skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most of it is based on

Any specific existing treaty that forgives or wipes away a war crime? Or many. Despite the tens of thousands (conservatively) of dead civilians resulting from direct US military action, the US has not even been accused of a single instance of a war crime. Why do you think that is? Well I'll tell you, as someone who's been elbow deep into this for quite a few years of my life: international law is an esoteric, negotiable concept, it's a guideline, and it relies on consent and the power to apply your view. Kind of like the rules of conduct in a company. You don't slap your CEO even if they deserve it, and you don't go to an HR that is controlled by them. In the same vein, international relations is the "science" of agreeing on an outcome the stronger party wants and the weaker one can live with. International law is there as a framework but there's no accepted "Supreme Judge, Jury, and Executioner" who just presses charges, delivers a verdict, and carries out the sentence in the name of the victim or the planet, and everyone has to abide.

A strong enough player is untouchable, they can break a treaty and it's up to the others to decide the action... or let it slide. Who do you think has the power or guts to gather the necessary evidence and the international support to investigate the US for war crimes? And if it went through, who has the power to impose any kind of measures against the US? What kind of retaliation can they expect afterwards? Do you really think there are no perks to being the wold's biggest superpower?

Armchair international politics is a lot more fun than the real thing, I'll tell you that.

> Countries do not just do whatever they want out of a position of power

There is some give and take but for some it's literally what they do for a living. The US has openly pressured the EU to do things for decades, from supporting sanctions they didn't agree with, to changing Galileo frequencies to something that the US could more easily jam. And they've been doing it on every continent under threat of war, sanctions, or interference. It wasn't as a favor between friends, and it certainly wasn't in the spirit of cooperation and all those international treaties.

> the morality of states (whatever that means, to me the concept is meaningless) [...] so let's ignore that

A bit of reading comprehension goes a long way. That was exactly my point, that there are no good or bad, no moral and immoral/amoral countries. They do what they need to do to stay on top of the pile. Don't ignore something because you can't parse it. It's clearly the best way to form an uninformed opinion and then state it firmly, assuming you have an iron clad case.
Rust took out the things considered best practice and provided them to users by default, or checked for them by default. This includes simple things as explicit names for types like u8 instead of char (as you are going to assume the size of char anyway, let's be honest... most code won't work on 16 bit char platforms). But it also includes stuff like unifying naming conventions, or providing a good package manager. C++ has multiple package managers, as does js. But rust had a great one from the start and for now there doesnt seem to be the need for people to use alternatives, because nobody had to come up with them. So no balkanization of standards and the costs for users that this entails. Maybe with age this will change, but for now Rust is doing quite well.
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> students really do require an experienced guide to navigate through the tangled web of concepts.

Consider how much people pay for education and don't get this, and how much some people are paid to be teachers who do not provide it.
This is the kind of thing I always hope that one of the billionaire nerds will help with. Seems right up Elon Musk's alley.
> she gives you the certificate

Switching to default-female pronouns is progress but not good enough. Furthermore, implying that a woman is doing the clerical work here perpetutates centuries of female opression and abuse against womxn, especially womxn of color. Please use "they" in the future to avoid this situation. Since it's a quote, "[they] give you the certificate" would be a good way to revise it.
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\tangent can you recommend what to look for in a tablet for mathematics? I've got a lenovo M8 - only 8", 800p, but I think that's OK; it's the insufficient contrast of IPS screen that makes my eyes tired (suggesting AMOLED or epaper) - but I don't know the cause for sure... What did you find?
This is the first time I'm happy that up and downs votes are ANONYMOUS.
Would be great if we could do this to override all regulations that are meant to protect people from themselves, e.g.:

- Buying contact lenses without a 1+ year old or foreign prescription.

- Taking drugs.

- Online poker.

- Buying a Kinder Surprise chocolate.

- etc.
This is not for end-users, this is for something like this:https://github.com/logseq, or say github/gitlab to use.

you need to chill, if you don't like something, don't use it. Easy
Honestly, sounds like a VPN in a small country would work great. Just tunnel through Moldova and enjoy a better Youtube and even Internet experience haha... Or just pay for premium...
Yet another reason to pay the danegeld to Google for ad-free experience. I hate it.
And the checkout page with an idea napkin background !
Thanks for the info, I appreciate the insider perspective.
The content you want to stay disappears. The content you want to disappear stays forever.

