skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny, but in a way, he accomplished his goal of getting us out of the middle east. Our weariness with our involvement in the middle east has caused a big push for energy independence.

We fracked our way back to being the worlds largest oil producer. That, and our transition to a greener economy is bad news for middle eastern oil producers. We're much more willing to leave the entire region to their own miserable devices.

Biden is getting a lot of flack for pulling out of Afghanistan, and yes, he completely dropped the ball on the organization of the withdrawal, but if it means that not one more drop of american blood is shed, it's worth it.
The Arctic is burning like never before – and that’s bad news for climate change
The existence of the pandemic is a very observable and testable. The ways to combat the pandemic are also well known and tested.

How a person can deny the existence of something that can test it personally?
Meant to say investment contracts.
And the counterpoint, [What Every Compiler Writer Should Know About Programmers][0] (PDF only, unfortunately).

Also for further reading see much of John Regehr's blog, e.g. [Taming Undefined Behavior in LLVM][1].

[0]:https://c9x.me/compile/bib/ubc.pdf

[1]:https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1496/
Fire on Ice: Arctic wildfires are the new symptom of a warming planet
More than 25% as of 2015.

https://www.tsa.gov/news/press/features/2015/12/01/tsa-looks...
These are all from big corporate entities either making (admittedly terrible) mistakes, or using the precedent of those mistakes to hide. These are problems systemically fixed by having human moderators not dependent on ad revenue.

> One only get to understand what censorship feels like when it comes for them.

This looks like you were starting to write "First they came for the" and then realized the next word was "socialists".
Re: attacking outside security, radical Islamist terrorists did exactly that in the departures hall of Brussels Airport, 2016.

They killed 17 people in a pair of suicide bombings there and injured many more, which were followed up by a similar attack on the Metro. There were enough cameras and coverage that the terrorists achieved their objective (publicity).
> The goal of terrorism is to scare people into restricting their own freedoms. It has worked amazingly well so far.

No it isn't. Not any more than it is the goal of burglars to get people to invest in home security. The goal of terrorism is to use attacks on civilians to achieve political goals, like getting Northern Ireland out of the UK or get the US out of the Middle East.

Why would terrorists care how much the enemy restricts their own freedom? Just because something hurt your enemy does not mean it helps you get closer to your goal.
Although exact numbers are hard to determine[0], something like 90% of the global population believes in the supernatural. I don't see how a magical bomb detector is any less plausible than the other things they believe in.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_atheism
The link you provided says the opposite of what you just said in the title.
Link to bypass paywall: https://betterprogramming.pub/generating-random-numbers-is-a...
Accelerated Kotlin build times with Kotlin Symbol Processing 1.0
Pretty lame review. He didn't even attempt to quantify the results based on any objective measurements of strength or health.
Good thing better masks are available then.

If anything, this argues that we weren't strict enough on masks. Require not just wearing one, but a good one.
Couple of thoughts come to mind.

- I think the closest thing to this would be something like the silkroad or whatever it's modern incantation is.

- I think solving a problem like this would be more about branding and abuse than technical. Abuse will be a hard since a platform like this will have to be censorship resistant by design.

- why do I want to hire a refugee in the conditions that you describe? I'm running a business here and it's difficult to sell me on refugee talent. (Not trying to be callous, genuinely curious)

- Finally, is their real problem work? I think the thought you have is noble, but I suggest reaching out to refugee communities (no idea how to do this) and asking them what are the things that you need right now.

The questions I have are out of naiveté so if I am mistaken please point out my mistakes.
Got a degree in Computing Science. That is the golden key to entry level software development.
I live in a pretty liberal area, so I assume we are taking stronger measures than your average area, and I have to say that nothing surrounding any covid precautions even approaches what it takes to get on a flight. Wear a mask indoors? Get the jab that most people wanted anyway? I'm just not seeing this Orwellian oppression that some people seem to be suffering under right now.

NYC is the most strict, but they are also the most densely populated. Beyond that, I just don't feel like I've given up any rights.

Can't say the same about a shoeless, invasive patdown where a stranger runs their hand down your butt crack after having waited in line for an hour and gone through a nude scanner.
Tabletop games, and any activity where you meet with a small group of regulars, is resistant to the perils of popularity. More people playing D&D means the publisher can publish more books and offer accessories, because they're confident there's a market. But my core playgroup hasn't changed much for years. We meet new people at open events, and if we like then, we'll invite them to join our regular group.

