skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm pretty sure I'd rather be shot by a hunting rifle than an assault rifle. Hunting rifles aren't designed to blow a deer's leg off.

I don't think you know what you're talking about. IIRC, hunting rifles typically have more powerful cartridges (~bullets).

IIRC, typical military cartridges have been getting less and less powerful since WWII, because they make automatic fire possible and allow soldiers to carry more ammo.
Yes, exactly, when RedHat was still RedHat as it were: I haven't used either Fedora or RHEL since that division took place. Tbh that's more about circumstance than coming at it with any particular axe to grind but, these days, I can't see much of a reason to choose either of them over Ubuntu. Not for the projects I'm involved with, anyway.
this one will have gilded decks of cards for the blackjack, and gilded condoms for the hookers. plus, parler got cancelled by apple, whatever that really really means.
There's marslegalcode.org, an effort to provide a comprehensive legal code for the colony. Get a free copy of the code by writing admin at andaluspublishing.com.
Then there's the US District Court for China, which exercised criminal jurisdiction over Americans (and a few others) committing crimes in the concessions in China in the 1920's and 1930's.
Yes, and people were violently killed.
IMO, this isn’t that impressive. Turns out that CMake has a scripting language that can be used to implement a ray tracer, and do that multi-threaded. The model being rendered also is hard-coded in the ray tracer.

I expected a monstrosity that had multiple targets for every pixel (“ray arriving at (x,y)”, “ray arriving at (x,y) after one bounce”, etc), with some magic to merge all the outputs of the last bounce into an image, say by generating a huge html table, with each cell having a different background color.
The scuttleverse [1] comes to mind when you mention this. It allows for creating a decentralized mesh network with communication between each node end to end encrypted. It's able to operate off the grid and allows communication through Lan, Bluetooth etc. Happens to also work offline as the content is stored on your device and any posts you make sync up with others later. I'm not sure about the scalability of it though.

It's also available on mobile [2].

[1] https://scuttlebutt.nz

[2] https://www.manyver.se
Homosexuality is potentially bad for the perpetuation of an individual's genetic line (sexuality is a spectrum, and a percentage if not a majority of homosexual men and women would be open to procreation given a suitable social framework), but for communities, has the potential to be a net positive for survival; for example, it may reduce competition for procreative mating partners, and provide childless adults who can share rearing responsibilities.

In fact, one could say that the benefits of such an alternate sexuality were so recognized that some societies sought to produce it artificially through the creation of eunuchs.
OP here, thanks for the idea! I didn't realize there were multiple types of replays since these seemed to be so popular. This one is definitely the "clicky" electro-mechanical relay, so I'll have to look into replacing with a solid-state relay type if I notice any inconsistencies.
I honestly remember them not running that well on Sun, either: in the 90s, I could consistently get Java on windows to outperform Java on Sun.
The industrial revolution significantly predates oil. Oil become a huge deal because it’s extremely plentiful and produced a huge range of waste streams people found a use for. Essentially the primary use would drive new extraction which would lower the price of every other output.

However, there are drop in replacements for everything oil does outside of arguably aviation.
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Responsible gun ownership is not a valid argument when you share a country with (many, many) people who can hold the opinions of QAnon.
There are even Excel ray tracers out there
marslegalcode.org introduces a legal code for the Mars Colony and addresses some of these questions. Need a copy of the Code?
> abstractions ultimately leak

This is where they really loose me. No, they don't. Only bad abstractions leak.

How did real limitations with statistics ("all models are wrong, some are useful") mutate into pessimism about designed, not discovered, systems? When did we all become such mindless empiricists?
>The American far left has a long history of being squeezed out of public fora and you don’t really see them storming the capitol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests
Most major cities have additional gun restrictions compared to surrounding suburban/rural areas.
Something I’ve been thinking about a bit lately, with this Section 230 topic, is at what point do we actually hit the limit for, “go start your own”?

Do racists have to build their own Internet in order to ensure they can spread a racist message digitally?

That said, Twitter isn’t that line, and neither are app stores. I’m typing this in a Safari browser on my iPhone; HN doesn’t have or need an app.
Great, thanks for the info. mRNA tech really is amazing!!

I agree. Everywhere should've pursued elimination strategy like Australia and New Zealand, and even at this late stage would be the best option.
> and is unfortunately almost entirely doomed due to the cost of fracking.

Not sure I'm understanding correctly this. Are you trying to say the cost of fracking is too high, and the US oil production will go down rapidly? I don't think that's the case. The cost of fracking is not constant, it keeps going down due to technological progress. See for example [1]. Also interest rates have come down lately (because Covid and such), and they'll very likely stay down for a while. This stimulates industrial activity, and Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (E&P) is just such an activity. More precisely, lower interest rates means E&P companies have an easier time rolling over their loans, and also their funding cost is lower. That funding cost is a component of the "cost of fracking".