Is there a law for that? Or is it an offshoot of the Streisand Effect?
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They're pretty close in the US mobile phone software market.
Hm I dont think so, even discord/mattermost is asynchronous, not like IRC. I think it the clear notifications and the 'inbox' functionality that make the difference
so unsubscribe then you are paying subscription month to month its not a one time fee.
Amazon had just recently or was about to release S3, so cloud computing wasn't as much of a thing back then. The oh shit factor of today is because now business that have absolutely no relation to each other are now sharing CPU cores.
I cannot believe they are shutting it down over a broken cable.
It's probably just buried too deep to easily discover it. I was able to just do a search with an unusual term in it (part of an old email address) and I turned up Usenet/Google Groups postings.
Which is also a symbol of the degradation of human intellectual capability in the 21st century. Certainly the ability to focus it toward advancing the understanding of the natural world.
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Online or not, and social group must be protected from bad actors or they will drive everyone else away. As an example, long ago I knew of a group for single adults which had one creepy guy who drove away all the women, and of course their absence drove away the men. The creator of the group took the lesson, and started a new group which required permission to join; the way it worked was you would briefly talk with the founder, and as long as you didn’t seem like a creep you were in.
I think you're looking for Overton Window, actually [1]. Also, I'm waiting for the the last shoe to drop: showing ads even to users that have YouTube Red; it's only a matter of time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
It’s yet another symbol that we waste resources. Military and pork spending far outweigh the costs of things that could instead improve out quality of life (health) and the understanding of our universe.
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YouTube Music is a joke.
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> Most users can’t replace tires, spark plugs, or even oil in their cars.

They don't want to, but they could with a 5 minute YouTube video and probably $10 in parts (plus the cost of the new tire, or oil, or whatever). Doing so also does not void the warranty on your car (maybe not true for spark plugs? Tires and oil can certainly be changed)
I've developed a deep learning library (oneDNN) optimized for A64FX (Armv8-A + SVE) to achieve this outcome.
Your neckbeard is showing.

What does wanting to script git have to do with web?
I watch that at least once a year with my wife. It'll feel strange from now on. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself... and for that we need telescopes!
this seems like it might add capital to existing investment markets. at the least, it should make it easier for people to raise early investment rounds?
You maybe could write something like this:

pub struct Fifo<T: AsMut<[u8]>> {

and then back it with an array. I learned this trick from whitequark.

(Though maybe if you want something other than a slice of bytes, this gets harder... I've used this trick for ringbuffers/mmio only, personally, so YMMV.)

That being said real const generics will make this way nicer, eventually.
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The actual release from the SEC

https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/2020/33-10824.pdf
Multiple agents with some staying at his house where his wife just said "yeah sounds like my Husband, here's some clothes"?

This might sound even more farfetched, but maybe those multiple agents had some kind of long range communication between them, if we're getting really technical and advanced maybe even cellular.
It doesn’t make it OK, it just makes it bad and reasonable. If I’m in Nazi Germany and all my friends and family are Nazis, and my neighbor too, I’m going to think less of my neighbor but not exactly hold it against him as much as if there were 100 Nazis in the country and he was one. There’s reasons people have at that point for being Nazi, even though the thing is ultimately terrible. Group dynamics, which are more or less baked into our (epi)genetics, for one.

In America we pretty much all get a pass for buying clothes, for instance, which has some considerable moral strings attached to it. We could make our own, but that’s just not a reasonable way to live life here. You would have no company if that was the way you chose to spend your time, so it would be a sad existence, and as humans we are wired to want to behave like those around us.
Pretty much yes... But I find it scary, specially after they got a $150M investment from Tencent (a huge Chinese company). Ironically, Reddit is blocked in China.

I'm not sure about the ramifications of all this but it does sound scary and anything could be happening behind the scenes.
Goldeneye wasn't ignored, the thief designers have talked about the difficulty vs mission structure coming from straight from Goldeneye.

Edit: timesplitters, that was David doak and his goldeneye mates when they left rare and set up free radical. I think that franchise lost its way on the third one when they ditched the Goldeneye style controls.
> Their focus on shallow and short term "engagement" means useful stuff disappears forever and experts get tired of answering the same questions repeatedly.

That's pretty much a distillation of why I never understood the wave of Social Media; it appeared to be a dumbed-down and watered-down version of what the Internet was created for and the promise it had in the 90s into the early 2000s for me as kid. Limited engagement via sensationalism at the cost of actual substance and community, it was the junkfood-ification of the Internet I loved and much like junkfood it has caused all sorts of maladies as malaise seems to be a part of the UX these days.

