skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you wear a seat belt while driving a car do you intend to crash? Do you have any idea how many people were open carrying that night and never fired a shot? Rittenhouse hit every target he aimed at and all whom had attacked him. 100% of the people who didn't attack Rittenhouse were not shot. That is not trigger happy. And Rittenhouse didn't even fire the first shot, Ziminski did.

Who is "normal" at a riot? The people firebombing immigrant owned businesses in the name of justice?
Surprise! Everything everyone types into Microsoft software is recorded and uploaded!
H&R Block is well known as Block in the Kansas City area, where they’re headquartered, though I don’t know if that’s only among tech people or the general public.
> The West, at the very least, allows people on prime time TV to insult even the highest-ranking leaders in the most dirty and savage ways imagined. This is cathartic.

Well, not every western country is an America. In Poland there is a law against insulting heads of states, public officers and flag. So not everywhere you can speak what you want.
> the people who originally got into Bitcoin simply wanted to be an accepted currency for goods and services

Unfortunately, they built the currency to be deflationary, so it’s only used for speculation.
Block Leadership
Oh, you’re right. I recall a lot of people thinking Facebook was in a major decline trying to stay relevant. $1B for Instagram?! What a joke!

Well… it worked out for them alright.
Yea it’s obvious they are in a ivory tower.
Stress makes it feel like less work and more time is necessary. I think the stress we feel is really a crisis about work feeling meaningless. If our work felt more meaningful, and engaging, we'd be happy to work far longer, and far more intensely. That stress gets exploited by the journalists, who, needing clicks, keep rewriting the same prose variants promising some "hope" of less raw obligated hours of meaningless work.

This hope looks to be pregnant with the promise that shorter work hours would leave more time to pursue work that feels meaningful to us while allowing us to support ourselves... But a question worth asking is how much of it would just get absorbed into the indolence that most of us have let ourselves slip too much time and energy into. I contend that the hope for shorter hours is indeed not pregnant, but simply sporting a beer gut.

EDIT: I went through the struggle of clinging to this hope. I'm still stressed by exhausting time management problems and there seems to be no systematic panacea approach that will make them go away. But fully letting go of this hope, and the tacit resentfulness that comes with its unfulfillment was one of the best things I've done in the last few months and I would whole heartedly recommend it. My psychological resources can be re-distributed to something better; I could dedicate that mental energy to finding or performing work I do consider meaningful.
And screen loggers.

And MitM network traffic loggers.

That said, I guess everyone's threat model is different and maybe a remote browser like this solves some problem for them despite those constraints.
The only false dichotomy here I see is someone who has failed to understand human history, is arguing in bad faith to disarm them, so ergo the only conclusions we can come to is those types of characters wish to bring harm to others.

Just because you disagree with individuals having the right to self-destiny and self-protection, which is evident from your comments that you think nobody should have any right to self defense, you are only here to bring harm.

So no, that's not what history and facts has taught us. Authoritarians can try and come and take it, but be ready for a fight.
The fatalities with AVs would most likely not be distributed in the same way as the fatalities with human drivers:

Most fatalities, when humans are driving, happen because of speeding (ex: 45 mph in a 25mph zone), drunk driving, fatigue/distraction, etc.

Most fatalities, with AV, will come configurations where you cannot beat the physics and stop, even with superhuman reflexes. For me, this means situations with higher speeds. The system will have less time to compute everything, and if there is an impact, the risk for fatalities is far higher: https://nacto.org/docs/usdg/relationship_between_speed_risk_...

At slower speeds, you can build a system with a defensive driving style that mostly eliminates by design the configuration where you could be the cause for a fatality. As a manufacturer of AV, you would probably want to start deploying your system where it is the least likely to fail / cause deaths.

