skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One that appears deliberately placed and really has nothing to do with the article subject, except to stir unrelated emotions.
What do the Swiss do with their dogs that predominantly leaves them well-behaved and quiescent?
I don’t really see anything new in this essay. I read Beating the Averages a while back and it was pretty eye opening to me at the time. If this post struck you, it’s probably worth reading that essay, since it expands more on your Lisp Macros and the ideas being introduced here.
And fear mongering at it's finest! Let's see, give a crazy stat that ruffles feathers, 25 to 30 dogs killed daily. But wait! Let's dig into the source of said numbers! It's right there after all.

>No one keeps records on how many privately owned dogs are shot and killed each year by American law enforcement officers so there are no hard figures. But a perusal of the Web and social media will tell you it's a lot.

Hmmm... based on self claimed social media... wow, that's some hardcore journalism skills let me tell you. Because only the truth is allowed on social media. Oh how knee jerky the HN community has become just for some virtue signal points... I swear, next you all are going to claim an api service will save the trees...
Last weekend, I walked into a restaurant for lunch. A dog was sitting on the bar, between the (presumable) owner and the bartender.

I walked out.

I don’t need to eat my food at a place that allows dog ass on its tables.

I was tempted to take photo and report to the Dept of Health but did not.
The construction tradespeople only use imperial. The engineers could use metric, but then they would have to convert everything. It’s easier to just use imperial from beginning to end. Besides, all construction materials are in imperial. It is so much simpler for the engineers to use imperial. Plus, if they grew up in the USA, the engineers are as comfortable using imperial as you are using Metric.
I'm curious why the Germans spent so much effort building a complex prototype nuclear reactor, which isn't of much use in a war, versus focusing on a nuclear bomb exclusively, which is of use in the war. Did they simply not have the right type of fissile material for a bomb? Or was a reactor needed to better understand the physics involved?
You can get a bad score over truly stupid incidents. There is clearly a market.
"Although the Dickey Amendment did not explicitly ban it, for about two decades the CDC avoided all research on gun violence for fear it would be financially penalized. Congress clarified the law in 2018 to allow for such research, and the FY2020 federal omnibus spending bill earmarked the first funding for it since 1996."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment
WebRTC has had plenty of implementation issues. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/08/exploiting-an...
That is either misleading or outright false. You are referring to the Dickey Amendment, which which mandated that "none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may be used to advocate or promote gun control."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey_Amendment
In my observations of law enforcement, it seems only a small portion are interested in being proper police. The vast majority uses it as a way to gold power, and over a career, that power erodes the human side.
Some of the shootings of dogs are justified, others are not. It depends on the dog and the circumstance, but of course every dog owner will claim their dog was a loveable puppy after the fact.

I am expected to uncritically believe the owners, to believe that all these dogs are harmless and well trained and that they're all being shot for no reason. Well I believe that some of them are being shot for no good reason, but I've seen very little to suggest that most are. And from my interactions with the general public, I am inclined to believe most dogs are, if not dangerous, then at least poorly trained.
Invest in good companies.
We all need to update our mental models if they don't match the reality we're presented with.

What I reject is someone else's claiming the right to censor my comments or append a wrongthink warning to them.
Ideal if you could get most of your population to actually take the vaccine…
The article speculates in '3x oversubscription', so they have heard of the concept. Some casual googling suggests that values closer to 100x is realistic though.

So they're at least an order of magnitude off.
This is a pretty disingenuous article - it heavily implies that by scanning a QR code your device gets infected, as if with a virus, but the QR code is just a link to a malicious app - of course if you download an app then it has access to send you push notifications or do other things.
Why would it be better for tens of tthousands of people to rewrite the same bit of code over and over again,
? This amount of code reuse sounds excellent to me.
Boon recommendation:

The making of the atomic bomb by Richard Rhodes.

An extremely interesting book that starts at a time when electrons were known but atoms were a disputed concept. It traces the development of nuclear physics by following the people, the close relationships within the nuclear science community and every incremental discovery and realization and insight that led to understanding nuclear fission, chain reaction and ultimately the two bombs that would end WW2.

Despite the title of the book, the focus is really on the story of how we came to understand nuclear physics. The bombs happen to be an unavoidable part of this story - so the book is forced to eventually turn to project Manhattan and all that follows.
It also concerns me but Telegram is on a different position with Durov (Not a single HQ, ex-VK founder).
And here I would argue that, since the documentation is included with Emacs and can be pulled up in the editor, this is still a point towards its inherent discoverability.

