skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suicide baiting means maliciously encouraging suicide. They targeted one of Near's friends, who was known to have issues with being suicidal, to try to get them to do it. They also doxed several other friends, which damaged Near's friendships. They basically followed and stalked them around the internet, mocking them for anything they could find (e.g. being nonbinary, a furry, etc), documenting what communities they were part of, and identifying targets who might be vulnerable. This deeply hurt Near, as they saw their friends being targeted because of them; they lost friendships over this. There were also plenty of false accusations and attempts to hurt Near's image (e.g. saying they're a pedophile).

My friendship with Near was not public, so I didn't receive any harassment directly since they didn't know about me. That said, after I reported the suicide, they tried (and failed) to take over or lock down my Twitter account and to sign me up for a gay porn mailing list. I'm lucky enough to be a straight cis white dude in a good enough psychological state, which doesn't make me a terribly appealing target; others are not so lucky. They go after minorities, those with psychological conditions, etc.
The parent comment is nonsense, almost every single word.

- As the only superpower, the US doesn't have to care. Other Western countries cooperated with the US because the same Islamic terrorism was already happening in their countries.

- Hussein was already destabilizing the region - he wanted to control all of his neighbors, which is why he warred with Iran, Kuwait and KSA. The US was paid by KSA to defend it.

- if by "stealing the oil" you mean reparations for having to invade Iraq, sure, that was a stated goal. But the oilfields ended up being leased to non-US companies.

- Russia is almost a failed state in terms of finances and population growth, thanks to Communism and now kleptocracy. The one good thing I will say is that Russia only waged proxy wars, not large-scale ones with the West.

- the CCP is trying to conquer the world, but corona has revealed the monsters that they are. Their next mis-step will be in seizing the Himalayan headwaters, which guarantees endless wars with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

- if you want to bring up the US and Afghanistan, I don't have any answers there. Their neighbors should police that country.
I worked at a project on automated border gates a while back and those automated scanners are really interesting.

They usually scan the document in several stages using different light sources to check UV/ IR / visible light features and sometimes illuminated from different angles but usually with a fixed camera position.

This leads to the interesting effect that you could present different images in quick succession to show the correct image for each spectrum even if you don't have a document that can appear correct in all spectral ranges at once.

You can't obviously do that by hand but we ended up using a display (even a high dpi smartphone) that synced up to the scanning process for security testing.

[1] if you are interested

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6975597
What „bad things“?
OLED is plenty fast. It's everything else that is holding us back. It took the TV companies decades to move, reluctantly, beyond the silly 60hz cap

I am all for 1000fps games but by that time I won't be able to play them due to old age.
> It is possible the craftsman was paid to never made another so the buyer can show off something unique.

It's possible that Facebook will ring me today to make me VP of R&D and pay me $5m a year. But I have no reason to believe that is so, and nor do you, and nor does anyone about the craftsman who made the Antikythera Mechanism! There is no reason to believe that the thing was customized from a menu of functionality - it's just as likely that a machine like this was the tool of a navigator or sea captain and one of a hand made, very expensive, but standard type. Rather like a marine chronometer would have been in the 16th Century. I could argue that it's much more likely because we found the thing on a ship and so on - but there is just no evidence either way really.

On the other hand we do have references to similar machines, autonoma and so on, in ancient sources. So it certainly wasn't completely unique. The interesting thing to me is that it doesn't seem that this was translated into clock making.
Steven Weinberg has died
All that glitters: why lab-made gems might not be an ethical alternative
Or cultural prejudice and ignorance - the skills and ideas were likely retained in the middle east and used to build many of the mechanisms that were made to grace Mosques and palaces there - later to be ignored by scholars and historians alike.
Yeah, would definitely be curious to see what reason Twitter gave (if any).
It sounds like RPE training https://youtu.be/WXQaEq4_2lY
Hetzner Cloud is known in the DACH region (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). They charge 1.19€ ($1) per TB and 20TB per Compute/VM is included.
It would be quite awful if the supposed durability of miniLEDs would turn out to be an environmental disaster for chemical leaching (due to the number of LEDs) and microplastics.
There's an old saying: "politics is downstream from culture". Well, so is privacy.
Russia disconnected itself from the internet test of defense from cyber warfare
Nvidia doesn’t have any connection to text editors. Can Apple sue people for selling fruit under the name “apple”?
Or foreigners.
I'd love a cash register sound, something like http://cd.textfiles.com/sbmm/SOUNDS/REGISTER.WAV
Very similar I'd say. Temperature, fish variety, small changes in method or salt content, all of these likely change the end product. But it's fundamentally the same set of reactions.
I used that blockly maze to teach kids at my son's primary school some programming. It starts out simple, and then you progress through loops, conditions, and eventually they have to implement a real wall-following algorithm.

