skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And with old-fashioned telephone presumably has had this impostor problem since forever.

Nalvany himself impersonated a Russian official via telephone to uncover details of his own assassination attempt:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55395683

And here’s the call itself: https://youtu.be/ibqiet6Bg38

It’s an incredible story and yes it does still happen.
> Not arrest people for doing things it's been ordered to arrest people for doing

Yes. No one’s ordered police to focus on anyone one kind of crime. Police in America have total discretion to choose which laws they enforce and which they don’t.

In Arizona you can get six months in jail for spitting in a public park, but you don’t see Arizona cops trying to arrest everyone for that. It’s a federal crime to let your dog bark in a National Park but the park police don’t really care. Similarly, there’s nothing forcing cops to focus on marijuana possession.
Britain, Norway, United States join with businesses to protect tropical forests
> Does it still make differences these days?

Have fun routing several Tb/s of traffic without dedicated ASICs....
Yeah and those ignorant consumers pull those in the know with them into the abyss.
Wind and solar do not work on demand. It's a huge difference. It's not always sunny nor windy. Only coal, natural gas or hydro in some cases can be a viable baseline energy sources.
Maybe this is happening already and we don't know because some other oligarch is not being stingy?

Welcome to London.
OpenSourceFPGA Launches Foundation to Accelerate Adoption of Programmable Logic
And what's the difference between normal and standard?
Interesting article, however I couldn't find primary Turkish sources that detailed the reasoning behind the deportations. Did the Turks institute the policy to remove Armenians from within Turkey or to exterminate them?
Apple and Google colluded to not poach employees from one another, why do you think they wont collude again?
Never let the facts get in the way of a good narrative.

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
The Pacific Ocean is enormous.
You will deeply be missed @dakami
MathsGee joins forces with Joburg City to digitise libraries
They definitely are anti-consumer and nobody who actually looked into the topic would disagree.
Apple has a monopoly on software distribution on their mobile devices and they force companies to use their IAP api which comes with a heavy fine, which leads to developers (rightfully) increasing the prices. The same goes for Google, the only argument that could be made in the benefit for Google is that it is possible to install Apps from other sources.

Apple is the gatekeeper for anything that gets on their mobile devices (they can't really be considered yours). Apple and the review process are the ones who decide what is a useful tool and what not, what could be considered harmful to their customers etc. This way their consumers missing out at a lot.

Many die hard Apple fans would argue with the perceived sense of security, but recent events perfectly demonstrate that even the most strict gatekeeper, the review process, is insufficient to provide security to unknown users. The best thing companies can do to enhance their users security is to educate them.

The software is not the only position where Apple shows monopolistic and anti-consumer behavior, their hardware repair is another great example but not the topic
Their are Apps that forbid screenshots on iOS as well. This isn't an Android only thing.
I understand the idea of integrating everything to reduce the electronic footprint, but some stuff like RAM and storage should be serviceable outside of replacing the entire board..
I have never seen death camps in Turkey
Striking how much downvoting on comments with links to more facts about the genocide is going on here. Striking, but not the least surprising...
Agree, DMCA works just fine when large sums of money are not at stake.
Is the cost overrun due to engineering - we haven’t built these (NuScale) yet so we don’t really know how hard it is - or due to politics?

Regarding Nuclear power in general, it’s amazing to me that we seem to have lost the engineering ability to actually build technology that’s about 70 years old at this point.
RustaceanRank: Top Rust Crate Owners by PageRank
You can use negative values for your alternative states.
Not every random person. The success in a social engineering attack is to know the jargon and framework of thought of your victim. Training a good deepfake is also expensive. Finally, if the campaign is running from march and is run against multiple countries, it requires knowledge and persistance to cover all of these different people and preparedness for the conversations.
4 in 10 is not good. Especially if there is a high chance of an extreme financial penalty over it.
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On the other hand, there's strcmp()/strncmp(). I can never wrap my head around the fact that strcmp(s1, s2) == 0 (or even better, !strcmp(s1, s2)) means s1 is equal to s2.
0 for never set, timestamp for set time, negate the timestamp for unset time
Would you happen to have a link?
My goodness. I remember having to explain this to my manager. They really wanted recording + playback in our platform. For as many browsers as possible. Even mobile (iOS, I'm looking daggers at you). In 2015.

AFAIR I just said fuck it and made playback as permissive as possible (i.e., only prevent media playback if canPlayType returned ""). I don't know how advisable that is but the bug got off my back anyway.