Again when you load emacs there's a link to the manual on its splash screen and as a guided tour. A lot of people rush to turn off this screen or suppress the menues on startup (which I get, the menu bar is pretty ugly) but they do have useful functionality for someone who doesn't know Emacs.
That video is mostly wrong (and I made a Starlink Reality Check video so I'm hardly a fanboy).
And what do the Swiss do?
Current is the one number you look when talking about power transmission.
This is a necessary trade off between the probability of extreme high intensity earthquake and economy of structural design. That is why we civil engineers call buildings “earthquake resistant” instead of “earthquake proof”.
Not sure how this anecdote is relevant to the article?

Are you saying that you believe the dogs that bit you should have been shot?
Many people that are protectors do join the force. But they're bullied off and intimidated by the bullies on the force who have far more seniority and the backing of the police union. Trying to speak out about the wrong doings of other police officers on the force has cost many good officers their career while the police who commit murder get a paid vacation and their job back. At worst they have to find a job at a new department which is never difficult for them. So yes, there are tons of people who would love to have such a job if proper oversight became a thing as well as the removal of many problematic officers.
There's a lot of push back from engineers - especially people at lower levels of the stack - against testing infrastructure. One particularly famous example is Linux. Rather than testing before merging in code, they merge in code and then test the release candidate as a whole. It also seems game developers are extremely against automated testing frameworks as a whole. I've heard many times that it would be impossible to develop an enemy AI in a test-driven way (I did this for a senior project in college - finished the AI before the game was able to even start testing it [0]).

I wonder what would need to happen to convince people that:

1. Even if you do something extremely low level, you can draw a distinction between your hardware and the interface that 99% of your software runs at.

2. You can develop complex behaviors iteratively with automated testing just like you can develop complex programs iteratively (tests are just programs).

[0] - https://github.com/gravypod/it491-disabler-ai
Is it bad to say I ignore a lot until I hear about real applications from people I know/trust IRL? Then I’m more intrigued and curious…
When there is a stranger in their territory (the home), many dogs will immediately attack.
It infringes Amazon's rights. Why should they be forced to host this?

> The company took down the site, which touted the suicide attack that killed at least 170 people in Kabul, after The Post reported extremists were using the service

170 people. 13 service members. Amazon wants no part of this and that is their right.
For one, it can output more than one flavor of SQL: https://pypika.readthedocs.io/en/latest/3_advanced.html#hand...

Since SQL is ever-so-slightly different across databases, I imagine trying to cover all of them as a single dev is a nightmare (especially if that's not the problem you're trying to solve).

I wrote my own query builder because I know for sure I'm only targeting SQLite. The second I need my feed reader library to work with another database engine I'm dumping my own for something more serious – either a full blown database abstraction layer like SQLAlchemy or Peewee (likely without the ORM part), or something simpler like PyPika or python-sql.[1]

[1]: I talk more about them here: https://death.andgravity.com/own-query-builder#sqlbuilder-py...
Truth doesn't evolve.

What's true now was true a year ago, even if we didn't know it.

This idea of evolving truth is a mealy-mouthed way of saying, "We were wrong."
They don't "switch to talking about power", they discuss both the power and current to phone chips as opposed to other chips. For fridges, they only mention amps. They're not using the best wording but they're not doing what you claim there.
This is something that the profession has done a terrible job in communicating with the public.

But if you think about the nature of earthquakes, it starts to make a little more sense. There is basically a probabilistic distribution of earthquake frequency and energy. The more powerful the quake, the less frequently it occurs, and there is a long tail to this distribution. So we need to draw a line in the sand somewhere and say “we will design for X, and detail the structure to avoid collapse if X is exceeded.” There is no such thing as an earthquake proof building, because there is always a bigger earthquake than the one considered for design. All we can do is play with probabilities.

In the US the life safety objective corresponds to earthquake hazard of 10% probability of exceedance in 50yrs. The industry has long accepted this as a good X point that balances construction cost and longevity. But more recently, with ballooning recovery costs in recent earthquakes, some are starting to see its not enough. For instance, in the Canterbury NZ earthquake many structures performed “well” and met their design intents, but around 70% of the downtown ended up being demolished. Insurance deemed them too costly and risky to repair.

Now industry is starting to use “performance based design” more often for seismic design of tall buildings (including the Millennium tower). It allows you to pick multiple hazards and set different objectives for them. For instance, we might say no damage allowed at 30% in 50yr hazard, cracking and light damage at 10%/50yr, and no collapse at 2%/50yr hazards. Then we do a bunch more sophisticated modelling to demonstrate the design meets the objectives. I wrote a little bit more about performance based design here :

https://kinson.io/post/what-is-performance-based-design/

Unfortunately it didn’t help the millennium tower with this geotechnical issue. Which I suppose says something about design being only as good as the input assumptions.
> I want...

That’s what you want again. Maybe consider what others want instead?

