skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good idea, i think it has potential. Are you creating integrations with different services by yourselves or using some service?
The level damage that lobbying has caused and continues to cause in the US is absolutely crazy - you could say poisonous.

How can this status quo possibly ever be changed though, when the only people who could do so are the ones that benefit from it the most (corrupt politicians)?
Let me give you another opportunity.

While you’re at it, care to expound a little more than “reframing”?

Did those laws not exist?

Did they not grant rights unheard of in the 16th century?

Are there not vastly larger populations of natives south of Rio Grande?

Did I not acknowledge that crimes were committed (but were leas in intensity and duration than of other colonizers)?

I mean, my comment surely hurts the pride of Anglos (and Dutch) - for all their moaning of conquistadors Northern Europeans were far more brutal than Spain. Theres no contest.
Why do antibiotics exist?
I care. Feedback to CF is great for them, but a "review" like this tells me I don't want to use this yet.
Repeating many other phrases "does things" too.

Any brief, reflective, perspective-shifting phrase is adequate -- there's no need to invoke any particular mythology.
The government at the time of the Bill of Rights was voted for by, and therefore represented the interests of, about 6% of the population:

> Generally, states limited this right to property-owning or tax-paying white males (about 6% of the population).[1] However, some states allowed also Black males to vote, and New Jersey also included unmarried and widowed women, regardless of color. Since married women were not allowed to own property, they could not meet the property qualifications.[2]

Like the Magna Carta, and other historical staging-posts towards modern democracy, it was a step in the right direction, but somewhat ridiculous to hold it up as a reason to mistrust government generally.
"As explained in the article."

Was it explained? I saw plenty of discussion of the harm done to children, and the lasting emotional problems carried into adulthood, on the part of the people who abuse children. Then there were a few words from one of those victims who said that it is upsetting to know that images of his abuse are still circulated and consumed. It seems like a stretch to say that the existence of those images causes harm; at most it would seem that the possibility that such images exist complicates things for victims, but that the actual harm was and has always been caused by the actual abuse that occurred.

The fact is that nobody can ever know with certainty that child abuse imagery has been thoroughly deleted from ever storage medium on the planet; there are just too many computers in the world, too many ways for the imagery to be stored, transmitted, and shared. Victims will always have the possibility that someone out there is viewing such images hanging over there head no matter how many forums are taken down and no matter how many file sharing services remove files. It is one of the darker realities of the Internet age.
From the article:

> “The memory is nothing but the change in the gravitational potential,” said Thorne, “but it’s a relativistic gravitational potential.” The energy of a passing gravitational wave creates a change in the gravitational potential; that change in potential distorts space-time, even after the wave has passed.

Gravitational waves are that energy.
The article describes schemes where perpetrators share images via file hosting services by encrypting and sharing symmetric keys out of band. There is no way you can possibly identify the file content if they're doing that. The only way is for law enforcement to discover the nature of the photos by other means and then tell you which files are actually CSAM, which works perfectly well until somebody they haven't caught yet who still has local copies uploads again from a different Tor entrance using a different encryption key.
Nothing is stopping us, in fact the dolarisation of savings hit 67% (if I'm not mistaken). People keep their savings in gold and fx. But your salary is fixed in Lira, the cost of living increases. Each month you see that you are getting poorer and poorer (and by poorer I mean 10-15% each month). It's really hard right now.

If you're interested, this article on economist covers the situation: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/erdogans-zan...
(There is a paywall, you can read it from google cache).
Great video. Another one I like is "Why Gravity is NOT a Force" from Veritasium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU
Frankly, I'd be less offended by someone calling me a retard than I would if someone suggested that I use MongoDB
Right, so if company finds out that you have code written on company time meant to be used to do company work, company can then say that all employs must be able to use that code. OR they could say that you can no longer use that code. No longer abiding by either mandate could be cause for dismissal.

Legal construct or not, it is a work product that would be owned by the company. Using that code at a new company would be wrong as well.
a) There's a difference between addressing a problem and solving it: and I'd say that you're doing the former and not the latter. Your general algorithmic approach is likely to block some problems of course. However, it also creates the door for numerous false positives, especially for a platform like Twitter where an account devoted to noteworthy news or viral content can go from account creation to tens or hundreds of thousands of followers in days or weeks.

b) For your page rank analysis, how do you a priori decide who is a bot or not? Oh I know, you can look at a bunch of data like posting frequency, location, keywords, links posted, and other things, and try and create some clever formula to decide the likelihood that some account is a bot. But at the end of the day, even the best possible approach is going to miss bots created by even half-way clever people, and wrongly screw some innocent people over.

c) What about transparency? How can the public trust any of Twitter's claims that bots did X, therefore we had to ban account Y? Where's the proof? Given that bots on Twitter are endemic, this accusation would always be technically true, to some extent.

d) The amount of money and effort thrown around to influence social media is staggering. Even if you can't program, even an average person can buy tens of thousands of followers for what amounts to pocket change. The crazy Twitter activists who spend 18 hours a day on Twitter wouldn't be willing to spend what amounts to a few days worth of minimum wage work to try and take out some arch-nemesis? A shady political activist who wants to influence politics or hide some damaging info and has access to millions of funding isn't able to arrange this? A nation state who wants to put their thumb on the scale of American public opinion can't spend the tiniest bit of pocket change for a concerted effort to move the scale of public opinion?

