skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is some difference between precision bombing of a single building after advance warning was given to those who reside inside and indiscriminate shooting of MLRS like systems into civilian area after saying "we will shoot rockets into Tel Aviv"
>he admits the night ended in a stabbing spree in which he was involved, violence which left two people dead and six injured.

>he has since accepted in an interview with US broadcaster CBS that he stabbed someone who survived

>”I didn't murder anybody."

I wonder if there’s some very simple investigative work that took place, but the article doesn’t mention it, as the author attempts to portray the convicted murder in a way that would foster empathy.

For instance, did the wounds suggest more than one knife was used? If not, that would mean they were handing the knife off to each other. It would be pretty unrealistic that a group of inebriated youngsters could rack up 8 stabbings and 2 murders with 1 knife before the streets were completely cleared and the police were on the scene.

As he’s been convicted, he’s a murderer unless proven otherwise, and deserves his original sentence.
Is this meaningfully different from the Firefox implementation?

I’m interested in trying.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tree-style-tab/oic...
Yeah, I think we need to allow publishing them so you can't have secret arrests. What I'm proposing to make criminal is publishing deceptive records. So long as you tell the whole truth, fine.
A good point, but I imagine benreesman's counterpoint would be that things might be different if Chromium were written entirely in modern C++, strictly following modern best practices.

My suspicion is that this is too optimistic, but I can't really substantiate it.

What would be a good security-sensitive modern C++ codebase, ideally from a high-profile source like Google, to compare against?
I suspect that something else was co-located in the building and AP was just there. So the USA would also need to agree that the co-located thing was not a target.
meta tags, and crawlers will use headless browsers or another thing and OCR on top of that. Google already handles SPAs where the content isn’t available until the JS is run. I wouldn’t be surprised if they already have tested or use a modified chromium and for crawling, plus OCR if necessary.
What ever happened to the spirit of open source... Everyone trying to make a quick buck on some SaS scheme.
Well, if there is a state partition in an always available application like humans then consistency cannot be guaranteed.

a Japanese holdout who did not surrender at the war's end in August 1945. After the war ended Onoda spent 29 years hiding out in the Philippines until his former commander travelled from Japan to formally relieve him from duty by order of Emperor Shōwa in 1974.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
Cupon de reduceri de pret la Carrefour
Can’t easily write Django code in JavaScript either. In general it’s not like working programmers get to choose any programming language whatsoever for the hardware and platform they’re writing software for.
I may not consider someone a friend, but still know they do. Imagine the case of people that make "friends" to abuse them or steal information. Note that it doesnt stop them from feeling the friendship is fake and faking that themselves. You see patterns like that in spy stories with double or triple agents. Not sure how many recursions a human brain is able to handle on an everyday basis, I would guess between 2 and 4?
I would argue that instead of approved nonconformity it is polite nonconformity that is tolerated. Some people self-censor out of fear of disagreement downvotes, but I see all kinds of opinions and that is why I come here. I also think we see what we want in a lot of dialog. Either folks look for opposition and find it or they seek out likeminded opinions and find that too. Its not that there is a central culture here, it is that there are so many differing opinions that you can perceive the site however you choose.
Something I also want to investigate -- CPU is at 100% on 1 core for 5~ seconds when launching anything. Not even waiting for IO, it's mostly user time
There are lots of siblings explaining why “parse don’t validate”.

But also, it’s not always wise to take this to an extreme. I’ve seen over the years many scenarios where dev teams were over-enthusiastic about this and parsed themselves into a corner by making system components over-strict and enforcing invariants that weren’t necessary to enforce, making them much harder to change later.

The right answer is, of course, somewhere in the middle, and depends on your domain and situation.
Your logic twist doesn't make any sense.

If you're Israel you certainly might choose to level an 11 story building if it houses a meaningful share of or otherwise critical Hamas intelligence operations. That's direct targeting; Hamas had operations in the building and they intentionally, directly hit the building.

You don't fly jetliners into giant skyscrapers to hope to side-hit by luck a very miniscule portion of a massive target like the CIA. That would never be a consideration for the operation. The 9/11 hijackers as we know for a fact chose the WTC for the terror purposes of killing and scaring the civilian population. Your logic twists pretends we don't know what their intentions were.
> We need to focus on making that ride as benign to humanity as possible.