To be honest though, there is no such thing as "cost of fracking". Some analysts talk about this, but if you try to get into details you'll see it's a bit of finger in the air. Here's [2] a handbook put together by the OCC (bank regulator) that explains how the lending in this space is done and risk-managed. There's no such thing as "cost of fracking", and you'd think the oil producers bankers and their regulators would know a bit about this topic.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-oil-electric-fracturi...

[2]https://www.occ.treas.gov/publications-and-resources/publica...
Custom domain, Integrated payment system (Stripe Connect), Built-in Newsletter
Or once they obtain a judgement, seize your domain name.
Donald Trump is still in control of one of the most effective communication channels in the world.

He could schedule a press conference at any time and have his words plastered all over Twitter within minutes by journalists.

Twitter as a platform made a choice, as a private entity. This choice is legally protected. Likewise Apple and Google both have the right to ban apps like Parler from their app stores under the same protections.

Nobody is banning "conservative" speech. What they are banning is outright lies, racist rhetoric, and calls for organized violent action.

If that has become synonymous with conservatism and the Republican party, then I would say that their "political movement" needs to be dismantled.
> An armed private citizen stands zero chance of effecting any defense against our military. None. Zero. It'd be a joke

Tell that to the Afghans.
I reckon 10 years earlier would have been the sweet spot of terrible - most of the world still on rubbish internet. Hardly any online shopping capacity from supermarkets. Zoom non-existent.
The beauty with DH based schemes like Noise is that when Alice sends a message to Bob, Bob doesn't quite get a cryptographic proof that Alice sent a message. Bob gets a cryptographic proof that Alice or Bob sent a message. Bob only know it came from Alice because he did not send the message to himself.

He could have, though. So he can't (cryptographically) prove to the rest of the world that the embarrassing message really came from Alice. At best, he can prove that the message came from [Alice or Bob], but he'll have to disclose his private key to do it. But as soon as he discloses his own key, anyone can forge messages to him.

(Note: it is possible, still without using signatures, to make sure Bob is not fooled by forged messages from the outside even if his key was leaked: he only have to provide a freshly generated ephemeral key pair into the mix, which necessarily hasn't leaked yet. This provides what we call Key Compromise Impersonation resistance, so we can't force Matrix goggles on him just be cause we stole his key. Unfortunately, this requires Bob to provide that ephemeral key, and that only really works with online protocols. On a PGP-like system, this means that we have to chose between deniability or KCI resistance: if you use signatures, you lose deniability, and if you use only DH, you lose KCI resistance. My personal opinion is that one should be responsible for their own keys. Therefore, I'd sacrifice KCI resistance before I sacrifice deniability.
I love calendar tools and my friends can attest to that. I think I've built at least one calendar app every year for the past however long.

I love the idea of a calendar API (another example is Nylas - https://www.nylas.com/products/calendar-api/) b/c it means I could build for EVERYONE and not just a gsuite specific app (which is what I tend to do for simplicity of APIs). The problem I've seen with these is an inability to grow / monetize at the rate startups need to, and, while I love this, things I'm curious about are:

1. How big is this market?
2. Has anyone innovated on pricing here?
3. Are there really well-adopted calendar APIs you need to design for other than Exchange and GSuite?
Rasmussen: Trump's Approval Rating Rises After DC Protests
What she wrote on Twitter: "Ending mass incarceration means challenging a system that jails the poor to free the rich. Arresting people who can’t afford a $2.75 fare makes no one safer and destabilizes our community. New Yorkers know that, they’re not having it, and they’re standing up for each other."

Where exactly was she inciting violence?
The US District Court for China is a better example. It operated in the American concession in Shanghai in the 1930's. Also see the Canal Zone; take a look at the Mars Colony Legal Code drawn from the latter: marslegalcode.org, an effort to answer the question: how much law do we bring with us?
That's about $1500000 of oil a year. It's miniscule. Probably purchased for some technical reason, to dilute for example, or due to proximity to something or other.
The failsafe fails when the militias/armed populace have been captured by extremism and welcome tyranny with open arms.
Took some time to find it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv0iN5J-9mk

Here you have a guy who felt a little threatened and shot another person for it claiming self defence, with a legal gun.

In this case the ability to own a gun and parade with it changed how the guy was thinking about possible conflict and risks.

That's largely because guns are so commonplace in US and not really treated with enough respect and thought for consequences.
These aren't bold claims, it's literally how stocks work.

The belief of shareholders actually owning the company was just a side-effect of the marketing for shareholder primacy ideology. Even recent finance/management textbooks specifically call this out.