e) I don't want to be insulting, but your stated approach and mentality here is exactly why Big Tech algorithms screw over so many innocent people.
Why did you edit your original comment?
Though this video isn't among them, the Prelinger Archives at The Internet Archive have a thousands of public domain videos— many are educational videos from this era. They've got a streaming preview player but you can easily download larger versions directly, or torrent them if you want to save Brewster a bit of bandwidth.

https://archive.org/details/prelinger
Or turn you into a temporary vegetable so law enforcement can come pick you up.
One past thread:

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And maybe once they find out how long you've had such tools you now get a lot of grief and blowback for not sharing sooner even given that list you just wrote. Could easily be a fraught situation.
there's been a bit of a surge of low-poly fake-PS1-wobbly-vertices horror games lately
PostgreSQL (https://www.postgresql.org/) with the PostGIS extension (https://postgis.net/) would be my first go (free, good reputation, importing OpenStreetMap is fairly simple (or was, about 10 years ago))

There’s also Spatialite (https://www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpatiaLite)

I’ve never used that, so I would not know whether it is a good starting point, but it seems backed my many players in the field. The documentation looks a bit geared towards experts in the field, though.
''The cultivated land is probably 1 million dunam. According to international law, we cannot sell anything, so maybe we should buy from those Arabs who do not want to come back.... All we need is 400 tractors, each tractor can cultivate 3000 dunam - cultivating not just for the purpose of procuring food but in order to prevent anyone from returning to their lands. Land of lesser quality should be sold to private or public sectors....At least, let us say that this confiscation is an exchange for the property the Jews from the Arab world lost when they immigrated to Palestine." --Bechor Shitrit, head of the settlement department of the Jewish National Fund, Ben-Gurion's Diary, 18 August 1948.
PostGIS?
The Bitter Archaeological Battle Rocking Tel Aviv University
Real Estate and Oil Tycoons Avoided Paying Taxes for Years
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I'd say it's evidence that the class is self creating, but not specifically that the class is necessary for society to function.
It could be for instance that it must necessarily exist, but only as a byproduct of society (e.g. some people have slightly more resources and therefore an advantage to press to get more resources etc.)

Or possibly it's just a consequence of the kinds of society we've had up till now. Perhaps in [your favorite utopia] it's not necessary nor beneficial.
What kind of indexes do you use to provide regex searches?
> In the UK, however, where there is a large stock of old housing

note that the article mentions Rhode Island. The US northeast is full of a lot of very old houses, and is a lot "closer" to the UK in terms of age of average house than the US western states.
Absolutely. I get they don't want to index every branch but at least set some heuristics like it it has a certain amount of activity or something per repo. Or even allow repo to opt into 1 to 2 other branches besides main. Especially for bigger projects

That'd cover 95% of repo I've seen.
The full image isn't embedded. Only a link to the image.
No; it's evidence that some people will attempt to become that class of society, even after it's been abolished, so that they can have power over others.
And don't forget that in 1593 Felipe II established a 8 hours work days. Centuries before socialism. [0]

Interracial marriage centuries before it was legal in the US.

Tens of universities.

And even a vaccine. Not a vaccine as we know them today but a vaccine nevertheless. [1]

[0] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Eight-hour_day

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmis_Expedition
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> But NATO et al are really prepping against a war against an equal. Having a cheap plastic drone with a bomb attached at the bottom won’t do.

Is that premise actually a valid concern though? Last few "wars" have been proxy wars or insurgencies.
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I can guess which company that was. Management and company culture were specific issues for that company, and they were serious issues that caused their demise.

But for AR companies, more generally, what critical challenges (technical, usability, etc) were they facing, and if only they had surmounted those, they would have brought about AR adoption sooner?
Just don't forget about that 3% https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/report-aws-uncert...
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Never heard of a piratebox before?
Yes so again then; why Rust?

Surely shining light on and fixing those issues would have resulted in C/C++ essentially becoming what Rust hopes to be.

But western kids needed to found new big business and institutionalize math.

Seems the west has a real issue with oligarchs needing to manage the masses. No one can be rich unless an institution has decided they are correctly rich.
The "if you don't like it, don't user their product" crowd seems to be unaware of tracking pixels, shadows profiles, "like" widgets, reCaptcha, etc. Basically the last 20 years of adware "innovation". I'd love to be able to tell Facebook to DIAF and never run their code again, but for some reason they're not keen on respecting my wishes.
This is some kind of reverse "what did the Romans do for us" satire, right?

"But apart from killing 80% of the native population, who definitely weren't slaves because in return for their forced labour they were forcibly converted to Catholicism, what exactly did the Spanish do wrong?" The bills of rights were inspired by the extent of the conquistadors' brutality, were generally ignored and the New Laws lasted three whole years and one dead viceroy before the Spanish settlers forced the King to back down. I'm not sure missionaries teaching one nobleman Spanish so that he could write a petition to be ignored really offsets that.
It’s not really a tech problem? They obviously have people that are allowed to look at the stuff, so they could look for evidence themselves. The total number of victims should also be quite manageable, especially if you know the timeframe, location, camera etc to narrow it down? From what the yandex image search can do, I believe a simple photo of the alleged scene of the crime might be enough.