I like the idea of planning to accommodate the upcoming changes (climate, geopolitical, behavioral, etc) with defense-in-depth approaches. That is, reliability engineering aiming to put a backstop behind as much of modern civilization as possible.
Lol, whatever man. Don't gaslight me.
myth of spiritual decay

Would you consider a society in which metal detectors at school entrances are a widely accepted norm "spiritually enlightened"?
In my experience with Cox, you simply plug it in and it just works. It might take a little longer to initialize with a new MAC, but I've never had to call or notify them of a modem swap.
Man nim is such a cool language it just need some more community and better docs to get some hype.
You didn't miss it, they never explained it. He invented this

https://glossary.ametsoc.org/wiki/Mount_rose_snow_sampler

http://tahoetopia.com/news/mt-rose-snow-station
"Deserves" is a pretty loaded word there...
I particularly like, "automating parts of your job". I wish more organisations made that effort. Especially in large financial enterprises I frequently see the same manual jobs being performed every week because they won't take the time to script it. They'll write up the manual steps, sometimes, but they won't script it, and often it's not even written up.
Sorry but I don't think you do respect "the engineers and scientists who made the marvel achievement" if the only thing that you are able to get out of this is as a publicity stunt to please the CCP.

It is not an understatement for me to say that I abhor the US empire as a whole and their destructive effects on the sovereignty of the larger world. However, when I'm reading about a NASA project, I don't have the knee jerk reaction of "it's American! BAD!!!" That's because while there is some political gain to be had from the prestige of a space agency, there is very little direct economic or military advantage and the main purpose is scientific enrichment which has been beneficial for humanity as a whole, not just the US. NASA astronauts, scientists, and engineers may have their own nationalistic biases but I don't doubt that their primary motivation is a love for space sciences and they tend to have a more cosmopolitian view of humanity's future anyway. The same was true of the Russians and the Chinese who worked in this sector.

Now, there could be case to be made that the CCP could decide to hoard the scientific data for themselves and refuse to share it to the wider public but until I see this in action, I will remain cautiously optimistic. Roscosmos (formerly CCCP) were able to collaborate with NASA despite their host nations being mortal enemies on the wider world stage so I don't see why the CCP would risk hampering their progress by becoming isolationist when it comes to space research

Furthermore, this is a monumental achievement considering this is the first successful non US landing on Mars and was achieved on their first try! the countries are able to send probes there, the more data we can gather and that's always a net good.

Now if only the Russians could manage to dissolve the curse they seem to have when it comes to Mars rover missions, then we could have a seriously potent race.
I am very anti-CCP and try to be vocal about it (my sister no longer lives there).

However I don't mind that China copies stuff, my biggest issue is how asymmetric their commercial policies are. Actually, pretty much any policy they have is very anti non Han Chinese

If China had any flavour of democracy I'd be much more supportive, my views intersect with many different aspects of Chinese culture

I wish my country would adopt some of the successful policies China has, without the absolute disregard for personal freedom/rights
>>Though its president, Martin Vizcarra, was also impeached (twice) last year, he cannot really be described as a populist.

>>The line of least intellectual resistance has been to blame populist leaders such as U.S. President Donald Trump.

How does this make sense?
async await was the biggest breakthrough for me. Made JavaScript code 3x more readable.
Coinbase does not pay peanuts, look at the compensation:

https://www.levels.fyi/comp.html?track=Software%20Engineer&s...

It's definitely competitive pay.
A few degrees either way would not change whether or not humans can survive in most places. What it would change for many places is (1) how much effort it requires to live there, and (2) how many people can live there.

E.g., if climate change greatly reduces the water supply in a region, that can be address with effort (transporting water in from somewhere else) or by cutting the population in the region down to what the reduced supply can support.

The problem is finding a way to fund that effort in such areas or to reduce their populations without it degenerating into wars and terrorism.

As an example, consider India and Pakistan. They both greatly depend on water from Himalayan glaciers that are rapidly shrinking. It is not at all hard to imagine them going to war with each other over how to allocate that water between them.

They both have nukes. You might think a nuclear war between them would not be a threat to the rest of the world because neither of them have big nukes. But it is not the nukes that would hurt the rest of the world. It is the firestorms.

Here's a paper [1] and article [2] that looks at a hypothetical nuclear war between them involving about 100 nukes the size of the Hiroshima bomb from WW II, directed at the major population centers. That's about 1/3 of the nukes they have available.

Based on the amount of combustible material in the target areas, they estimate 1.5 Tg of soot aerosol would end up in the upper atmosphere. They then use climate models to predict what that would do to temperature and precipitation, and applied that to crop models.

What they get is several years of temperature reduction and precipitation reduction. The strongest effects would be in the temperate regions of the US, Europe, and China, and last 10-15 years. That should result in serious worldwide food shortages for quite a while.

Note that the shortages would not just be in the poor, undeveloped countries. This would be food shortages even in the rich, developed world. It is not unlikely that this would lead to more wars.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/content/117/13/7071

[2] https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2020/03/16/even-limited-india-...
I could give other examples, but if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's 1993 WTC bombing was not enough of a warning that that complex was a target, I don't know what would be. Mohammed succeeded on his second try.

