skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You cant be serious. He was a member of military working on drone programs, then moved to a private company operating under the authority of the govt.

You're right. He did it as a soldier, then as a contractor.

> You think you can start an LLC and bomb people in Afghanistan?

If you're an elite, then yes, absolutely. Spoiled rich kid and SEAL dropout Erik Prince and his buddy started a two-bit training seminar company for red state keystone kops that was on the edge of going under when the USS Cole was bombed in 2000 and the firm scored its first federal contract. 9/11, Afghanistan ... the Pentagon turns on the money spigot and a few short years later Blackwater is murdering civilians in Iraq at a steady clip with not only zero lasting consequences but increasing success.

It's not an exaggeration to say that Prince is a mass murderer, but he walks free today, a billionaire without a care in the (not to mention a self-proclaimed "libertarian" who's spent the bulk of his adult life profiting off taxpayers). Not a bad run!

So it goes to show: if you've got a silver spoon, a decent rolodex, and some good timing, you can kill whoever you want in this world after filling out some forms on LegalZoom.
I'm in California and I have the same experience as you but the data nationally shows otherwise.
> buying there own private islands to vacation on under the guise of business, lambos for company cars

well you'll be glad to know that these are not what's being spent on - because if they did, it'd be an open and shut case from the IRS.

But

> boosting stock prices they already own

that is not considered investment, and i do not believe a company can avoid paying tax on profits used to perform this action.
No, you don't. You just need N people to host 1/N of the file some of the time. The only person who needs to upload it in full is the original creator.
> A Facebook app on your computer can read anything on it without any pesky browser security and privacy features getting in the way

This is not true, at least on OSX.

It will ask the user to confirm whether the app is allowed to read/write to key locations e.g. Documents, Photos as well as access key sources of data e.g. Contacts.
I think it’s more about internal consistency. If a world hasn’t said something about it (or hasn’t shown a derivation of it — e.g. gravity presumably exists, because all objects shown have been affected by it), then you’re free to do whatever (e.g. introduce magic as a mechanism). But once done, it must continue to hold true — else the rules are bullshit, and we expect nothing to behave in a manner that isn’t arbitrary.

Even fortnite has a kind of logic to it, haphazard as they may be (though it’s also so loosely defined, that I find it completely uninteresting — it’s a dumpster fire of cosmetic items with no real theme or nuance; this is because its more a modern shopping mall [ an arbitrary context for social groups ] than a game system).

It’s why simpsons can revert (nearly) all damages every episode (that’s simply the rule of the world), but if it tried to violate that rule and persisted those changes in any meaningful way, it would feel like complete nonsense. (They do however do it for self-referential jokes and such, but these aren’t persistence so much as temporary anomalies) At best, they’re allowed to forget something exists altogether.
every post about Sorbet must have someone talking about Crystal. If everyone suggesting Crystal would actually use Crystal, then a) The Crystal community would be huge or b) wouldn't be suggesting Crystal as "drop-in" to ruby + sorbet.
How is it stupid? Stupid != nonconformist and stupid != harming others.
They were going for sustainability angle like recycled medals, stadium benches out of reused wood, cardboard hybrid beds for the village, etc.

COVID blew them all away though.
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1. No it doesn't.

2. Even if we assume it's true, "better" does not mean acceptable. Imagine a town with no amazon that only has terrible jobs available. Amazon moves in, some people try working there, the job is so awful that they quit and go back to the other jobs. Those jobs are still terrible. There's very much an issue.
Small details like this make my day. I also love how it was basically crowdfunded by Japanese people. It quite strenghtens the symbolic value of the medal I think.
It might be more because these Olympics have been held during a pandemic. With all kinds of consequences.
She was convicted and imprisoned for calumny.
Wonder how much of this is Chinese emissions being construction driven, especially on "new" stuff developed west gets to hide into historical emissiond data. This is the same in most developing countries who need to build on massive scale for the first time if they want to be uplifted from outdated building stock. More so in Asia lacking in renewable construction materials like wood. So we get stats like China using more concrete in a few years than US in last century. PRC is still at 60% urbanization rate. Even accounting for ghost city memes and 60M+ empty apartments, that's still ~300M dwelling units and infrastructure short for 80% urbanization goal in next 50 years. Unless there's significant building material improvements, China and many other countries still has a lot of emissions to "catch up". And for the purpose of development and alleviating poverty, the faster the better.

>it ignores the impact of different industrial development choices made by different countries.