> I'm very confused by anyone who would want anything else

If you admit you're confused about what they want and why... leave them alone.
Ads are a terrible monetization model and I will never willingly consume them. What was wrong with the original model of supporting artists via patronage anyway? Now with platforms like Patreon it's very simple to set up.
There is a great part in “Now it can be told”[0] which discusses the counter intelligence efforts of the Manhattan Project - specifically when trying to figure out how far along Nazi development was. The upshot is: approximately nowhere, IIRC the test reactors never fully worked.

However, in the process of finding out how much progress was made, they talked to multiple French nuclear scientists in newly liberated Paris. One of the scientists figured out that the US had working atomic weapons.
This guy then managed to play this card to such effect (eg by suggesting that he may talk to the Soviets) that he was able to extract a lot of concessions from the US.

Now we have a nuclear armed France which IIRC was rapidly accelerated by tech transfer negotiated as a result. Pretty wild.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170428.Now_It_Can_Be_Tol...
It might not be that focused; ~nobody with $2MM asks Google for investment advice, but "how to invest" and "how to invest to make millions" are searches worth targeting (and would match that search).
> XSLT is basically SQL for structured text.

That is what XQuery is for.
man I saw the preview pic on this and thought it was those little ball carrying/track and field remote control things (meter long maybe) that had taken someone out on the pitch. ha
This is a bigger fullsized vehicle, similar industrial design
Also rims:

http://www.machall.com/view.php?date=2003-06-10
I agree - it seems it's only excuses that keep certain devs away from testing. Even Factorio manages testing, though its more of an integration test. I'm sure it could be done with unit tests too.
They should put a big hydraulic shaker in the bottom of the garage and just shake it until it hits solid ground. Then punch a new door in on whatever floor happens to be at grade.
> The majority of developers nowadays won't find new concepts, new ways of thinking by picking up C or C++

Maybe, but at a minimum pointer arithmetic would appear to be an exception.
In the demo they said their ExaPOD is 3000 of these chips. They have 10 cabinets with 6 tiles each, each tile has 25 of these D1 chips in it. If they’re successful with this they’ll likely build out multiple of these clusters.
I assume 1 Rincon Hill is very sound.
"could kill us all in a week."

This seems a bit alarmist and detached from reality.
One of the frustrating things about discussing gain of function research is the vague and inconsistent definitions in play. Does a discussion participant consider it to be any application of recombinant DNA/RNA to viable viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoans, etc.? Or only when the methods are expected to increase pathogenicity, and if so, by how much? Most everyone probably agrees that "the subset of research that enhances a pathogen to make it likely highly transmissible and virulent in humans (enhanced PPP)" [0] warrants either extreme caution or a straightforward ban, but the lower risk threshold that someone considers to demarcate ok / not ok just doesn't come across at all.

To illustrate that the definition is both broad and variable: "The term gain-of-function (GOF) research describes a type of research that modifies a biological agent so that it confers new or enhanced activity to that agent. Some scientists use the term broadly to refer to any such modification. However, not all research described as GOF entails the same level of risk. For example, research that involves the modification of bacteria to allow production of human insulin, or the altering of the genetic program of immune cells in CAR-T cell therapy to treat cancer generally would be considered low risk" [0]. It's also possible to modify the agent to make it safer while preserving other aspects that need to be studied. For example, creating a model virus that has no pathogenicity, but depends on the Covid spike protein for replication so it can be used to study receptor binding and vaccine evasion safely.

I wish we'd collectively chosen a clearer term, like "engineered potentially pandemic pathogenicity", that more closely matches our collective Covid-inspired concerns. Arguments about "gain of function" gives the dangerous stuff cover by mixing it together with innocuous experiments. Lack of clarity makes it easier to synthesize controversy, accidentally or intentionally, by mixing together statements about very different kinds of gain of function work. The Post says they identified 18 projects that "appeared to include gain-of-function experiments"—they should say exactly what risks those projects pose instead of leaving us with merely a vague and sinister implication.

[0] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/gain-function-research-invol...
The Relaunch of a Once Promising Crypto Token Brings New Life
As newly revived LifeCrypto prepares its launch on exchanges, the “simply for everyone” payment network plans for mass adoption with Face ID.
I just tested this on my android device with an always on VPN and kill switch that's on. Even the egress IP is not leaked - Only the local 10.x.x.x addresses are.
Is there any good self-hosted alternative to Discord?, the only good that comes to mind are rocket.chat and Matrix.
> A vicious dog won't immediately attack.

It's trivial to find videos of dog attacks that contradict your absolutist assertion.
Like (most) German dog owners, take training their dogs seriously, which is why dogs in Germany can be allowed in restaurants and non-food stores.
given Apple's new spying stance I'm not sure I want to allow the to store my passwords
Hacker News, TikTok, and a few select youtube channels and Twitter accounts.
Yeah especially when it's hosted on a website chock full of ads and other spam. Pot meet kettle.
Watch Windows 95 crash live as it exceeds 49.7 days uptime [video]
The idea that we do gain of function research in urban areas is mind boggling to me.