John P. O'Neill of the FBI headed that investigation and he left the FBI and was head of WTC security on the day of the attack. He told people he thought he expected another attempt.
Hey! Thanks a lot for checking it out! I meant it as in learning Python myself while I was making it :)
As to the API, I've added "stability" indicators for every plotting method in the README, and the most unstable features (panes) have warnings.
I'm not sure how to deal with breaking changes if I make any (again, probably only to the 'panes' functions). I think I'll create a new release (so 3.n.n to 4.0.0 for example) and state it as clearly as possible in the commits. Of course my priority during development is avoiding such changes. Please let me know any thoughts on how to do better!
There are a wealth of alternatives though... ClojureScript, Elm, ReasonML, and Purescript just to name a few.
Borland, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Netbeans, IntelliJ, Xcode - I've use quite a few IDE's. I much prefer a simplistic vim.

You make a great point regarding reconstruction of IDE's piece-wise. Check out all the "10, 15, 20" VS code plugins you MUST HAVE blog posts. I don't see any difference between that and a tricked out Vim setup. I see them as exactly the same things.

So someone leaving a tweaked out vim for a tweaked out VS Code or vice versa isn't the same as someone leaving an all powerful IDE. Those people are pursuing their perfect bespoke dev experience.
Every place I’ve worked we seem to have forgotten that insert times are going to go up logarithmically as the data grows.

So all your little queries that represent the sequential fraction of Amdahl’s law slowly creep up, while page weight increases and expectations of response time ratchet down.

The exact same query that used to take 5% of your time budget now takes 8% when you need it to take 3%. And it has friends...

We talk about economies of scale like we’re a manufacturing concern, and I don’t know why because I have literally never seen it work out that way for multiuser software, which has been taking over since the mid-late 90’s, about 25 years now.

It’s a bimodal distribution. Too expensive to build for 10 people, more expensive to build (per user) for 10 million than for 1 million.

And now that they’re pushing the idea that the real network effect probably only has a logarithmic payoff, then essentially the creators do logarithmically more work just to keep the wheels on, so the users enjoy a logarithmic improvement in the experience.
WebAssembly/WebGL/WebXR, and of course the upcoming WebGPU.
There is lots of luck involved with the flu shot as well. They range from 1/3 to 2/3 effective, it depends on the year. In 2019, the vaccines were 37% effective against Influenza A and 50% against Influenza B, but the B variant was more prevalent that year so the overall effectiveness was 45%. (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6907a1.htm?s_cid=mm...)

We are still trying to figure out how to make effective flu vaccines.
A driverless Waymo got stuck in traffic
Why is this flagged.
>All accounts of phone calls I've seen indicate that they come just a few minutes before the attack

Probably warning time proportional to building size. Over last few days few 13 floors buildings went down with zero casualties and there were multiple recordings of it filmed from cameras positioned on tripods. It's not something that you can do with "few minutes warning before attack"
I made a similar detailed document to bring my team up on the modern web dev workflows: https://bit.ly/3oi08M2
Both? I've seen plenty of outrage over Apple's labor practices.

The difference isn't that one produced outrage and one didn't. The difference is Apple was willing to change course on hiring this guy. The cheap labor is too valuable and they are keeping it no matter how upset it makes people.
The WTC was targeted for being the WTC, not for having a CIA office in it.
> a process that is trivially reversed.

If it's trivial, shouldn't lithium recycling have been profitable from the moment we started making lithium batteries?
Hiring experiments show 2:1 faculty pref. for women on STEM tenure track(2015)
Imagine you're writing typescript project.
You type everything and have type safety.
This type safety is an illusion on I/O boundaries – whenever ie. JSON.parse(...) from file/websocket/http happens.
To preserve type safety, you want to use something like [0] to do runtime type assertions.
Once i/o boundaries are parsing unknown types at runtime into what is defined as static types, your type safety is guaranteed.

[0] https://github.com/appliedblockchain/assert-combinators
do countries release evidence for every building they bomb?
I just wish those methods were available on iterators (and return iterators when called on arrays) and a collect method that creates a new array (a bit like Java). That would reduce the overhead and keep the advantages of this functional style.
I'm so disapointed by the committee.
So many utterly useless or easily bootstrappable features and yet, no pattern matching and pipeline operator stage 3 proposals. 0 progress for so many years.
Lack of those roadblocks Typescript implementations.

ReasonML and KotlinJS will faster become practical general purpose web languages than committee would start doing something usefull.
Live in Santa Cruz but Work in Silicon Valley (1976)
There's Twitter's PWA, which isn't too bad in my opinion.

My product has approx 300k users and is a PWA: https://usebx.com - our users seem to like it :)
So they offered everything paid for in Taiwan, and a competitive US salary even while in Taiwan.
How the architecture handles the memory hierarchy is hugely important, but your example of calling conventions is a good one too.

Keep in mind what calling conversions are:

"Calling conventions act as a contract between subroutines at the assembly level."