It's naturally resistant to mainstream dilution. More so because it's a game where we write the narrative, choose the themes, and freely change the rules.
I thought this was true, but I have had spot instances go away even when going above reserved instance pricing.
Critical Race Theory, or the teaching that whites are uniquely the source of all problems in the world.
That has been my experience too - unless you put your monitor in your kitchen, in which case frying or baking will usually cause a pretty significant spike...
PRNGs can actually be better than true RNGs, which is why RNGs generally provide a seed for a DRBG. RNG conditioning has to do things like remove extremely long series of 1's or 0's, and RNGs often cannot generate enough material fast enough for today's demands (e.g, <1Kbps).
I had the same idea.

I have been helping refugees that were coworkers back when I was in Afghanistan. They are all employable and competent in freelance work. Right now they lack the basics (Internet, laptop). I plan to provide them with what they need as soon as their local government (in this case, France) let them work. PM me if you want to share ideas.
Yes, some definitions are crappy.

Do we have a word for "imperialist government uses violence against people to achieve political goals"?

Because "it's not terrorism because it's a state" is always gonna stink of trying to dodge the topic on a technicality.
The study you have linked does not support the conclusion you’ve drawn from it. I would recommend reading the “Discussion” sections, where the authors discuss other studies in other areas of the world that contradict theirs, and the impact of various social and density factors on their specific study.
Was going to happen eventually anyways, especially after brain augmentation becomes becomes effective. Which sort of already exists, since there aren’t too many jobs left where you’re hireable without a cellphone.
That study seems to have an obvious and unacknowledged flaw: they did not control for the growing prevalence of the delta variant this summer even though the time frame of the study exactly coincides with the spread of delta within the united states.

These sorts of analyses are extremely hard to control all confounds for.
For the same reasons that people like Boghossian and anyone else who dares to speak outside of the desired narrative gets harassed by the mob: to quell dissent.

It is an oddity of the current crop of authoritarians that they in one breath manage to claim that there is no absolute truth but a multitude of 'lived experiences' while at the same time decrying anyone who dares to speak outside of the desired narrative. Of course the same people deny the validity of logic by calling it an example of 'white supremacy' so its application to their behaviour is a losing proposition.

Once enough people have been pushed out of those parts of academia which have been infected by critical theory it stands to reason that they will end up creating new venues for academic research structured in such a way that they can not be taken over - as to what this structure would look like is still up for grabs. Given that those new institutions can be assumed to be based on meritocracy where identity politics and 'diversity initiatives' are driving factors in their previous institutions it is likely that the former will end up producing higher-quality research than the latter - which will promptly be labelled as the result of some combination of *-isms/*-phobias by the authoritarians.
Can distributed ledgers be squared with European data (2019) [pdf]
It's preferred to use RDSEED and use that as a seed, instead of implicitly trusting the output of RDRAND. Mix it with user entropy (or system entropy).

Some say RDRAND is a backdoor (and after Dual EC, it would not particularly surprise me). This is why RDRAND doesn't exist in Linux (or, maybe isn't the only source of entropy?): https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linus-Says-No-Bac...

Not sure the security implications of using poisoned seeds in addition to truly random seeds in an RNG. Some say that it's okay, because it cannot reduce security, only not increase it. But if the CPU RDRAND instruction is backdoored, couldn't the RNG instructions be intercepted and replaced so that RDRAND is the only seed? But, if your CPU is backdoored, why even bother with anything? etc, etc etc. This discussion could go on for a while.
"Wouldn’t you want maybe the “origin of things that will effect everyone"

No, our media is fucked.

UK media is obsessed with random news from USA, if Sarah Palin says something dumb it will be all over the papers, but if poland gets a new president it might not even be mentioned. In the past year my local news has never printed the name of my local MP but has printed maybe 100 of donald trump's tweets.
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One particularly interesting one I found was an oft-repeated story about Australia "forcing kids to get the vaccine without their parents present". This claim is repeated in almost every anti-vax comment section -- is it based on anything?

The answer is, there's a program where parents can sign a permission slip for kids at school to get the vaccine. So, it's taking a kernel of truth "kids are getting the vaccine without their parents present", adding a bit of completely false info (the "forcing" part), and then repackaging it into a highly repostable nugget of scary misinformation.
>That’s why I think exceptional measures should expire automatically

I'd go even further than this, I'd argue that all laws that ordinary people are likely to come into contact with in the course of their everyday life should have an expiry date, forcing a debate every x decades as to whether or not they're still fit for purpose. The date could be variable based on the nature of the legislation, but this mechanism would be fantastic for forcibly clearing out a lot of society's "technical debt".

