skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter has ended up pretty good for me.

1) I set my location to the country Chad so I don't see popular trends that aren't very interesting, or serve as sources of outrage.
2) I use the word-based content filters to omit annoying politicians or topics from my feed. So much more peaceful now that I don't have to see people's outrage at the latest political enfant terrible.
3) I primarily follow primarily historians who make fantastic long threads, film critics I respect, movie/art channels. No crazy politics stuff. Few of my friends are on it so I don't have to see their stuff either.

If I want the news, I just read a few major newspapers. It works well enough for me!
>Honestly the sound quality of most DAWs' built-in effects and synths are garbage.

Have you ever tried Reason? Then again I'm actually using Reason as a plugin (via vst3 to vst2 wrapper) so I can sequence it easily with renoise. Because why not just load a DAW in your DAW.
North Korea's military strategy is built around retribution. If South Korea and the US were to launch an attack on North Korea they would eventually win, but the costs in military and civilian (both North and South Korean) casualties would be so extreme as to make it not worthwhile. As an example: North Korea has thousands of artillery pieces positioned near the border, which are capable of striking targets fairly deep in South Korean territory. A number of them can strike into Seoul. And they are situated in tunnels in the side of mountains, well stocked with plenty of ammunition. The artillery pieces stay in the tunnels, pop out to fire a round, and roll back in to be reloaded. They can fire into high population areas and can hit a number of important military installations near the border. Plus, North Korea is able to produce chemical weapons, and is believed to have chemical artillery rounds stockpiled. Estimates are that it would take a South Korean-Japanese-US combined air force weeks to find and neutralize all those positions. You also have some fairly rough terrain in North Korea, which is not very suitable to large-scale armored and mechanized assaults. Any invasion would also have to face a population that has been indoctrinated for generations to hate and fear South Koreans, Japanese, and Americans. Long range cruise missiles like these give the North Koreans additional options for retribution against such an attack. There's even speculation that North Korea may implement nuclear landmines, essentially placing nuclear warheads near the border to be detonated if an invasion were to overrun that position.

In short, any potential invasion or regime change of North Korea would be a very long and very bloody affair, unless there are some serious changes in the status quo. Which is exactly what Kim Jung Un wants. He doesn't have any real ambitions to re-unite the Korean peninsula, or to liberalize the nation and re-enter the world stage. His only goal is maintaining power, which is exactly what this is.
No national or revolutionary anthems? No religious hymns? No classical, opera, or even songs from film? And worst of all, no Aphex Twin?!

It's amusing that they already made a list titled "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" back in 2004, but from their own post, more than half of the list has been replaced. I guess The Rolling Stones isn't a good source on timeless tunes
The LinkedIn ep + the next few follow the same story. very good!
The thing is, North Korea is right next to South Korea, so they don't need fancy missile to stir up trouble. Simple artillery is enough, as they actually did in 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Yeonpyeong

And, contrary to some popular theories, actually attacking your neighbor is not that useful for bargaining. All it does is to make other countries very angry and call for more hardline policies. So the best NK can do is keep its madman shtick, not actually use the missiles, and demand larger concessions. But other countries would want, in turn, some semblance of promise that NK will stop being so crazy if it gets economic aid. So we're back to stalemate.
Tis far easier to criticize than create.

Devs often have insufficient time for the standard of perfection code reviews assume: perfect code, formatting, testing, experience, foresight, etc.

Code reviews also have a strong element of bullying, hazing, and people reenacting semi-trauma (that is the cycle of abuse so common in life: trauma makes you lonely, enacting that trauma on others in kind makes you feel less lonely)

I used to joke that in lots of enterprises, it isn't faster, cheaper better pick two, it's actually faster, cheaper, better, follow process, document. Pick about 1 1/2.
Is it better for 5 people to die and 5 people to have all of the UN Human Rights, or for 5 to be slaves and 5 to be subjects of a despot?

There's no wholly good answer here. There's a valid argument for both; you're making the latter, if I may be so presumptuous.
Any time there was bipartisan consensus, both sides agreed to do truly awful things -- e.g. Iraq war. I don't miss "reach across the aisle" one bit. Although, now the dems are largely playing Kayfabe so eh. Lose/lose.
> I see no part of the context makes that would make your statement accurate.

And yet you managed to cut it neatly away, what are the odds?

relatively minor illness that others have freely available access to effective vaccines against. To be sure it is worse than the flu, but this is not smallpox

> That isn't what I find inconceivable. I entirely understand why people are opposed to this. What I find inconceivable is that you believe that people who choose not to get vaccinated don't bear a moral responsibility for the effects of that choice.

I don't say they don't bear a moral responsibility for the effects of that choice. I said that choice does not make a person responsible for the death of another who might have died because they couldn't get a bed (for example). And accusing them of it is dishonest bullying.

