skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moral authoritarians in general should be strongly opposed no matter what their values are, I struggle to think of a more retrograde force against human progress than the kind of curtain-twitching, aggressively conventional sort of person whose world view is “I’m absolutely right and you’re wrong, because I’m an authority figure and I said so”. People with an overemphasised disgust reaction are genuinely terrifying as a bloc because they’re fertile soil for the seeds of tyranny to grow in.

Moral authoritarians who get powerful enough produce an ideological monoculture, something which does to ideas exactly what inbreeding does to genes. You can see this eventually in any overly authoritarian system, no strict moralistic ideology can survive contact with objective reality in all its shades of grey forever. Political and moral opinions can only ever be approximately correct, but moral authoritarians think they can just ignore all the complexity and produce simple answers with all the finesse and grace of a freight train that ignores the curves in its track as too complicated to bother with.

Ideological pluralism and cognitive diversity are so important for a free society that can grow and develop, and moral authoritarians stand directly opposed to these things. Unfortunately the pandemic has brought many of them out of the woodwork and validated their appalling worldview.
> Problematic content should be acknowledged but not purged and erased.

By problematic content, do you mean stolen content? What do you suggest other than purging and erasing stolen content?
Misleading title. Negativity is not hate.
I believe that the `AdGuard Annoyances` list in ublock origin setting does this. It also blocks another offending cookie script that popups `everytime` if you opt out non-essential cookies.
Reminds me of the faux outrage over the US tapping Merkel’s phone only to find of course everyone either does this or wishes they could.
Colon is an invalid character on Windows systems. I've used it when making log files where they have an intermediate suffix with an ISO 8601 timestamp but indeed I don't see a reason to have it in a path with class or jar files.
Yeah. There are other tricks to make a tiny n seem more relevant, like making the relevant (tiny) n a subset of a bigger sample, taking many separate samples from different populations and looking for correlations in them separately, and so on. Trust the science.*

*Whereas science is defined as getting a certain score in an abstract statistics game.
Trump said the troops stole it:

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-us-troop-stole-...
I can't really speak to the first part of your message, since I've never really tested anything like that, but at least anecdotally I've never really noticed any additional click latency in Linux compared to Windows.

For the second -- FFXIV works flawlessly _once you get it set up_, but there's a couple tweaks to deal with to get there -- the launcher in particular (the default/"modern" launcher doesn't play nice). Games with separate launchers in general seem to have more issues/be more finicky in Proton. I don't personally use ACT, so I don't know if there's any real issues with setting it up, but I know others on Linux who do so it's at least possible. For your reshade concerns, GShade[1] comes with a linux install script that I've had no issues with.

[1]: https://gposers.com/
You just made a bad argument. You focused on a flaw in my argument to try to discredit me as an expert (which I'm not and never claimed to be, I welcome the correction) but in doing so you made my argument stronger.

I can't believe I have to spell it out TBH.

The fact is that Fauci had managed to put himself in a position to control the narrative and also the COVID19 response at a national level. Whether he did it by securing an official position or he simply jumped into the limelight on his own initiative is completely immaterial to my argument. The conclusion is the same; it is very suspicious when someone who is secretly associated with a problem wants to control the narrative around the problem once that problem becomes of public interest.
I also did, because pulseaudio was giving me weird sound issues (although they are probably because of Bluetooth to be honest).

But I found out about pulsewire and after switching, it just works, so... Plan on keeping using it.
I'm pretty sure even back then you could edit the hard-coded limit in the source code and recompile. I remember us doing something like this as it was too expensive to just keep buying servers and our apps were connection-happy.
Comments like this remind me why I avoid this place
no, it's just expensive to run a 6 billion parameter model. the. limiting factor is the hardware
how do you think general AI agents are gonna feel about humans once they see how OpenAI behaved towards their ancestors?
> Sure but building solidarity locally is the first step unless you have billions of dollars at your disposal.

Only for a given subset of implementations (ones that require billions of dollars). Also: there are many billions of dollars looking for a place to be deployed, so it's not even a hard stop either, only a major difficulty.

I suspect there are other barriers in the mix that are a bit harder to see though (for some, at least), and may also have very powerful active defence measures that are maintained and improved on an ongoing basis.

> In times of crisis, it's the local network that will support you, not the federal government. As much as we've been told to embrace individualism over the past century, we're still a cooperative species and will default to cooperation when things turn bad.

I very much agree, and this is only one of many ~base-capabilities that ship as defaults from the factory. Perhaps one could make use of these services if one could reverse engineer their behavior, and discover the various API's that must be called.

> If you want to see how well top-down nation building works out, ask the Afghans.

This is but one example (therefore, not scientific thinking - the best kind of thinking...or so "they" say).

