skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we're on the path of a new cold war between 'the west' and China, if not mildly there already.

Since China currently make almost everything, that could certainly cause some collapse-like symptoms, as key equipment becomes unavailable. Just look at some of the covid supply-chain issues for a taste.
For a long time my model of the world assumed a certain level of corruption to exist in the West, but I assumed it was generally local, and that any large-scale corruption would become a national scandal, like the Church Committee, or Watergate. Basically I had expected an equal balance of justice to match the crime. I no longer hold that. There is deep corruption everywhere - through the media, to government, academia, tech, and finance, and seemingly nobody to hold institutions and individuals accountable. Were we expected to just forget Jeffrey Epstein, for example, and all the relationships and lack of investigation? It seems so. You either close your eyes to it, or you're forced down some dark rabbit holes just to form a cohesive worldview. The few beacons of light today are now all brave individuals - podcasters, twitter accounts, leakers, writers - and their very existence feels fragile. So this article strikes me as extremely shallow. We're not operating in business-as-usual, where just a few tweaks and the metrics will look good again.
Thank you for bringing additional fun into our teenage nerd lives. We got in some trouble in those days with BO!
Except chrome will check for update automatically regarardless of whether you use the extension or not.
Nice, but for actual use, there are more straightforward setups:

I spend hours per day in front of an Onyx Max2 (13.3'' E-Ink + Android) landscape on a full sized BT keyboard with a long slot to accommodate big tablets, and I use a full fledged word processor.

The catch is, I was dissatisfied with all word processors available for Android, so I wrote mine (and I get rich text in full book-like formatting with optimized use of the screen).
> sustainability of its business model above objective reporting

Wouldn't publicly-funded media be the same? if a conservative govt wanted to cut the media budget would we not see one-sided negative reporting targeting conservatives?
Good luck building a paid email service on the dark web.
Vegan protein was good enough for a world record setting strength athlete [0][1]. This documentary [2], produced by James Cameron, made me <edit>go vegan, sometimes i eat animal protein but rarely, aware that my inflammation values will rise by 70% doing it</edit>. The oldest olympian on the pedestal for the US was 39,5 years old at the time and vegan.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrik_Baboumian
[1] https://medium.com/four-pursuits-ventures/worlds-strongest-m...

[2] https://gamechangersmovie.com/
Obviously the mole people's gravity engines are keeping things stable.

Since things like this result in a different gravity in different parts of the world, can that be exploited for energy generation, more efficient shipping, or anything beneficial? Is there any benefit in slightly greater or lesser gravity in chemical or chip or materials manufacture?
It exists on macOS but doesn’t support the mount namespacing you’d need to create something like a docker container on macOS.
As the Bee Gees say regarding the New York Times:

We can try to understand

The New York Times' effect on man

Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother

You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
I saw a bus ad yesterday in NL that looked straight out of They Live - it just said "INVEST REAL ESTATE" with a website link on a blue blackground.
What Is a Container, After All? (2021 Edition)
I am saying stop watching until the journalism improves.
Stop watching until it serves your interests.

If you keep supporting what it brings you now, how do you expect it to change?

Journalism and journalists are not doing their part. Under the status quo it should crash and burn and die.
There's been a 30 year propaganda campaign to slander everything that isn't far right propaganda as untrustworthy. Are we all surprised this well funded relentless assault to lionize the rich and endlessly attack journalists has had this effect?

This is exactly the goals of their strategy
Thanks for the perspective. You're a lot more knowledgeable about this than me and I appreciate you taking the time to explain it. I think I see your point about why people are defensive. If you're coming from Python or something then performance does look like a priority. That said Clojure is not only not trying to be Fortran, but it's also kinda not trying to match Java in terms of performance granularity. You can in effect write Java in Clojure, but the language seems to be discouraging you. Things start to look ugly and hard to parse.

> The philosophy is that the choice of data-structure matters, and when performance is required, the programmer should make the right data-structure choices and use the appropriate data-structure optimized functions.

Yeah, that's very sensible. When you know you're not just getting some seq, and you know you're going to get a vector - then you should use vector specific functionality. But I sort of don't get the impression the core library is compartmentalized this way. Maybe I've somehow overlooked it.. For instance I don't think there are a lot of function that take a vec on input, so in the vector case .. uhh what is the vector specific way to access the first element quickly? (not being snarky, genuinely asking)

> Clojure wants to quickly make you realize you should not try to use the default and most straightforward way to implement this, but instead you need to immediately design for that performance.

