skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few of my takeaways:

> We're in the middle of a very odd arms race at the moment. [...] The biggest shift that's happened over the last couple of decades is that the US has invested a lot in anti-ballistic missile technology. That has either genuinely spooked the Russians and the Chinese, or it's allowed their military industrial complexes to push for a lot of money. They have similar dynamics as we do. It doesn't matter if they actually think it will be effective or not.

> The result is that both the Chinese and the Russians are developing fairly untested high-technology deterrence options, which include things like hypersonic warheads or drone-torpedoes—the kind of stuff that you would imagine they would do because they fear that their second strike capability is being affected by anti-ballistic missile technology. The US response to that is, maybe we should have some hypersonics also. It's another arms race for its own sake.

> [...] Are we getting close to a similar knife-edge today?

> The difficulty is that, for some of those choices, we've already chosen the path, and most people don't realize it. There are baked-in consequences of a decade of policy decisions. So even if we decided today, let's not go in this direction, it would still take active work to undo our policy decisions, much less convince the Chinese to undo theirs.

my note:

For a while now I have felt this sinking realization that even as global warming is slowly being understood as an existential threat, nuclear war is slipping out of our minds completely. In the end I'm afraid the two will collude to bring our civilization to collapse.
A good read with links to research on the subject: https://journalistsresource.org/criminal-justice/defund-the-...
The classification of something as handgun vs. long arm ammo is extremely soft and discretionary. As soon as one company makes a production handgun that fires a specific cartridge it's enough to get it deemed as handgun ammo.
This is entirely correct. Automation is a flash in the pan, making it easier for an expert to gather, process, and present information is much higher value. Unfortunately for the startup ecosystem, it has apparently become rote knowledge among investors that workflow = low-value, AI = 100x value, so the money is pushing entrepreneurs away from the more boring task of making tools for people to process knowledge while chasing fairy tales of turning millions of PDFs into an automatic gold mine...
Potential side effect: ability to determine the secretive chemical makeup of perfumes and flavours.

Or more widely, how to cover or enhance flavours (similar to what flavour engineers accomplish.)
It's not a solution, but I can buy a nice vacation with the reduction in my tax bill and functionally nothing else changes about my life.
> I used the JIT version recently on a new landing page

Yeah, that's kinda the poster child use case for Tailwind and similar frameworks. Landing pages are all about being jazzy and unique and eye catching, and not so much about code reusability/composability.

Where it gets less fun is when you want widget consistency across multiple areas of a site and across design tweaks over time, since now you have to deal with several `class="..."` strings across multiple files, possibly with class names in arbitrary order, possibly mixed with logic from other templating languages (be it from Django or JSX or whatever). So you can't just grep to achieve the objective of changing styles in one place to affect all instances of some semantic group.

Personally I think comparing Tailwind directly against traditional CSS as a whole is painting in too broad strokes. There's a lot of CSS methodologies and also a lot of bad practices (e.g. using SASS indentation as namespacing mechanism and then running into the old problem of specificity), and comparatively, there's a lot more than Tailwind in the atomic CSS space, and more broadly, in the compiled CSS space.

Utilities like Bootstrap (e.g. `class="btn btn-primary"`) for example share many benefits of both atomic CSS and "good" subsets of traditional CSS practices (namely, you get memorable short class names, which are also organizable along semantic lines). So there's definitely more shades of gray than just "atomic-css-is-the-best-thing-since-sliced-bread" vs "looks-like-lazy-style-attributes-lol".
> a propaganda device.

that is of course. Another way of building an even bigger d.ck.

>And while Russia is paranoid, I don't think they're strategically expecting the US to be able to neutralize their road/rail mobile forces and submarines and strategic bombers in a first strike.