That's another consideration that seperates PRC, who is actually competent at expediently building massively, both politically and industrially. A capability many countries lack. Majority of countries are unable adopt emission heavy policies even if they wanted to. Would be interesting to see projected US emissions if they could actually pursue uncompromised infrastructure plan. Something like total emission of plan since it'll likely be stretched over much longer period due to how slow US builds. Or what was Europe / Japan / Korea's per capita emission rebuilding the country post war which is akin the the breadth and speed of developement in China.
Is yarn 3 stable, I dont see it published to npmjs.com. I dont even see yarn 2 stable
Why bother the current version hangs constantly forcing a re-launch to get it moving again, has been a known issue since the new updated version which is quite old now. They removed about:config and most addons.

May they burn on the pyre they have built. This is what happens when MBAs fire the engineers and chase the bottom line.

Obviously us users are using it wrong.
Isn't the biggest iostream bottleneck the forced sync with cstdio? You can turn that of at program start.
If you can influence the department that makes these decisions at <payment provider>, you've got McCarthyism-as-a-service.

For anyone who thinks that their internal thought-police department will use that power wisely, look at the diversity and inclusion dept at US medical schools that are right now trying to ban the use of terms like 'male' and 'female', which are fundamental to medical practice. There is no line that cannot be crossed, by these people, when they are allowed to define what is acceptable. And there is no gold standard method for deciding what is acceptable either. For payment systems, it should come down to this: "Is it legal?". Full stop.
Ignoring the author of that quote, that sounds pretty realpolitik to me. What other option is there anyway?
It's around £300 for 64GB of Corsair RAM - you need a motherboard that supports it but you can go cheap and you don't need a great processor. You could probably put this together for £600? It's not exactly crazy if this was for an office or something.
Seriously? They couldn't make the content something standard like a .zip file? Or a zip file with a SQL database in it? Bloody monkeys always have to go and create a new standard for everything. They will argue it's for performance or something, but it's really an exercise in ego. "Oh, mine's better!" No, it's not. What is better is what works with everything else in the world.

And that index! We couldn't capitalize the proper name of Wikipedia? And do you not understand there are visually impaired people in the world who can't read light red text on a white background? What is wrong with people?

And the terminology! What in the fuckety is Aard2? What is a .slob file? Why is it that everyone uses obscure acronyms or whatever for everything and never explains anything? Ego again, probably. Let's create a language that no one else understands to make ourselves feel superior! No, you are not superior, you are just turning language into thick vegetable soup.

Didn't you people go to university, or did you not pay attention when they taught you that the first reference is always completely spelled out and explained and you can use the acronyms (or whatever they are) after that. It's only common sense that you don't spout gibberish and nonsense words without explaining then in the first instance, unless your goal is to confuse everyone for the purpose of making yourself feel superior.

And the Google sheet and the flat index, what a hodgepodge of nonsense. What the heck does it mean? What is the difference between the different versions? Who knows?

I have to go now. My eyes are bleeding from trying to read light red text on a bright white background. I'll check back again once I get a Braille laptop screen.
I think you're mistaken about the 'y' part; what the author is trying to convey is that [i] in Italian is both the vowel /i/ and the consonant /j/ depending on the context. /j/ is typically rendered in English using [y] (but not always). Pietà is definitely /pje'ta/, not /pie'ta/, like the [i] in ieri /'jeri/ - at least that's how I've always pronounced that.

It would have been better if Italian just kept using the letter [j] - it was invented by an Italian guy to solve this kind of ambiguity after all.
> What happened to freedom to share false information? Gone?

In today's interconnected world, it's a very dangerous right that has resulted in deaths - be it Rohingya people in Myanmar, or even Samuel Paty in France, just to name two recent examples of the top of my head.

A good discussion needs to be had on the limits we ( per country) want to have on that right. Too many people today can't disseminate truth from bullshit, and many bullshiters, on a small or big ( e.g. Alex Jones or Fox News or Boris Johnson) scale profit from this with serious consequences for the health of people ( death, mental health for people thinking they're always under attack by X) and societies. What good is a freedom when society is falling apart because everyone hates/is afraid of each other and nobody can agree on anything?
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I agree, Unix/Linux is like a Hole Hawg, it puts the full power of the processor and the resources it's hooked to into what ever drill bit (program) you care to use.

Like a hole hawg, that power can rapidly cause things to go awry. Unlike a hole hawg, the extent of the damage can extend across the world.
Right- thousands of people making the same predictable learning curve mistakes isn't thousands of man-hours of new research. It's thousands of (wo)men all duplicating the same few hours of research, which isn't likely to result in any breakthrough.

If 10 people hike to Mt Everest's base camp, it's not the equivalent of one person climbing ~10 times further to the peak.
> Documents Hale revealed showed “more than 40 percent” of the people in the U.S. government’s database of terrorism suspects have “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.” The “watchlisting guidance” document he shared helped Muslim Americans clear their names and force the government to remove them from the No Fly List.
Gears of War 5 on the Xbox is 133GB with all its updates. I think we're at the point where 100GB is a high but reasonable request for people nowadays, at least in cities in the West.
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Yes, that's the point. If you need to parse a JPEG, you spawn a VM to do so. It is allowed to use n seconds of CPU, k bytes of memory, and send a bitmap back to the caller.

