skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am mostly a lurker on Reddit, but I find it more satisfying that Twitter these days.

People I like in the world are unbearable on Twitter. I've unfollowed, muted and don't-show-me-their-retweets a good bunch of them.

If up and downvotes can work as feedback encouraging people to stop it with the "sigh" posts, or the rage-of-the-day posts, it could improve Twitter. If not, I'm not sure what could improve Twitter.
While the mainstream narrative on MLK is grossly distorted, I think the narrative you’re boosting is a trope, and also has distortions. In the mainstream MLK is the most revered American hero, and in truth there were years in which he may have had less popular support than Donald Trump. However, he was not completely without establishment support. The entire establishment did not always cast him as a rabble-rouser and complainer. He was certainly cast as the “good” protestor in the media on several occasions.

He was routinely invited to meet with American leaders (Nixon, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ). Several of these meetings were in the White House. Foreign leaders met with him. He won the Nobel prize. He was on the cover of Time magazine twice. He was an eminent person during his life.

Here’s two newspaper snippets in contradiction with your idea that contemporaries didn’t consider his speeches rousing and elegant.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20989079/editorial-on-martin...

https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/topics/MLK/washdream.p...

This newspaper article says “Lyndon Johnson recognized that Martin Luther King possesses a certain mysticism of a crusader who can touch the emotional well springs of people and inspire them to demonstrate in a non-violent way.”

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/53577271/article-discussing-...

His funeral was attended by at least a dozen dignitaries

https://www.britannica.com/story/attendees-of-martin-luther-...
I used to do my resume in TeX (in fact an ancient resume of mine along with the plain TeX macros to format it is on CTAN), but I stopped because in most cases, my resume is getting slurped into some automated system and if it's anything other than a Word document, I end up with a lot of pain.
If you'd prefer the low-tech route, try this: Buy notecards for your thoughts and leave them in the book as you go. Then before you return it, review them to make sure you've captured enough context that they make sense without the physical book.
I always see people claim that TPMs will enable DRM, but aren't we already subject to plenty of DRM? There's a lot of content that I'm blocked from accessing because I use Firefox on Linux, and AFAIK none of that DRM makes use of my TPM. What kind of DRM are people worried the TPM will enable, that we aren't already subject to?
Westworld gives it a serious treatment. Transcendence dumbs it down so it looks cool on a screen.
Basically they are saying that decades of distributed protein folding was useless and everyone would have had more utility mining cryptocurrency if it existed several years earlier

But at least it inspired someone to make and release this
I suspect gerontocracy would be a distinct without a difference after someone invents any real fountain-of-youth category of tech (mind uploading included), in much the same way that land ownership went from being a requirement for voting to merely one of many ways to hold wealth as the USA went from an agrarian to an industrial society.

Big difference going from 50 to 70; proportionally less going from 600 to 700, even if the world isn’t changing in a way that makes recent experience count for more than ancient experience.
Maybe it's because their TV narrative is different than what they believe in their hearts?
You're almost certainly correct, since that's what a state oversight committee found in 2018 [1], but this perspective was criticized harshly by the media when Trump mentioned the same.

[1] https://lhc.ca.gov/report/fire-mountain-rethinking-forest-ma...
Congrats team! this is super cool!
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Thank you. As someone who follows the (b)leading edge of Clojure and its tooling very closely -- and has run alphas of Clojure itself in production since 2011 -- it's very hard for me now to put myself in the shoes of someone coming new to this tooling (unfortunately).

I think perhaps the biggest issue for most people is discoverability: how do I learn about the tools I need to get "task X" done with the Clojure CLI, deps.edn, and associated "stuff".

Even though I created clj-new (and boot-new, on which it is based, which in turn was based on lein's new), I pretty much never use it myself, except for quick examples to test stuff and/or help beginners with. I always start a project from scratch with an empty deps.edn and an initial src/myns/myfile.clj or similar.

