skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deterrence presumes rational actors. One side in this conflict is rational. The other side, decidedly irrational, acting not in their best interests, harming themselves and many others specifically to attack the rational actor.

Aside from that, the real issue is that the irrational side has not yet conceded that they lost their war, 70+ years ago, against the rational actor, who had established a state. They instigated that war, as they did not wish the rational actor to have that state. They are aided in their irrationality by various NGOs, and have managed to perpetuate and sustain their presumed victimhood, by attacking, with literal impunity, the rational actor.

Now, here, you are suggesting that maybe, the rational actor should be restricted in their response to the irrational actor as it may bring the rational actor to the negotiating table. Which of course, completely neglects all the times the rational actor sat at the negotiating table with the irrational actor, hammered things most of the way out, and watched the irrational actor breach every single agreement.

So ...

What we have here has nothing to do with rational actor deciding enough is enough, and developing tech to reasonably neutralize the threat the irrational actor poses. Arguing against this de minimus effort, as it might bring the rational actor back to the table (in your mind) if they had to rely on sticks and stones ... is pretty much the definition of ludicrous.

The rational actor has tried, for 70+ years, to get the irrational actor to work with it. And has been met with bloodshed, the irrational actor targeting civilians, which, is a real war crime, as compared to the BS alleged by the irrational actor, in their attempt to get the world to ostracize the rational actor.

Exactly how, would this time be different? What would the irrational actor offer to jump start discussions? Because it is obvious from the last 70+ years that the underlying thesis of "land for peace" has not worked.

A different approach was, and is needed. As much as I hate giving Trump credit, what he did was to change the parameters, which allowed other nations to get off the ledge with the irrational actor. This is, in turn, putting pressure on the irrational actor to begin acting rationally. Those actions need to continue.

This all said, implying you wish to disarm a people who have armed themselves specifically to prevent mass slaughter at the hands of a losing side irrational non-nation state actor ... yeah ... not really a sound argument in any context.
Using defaults aimed at compatability with other zip archivers, today and tomorrow, doesn't strike me as odd.
What was some of the interesting technical CS challenges you had to face in doing so?

I have no interest in blockchain or adjacent tech because I don't see any technical challenges worth solving, so I'd be interested in learning if I was mistaken to come to that conclusion.
It does, indeed, but that's not the only way to associate storage. Using INTENT to specify whether an array is updated is useful.
If your firewall isn’t configured correctly then it’s really easy to directly access a host from the internet. It’s easier for the regulator to just make sure ipv6 is off (and all of the ipv4 are private addresses) instead of verifying the firewall config.
I'm impressed to learn that the metaphor was first coined by Henry George, better known for his advocacy of a tax on land rent (also the inspiration for the game Monopoly).

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly
Sounds like trying to land a helicopter on a boat in rough seas.

First, they need to keep the miners happy until the second before they are turned off.

Second, "escalating" the deployment of code seems like an always bad idea for such a massive system.
This is totally wrong, considering Stripe has enormous negotiating leverage.

My employer never bothers switching to any competitor because Stripe match any deal that their competitors present to us.

Could you, a single person and $500m of seed funding match Stripe's prices? Not without hemorrhaging cash.

One of Amazon's moats is low pricing as well, which can only be achieved with eye-watering scale (their margins are 0% in some categories, they make it up by delaying payments to vendors and pocketing the interest).
That's exactly how the traditional art world works, so why not... NTFs just makes it more efficient!
I guess the amount of copper used in nuclear waste disposal

https://www.copper.org/publications/newsletters/innovations/...

And nuclear plants in general would also need to be factored in.

As well as the nickel used in corrosion proof alloys needed in nuclear facilities.

https://nickelinstitute.org/about-nickel/nickel-alloys-in-oi...
The funny part is, your account was probably recorded as a "bot" account in that team's success metrics.
This sounds more like photoshop and less like deepfake despite the article title.
I think offering positions on a 4 day week (e.g. 32hrs) is one possible solution.

Developers are more burnt out than ever whilst needing less money to live. Remote work generally reduces living costs: no travel expenses, no expensive lunches, no expensive coffees etc.

A 4 day week reduces burnout at a time when many developers are spending less. Of course, the best outcome would be 4 day roles @ 100% salary, but often this isn't possible.

I honestly believe in years to come we will look down on the 5 day working week in the same way we currently do with 15hr factory shifts during the industrial revolution. It blows my mind that 99% of office roles are still 5 days / week, Monday to Friday - why is there basically no variation on this model?

It annoys me so much that I've just launched https://www.fourdayweek.io/ (shameless plug)
The Riddler Weekly Quiz
Hobbes is an imaginary friend, an alter ego, a conscience, and a physical toy. It seems weird to make him a divide between parents and children. And saying "Hobbes is real to Calvin" is a meaningless platitude.
> There is no end goal here being offended is the goal.