Some sources:

https://hbr.org/2012/07/what-good-are-shareholders

https://www.ft.com/content/7bd1b20a-879b-11e5-90de-f44762bf9...
I applaud your efforts pqhwan.

But this is the point I tried to make at the top of this thread.

These people are playing a game. They aren't interested in talking about this honestly.

Seriously, where is the legitimate debate about the events of this week?

Is anyone compelled by the idea that this seditious event was comparable to the women's march?

I don't know what tools we have to bring these people back. I wish I could point to something and say "here", this is how we can find common ground. But they are proving every day that they are more interested in this dishonest babble than engaging in serious discussion.

Again, for anyone whose made it this far. The fact that they are pretending that there is no difference between the women's march and the events this week are all you need to see to dismiss the rest of the justifications they put forth.

Don't fall for the trap. They wont argue "the point". They will deflect, lie and twist every issue to fit their narrative.
marslegalcode.org
Elegant engineering work is work that has good properties as evaluated by other engineers and that don't directly impact the properties non-engineers care about (what doesn't mean that aren't impacts, just not direct ones).

I don't think you will find this in any dictionary, but the meaning is incredibly consistent, even on different engineering areas and different languages.
Polyjuice: Automated, General-Purpose Counterfactual Generation
Of course I demand rigor in a subfield that exists almost entirely to inform policies like segregation, eugenics, welfare, education, etc, and I find studies based on IQ tests and the g factor to be very much inadequate at being socially relevant.
I don't understand this argument. Do these corporations exist in a vacuum? We use their products and services. They don't just emit co2 for the fun of it. No, we're not all individually responsible alone. We're all responsible together.
Did they figure the pickle fork issue?
Stephane Maareks courses on Udemy helped me a lot. Go for AWS certs after you feel confident. It may sound like the certs are fluff, but they really helped me systematize all of my AWS knowledge.
“ To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” Douglas Adams

This has largely been my experience.
The Rust docs claim most things actually came from ML and OCaml: https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/influences.html

They only mention Haskell's type classes and type families as inspiring a Rust feature directly (traits).
The Radicle Peer-to-Peer Code Collaboration Protocol
Fundamentally, because he’s not very good at this. He’s lazy and impatient, if it can’t be done with a few tweets at 4AM, he can’t do it.

For his entire presidency, Trump has really been good at chaos and bad at planning. He regularly failed to do things that were either within his powers or easily doable because he just didn’t follow the process right (DACA, muslim ban), or because he couldn’t work with others (wall, relief checks), or because he just didn’t have the patience to follow through (TikTok sale). When things require organization skill, he falls apart. His two biggest moves have been shit posting on twitter, and shit posting while undermining his own ongoing negotiations. He is incapable of actually doing the work, any work.

Actually doing a coup via the military requires skill and planning. There are a lot of people in the chain who can say no, or drag their feet to delay illegal orders. A smarter autocrat would’ve laid the groundwork to purge the ranks of non-faithful, done his best to bribe rank and file members, or worked to create a plausible story that required military presence in the capital. Instead he vetoed their pay bill because he was angry at Twitter, after he pardoned war criminals and called them all suckers. He is simply not a strategic thinker at all.

Whipping up his rabid fans so that they plan something on his behalf in whatever fetid swamps they’ve been banished to online? Now that he can do, because it only requires some tweets that he thinks of in the moment.

That he was able to get so far with such amateurish work is a sign that the republic is very, very sick. Hopefully we can fix our underlying issues before a smarter autocrat has a go at it, because if that happens we’re probably doomed.
> some things are almost comedy

We're trying to fix that! https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/351
Thanks for your comment! You have some great points.

>In my experience in the arts, specifically music, photography, and writing, good artists are good artists because they know all of the detail and nuance of their work and they continue to be dicks to themselves. A good artist is never happy no matter what they create or what the reaction is, otherwise they would stop improving.
> are writers' groups for encouragement or improvement? You mentioned a bit of both, but to my untrained ear that sounds like a recipe for mediocrity. Being just motivated enough to produce various works of art that most people in your social group would never criticize to your face? That's not a personal goal.

Totally, that's where the "but honest" part comes in. I still have the drafts this group looked at and they are well decorated with both comments and proofreading/editorial marks. I think the distinction come in in how you communicate these things.

There's this sort of mythos around "the artist" which stems from this "artist as genius/artist as madman" figure that people tend to use as justification/an excuse for a lot of bs and bad behavior in the arts. For example, a lot of artists tend to ape other artists when they first start out. One could and should call them out on this, but it's about how you go about it. You could be a total asshole and tell them their art is worthless, it's just an imitation of X, maybe they should go home, etc. etc. Or you could express the same thing while giving them some kind of encouragement, such as "it mostly seems to pull a lot of elements from X, but I want to see more of you in the piece, perhaps take another look at aspect Y of your work, as it seems more genuine--can you amplify it, can you go deeper on it?" etc.