Countles choices we make every day directly and indirectly affect the world around us including others.

Choosing to go to the beach and drive your car, increasing traffic on the road and contributing to the chance of someone else being in a wreck and dying does not make you responsible for that. You could quite easily have chosen not to go to the beach though. You had no compelling need to go. It was a selfish choice to go. And that's all fine.
Thanks. What happens is that I do not own the land, nor do I have the FIAT money to participate. Then a REIT will do it on its own.

But also what I really want is to do it in a new way, using the reliability of blockchain and giving an opportunity to people from other countries to have a business or property in Costa Rica.

And if it works, duplicate the model in other regions of the country. What I think is that I can bring local knowledge, asset management, the reception of future guests and all the legal advantages to obtain permits (for being from here) to develop the project, and other stakeholders can invite friends to visit Costa Rica and spend the days in the houses.

I appreciate any other feedback.
Israel has a moderately higher vaccination rate than the US and currently has close to 50% fewer deaths per capita from COVID.

I wish the US was doing as well a Israel right now! Hundreds and hundreds of Americans would not be dying every single day if we were.
UK, US and Australia launch landmark security pact
Even if that's your goal, wasting electricity on Bitcoin might not be the optimal route to getting there...
Ask HN: Include trivial open source contributions on resume?
I have a few contributions to decently know open source projects I've done. They're pretty minor, but do fix some issues.

I'm wondering if its worth putting on my resume. As of right now its pretty bare, with mostly just uninteresting work experience, no education, credentials or anything else of note.
The process is hated by those who do it good and loved by those who get to feel superior- by the physics of work, the process filters for asshats.
This is true, but in practice a very small problem.

People who can control or majorly influence these big outcomes - elections, sports matches, acquisitions, etc. - generally have a much, much larger stake in the outcome itself than any side bets.
Not to mention the free worker slaves that NK provides for China and Russia.
> The problem, I think, is that it's a mix of things that are obviously silly (your own windmill) with things that aren't bad ideas (reducing meat consumption) and stuff that's just irrelevant (jogging). That makes it unclear what kind of sarcasm you're going for.

Yeah, i guess you're right. I don't talk to people everyday and that's my excuse :) Though, individual reduction of meat consumption, while being a good idea for your health, can influence the problem at hand only if everyone suddenly will stop eating it. And i don't think that this will happen - the majority's lifestyle and resources are too different from the resources available for the majority of people who already care about climate change. It's good for your health, but as tool to influence climate change? - nah, to me it sounds like sorting trash while knowing that the countries which produce a thousand times more trash just throw it into the ocean.
I believe they call this the “beheading” scenario - a small group of PRC ninjas could infiltrate ROC and surgically remove the government, causing the nation to de-exist, after which a swift invasion takes place. It won’t take a full week and they won’t last weeks afterwards. Only protection against that is American presence in the region.
It sounds like the three defendants are also cooperating with ongoing investigations; that would certainly play a role in the terms of the deal, if so.
what checks and balances? lol.
India’s Startup Hiring Frenzy
> You put years in effort and then someone steals a significant part of your revenue

This seems a bit disingenuous. A more accurate take might be that you sign up for the Apple developer program, and in doing so agree to the terms of service including the cut that Apple will take from each sale. Then you begin working on the app, then you release the app, then Apple keeps the cut that was contractually agreed upon. There is no stealing, and anyone that puts in years of effort into an app is surely aware of the cut Apple takes before making that effort.
The commenter asked people for examples of projects that they think are elegant, no reason to be so disrespectful.
I never said what you implied. There is no agreement other than the law. I was just describing the likely outcome of the law in my opinion. AKA the deception of the law itself.
It makes sense that games would get so much cheaper over time, considering much more sophisticated manufactured goods have improved considerably while getting cheaper after inflation.

Cars have a higher development investment, as well as marginal costs per unit considerations. Adding a feature to a car, like a carbon fiber hood over a steel one, incurs an added unit cost, while adding a level or something to a game has almost no marginal cost increase.
No, you're not offsetting emissions by paying more when flying
I remember in the dial-up days finding a website with a live feed of a train set in some faraway part of the way. You could choose a train to make a circuit of the track by clicking a button. The delay was something like 10 seconds but it was absolutely thrilling to cause a remote effect and see it.
Well, they don't really "get away" with shedding them. It's the equivalent of a blowout. Part of the reason they have such a bad reputation among semi mechanics.
I am not sure if you replied to the correct message but I did mention that modern cars have TPMS. If you are actually arguing against my description of the principles this system works on (monitoring the wheel shape through the rotation speed) then perhaps you should have not posted a link to sensors for such a system. I somehow don't see how a passive device can monitor any pressure least communicate wirelessly. But even if such system existed it would still have been mounted in the wheel, not in the tire on modern cars.
Does that mean one of the frames is duplicated every second?
Pithy, but I can't think of anything more pointless than seeking out a solipsist and trying to convince them I exist.