Nop, it’s a mean. Being perceived as a victim is very bankable these days, so the craze will continue with more people being offended and asking compensations (often monetary) for it.
I am honestly struggling to come up with a constructive response to, "People's beliefs are determined by biological factors at birth."

What you seem to have said here is, on its face, so obviously wrong, it's hard to take seriously.

I mean no disrespect, I just don't know how to continue engaging with you.
However, they can and do exist on the same platforms. They can exist because both of them are going to HAVE to learn how to engage with one another, even though their existences are completely incompatible and utterly different.

How are those two people's lives on social media incompatible? There's a million things they could have in common - a love of tacos, a band to talk about, a shared joke about a dumb celebrity, etc etc.99.9999% of the time different people can and do coexist in the same spaces.

The idea that two wildly different people with different points of view can't even exist in the same social network is nonsense. The only time incompatible points of view are a problem is when one or other person decides to try to invalidate the existence of the other. That's what moderation is there to stop. If people are just tweeting about their life there's nothing to moderate.
I think the parent might have been sarcastic. Hard to tell in text only. I read the last line as "pOlIcInG hAtE sPeEch" with USA being the butt of the joke.
Ah! Indeed, I missed that alternative.
>why is nuclear waste such a big problem? in terms of m^3 the amount is rather small

The meme is that nuclear waste produced so far amounts to 'a football field worth' or some similar framing. But you could fit the entire earth into a football field if you're prepared to go quite deep. It's a deliberate trick to make it seem like a non-issue, and deflects from the serious challenge that is long-term handling of nuclear waste. Plus, this is the size of the problem if we stop tomorrow, just the amount produced in the 50 years nuclear power has been up and running. So you must multiply not only by the length of time to be stored but also future projections for continued operation. If you try and project that out to a rolling total, assumming you keep the level of waste production at it's current level and no greater, it's an enourmous quantity.

Then there's looking at how well we're progressing with permanent, safe sequestration of existing nuclear waste. Not very well - There have only ever been three sites in the world for permanent waste disposal and only one of them is operating today (WIPP in the USA). The other two in Germany closed many years ago, and are costing billions in ongoing remediation costs as it turns out 'permanent' didn't pan out as well as hoped. Of course, no nations are accepting waste produced by other nations as that would be a political nightmare, and so each country is left to work out a plan on it's own.

The USA has shut down something like 30 plants so far, but of those only about 10 have so far been decommissioned. Of those, about half were truly decommed and most of the rest were put in to the SAFSTOR programme, where they are left to decay for up to 60 years. Theory is they'll be a bit cheaper to decommission after that time, and the funds to decomm them up-front are not available. A handful opted for a third option of entombing the reactor in situ.
It's really very easy. "denylisted this IP"
Because without NFTs there would be no way to give money to the original artist, right.
Because they serve different purposes.
Where are you from that has no wind or sun?
"Although he had sex with the woman willingly and never pressed charges..."
I have no clue what this article has to do with hacker news to be honest.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[On Topic] If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
> To someone who does not already know what LeoCAD is

There is already TL;DR: comment[0] with link to website.

> these release notes are not very useful

It useful for those who already khow what LeoCAD is.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26458863#26459148
What a strange take. I disagree, I believe people in general will be more unproductive if there’s nothing fun to do.
Smuggling implies that either the country of export doesn't want it going out, or the country of import doesn't want it coming in.

I was not aware that you're not allowed to buy a car in europe or the US and ship it to China.

What's the background here? I assume you are not? Why is that?
And said companies are quite often on HN for screwing up said moderation.
It was the best and best of times.
They aren’t actually making a claim. It’s an emotional appeal to “free speech” absolutism, whatever that means.
Leading a round of 600M at a 95 valuation, They did not even took 1% of the company. Is that still leading ?
It wasn't always like that though. I think they added custom runtimes around 2yrs ago... Your options were very limited before that.
This is precisely the approach taken by the Hydra metacompressor in the (closed-source) Oodle compression library:

http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/2017/02/oodle-hydra.html
You'll notice I didn't mention price!

Sure you'd like an identical service to Stripe for a lower fee but the moat is that doing what Stripe does isn't easy at all. You're paying for that fact.
Foreign aid is just an indirect military subsidy in most cases. Give someone money so they can buy your guns.

It would be more effective to just build schools, roads and invest into agriculture.
Would make a magnificent youtube video.
I don't make the apocalyptic predictions about AI that everyone else seems to. But there is a simple fact that anyone in IT has run into. Google (as an example) has a massive amount of money and spends it extensively to try and prevent fraud and issues with their various services.