I dunno what makes this so difficult, why we can't get at least a definite "yes" even in 2021.
I didn't even know YouTube did this.
I find it scary that you trust Apple and Google and others who have admitted that they colluded to not poach employees from one another and suppress wages.
>Sorry to digress but it’s important to mention that, the hate against Greeks will take an ugly turn in 1955

Almost no one is aware there has been constant armed conflict between the Greeks and Turks in Cypress for over 100 years on ethnic grounds. This includes genocide, terrorism, massacres, kidnappings, executions, and mass graves
InfiniTime 1.0
Is there a reason to believe these drug possession arrests were primarily for marijuana? New Jersey passed a law in mid 2020 to decriminalize it starting January, so I’d be surprised if it were a big police focus in the interval.
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This distinction is critically important and is almost never even mentioned in popular media discussions of police racism.

Yes, policing and criminal justice in America fucking sucks (especially if you have dark skin) and needs major reform no matter what. But I don't want to start seeing ghosts where none exist, and chasing after them instead of focusing on other problems.

Edit: I explained this better in a different comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26925138
Responsibility should go together with power.

Who has the power to push for better working conditions, transparency and accountability? Let's see:

- A sailor from poor a countries

- A customer from a wealthy country

- A cash stripped shipping company from a poor country

- A successful and massive company from a wealthy country

- A billionaire owning such company

- A politician in the same country
Significant to note that Newark Police officers did not wear body cameras until early 2020. It seems like part of the same “decree” but I didn’t see the article mention it.

I recall a similar stat from CA where body cameras reduced complaints by 80%.

Also it looks like Merrick Garland reversed Jeff Sessions’ limitations on consent decree.
Biden has recently declared his intention to have the US formally recognize the Armenian Genocide.
Yes, any large effort will shed some crumbs of technology that can be reused elsewhere, but resources are finite. I would prefer that the drive to help Earth produces technology that will help Earth. That's a more focused, direct goal.
Yes, they do. Try orienting the globe for yourself here:

https://www.echalk.co.uk/Science/physics/solarSystem/Interac...
I disagree. The largest factors are likely to be culture (coming from leadership) and higher scrutiny (mentioned in the article as a requirement to report and investigate any use of force).
How closely do the arrest numbers match poverty numbers?
And this is why legacy code is such a nightmare. Compound unnecessary optimizations like this over a decade and it’s impossible to understand the data in the DB or how to safely refactor the code without breaking some weird corner case that was handled by using magic values instead of structured data.
is it actually a net win for society, or just a personal win for power users like those found on hn? Simply allowing all third party apps probably leads to lots of extra malware being installed on iPhones.
Ok, ok, everyone, I've got it. It's great. As you know, two meh ideas together make one galaxy-brain idea so here it is. Gravity batteries + vertical farming.

This is so amazing I'm just jittering over here. So what are big shafts filled with before they are shafts? Dirt! What do plants need to grow? Dirt! So what you do is ... wow this is great ... what you do is you take the dirt out, then you make this big battery thing a stack of dirt shelves that go up and down and while they are going up and down they also grow plants in the dirt.

So now you have a big field of these dirt stacks going up and down and in the middle you have a big farmers market. Money from dirt two ways. God how is this not already a thing.

Problems solved. Done.
I don't think it's elegant at all. Especially in SQL dialects where you need to check null state separately from false. So much bug potential...
Yea that would be great!

I did get them working and playable some time ago on Linux using Wine though (my little brother likes to play them still, except he can't get used to Linux), even though they ask for CD-rom.

The Putt-Putt game is using some custom click 'n play Python2 based "SCUMM" engine, it doesn't require Java or .NET iirc. And I think they predate JIT a bit.
Moralized language makes it significantly more difficult to criticize, as doing so makes you immoral by implication, so any actual argument can be slapped down and ignored.
On the off chance PBS allows access outside the US: https://player.pbs.org/widget/partnerplayer/2365792793/
Unless you can go back in time and put them in the pantheon back then, I don't see much of an alternative.
A disparity that high is unlikely to be rate of crime. It is hard to study rate of crime, obvious reasons, but when you slice drug use by race, blacks use more, when you investigate drug contraband found per traffic stop, the is not a high racial bias. I tend to believe the crime rates aren't effected much by race, it seems really unlikely a difference that high is race.
I guess you might like this:

The World Bollard Association

https://mobile.twitter.com/worldbollard
Probably all wealthy countries are big destinations for dirty money. Wouldnt make sense to bring dirty money to poor country because there it would attract more attention.
Works for me now. Anyway, here's archive.is link as backup:

https://archive.is/71woB
Yawn. The ottomans have been gone for 100 years. Most Turks acknowledge this.

The Turkish Republic had NOTHING to do with this.

Japan needs to acknowledge their genocide in China.

UK needs to acknowledge their many genocides in Ireland, India and all of the colonies.

France needs to acknowledge their genocides in their colonies and especially Algeria.

Scotland needs to acknowledge their tobacco slavery trade.

All of Europe and Russia needs to acknowleege their hundreds of years of continued abuse, atrocities and oppression of against the Romani.