> The reason the new government never took hold was that there was no political will to address corruption so the old system still endured in local bonds and power structures. You can't have structural reforms without addressing root causes.

110% agree. So if one was to dig down into the infinitely complex causality, deeper and deeper, what plausibly most important root cause(s) might one find at the very lowest levels?
That was part of my point - PA’s troubleshooting/tweaking experience was terrible, but it was still feasible.
Cheaper than developing their own solution and Germany has very good relations with Israel.
> That's like comparing Ebola to the plague, both were terrible.

Clearly both were morally reprehensible. I posed this question from a perspective that European colonialism seems to get more of a "pass" in the public consciousness -- at least from an American perspective. I would be interested to know how much it is talked about in Europe, where I haven't lived or visited in several years.
It is a shame it took so long but it is finally here. The feeling may be similar to when pulseaudio arrived, but it is not the same thing; Pipewire implements everything that is needed; users will no longer need to care about handoff between alsa, pulseaudio and jack. It manages video streams too and the latest version of OBS even makes use of it to allow screen sharing on wayland running from flatpak. Finally!

I've been watching linux since the OSS days. I used oss, alsa, arts, esd, jack, pulseaudio... never it has been looking as well aimed as it is this time. Finally!
Would be interesting to see a study comparing «lifestyle stoners» who surround themself with the culture and other smokers, to people who use cannabis, but does not identify with the stoner culture.

(Although I suspect this might be an oversimplified dichotomy)
You've been downvoted but i think you may be right.
> based on audio recordings of their conversational voice

While they are high??
Politically the rationale is likely that this constituency is small and so forcing them will have a relatively small benefit compared to the main policy goal; but they really care. If you fly a piston prop, you likely don't have $1M spare (you could use that to trade your piston plane for a small jet) for Washington lobbyists, but you do have a vote and you care about banning the only fuel you are authorised to use enough that you're going to use that vote and you're going to be loud about it.

A previous article about Leaded Petrol caused me to read how the UK exempted some very old cars which could not be effectively modified. There's actually a waiver so that, in theory, every fuel station in the country can do paperwork to get a small amount of leaded gasoline (a tiny fraction of their total fuel sales) and sell it for this purpose. The politicians were thus able to tell their constituents we did not screw you, just ask your local supplier to set aside fuel for you.

But economics does the rest, at first those retailers see sales of leaded fuel are very low. Those who love classics maybe decide to set aside the option for a year or two and see how it goes, everybody else stops selling leaded fuel. The wholesalers now see that sales of leaded fuel are tiny, so they don't bother making it, it becomes a special order, which then further increases the pressure not to bother stocking it. Today enthusiasts will just mail order the lead additive and pour it into their tank after a refill or they use a substitute additive which these days works well enough, the politicians didn't have to lift a finger.
Completely Wipe Your Phone Every Few Months (2019)
I d be cautious of that approach given Apple's history in China. Your use case is a mirror image of it (Apple in China).
Similar thing for me. Pulseaudio sometimes takes a bunch of CPU with audio playing.

Even stranger, sometimes it keeps taking 5-10% CPU with no audio playing. (I think it is related to running out of memory for a moment and using swap, but no matter how much memory I free up, the computer never returns to normal and must be restarted).

I'm getting to the point of installing debug symbols and pointing perf at it, but dropping pulseaudio would be an even better solution.
> good debugging workflow

Most of use use IO.inspect/2, pry, :observer, :recon, and Phoenix dashboard for that.

> if you deploy to Kubernetes then there is a lot of overlap with Beam/OTP for deployment management etc.

These things are complementary. Releases are great for multi-stage docker builds. Libcluster is nice for allowing different containers to talk to one another without any messaging glue. Supervision can crash and restart at a sub container level.
This is on Arch. All the logs pretend that it’s all functional. I think it might just be a Intel NUC issue.
The Green Premium – The cost of going carbon free by category
Ask HN: Are multiple resume gaps a career-killer?
I'm an early-to-mid-career software developer stuck in a rut. I'm unhappy in my current job and it's well past time for me to move on to a new position, but a combination of burnout, rustiness, and general pandemic-induced malaise has left me terrified of interviewing. I simply could not pass a whiteboard interview today, but I know that if I took a few months off to brush up on my skills and clear my head, I could interview with confidence. Right now, though, just the thought of looking at coding interview prep problems fills me with anxiety. I need to step off the treadmill for a bit.

Here's the problem: I've been here once before and ended up taking some months off between jobs. It worked out beautifully for me at the time; I learned a lot, found a position I was well suited for, and generally got my life moving in the right direction. I'm certain I could repeat that process, but I'm terrified that having two gaps in my employment history will condemn my resume to the trash bin.