The problem, above, is that it’s the wrong person “investigating” this. You won’t get much support trying to find your stolen bike. Vigilante CP investigator sets of wvwey alarm bell there is.
Does anyone have a TLDR on what this account had recently tweeted that was contrary to the mainstream media narrative?
With a unixy design, powerpoint would only edit powerpoint documents and it would send the data to other programs for printing or PDF creation.

In your case, the powerpoint program would never be called. You would simply send the powerpoint data to a program that converts powerpoint to maybe postscript, and you would send the postscript to ghostscript to make a PDF.

The unix like a approach is a bit more decoupled.

I cannot think of a single GUI program on linux that works this way (xfig maybe?) but in my mind, this would be the unix way. Of course by the mid 90s, the unix way lost out to the windows way so our GUI world on linux has something of a personality disorder.
Another interesting fixed-point (16 bit) division 'algorithm' is with log and exp tables, with a well chosen base :).

consider a and b being 16 bit fixed-points (at the 10 bit position)
then:

c = a/b

is:

al = log(a) (log table lookup)

bl = log(b) (log table lookup)

c = exp(al - bl) (exp table lookup)

...so basically 3 table lookups and 1 subtraction.

this method that has been used to do fast 3d->2d projections on a Atari ST (68000 processor): https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5696
I completely agree. We should not get ahead of ourselves just yet. It seriously should support most if not all of the architectures that Linux itself supports.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.htm...

vs.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux-supported_comput...
Any changes made to the HTML data will need to reflect in the new CMS system.

To keep track of those changes will he the hardest part.

I would suggest exporting the CMS data now and importing to a temporary CMS solution in the mean time.

Then updating HTML fles and CMS when necessary.
How would a space force take possession of a lagrage point, though, without creating a permanent field of dangerous debris?
Layman's question: are gravitational waves really "waves"?

When I think of waves, I think of systems governed by the wave equation [0].

But IIUC that requires a restoring force. I'm not sure what that would mean in the case of gravity.

E.g., if the moon suddenly lurched towards the Earth, we'd perceive an increase in gravity between the two. But that would be a semi-permanent change in the strength of that attraction between the two objects; not what I'd think of as a wave-like fluctuation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_equation
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I've never understood this desire to run everything 100% natively all the time AND keep your system up to date. Just put a Windows 95/98/2000/XP VM into Windows 11, integrate its window manager with the host desktop, and be done with it forever. Start it transparently for apps that need it. IIRC Apple did a similar thing when transitioning from classic Mac OS to OS X, and it worked pretty well.
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How long have you been doing this and has it caused you to get locked out your account at all? I used to use instagram on desktop only but the account kept getting suspended, which stopped happening once I reverted back to using the mobile app. Anecdotally heard this was happening with other people too. Would be useful if mobile web was a work around?
It seems in modern language any time data is uploaded from a device it's "tracking"
> Or, if they were run by actual criminals, we’d hear of shakedowns of users of these sites?

Why? If someone is using those sites, they are extremely unlikely to tell anyone they're being shaken down because doing so requires admitting that they have used those sites. I would imagine that that group of people is a lot more likely to stay quiet and pay up than many other people.

That aside, I'm not entirely sure how people using those Tor sites would even be shaken down given Tor's anonymity. Unless, of course, they paid with a CC and not a form of digital currency.
No, carbon filters don't remove calcium and other minerals from water. You'd need a reverse osmosis filter for that. Or a water softener, but that won't filter lead.
someone should make a racing game where the vertices get more "unstable" the faster you go...
How to transition to systems programming as an experienced dev?
I recently quit my job as a backend software engineer because I was not enjoying the work. My career so far has basically ~4 years of backend work at a couple of companies - so c#/Python/PHP, database stuff, etc. I've always liked systems programming, so I'm taking something of a sabbatical to just work on projects that will hopefully land me a job in that domain.

Right now I'm relearning c, and then I guess (?) I'll relearn c++ too since there don't seem to be many rust jobs yet. I'm doing "Linux from Scratch" and building my own shell right now. After those are complete I plan on building my own version of Docker, and then maybe moving on to some kind of virtualization project (or maybe creating my own file system, just whatever seems fun).

So, using my home-built version of docker as an example, would it be better for my resume to spend a ton of time building out my own software (open sourcing it of course) or should I spend that time contributing to an existing open source project? I worry that if I choose to contribute to open source it'll take up half of my time just getting familiar with the existing codebase, and I wouldn't actually have that much to show for it. I would also be a lot more locked in to that specific project, and would have less time to explore different options (maybe I find out halfway through that I prefer driver development to containerization - I can move more nimbly when working on my own stuff).

I really need to make sure I'm optimizing this time off, so any guidance is welcome. I can take as long of a sabbatical as needed, but I'd like to keep it as short as possible so I can get back to saving for retirement :)
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