skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Teleology is the study of final causes.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/teleology

In the context of evolution, it refers to the fact that there is no specific end-result or intent to evolution, no goal toward which it is developing. Rather, there is variation, selection, and inheritance. Each generation of a species is subject to a selection mechanism which determines the progenitors of the next. Fitness functions are local in time.

Or put another way, though we might describe a parasite-host relations as "the parasite wants to evolve so that it coexists with rather than kills its host", the truth is that there's no such desire. There's only the evolutionary fact that parasites which do succeed too well in killing their hosts (before the parasite itself can reproduce or jump to a new host) will eventually kill itself. The evolutionary preference, that is, seletive mechanism, is for parasites that don't kill their hosts.

How strong that selective pressure is depends greatly on the parasite, host, availability of alternative hosts (diseases in high-density populations can afford, evolutionarily, to be far more severe than those in low-density populations), options for dormant states, and the various strengths and weaknesses of other strains within the species as well as other competing species. (E.g., SARS-COV-2 triggered behavioural responses among humans which greatly reduced prevalences of influenza and common cold infections.)

A corrolary to all this is that hosts and diseases co-evolve. This has been noted among humans and diseases affecting them, and in particular, the co-evolution of human civilisations and the diseases which emerge amongst them. Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome explores this relation with regards to the Roman empire (and its contemporary empires and cultures).

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2019/2019.10.21/
That is clearly fucked up.
I guess Cube would be a natural name progression. But there are manu cube companies.
New Reddit is so slow it brings even an i7 to its knees. It really needs some optimisation. I didn't look at the code but it seems like their pulling in so many frameworks..

Until they fix this I really hope they won't get rid of the old.reddit.com option :(

I prefer the old layout too of course, though I suspect I'm in the minority (though not within the group of HN users of course!)
Generally speaking the court doesn’t rule on actual situations based on hypotheticals, unless they are creating a bright line rule that would clearly fall apart under plausible scenarios.
There are a few seasons of US Big Brother which are genuinely great, intelligent and deep TV. You have to look past the production a bit and get in their heads. At the end of the day, it’s people trapped inside a TV show. It’s a psychological experiment. It’s a real competition for real money involving deception and alliances. Same with Survivor. These shows are often bad but there are some gem seasons out there.
I'm not european, but I'm not American either, and the case is weird. In isolation the outcome is correct but take a step back and do you not see what is happening to your country? Weird is an understatement. The entire set and setting for it shouldn't be happening in the first place. But it is.
I find that for instructions in how to do common mechanical tasks, searching on YouTube is effective. There are lots of carpenters, mechanics, electricians, etc. who want to tell us the best way to do something.
This post prompted me to google "last time trebuchet used in combat".

The answer appears to be 2013/14 by Syrian Rebels fighting against the Syrian Army.

https://www.quora.com/Warfare-When-was-the-last-time-a-catap...
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I think that depends on whether you want to trust already-executing programs or not. If you trust them, then sure, it's pretty straightforward: you just tell the AV what to scan vs. not. If you don't, then it's not: you have to either offload the copying to kernel-mode, or delegate it to a secured user-mode process, because otherwise a malicious program could just modify the buffer you're copying from. The former makes sense from a performance standpoint but the latter also makes sense from a security standpoint.
I didn’t begin learning coding with web dev. It was C Python Java. I tried web dev later. Both personally and professionally. I just despise it. Maybe because I don’t “grok” it, but that’s how it is. I have noticed this - people who didn’t start with it simply not getting the point of things it does and in the ways it does. Mere mention of word “react” brings disinterest and nausea. I get panic attacks when see those projects’ loooong dependency list and then yarn or whatever else downloading them.

Besides it’s finicky, cumbersome, and unstable.
If you’re in the US, you can donate the instead to registered 503c charities and take the tax write off.

In general, you can deduct up to 60% of your adjusted gross income via charitable donations (100% if the gifts are in cash), but you may be limited to 20%, 30% or 50% depending on the type of contribution and the organization.
Look, I saw this on Twitter just now;

(Warning, violent dog abuse)

https://twitter.com/haleyjrichey/status/1465785057134710787?...