In the process, there is story after story of someone losing their entire Google history, being blocked from Google Ads, Mail, etc. all because some automated system kicked in and decided they were a problem. Since Google doesn't have any reasonable appeals process this usually turns into a kafkaesque hell for people who experience it.

Now imagine you put that exact same computer system in control of sniper rifles and drones that can kill someone.

Yeah. It's not an ethical dilemma, it's a hellish reality.

Let's wait until Google (or someone with essentially an unlimited supply of money) can figure out how to make it so that they can run their own services without randomly killing people digitally before we start to kill people in real life with those same tools.
Land mines exist for a reason, as weapons, they have advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage is that you can set them up and get automatic area denial: if your enemy (or your friends, or civilians, or large dogs, or cattle) enter the minefield, they're going to die or at least be mutilated.

Obviously, some of that is disadvantage. The biggest disadvantage is that they're cheap, and buried in the ground, so it's tempting to leave them there, especially if you happen to lose the conflict. So they continue to kill people long after there are no enemies left.

Automated gunbots have the same advantage as landmines. They share a shade of the minor disadvantage, namely they can't reliably tell enemies from friendlies or civilians. But neither can a grunt in a machine gun emplacement.

They are expensive, and above the ground, so there's no world in which civilian children, years after the conflict, are shot to death while playing in a field.

So if these are the "next landmine" I say: good. We would all love to live in the world in which there is no war, but, we don't. Until we do, we will need the weapons of war.
That is, sadly, not how it works in many countries -- if the money is gone, it's gone.
Ah right. Well, I wished he did too with the amount of people I've told over the years :D
You have to create a culture of safety to enable people to ask questions. And if you get annoyed by the repeating questions you need to back that up with extremely accessible documentation around culture and expectations.
From the St. Louis Federal Reserve: "Lending growth slowed to zero during the 1990-91 and 2001 recessions but recovered after a few quarters. In contrast, during the Great Recession (2007-09), loan growth became strongly negative and remained so for almost four years."

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...
He was a child though, and regardless of anything else that has a significant bearing on whether he has the maturity to decide to be a father.
I believe that GP intended to imply ideological bias.
The storage association rules have nothing to do with pointers like that. Code will typically break because arguments are passed with copy-in/copy-out semantics, not by reference.
Ask HN: Has Google search been worse at finding information lately?
Recently, it's seemed that Google has failed to find answers for information I've been seeking. Even using keyword search, it's been returning very poor informative information. Has anyone else experienced this lately? Thanks for your input.
Go on blockchain.info and track all money exchanges. Pick one and track all its history. It's like the universe you can see as far as the big bang.
I wonder, why Modula (-II) never overtook Pascal?
Yes, as it establishes the potential bias of the article author. If this article was written by typically a pro-nuclear author it would be much more noteworthy.
I hand typed apps on other 80s home computers. Credit to anyone who managed it on an Atari 400 which probably had the worst keyboard this side of a ZX81.
Would you trust a preinstalled Ubuntu image from Lenovo more than a Windows one?
Mussolini's behavior I can't explain, but absolutely a person can change, and many often do, in dramatic and diametric ways.

I am having a hard time engaging with this line of thinking, it's so counter to some pretty basic systems the scientific community has long considered about as close to certain as that community can come to on those topics.

Are you seriously suggesting that behavior is chiefly determined by biology, and the entire concept of personal responsibility is not accurate?
Moat? The payments market is growing. A lot, to say the least. All you need is a small percentage of that and it's still significant.

It's like the soft drink market. You don't have to be #1 or #2 and you can still do quite well.

Stripe might never be on top but it'll print money fairly easily for a long time.
> Smuggling implies that either the country of export doesn't want it going out, or the country of import doesn't want it coming in.

Not really. You can be smuggling to evade taxes, eg. cigarette smuggling.
It's often because the cars are stolen or to avoid paying import tax.
Why does every mediocre (let alone terrible and harmful) journalist get a blue tick on Twitter?
TBH, Python's zipfile should probably just require zlib. Without that module, it's basically useless (can't open most ZIP files, can't emit compressed ZIP files).
Having no outlet for socializing or getting a change of scenery is a massively bad thing when you also suddenly find yourself working in your house all day for a lot of people. There might be some personality types that don't mind, but it's driving me bonkers personally.
SharePoint Lists is designed to compete with Airtables.
That’s nice. Maybe in 500 years we can forget about race. Right now there are lots of people who are actively, intentionally racist, and as long as they are around, making race taboo just means you give cover to such people.
The people are ok. It just happened that within russian opposition female members have a weird tradition to do #nudesthursday

I am generally interested in what they write but on Thursdays they post nudes and like nudes of other females I don't follow, and Twitter shows me a lot of their likes. It annoys me to no end.
that was my impression as well.
It was a simple statement of undisputed fact proclaimed by Twitter management and their peers.
It may be that you are not allowed to buy a car in Europe or the US and ship it to China without paying Chinese import duties on it.
>Most things in life are like this. Wind turbines are a great way to supply green energy, but building them takes a lot of energy.