(Sure, you could screw it up if the caller accepts a negative-size bitmap and corrupts its heap. Lets assume that process is written in a memory-safe language.)
My Chinese partner has very neat handwriting. From the age of 5, if she wrote a character incorrectly she had to write it again 50 times. Saying that, it's easier for Chinese people to forget how to write characters because the Pinyin typing system means stroke order of a character is easily forgotten.
Indeed. And reddit is one of the angriest social media sites IMO.

My suspicion is that FB and Twitter are actually tuning their algorithms to dampen anger nowadays--I'm almost certain Youtube is (with terrific results).

I see reddit as a window into what algorithm-free social media looks like. It's not pretty. And reddit is one of the biggest sites, bigger than twitter IIRC. It's not a good influence on society.

I actually wish journalists would freak out a little less about Facebook/Youtube's problems and turn a bit more firepower on reddit.
If it's easy, do you mind sharing the hex for some of the colors, such as the background? You've picked a really nice combo of colors that I'd like to bookmark
Related question: how, if at all, did Windows Scripting Host fit into this history? Is there a plausible alternate history where browsers used WSH or some similar technology to execute client-side code in any supported language? Or am I confused about what WSH was/that period of history?
Unless I'm reading your source wrong it seems to make the opposite point. Your source says that Provincetown has a 114% vaccination rate because the number of people who have used a Provincetown address to get vaccinated is greater than the number last counted in the census - 2k. However, currently, Provincetown, a summer vacation spot, has a population of 60k people.

Even if all of Provincetown residents were vaccinated that would not imply that anywhere near the majority of the people currently in Provincetown were vaccinated. I'm not sure how we can usefully estimate the vaccination rate of the people who have been in Provincetown recently. Google says the vaccination rate for Massachusetts is about 72%. That seems really worrying to me because if that vaccination rate describes the people in Provincetown then the infection rate implies that the vaccine is offering no real protection - i.e. 75% of population vaccinated and 75% of infected were vaccinated.
I find it’s far easier to just accept that everything is transient, and that our works and deeds are insignificant. You can’t fight entropy.

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.
If up to 75% of paying customers browsing on mobile use safari would you serve them a broken website? Remember that 100% of browsers in iOS is safari. Everything else is just Safari with a skin. If I could I would block apple users out with a warning about their broken browser but I doubt any business survive for long if they had a habit of leaving money on the table.
But a combination like 2/3 + 2/3 + 1/3 + (-1/3) = 4/3. Are these not possible?
Those are huge portions of the population, not some powerful individual bosses. Everyone who advocates for free speech is part of that power struggle fighting against everyone who wants censorship of ideas they don't want to become popular.
If you know Rio, then a less valuable gold medal seems to be a good thing.
I don't see a direct reply to you by dang.
Edge is chromium. You can test it just fine from a Mac.
Would you guys ever consider reimplementing the runtime for more aggressive optimizations? Thinking back that was the first step Facebook took towards their Hack transition.
It's the same engine, but capabilities could be different: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
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No, foil fencing definitely _not_ one-hit epee and is not part of the modern pentathlon.

Note, I'm a foil fencer.
Ok, I'll bite: What does YCPEATT stand for?
They're already removing things they don't like. I see no reason why they shouldn't remove things that are objectively 100% harmful.

Like seriously, is there a single person on the planet that's going to defend online scams? It's immoral, it's illegal, it benefits no one and harms thousands. And it's not like it's very hard to detect and block either.
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Careful. This is getting into GDPR territory.
Long before Sorbet existed I explored type signatures for Ruby -- I even used `#sig` (I suppose it is the obvious choice). From that experience, I am perplexed by Sorbet's verbose syntax. Why the use of `#params`? Is it just to be able to add return types as a method call?

After my experiments I came to the conclusion that type information would probably be better if specified in structured comments, something like TomDoc. That way type information would be had just by writing the documentation one should be writing anyway. (Two birds, one stone.) It would also make the type signatures very readable.
Remarkable progress has been made in understanding the folding of proteins
Out of curiosity, I once used wireshark to examine packets from my own system which was configured to use DNS over HTTPS (using dnscrypt-proxy). I discovered that the hostname of the server is in plaintext in a header of a packet separate of the DNS query packets. I think this is due to verification of HTTPS certs, but not sure. By what I've discovered, AFAIK that to completely obscure the server's hostname from the currently used ISP, a VPN (or proxy) is probably necessary.
Well I love movies and 10-15 years ago used to go to the movies several times a month. I am not that price sensitive.