This cop violently attacked this dog, for absolutely no reason. Without the camera, the cop could brush this off as “the dog attacked me and I had to get in” where clearly that is not the case.
In that event, would the town itself not have been threatened with flooding?
There's a new setting rolling out to let you choose to filter political content out of your linkedin feed, if you want. https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/134715
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I don't think so. I think the fact that they had taken a gun along to an event like this in the first place would be taken as pre-meditation, regardless of whether they believed themselves to be in immediate mortal danger when they actually fired the shot.

Although perhaps it would be enough to get it downgraded to manslaughter.

I'd love to hear from a lawyer on this TBH.
This case is also weird if you reimagine all of the participants as penguins in Antarctica. Since that didn't happen, it would be a waste of time to speculate what would happen in a completely different scenario.
Expanding Eligibility to Run Ads About Cryptocurrency
I’m shocked it hasn’t bounced back yet!
Brian Krebs’ article interviewing the whistleblower took this to DEFCON 1 for Ubiquiti. It’s really crazy how Mr. Sharp was able to trick all of his victims.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-b...
Pen drives can be just as good as a normal hard drive. A bit slower, that's all. Note that there are faster pendrives out there. I use a SanDisk Extreme Pro 256 GB and that's quite usable. It's what I call a 'Lifeboat OS' in case the main machines 'sink'.

I probably went the other way to you. I did a complete Windows 7 reinstallation on one of my SSD laptops, and that one is now the only one with Windows, and it's dedicated to just Windows.

I then wiped Windows completely from my desktop and other laptops, in favour of Linux Mint MATE.
I didn’t know that Home Depot allows guns, but I just checked, and apparently Home Depot allows even open carry in jurisdictions where it’s legal. Nice, I like Home Depot even more now.
Is today false dichotomy day and I missed the memo or something?

Is that really the only other alternative that you can come up with?
Ah I understand now. Sorry for misunderstanding your post.
Clearly not since it saved his life.
The next ones will be mplayer, XFig, XPDF, nmh, TKGate for electronic boards, Links and Bochs. Back to 2002 again.
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That’s… misleading, at best. Depends on how many resources you have, whether you’re using different domains, and whether you’re using HTTP/1 or something newer. Generally speaking, what you’re saying is only true if you have a lot of decently large resources, loaded from different domains or over HTTP/1.

If everything was coming from the same origin already, then:

• If you’re using HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 your statement is almost entirely false: whether you load in parallel or in serial, it’ll be downloading it at the same speed, except that by not inlining you’ve added at least one round trip for the client to know that it needs to request these other URLs; and now you mostly can’t control priority, whereas with everything inlined you know it’ll load everything in source order, which you can normally tweak to be pretty optimal.

• If you’re using HTTP/1, the use of multiple connections (typically up to 6) only kicks in if you’ve got plenty of stuff to download, but involves at least a couple of round trips to establish the connection, so even if using a single connection reduces the available bandwidth, it’s still normally worth it for many, probably most, sensibly-done sites.
DeepMind’s AI helps untangle the mathematics of knots
Apple Tells Suppliers iPhone Demand Has Slowed as Holidays Near
Fear of this delayed my starting work on Browser Routr; let's me intercept clicks to send some sites to other browser.

In hindsight I don't think I need Manifest v2 on Chrome. Though I do need it on Firefox because of some quirks in their navigation API. And it's possible the nav APIs in Chrome or other Chromium browsers may need it someday, so still a loss IMO.
> I'd love to hear from a lawyer on this TBH.

Me too! I'm not at all sure I'm right -- but then again, neither are (or should be) the people with hot takes shot from the hip about how obviously he would have been found guilty of murder in enlightened Europe. Thanks for the interesting discussion.
I am so glad to live in a country where people do not routinely carry firearms so that I can go about my day to day life without thinking like that.
I made this mistake with my last move. Everything 100% done, contract signed, put in notice etc. Then a couple of days later they want a background check. Sure, I have no history, but what if I had? Or what if someone with the same name had?

Lesson learned.
Translation:

"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming."
They had metal and glass. They weren't completely primitive.
Isn’t this working by finding someone else’s solution to the day 1 challenge? As in, since the OP copied and pasted the prompt, it was relatively easy for Copilot to match to the correct solution (also how it knew the window size for the second half was 3)?
as a backend engineer i am on call 24/7 ..
How do they define « after hour »
Right, that's problematic as well - Signal doesn't even have an official client for my smartphone.
Police brutality in another state doesn't give you the right to burn down my livelihoood, burn down my home, or kill me. Unfortunately, NPR and the Washington Post led many to believe otherwise last summer [0][1].

