skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks to me like political hardball being played and it’s surprising France (and to a lesser extent the EU). Frankly, France and the EU have been trying to straddle a middle ground between the US and China, and strategically Europe is mostly irrelevant outside of the UK (yes I know France can project some power I’m not downplaying them) but they have been dragging their feet and the action is just not going to be in Europe anymore. Australia (and the UK) are far, far more important to the United States. Europe has been unwilling to throw their cards in with America 100% and America is saying well… ok then we can’t rely on you so we’ll do something else.

Look at the repercussions now. France is huffing and puffing and what exactly is going to happen? The Us is still buying French wine and German cars, and the EU is still buying US products and trade is just going to continue on as normal. Who cares?

On the other hand, Australia is vital.

I don’t think NATO exists in a meaningful way anymore and this is just window dressing around what has already happened. Russia is Europe’s problem. And the US is losing a reason to engage when Europe is seemingly not willing to. Think about it. If you take away the saber rattling why would the US give a shit about Russia? It’s an economic backwater. Europe doesn’t want to pony up and show teeth. What is to be gained? Hell, the US and Russia will probably forge better ties going forward.

And yes I’m an American, but I’m just looking at this as I see it geopolitically.
i haven't looked at this in a while, but off top of my head, 144000 sample(?) 16 bit 48khz 2channel, raised chunks are the ASCII int value of a (char)'LETTER' - (char)'0'. these raised chunks will be padded to a minimum length of some kind, probably 12 characters based on the waveform/spectrum. i think the later chars unused are ascii (char)'0' / (int)48 and stripped.

flat part at the front before the sequence is some kind of preamble that specifies whether it's in a meeting or waiting to start one. this is an 3 or 4 possible value int, iirc. the lowest value is before a meeting has started.

notes: (chr&0xFF) ((chr>>8)&0xFF) ((chr>>16)&0xFF) ((chr>>24)&0xFF)
They're just not thinking big enough, the US has been creating its own strategic adversaries by selling weapons to terrorists and regretting it 20 years later for decades
These are attack submarines. They won't carry ICBMs (or nuclear weapons of any kind) for deterrence. They could potentially be used to pre-emptively sink some Chinese missile submarines, but that's pretty far fetched.
only reason esni is even usable now is because its with a cdn. one key works for hundreds of thousands of websites. having to request a different key for every website would be far too much hassle. its a shame whenever folks write about encryoted sni they never offer the user perspective of sni which is that the sni extension prioritises cost savings for websites and increased business for cdns over privacy for users. sni was never something users needed. it may have solved a problem for websites who didnt want to pay for dedicated ssl certs (arguably, this has since been better solved by lets encrypt), and created a business opportunity for cdns, but it has created a new problem for users.
1) Taiwan is part of the first island chain, so that's next to get pac-manned.

2) it's almost certain that Japan is assembling a-bombs (they already have ICBMs)

3) EU is not winning - they just refuse to invest in self-defense

4) Australia cannot defend itself, so it's good they're making an effort as long as the result is credible.
I hope whoever submitted this sees how much ppl hate his teams work and how they should fire themselves, delete the entire recommendation algorithm and do anything else else…
I hope it slows down. I never understood why web devs feel the need to reinvent their entire stack annually
One handful of powder contaminated a whole city
A large part is the behaviour of Australia and the US who just said "Surprise! We're a couple now! Oh, by the way France, I texted you that you've been dumped this morning"

And the reason they did it this way is basically because it was domestically convenient for them to have a press release last Wednesday and they didn't want to bother with first cancelling the contract and waiting even a month with announcing the new alliance that at the moment is entirely on paper.
I think that greatly depends on what you invested in. E.g. the stock price of Citi bank hasn't recovered to this day.
Scratch is fun, and has the community element that kids expect and love these days. My sons have both enjoyed learning to program with it and explore what other kids have made.
Several
observations:

This is just how company politics works. Those executives wouldn't be in their positions if they didn't look out for themselves first. Also it is turtles most of the way down. This experience should be a good lesson.

Only the larger of non-tech companies can get away long term with internally built tech. This is because only they have the money to build and maintain teams and build and maintain the technical expertise.

Sometimes, it still takes a massive bite in the ass for these giants to wisen up. For example, see Home Depot and their credit card scandal and then their subsequent investment in self checkout, online sales, and lockers. They have done really well for themselves.