Seeking contrary opinions for their own sake is not virtuous.

Seeking out "heterodox opinions" from people with an established track record of being misinformed on a topic is downright foolish.
the bluetooth can be annoyingly wonky at times for me, but otherwise Linux is definitely the best in my experience
Ive been using python to pay the mortgage since about 1999. With respect to indentation, realistically it depends on how many morons you have to share the code with and how many broken ass misconfigured editors those morons are wielding.

At least you can actually see everything with semantic value in Lisp!

I really prefer writing Go now for a number of reasons if I’m honest which are too numerous to list here.
Sounds like it needs to be playing Doom instead. Or hacked to show branding for tea.
Because Apple doesn't allow keyboard apps on their devices.
Is there a way to differentiate clean hydro and dirty hydro? In the US the most recent "green" standards exclude hydroelectricity as renewable energy.
Oh, another thing. Their date formatter is hilariously easy to remember: https://pkg.go.dev/time#pkg-constants

"01/02 03:04:05PM '06 -0700" // The reference time, in numerical order.
> fixing what isnt broken isnt high on the list of things to do.

It's hardly reasonable to try to pin the blame of not wanting to maintain software as a stability issue with a newer LTS release of the JDK. It's perfectly fine if you make the call to stick with JDK8 forever, but that's a personal call.
(If you ignore things like cost of healthcare and college.)
I did a quick search for the article "How to Ruin Motivation With Pay" but it's behind a paywall. The book "Punished By Rewards" has a lot of references if you're interested.
M.E.T.A.L (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...) - hopefully "pandemic" won't take the place of the 5 years war between 2020 and 2025
Not sure if this is the exact study but it’s probably what is going on.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2426917/
> a hospital in Alabama called 43 others across three states before finding a bed

I wonder how hard it would be to make an app that keeps track of which beds are available across the country, to avoid needing to make 43 phone calls.
Linux is like Democracy, it’s the worst except for all the alternatives.
Ransomware Encrypts South Africa’s Entire Dept of Justice Network
| A lot prediction markets suffer from the fact that volatility in them is limited and that the outcome is not of interest to many people

+1. This is why I'm more interested these days in prediction markets within (large) institutions, like tech companies, universities, or government agencies.

That way, the participants have (a) a shared domain of interest, and (b) can speculate about internal, nonpublic matters.

Perhaps most importantly, if the prediction market improves the wisdom of the institution, the participants benefit - even if they aren't profitable in the market itself.
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented
Dubious of Trump's sanity, top U.S. general called China, book claims
> Grownups don't worry about this stuff.

Community guidelines[0]:

- When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

- Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Insinuating that anyone who wishes to discuss this topic isn't a "grownup" seemingly violates two maybe three guidelines. Your comment without the first sentence would have been more constructive.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It would be a neat trick to let Bitcoin energy consumption grow till it was more than half of global energy consumption while ramping up carbon taxes, then regulate it into oblivion overnight. Boom, instant massive energy surplus!
Not a joke. I thought the article was going to be about using single quotes vs double quotes. This article mentions that difference as being a reason typographers would put the punctuation inside vs outside the (double) quotes. https://style.mla.org/punctuation-and-quotation-marks/
For some reason, I never realized that until this moment.
No, it has not, that's a myth. Nothing works there properly.
(Replay employee)

1. Rather than having to restore state to the point at the previous step, we can step backwards by replaying a separate process to the point before the step, and looking at the state there (this post talks about how that works: https://medium.com/replay-io/inspecting-runtimes-caeca007a4b...). Because everything is deterministic it doesn't matter if we step around 10 times and use 10 different processes to look at the state at those points.

2. We record the calls made by the browser, though it is the calls into the system libraries rather than the syscalls themselves (the syscall interfaces aren't stable/documented on mac or windows).

3. Maintaining ordering like this isn't normally necessary for ensuring that behavior is the same when replaying. In the case of memory locations, the access made by thread 2 to location B will behave the same regardless of accesses made by thread 1 to location A, because the values stored in locations A and B are independent from one another.
Just validates that the entire NFT concept is as ridiculous as it sounds.
Office Space 2 => Open Office Space => Silicon Valley
Right. Let’s see how bad the “collateral consequences” actually are. Though, the result of inept or malfeasant prosecution could be the equivalent of formal immunity thereafter. I’d still like to take my chances.
Our current hyper-partisan always-on tribalism is a fertile ground for witch hunts and rumors that go off the rails.

The Hispanic OK sign dude is one particularly egregious example of this. I think in most of these cases, the company thinks it's easier to fire the person than bother to investigate what actually happened.