I know that attitudes towards resume gaps vary from person to person, but I'd be grateful if anyone has any concrete advice or stories to share on this topic. My options right now seem to be either taking an "easy" job that I know won't allow me to achieve my potential or stepping away for a bit to recharge and thereby risk being screened out at the resume stage. I'm afraid either option will derail my career, and the dilemma has left me paralyzed.
While I don’t particularly like the structure of the FAQ (one page per item is definitely tedious to read through - I wish it came in a PDF or scrollable form) this is a goldmine of succinct and zero frills information. I learned a few things.
I know they are not going to happen. That was my entire point: that there is no way our current path can be kept on a longer timescale.
Agreed. Managers are empowered by organization and position. Leaders are empowered by inspiring and creating followers. They are diametric opposites in terms of mechanism and direction of power. Followers GIVE the leader power. Managers impose by force of position and control of organization power/money/etc.

The number of direct reports that function well as managed or led employees or any other organization hierarchy is about 5-7 but at most 10-12. This is a biological, neurological and psychological limit. It's also related to information theory and the UI-limits of the brain. It's related to chunking but also related to other limits of cognition and the finite number of hours in a day intersected with the minimal required cognitive focus/attention required to guide or manage an employee.
That doesn't make jet fuel any better. Just search for 'Toxicologic assessment' or 'profile of jet fuel' and focus on the 'A1',

which is the one used for commercial aviation.

Then there is the elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about, the military which is using the 'JP-X' variants all over the world,

some of them even for their cars and trucks, because, hey, it's just better Diesel, why would we stock different fuels if we don't have to?

What a logistic nightmare!1!!
Not the GP, but I'll take a stab.

Roughly speaking, you can increase the efficiency of an airplane in 2 ways: increase the thermodynamic efficiency of the engine, and make the engine push more air at a slower speed.

For the first one you need to make the engine burn hotter. Since metals melt at a certain temperature, you need to use ceramics if you want to exceed that temperature. Such as Silicon Carbide [1] which "melts" (or decomposes) at 2830 degrees Celsius. The efficiency of an ideal Carnot engine is 1-T_cold/T_hot, so if T_cold = 300K and T_hot = 3000K, you end up with 90% efficiency. Of course the jet engine is not quite the Carnot engine, but the idea stands that higher burning temperature leads to higher efficiency. Now, if manufacturers decide to use Hafnium Carbide one day, that one melts at 1000 degrees Celsius higher.

The second method is due to the relationship between momentum and energy. Energy is m v^2/2, which means that for a given energy (think quantity of jet fuel burned in the engine), you can either push a certain amount of air at a given speed, or 4 times as much air at half the speed. But momentum is m v, so the second choice gives you twice the momentum. In other words, twice the thrust. To push more air, you want to grab more air, so you want turbines with higher diameter, and a higher bypass ratio.

General Electric and Pratt&Whitney do exactly that with their engines. Engines with higher bypass ratios and using ceramics (more precisely, ceramic matrix composites). In fact GE's engine is so fantastic, that Boeing decided to put it on the 730-Max, and the rest is history ...

So, yes, Boeing and Airbus know what needs to be done, but it's just not that trivial.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_carbide
Nopes, I’ve tried most of this already.
This adds so much clarity, in terms of where the most effective actions on climate change can happen right away, and where we still need more research.
i bet they asked to integrate a service flagging insensitive outputs, which is a valid request in my opinion, given not only their company image is on the line but also that of text to text transformers in general
What's an expected timeframe for the hypothesis that "everyone" will get it? What is the risk reduction of getting it despite being vaccinated? The overwhelming majority of Myocarditis cases happen on the second shot, what are the implications of administering booster shots? All of these questions remain to be answered.

Furthermore, new vaccines, treatments and prophylaxes are still being developed. Those may have a more favorable risk profile.
For people not familiar with terminology, “general aviation” does not mean “regular airplanes”, but, to a first approximation, “small piston-engined airplanes”, operated by hobbyists or small charter operations.
I wasn’t there but I have seen multiple histories say that there were servers that accepted connections from anyone (most famously eris.berkeley.edu but not only that one). For example, https://about.psyc.eu/IRC
Yeah, tables/rows are basically vertices with 1 label & many properties*, and FKs are labeled edges without properties. But, you can easily implement edge properties with many-to-many tables, at the cost of an extra JOIN. In practice, this is a useful and efficient species of graph.

I think many people get baited by Neo4j's marketing without really understanding relational models and RDBMS (I sure did).

* With the (often true) assumption that many vertices will follow the same normalized schema.
>I wonder whether the easiest solution may be to void existing stocks, have the government take over the board and re-auction the company once the management structure has been cleared.