Yeah, things like VisualVM quickly make this apparent :) I guess my mild annoyance is at how ugly the code starts to get when it's optimized.

Tangentially, you might be a good person to ask: Do you happen to know why Java arrays aren't first class with their own syntax sugar like [],{},#{} etc ? Why are the docs discouraging their use? Is it because the other datatypes can't be coerced to a array? I often want to use them, but I feel I'm working against the grain of the language and doing something wrong. But I don't really appreciate the tradeoff involved
As someone who pays a decent amount of attention of wildlife photography, and this contest, amazingly detailed photos of birds end up being a dime a dozen in contests like these. What really gets you noticed is something that tells a story beyond "I'm a bird." Not necessarily political, but something that really tells a story in one single frame.
I wish the README had a description of the mounting bracket, and of the editor (i.e. is it based on an existing editor). Relatedly, are there console based editors that focus on writing prose? What about setups for the more popular editors built for code?
There are obviously levels of this problem. On the worst level (I hope it's the worst) you have people consuming a completely different reality. I'd argue the US has arrived there. The test for having the problem at this level would be if you could ask a population a question with an objective easily known factual answer and have a significant fraction disagree with the answer because of their news diet.

The UK has the problem at a smaller scale. Other western countries have problems with trust in media but I'd argue they don't have the same level of invented reality as the US.
I don’t know about the international organizations but I can tell you for the US-based “publicly funded” ones they are considered just as untrustworthy, for the same reasons as fox, CNN, NYT, etc.
Well, my point is that if we're going to make people pay for things they don't like because we know better than they do what's good for them, let's try to do that equally. That's not happening on, say, the BBC, where for a while they were paying a black transwoman to promote racial hatred against whites.
Where do you advertise your Etsy/Shopify business?

I don't use facebook myself, but it's pretty hard to deny that they hold a vital position in the market. You can avoid them out of principle, but you're not setting yourself up for an easy start.
Yes, when infura dies - the music stops in eth world. And since lots of other tokens run on eth - music stops for them too. It’s a joke of a “decentralized” system, really.

Edit: don't read this as "when in future Infura dies", this has already happened in the past and huge chunks of crypto world were left stranding.
3mg is not the correct starting dose. If you need to adjust up, fine, but for most people that won’t be required. Starting too high and adjusting down is not the correct approach (a general rule, not just for this drug).
Seems like it was not strictly climate related in this case.

https://paris-luttes.info/communique-sur-l-affaire-de-la-145...

Looks like your run of the mill radical left occupation of housing (the stuff you see in big European cities like Berlin and Paris where they have that tradition).

Their bouts with law enforcement trying to evict them could be the reason for the arrests. If the google translate is not completely misleading then they refused to give their names or fingerprints when initially arrested.
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Is pgbouncer enabled by default in here ?

One other request - could you write how to use it (connect to it) ?
How much valerian did you take? I often drink Celestial Sleepytime Extra, that contains 25mg in each teabag.
That’s not a full node, that’s a “fast sync” node that has to trust third parties about state of the chain.
Protonmail will scan all messages sent from non-protonmail addresses (content and attachments) for viruses. So they do read your gmail as well.
That sounds like a serious misunderstanding of the common use case to me. Have people on the C committee never understood the value of RAII in C++? It’s such a huge safety improvement for ensuring that, for example, a mutex is unlocked — or a file closed — on early return.
Is this just Ruby's https://github.com/searls/todo_or_die reimplemented in Rust?
State ownership is just one small step above private ownership. A far more interesting organization would be a news co-op, preferably one not backed by ads. Unfortunately there are massive hurdles in front of such an organization existing. Not least of which, they might actually report things that it does not do to worry the public over.
Thank you for the links, I've heard about some of these projects but will check out others. I've actually been working on a project that is running fully on front-end side and I'm leaning towards indexeddb+observability, but in my case there would be a lot of different data in one view and I wanted to see if I can materialize a view in worker and then push the deltas using messages. Also, while exploring it, I found out you could use service workers to create a virtual server [0] that would cache or produce views as needed, but that solution doesn't seem to be very popular.

[0] https://serviceworke.rs/virtual-server.html
> We have to remember that the media is like this because this is apparently what people want to consume.

But their audience is decreasing, so I'm not sure that it's actually what people want. It seems to me that it's more of a "cashing in" thing. They built up trust for generations by mostly reporting factually with little bias, and the current generation is cashing in by abusing that trust to advance their personal politics (short-sighted as that may be), support "the system" (conspiracy!), or both.
I find it strange when superrich people don't go on private vacations for months on end.
> Just wanted to acknowledge how brilliant that is. They could have made any other code change, but it was genius using NSA's own backdoor.

