come back of Esperanto than to change how English is written or spoken.
The themed time-intervals suggestion is not unreasonable, but this article is completely devoid of any evidence to suggest its success besides... checks notes Elon Musk running several companies.
"Also under the perspective of individual freedoms, the enforcement of masks is not justifiable. If you feel unsafe due to a potential virus outbreak, take your precautions but don't force others to do whatever they want to do. Otherwise, we'd fall into authoritarianism"

How about a slight rewrite:

"Also under the perspective of individual freedoms, the enforcement of restrictions on release of toxic or radioactive substances is not justifiable. If you feel unsafe due to a potential radiation release, take your precautions but don't force others to stop releasing radioactive substances into the environment. Otherwise, we'd fall into authoritarianism."

You understand that masks are meant to protect others, not the wearer?

"Besides, populations that live under strict gun control surprisingly have more people being harmed by guns than populations that don't have strict gun controls (case in point: criminals don't care about laws, by definition)."

People in Germany, France and many other countries would probably not agree with that.
Very cool. Those waves need some attenuation as they spread though!
Sheesh, somebody has a chip on their shoulder...
A dealership once tried to sell me as "new" a car that had 2000 miles on the odometer.
> Similarly, about 200 ideas were proposed by the various states to be included in it, and Madison selected 10 from those ideas.

I don't know where you got this, but I wanted to let you know it is very much incorrect. The bill of rights was originally submitted to congress as 17 articles, passed by congress as 12 articles, 11 of which have been ratified by the states. 10 ratified in 1789 and one, the 27th amendment, in 1992.

As to whether 200 ideas were mulled over, I don't know, I'm sure a lot was discussed. There were a lot of sources for all of the ideas that went into the constitution, and British law at the time was probably the biggest influence.
Maybe go learn Esperanto so you can bring joy to the lives of others.
I know someone who has an advanced stage melanoma and was refused referral in March and has only just been screened in October and it is deemed an urgent case. That has given 6 months for disease development. Entirely scandalous mismanagement of Public Health has occurred during this.
> MySQL is a perfect match for most SaaS applications that deal with compliance. Postgres is simply not.

Please elaborate on this “simply not”.. you are making a categorical statement.. does there exist a DISA-certified STIG for MySQL, for DoD and military applications?
The paper Biomineralization and Successive Regeneration of Engineered Living Building Materials [1]:

> Living building materials (LBMs) were engineered that are capable of both biological and structural functions. LBMs were created by inoculating an inert structural sand-hydrogel scaffold with Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002, a photosynthetic cyanobacterium.

[1] https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(19)30391-1
If they’re referring to lexical block scope then indeed, js historically did not have block scoping, it was function and global scoped.

There are also differences in how eval works, etc
Yeah. Diligence is 100% a two-way street.
The "English creole" hypothesis has been discussed a lot and it is true that English is a bit special within Europe in having absorbed a lot of material from other languages such as French and Norse, but I still think that it is very recognisable as a Germanic language (both grammatically as well as from the perspective of "core vocabulary"), so I don't think that the languages "merged" in the same way as this maybe happened in the case of some recognised creoles. (See e.g. here for a summary: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English_creole_hypoth...)

There is still no reason in principle why English couldn't have chosen a more regular system of spelling, especially at a time where literacy was low anyway. The idea that the spelling is irregular because you have several competing systems (French vs. Anglo-Saxon vs. Norse) might sound compelling, but I don't think it holds water, cf. homographs such as "sow" (female pig) and "sow" (to plant) which both have Old English origins.

(Also I don't think that "rendez-vous" is a good example. I don't have hard evidence, but I would find it entirely implausible that this is a word of Norman origin, it's much more likely to be a late import from the 18th or 19th century, when French was fashionable, not at all comparable to something like "pork".)
i thought the point was that it's easy to pretend to be an absolutist, but I find a lot of free speech advocates turn a blind eye to censorship and deception when it's not explicitly political, but just for financial gain.
Well, in an ideal model there is indeed no difference between any such decision.

But as you can ask “why should an employee do something”, you can also ask “why shouldn’t an employee do something”?
Indian vs. Western Model of Secularism
I support so called hate speech. This narrative is abused to censor and support extreme views which are just as damaging as their so called mission to quell so called extremists.
And don't forget, TPUs are horrible at floating point math! The errors!
Nonetheless, they’re the latest proof that Microsoft doesn’t respect your ownership of your own PC

I've experienced MSFT's hubris for 35 years. Nothing has ever changed. That's why Windows has never, ever been my everyday desktop. Thank God I discovered UNIX in 1990.
That doesn't sound so bad to me, in comparison to fixed-size instructions. One bit in each byte gone to have the most common instructions take one byte instead of four. I can imagine that allowing much denser code overall.