Now, even before corona, I almost never go.

The reasons for watching at home is better:

* Access, back then there was a huge delay in movies being available.
* Quality, before DVD's and HD TV's the technical quality was much much higher than TV's with VHS tapes or cheaper home cinema projectors.
* Not annoying people, very often the movie experience was disturbed by people who had to comment on the movies or talk constantly among themself. The cinemas did not seem to care.
https://aipaygrad.es/

Average total comp for a novice AI engineer is about $300K. That's over $1000 per weekday.

If they made it so the expected value of entering was comparable to the amount someone could make in their day job / as a contractor, I'll bet they could attract more & better submissions.
For any confused Americans, "pavement" means "sidewalk". (For Brits/Irish, "pavement" effectively means "tarmac" in the US)
What is that number for public servants?
Very cool!
Do you know how to make it default for every method in the rails app?
Instead of call it everywhere.

It will be very interesting to inspect which method is responsible for most of time, keep track of time in a dashboard and see how refactoring improves time (a line in a chart)
> The current zeitgeist appears to be denial that consciousness exists at all.

That’s odd, arguably it’s the one thing we know exists.

> because it’s the substrate of everything

Recommend checking out Bernardo Kastrup (two PhDs, many books and videos on YouTube) who argues that mind is fundamental.
The most feature rich browser engine (Chromium) is the one with most adaptation across all the most used platforms so that doesn't make sense unless you count users from something like AmigaOS and TVs and in that way get Firefox out on top by purely counting platforms. Otherwise Chromium on Windows, Mac and Linux beats anyone else by a mile.
Same error on mobile chrome on my android
Why don't people ditch Safari and use Chrome instead.
This discovery issue is why I advocate for room based, not call based communication (Dicord channels are surprisingly great, Mumble would probably do too). It certainly doesn't solve all of the problems, but I find it can alleviate them a bit.
Eyeing Utrecht for the sole reason it might mean my kids have something resembling independence.
I beg to differ. Google/Chrome dictates the Web, not Blink (Chrome/Chromium's rendering engine). The most popular browser and its parent company are in this position. For example Chrome may abandon Blink and switch to a new rendering engine in the future (it already did this once switching from/forking WebKit). Or if Microsoft Edge became the most popular browser in the world, then Microsoft would be in position to dictate the web.

This is why we need a fast, capable, privacy-respecting, no BS, no ads or tracking browser with a sustainable business model, using whichever rendering engine (preferably one that is also well designed and fast) to come out.
That's easily explained by internalized homophobia ;-)
I'm not sure if I can completely describe this, but I have many times felt some level of grief at the loss of a what-if, a potential future. I make a choice (or someone else makes a choice) and some small part of my future feels closed off. It's a relatively small grief and doesn't compare to losing a loved one or a relationship, or even a job, but I don't feel I have a clear way to address it.
> Pretty much all of us at HN are against censorship

False, HN is a Marxist echo chamber - there's nothing but lying on here about Biden's health, CRT, antifa, BLM, etc.

> but we habitually fail to get to grips with the very real problem of deliberate lying.

Amen.
Safari is a bane of my life. Simple things just dont work. Like svg rendering just doesn't work unless you display none then block. It's been years since this was reported.
This is a TLS mechanism called SNI and yes, it's there to make sure one server can deliver multiple different hosts over TLS.

There's a mechanism called Encrypted ClientHello (ECH), formerly known as ESNI, that tries to address this. Ultimately using either DoH or ECH only provides limited protection, the idea is to use both.
When my guy does it that is good but when your guy does it that is bad.
Filled with tumbleweed (except there is no tumbleweed in London)!
Oh yeah. Just as AI has not made the stock market predictable. There is (maybe) progress in pockets but not in general. Systems that change strongly and react to forecasts are really difficult to handle (and also stuff happens, eg new variants).

Also on the wet side, there is very little progress on something like general antiviral drugs.

Some stuff is just really hard.
Fair points, but I'm not sure how this ties in with twitter's image cropping algorithm. Not saying chest crops are ideal, but IMO twitter has other issues which are at least 100x more important that they should be focused on. If you really can't handle the way the image is highlighting your chest you can always crop your chest out of the image before uploading.
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Blind trust in professional liars (politicians) and criminals (didn't Pfizer and J&J get the two biggest criminal fines ever assessed?).

Here's an interesting read from 2010 about how they were having former execs put in power in Canada. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875889/

But I guess I'm the stupid one.
>Matlab's rise I cannot explain.

Having used matlab briefly, I am in no better position to explain it either.
By IE you don't mean Edge I'm guessing. Do you still develop with support for IE? I haven't seen it as a requirement for some time. I hardly even look at sites in it these days. At most I add a Browser not supported banner and test that in IE.