I use depstar heavily but I strongly suspect that it will ultimately go away as tools.build matures to the point where all the special cases that depstar handles today are folded into t.b.api/jar and t.b.api/uber -- I don't want to maintain something that duplicates what the core team have poured so much time, effort, and careful thought into!

I'm already contemplating a "reboot" of clj-new as a very simple wrapper around t.b.api/copy-dir with some simple templates -- since that's most of what clj-new does (even the more complex template-running stuff is really only a slight augmentation of t.b.api's create-basis + java-command + process).
How do you explain Cuba, Grenada, or Maldives?

There are historical factors which contribute to higher incarceration rates (poor, lack of opportunity, unemployment benefits structures (unreported income does not affect eligibility), etc which contribute to higher probability of running afoul of criminal law.

Moreover, you can see a marked increase from the '80s on. That strongly implies economic factors (in conjunction with Clinton's tough on crime agenda).

What precipitates this is the hollowing out of American jobs overseas. No longer could a high school graduate live on the income afforded by a HS graduate. As people's in the lower socio-economic rungs saw decreasing purchasing power, few alternatives were available to them. Steel Mills closed down, Shoe factories, Clothing, the FT cleaning crew was replaced by low wage imported labor, etc.

Some of the same reasons are seen in countries with populations of poor people. Belarus, Thailand, Bahamas, etc.
Why does it seen like every article about this “sonic weapon” conflicts with other accounts
> and can rely on the fact that Julia has a compiler that can JIT compile any generated valid Julia code

This seems to be the key bit. It’s a great data point around the meme of “with a sufficiently advanced compiler…” In this case we have sufficiently advanced compilers to make very different JIT trade offs. XLA is differently powerful compared to Julia. Very cool, thanks for the insight.
> As far as I can tell US prisons (in generally, not necessary all but I think most) are basically a heap of human right violations.

Excited to learn about the German prisons that respect human rights. The "prisoners" just come and go as they feel?

The whole point of prisons is to take away a human's rights. That's like fundamental to the concept of incarceration.

Or are you concerned with US prisons violating too many human rights in comparison to German prisons?
>Many people die within months of being sent there.

I take your overall point, but here in the US police just execute people on the streets and then face no consequences for doing so. I continue to think the comparison fits.
Well, if you're in a position of having to say "Yes, I used my work email to create a Disqus account, and most of those comments are mine, but not the one about Muslims hating America and being deported..."

A professor naturally speaks with the authority of their institution, and reputation is far more easily maimed than repaired. The decision for Temple University to fire her is pretty obvious.
> In the rare case where something is harmful, there must be a way to vote it down.

If you are harmed by it then you get a veto, which is better than merely getting to "vote it down". No action which harms you can legitimately be taken without your consent.

If you are not harmed then your opinion as a mere bystander on whether it is "harmful" is neither needed nor wanted.
Reading this article made me recall an incident back in art college. A mature student asked if I smoked cannabis, I said I do. There was another mature student in the room with us. Upon hearing my confession she stared at me with a very serious expression, then lunged forward at me and pushed her face into mine. I was so taken aback I nearly fell off my chair. I had never met this woman before, we were never introduced and I haven't seen her since.

I would argue this woman was sufficiently arrogant that she thought it was socially acceptable to invade my personal space because I was a stoner. Perhaps I myself was more arrogant when I was younger, in the spirit that user warent mentioned below. On the other hand, I'm not the type to spontaneously invade the space of others.
Wow your attitude sounds as ill informed and short sighted as you think "weed smoking jobs" are as if that's a thing or any of this post is more than some subjective drivel. Grow up and get over yourself you loser
Popcorn lung is called that because of a specific adulterant which is no longer used in nicotine vapes, and was never prevalent in cannabis vapes.

There is also the risk of getting an illegal cannabis cartridge tainted with Vitamin E, which can be avoided completely if one is lucky enough to live under a medicinal or recreational regime.