So it's very important to verify that a so called "dog whistle" isn't a hoax or overblown, and sometimes even if some Internet trolls are trying to launch a dog whistle bringing attention to what they're doing is helpful marketing for their cause with all the attention it brings.
that's a fair assessment, but it's also already happened, so, even if the outcomes are reversible, it's still a bad "leading indicator", as it were.
Bitcoin really feels like a paperclip maximizer type situation.
Sorry, whats the downside of turning them into the biggest glass exporter here?
Why do TLS issues need to get patched faster than any other security vulnerability? Or said another way, why is a slow deploy cycle ok for non-TLS vulnerabilities?

So far I haven’t heard any good reason. TLS issues are not more common than other components, at least in Go. Maybe people are just a little traumatized by how often other TLS stacks broke in the past?

We maintain two Go versions with very conservative patch releases specifically to allow quick deployment of critical and security fixes. If that still doesn’t allow for quick patching of security vulnerabilities, it sounds like a process issue (on our side or on the application side), not a reason to make TLS special.
> Google is no more morally good than Apple, but at least pixels run android and are cheaper than iphones. That's basically why I have a pixel: I have no interest in an iphone (though I admit their cameras are outstanding)

Honestly, the main reason I chose and prefer Android is that it's possible to side-load apps. Originally that was because I planned to develop some dumb apps for personal use and didn't want to deal with any corporate bureaucracy. I never did that, but I have no interest in losing the capability.
They show a bunch of non correlations. Have you ever seen a bunch of nothing results add up to an AUC of 95 plus?
They have one out about the 1500 km cruise missile test on Sunday now: https://armscontrolwonk.libsyn.com/not-lackin-lacms
As long as Linux sucks less than Windows and macOS - I'm a happy Linux user.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-Yqz8uVUAQSTsf?format=jpg&name=...
The tweet makes an assumption that there are 10 million people holding bitcoin, and the tweet goes on to imply that this is actually an overestimate.

The first google result for "how many people hold bitcoins" says that an estimated 46 million Americans own bitcoin. The huge inaccuracy shows the author's bias and kills the credibility of the rest of the thread.
If you want to get a read on the "Reduce your carbon footprint" camp's success, check out the top selling vehicle in America (1)

Treating this as a "crypto problem" and not a general energy / fuels problem does almost nothing but sell clicks / views / newspapers.

Trying to contribute here though on where we really are in crypto and angles of attack for discussion, vs an alarmist view:

1) BTC maximalists don't care and will argue to the teeth that the energy costs are baked into the economic value of the network. From a purely market argument they're not wrong here. BTCs energy use is "worth it" to a lot of people who truly believe BTC to be a store of value, a hedge against inflation, and a vote for decentralization.

2) Short term companies like Crusoe Energy are working on solutions to onboard "trapped" energy stores to reduce the carbon footprint. The most likely outcome of these efforts is likely not an overall reduced carbon footprint given the continued growth and interest in the overall market. (2)

3) Proof of Stake is much more efficient than Proof of Work (3) but it is unlikely that BTC moves in that direction short term. Or perhaps ever.

(1) https://www.torquenews.com/9539/ford-f-150-continues-its-sal...

(2) https://www.crusoeenergy.com/

(3) https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-is-proof-o...
I know of a few startups with relatively 'senior' people who just don't care at all or are seemingly unaware about 'best practices', and will happily write tens of thousands of the most messy code, neglecting standardizing anything or refactoring their code to be more modular or easily understood.

It does seem to be something the big co. interview gauntlet is designed to weed out, whether it's worth it or not. I'm sure it's still relatively common, but probably a lot rarer than at the median startup.
Are you opposed to futures markets for commodities, currencies, stock prices, etc. on the same grounds?

Sometimes I think opposition to prediction markets is just opposition to markets in general, which is fine, but a very broad critique.
It's very Kissinger-like behavior to not even care about the extra millions of North Koreans that would have killed during the North Korean Famine.
He seems a bit self-contradictory saying both "value those who ensure that science is self-correcting." and "when it comes to credit assignment in science, the important question is: Who did it first?"

Probably worth stepping back and asking why we have heroes in the first place. It obviously doesn't serve the hero himself because he's dead. It's for the benefit of other people. Perhaps if it seems unfair, people won't be so inspired by them, but that's more about perception and modern culture than reality.

We already have a million and one scientists trying to be the first to discover a novel phenomenon but in a useless and non-self-correcting way and not even bothering to follow up on their own "discovery", perhaps hoping someone else will do the hard work while they enjoy the credit of being first. I'd also say that perhaps it doesn't count if you do it first but your results remain hidden and unused. I'll bet some native African discovered Angel Falls before Angel did, but that knowledge didn't get out to the wider world so what was the point of it?