skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well this argument is pretty disturbing… besides the tiny and very neat island of abstract and platonic constructs every concepts about the real world are fuzzy. If someone followed your idea completely he could not use such concepts as “green” or “blue”, or even more relevantly, such an argument can also be applied to the concept of “species”.

What's so disturbing about that? Species are also on a continuum. I think there's a popsci piece about certain lizards in California that inhabit a horseshoe shaped habitat. If your abstraction is wrong, change your abstraction.

> I also find this assertion… strange to say the least.

Historically people have had horrible things happen to them due to what race they were classified in. Now let's use those classifications to create a diverse campus, thus ensuring the continuation of the racial classification system?

If you want a bunch of people who think differently, and you're a university, there should be a more direct way to do this than using some classifier that's both biased and has negative historical connotations. Here's a couple of ways: interview the students to assess their thinking. You're a university right? The kind of place where thinking people go to practice thinking. Number two is a lottery. You want a representative sample? There you go.

> ...some of those biological differences could lead to behavioural differences...

If I want basketball players, should I recruit in the Netherlands, where people are really tall, or should I just recruit people who are good at basketball?
Dune's influence on science fiction and storytelling afterwards is undisputed, but it doesn't mean it can actually compete with a franchise like Star Wars. Dune was written with a goal in mind - world building, politics, I'm not going to try and analyze it - whereas Star Wars is a pure entertainment product with a fairly straightforward "good vs evil" plotline - at least that was the initial product at the time. The sequel added plot twists, by the 3rd film it started to become formulaic, and the threequel made it kinda ridiculous.

Anyway, there's a few stories and books that had the impact and that influenced a lot of things to follow, but which are difficult to actually translate to a successful movie franchise. I mean one of the advertising slogans or quotes they used in Dune's promotional material was that it would go toe-to-toe with Lord of the Rings and Star Wars both. I think everyone that has read the books knows it wouldn't be able to.
> I'm quite skeptical at the number of microcontrollers that have this protective circuitry

It isn't protective circuitry as-such... it's the default way to build an output pin circuit[1].

The MOSFETS in typical use act like switches, but they also have a 'saturation' region[2] where they act like constant current drivers, which is exactly what ought to be used to drive an LED.

The current flow in the saturation region isn't awfully consistent from one microcontroller to another as it typically depends on temperature and various process parameters.

[1]: https://open4tech.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/push_pull_s...

[2]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/GFMrw.png
Microsoft Offers TPM 2.0 Bypass to Install Windows 11 on Unsupported PCs
It's certainly not like you understand epidemiological dynamics, that's for sure.
I feel the pain of a lack of REPL. I frequently want to check a snippet of code, but need to go through the cycle of creating a test case, copying code, modifying it so that it works standalone without its context, running it and then deleting it. It's tiresome.

As for compilation, yes, it's slow in general, but once you compile a project initially, later incremental builds are usually quick.

Overall, I think in the future I'll see if I can use SML more and see how it goes.
What's the perspective? Is it something like it's too barbaric to be susceptible to viruses in the 21st century? What is the moral angle here?
Not just IKEA. Argos and CPC both stopped catalogues, and my purchase with them declined. Argos especially had a USP over amazon being the “book of dreams”, something to leaf through in a Sunday morning and go “oooh”

Now I simply buy stuff on Amazon.
Scale is a good question. However, it might not matter if the residents (through the state) decide they don't want their local area to be destroyed. For example, climate change may not be as locally damaging as some massive strip mines.
There is a federal definition for "white". I'm not sure why you would believe otherwise. Look up what the EEOC says about it. There is also a Federal definition for "Native American", a common choice in this survey, so even if a person was unsure of the definition of white, they could figure out if they were not some of the other options and avoid lying.

Either way, lying in this case is at least as much about what the person believes about themselves. If a person is saying they're something, and don't actually consider themselves to be that thing, then it seems to at least be some form of deliberate deception.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskElectronics/wiki/design/leds
It seems like you can just include a link to a YouTube tutorial. The users of your tool are probably the visual type.
Add economic sanctions (Venezuela) and intentional destruction of food production (Zimbabwe) to that list.
The mistake of SOAP specs was to believe toolmakers were on their side, and tooling would magically solve all problems so that you would never actually have to look at what went down the wire. Whereas toolmaking companies were only on the side of making money, and looking down the wire was often unavoidable. REST went back to basics, simple protocols that humans could work on with little more than a text editor.
There is also a difference between truly anonymous (where no connecting identity is established between different events) and what I'll call a form of pseudonymity (where an identity is constructed, with or without a known connection to one or more real identities, and that identity builds its own reputation). I do not consider Batman "anonymous" unless he does something without revealing that it was Batman who did it. Batman is pseudonymous, simply because "he" is a known identity, whoever may ever be behind it at any given time.
A big factor there is that demand for Lithium is growing drastically and we don't really have that amount of Lithium pre-mined and ready to be recycled in the first place.
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> Since the French app is pretty terrible (it used to be the barely functional contact tracing app that didn't want to use Google/Apple's API, so there's a pretty strong popular stigma against it)