Reminder : we only have one sky.

Things offer both positives and negatives, but

a) generally those things are decided by local powers and authorities that can be influenced by local populations -- not corporations from specific countries that may or may not be far away and without local permission

(those decisions that are made by foreign corporations that modify local attributes is generally frowned upon -- very few like the oil rigs scattered around the ocean, they tolerate them due to the profits associated)

b) very few of these decisions create global impacts, the ones that do (say, environmental issues) have many confounding factors and influence groups working with them, representing many different people and locales.

In just so happens that in the case of 'the sky' we're all 'locals' -- but very few people, with respect to 'the world', had a say in the matter.
"Spone last year created the doctored images of at least three members"

That screams to me of bad photoshops. There's no reason to deepfake a bad photoshop.
"Whatever you do, don't use gitlab. They changed their default git branch to 'main'."
From the last time this was posted[0] it seems as though these were photoshops, not deepfakes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26447471
Its sole focus is on skin colour or how a person "identifies". Other factors are completely left out, e.g. the rampant ageism in the industry and that's just one factor not the only.
Transforming an entire people into refugees is an unacceptable solution, whether it be the Gazans or the Israelis.

So if you were wondering why they do this "stupid inbetween thing" instead, now you know.
I think that feature exists unless I am imagining things? There should be a ... button on the top of the tweet and there should be something like "Not interested in this tweet" there. When you click it, I think it says "show fewer tweets by X" and there should also be an option to see fewer of the likes / retweets from a person.

But in reality, in twitter, like is a soft form of retweeting and users know it. So if someone you follow uses the "like / favorite" feature it also kind of means they want people to see it. For bookmarks, there is a different bookmark functionality. On twitter, like is a low weighted retweet that does not show up in the user's profile directly.
That's because all the humans moved to modern tools, but spam scales very easily.
>However, it's extremely difficult to determine how much of this expense is necessary vs. due to over-regulation or lack of innovation.

The sheer capital intensity of nuclear is what hampers innovation, not safety regulations.
FastDFS author Yu Qing talks about the true open source spirit
Reminded me directly of that episode. First drones kill people. Then drones kill drones. Then they destroy things. Then it goes completely virtual to save real-world costs.
>If you are arguing for unbridled free speech then fair enough (Personally I wouldn't but we can have that conversaion).

It's just words. Sticks and stones... What I see on social media platforms is a UX made to require moderation. Once upon a time, the user had the power to ignore people with the click of a button. "Don't feed the troll" was common wisdom. If Alex Jones or anyone else said something you didn't like, you just ignored them and never hear them again.

All the "gamification" of social media made everyone participating in social media into "gamers" who throw tantrums and their little joysticks when they "lose" points. Just like when you got your ass beat playing Mortal Kombat. Then moderators, like parents, come in to scold you and give you a timeout/suspension/whatever.
No win? With hella bank roll and their engineering staff? BS.

They've got a path forward but their management needs to see a new model - and they are not innovators/disruptors anymore. Prognosis: twitter will rot more for next 2-5 years and management won't notice till the ticker is affected. It will take a bit for consumer sentiment to reflect. Then we'll see a new CEO, some shake-up and grand announcement. I hope in that time tho a new challenger emerges.
The QL was a beauty. Not sure if it was much more than skin deep but it looked great in a shop display.
I submit pull requests based around a few hours throughout the day my team seems most likely to be between tasks (and so likely to check out a PR). Such as around 11 or 2 for pre/post lunch ramp down/up. Point being, the time my PRs are submitted has no bearing on when I did the work for that PR.

Using repo metadata to arrive at productivity metrics always strikes me as willfully bullheaded. If you timestamp my keystrokes, you can't know when I designed the algorithm I'm coding with those keystrokes. Spoiler alert: it was probably while I was falling asleep the night before.
You're right, that would work.

Though the UX designer in me thinks that if the policy is important, it would be better to put in up on a webpage and slap that into the ‘contact’ field—as a neighbor comment suggests. At least when the whole process turns out to sidestep email completely.
Depending on who you ask, pretty much everything but the Gundam Builds.

I jest. But, to be specific: Valvrave and Cross Ange were criticized for their depictions of rape; several series feature racy imagery, sometimes of underage characters (including the otherwise fantastic Gargantia - skip the dance scene); AoT, IBO, and a few others skirt some politically-sensitive material. And, frankly, a good number of the shows mentioned end up being offensively mediocre, squandering some quite strong openings (Rideback and Aldnoah.Zero especially). Probably the most objectionable thing of all.