Many rioters openly brandished rifles and handguns. One such rioter fired the first shot of the Rittenhouse incident [2], contributing to Rittenhouse's (true) belief that he was under attack. Rioters sent a 70-year-old man to the ER on the first night of riots in Kenosha, breaking his jaw and knocking him out when he tried to stop them burning down a business. Rittenhouse saw all this on TV before he went to Kenosha next day to help clean up riot damage. Incidentally, the parts of Kenosha that burned were mainly minority-owned small businesses and apartment buildings [3].

If you threaten to kill someone, chase them down a dark street and then attempt to kill them at a riot that you started, the fact that they're armed and you're not means squat. Don't try to kill kids and burn down their towns. You'll live longer.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/there-no-d...

[1] https://spectatorworld.com/life/antifa-aesthetic-washington-...

[2] https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/580073-detective-sh...

[3] https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/new-york-times-buried-...
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Or worse yet, the VPN provider can sell your data.

Build your own VPN https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn
> It seems to me directed at focusing attention on competition within a social class rather than outside it
> These stories are about members of the same group competing, not about in vs out-group competition.

Okay, but it doesn't seem obvious to me why "detective story" necessarily implies "story about competition within a social class". If I read a blog post titled "20 rules for making pasta-based dishes", and one of the rules was "don't ever use cheese", I'm not going to argue that there aren't a wide variety of good dishes you could make without cheese, but I'd definitely walk away with the assumption that the author has some sort of bias if they think it's a universal rule.
So a subunit protein vaccine is (in the case of the SARS-CoV-2) _just_ the spike protein?

I'm guessing the subunit protein vaccine has to inject all the spike proteins the immune system will need in one go, vs the mRNA vaccine which can take advantage of the body's cells to manufacture them.
It seems that general inflation in other goods may have led to lowered demand:

Apple Inc., suffering from a global supply crunch, is now confronting a different problem: slowing demand.

The company has told its component suppliers that demand for the iPhone 13 lineup has weakened, people familiar with the matter said, signaling that some consumers have decided against trying to get the hard-to-find item.
The US has a long history of letting murderers off the hook when there is a racial component[0]. With someone like Rittenhouse, who has become a darling of the white supremacy movement, the trial is part of an ongoing culture war. And culture warriors are going to do what they always do.

[0] See, for example, the use of jury nullification after the US Civil War.
VCs aren't primarily looking for brilliant visionaries, even if its a popular narrative--the (high) risk/reward profile of a business venture is at least as important to them as the character of its founding team.

The thesis behind Moth Minds seems to be that there is a lot of interesting/valuable* work that could be done that doesn't fit any of the typical funding models (VC, small business loan, burn through personal savings, Patreon, tips, etc.).
Like Xerox PARC type projects or PhD research without the gatekeeping.
This kind of work doesn't exactly require a singular brilliant visionary, but it helps to provide a financial incentive to lure someone with a unique vision from a comfortable tech salary.

*for flexible interpretations of value
Very cool product, I'm curious if you have an offline version that an individual developer could pay for. At my Fortune-100 employer I read a ton of code that is often opaquely written and stored in a private git repository. Unfortunately it's a huge hurdle to approve a SaaS app which receives any data or code from our work environments.
is a pager from an automated system that detect the server are in fire part of « engaging in communication « ?
Deliberate inlining tends to make you more sensitive to size issues so that that’s also less likely to be an issue. Inlining everything also makes it so that you can at least theoretically do more effective dead code removal on CSS and JavaScript, page-by-page, though I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen that actually being done, though the tools mostly exist; but compared with things like GCC and LLVM, web tooling is atrocious at optimisations.
How has a mortgage lead generation site raised nearly $1bb? There is another identical site named lower.com (creativity must be prohibited in the mortgage space? At least in the insurance space they use random names like TheZebra) that has raised $100mm. They all should have fairly favorable cash flows from the start, since there are dozens of potential customers in each market. All they need to do is get traffic for less than their price per lead*# of times each lead gets sold. I guess they're dumping money into traditional marketing and not really tracking their ROAS and going after mid/lower funnel channels?
I'm working on an open-source project that I think should show some value if we can get it off the ground.

