skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The British were never attacked or threatened during the annexation of Crimea. “Warning shots were fired at UK navy in the waters where UK navy was in its right to be” would mean British navy being threatened.

Putin can call it “warning shots” all he wants. As long as the UK maintains poker face he can do zilch about it, unless he is willing to either literally attack the UK or withdraw from Crimea.

“It is what it is” and “everyone accept” are not acceptable justifications for rogue actor behavior.
Every single leader of almost each of the Canadian political parties was caught breaking their own covid guidelines and going on vacations, without masks, hugging and kissing etc. Yet not a single one of them got held accountable. Similarly in UK, the health secretary was caught having an affair the entire time he was telling people to socially distance. Not a single political will ever get held accountable.

But business owners, everyday people were getting arrested and fined. Kitchen chefs were getting fined $300 for not having their mask on "properly" while they operated 500 degree ovens:
https://mtracey.substack.com/p/kitchen-worker-not-wearing-a-...

This legislation will get abused so easily against everyday people, I can't believe that anyone thinks this is a wise idea.
Intermediate: Integration of Huawei Ads with Game Services in Flutter
Fair. Good observation.
But there's a lot of eccentrics whose life is the internet. To disconnect for them is essentially the same as solitary confinement.

Insofar as privacy, compartmentalization, and good opsec, near did all of that, doesn't help when the mob goes after friends and family.
Now do college tuitions, bank bailouts, auto bailouts, solar subsidies, oil subsidies, farm subsidies, and all the other nearly countless ways that the government plays around with your tax dollars to put the money into the pockets the current administration and Congress decided was the most important.
Here is byuu's emulation retirement post from 15 months ago: https://archive.md/2020.03.21-185629/https://byuu.org/articl...

(and previous HN discussion on that retirement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22644647)
That's immune privilege, right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_privilege
One interesting metric I think might be rate of psychopathy of KF users, since a forum dedicated to discussing (read: mocking) people seems to me like it would naturally attract people who revel in schadenfreude.
Earth is trapping twice as much heat as it did in 2005
Well they show it on a linear bar graph so thats on them
Can someone confirm? Is the science behind this accurate?

If true, this seems more meaningful than telling us CO2 levels...
They well might be, realistically. Other similarly-atrocious sites that were eventually shut down by Cloudflare had a lot of trouble finding new hosts.
From pictures, the pool deck seems to have survived the collapse; it wasn't under the towers.[0]

I wouldn't expect this paragraph to have anything to do with a tower collapsing. Pools-in-the-air (over a garage) are notoriously leaky. I read this section to say "the pool might leak if the bottom lacks structural integrity."

In no way would I think "the pool deck is holding up the towers next door."

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2021/06/24/florid...
You can't provide DDoS protection for the dynamic stuff.
They are pretty clearly acting as a publisher, as they exercise editorial control over what user content they choose to publish. They are not like a telephone, which just passes everything through regardless of content.

Under American law, a business has the right to refuse service to customers, but you can't discriminate against customers based on certain clearly enumerated factors such as race, religion, sex or national origin. Facebook is not a public utility and has no duty to serve.

They are also not a communication monopoly, because they are not the only way you can communicate online. You are free to use E-mail, telephone, and many other messaging systems that do not moderate content.

I'm not sure what the rest of your comment (Rosa Parks, EPA and lockdowns) has to do with Facebook's business.
One thing I really miss from FireWire devices, particularly of the storage variety, is how rock solid the connection was. It never wavered or blipped out, even when carrying out multi-hour transfers. Compare that to USB storage, which depending on the device can periodically blip out for no apparent reason, even if you’re using reputable cables and all that.

Thunderbolt is better than USB in that regard, but it’s still more flakey than FireWire was.
Wikipedia suggests that is still ongoing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_Universi...
Dear Cloudflare. If you want to take a principled stance, you have to do it unilaterally, and defend it when it is being challenged. You want to be “neutral”? Then take the stance when it actually is being challenged. Otherwise, what you have isn’t a principled stance. It’s a public relations strategy. The moment you made an exception, you proved that you could and would disable a site over its content if you wanted. But when something like this continues to stay online, it proves that you are not actually policing content, but your own reputation.

I get that it is genuinely impossible to please everyone. But this is a hypocritical and dishonest stance at best.

What we have here is multiple deaths while their harassers run victory laps hiding behind pseudonyms on Cloudflare-protected properties.

> we draw the line at platforms that have demonstrated they directly inspire tragic events and are lawless by design.