I had 3 students at a time so I could help them a lot, which some kids definitely needed. But some didn't, and came up with some really interesting algorithms.
It's interesting to observe the process of bartenders or club bouncers in USA verifying foreign driver licenses, esp. if someone looks like they are in their 30s or older.

A person turns the driver license around a few times, too quick to read anything on it and gives it back to you, or they ask you where the birth date is and quickly check whether the four-digit number you pointed them to is smaller than whatever the current cut-off date is.
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.". ― Frank Herbert, Dune
To clarify, Scott never was a practicing programmer, but a book writer who capitalized on quirky details of C++. As he explained, there is less need of such books nowadays due to the vast availability of resources on the web.
Shadowbans Are Shameful Cowardice
There is no reason to use shadow banning as a first resort on HN. If my opinions offend the sensibilities of your fragile echo chamber, you could have just asked me to leave. Enjoy your groupthink.
I wish more jurisdictions would make age verification cards. A photo of me, the police logo, and the words This person is plenty old enough.

I don’t want to be identified. I just want a beer.
The implication to "French because they think it sounds better" is that they aren't speaking French for more obvious reasons.
What to de when a Google Core Update hits you
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know that existed. I'll be following that up post-haste.

One terminology that particularly struck me was what's now referred to as a "cut splice"[0]. The use that particular word was jarring, in that it's not the type of novel to have cursing scattered through it. The reason for its usage is historical accuracy.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_splicing
https://youtu.be/cNxadbrN_aI here are neural networks in the 50s. Something having been tried before doesn't mean it isn't worth ever trying again in a context of much improved technology.
Probably the same reason as at the beginning of January: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25684838
They've essentially done that and won, so.... Yeah?

There was a smallish apple producer (the fruit) that used a red apple with a bite taken out that lost the right to their logo. More recently there was another recipee startup with a pear logo that apple sued
How is lede pronounced? Like lead?
Exclamation marks are also used in Ruby to differentiate between mutating methods vs those that return a transformed copy. So, `array.sort` vs `array.sort!`. Question marks are also used, but more aesthetically vs functionally: there are `array.empty?` and `array.include?` but no `array.empty` or `array.include`.

Swift allows unicode in symbols, so you can name functions with emoji. Thankfully that hasn’t caught on.

J has a similar idea–built into the language syntax vs using characters in function names–where a period can be used to inflect a primitive.
I switched to a dumbphone three years ago. It often creates restrictions that are surmountable. It prevents me from participating in the gig economy for example it is very difficult (or impossible?) to call an uber or use a take away app.
There are however things I can't do, for example use the bike system in Lisbon, because it requires the use of an app. In this example the use of a card with RF ID would not only be more accessible but would have a better user experience.
That's a mentality that broods on the internet and it's so counter-productive, you see it in all kinds of groups. Your car only producing 400hp not 1000hp? Lame. Not deadlifting 300kg? Not good enough. Not making 6 figures? Why even work!

I think it's because what tends to get 'promoted' on the internet is exceptional situations, I think people can get caught up in the thought that exceptionalism is all that's good enough. Spend enough time in real communities though and you realise that the world is full of people having a blast just doing their best, and that there are a million different ways to enjoy and be successful at different hobbies/careers.
CMake Part 2 – Release and Debug Builds
How is this in response to this? iOS 14.7 had been in the works for a while in beta and wasn't a knee jerk response to the recent revelations. I expect some updates will eventually come from Apple, but I don't see any fixes (though they don't make it easy to tell) to fix any weaknesses in their blastdoor for iMessage.
join sci-hub rescue mission https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_...

there is a new p2p client being developed (in Go) that makes sci-hub papers accessible via DOI https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/ompcvk/need_help_fr...

it could use some help with indexing & IPFS integration (or just code review), see e.g. https://github.com/Trim21/sci-hub-p2p/pull/23
If you're on Android, just use Firefox with uBlock Origin. I don't know if I could live with Chrome, since it doesn't have extensions.
> In his opinion these … students would be better served at … colleges with … less demanding programs where they could celebrate more success.

The author is missing the point of this education.

For almost ALL students the aim is to get a prestigious certificate as this is the gateway to a upper middle class lifestyle.

The education is largely irrelevant. (Most are going to end up as real estate agents of financial advisors anyway).

Which is why a bunch of rich Hollywood folk were recently bust for bribing their way into top Californian colleges. It was not for the calculus.

Fear not for the kids: these top universities handle the intellectual demands with soft courses, grading on a curve, supplementary exams, oral exams, etc.

The only real challenge is to get in. Politicising it is the best approach for a large demographic.
>> am always fascinated when I hear other nerds describe the process of learning Western history as "begin with the Greeks."

A good example of frames being "made up," in the sense that they can be constructed multiple ways.