Yeah the UK very wisely put the passports and the contract tracing in separate apps (helps that the NHS already had an app pre-pandemic). Not sure if it was intentional, but it certainly sidesteps this issue!
People always push the argument into extreme but for practical example you have housing around industrial zones going 250% up and being turned into gated communities and factories cant move because of nearby high way and harbor.

So it is not socialism but common sense to call for residency zoning area reserved for workers.

In tourist zones this is normal: from Alps to Mediterranean.
But if you mention big cities suddenly nobody ever heard of workers working there only landlords and retail shops.

And I am not talking across the street where you work I am talking 1h commute area around industrial zone rejecting cheap apartments and building gated communities where one foreign firm can buy all 128 houses at once.

If we can talk against concert ticket/ps5/3070ti scalping and overcharging we can talk about housing without being mocked at and called greedy lazy socialist. I just dont wanna live in a shoe box or be 3h in traffic every day.
> You can write a lot of macrology to get around it, but there's a point where you want actual compiler writers to be doing this

this is not the job of compiler writers (although writing macros is akin to writing a compiler but i do not think that this is what you mean). in julia the numerical programming packages are not part of the standard library and a lot of it is wrappers around C++ code especially when the drivers to the underlining hardware are closed-source [0]. also here is the similar library in common lisp [1]

[0] https://github.com/JuliaGPU/CUDA.jl

[1] https://github.com/takagi/cl-cuda
For what's it worth, I live in a area that has done extensive mining for over 1000 years with no big natural disaster caused by it. Today it is only operational by small scale in comparison, (and it never experienced the big chemical industious mining), but you absolutely can mine the earth without creating havoc.

It is just a lot more expensive then.

Which is why most mining is done in remote, or poor areas, with laughable regulations, where no one dares complain for the jobs.
I've been on HN for almost 10 years, and from what I've read I'm pretty sure they do actually.
Consider the source of the survey, Intelligent.com
I’ve never heard of them. And they write an article about their own research.
Color me skeptical.
Does Maine allow for those other actions, like strip mining coal?
> EVs are superior in every single way except range and recharge time

While I'm also in favor of EVs, I can see two other ways in which EVs are not superior: weight (every article about EVs I read seems to mention that they're heavier than the corresponding ICE vehicles; on the other hand, the weight distribution seems to be yet another way in which most EVs are superior, with their low center of gravity), and price. The price seems to be the main barrier to EV adoption IMO, and is probably the reason they are so rare where I live (it's a major metropolitan area, and yet so far I have seen a non-rail EV only once).
True, but we have generations of developers whose mental model for this stuff is based on stateless protocols, and that naturally bleeds through into the software architectures they produce. I definitely notice the difference when talking to engineers who have experience developing stateful software (e.g., desktop apps, client/server, etc.), vs. those whose experience is primarily with web apps (not that web apps can't be stateful, I guess just different levels).

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, in the context of offline-first mobile dev. That's a tough nut to crack, and I find myself re-evaluating some classic distributed system stuff I haven't really thought about in years. Gotta dust some old gears off!
Not to mention, concentration camps
> I think that view is descriptively accurate for the most part. Where I think they fall short (and I am working hard to challenge my own views here) is in their picture of inflation, which I feel is very incomplete.

The real economy has a surplus of X amount of real resources. You use the resources and are better off than not using the resources.
Neither did I assume so - just pointing out this pattern :)
The problem for me is that the movie wasn't leaning into ideas and concepts either. I see a lot of comments about political, religious and ecological topics in Dune but I saw almost nothing about that in the movie, other than very shallow comments/ideas. To me, Dune felt like a completely empty movie: scenes are beautiful, yes, but that was it.
GraphQL?
Lithium mining isn't like gold/iron/other metal mining. It's more like salt harvesting. So trucking away loads of dirt/salt/rock/ore to a processing plant isn't viable. You have to process it on site which means huge ponds for evaporation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8-YDMzg2bY
Interesting video on the Lithium extraction
> The point of the cloud is treating it like a commodity.