When I'm critiquing someone's work, I try to constantly keep in mind that my job is to basically do what you are saying the duty of a good editor is--I have to see where the person is going not where they are at, and I have to do whatever best helps them get there. For some people that might be negative reinforcement, "this is worthless, etc." but in my experience for the vast majority of people that isn't the best way. Most people do much better if you tell them what's wrong in a neutral way and help keep them eager by letting them know what's actually working in their piece. Sure, that may mean they don't have the character of a Beethoven, but most of us aren't going to be epoch-defining artists--and I think you should always try to measure an artist in the context of pushing their own oevure forward instead of holding them up to some ridiculous detached standard of "the greats" you happen to admire (which will result in cheaply imitative art anyway, and which is what this individual was doing w/ Gordon Lish).
The phrase “fire in a packed theater” in the legal context is actually based on a case where someone was jailed for peacefully protesting the draft for WW1 (Schenck v. United States). It has no relation to actual violence, and is in fact a fantastic example of how “harm” by speech can be abused by a malicious government to jail people for what should be protected speech.

It’s no longer good law, thank goodness. Now we have the much narrower Brandenburg test, which requires that speech be likely to cause “imminent lawless action”.
There is no real need to ascribe intent to that group, because they are very excited to tell you what they intende (much to the glee of prosecutors I’m sure). Half the time getting them to shut up about it is the real challenge. If you’re not aware that they were there to intimidate and/or force congress to reinstall trump for another (illegal) term, that’s on you.

Yes, a lot of them wanted to go protest. But it’s a clear straw man to say “not everyone there was in on the coup attempt”. Sure, a bunch of idiots wanted to stand around and hold up dumb signs because they got conned into the Q nonsense, but a lot of them also wanted to push their way in and lynch Mike Pence in order to get what they wanted. They even built gallows, which is not something you do if you’re just there to protest.

Again, this was all planned out in the open. The told each other to bring zip ties and maps of the capital building. They talked about blowing the building up with a Ryder van like the Turner Diaries (someone did plant pipe bombs), and discussed how they were going to kill congress members to get their way. They even printed “MAGA Civil War” shirts.

And even though they behaved like an unruly mob, they did manage to overrun the capital and came within feet of grabbing members of congress; the lady who was shot had breached the final barrier to where members of congress were holed up. What was clearly missing here was not intent or will, but coordination. And that sure is scary.

(As an aside, plenty of historical coups have been accomplished by coordinating a mob just enough to take over the legislature by force. Ask the French).

And that’s before we get into the really awkward questions, like “why did the pentagon repeatedly deny Larry Hogan authorization to send in the guard after the building had been overrun?” Why was the initial protest organized by republican AGs? Why wasn’t the capital police prepared for a protest that had been announced by the president himself? Perhaps some of that was more opportunistic, trump doesn’t really seem like the planning type to me, but it sure is awkward if your basic premise is that this was just a protest gone awry.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted when it is a proven fact with hard data to back it.

I sometimes wish people should be required to post when downvoting to explain their point.

The data also shows that for every person that has saved themselves or some other person there are many, many people that died due to an accident or a conflict escalating due to a gun present.
But there has only been one suggestion for a comprensive legal code to support the multi-national Mars Colony: marslegalcode.org.
"Or the insistence that Google is the only place you should get the apk from?"

No, you can but are not forced to. There is compiled apk (that autoupdates) which you can get directly from their website.

https://signal.org/android/apk/
It wouldn't have even occurred to me to switch over to private if I became self employed, just assumed you would price the employer contribution into the day rate. Is switching to private widely expected? I would've thought that Germans were more biased towards the social solution.
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And your comment is better? Yet another person calling everything more left than the middle communist.

People really have no clue what communism is, astounding.
My first mention of qtconsole in the article is a link to an official page that has detailed installation information.
In the early 1980s George Lucas asked Mark Hamill if he wanted to reprise his role in 30 years to "hand excalibur down to the next generation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UGV7WVB-bA

The original 1977 movie was titled 'Star Wars' (without any subtitles). The temporal ambition started with titling the next movie "Episode V: Empire Strikes Back" and renaming the original movie "Episode IV: A New Hope". I agree maximizing profits plays a big part, he made things up as he went along and in interviews over the years he switched between saying it's a 6/9/12 movie saga. But whatever his motivations, he still had the temporal ambition to "start from the middle" and leveraged that idea to build a lasting franchise. And that really impresses me.