This mechanism in my opinion would have stopped the lingering damage from moronic wars on abstract concepts. There would have to be some exceptions of course, things like fundamental liberties and human rights for example can't ever be negotiable in a civilised society. There's also an awful lot of very sector-specific legislation which probably doesn't need to be directly re-written every couple of decades too, although society at large won't be coming into contact with it much either so it's not really in the scope of the goal which is to stop yesterday's issues leaving nasty remants for today's societies.
Pro-PRC Influence Campaign Expands, Attempted to Mobilize Protesters in the U.S.
I'm not sure about employing a person anonymously, but I would expect it is more viable for a US/EU/etc company to purchase a deliverable instead. I'm unaware of any actual requirement for companies to verify that the foreign entity is legit if they are simply purchasing a "product" from them, at least. If our hypothetical engineer simply presented himself as an Afghan consulting company and sold code, I doubt anyone would question anything, especially if the invoices looked legit. Being able to sell code for crypto anonymously is my dream though, I'd love to see someone work that out.
There is also the societal expectation that, just because a mainstream media news source asserts something, it may possibly not be 100% authentic. Never mind the direction that doubt can lead you: there's a trace of skepticism.

What's going on (by now, obviously) with Twitter and Facebook and all, is that they are a vector for bypassing skepticism, by delivering information purportedly from your personal friend who is personally trusted.

Still no neutrality, but if you can make a web of propaganda through people who are believing things their apparent 'friends' (through various signifiers) are saying, and coordinate that, you can propagandize WAY more effectively than through mainstream media.

And that's what's happening. Everywhere.
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Yeah lockdowns were super well tested and worked wonders /s

No, they cratered the middle class while making the rich richer.

Now they know not to lock down to destroy the economy but instead push to destroy personal freedoms.
No, it doesn't. Went to the Supreme Court, and that is not free speech. "the phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater" has become synonymous with speech that, because of its danger of provoking violence, is not protected by the First Amendment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
Perhaps it has more to do with the personnel wielding the dowsing rod and the commanders who make them sign for the expensive equipment?
Standard National Review debate team piece that aims to be clever about picking a strawperson and then with a decapitating flick of the rapier dropping the strawperson to the ground. Congratulations for nothing.

Yes, climate economics matters.

But no, we don't have an accounting model that incorporates the "free" stuff on which all complex life depends.

No, the IPCC GDP impact estimates are not worth the digital paper they waste.

And no, GDP is not a reasonable measure to approximate quality of life.

Try next time to contribute to the conversation.
This is very slow for me, is it just my current internet? My connection is a bit iffy, I just wanted to see if it's slow for anyone else.
So designed this mainframe to get around the pricing per core of Oracle
Our panel supports partial refresh (no black flash) which makes it much more performant. The software does have to do occasional flashes to keep the screen tidy (otherwise you get a lot of ghosting over time). You can control how often this happens.
It's not the same. Covid is clearly causing a significant increase in mortality. Even if you don't believe the covid-reporting numbers, you can simply look at excess deaths.

It's very difficult to falsify death stats on a mass-scale especially in a country like the US.
1. The web3 'vision' came before the web3.js library they just named it after it but other blockchain interactions fall under it

2. There'll always be subpar devs, and those that make too many calls etc. There's freedom on the web, that's hardly a fault of the idea. In fact the whole article is complaints are about some of the current sites rather than anything more (and many of them aren't bad). The vision if you believe people with cryptopunk avatars is vaster than that already.

3. Some of the complaints like you not having MetaMask to interact with a MetaMask-based website are just odd. Do you complain that users without a phone can't be called?

4. Ethers.js is a lot simplified compared to web3.js. People are working on all those complaints.

5. There's non-extension wallets, too. Solflare doesn't make me install an extension to interact with sites. The extensions just have benefits - everything is fully local but easily integratable so they aren't a bad solution to my eyes.
But then no human behavior is and end to itself. All behavior can be described as a "tactic used to achieve a specific goal".
I understand that. However, the companies I listed are providing BOTH the raw NLP APIs as well as chatbot builder APIs.
> web3 is just the web where the backend is something on the blockchain

even more broad, i think web3 is just where the database is decentralized. blockchain is one solution.
In 1996 I remember Oracle was licensed per user. We were planning to use it to back a Netscape Publishing System (IIRC) for a portal with both open and subscription-based areas.

Guess what happened when Oracle learned we were planning to have 3 million users...
What are the reasons not to get a vaccine? I haven't seen any real data that indicated that.
There's no legitimate reason to doubt the safety or the efficacy of these vaccines such that the benefits of immunity don't vastly outweigh the reason.

You seem like you're trying to normalize some midpoint between vaccine acceptance and anti-vaxxing to radicalize individuals here. Reddit went ahead and banned anything resembling your post to avoid anti-vaxx wolves amongst sheep. I hope HN does the same here too.