Smaller companies eventually either get swallowed up or destroyed by bigger companies, by disruptive new players, or get a new lease on life due to the creation of a service layer below them.

Nowadays those new disruptive players are often tech plays.
Also the new service layer is often tech. One example of a tech service layer is Shopify. AirBnB and Uber are examples of industries getting swallowed up by tech. Expedia is another example of disruption from the previous generation. Home Depot swallowing up more of the construction supply industry is an example of bigger players crushing smaller players. Bye OSH.
> and harm warrants the making of amends

Generally, yes, of course. Though once we leave the realm of hypothetical foot-stomping for politics, things can get more complicated.

For example, we might look at the John Cena incident where he "acknowledged Taiwan as a country", which somehow led to him later making an apology video (in Chinese?) for this "offense" against mainland China.

So sometimes accusations of "harm" are merely manipulation. It can take discernment to judge when amends are actually warranted.
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if you try watch any independent news, YouTube will never recommend more of it but will give you MSNBC,CNN etc its bad, years ago the algorithm was very good,it would give you a mix of what your into and new interesting stuff now it seems like its pushing corporate content.
Refugee is essential a business in Germany.
Voip.ms outage due to “sustained DDoS attack” for over 24hrs
Among civilized people, calling someone (the author of the referenced article in this case) a wanker is considered an insult; and it is definitely not compliant with HN rules.
Don't forget that these companies are also financing the depreciation by buying all these cars on credit
For all the sophistication claimed in the article, it feels like my recommendations could just as accurately be driven by simple keywords. I wonder how often, if ever, they compare their current solution to much simpler algorithms?
Yes you can. I've been running the Xcode 13 beta since it came out, and the newly released Xcode 13 RC also works without issue on my Intel machine.
Agreed, this was huge huge deal for them. Reporting from Washington was Biden admin totally downplayed France objections, I was surprised actually. I think Macron is right to raise a fuss, but nothing will come of it. Europe doesn’t have a defense leg to stand on, that’s the current world order, right or wrong.

The other thing that surprises me is the Anglo centric makeup of AUKUS, Oceana anyone?
there's always graham Hancock. he has a couple books and has done some podcasts.
the JRE podcast with graham and Randall Carlson always gets my imagination going on ancient societies...
Do you mean no push notifications? Because I get emails for stuff. The rest is integrated into our chat client, mattermost. I actually prefer using that as a centralized place for work notifications.
Headscale: Open-source implementation of the Tailscale control server
Overkill? Git is not overkill for a single file.

If it's text and you edit it, use git.
I'm wondering if there's any benefit to the average tech-savvy person to using Tailscale/ZeroTier as a VPN (with a VPS, say) vs. just using a consumer-facing VPN like Mullvad or whatever.
yea but its like 100% contend that is corporate... if i want to watch late night talk shows i would do that on my TV.... and most of those videos don't get the most views anyways on YouTube so its basically YouTube promoting corporate media
I tried teacher my 7 yr old kid coding. Then I realized he doesn't have enough vocabulary yet. He also doesn't have enough logical skills yet.
> Due to a vehicle shortage, the car rental agency offered him a van that he said reeked of cigarettes and marijuana instead of a compact car. Jimenez refused the malodorous van, and after a more than two-hour wait he settled for another van with more than 60,000 miles, visible body damage and a “musty odor” that seemed to come from the air conditioning system.

> A global microchip shortage that has cut production of new cars continues to deal a heavy blow to car rental companies

How is a car shortage an excuse for rental car agencies to act in this unacceptable manner?

If I reserve a specific kind of car, I expect that reserved car to be there. If there is a shortage, then do not make that particular car available on the booking portal.

This is like if you reserved a hotel room, and were put into a janitorial closet instead, with the excuse being that this was because of a wallpaper shortage. This is completely untenable conduct.
Australian submarine situation has been a shit-show for 40 years. Glad its all over.
It's relevant because the 2nd amendment calls for the militia to be well-regulated, (not the arms themselves, or the people), and then goes further, specifically saying the right to bear arms shall not be infringed.

And it does so by declaring the well-regulated militia being necessary.

Reading it all consistently, it's consistent with "enabling" and "supplying". There are no other words that even suggest there being a limitation on any party except the federal government.