Russia needs to acknowledge all of its Soviet abuses.

Germany needs to acknowledge the sheer unimaginable abject horror of their genocide in the Soviet Union.

China nerds to acknowledge it’s genocide in Xinjiang

USA needs to acknowledge its genocide against Native Americans..

And it’s atrocities in the middle-east.

Saudi Arabia needs to acknowledge their genocide in Yemen.

Frankly Germany is the only nation which has ever acknowledged and apologized for its atrocities, but only against the Jews, not the other European victims of the third reich.

Biden is just trying to win points with conservative Christians by stirring up anti muslim rhetoric, like evey president.
It's not gaming the system, it is arbitrage. However, it is pretty terrible for producers unable to exploit price swings. E.g a nuclear plant produces electricity at a fixed cost and may sell it at a loss when the price is low, but recoups the losses when the price is high. Since arbitrage smooth out the price peaks, it damages nuclear's profitability. One could say that's too bad for nuclear, others (nuclear lobbyists) say that regulation is needed to prevent electricity arbitrage.
Russian prangsters have contacted western politicians and tried to record them saying something compromising or at least stupid in order to air them on the TV. It might be something like that or trying to probe those parliaments to get an idea of their positions and likely future steps plus their red lines of support. So, it might've been an intelligence gathering operation.
What a disgusting and false comment

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/29/fac...

- Rates of white-on-white and Black-on-Black homicide are similar, at around 80% and 90%

- Rates of Black-on-white and white-on-Black homicide also within 8 points

- Police kill Black people at disproportionate rates
If you're using sqlite, for instance, you can call the substr function (I was sticking with the article's constraint to not add a new column).

There is one thing in favor of storing the full history in a single string - you might not query the full history very often, and you can keep a lot of information around without adding another table. I've occasionally stored the full history of objects (short notes mostly) in an sqlite database as a string in json form. Pretty convenient if you're keeping it there just in case you want to go back in time and don't make a large number of changes.
I agree that the tone of replies matter, but flagging comments spreading misinformation seems like a positive thing.
There's IIRC a single-digit number of mosquito species carrying malaria and a slightly higher number of mosquito species targeting humans - as compared to hundreds of species of mosquito. Kill the carriers off and they just get replaced by some other specie of mosquito.

Lets face it, if the same Malaria mortality rate happened in the West, we wouldn't (and historically didn't) wait for vaccines - we'd pave over an entire ecosystem if we had to. We'd do the same even if we had the same death rate as the group that got vaccinated.
That goes against Occam's Razor. Whistleblower of a powerful bank mafia goes missing, simplest explanation: killed.
You actually have less visibility into your bisect because your bisect step is much larger than in a stacked diff. You can’t distinguish if it was one of N refactor a that had a typo or if it was one of the 3 logical changes you made.

I’ve never plan out my commits and I manage to have well-structured commits. I use a mixture of git add -p and noticing when I’m needing to do something else and being diligent. It’s a skill for sure, but I think it’s one that anyone can get good at with practice and mentorship.

The easiest way actually to start this is to have a single giant WIP commit. Then git reset HEAD^ once you are done and now start committing piecemeal. Once you do this enough times you’ll develop a sixth sense and start making the interim commits on the fly and use fixups for mistakes that you autosquash. That’s what I do 90-95% of the time and the rest of the time I might have to do some rewrites or I might get some merge conflicts with myself (if I change a preceding commit that a subsequent commit changes). Here’s the thing though. If you’re being diligent about your commits in PR land and making sure each is reviewable (which really is what you should always do regardless), then you’ve already done all the work. Representing it as a stacked diff in the review tool just makes it easier to land piecemeal and avoid situations like “well your PR had other pieces but I needed this one piece from it so I extracted it into its own PR and fixed the issues I had with it. Sorry about the merge conflict”.

Stacked diffs aren’t necessarily the end of where I want review tools to get to. What I really want is to be able to generate a hydra where I might merge in entire stacks. If diffs sit in review long enough, other things I’m working on start to depend on previous commits in other stacks (eg cool feature X). I want to be able to rebase the entire stack and have the tools work correctly. Unfortunately that’s not possible with any tool I’m aware of and stacked diffs still suffer from rebase hell (Facebook internally had a GUI tool that made this slightly more bearable by letting you drag branches around visually). However, this piece requires support from both review tools and the SCM system (so I can rebase an entire body of work without doing each piece manually and resolving BS conflicts multiple times)
Yeah, savagery can certainly be a natural state for people. Executions used to be public and people would cheer. The Scarlet Letter had a woman put in shackles in public to be abused for the audacity of having sex. People used to torture cats for a bit of fun downtown.

I'd like to think as a culture we're not so much like that anymore, but it certainly persists in certain ways and places.
Quick check on the arithmetic?