Also, as you said (and it is probably true), most fatalities happen off highways despite the disproportionate number of miles, which means human driver are actually pretty good with highway safety, making it harder for an AV to be better than a human.
this is some brazen activity.

if I had a fraction of this guy's confidence, I could do anything.
> Most mass shootings in the US are gang related using illegally-owned pistols

I used to think this, but then I did some research, and it does not seem to be true:

https://www.gvpedia.org/gun-myths/gangs/

In Canada, the number is around 20%, per:

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=351000...

Neither most mass shootings, nor most gun murders, are committed by gang members. Although it is a non-trivial fraction.
Their rationale is good, local merchants use square.

they should use the party tld, for block.party
> Given the above, is there any reason to believe there is anything more to this story than that Stripe's hiring arm is really disorganized, and some people got offers who should not have, and those offers had to be rescinded?

This to me is the correct interpretation. Even if affected me personally.
> A disinformation network with ties to China used hundreds of fake social media accounts—including one belonging to a fictitious Swiss biologist—to spread an unfounded claim that the U.S. pressured scientists to blame China for the coronavirus, Facebook said Wednesday.

That's not even a "fake scientist", that's a ... fictitious non-existent scientist.
I think you and a sibling comment might be too close to the problem. When heartbleed dropped my Twitter feed had a few crypto engineers saying "I mean, eventually this was going to happen" and a ton of developers whose main language starts with a "p" going "how?? OpenSSL is core plumbing of the internet, it can't be this bad can it???".

Edit: to be clear, not maligning the "p" language developers, I was one myself. Simply saying there are a ton of technical people who are blissfully ignorant of the tiny pillars of clay that hold up the internet.
> We live in a time when large companies will divest themselves of profitable but not growing businesses because it gets in the way of the core mission, which for large public companies is only one thing. Growth.

> Private companies can sometimes get away with it, as long as the people backing them don't start to see them as investment vehicles like any other public company.

I'm probably just naive or missing something obvious, but fundamentally it doesn't seem obvious to me _why_ public companies should be treated differently as investments. Ostensibly the original reason stocks had value is that when companies were making money, they'd pay dividends, but like you said, this isn't really the mentality anymore. The stock is worth something because someday if the company makes more money, someone will buy it for more money than you paid...but why? So they can sell it when the company is making even more money later? It seems like if companies don't end up eventually paying dividends at some point, there's no reason why the price of the stock should be related to the amount of money the company makes. The only other thing that shares really do is give very limited voting rights, but this seems like it's not remotely worth enough per share given how much you'd need to have to even begin to influence board elections, which in itself is a very indirect way of influencing the company.
Launch of the State of Open Source Survey
Pretagteam & codegrepper were actually the sites that made me explode & post this here…
ooo what day where the puzzles from?
1. An old-fashioned paper encyclopedia set published no later than the birth of the atomic age. Something like the Encyclopedia Britannica, but with nothing that would lead to nuclear fission/fusion too quickly. Maybe the 11th edition? This has all the basic information for rebuilding a late 19th C culture, along with historical narrative. Include one of those old-fashioned paper historical overview timelines…for technology at least. Highlight all the important stuff to speed things up. Maybe rip out all the specific historical biographies to save space. Replace with a complete Bible and Koran…they already have a Torah.

2. If going the Britannica route, a very complete English/Latin dictionary.

3. K-12 physical toy demonstrations of electric generation and transmission, steam power, incandescent light, batteries, optics, telegraphy, photovoltaics, speakers/microphones. Basically a really really good science kit.

4. A historical atlas from the late 1800s of world mineral resources and mines, basically sans uranium.

5. Physical samples of modern steel, aluminum, coal, crude oil and various distillates, early plastics, optical glass, gunpowder, TNT, penicillin, sulfa drugs, streptomycin, morphine, ether, carbolic acid. Early papers on how to discover/manufacture these items, if the encyclopedia doesn’t cover in depth.

6. Three different modern varieties each of maize, potatoes, soybeans, wheat, canola, rice and apples, either seeds or cuttings. Chosen for varying cold and drought hardiness and productivity. Enough to sample as food and reproduce for a crop.