I'm still part of a forum that was a fork that happened from an earlier forum, where that exact situation happens; the older guys form the early days who migrated to the new site reference a thread from the old forum and just say 'go search.' The issue is that while the original forum still exists, it has the worst indexing and makes it near impossible to look up the keywords without getting threads for like 20 other issues that have nothing to do with your search, something that oddly reminds me of the early days of using search engines before the days of Google.
At least you get that. In the (untyped) Python ecosystem, you're lucky to get "this parameter is a file-like object" even though "file-like" doesn't tell you if it just supports read() and write() or also seek() or close() or truncate(). You have to dig into the source code, which likely just passes the parameter into another function which passes it into another and then across a library boundary and so on. And again, that's the best-case scenario. Just having correct type information is 80% of the battle IMHO.
> AMP is widely adopted

But isn't it also incredibly easy to switch off? At least I don't know any AMP-only website.
Not really since the installation has been mostly a tourist destination for years. This happens to be a piece of scientific infrastructure that a lot of people recognize from movies, video games, etc but it’s not actually very important.
Replying to my own post:

I hadn't looked into this recently but it looks like you can configure a pihole to use DoH for outbound requests:

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns-over-https/

So personally I plan to a) enable that so my outbound requests are encrypted, and then b) install a DNS blocklist so the hosts on my network will fall back to regular DNS and use the pihole.

Best of both worlds!
The A64FX is an HPC CPU with Armv8-A instruction set.
There is something wrong with Teams.
As well as it’s resource hogging, it tries to connect to all my SMB shares (even if they are disconnected) when I open the app. Why is it doing this?
It's a reflection of the damage caused by a Category 5 hurricane, and subsequent tropical storm.
Has there been any sort of long term load tests? I feel like the chassis limitations are going to result in thermal throttling compared to similar performance laptops with actual cooling design. Even if it doesn't thermal throttle, one of my main complaints with Macbooks is that you can't actually use them in your lap cause they get uncomfortably hot.

As for being worth it, wait till the next gen mobile chips in 2021. I feel like we will see similar performance fairly soon in cheaper laptops without being locked into the Apple ecosystem.
More than 1.1M deaths among Medicare recipients due to high cost of drugs
How do you plan on solving this? It's much more of a social problem than a technical one.
Hmm apparently there is a cargo feature for it now: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/master/src/doc/src/r...

So something like this in .cargo/config:

[doc.extern-map]

std = "local"

And then cargo +nightly doc -Zrustdoc-map.
Aaaa, HN at work again. Wholesome.
By paying for it? It has been struggling with financing for a long time.
They're also doing an annoying then where you have a message if you don't have notifications turned on for the iOS app. If you turn them on, the 'message' goes away. But if you turn them back off, the message comes back! So annoying.
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I've heard many start by buying initial profiles.

Did you know one company owns most of the dating platforms? (~80% iirc)
That is hardly the summary.

The "broken cable" is the last in a serious of maintenance issues that have gone unaddressed and piled up into making it impractical to repair at this point.
It’s outdated technology. We are still spending hundreds of billions on basic science, including space science.
I'm expecting a LWN article about this.
It's not only this. An environment where the only investment policy is caveat emptor is also an environment that will encourage more scammy investment opportunities. It is also in the state/community interest to make sure investments represent real growth opportunities and not just lining some huckster's pockets. You don't want the entire market itself to end up a market for lemons.
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Animals can be destructive and overpopulate. Deer and pigs are a good example of species that can overpopulate and destroy nature.
I imagine this comment was about https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2020/11/timing-for..., which the URL above was changed to for a while. Explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151764
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> Beside, third party app store is allowed.

Third party app stores on Android are not allowed to compete with the Play Store on feature parity because of limitations put in place by Google.

Again, the only way to implement automatic upgrading, background installation or batch upgrading/installation of apps is via the Play Store.
Yeah, definitely hoping people will share and post their filled out napkins. I'd love to make a collage of great ideas.
The reviewer still needs to read it one by one if he decides to adopt it. And it is likely to be many hours.
Not M1, but MS has Windows running on its own ARM chip as well. I presume it'll get a bigger push now.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-pro-x/8QG3BMRHNWHK
That still doesn't make it okay. At no point have I denied this reality. It just makes me very sad that this is the reality we find ourselves in.
Demo is super helpful! Looks great
I agree, there should be more encouragement to pay for software. Getting more people to embrace this idea means we can move away from a freemium model on the wider Internet as well.
Oh yeah, I'm with you there. Teaching quality at both my undergrad math program and my graduate compsci program was abysmal, with the exception of a handful of dedicated teachers. Both at well-ranked research institutions, which is the problem.

The whole system is crazy. Why on earth do we allow tuition money to be spent on anything else but full-time teaching staff?!
Agreed.

I had Youtube Premium through Google Play Music until Google finally axed GPM.
I was so disappointed by how poorly Google handled that process that I cancelled my subscription and lost my YT premium.