It can't be said that vaping is completely harmless, but it's safe to say that responsible blends are orders of magnitude less harmful than inhaling smoke.
Pitching in to confirm - currently i work as a full stack dev in Latvia with 5 years of experience and a Master's degree, my net salary is around 1500 euros per month.

Most SaaS offerings without free tiers indeed are unlikely to be used.

I even had to buy the JetBrains tools myself to be able to navigate 1M SLoC Java codebases easily, refactor with confidence, whilst not resorting to piracy like some of my countrymen do. Even if definitely worth it, i still had to look at the price tag for a while, seeing as it's essentially food for a month or two: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/buy/#personal?billing=yearly

Developer salaries vary wildly over the world, though i guess some SaaS solutions also do location based pricing, which may or may not have historically worked.
A few thoughts from the top of my head:

* In the uk you'll get police bail for almost all accusations (police bail means meaning released from jail, agreeing not to contact other people involved and not to leave the country). In the US I don't think you get bail, except for cash bail? And even then, you cannot go home or go to work, you're stuck in the US awaiting trial. Bye bye job. Bye bye marriage maybe given how long US trials, appeals, counter appeals etc are.

* The US and UK have pretty different justice systems. If you were dragged to the UK for trial, you can forget attorney client privilege. Or any real challenges to the evidence against you. Illegally collected evidence is still admissible here and if you confess to your solicitor, he has to plead guilty for you and inform the other side.

* Also, there are a lot of things that aren't crimes in one country but are in the other. Should you think about English law before you take actions in America? What if you're drunk in a field with your cow? That's illegal in the uk. Fancy coming over to be tried for it?

* the above leads to anothet issue: you can use extradition to bypass the constitution. You can be prosecuted for critiquing the president right, 1st amendment? Only you can, German makes it illegal to criticise foreign leaders, so Biden or Trump can ask them to extradite you, and have you tried there. Even though you've (presumably) never been to Germany. Sound good?

Extradition usually requires some evidence (the same as being charged locally). It seems weird the police won't have enough to hold me overnight, but I can be bundled onto a flight just because.

Extradition usually requires your crime to be committed in the place you're going for trial. That's partly to avoid stupid laws (ever critisized the king of Thailand? That's a capital crime over there) and party to make it clear who prosecutes (england prosecutes crimes in England where they're our problem, ditto the USA).

Edit: -3? Really?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition#Bars_to_extraditio...
You could run a local resolver like dnsmasq or Unbound that can “serve stale” on upstream failures, but that assumes the DNS failure is a client-facing resolver one.

From what I observed here, it was more internal DNS related: Newegg was serving an opaque “DNS failure” error page from Akamai’s front-end which is likely because their infra was failing to resolve names internally.
I'd wager no, as long as you remain sane and do not pollute everything with fancy macro eDSLs. Specifically Datatype99 & Interface99 can be good for newcomers because they make code more concise, less intimidating and intricate.
Nice. Built on Python. That alone is an instant win for me. Nice usage of Jupyter as well. (Still reading through the docs.)
We use Bitbucket Cloud and I can attest to this. The quality just seems to get worse and worse. Bi-weekly outages, 10 minute PR merges, very late webhook calls, profile pictures not showing for some unknown reason. It is almost criminal that they charge the money they do when put up against GitHub, GitLab, and SourceHut.

In fact, all of Atlassian's products feel gross, it's all horribly slow. Jira's slowness alone probably cuts my productivity by about 20%.
> The effect of 10mg of same (yes, I know, that's lightweight amounts still) on an empty stomach were... very different.