7. Small samples of “magical” technology. Mechanical watch. Solar calculator. 20th Century pistol, rifle and ammunition. Train set. Laser pointer. Model propeller airplane. Mechanical micrometer. Transparent model of internal combustion engine…the old V-8 model kits. Tiny movable type press kit. Harmonica, melodica. Spare batteries…lots of spare batteries.

8. Throw in a Merck Manual to reinforce the idea of modern medical practice and the germ theory.

If you still have space, throw in an explanation of Western musical notation and some of the greatest hits from the last 2000 years. Already have the melodica. (IP issues take on truly Olympian proportions…)

Step 1: get a small army of scribes to make several copies of the encyclopedia, mineral atlas, dictionary and Merck Manual. Salt a couple away in some desert caves.

Step 2.: create a “mystery cult” surrounding the military techs. Going from spears and bows to ranged weapons like rifles and shells will be very destabilizing, and society might collapse before the good stuff happens.

Maybe put everything into “mystery religion” to systematically spread and control the information while managing the accelerated development. With the Bible and Koran you have readymade texts, and the history of Christianity and Islam provides a roadmap to their development. Maybe edit the holy texts to put a little more focus on loving one’s fellow man and the Golden rule, and a little more clarity about slavery, religious persecution, etc..

Fun to think about.
The Ham Radio Village folks from DEFCON[0] and other conferences provide online testing once a month. Keep an eye on their twitter account if you want to do something online, but, if you look on ARRL's website, it's possible that you can find close to you.

It's usually under $20 to take the test, but, there are many times where you can test for free if you're willing to wait a few weeks.

[0]: I have volunteered as an examiner for Ham Radio Village for a few years now.
as it seemingly favors code snippets, exact-match phrases

If only... it seems like the search results have gotten far worse for exact-matching. I regularly search for part numbers and markings, somewhere where exact matches are pretty much the only thing I want, and I can clearly see the decline over the years as it starts including more and more results that don't even have the string I'm looking for.
Are you referring to medical care system failing?
The rigid 5-day expectation is just as odd as the old commute-to-the-office expectation
Myths we need to survive – Yuval Noah Harari
The Long Covid Wearable Study
Was this on a public forum you can link?
Annex K is pretty awful[1]. There are plenty of fine solutions here in hindsight, but glibc adopting Annex K isn’t one of them. NSS has a plethora of build targets, including Windows - which does not implement Annex K either (despite inspiring it).

[1]: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm
Weirdly, that's the idea behind naval guns from the age of sail.

Solid shot goes through the ship, perhaps injuring anyone in the way. Solid shot hitting the structure of the ship on its way through creates massive, dangerous splinters.

https://youtu.be/lIDu7NPLbwc

https://youtu.be/6jRhEiibhCc

https://youtu.be/dGd5HLl3GwE

https://youtu.be/EpNS0JpnUNY

https://youtu.be/9XMOrbOW9DM

https://kurage.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/hocker-isbsa-14-p...
Powell’s pivot on inflation turns the trader pandemic playbook on its head
Yea, but that is not something that should be a common experience. There is no good reason to fire someone day 1 outside of like, bad faith issues like lying about your background or basic capability to do a job (Senior Linux Admin who doesn't know what a command line is etc.).
I totally agree and also had found it fascinating, except for...mogrify? I don't think I've ever heard that word before, and I don't even know what it could mean based on the only related word I can think of, "transmogrify".
Dark triad traits predict having a more self-aggrandizing social media account
Sounds good, as a theory. Next step for the author should be to do experiment, collect data, analyse it and reach a conclusion if this theory works or not.
The next 6 months will be really telling. I know many people who are being groomed by their employers to feel good about a January return.

“We’re asking you to come in three days a week if you are within committing distance of the office, oh by the way, enjoy a half day on Friday!” is the common theme of the message right now.