That's precisely what Norway did in its own financial crisis:

>In the last years of the 1980s, there was a major financial crisis in Norway and by 1991 the bank had used up all capital. To save the bank, the Government of Norway took over the bank and gave it new capital, rescuing it from bankruptcy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiania_Bank

It's a good idea: the shareholders, who boast that their returns come from the risk they're taking, should bear that risk. If the business is too big to fail, well, then it should just be brought under government control when it would otherwise fail.
Since it's not completely spelled out in the article, MASM was (is?) the Microsoft Macro Assembler. This is an x86 assembler that's been around since pretty much the beginning of the architecture.
There’s only one conspiracy that is logically consistent with the outcome - that Cheney was a witting or unwitting asset of the Iranian regime.
Pulseaudio eating too much CPU happens on an Ubuntu machine of mine. I simply type "pulseaudio -k" to restart it. But this kind of action should not be needed, I'm the user, I'm not supposed to fight the system, the OS should work for me not the other way around.
> Those are based on the assumption that votes are equal

No, absolutely not. Voters can be categorized, clusterized and ranked, already as part of voting systems theory (one single example in the latter: election of electors), and more beyond it.

> No automated system is going to fix eternal September style problems

And why not. One example: views filtering contribution by score.

> people in those groups will still be engaging with/distracted by

Not necessarily, if they are given the option to avoid that.
Yet that seems like malicious actors orbiting big platforms and not the other way around.
I highly recommend watching https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoaVOjvkzQtyjhV55wZcdicAz...

They do such a good job at using video to explain Special Relativity.
how did they behave? responsibly? making sure people don't get scared of them as they did with ms tay?
I've found the AV sync considerably off watching Youtube videos in Firefox with Bluetooth earphones (not tried other combinations) since switching to Pipewire. It's not something I do enough that I was bothered to switch back to Pulseaudio, and haven't really dug into it yet.

But while it's mentioned here.. anyone else have that, or know what it might be?
I'm caught up in the narrative of looking at all the data and comparing with relevant perspectives.

Thanks for yours and your input.
Yes. But not cryptocurrencies.
> The most basic case is if there's absolutely no method of exchanging information from point A to point B. Then agents at A and B will not be able to communicate. That's it.

That's not it. The most basic case is if there's no linearizeability between A and B. A and B can continue communicating but fail the C in CAP if linearizeability fails. Hence we shouldn't compare everything to CAP.
What do you mean the record labels "tell you" what to listen to?
What happens to fields (magnetic, gravitational, electrostatic, etc) in that situation? E.g. can a photon 'feel' the surfaces it would ultimately interact with?

One way I like to think of this is the term 'sun-kissed'. From the perspective of the photon, the sun is actually giving you a kiss on a summer day.
Somewhere another madman plots an ncurses version for viewing in lynx.
But I'd need >1100 km range to make my road trip between family cities without stops, and each stop substantially increases travel time, even if refueling and paying are all I do.

Still waiting for a ground vehicle that I can pilot* on ordinary roads and highways, go a bazillian range units without stopping, and thereby usually avoid the dramatic'ly worse flying aggravations compared to when I was grammar school. (^_~)

* not technic'ly "driving" when you're not behind the thing that you're causing to move. Although really, any linguist would acknowledge that in reference to ground vehicles, the verb "drive" has acquired the additional meaning of the verb "pilot", so I'm just being silly.
Yes, I smoked weed for about 10 years after, partially because it was nice to relax for once even if it made me really dumb while high, and partially because "my brain is already ruined by drugs, what does it even matter at this point?"
That article makes no reference to Rumsfeld's 9/10 speech. This is just a generic Trump is bad article.
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I don’t understand that video. Can’t all colours be described differentially to another colour? And don’t we have lots of names for different shades? Why does this make brown unusual?
“Some mysteries are better left unsolved really.” Spinal tap
I was exaggerating with the 35%. But both the local university and the local government where I am (Edmonton, Canada) advertise mid-level jobs in the 55-60k Canadian range, which is about 50% of local market rates.
If distances are dilating, why isn't that /less/ ground?
May I ask the HN community what your thoughts are om this?

I always felt there are two parts of the “truthers”: the same crowd that is now denying covid and the ones representing this point of view.

The insanity is overshadowing the reasonable people in the truther movement, but in isolation this video (and ones like it) really makes me wonder.
Whatever is standard with ubuntu, pulse audio with defaults I believe. At some point I installed jack but it didnt seem to help. I gave up as several hours were all I had to spare. :-/
Byte magazine covers (1970s and 80s) by Robert Tinney
I don't think these aim to be covert, just to be stylish. The lenses could easily be camouflaged, like the front camera of a smartphone. With no "recording" light and an option to trigger them via discrete tap on a smartphone screen (which is conspicuously missing in the description - only a noticeable reaching for the glasses or a spoken command), they would be truly creepy.

Having just gone on a bike ride and tried to get photos, both in selfie and in rear camera mode, while also staying on the path, I totally see the point of these (social ride, so can't just stop all the time).