It is much more plausible that US companies didn't want to name and shame their biggest customer than the Chinese reverse engineering a cryptographic backdoor. This could have been supported by the general NSA/GCHQ efforts to ensure their activies are mis-attributed.

The "it was China" determination was made by Mandiant, a company that receives over half its revenue from the US government (per the 2014 FireEye M&A call).

Heck, Microsoft (Longhorn), SecureWorks (Platinum Colony), and Google (GOSSIPGIRL) are the only US companies that have even publicly assigned names to track US linked APT groups.
So what’s the stereotype about people who like cats and driving? Unless you know of one, you might be the one doing mental gymnastics right now ;)
Melatonin is not like a sleeping pill where more will necessarily make you more drowsy. It is a hormone that signals to your body that it is time to sleep. I can't find it right now, but there was a study of different doses in a large number of people that determined that just 0.2mg was more effective than larger doses for most people. And I've found that's true for me too. When I use melatonin, I use 0.2mg, and I fall asleep within half an hour, sleep a full night, and wake up feeling refreshed. If I use a larger dose, I sleep even less well than I would without a supplement.

I suggest to anyone who is taking 1mg or larger doses to experiment with a "microdose" of 0.2mg and see how it affects you.
Election rigging is a finite resource. After certain amount regime loses it's legitimacy. This in turn creates a regime phase transition, which in certain scenarios could be not fatal (as Belarus and Venezuela examples shows us), but very painful for the elites and increases all sorts of risks, especialy for current incumbent.

Also there are investors, external and internal, which are too all over risks, this damages economy and national currency.
To be fair, it was way too much. Something like 4x the recommended amount. My reasoning was "more valerian means more sleepy" couldn't have been more wrong. 25mg teabag is probably like 10% what I was at.

I still enjoy valerian if it's in tea. Just not in a pill supplement form anymore.
We should start with Mickey Mouse.
Not a full node, a fast-sync trusting third party node.

I doubt anyone is able to sync a full node from genesis block anymore.
To me it also seems they are increasingly helpless aginst abusing criminal proceedings initiated by foreign countries on false claims.

For a user the result is the same.
I never suggested that the federal government ban "bans" and, perhaps, the fact that you immediately thought of yet another government ban is emblematic of the problem I am describing.

In any case, yes, to some extent, federalism is a partial answer to ensuring a baseline liberalism.
The Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ether-metamas...
10M MAU https://consensys.net/blog/press-release/metamask-surpasses-...
When templates are included, which I assume will never happen.
is it safer than pgp?
It just means everything gets built on piles, so there's a lot of local experience.

I wouldn't say better, because there are/were multiple skyscrapers with chunks of facade falling off them. At least a couple are abandoned because they were built so bad.

But they're not sinking.
He mentions this in the docs. So: Yes
From dissecting your comment, I am not sure how well you know git.

1. a) git's garbage collector runs without asking first. b) git's UI is so bad that users regularly end up in a state where they effectively asked git to destroy data without realizing it. It's often too implicit.

2. Ever modified a file between git add and git commit? Did these extra changes get committed? Some graphical clients try to hide aspects like this.

3. Unlike SVN, hg etc. git has superfluous extra state with complicated rules. The fact that the cache/index/staging area is inconsistently named three different things just illustrates how byzantine these rules are. And they can be done away with completely.

4. A rose by another name wouldn't smell as sweet - our senses of taste and smell are easily influenced by our other observations about an object. Human perception is weird. In the same vein, bad naming of features invites more usage errors.
Random Forest Algorithm Clearly Explained
> > Blurring (safely!) the line between database and the app using it

> What do you mean by this?

Consider this app pseudocode:

resultset = db.query("SELECT ... WHERE ...")
for row in resultset
if some_complex_condition(row)
do_something_with(row)

If some_complex_condition filters out a lot of rows then all the data movement has been wasted: it would be much more effective (if possible) if some_complex_condition was pushed down to the database. But if some_complex_condition is compute intensive then potentially pushing it down to the db may actually slow things down, as the db becomes the bottleneck... so the optimal solution, if it exists, 1) is likely to change over time because of changes in the workload and 2) is unlikely to be determinable before runtime.