I’m usually hesitant to make predictions but I really think this is going to be a losing POV if we look two years out. The cat is out of the bag - good talent is going to gravitate toward employers who give their folks autonomy and optionality. This is the moment when the corporate world finally realizes that having a reputation for treating people well actually matters.
Didn't that break?
I don't think it failed. It worked as expected for a system that is built for profits instead of actual healthcare. Which I guess makes my point about the economy not working for people's interests.
That's correct - Most recipe websites actually already encode the recipe in a structured format which is what this is parsing. No AI model is needed to decipher what is and isn't a recipe!
People lie on resumes. I don't need data to give my educated opinion. Rote memorization/learning is extremely valuable, disputing that fact is ridiculous. Stupid people also exist and unfortunately most companies need to weed them out, at least from certain positions.
There are open source alternatives. The one I'm somewhat involved in is Maxima which is one of the oldest open source projects that is still being developed.

wxMaxima is the most popular frontend for the software: http://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/

I'm also taking the opportunity include a video that I made using to demonstrate my UI for it: https://peertube.functional.cafe/w/qnx1onPEx9LCtDP3wFqjWz
Do you have some book recommendations for web development?
That signal almost sounds like you could make a clock from it. Like you manually set it and it syncs to beat in the video.
Yep!

Outside of the points that Scotty made, not everyone has access to a computer, or don't have good enough ones to handle streaming as smoothly. In fact, there are multiple use-cases for this technology, considering it can work as a "cloud browser", either storing information or being completely disposable (as in, the whole browser activity/session/data gets destroyed after usage or on-demand). That said, for what we're used to, a lot of people use it for watch parties so they can share "a bit of the Internet" between friends, family, and even completely strangers!

And I say "we're" because I work on a similar, open-source, "Rabb.it alternative" (or VM-sharing platform, however you prefer to call it): https://cryb.app

That said, that requires self-hosting, so feel free to check out Hyperbeam if fiddling up with configuring Node.js applications and Docker apps is not your thing! But if you wanna give yourself an adventure for this use-case, go ahead :)
I don't know if listening to this particular signal is legal or not in Germany or anywhere else, I'm just pointing out that for the general case (as I read OP's sentence) it may well depend on the jurisdiction.
My favorite is "ioctl", which is especially delightful when pronounced phoenetically
2010:

> While this view of Bitcoin might sound like it is a betrayal of Bitcoin's original vision of fully peer‐to‐peer cash, it is not a new vision. Hal Finney, the recipient of the first Bitcoin transaction from Nakamoto, wrote this on the Bitcoin forum in 2010: Actually there is a very good reason for Bitcoin‐backed banks to exist, issuing their own digital cash currency, redeemable for bitcoins. Bitcoin itself cannot scale to have every single financial transaction in the world be broadcast to everyone and included in the block chain. There needs to be a secondary level of payment systems which is lighter weight and more efficient. Likewise, the time needed for Bitcoin transactions to finalize will be impractical for medium to large value purchases. Bitcoin backed banks will solve these problems. They can work like banks did before nationalization of currency. Different banks can have different policies, some more aggressive, some more conservative. Some would be fractional reserve while others may be 100% Bitcoin backed. Interest rates may vary. Cash from some banks may trade at a discount to that from others. George Selgin has worked out the theory of competitive free banking in detail, and he argues that such a system would be stable, inflation resistant and self‐regulating.
Extreme weather events haven't doubled in the past two decades. That is ludicrous. Additionally the article you link doesn't even say that.

Neither are the coral reefs collapsing.

https://www.royalgazette.com/environment/news/article/202108...

(btw this claims sea level rise is less then 1/10 of an inch year, not 1/8).

Great Barrier reef has record levels of coral this year.

I've personally observed many sections of the second largest reef in Mexico/Belize within the past few years and the corral are healthy with many young corral and look pretty much as they did when I first saw them 30 years ago.