I know you guys read Hacker News. Do you want to fucking acknowledge this?
The fact you keep changing your answer should be evidence to yourself that you are on the wrong side of the argument. The entire point of my comment is that you are supposed to exclude opportunity cost. Did you lose $1M last year because you forgot to convert your cash to <insert any asset that increased wildly in the last year>?
I am in the same boat. I immigrated from a third world country where journalists get arrested, women have an ongoing rape pandemic and kids get exploited for labour and thrown to the streets for begging with their limbs chopped off. But a person having lesser melanin than me criticized my country in a similar way, that would be considered hate speech in Canada.
Sounds hard, because it would be hard to prove that you lost a key. You could always pretend you lost it.

But if the blockchain supports actually invalidating those coins and transferring them to a new wallet via e.g. 3 trusted friends with pre-pregrammed wallets that sign and verify your new wallet, maybe it could work.
You could have made your argument in a less callous/thoughtless/disrespectful manner.

Personally I think intent is the difference between the words murder versus manslaughter.

If the intent of the people harassing Near was to cause their death, that fits my personal non-legal definition of murder.

Legally or technically, perhaps you are correct, but the common usage of words doesn't always fit the autistically literal meaning. Edit: also if looks like this happened in Japan, so the legal definition of 殺人 might be different from your assumptions.
Is this telemetry
> If I were writing a report on a piece of software for my boss and I found unsanitized inputs to an SQL database, I wouldn't highlight that any more than anything else I found as he would know that was severe.

I would. And as someone reading the report, even as an expert, I would want and expect the person writing it to organize it by severity, and start by pointing out any urgent items.

What advantage is there to not doing that?
It comes from a constellation of causes:

* Most command line programs are FOSS, which means people are scratching their own itch instead of trying to develop a product intended for consumption by others.

* Adding any kind of interactivity increases the complexity of any program, increasing the difficulty of development and maintenance.

* People working on the command line often want to call the program from other scripts, which is harder for interactive programs.

* Interactivity is not good for composing operations except manually. Non-interactive commands are much more easily composed with each other in sophisticated and customisable pipelines.
A more appropriate comparison against Oracle database would be MS SQL Server, or even Postgres, no?

MySQL/MariaDB is a different product class with different priorities, and MongoDB is a "NoSQL" product.
They call out that it is an extremely expensive systemic issue that will need to be repaired (bullet point "b" on page 7), and the first paragraph on page 1 indicates they attached an estimate of the overall costs of necessary repair (although it does not appear to be included in this copy of the document).

What omission are you talking about?
To be fair, that just puts it with "those who give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither", "information wants to be free" and "I'm not my brother's keeper" in the category of aphorisms that are valid as typically used despite their original coinage being in service of bullshit. (Edit: or possibly honest mistakes for the information one; I don't remember offhand.)
Why do we except a server to render maths for us? The client renders HTML/SVG. Maths is text, we should take the same approach. There just needs to be a compact markdown for maths notation. MathML is an awful mess.
> The Palestinians are getting censored under the mask of "anti-semitism" and the Israelis / christians are getting censored under the mask of "islamaphobic"

Are you comparing Palestinian life under apartheid to Christians getting their "all Muslims are terrorists" Facebook posts deleted?
Sounds a bit to me like that would necessitate describing your internal network to every outside server or client it trades requests with, unless your routers become much more sophisticated.

I cannot imagine that would ever be acceptable for most companies.
I hadn't heard of Kiwi Farms before but just spent a few minutes browsing through some recent posts and wow - it really is a toxic wastedump. Their Wikipedia page really sums it up well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
The conclusion was my very first post really. Understand the limits of your tools; and your own limits - then make acceptable trade offs.

Programming is about explaining desires to computers. It is a complex, error-prone activity and we depend on our automated tooling to save us from ourselves.

Obviously, in theory you can build the exact same software in Assembly as you can with Java. But not in practice because the programming language is a human-computer interface and a symbiosis with useful feedback loops emerges at higher levels of abstraction.

The design choices of your language impose certain limits/discipline on your expressive power.

Some design patterns become easy to express; where others become difficult to express and your paradigm’s features become obstacles.

At which point it is your choice to switch off the guard rails.

Like the chap somewhere down below telling me he will use Rust “unsafe” so he can have direct control of his memory. Yes! You can! You can also read/write to /dev/mem directly!

Translated in English “I will turn off the compiler’s safety checks because it is getting in my way”. There are many ways to shoot yourself in the foot with this level of power.

He is agreeing with me, but this is HN and opposition must be maintained. Dung must be flung. For reasons.

Sure, for certain kinds of protocols this kind of polymorphism is not always needed. But I am merely pointing out the threshold where the type-safe paradigm begins to falter. The corner cases where the pros don’t outweigh the cons. Where the “compile time” and “runtime” distinction becomes a hindrance rather than a useful separation of concerns.

You can go further. Software Defined Networks. Application router.

In general, contexts in which it would be useful to know the shape of your data at runtime!