Edit: I’m okay with all the anti-vaxxers in this thread. I think you’re all arguing in good faith and I’m more than happy to compare information with you. You’re all to be commended for engaging in the marketplace of ideas. It’s just the guy I was replying to that I think is a bad-faith actor trying to perniciously sway otherwise moderate people to his side by misrepresenting his initial position on the topic to be more moderate than it actually is.
Yes, whatever happened to DB2, or whatever it's called today (was UDB upon mainframes then DB2, though was different from DB2 upon AIX and X86, then there was this fetish to prefix things with the word web or suffixe them with the word sphere and I lost track around that time).
I think it is a humidity sensor. From astro-pi.org: "Young people write a simple program to take a humidity reading onboard the International Space Station and communicate it to the astronauts with a personalised message, which will be displayed for 30 seconds!" https://astro-pi.org/mission-zero/
Sweet deal.

I wonder how many people died.
I ported openskill.js to Python. No need to rely on TrueSkill anymore
I'm guessing these companies still want to verify your identity even though they pay in crypto.
I think the point about performance seems relevant in my experience.

This is a problem Slite seems to be facing as well. We used both for a while and actually gave their teams a lot of feedback. They were very grateful and communicated well, but moved very slowly and performance decreased quite a bit over time. We ended up focusing most of our planning/note taking/scheduling efforts in Linear instead. Much, much different but it works well enough while remaining extremely speedy and productive. I do miss a lot of what documents had to offer our team. I don't miss fiddling around with slow documents which didn't offer all of what we needed (and might never offer it).

I'm not sure why but most document-based apps like this seem to develop terrible performance. I suspect it's genuinely a difficult problem; I don't think I can 'make Notion in a weekend' by any means, or Slite for that matter. I trust they're doing their best.

I also know these tools suit some teams incredibly well, too.
Lol the company I am working for is doing some kind of wallet that basically allow you to keep and use your private key without a (shitty) browser extension like metamask. You basically just get your key back by authenticating with your google account and pressing your finger at touchid. Basically allow people to have same web 2.0 experience when using web3 apps.
Yeah, I haven't yet hit on a way to objectively measure myself with sufficiently low task-switching. When I eventually find that thing, I'll make sure to review it.
The funny part is that Howey was about selling parcels of orange grove land to people who would then lease (“Lend”) it back. Howey would then cultivate oranges on the whole block of land, and distribute the profits to the landowners, who would not have to lift a finger. Coinbase is not only satisfying the Howey test, it’s doing almost exactly the same thing as the OG and acting all surprised the SEC considers it a security.

This is like accidentally sealing a snail in a bottle of kombucha and making a blog post about how you don’t think it constitutes negligence because you haven’t read Donoghue v Stevenson but you heard it was actually about ginger beer.
The most common concern I hear among younger people is that they are worried that the vaccine may cause infertility. After the infertility issue with the HPV vaccine, which took many years to figure out, their trust in new vaccines has decreased substantially.

Would you describe that line of reasoning as "lying" or as "magical thinking"?

Edit:
My apologies for repeating what I've been hearing for the past few months from a small group of friends. I haven't done the research into HPV vaccines, so it turns out that it may fall into the category of "magical thinking".
I guess another reason for the security theater is to keep the powerful safe. If a bunch of random fans get hurt going to a concert or sporting event, it's nbd, but if someone "important" gets hurt it's a much bigger deal. Maybe a pessimistic view.
Record Deaths in Florida
OP here. I scraped the components of CPI from the Bureau of Labor Statistics website and built a chart to go along with it. I thought starting everything at 0% and charting cumulative inflation was an interesting visualization, as it helps to demonstrate compounding effects and why certain sectors have seen massive price increases.

Aside from obvious points of interests like housing and medical care, check out "Used cars and trucks" and the noticeable spike caused by the pandemic.
Agreed, it's definitely how they lost us.
I'd say it's been remarkably successful.

The US has abandoned Syria, Iraq, Kurds. It still has some sway with Saudi Arabia and Israel, none in Egypt or Libya.

The withdrawal from Afghanistan is a culmination of that.

The neo-conservative response to Al Qaeda was exactly what was needed to provoke this collapse over 20 years.
That isn’t going to pass any sort of western world safety regulation to go on roads.
Re >> "This makes them defensive about being insulted, thereby reinforcing their existing opinions."

This is often the same mechanism that reinforces actual anti-vaxxers... and other beliefs that many of us would consider "out there" (e.g. Birtherirm, the Big Lie, etc...)