With continuous compounding,
1/2 = (1-2.6%)^n = 0.974^n
n = log(1/2) / log(0.974)
= 26.3 y

Same answer on a Deci-Lon.

With annual compounding, HP-12c gives 27y
> Serial IDs won't scale

You mean scaling into several machines? Yes, they do scale. Nothing requires that the values are always increasing and have no holes, so you can slice and cluster them at will (and many DBMS do exactly that).
The Structure of Unstructured Decision Processes [pdf]
As someone from the SFV, I appreciate and understood completely the Glendale reference.

The same thought crossed my mind, which is why is this acknowledgment such an important issue and why now? I agree with you and doubt it is to earn points with a super small (albeit wealthy) constituency. I have never even heard people care about this outside of politicians and the news.

Just seems like a very strange hill to die on.
I've got a $200 check sitting on my desk from this very thing.
Given the evidence about the ability to interfere with GPS communications, is it safe to assume that it would be reliable in the event of some kind of Nuclear Conflict?

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/pokemon-go-russia-cyberwea...

I thought (but have no expertise or evidence) that a network of land based detectors could pick up detonations across most of the world. Or you could build your own device to unplug your electronics in the event of a detonation:

https://www.maxwell.com/images/documents/hsn1000_rev3.pdf
This article is about the second-gen Argos chips.

From the CNET interview, the first-gen Argos silicon was installed in Google’s datacenters in 2015, which likely means Google began development by 2013 at the latest—so about seven years ago.

So the "now" in the title is wrong
Seems right
In college I took a class on Turkish / Ottoman history that was incredible, except for when we covered the genocide. The professor clearly had been thoroughly educated on the subject, but had internalized a very different understanding of the sequence of events, and of course never called it a genocide. What I took away from that class was how ingrained the official Turkish version of events is in the historiography and how even experts in history of that reason don't believe, or want to believe, that a genocide took place.
I believe we have reached the point where solar/wind plus storage is cheaper than nuclear, and without the massive capital outlay, political problems, or risk. Even solar or wind plus a gas turbine is cheaper.

That's a pity because nuclear could be competitive if economies of scale and innovation occur in that space.

Edit: I'm getting down voted, maybe because I didn't provide a source. But neither do the people who disagree. I stand by it.
On the off chance the author is still hanging around here:

Do you mean it when you say on the blog that OSMX is faster than a relational database? e.g. faster than PostGIS.

And I presume you mean because of the up front cost of conversion?
Perhaps it is, but that's a completely argument than the one proffered by the user I was responding to.

I'm refuting those claims, which are falsifiable, your claims are not and are merely a moral axiom such as “Stealing is bad.” which entail no factual, falsifiable component.
focus on marijuana possession

NJ recently legalized weed, so pretty soon those arrests won't be an issue.
Facebook has shown themselves completely willing to remove content at the request of the Erdoğan government.

If they deplatform critics of Erdoğan, why would they also not be willing to deplatform anything else that Erdoğan does not like, like discussion of the Armenian Genocide?

And maybe this is why we should consider the consequences of encouraging deplatforming of people we don't like.

My other comment pointing out collusion of Facebook and the Turkish government is heavily downvoted, and I am not sure why. If I am mistaken, please someone let me know.

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/sheryl-sandberg-and-top-f...
Oklahoma woman charged with felony for not returning VHS tape 21 years ago
I went through MAL last year and had a blast! It's an excellent project to help you get a feel for Lisps and tiny languages, and I think is what finally got me over my "eww parentheses" feeling. After finishing MAL, I modified it to implement John Shutt Kernel-style f-exprs to really up the power-to-weight ratio, and had a blast doing it. MAL makes a great basis for experimenting with additional language features, highly recommended!
> how long is it until discussion of the Armenian genocide is flagged as hate speech and fake news?

Genocide can be talked about on Facebook, you can even organise it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46105934

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
Actually very few of our foods, and none of our staple crops rely significantly on insects for pollination. Grapes for instance, can use insects but don't have significant problems in their absence.
Wikipedia is quite thorough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide
SYCL can be targeted directly to HIP without going through Cuda first, but I agree that it's far from perfect. IMO though, it's as useable as OpenCL by now.
The irony of Android stopping this, and iOS allowing it is not lost on me.
> NULL means "unknown", full stop.

Hum... Null means whatever the data design says it means. We are talking about mathematics here, not religion. Rules don't come written in stone from the havens.

Using it as "not applicable" is even way more common than "unknown".
Brutalism was adopted by the Soviets, who were also pretty oppressive.

I'd rather live in a beautiful building than a concrete square. The idea that people should live in purely functional environments with no room for beauty or art is a purely modernist idea.
Turks had nothing to do with this. It was Ottoman monsters.
> but aren't doing the same with Apple and Google now?

What is Google doing that is an issue here? One can install competing app stores on Android devices.