My concern is that this sponsorship model is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: You can't attract sponsorship at early stages, because all you have to show is 'hopes and dreams'. But once it's done, you don't really need sponsorship as much: it's done and I'll move onto the next project. And to get from the early stage to a viable project, a friend and I really need to spend i guess 6mo full-time. I fear part-time will take forever and likely lead to project abandonment due to lack of momentum.

So i'm not really sure what to do, I'd really like to see it succeed.

(the project is github.com/soniclang/sonic)
Maybe I was wrong but what I understand by "hug" is the fact to hold someone chest to chest, arms on the back of each other. I do not mean kids being held in the arms of their parents or lovers loving each other, or people holding hands or anything else. Then I maintain that this activity is reserved to very rare occasions, usually reserved to extreme emotion peaks, for instance at a burial of a close friend's relative, or when the national sports team win the gold.

To me, when meeting a friend or colleague at the first of the day, each culture has its own "hello sign" system, for French people it can be the kiss on the cheek or hand shaking (with many variants), for Chinese people it is a look in the eyes and "hi" with the hand or "吃了没?", for many other people (Germans?) it is purely hand shaking, and as far as I can guess the "hello = hug" is common in the USA.

I still do not think this "hello = hug" is universal or even the behavior of above 10% of the humans. I think most americans might believe it is nearly universal and always acceptable because nobody dares refusing the hug when they do it. It is actually very hard to stop a coming hug without becoming the very bad cold blooded person that has no feeling at all for others (personal experience here).
Except now it's a layercake of JavaScript / HTML / CSS salad that doesn't work in all devices.

Flash had a lot of faults, but they could have been fixed (and open sourced). The Flash editor was by far the best animation tool for the web and it got murdered by Apple to protect iOS from foreign runtimes.
I can design a car that runs on water. It will only go downhill but it works.
The bridge either stands up or falls down is an exercise in underspecification rather than a demonstration of an absolute metric.
Haha, no problem. I do that a lot too :)
Is this why Ubiquiti quality has fallen over the last ~2 years? I went all-in on Ubiquiti almost 3 years ago and I’ve been less than thrilled with the quality and level of support. This chaos that you say happened seems to line up with what I was seeing as a customer but everyone has been shocked at how UI has dropped in terms of quality.
You either didn't watch any of the videos from that night or don't know what trigger happy means. Rittenhouse made a number of mistakes but being trigger happy was not one of them.
> I would like to see your source on that because I can list a bunch that attribute the bombings that killed 6 people to members of the FLQ. https://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP16CH1PA4LE.html

I'm sure it's in the best interests of the State Owned Media to agree with the State on these matters. So I won't even click or comment on that. Let's just say that they have a poor track record at producing any historic content https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cbc-apology-story-of-u...

What I'm quoting is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_of_Inquiry_in...

Of course, that's what they openly admitted at the time. Who knows what else they did.

> I'm not sure what your point is here. The government arrested people they believed to be active members in a domestic terror cell.

Without constitutional checks and balances, you can arrest anyone you don't like. How convenient! Out of 500 arrest without due process they ended up with less than 10 convictions.

Also, if you look at the individual trials, you'll start to see a pattern:

"A Quebec government commission later determined in 1980 that Rose was not present when Laporte was killed, despite a recorded confession."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rose_(political_figure)

> Note that defendants in civil proceedings are not candidates for international extradition.

That's very convenient.
> You can't shoot someone in the US for swinging something at your head.

In every state of which I’ve ever been a resident, responding with lethal force in such a case is in fact legal.
queue in erlang is a tuple with 2 lists. it reverses the items in one list and put them in the other, if the second was empty, when you try to access the head of the queue. new items still goes into the first list.
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Um, no.

Have you ever been around prison guards, rec specialists, medical providers? Some of the best people you'll ever meet. They're working to help others.
Gofundme did the same thing. They killed the gofundme for Kyle's legal defense and then after it didn't matter anymore they "reversed the decision".

this article talks about a post the family of a recent school shooter made praising/defending him on facebook - so obviously facebook is applying this rule very selectively. I think it would help their credibility if they had examples of other times they apply these rules - but it seems more like they make up the rules on the spot and apply them based on their internal politics.

https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/arlington/article25...
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