Or it could be one bit out of every pair of bytes, to support 2-, 4-, and 6-byte instructions. I don't know much about ARM Thumb-2, except that it does 2- or 4-byte instructions, so clearly someone thought this much was a good idea.

Instruction encodings are below my usual abstraction layer; I'm just speculating...
That was pretty noticeable during the lockdowns earlier this year. It was really quiet.
Holly crap, he doesn’t even meaningfully deny it.
Its not that it isn't capable, its that it has more gocha's than most other languages of it size (and no, just because the gocha is well defined doesn't mean that it doesn't trip programmers up).

Its also despite a couple decades of hard work by some very good compiler/JIT engineers at a considerable disadvantage perf wise to a lot of other languages.

Third its most common runtime environment, is a poorly thought out collection DP and UI paradigms that don't scale to even late 1980's levels, leading to lots of crutches. (AKA, just how far down your average infinite scrolling web page can you go before your browser either takes 10s of seconds to update, or crashes?).
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> The problem is JS's double->int conversion was effectively defined as "what wintel does by default",

No, JavaScript "double to int conversion" (which only happens implicitly in bitwise operations such as |, &, etc) is not like any hardware instruction at all. It is defined to be the selection of the low-order 32-bits of a floating point number as-if it were expanded to its full-width integer representation, dropping any fractional part.
To me this is sort of the principles vs pragmatism problem. Would it be better if everyone spoke Esperanto? Sure. It's also true that you generate a lot more good in terms of economic opportunity for every dollar spent educating the underprivileged in English than you would trying to expand the reach of Esperanto.
> Universal Basic Income people (that used to be called the "dole" in the UK)

I'm much more ambivalent than I used to be about UBI, after seeing what large groups of sequestered, out-of-work, bored, and angry people are capable of doing, but just to clarify, UBI is not the same as the dole. The dole is only given to people who are unemployed, whereas UBI is given to everyone.
I put it on my Raspberry Pi 4 with some mobile-resnet version (88 objects) to do real time object detection from a Pi camera. It's quite a small package.
The more pertinent question, if you step back for a moment, is why the hell are we sacrificing everything for thinner phones and edge-to-edge displays only to then ship them with a more or less mandatory case to stick in.
Probably just excludes the term that would damp it, so it never loses energy.
Figure 5 shows J/cm2 vs mortality rate. Max mortality appear around 10 J/cm2

I found a paper that shows human eye damage occuring 50% of time at 200 J/cm2, at least at blue wavelength
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26359809/

10 J/cm2 may be an adequate safety margin especially in near IR ranges where absorbtion occurs less in vulnerable inner eye structures.

There will definitely need to be some fail-safes to prevent beam from irridating one spot for more than necessary. Either beam movement or pulse length limits, or both.

Unrelated, I'm not sure why they need cameras. You already have a moving laser, couldn't you just scan the volume with it looking for insect wing beat reflections?
Germany and France don't have free speech. If there's speech that you receive legal action for then it isn't free.
I bought a copy of this. Would be willing to sell it for $19M.
I don't know what DISA or STIG are, but yes there are such projects. https://www.mysql.com/customers/industry/?id=65 has a few relevant references.
Ship engines are at most 50% efficient[1]. Still a away to go though.

[1] https://www.nuclear-power.net/nuclear-engineering/thermodyna...
Here's one that's fun if your objects of interest include cities:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best,_Netherlands

What's the [best city in europe]? Obviously "Best, Netherlands".
I think the downvotes are about your assessments on some of these issues.

But you’re absolutely right in that only by reading these varied sources can you approximately discern what’s really going on. Reading bs trains your bs detector. Only read bs and you won’t be able to distinguish it from reality
Windows NT measures time at hectonanosecond (100ns) granularity and declares its epoch as modernity (~1600) so it does better than UNIX but unfortunately still limited by arbitrary traditional thinking.
This really isn't surprising, unfortunately. Even people leaving off routine checks are going to be feeling the effects of all of this for life.
Why no mention of gentoo (or funto)? I concede very little experience of yocto, etc, but I’ve a fairly complex system I maintain for both x86 and amd64 custom boards, all with quite heavily patched packages. I was challenged to add an imx6 board to the mix but I concede it was rather straight forward... for kicks I also switched out uclinux-ng for musl and switched up binutils versions, but it was all fairly painless...??