Is it? The article is pretty unclear on what exactly GCHQ is trying to achieve (not unusual for intelligence agencies of course!) I think it's hard to comment on whether awarding the contract to AWS was reasonable when we don't know what any of the requirements are.
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The only way I ever want to watch that one again is a fan edit I heard about that cuts off the excess cruft.

Lord of the Rings was a dedicated labor of love and is IMO still the (set of) films ever made. The Hobbit was a cynical attempt to try and cash in on LotR's success and mindshare, but it was doomed to fail from the start for not having the same team and amount of creative control behind it.

In hindsight, I wish Peter Jackson was allowed to make The Hobbit first, then the LotR trilogy as we know it. The Hobbit could have been a film that never needed the huge budget it got in the end.
I think that's absolutely the most likely. And it's not hundreds, it's probably more like tens of thousands (or more). For example, when I got mine issued in Germany, I just went to a pharmacy, gave them my ID and (paper) vaccination record, and the pharmacist came back in a couple of minutes with my QR code.

The interesting thing to watch, over the coming days, is this: will the public policy response do the technically correct thing, and make sure that you need all your original documentation (signed records from the doctor's office, etc.) to get your new covpass issued? Or will they do something incorrect (but easy), like let people come in with their now-invalid pass plus a government ID to get a new one issued?
Very unlikely that the key has been revoked. Instead probably that single certificate has been blocked in the Italian app.
Time to read the books before the next part.
I felt it had the opposite problem of the Hobbit trilogy. Too much cramped into 2 movies and left out too much context and supporting details that would make the world more interesting and understandable to viewers. I think it would have been better as a 10 episode series or movie trilogy instead of 2 movies.
The article only seems to concern handling effectful input. But i can't really imagine what the type for writing to stdout would look like.

Would it be something simple as:

writeStdout :: ByteStream IO a -> IO a

?
That's a complete non-sequitur and doesn't mean VMWare is as fast and featured as a native installation.

I also started with Slackware.
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i can understand how you'd feel that way. i'm addressing this:

> It's ironic how "positive discrimination" produces incentives that make life of minorities worse

and now you're saying:

> When any system gives preference to an identity it's expected behavior to attempt to pass as a carrier of said identity. It does not matter what the identity is.

this is where we disagree, you are implying that people using a lie about race is 'harming' minorities here, but it isn't. some people are taking advantage of it, but the hyper majority aren't.

i think our core difference is this:

i don't think the people here abusing the system are actually having a meaningful impact or harm on those that this program actually helps. i think that acting like that's the case to remove this condition is the more long term harmful effect.

in the end we disagree on the impact of the people abusing this system, and i don't imagine we will be able to agree on this, but i appreciate the perspective you've given me.
Why aren't indexes being created on the RDS instance? I know it's out of scope based on the title, but also it's used for comparison in the final results table.
> From the outside (Europe) you have to ask yourself why the US even recognizes such a thing as race.

I work for a public K-12. We're required to ask students to identify their ethnicity at enrollment. If a student refuses to identify a race, we're required to enter something. The direction we've gotten is, "look at the student and guess".

That sounds ridiculous, until you remember that real people identify minorities 100% by looking at them and guessing. In a very real sense, you are the race you appear to be to a bigot when it comes to discrimination.

However, we're also not allowed to question a reported ethnicity. That's because even if you look white, if you have black ancestors you're still likely to have worse outcomes simply because your ancestors endured racial discrimination.

Now, the only reason we collect ethnicity is so that it can be used for reports to USED's Office of Civil Rights. It's used to document that the educational outcomes for students are as equal or equitable as possible. It's used to show that there is as little racial discrimination built into the structure of public education as possible. That is the sole purpose we use it for. We report it to state and federal agencies, and they use it for basically the same. They use it to identify where racial discrimination is taking place.

The reason we do that is because racism and racial discrimination is alive and well. Bear in mind, too, that there are public school districts in essentially every state in the US under desegregation orders right now. It's not just a problem of individual racism, but structural and institutional racism as well. It extends the whole gamut from petty teasing in grade school to genocide. It appears to impact everything from academic achievement to job earnings to healthcare outcomes to life expectancy to risk of being a victim of a crime to likelihood of home ownership to incarceration rates. It is a deep and clearly systemic issue, and if you think it doesn't exist in your nation it's because you're not actually looking.

If you weren't paying attention over the past several years the far right has a lot of followers, and it's not just in the United States. Britain's brexit and Europe's response to the Syrian refugee crisis are also examples of ongoing racial discrimination. This is a global problem with real, measurable, ongoing effects. Right now as we speak people are being killed simply because they belong to a different race or culture.