All other rights in the first 10 amendments are granting rights to the people or states, and restricting the federal government, with any exceptions explicitly stated and conditioned.

Reading "well-regulated" as an open ended grant of authority to the federal government is entirely inconsistent. Especially if that authority is contradicted in the second half of the statement.

Reading "well-regulated" to mean "supply" and "enable" resolves all these inconsistencies and internal contradiction.

If you can read it in a way that makes consistent sense, then that's the way it should be read.
How do you like the conductive headphones for that purpose? I have been considering doing the same for when I go on walks at night.
France, our long-standing ally, has no interest in providing support to the US against China’s aggression. Let’s deal with the reality of modern day geopolitics and not that of over 200 years ago.
I read it like this. Alice gets in the machine and creates ten new copies of her. Each of them thinks they are Alice. Are they all right? If so what does the concept of 'me' or 'self' actually mean? Are you a unique individual? Do you have (or are you) a soul or something that exists independently of the arrangement of atoms that makes up your body? Or is your identity and sense of self completely the result of the way the neurons between your ears are connected?

I think this kind of question is particularly important to people brought up with strong religious beliefs.
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I've thought about making several accounts, and watching different kinds of content on different accounts, so that each would have recommendations for whatever topic I'm in the mood for at that time.

Of course, that'd be a pain to manage, so I haven't gotten around to it.
>always about money

Usually the messier politics behind the scenes, in this case there was little notification, embarrassed French Pacific ambitions (France has substantial territory/EEZ holdings next to Australia), and a few months before the French election. Also diplomatically a dick move for transatlantic relationship, EU just announced their Indo-Pacific strategy. Last time in 1995 also had AU messing with French embassy diplomatic bags, delaying French ships at AU ports and other shenanigans.

Recalls don't happen that often, especially between "friendly" countries. It's pretty wierd it happened twice between France and Australia. Arguably French deserved it, but Australia also seems to have gone full bogan.

US / France has their own drama, especially in MIC competition, i.e. US label France of conducting industrial espionage on par with China, meanwhile US poached lucrative contracts from France before. So both money and political influence.
Twilio’s product is an API.

The end-user of (most of) their products are developers.
Primitive types are not in java 17. Hoping to preview it on 18
To be clear, did he consider exceptions something to be avoided when possible or did he consider them to be a natural element of programming? I know exceptions do cause slow-downs on systems and most programming does its best to minimize occurrences within reason.
yea for regular stuff but some categories YouTube will push what it wants you to watch not what you want to.. like independent news channels, on the right it will was want to play next a CNN,MSNBC or other corporate news channel. This was not the case a few years ago, now they say that they do this on purpose to give "credible" sources more views...
oh i forgot we aren't allowed to joke here
Thank you for the industry insight! I'm definitely not trying to match the degree of realism and calibration with the professional stuff -- there's no way I could, without way more resources. A/B Street's simulation is more for visualization than getting meaningful results -- although I am quite proud of the dataviz we've baked in.

From talking to planners, reaching for these tools is a huge time and money commitment, even assuming they have a license and somebody trained to use it. Some ideas don't even get off the ground, and some projects take community feedback after spending months building the initial models. I think there's a huge missing space for rapid prototyping. The fact that I see planning agencies regularly include graphics from streetmix.net is evidence of this -- it's a quick way to communicate, so often how a conversation starts. I'd simply like to expand that space.
Didn't know that, thanks for the correction.
I wish Hickey wasn’t in the programming business and was just a full time philosopher. In a lot of ways his observations on social phenomena, his approach to abstract concepts, and his communication style in general is more interesting than clojure and datatomic (though these technologies are still great).

Obsession indeed. Everyone wants to be a master in five minutes. There’s this funny sort of paradox that arose out of the advent of digital technology where, because everything is nearly instantaneous, more people theoretically have more leisure time to plug 10+ years into mastering some hobby, but simultaneously, the instantaneousness and constant rush of digital distractions has lowered the tolerance for temporal investment (i.e. patience) in general, nullifying what would otherwise be a gain in leisure and expertise (e.g. masterclass, whose entire business model is predicated on the ridiculous premise that to be as successful as the stars only requires taking one course of their best tips and tricks and not, idk, thousands of hours of dedicated effort)

In my personal experience, I’ve found that most of the shortcuts aren’t actual shortcuts. Everything I know in the realm of computing I’ve taught myself, and, I have to say, I didn’t really progress until about 8 years in I finally buckled down and decided to read actual comp sci papers and really dwell on them and understand them, and by god use a pen and paper when necessary, rather than spend my time coding yet another example todo app from a tutorial on a website somewhere.