If you are familiar with gentoo it has a package manager called portage. You type “emerge packagename” and it installs it. Prepend ROOT=blah and it installs it in that dir instead!

So your build scripts are pretty trivial. Just write a bunch of emerge lines and you are done. Install in your new root, then package that ROOT. Simples!

Building from source could be slow, so cache binaries once built. Subsequent binaries will be used by adding “-k” to emerge above.

Profiles allow you to build target versions of software, E.g. customising compile flags or software versions. I use both a libc and a processor profile. The arch profile is also split between host and target, so for example static libs might be installed on host but not in target.

I used an overlayfs system to trim the delivery.

I think the big difference is I can rely on this huge distribution. Yet if I need some platform patch I need only drop it in my patches directory and hit rebuild. Put the patches dir in git and I’ve got a trackable distribution!

Comments?
If you properly disposed of records there'd be no way to tell you're lying about who it is. Especially if construed it in such a way as to open the possibility your source was impersonating someone else with access to the same information.
It's possible. It could be random corporate restructuring too, since they now have an "External Relations" department.

https://www.prdaily.com/what-teslas-move-to-eliminate-its-pr...

My employer loves to move people around while creating and dissolving groups. I've had a few title/group changes where literally nothing about what I did changed.

I suspect they do that because it allows them to couch terminations as layoffs. Just move everyone you want gone into a new group and lay off that group. It's not personal when the whole group is being downsized.
Maybe it's not entirely about funding.
I wouldn't be surprised if CentOS 8 was still around in 2038 running a 4.x linux kernel
No thanks. Would rather learn Latin, which is a real language.
According to this bug it was shipped six months after the bug was created and they didn't seem super familiar with it.
Lenovo are also way better at warranty. In my experience they just asked for the serial number of the ThinkPad, it was still covered and they accepted it (and fixed it). It was an used laptop.

Dell OTOH asked for the original receipt of purchase, that of course I didn't have because that also was an used laptop.

Also, the latitude series is way better than the xps line. I've got the latitude 7390 from dell and it's just marvelous.

So yeah, if you're buying new, dell or Lenovo ThinkPad (I'd recommend a ThinkPad though).

If you're buying second hand, ThinkPad is the way.
For most applications, 500 years and nanosecond granularity is not "problematic". The handful that need greater range or precision (or unlikely, both) can roll their own data structures or use a specialised one rather than needing to cater for that in the default.

You can always use floating point representations. It will give you great range and great precision, though not both at the same time (you can't refer to a specific picosecond on a specific day 100,000 years from now).
Well... then free speech doesn't exist anywhere, because notwithstanding laws against libel, slander, false advertising, perjury etc, there's really no place in the world which doesn't have some form of societal taboos, standards of politeness and courtesy, or notions of acceptable behavior which will lead to consequences if transgressed.

Edit: I see you changed "If there's speech that you receive consequences for then it isn't free" to "If there's speech that you receive legal action for then it isn't free." I'm assuming you were just trying to disambiguate, but even by that more narrow definition freedom of speech is practically nonexistent.
I don't see any young people choosing to learn a language which has such problems with gender - when a learner has to deal with this in the first lesson.

Assuming male as the default seems to me to be increasingly evolving out of natural languages. Agreeing a reform among Esperanto-speakers seems impossible, given that many are attached to its historical roots.
I think the point is that the entire human race is not able to get close to a planck time, by any reasonable definition of "get". See this recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24804624
The fact is, people reading only the New York Times, HuffPo, CNN, etcetera, are completely engulfed in a disinformation environment. They're basically abuse victims.
Whatever would be equivalent to how you would be able to examine were you to buy it in person. The equivalent of a test drive, then, which is not much.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient." Censorship can be conducted by governments, private institutions, and other controlling bodies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech#Origins

Freedom of speech and expression has a long history that predates modern international human rights instruments. It is thought that the ancient Athenian democratic principle of free speech may have emerged in the late 6th or early 5th century BC. The values of the Roman Republic included freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Concepts of freedom of speech can be found in early human rights documents. England's Bill of Rights 1689 legally established the constitutional right of freedom of speech in Parliament which is still in effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_...