At the same time, consider the case of the table being selected being almost read-only. In this case, and if it fits, it may make sense to move the data directly to the app, keep it in sync when it changes, and have the query processing (the `SELECT ... WHERE ...`) happen directly in the app.

This hints at what I meant by blurring the line: dynamically shifting where computation happens, and where the data lives, depending on the available resources, the workload, and the data.

This is partially doable today e.g. with Hazelcast, in that it allows app instances to be part of the "database" (or, as they call it, the "in-memory grid").
I agree that a new version of Android does not really do anything for me. I would however appreciate it if security patches make it to my phone.
Timothy Morton's Hyper-Pandemic
I agree with you there.
Calling podman “the open-source docker alternative” is disingenuous. The Docker engine which it competes with is also open-source. The only closed Docker product is their desktop wrapper, for which podman is not an alternative.

Podman people, you’re better than this.
Here is one of those CEO's we should trust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcvPf78g1k
> Now, this relies on these CEOs being both trusted and trustworthy. That is a fairly substantial assumption in my opinion.

That's true, and it might only extend the trust-issues. You get someone to embrace a not-trustworthy institution and vouch for them, the trust in them will fade away as well.
What are these same reasons? NPR and Fox are similarly untrustworthy because what?
> It really is an anti-pattern to equate, "oh yeah in some circumstances it's okay to break this rule" with "you will write a better story by completely ignoring all constraints of this rule".

I really don't think I said that, at all:

> Mindlessly following Chekhov's Gun...

> ... if you religiously follow the principle.

The takeaway should be that the principle, like all principles, is not universal, and isn't appropriate at all times. Nuance and consideration should be part of writing.
> full sized BT keyboard with a long slot to accommodate big tablets

Can you please share the name or link?
Very good they are thinking about addressing this, but they are still labouring under a few bits of their own misinformation.

Claiming it is a central part of someone's identity, and article of faith, and that they can't be argued out of it, is dead wrong. It is the result of misinformation being spread by the news media, refusal to retract incorrect articles, clear bias and manipulation. If that behavior stopped, over a long period of time trust would be regained.

They are correct that it isn't just the US, it is all across the Anglosphere. Just today:

1. In NZ at newshub an article claimed not that the evidence supporting use of Ivermectin in cases of COVID-19 wasn't compelling but that there "is no evidence that supports the use of [Ivermectin] in the treatment of COVID-19." I know that's a lie because I have a folder of scores of research papers on this topic.

2. Fake news about a Hospital in Oklahoma backed up by Ivermectin overdose patients. Not retracted. Amplified by Rachel Maddow.

3. Same newshub (and other outlets) posted about a backlash against David Seymour. That's true, but they took an ideological position against David Seymour. They could have taken an inverse ideological position arguing that David was fighting against institutional racism on behalf of underrepresented people in need that happen to not be Maori... or better yet remained neutral. My stomach turns every time I see this government use race as the determining factor in who gets special treatment, instead of "poverty" or "low vaccine uptake" or any other property... I don't argue this point for myself (I'm highly privileged) but for countless underprivileged of other races like Indonesian or Malaysian or Palestinean who need help but get turned away because they aren't Maori.

That's just today. This shit has been going on for years now.

At this point, most people will never again trust the media for the rest of their lives.
> So how would a scientist prove conclusively that other humans are conscious and self-aware and not just very advanced automata that behave in ways which mimic consciousness and self-awareness?

That's not the topic we're discussing but this isn't meaningfully different from the "are we in a simulation" question.

This particular question is about animals understanding the difference accidents and not, which is a super interesting question because they can't communicate. This is something you can construct experiments around and observe different behaviors.
> Most external PRs take more work to get into a good state than it would have been for us to fix the problem ourselves.

But, isn't that a strange comment to make on a thread where there was an announcement "sorry, we don't have bandwidth to even look at any problems that aren't on some PM's roadmap"

To tug on that a little more, community PRs (and issues, but I'm focused on the folks who want something to work bad enough to actually contribute a fix) are far more likely to be some edge case that a real user has stepped on which the core project either didn't consider, didn't test, or thinks "who would use the spacebar to heat their computer?"

One can get passionate anti-users, too, if they have their PRs thrown in the trash
> “the law is whatever science says it should be”

First we'd need to solve the friction between how stable we want our laws and the progress of science over time.

We've seen in the past two years that going back and forth with recommendations makes the general public just give up.
I'm assuming that there's a communications lockdown and freeze ahead of an IPO, and that extends even to reviewing pull requests. But I know jack and perhaps I'm just seeing ghosts.