The fact that many resources around computing are free is both a blessing and a curse. It’s great because it allows people to learn on their own but bad since the crap always bubbles to the top.
How should one approach learning about building a virtual DOM? Are there any particular resources or pieces of literature you recommend taking a look at?
Interestingly I have the opposite impression: How political activists from the US American SJW spectrum are trying to politicize HN by pushing Critical Race Theory and leftist political pieces from Axios, the NYT or NPR to the frontpage and then using downvoting to silence criticism.
Point #4. Distinction we need to make is that Australia will obtain Nuclear-powered subs, not nuclear weapons. I haven’t seen what “Nuclear Sub” entails with regards to this contract anywhere so please correct me if I am wrong. It’s not breaking the non-proliferation treaty.
My God you sound like such a fucking wanker.
Wake can mean two things. I think you're confusing disturbance of the water that it passed through with travelling waves that appear as ripples on the water surface in the case of boats. Submarines don't generate the latter type of wake. Of course they do consume some energy. They're not perpetual motion machines. That some energy goes into the former type of wake.

The surface of the water allows a unique mode of energy transfer (surface waves) which doesn't exist without a surface. Underwater, energy can still be transmitted by sound, but that's not the same mechanism as surface waves.

I'm skeptical that picture is a photo since it doesn't have blueing and darkening with distance. Maybe it's been doctored or is a small scale or something unnatural.
The issue is not the submarine deal, but frustrations lasting for months over other issues, in particular the travel ban. The US has had an EU travel ban for over 18 months, despite the EU having more vaccination and less covid than the US[0]. Which country's citizen are not banned from traveling to the US? Russia! Despite a soaring epidemic and very low vaccination rates.

Biden told the world that 'America is back'. Yet most of his foreign policy is similar to Trump's, the difference is being in practice more abrasive to allies and more conciliatory with rivals. If this continues, the US will simply have less allies. Perhaps it's more profitable to be a rival - the US will treat you better.

[0]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/16/biden-travel...

[1]
https://www.nafsa.org/regulatory-information/covid-19-restri...

(Note that the EU travel ban was about to be lifted in January, the President reinstated it for no reason I can fathom.)
I came to a similar conundrum and concluded that a split across two Google accounts was necessary to keep youtube subscriptions and recommendations in check. Initially, I wanted to separate betwween personal and work but it has now more or less turned into a generic filter between intelligent and casual topics. Incidentally, political content along with it's secondary and tertiary discourse gets the same treatment with little to no exceptions.
I was speaking with a close friend about how Kyle's mom drove him HOURS with a WEAPON OF WAR across STATE LINES to go HUNTING for protestors. It was made clear that there was no room to disagree.

From watching all the video closely, and checking google maps drive time (about 35 minutes) it looks more like a kid who has firearm training and went to the community he works in to help clean up graffiti, etc. after a riot. Once there, someone armed him. In the first video he's being pursued and someone throws something at him and he fires when cornered. He called the police to report himself. Then the crowd pursued him and two people who attempted to attack him with deadly weapons (skateboard, pistol) wound up getting shot, surprise. He heads to the police to turn himself in.
People are pouring money into the problem because it isn't solved yet, which pretty much matches what I said.
The US was also Japan's top trading partner a decade before Pearl Harbor
Well, crystals form into regular geometrical patterns without any sort of over-arching goal. So that could be one way to do it, have some simple check each piece could perform (like observing neighbors), maybe some kind of random 'seed' selection to determine starting points and later some annealing so everything joins correctly. That is where I'd probably start.
> What is your strongest contrarian opinion?

That it is pointless to ask that question on HN or any social site because actual contrarian opinions will be downvoted and hidden.

The most popular "edgy" opinions will be voted as the most contrarian and be rise to the top.
Wow, that's incredible! I just went on their website and found the most adorable little electric pickup truck for only $2K

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/4-wheel-electric-tric...

If it weren't for the lack of airbags or any real safety features, I would totally buy one!
So you think we should have libel laws but "Art" should be exempt?