As a spontaneous aside… if your entire information-processing system is well-typed (top to bottom) - congratulations. You are well on your way to understanding Category Theory.

The entire data-schema of your stack is what Mathemaricians call a (small) “Category”.
Funny I started building my own project for this as well! One wall I hit was trying to have it send the radio signal to open or close the door, could never figure that out (using a 315mhz RF transmitter and an Arduino). Will take a look at this!
On discord, communities (or as they call it servers) will typically have many different channels. From my understanding you'd need your own domain to replicate that on element. Eg. #memes:ultimatefrisbee.pt
I agree. There mainly 3 options to render math

1- You either use a JS library (MAthJax)
2- Use PNGs or vector graphics (there are tools for that)
3- Use MthML which only works well in Firefox.

Clearly fixing the issue in #3 brings the most benefits.
>Similarly in UK, the health secretary was caught having an affair the entire time he was telling people to socially distance. Not a single political will ever get held accountable.

In response to this affair, the Health Secretary has resigned:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57622888
As someone who had the shit beaten out of him all the time in middle school and could easily have been bullied into suicide if I had been born a generation too late, I’d prefer someone take the expedient and less politically correct route and just kill these people off, with little to no mercy.
Hello, Unison author here.

This is definitely an issue that is real, and is currently a problem, and that we will fix; probably by giving the function author an option to salt the hash of new definitions that have some semantic meaning beyond their implementations (appropriate for most application/business logic). No salt for definitions whose meanings are defined by their implementations (appropriate for most generic "library" functions like `List.map`).

We already make this distinction for data types, but not yet for value/function definitions.
Imagine how many cumulative hours, or human lifetimes, have been wasted just from people trying to plug in USB-A cords repeatedly.
Not sure what the sentence means
For session-based approach, using your favorite scripting language works pretty well. I use Python, so it would be IPython for CLI or Jupyter Notebook for web-based.

If you want individual commands in your shell, then I generally use “curl ..| jq” plus a lot of history editing. A terminal which handles middle mouse button properly helps a lot. If endpoints are rate-limited or non-idempotent, then there is an occasional “| tee .. |” as well.
> Since the point of s-expression syntax/homoiconicity is macros

I don't equate S-expressions with macros. S-expressions make many things easier, including: simple and regular but expressive syntax, expressive function and variable names with basically any character sequence allowed, copy and paste-able code that just works, easy automatic code formatting.
>Intuitive expectations are not the same as empirical data.

Sure, and I can't criticize the model with any certainty, or make my own firm claims, without doing modelling myself. But looking for concerns is fine. I can't say the model is wrong in this aspect even though it looks odd. However, I can think of alternative models which would definitely have the opposite result. (For example, squared distance as utility.)

>Of course there is. The ideal would be a model that is exactly like real life.

Practical considerations make this impossible. Validation of a model by comparing to reality only works for small subsets of voting theory at the moment, and weakly so. A complete model like this one has no hope. And if comparison to reality is the goal, I can already see gaps where it diverges from the best-known theory, by omission of features. So taste is important. I have my own preferences about what features are important, which others will disagree with. These preferences will be non-falsifiable for at least 50 years while we wait for experiments to catch up.

For example, I assume you mean affine scaling of utility into the [0, 1] range when you say "Normalization of sincere utilities". But we might add to each election a candidate whose goal is to nuke the country itself. His utility is massively negative for every voter. However, it isn't to my taste for this candidate's presence to distort "honest" votes; I'd rather there be some clamping at the ends. So even this "obvious" choice is not canonical.

>Be specific. It just sounds like you don't understand how it was done.

Yes, that's the problem. I shouldn't have to go through code to understand necessary things. An expert in the field should be able to follow along by reading the paper. Although, this is not a paper, so holding it up to that standard is unfair. But the gaps in what I can figure out make the results non-interpretable in some of the aspects I most care about.

I think one of the results you most care about, from the model, is that Approval measures better than ranked choice. I think that's still a fair conclusion to arrive at.
As the comment you're replying to points out, that same opportunity cost applies to literally any non-essential ~$20 purchase they made with any currency in that time period.
Combustion creates all sorts of carcinogens. Even wood.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
My personal memoir of smitty1e might be the only surviving reference to them, regarding their comment posting. In future times, some hypothesised person is going to memory-write in post-english emoji "yes, but did smitty1e really exist" and your status will continue purely on belief in my reference to you. Entire tribes of mind-readers will ponder: "did ggm lie, or did ggm really respond to this person? how can we know?"

Sure: they could have made it all up about Hobbes and Locke. Do you really think somebody would write in a basically private memoir "I remember seeing an edition of Hobbes by his bed in college even though he denied it" if it was all a fantasy?