The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents the government from making laws which regulate an establishment of religion, or that would prohibit the free exercise of religion, or abridge the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. It was adopted on December 15, 1791, as one of the ten amendments that constitute the Bill of Rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_century

The 5th century is the time period from 401 to 500 Anno Domini (AD) or Common Era (CE) in the Julian calendar. The 5th century is noted for being a period of migration and political instability throughout Eurasia.

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Considering how often this specific foundational topic (and many others like it) comes up on HN, and the amount of disharmony it creates within the community, it would be an improvement if we had some sort of a FAQ that is appended to the HN Guidelines, and an additional related guideline:

"Please exert some reasonable effort to not say things that are objectively not true."

Yes, there would be a period of adjustment, Rome wasn't built in a day, but holy smokes how antagonistic do things have to get around here before we do something? And if we don't, how far away is it that HN starts to get in on the censorship game?
Respectfully, I think that's a silly argument. "Liberal" isn't a label any modern (20th or 21st century) liberal chose for themselves. By way of example: "enlightenment liberalism" doesn't tell us much about whether property taxes should fund schools or whether teachers should earn merit pay, but the term "liberal" or "conservative" strongly suggests what someone believes about those issues. It's about as persuasive as coming up with some definition of "conservative" that conservatives fail to meet.

In a discussion like this, about American policy, the right thing to do is just to accept the working definition Americans use; otherwise, all we'll do is argue about semantics, and the debate we're having over social media sites suppressing things isn't about semantics. It's substantive.
Only if we wound and not kill
Uhm as far as I know all Volvo cars have the exact same Sensus system, and I cannot alter the steering sensitivity on mine. The car does have "speed sensitive steering" though, which means that at low speeds there is almost zero resistance on the steering wheel, but quite a lot more at higher speeds.

Edit:
Well, looking at the manual apparently it is possible, but only in the individual drive mode:

https://www.volvocars.com/en-sa/support/manuals/xc60/2018w46...

Which....is less than ideal, I frequently switch between Hybrid/Pure/Power, so having to stay in one of them just to have a tighter steering response is not acceptable.
And far left apologists too!

(this is a pretty clear example of exactly why we need free speech)
> MySQL is a perfect match for most SaaS applications that deal with compliance. Postgres is simply not.

I find this statement amazingly weird. In my experience, MySQL's access grants are extremely impoverished compared to Postgres (even in 8). It doesn't have row level security either.

> The main issues with managing Postgres today are grant inheritance

roles + `INHERIT` (which has been available since at least 8.1, 15 years ago)

> I shouldn't have to update grants for non-admin or readonly users after adding new objects

You don't. There are default grants that apply on object creation within a schema: `ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES`.
Unpopular, but I agree. The writer comes off as terribly weak. I read about his personal and health challenges, but I think that would be an even bigger motivation not to let this deranged (according to the doc) board member going on with that circus.
The new clear cases have a very prominent ring of either metal or magnets present. Not sure what you mean.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHLM3/iphone-12-12-pro-cl...
In fairness, most people just ignored the latitude line from dell and just focus on the xps line. I wouldn't trade my latitude 7390 for an xps 13, honestly.
That's great because I don't have a Facebook account and never will.
Of course. I just wasn't aware that there were modems for the IIe.
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I am curious about the very high bar for evidence people have for this story. It definitely appears to be higher than the bar set for the other side, which is regularly based on anonymous sources and secondhand hearsay.

There are plenty of photographs of Hunter Biden from the drive, which were obviously not in wide circulation, of him doing drugs and apparently other illegal activity. This would seem to be evidence supporting the idea that the drive did belong to him. So now we have to believe that false information has been mixed with true information.

But on the other hand, we do actually know that Hunter Biden was receiving 50k/month from Burisma, and he had no qualifications and a very questionable past. Nobody disputes this. Nobody needs this harddrive story to know there was corruption going on, based on this information alone. Ukranian energy companies are not searching the streets for random American crackheads to hire for exorbitant sums. He was hired because of his connections. The only question is the exact nature of how it went down, and if it matters to you.

The only information it adds is that Joe Biden allegedly makes Hunter Biden give him half his income and some alleged details of some meeting - not anything particularly salacious. It definitely appears political for Facebook and Twitter to shut down this story - there are a lot of weaker stories that get a pass every day.
Indeed, COM has some right ideas. There's just too much influence from the mid-90's OOP hype in it.