Why does the US care about race? Because bigots do, and minority xenophobia is one of the foremost causes of violence, civil war, and state-sponsored violence against their own citizenry in the world today. It's the metric that the enemy uses. Why wouldn't you want to pay attention to it? Frankly, I think it's shocking that Europe ignores such a blatant and informative metric. You look like you've got your head in the sand.
Undeserved downvotes. I´d add Discord (not just for gaming, artists, crypto communities and more), Nexusmods and so one. People find or build platforms for their hobbies instead of putting it on their own website. There is so much out there. More everyday. But yeah, just writing websites is not exciting anymore. And why would it?
Here's another HN page on an article comparing SQLite to other DBs, from just the other day :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7432619
Paraphrasing this for pop culture shock:

"Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care if someone watches you take a shit because you eat healthy food." - LocalH
>"We first document that 90% of transaction volume on the Bitcoin blockchain is not tied to economically meaningful activities but is the byproduct of the Bitcoin protocol design as well as the preference of many participants for anonymity."

What do you think a similar metric would look like for the US dollar, when you consider the $600 trillion-plus derivatives markets?
Maybe I’m paranoid but I wonder if the whole reason these articles are even coming out now is to help drive price down sharply enough to crush leveraged longs before the bull run resumes
It’s possible of course that:

- the contract is with a UK AWS subsidiary

- uses UK based datacenters

- is subject to appropriate oversight by UK nationals

- excludes really sensitive intelligence data

Sure this adds a dependency on a non UK company but is it a security risk - possibly not. Is GCHQ dependent on US / Taiwanese manufactured semiconductors? Is that a risk - maybe but it’s a manageable one.
Yes. This is what happens in Western Australia. Hard rock mining and selling is possible. Even then however the processor has to basically make the process specifically for the deposit.

So its not as easy as just selling it to the lithium ore market. You need a project partner that develops the project with you.

The only group currently processing spodumene to lithium are in China. Others want to make such project but I don't think they are online.

I'm not saying this deposit is worthless, I'm just saying 'this much lithium is there' is really not a good way to evaluate the actual value of a deposit like this.

Generally the location of mines like this is quite relevant, and a place that have bad regulation to begin with are very unattractive.

The traditional lithium belt in the US is in North Carolina, lithium was mined there for decades. Starting a new mine there, is already incredibly difficult. Doing it in a place with no such history will be far more difficult.
A friend saw it with me, no context at all for him, he was fascinated by the religious war undertones sprinkled through the movie
How AirTags are being used to find stolen property
Google Ads is a single entity that does both and AdWords is now known as Google Ads. So what he was actually referring to is ambiguous...
It's true that race correlates with various social issues. But why not address the social issues as such, rather than as race issues?

After all the problems were created by accepting a racial system in the first place. Write it into law and we ensure that future generations will be thinking about race all the time, thus perpetuating the problem.
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> If you design both the client and server, you don't need to be stateless.

And you also don't need to be RESTful.
Eventually the us government will decide what codebase is valid. And exchanges will immediately switch to that codebase. Probably that codebase will support kyc and whitelist/blacklist functions. Bitcoin is fiat. It doesn't have 79 protons in it's nucleus.
These apps are poorly written, but this has nothing to do with REST, or HTTP being stateless. Indeed, HTTP being stateless forces apps to implement state management which can naturally survive network interruptions. If the apps you are complaining about used a stateful protocol, they would be even worse!
I mean, a tool-maker wants to sell you tools. Why wouldn't they want to sell you tools that obviated the need to look down the wire? If customers wanted those tools.

Maybe it was just harder/more expensive to make those tools than the "just solve it with tools" spec-makers anticipated. Rather than it being any particular misalignment of incentives.
USD were gold backed. Paying USD debts is the same thing as letting gold flow out of the country. If you believe gold is everything, then simply by having less gold the German currency becomes worth less. If Germany has no gold then the currency becomes worthless (=$0).
Why do we have this attitude towards crypto but not towards the enormous mountain of energy required to power non crypto servers as part of normal professional software businesses.
I would be very surprised if the data was hosted overseas.
It started to matter less and less and some people were convinced we should strongly hit the brakes on that because they believed they know better and non-falsifiable unconscious bias is the reason people won't intermix. There is just as much scientific rigor behind such statements as there is behind horoscopes, but it still became public policy and has a huge negative effect because it disunites people.
This is not correct. Lithium Spodumene Ore is often transported from West Australia to China for processing.
God Emperor of Dune is great!