Another frame might be that Greeks were not "Western" at all. They were simply the western fringe of the greater "fertile crescent" culture. This frame would have made more sense to the Greeks themselves, who considered Egypt the source of much knowledge and urban culture. Writers like Plato credited scholars visiting egypt (Eg his uncle Solon) for bringing this knowledge back, especially during the Athenian golden age. The greek alphabet is also derived from the phoenician/canaanite/semitic alphabet. Archeology of older periods, like the Minoan Greek era, suggest Egyptian cultural influence started very early.

"The West" (also near east, and far east) is actually a Greek concept, and the directions are relative to Greece. Rome is "The West" because its west of Greece. But, both Greek and Roman empires were a lot more active in the east than in the west.
> I would say that WC3, in contast, is still very accessible and enjoyable (if not the most varied space sim ever).

If you think WC3 is varied and you are into space sims, you should try out Freespace, its expansion and Freespace 2.

Better graphics, better missions, much better story, more involved mechanics.

And as the engine was made open source decades ago, it’s still being maintained by the community
Thanks, jamestimmins. We appreciate it! As we grow, we will be releasing learnings/white papers from the market including what site characteristics are the most sought after for various site types. The general rule of thumb with sites are:
Rooftop - taller than the surrounding buildings, flat roof with easy access, power and fiber access, long line of site over population areas and/or beside areas of high concentrated footfall (eg campus, stadia, convention centres)
Tower - land that is raised vs the surrounding area, close to a population area or major road network (eg beside an interchange on a highway)
I would add that people would likely be interested to the drainage tunnel that the Romans excavated (emissarium) which is an incredible engineering feat, not only because it has an exceptionally accurate (low, 0,8/1% gradient) slope, but because it was excavated from both sides of the mountain and at the connection there was an error of only a few meters.
I don't seem to be able to find a dedicated article/site, there is a description in this .pdf:

http://soci.romasotterranea.it/image/rassegna_stampa/pdf/12....

In 1929 the tunnel was re-used pumping in it (with mechanical pumps) the water to be able to recover the wrecks.

Also interesting are reports of previous attempts to inspect the ships in the 15th, 16th and 19th century:

https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/mi...
Wonder no more. It very explicitly is.

Here’s the “logic”: If we give a standardized test to a random selection of people and then look at the results and add a racial overlay, white people (allegedly) disproportionately succeed. Therefore the test itself is racist. It is an unwanted artifact that encodes the privileged (alleged) majority’s innate biases and confers structural racism upon future generations. These artifacts must be purged. This is the way.

Let’s concede for a moment the definition of structural racism and agree it’s worth addressing in the admissions process. The problem then is not the desire to address the perceived oppression, but rather the conclusion that we should just tear down the racist institution without a viable replacement on hand. If we tear down pillars of rational society (or, western liberalism), then what remains is not ideologically consistent.
And still has not reached orbit
Timeline of food – years and places different foods originated from
They had Cannabis in the middle kingdom of Egypt, so they must have received the seeds from America, somehow. https://canex.co.uk/cannabis-use-in-ancient-world-ancient-eg...
There should be more than one archive.org

Why not. Is it really impossible

I read a significant percentage of HN submissions through archive.org. Saves me DNS lookups. Recent pages look exactly the same to me as their "live" versions, the retrieval time is rarely bad.^1

Its probably the best "CDN" as it has the largest amount and variety of content

There should be more than one archive.org (and more than one ArchiveTeam). These projects work and they are standing the test of time. archive.org is older than Google. Much, much older in "internet time".

1. I use a text-only browser though so not sure how tolerable it would through Javascript-enabled graphical browser
> Widely believed would be a better phrasing, as you may compare anywhere with low to no support for free speech and they will be more oppressive and violent than anywhere in say Europe or North America that has greater support for free speech, the correlation will be huge.

Europe is one place with more limitations on "free" speech, and pretty much no parties or political grass-roots movements here are campaigning for any radical changes towards an American-style legislation. (Right-wing populist parties and movements in several countries are complaining about hate-speech legislation going too far -- and may even have a point -- but AIUI not even that means they're against the main idea that it's right to ban harmful speech; they just disagree on the definition and limits of what's "harmful" with regards to the kind of speech they want to indulge in.)

> Then you could compare somewhere like the US with somewhere like France or Germany and ask if there is a greater amount of violence in either and see what could be attributed to speech.