The reefs are not collapsing. This is reality, not propaganda, not the output of theoretical models. How do you square this with some of the more extreme predictions? It is very interesting how we both have watched over the same time period and see different things apparently.

I don't believe I'm uninformed at all. I just don't believe the hype anymore.
Isn't this kind of the core of Section 230 protection?
No code changes pushed to production is what I've experienced in such places as a risk mitigation strategy, not that everyone is sitting around twiddling thumbs. Every hour of downtime between Black Friday and Christmas will cost a lot of revenue, and sometimes the company will be working with a skeleton crew for a huge chunk of that time,which makes fixes take longer as a bonus. So why risk it?
That heavily depends on range, pistols are not known for accuracy at range.
I think you need to actually get the new data from Github and finetune the model. Maybe it's done very frequently, but unlikely.
At the very least, Biden was not an elected official when he made his first remark, merely running for office I think. Several highly public figures have also made comments after the trial, continuing to call him a murderer (and white supremacist) even though he was found not guilty.

I am fairly certain that he isn't considered a public figure, aside from the trial itself, so the bar for libel and slander is much lower than if he were a celebrity.

Nick Sandmann got absolutely massive settlements; I am curious as to the extent that the situations are similar or different.
Reception of the entire HF band is legal globally, as defined by the ITU. You don't need a scanner to receive shortwave radio, and in fact most scanners can't receive shortwave radio.
Probably could have been a lot less and/or recovered by now had Ubiquiti not also gone through great lengths to cover it up and actively avoid taking appropriate mitigation action. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-b...

I mean Nick Sharp certainly took a chunk out of them but there is more to the story for why the market lost that much faith.
Most Millenials have been out of college for 10+ years. This is a lesson that Gen Z is learning the hard way now.
This would, however, void the entire purpose of this experiment.
I think he wants to become the biggest bitcoin/blockchain/fintech company. Probably full service contract/exchange/hodler/wallet/all-the-things.
My ADHD was screaming reading this but my everything else was clapping and wishing you posted a video link.
Bit of a chicken and egg there, to be fair.
Add me too. Let me know if you go ahead with it in the US.
Not necessarily, but it is the only warning you get.
The fundamental issue at hand (something you neglected to mention), most of these platforms twitter, instagram, facebook and youtube are free! Now what does free entail, you being the product and thus it will always spiral down to "increasing engagement/retention/active users per month". Basically you are getting a product that is too good for free. Someone has to bear the brunt of that cost and that person must be eventually rewarded otherwise there is no incentive to do so. So in reality the only way to solve this is a change in the users mentality of always jumping to free then crying foul about it when they end up the product. So the real problem(your problem) here is the user's mentality. You are basically just complaining about human nature from the users to the developers of said platforms.
Nietzsche and the Machines
Stage of company, not name of company
I don't know the full story, but they originally were on Ruby Rogues, and they suggested very strongly they split away from that show for personal reasons. I know the host of Ruby Rogues, Charles Max Wood, is right-leaning.
Supposedly it is in the guidelines. Someone provided a link to them last time it came up. Seems like it’s just unenforced. I wish they’d either enforce that, or give users some tools to filter them. Give me a naive bayes filter to train, regex, even string match. Anything.
I was being facetious to remind Europeans that their criminals have guns, better guns than criminals in the US do. The DIY scene in Europe is quite healthy, so of course someone will make a DIY gun.
The NY Times obituary reveals Sondheim and the music in depth, beyond anything else I've read about it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/theater/stephen-sondheim-...

Among many greater insights, this caught my eye:

He exploited time signatures and forms; for “Night Music,” he wrote a waltz, two sarabandes, two mazurkas, a polonaise, an étude and a gigue — nearly an entire score written in permutations of triple time.
For the curious - Assembly.ai (https://www.assemblyai.com) is an incredible API for getting really low-cost, high quality and fast audio/video transcription on a word-by-word basis.