That's a really good point. I commented elsewhere in this thread, similar experience to you with small doses. I always make sure to take the stuff with food.
That's about right for what it is, or at least how I think about it. There's no magic "unlock vault" button (by design), but an Organizer can kick off a workflow to reset a vault if need be. I have a few of the more tech-savvy family members set as organizers in my family in case something ever happens to me.
HLF = Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation

These are great interviews. Please take a look. I'm mid-way through Alan Kay and it's unlike any interview I've seen with him, and I think I've seen them all.
Sounds like how Amesys tried to defend itself in french public media a decade ago when the arab spring surveillance contracts were made public: "We make software that catches terrorists and pedophiles" was the slogan back then.
shameless plug - look at syncari
> Information that is confidential is not the same thing as "govt wrongdoing"

It can be, and that’s the problem.
If you have an hour to spare and are interested in what quantum computers might be good for in the long run, I recommend this interview(podcast, Sean Carrol’s Mindscape):

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2021/06/28/153-...
That is a lot redundancy. Current satellite count is around 1,600, and FCC approved plans through phase 2 would bring that up to ~12,000
"the WTP at birth for the initial 1-year increase in remaining LE from 78.9 to 79.9 years via rectangularization is US$118,100, the WTP at age 60 for the first 1-year increase in remaining LE from 21.7 to 22.7 years through lifespan improvement is US$257,700."

Who the fuck did they get to determine willingness? Most people don't have the money to spend. If it takes you years of extra work to pay for a one year life extension, why not just retire years earlier and enjoy that time? After all, you could still die from an accident after paying the sum at birth/60. It seems highly inappropriate to use a population based metric like life expectancy to have individuals decide if they want a one year increase (likely the individuals don't understand life expectancy as well as).
It's not about pure reliability numbers, but rather control. If my only source of electricity is the grid, then when the grid goes down, there is literally nothing I can do about it but wait and hope while all the things I use grid electricity for slowly fall apart. Whereas if I have some local generation, I can retain some functionality regardless of what the grid operators do.

Solar has the further advantage that it doesn't require ongoing fuel, so you're not dependent on that infrastructure either. Sizing a battery system to accommodate your usual lifestyle while it's dark is a bit silly, but a modest amount of storage that can supply say an average of 200W will get you quite far (fridge, sump pump, lighting, internet uplink, laptop).
Electriciy in CA is ridiculously expensive. $0.27/kWh average rate is common in CA. Going up to $0.40+ if you get into the higher tiers.

But even with insane generation rates, most of the electric bill is the power company service fee, not the generation fee.

For example, out of a $200/mo bill, maybe $50 is electric generation, the rest is the service fee. PG&E is insanely badly run.
Craigslist, eBay, johnscheapcopper.com, wherever the hell you're selling the stuff.
I know some really spry older (60-80) people. Good diet and exercise is what they have in common.

It also helps with mental health (which we have an epidemic of in the US).

By all means, this research should continue. But we do already have very good solutions to aging which are sorely overlooked.
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URLPattern brings routing to the web platform
Insulin.

Imagine insulin with a 1% fatality rate.
ROFL the guy says it's my personal view and your responses is WELL it needs adjustment then.

Grow up and learn that no, he doesn't need to change his perspective and no yours isn't more valid or correct

You actually sound like a sociopath who just wants to be right about something no one can even be right about. Have some humility and stfu it's an opinion
But if we extend life then we can have these wonderful rulers for even longer.

(Sarcasm)

Edit: I forgot HN does not enjoy sarcasm
> Being down voted on HN is really annoying because it won't let you reply if your down voted. Even to replies to your comment. Thanks for your comments, I'll try and reply tomorrow!

This is wildly untrue.
Brilliant. NOERROR for this.
...and many doctors will use it to attach pharmaceuticals to receptor sites of particular cancers.
Examples of corporate Slack blowups (Netflix, Shopify, Coinbase, and more)
exactly. Just use charles proxy (or mitmproxy) and ask it to drop packets/throttle the connection. No need to wait for starlink.
We're looking at two different axes. You're considering "how much of the orbit is occupied". I'm looking at "how long does a dead or destroyed satellite continue to occupy space".

If we have a collision that causes a significant amount of debris in a medium earth orbit, that debris will continue to exist for a very long time, so a wide portion of that orbit will be unusable or dangerous.