Crazy American lies freely spread under the guise of "Free speech!" gave you January 6.
Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Unicode Block)
Artichokes! I think about that whenever I eat them.
I think a lot of companies will allow engineers to come up with their own questions for candidates without much oversight. This can lead to the above scenario where an engineering interviewer thinks this could be a good way to check if an engineer is a key contributor or a low performer to their current role. However, it is important that interviewers are trained to ask questions like this in general rather than specific terms to avoid this appearance. I personally doubt that many companies use interviews to get IP from previous employers.
It might have been an application of [18 U.S.C. §2705-a-1-B](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2705):

> where an administrative subpoena authorized by a Federal or State statute or a Federal or State grand jury subpoena is obtained, delay the notification required under section 2703(b) of this title for a period not to exceed ninety days upon the execution of a written certification of a supervisory official that there is reason to believe that notification of the existence of the subpoena may have an adverse result described in paragraph (2) of this subsection.

This would seem to sync up with what the story said:

> With help from Ken, we soon received a "preservation letter" demanding that we preserve for a period of 90 days "any and all records and other evidence, [...] In addition, the letter effectively gagged us, saying that we were not to disclose the existence of the letter "in any manner that could alert the user" of the account.
>>> mobs, riots, and revolution

Two out of three.
I think embedded programming is similar to games programming -- it’s difficult due to the performance constraints and niche skills required (low-level I/O, 3D graphics), but also relatively badly paid. Edit to add: admittedly for different reasons; in gaming I think it’s that the supply of programmers outstrips demand, as every other new graduate dreams of being a games programmer.

I think the cultural shift is partly just people voting with their feet and going where the money is.
The embedded video does not load on my not-obsolete Pixel 5 (Firefox)
In Russia they have salted fish - Balyk and Vobla. Never salted it myself, but I didn't find the result too offputting either; it goes well with beer.
Eh. Sure, I slightly mis-read the article, it happens.

Just preface my block of text with a "tangentially, when it comes to 'workloads' ... [the rest of the block of text]", and now you have a generic comment, not about the article, but about something related.
This is a massive personal success for any indie-dev, and the fact that he keeps pushing makes me fairly certain he'll eventually make it to a profitability with a title eventually.
Is this autobiographical or is the similarity between the nickname Kazoo and your HN username khazhoux entirely coincidental?
Pretty stupid of twitter to suspend someone for not actually linking to pirated content. By that logic anyone working on NewPipe/FOSS P2P clients could also be removed if targeted by govts/publishing houses-lobbying
It's an early access game, like many...i never buy a EA game, too many disappointment's.
He mentions knowing about regional popularity of Yerba Mate, I think he was fully content with making a niche game for specific areas.
Cannabis is native to India and Central Asia.
Practical Deep Learning for Coders – Fast.ai
It must be something specific to the US, because outside the US there is no obesity epidemic.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-adults-defined-a...
I went to college in 2010, and it's unreal to hear about beer vending machines.
Do you have "allow install unknown apps" enabled in security?
Thanks a bunch. I'm looking into it.
It doesn't. If you confiscate an ID document you are supposed to turn it over to law enforcement. You don't just get to build up a collection of other peoples stuff.

In many states possession of a fake ID is a crime, in addition to laws that cover use or intent to defraud.
1. Do not trust your instincts alone.

2. Get beta testers. Relevant comments on hn and reddit will get you first 10-20.

3. Set up a channel for live communication with beta testers. Discord works fine these days and is free. Listen to what they have to say. Be polite and grateful.

4. Ask beta testers "How disappointed would you be if this product ceased to exist?" on a scale of 1 to 10. This will measure how much they care.

5. If your starting scores are low (avg 5-6 or below) or you fail to make it to this stage, you probably do not have product market fit. If you have 8+, by all means keep doing it.
Most of the wind is 4-12 miles offshore, as the wind rolls down the coast it's blocked by the mountains that run along the coast. At 25 miless offshore you get into mesoscale wind patterns which are extremely stable and aren't impacted nearly as much by day/night cycle, and can be forecasted with great reliability days and sometimes weeks in advance, particularly in the summer once the north pacific high settles in between CA and HI.
I'm not American. But I used to be firefighter for 2 years. Where I live both firefighters and police respond to suicides. In the 2 years I have attended over 100 suicide calls of various forms (in various stages). In none of them have we ever used an "armed response" unless you consider a bolt cutter/saw a weapon. It does seem to puzzle me why one would want to use weapons in a suicide case.
"Going down the rabbit hole" brings to mind entering the rabbits warren. "Going down the rabit whole" brings to mind entering the rabbit.
Weird, I use GCP (GCS extensively) pretty much exclusively for numerous different clients and can recall having 0 issues. I had to use AWS EKS recently and found the UX to be quite sub-par in the console compared to GCP. EKS is a nightmare compared to GKE as well.
wow relax
If it works like Emacs paredit, the default for just hitting `(` would be

let y = f()(2, 3)

but there should be a different command to do (`alt-(` in paredit)

let y = f((2, 3))

There should of course also be "slurp" and "barf" commands to add or remove items from the parentheses if you do the wrong thing first (or want to wrap multiple things in the parentheses)