What would motivate somebody to make up, connected, reasoned fundamental statements about the behaviour of a contemporary from personal memory?

I was at the University of York 79-82, and a british Comedian called Harry Enfield was also there. He was said to have kept a duck in a box under his bed and fed it weetbix. Now, go find any authoritative proof this really happened (asking Enfield himself is possibly cheating) -I defy you to find any written record this took place but I assure you, I will go to testimony on the stand about this, because I was there at the time and this story was notorious amongst a circuit in the colleges. Did he do it? Did he not do it? Did he only talk about it? Future Historians!
"the true speed" isn't a thing for internet. All speedtest services just measure speed for specific server.

fast.com is notable speedtest service because it measures between Netflix' server, I recommend it. It reflects real usage. If your use case is torrenting, just download popular Linux ISO.
> Moon stated that, while Kiwi Farms had in-home DDoS protection, he was looking for alternatives to Cloudflare, the security provider for Kiwi Farms.

Is Cloudflare seriously hosting them? Just lost so much respect for that company if so.
Quite typical from the ones I've seen (I'm not a StructE). This is actually quite alarming language for an engineering report, about one step below "imminent collapse" and "immediate evacuation".
could have been much worse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind_cut
Real estate is so tight I daresay people would live there anyway, particularly if by mixed use you mean the bottom two or three floors is restaurants and other services and perhaps even a grocery to round things out with residential on top.
I'm not sure what you're saying? There's definitely a difference between "being psychic" and schizophrenia or clinical paranoia.

Some mentally ill people don't understand that they are not supposed to be able to see the thoughts around the heads of other people, which can lead to "creepy" events (e.g. the muttering weirdo on the bus who replies to your inner voice.)

The social convention is that our thoughts are ours and private to our heads, but this is just a convention. It's pretty easy to extend the faculty that lets you see the thoughts around your head that you consider "yours" to be able to see the thoughts around other people's heads. It's also easy to send/receive thoughts to/from others at any distance. Thoughts themselves are independent of the mind (like how TV shows are not in the TV.) One of the fascinating things is that you can do without thoughts entirely. Your body continues to perform its actions without them. Empty mind is extremely pleasant, blissful.
> How do you square those two things internally?

Easy: (1) He wasn't my boss. (2) He allowed a person not associated his team or even the tech department to conduct potentially harmful operations on the production database without supervision. (3) Those actions resulted in millions of dollars of lost revenue and make-goods. (4) He did not coach the person who brought the database down. (5) He repeated the mistake.
Yes, I too want the prosecutor who drove Aaron Schwartz to commit suicide for their own financial/career gain to be put through the ringer.

Get back to me when you get this done. Then we can talk shop about what the farms did.
Some people are just looking for something to disagree with
Different Car Companies Have Different Paths in the Layout in Self-Driving
I got a message from newton.co about doing a bunch of KYC compliance(they're Canada only), presume Canada Gov generally is starting to wrap its arms around crypto?
Intro to Debugging in Go on VSCode
> they just wanted to know that you understood the oscilloscopes and weren't bullshitting them.

In the IT industry, I feel like absolutely, 100% everyone must know that 98% of computers a giant company buys should be MacBook Airs, and yet Lenovo employees wake up every day telling people they should buy some crappy laptops. There are possibly 20 well-funded startups bullshitting people that they should use a database other than Postgres.

The present of sales is Wirecutter, not "sales cycles." Most people are making mediocre, derivative crap, how could they possibly not be bullshitting you?

If you're making something fucking shitty, just don't fucking sell it at all, and move on. Wait until it's the best, or do something else.
Cognitive flexibility is key to learning and creativity
The question is about commercial closed source software. A lot of initial answers are about open source software.

For me a key insight is that (for a certain ethos of open source software) the most desirable contribution is technical or community rather than a financial contribution.

"Bring your code, not your dollars."

and

"Become a partner in the product, not a consuming customer."

Everyone else are the "freemium"-part of the model.
Iosevka. Beautiful thin characters
So, an open source editor based on neovim is being replaced with a proprietary editor with it's own fork of vim as a backend? That's a little disappointing to me.
I don't think the document omitted anything; I don't believe the engineer thought the building was at risk of catastrophic collapse.

My point is that _if_ the engineer believed the building was at risk of catastrophic failure they would have stated as much.
> (defmacro double (x)

> `(* x x))

Two bugs in two lines. Lisp is indeed a powerful language.
We saw the same in the US with both elected and appointed officials in many of the states with the strictest of mandates, including California, Michigan and New York.

At least CA has a recall election planned for the governor, but if I were a betting man I doubt I would bet on it succeeding.

People of all political leanings seem quick to forgive politicians (from their side) for being human, while average citizens do not receive the same leniency from the government itself.