> Would a volcanic eruption in New York be very bad? Yeah, I guess it would, but, that's not going to happen.

That's fair, but I think your analogy might fall down on the comparative risks of damaged or destroyed satellites in LEO/MEO compared to the comparative risks of volcanic activity in CA/NY.

Yes, it's true that there is a larger risk of collisions in LEO with the number of satellites operating there. And it's true with the larger number of satellites, there are more risks of a satellite losing control. But that doesn't mean GEO and MEO satellites are without risk. Just last year there was a significant risk that a GEO satellite had the potential to explode due to a failing battery (https://spacenews.com/directv-fears-explosion-risk-from-sate...).

I'm mostly interested in hedging against worst case scenarios, and the worst case scenario for a LEO constellation is much less problematic than the worst case scenarios for MEO constellations.
At a guess, old people have a house or something they can sell for that much.
This is unbelievably arrogant. Where is your UI portfolio?

If UI design were easy, we wouldn't have garbage UIs all over the place.
>Try telling any car sub that Toyotas can break or that Germany's automotive regulations are even slightly over-bearing

On r/justrolledintotheshop, a fairly large mechanic and car enthusiast subreddit, those kind of discussions are commonplace. The mechanics will say "toyotas are usually reliable" and then also agree that they suffer from rust issues. You are being heavily hyperbolic or refusing to see counterexamples to your belief
For more on metaphors as fundamental to perception and even low-level brain function (maybe), be sure to check out "Metaphors We Live By" (1980, Lakoff & Johnson)

Lakoff took those ideas even further in his ideas about embodied philosophy.
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Shh, normies are not ready for that.

It’s just a completely random DNS outage, nothing more.
Some details here:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-autonomy-cfo-sen...

> The evidence at trial demonstrated that for more than two years prior to the sale, Hussain, 55, a citizen and resident of the United Kingdom, used sophisticated accounting methods to falsely inflate Autonomy’s revenues to make it appear Autonomy was growing when it really was not. Specifically, Hussain used backdated contracts, roundtrips, channel stuffing, and other forms of accounting fraud to fraudulently inflate Autonomy’s publicly-reported revenues by as much as 14.6% in 2009, 17.9% in 2010, 21.5% in the first quarter of 2011, and 12.4% in the second quarter of 2011.
Just in case you're not joking, it's worth noting that the majority of distributed molecular simulation (past and present) is spent studying "folded proteins" to discover structures of proteins that are often hidden from methods like AlphaFold (currently). For example, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-021-00707-0
> experimentally-determined structure

refers to structures determined by means of physical examination, with like crystallography, not to attempts at predictive computational analysis prior to AlphaFold, which were not accurate compared to AlphaFold.
I really enjoyed this comment. I wish new software was weird, I want software that looks bizarre, stuff that is almost nonsensical until you try to use it and realize it makes you feel good. Everything feels the same today because of hotel room design.
> Whatever multi-home means, why can't there just be one service provider that does that?

Many of these outages are due to pushing broken artifacts or configuration to production.

A single provider can pretty easily offer geographic or network topological redundancy, but administrative and/or technological independence is pretty hard to achieve in a single company.
My favorite response to this and related objections to ending aging (such as “what about the dictators”): imagine a scenario where humans did not age, but still had the problems of “gerontocracy” and dictatorships. Would you propose subjecting the whole of humanity to debilitating degenerative diseases and ultimately death to solve these societal problems?

I picked this up from Ageless by Andrew Steele, a highly recommended and very current overview of the field of aging research.
> It could very well be that marijuana puts you at higher risk of schizophrenia

More likely, marijuana use accelerates the development of schizophrenia among people already at risk.

> it could also be increases in the percentage of cases that actually get diagnosed, etc.

This is generally a valid stock response to these sorts of studies. But it strikes me as a bit unlikely that there was previously a large amount of undiagnosed schizophrenia.

(Unless we have broadened the definition recently).