Youtube is completely unbearable without premium - I have no idea how non-subscribers tolerate Youtube content. The ads are so intrusive. I would totally pay $5-$10 per month for a Youtube only subscription but I feel like the $18/mo for a family plan is a bit steep.
> You might have missed that the benchmark was missing Nvidia (or even AMD) graphics cards;

The post does include a benchmark for an AMD GPU (Radeon Pro Vega II Duo) on the Mac Pro. Comparing the Mac Pro GPU vs. MBP M1 results, the GPU clearly wins, although in some cases the margin isn't as large as you might expect.
A64FX offers an expanded instruction set called Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) for High Performance Computing on top of the Armv8-A instruction set.
Yes this is more interesting to me than AMP being demoted (I usually automatically ignore AMP anyway as they have that 'seems like an ad' feel that my subconscious automatically bypasses). The interstitials/popups to e.g. sign up for a mailing list that appear on so many sites these days are so much more annoying as I have to hunt for the close button every time.
there is the handy https://make-linux-fast-again.com/
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You might consider giving credit to the sources of data used to make this.
Interesting – my own AMP experience has been one of ugly and/or functionally broken sites.

Maybe this is platform dependent? I'm using iOS.
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Ah, cool, assuming the transcriptions are high quality. I was speaking more generally, not about this specific product, but it's nice that they see the value in text as well.
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What did you use for no-code website creation?
They've seriously struggled to find a few million per year just to keep the thing running and do the bare minimum of maintenance (or perhaps less than the bare minimum). I think they'd be hard pressed to scrounge up the billions of dollars they'd need to put a new one on the moon
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Right, because that worked out so well for Notre Dame last year, eh?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/18/ruins-...
Are you trying to convince me that I should lower my standards, or are you sharing in my despair for the reality we find ourselves in?
For England James?
Why couldn’t you host a web app on a phone?
Sounds like a Michael Lewis passage. I'm familiar with those points, your conclusion is a false dichotomy.

> anyone who understands the space understands that while the regulation we have is bad, the alternative is so, so much worse.

The current regulations around capital formation, and secondary markets are completely classist and need much greater reform. The regulators passionately believe in their paternal approach, there isn't a shady cabal plotting to keep not-rich people out of the markets, they should still be stopped nonetheless.
The only way to implement automatic upgrading, background installation or batch upgrading/installation of apps is via the Play Store. Third party app stores cannot compete with the Play Store on feature parity.
It's probably the most natural way of providing a browser-based git implementation, for systems like github/gitlab and browser-based IDEs.

Browser-based coding is pretty popular these days, it seems.
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This sort of a telescope structure fundamentally depends on gravity to naturally pull it into the required paraboloid shape. There's absolutely no way you could do anything remotely similar in space with current or near-future technology. And even if you could, that money would buy you dozens or hundreds of Earthbound Arecibos.
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Quick and probably very inaccurate calculation

Arecibo cost $9.3 million in 1963. This is equal to $79,000,000 now
(https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1963?amount=93000...).

An F-35 costs about $100 million.

Based on that, I'd be happy to give up a single F-35 to rebuild Arecibo.
Also discussed here 3 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24282258
> I'm closely watching the M1 but I really don't think it can compete with a GTX 2060. That matters a lot to me.

Per anandtech the M1 comes kinda-close sometimes to the 1650 mobile: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

It's then soundly wrecked by the 1660 Ti mobile, and the 2060 MaxQ is then faster yet still. They obviously also take a lot more power at peak, but that's also going to be a huge difference in the actual gaming experience, too.
First-Time Human Study Shows Reversal in Biology of Aging
I would rather doctors not conspire to get people addicted to drugs in the first place. I'm not against prescription drug addicts having safe access to drugs, but we shouldn't act like prescribers are blameless either.
Cable TV started as paid ad-free TV also. It now has so many ads that it is almost unwatchable at times.

One wonders how much further YouTube can take this - it appears they are approaching the optimal point for extracting revenue from videos, so where is their future revenue growth going to come from?

I miss the YouTube of old rather than this commercialized version. To me, Tik Tok seems like more like the original YouTube than YouTube does.

I for one have become so annoyed with the level of ads that I have reduced my consumption of YouTube. To me, it seems like there is a much higher rate of advertising on a per-content-minute basis on YouTube than there is on TV.
yep, both are possible from GP's assessment, but they claim to have evidence in the original study
Go is the same. Everyone, including the stdlib maintainers seem to think a few lines of comments per method is the same as documentation on how to use the package, best practices, pitfalls, etc.