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/x86-calling-conventions-a34...
I've always wondered this since COVID hit. Why has this not happened more frequently? If it were a natural event, why are we not constantly being bombarded with these things? And what happens when we get 3, 4, 5 different ones at once?

I'm no conspiracy theorist. But Occam's Razor leans heavily to the side of COVID being a man made catastrophe when you think about that.
Russia and Turkey have something like GDPR minus a few clauses plus national scope instead of EU scope. Data portability agreements between those would be pretty straightforward.
A tool maps user inputs to results. A programming language is fine-grained - complex input to desired result. A fancy tool is coarse-grained - simple input to result.

As an industry matures, what users want to do is better known and methods for doing are developed, so a coarse-grained mapping becomes possible - on both ends.

But this process can cross industries above, obsoleting entire roles; and below, creating new roles.

A "role" is something requiring complex user input to specify a result.
> If people didn’t like JavaScript for front end work, it’s not like they could just switch to python

Sure, they can, both via compile-to-JS solutions like Transcrypt [0], and via generate-the-frontend-with-backend-Python solutions like idom [1], Plotly Dash [2], and others.

[0] https://www.transcrypt.org/

[1] https://idom-docs.herokuapp.com/docs/index.html

[2] https://dash.plotly.com/
I prefer 90s UIs
Yes it was "The Abyss", see the rat scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6hw4dGhm8Y

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss "The breathing fluid used in the film actually exists but has only been thoroughly investigated in animals.[5] Over the previous 20 years it had been tested on several animals, who survived. The rat shown in the film was actually breathing fluid and survived unharmed"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing
Abstract

National randomized experiments and validation studies were conducted on 873 tenure-track faculty (439 male, 434 female) from biology, engineering, economics, and psychology at 371 universities/colleges from 50 US states and the District of Columbia. In the main experiment, 363 faculty members evaluated narrative summaries describing hypothetical female and male applicants for tenure-track assistant professorships who shared the same lifestyle (e.g., single without children, married with children). Applicants' profiles were systematically varied to disguise identically rated scholarship; profiles were counterbalanced by gender across faculty to enable between-faculty comparisons of hiring preferences for identically qualified women versus men. Results revealed a 2:1 preference for women by faculty of both genders across both math-intensive and non–math-intensive fields, with the single exception of male economists, who showed no gender preference. Results were replicated using weighted analyses to control for national sample characteristics. In follow-up experiments, 144 faculty evaluated competing applicants with differing lifestyles (e.g., divorced mother vs. married father), and 204 faculty compared same-gender candidates with children, but differing in whether they took 1-y-parental leaves in graduate school. Women preferred divorced mothers to married fathers; men preferred mothers who took leaves to mothers who did not. In two validation studies, 35 engineering faculty provided rankings using full curricula vitae instead of narratives, and 127 faculty rated one applicant rather than choosing from a mixed-gender group; the same preference for women was shown by faculty of both genders. These results suggest it is a propitious time for women launching careers in academic science. Messages to the contrary may discourage women from applying for STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) tenure-track assistant professorships.
Hermes runs on iOS now and besides missing Intl, I’ve not had any problems with it and flipper let’s you debug hermes.
Of course, but let's not pretend otherwise about other companies that have not yet found themselves in the same situation: qualified negligence has been the name of the game in both IT management and software development since at least the '90s.
Asking out of ignorance here: why is higher gluten wheat more optimal for machines?
> There are plenty of instances of catastrophic social division due to physical differences.

Sure but the fault lies with society, not the individual with the differences (chosen, like masks, or not, like a physical characteristic).
In my opinion, if someone is administering a database they likely have enough programming ability to write a bash/powershell script to do a SELECT TOP 5 * FROM query on whatever database and pump the results through twilio to wherever they want.
The trick is not to show up at all. Most pointless meetings have too many participants. Meetings with fewer than 5 people tend to actually matter. Not 100%, but that's the trend. So the majority of pointless meetings you just...don't attend. It's incredibly rare for anyone to ask where you were, and if they do, have an excuse. "Outlook must not have popped up the notification for me", "I had a conflict", etc.

If outside of that you suspect it's going to be pointless, dial in. That way even if you can't just walk out, you can do something else.
Reprocessing gold tailings for old mines with more effective and robust methods has been tried recently. I remember looking into it but IIRC the few examples I found had all folded. I really do hope we do get to the point where we can reprocess almost any solid mass into useable compounds, though.
no coroutines no buy
The idea of breathing one of these heavily oxygenated liquids has been around for a while and I believe even tested on live animals. I can’t remember if it was tested on humans.

In theory it all works and has great benefits for breathing in high pressure environments. In reality I believe the issues encountered were: getting past the feeling of drowning at the beginning, needing very strong lungs for even normal breathing rates, and then transitioning back to air being problematic.