If someone told you they were working on experimental nuclear warheads, you'd think they were crazy if their lab was in a city.

But they experiment with dangerous pathogens in cities of millions of people, and the janitors go home to their families every evening.

I don't know whether covid escaped from a lab, and I don't know whether the benefits of GoF research outweighs the risks.

But if the research is so important, it should be done in the desert somewhere with a long quarantine period on exit.

I'm sure the appropriate labs are designed to never let the pathogens escape. Sure; when the stakes are this high, backstop it.
Not only that, they clearly show that Android is giving you a list of all the permission the app has, which would look quite sketchy to most people

> Access to the device's camera was also gained

Again, that's impossible without an explicit notification on your phone requesting camera access. All of these would be fairly obvious to the user, assuming they even go as far as installing your app. By default you can't even install apps not from the play store without going through a couple step, which I highly doubt average users would.
On the other hand, there are likely some old rules / institutions that it turns out we don't need anymore. If we're lucky, crypto will end up being garbage collection for financial regulation.

(We're probably not lucky)
Indeed.

I really don't think it's helpful to say "Fact checkers said X" without providing proof and context.

Unsurprisingly it turns out that social media - platforms designed to promote aggressive argument for "engagement" - are a very bad way to distribute public health information. Or reputable factual information about anything at all.

Reality-based audiences will try to select credible sources. But everyone else gets a diet of anger, fear, hearsay, misunderstandings, shock-value anecdotes, lies, and noise.

I think it's unwise to ignore how much of an influence this has had on what's happening now.
I know orienting map around North pole makes sense, but man that is hard to read.
Alchemy is a bit more reasonable.

Even the weak version falls apart under scrutiny. Here's a nice example of this: https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/web.sas.upenn.edu/dist/4/81/fi...

This is a good example of a case where there was a phenomenon (a language prominently using non-speaker-oriented direction terms, and correlations with real-world behaviour of speakers of that language) which seemed to support a weak version of SW, but it turns that seemingly supporting evidence was really just a by-product of the testing environment.
Summary: QR code contained link to malicious Android app, which had access to all the data on the phone after the given privileges were granted.

Steps required for this to go through:

- open link in QR code that points to an APK download

- install the linked app

- open the just-installed app

- grant all privileges to the app

That said, it's easy for an attacker to put their own QR code in most restaurants (because the walls/menus/tables are not clearly controlled by staff), just like it's easy to swap the restaurant's card payment terminal for a custom one and cash the payments. (Both are illegal, don't do it.)
Okay, but search and browsing history is not a good way to extend this data for these populations.
Cops are often the highest paid employees on a government's payroll. Hell, I've lived in states where the cops' median salary of $105,000 a year[1] was higher than the median salary for software engineers, which was about $90,000 a year. That's before overtime, too. Not only that, but they get great benefits and the ability to retire with a full pension after only 20 years of working.

People line up for these types of jobs. It's just that a certain type of person is hired to fill them.

[1] https://www.nj.com/news/2017/05/how_much_is_the_median_cop_s...
Mixin macros in D are just about as powerful, and D is not a dialect of lisp.

The main difference is: mixins are compile-time only, you can't add them to a running system like in Lisp.

In practice, it is a much smaller difference than it looks like.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/us/politics/gun-violence-...

> Federal money for gun research all but disappeared after Congress in 1996 enacted the so-called Dickey Amendment, which barred the C.D.C. from spending money to “advocate or promote gun control.” It was named for Jay Dickey, a former Republican House member from Arkansas, who proudly proclaimed himself the National Rifle Association’s “point man” in Washington.

> [...]

> In 2019, Dr. Rosenberg and Mr. Dickey’s former wife, Betty, a retired former prosecutor and chief justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, helped persuade Congress to restore the funding; lawmakers appropriated $25 million, split between the C.D.C. and the National Institutes of Health, for firearm injury prevention research.

Congress stymied funding for 25 years, but it has since been restored.
> A concrete example: Lisp macros.

Who didn't see this coming?

For someone who's constantly extolling the importance of other languages and flexible thinking, Paul doesn't seem to ever be able to get his mind out of Lisp.

> [Lisp macros] by their nature would be hard to implement properly in a language without turning it into a dialect of Lisp.

There are numerous counter examples to this claim, the most obvious one being Rust.

How do you call someone who only knows one language and refuses to learn new ones? Oh right, a blub programmer.
It's not good to use any Google products or services. Here is a good alternative: https://zoom.earth/#view=48.84914,-98.431622,18z
Ah yes, the great tyranny of recovering externalities via taxes.
Just a note:

A constant false value used in an if statement will trivially be optimized away in case of any non-toy JIT compiler.