Russia has been losing on high-tech weapons - high precision, stealth, global and battlefield awareness/connectivity and now on the drones (which is for example why Russia so conspicuously amassed so many basically WWII style forces right now on Ukraine border - to show that if Ukraine uses its Turkish drones - the current huge, yet carrying a kind of expiration date, strategic advantage Ukraine got over Russia in Donbass - to "solve" the Donbass issue like Azerbajan did in Nagorny Karabah using the same drones a year ago in a big facepalm to Russian weapons - the Russian forces will strike behind Ukraine Donbass forces cutting them from the rest of Ukraine somewhat similar to the Ilovaysk battle of August 2014, only at the much larger scale this time), and it is pretty feasible that US would get a hold on the sufficient intelligence and would have the capability to use low yield (even non-nuclear) precision first strike to disable most of the current Russian MAD assets, and the good anti-ICBM missile can do the rest. I'm not saying that US is going to actually do the strike - just having credible capability would adjust the situation severely. So Russia not being able to match in the high tech, goes wider and larger scale - like those nuclear powered cruise missile and that gigantic torpedo "wunderwaffe".
I read part of this - if I remember correctly it was reviewed in the Economist, and anyway they used to have lots of good recommendations for translated fiction. I couldn't get into it either, but I think it's the kind of book you need to read a lot of before it becomes interesting. I may try again just because this has jogged my memory.

In the afterward of "The Name of the Rose", Umberto Eco talks about how he wanted to filter for a certain kind of reader with whom the story would resonate, and does so by making the first hundred pages very difficult to read. Overall, the book is worth it in that case (although he might be joking). So sometimes its worth trying to press onward, even when the material is not enjoyable immediately.
Consider reading Exploding the Phone by Phil Lapsley

http://explodingthephone.com/
>didn't smoke much, maybe once a day

lol
I was persuaded enough by the research that I decided to move away from lead slugs a few years ago. I currently use these steel slugs for deer when required to use a shotgun, and find them extremely effective: https://www.ddupleks-usa.com/broadhead-hexolit-32. I'd recommend checking them out. Like most ammo, availability is spotty right now, but cost is reasonable when they can be found.
Also again, I don't see how inflation should apply to police budgets but not other budgets.
My point is that it doesn’t make sense to say “you called for defunding the police, we didn’t defund the police, things got worse, therefore your slogan is bad.”
Who created the hostile work environment?
Just days ago, Jacqueline Avant, the 81 year old wife of music industry legend Clarence Avant, was murdered in the wee hours of the morning in her Beverly Hills home during a home invasion [1].

Police were able to catch the murderer when he (literally) shot himself in the foot shortly thereafter… during a second home invasion in the Hollywood Hills [2].

> What exactly would police have done in any of these situations to prevent them from happening?

What if threatening would-be criminals with prison wasn’t an effective deterrent anymore? Singapore employs corporal punishment [3] in addition to prison, and I’d be interested in reviewing any studies examining whether swift corporal punishment delivered early in life for minor offenses (e.g. bullying) could be shown to prevent future criminality.

[1]: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-01/jacqueli...

[2]: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-06/murder-c...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
That’s what firewalls are for.
I didn't downvote but I would imagine it's because the author cited a study, you said the evidence was thin, but you didn't elaborate on how it was thin.

http://morganwilliamsjr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Chalf...
>Funny how upper-middle class kids listen to the same songs and end up working at FAANGs, banks, law firms, hospitals, etc.

How many upper-middle class kids listen to Chicago SoundCloud rappers?
Browsers scaremonger really hard about self-signed SSL certs. And browsers are starting to implement HTTPS only as a default. It won't be too long before HTTP is blocked by mega-corp browsers and not having a CA TLS cert means your website is now un-visitable by non-technical people (and not indexed by search engines).
Are we allowed to discuss Human Biodiversity on Hacker News, or it also a verboten topic?
Some people believe that’s what we already have.
Does FFXIV use a dedicated server host that is implemented separately from the game client?

If so, I wonder if perhaps alternative architectures could be explored. I personally don't see much difference between handling an MMO client event and processing a FIX message on a financial exchange.

There are some exchanges that can do tens of millions of messages per second on a single thread... How many players would that be able to support in just one rack full of HPE/AMD capex? Perhaps we could steal some of these ideas for purposes of amusing ourselves?
And the reason we pursued vaccination rigorously enough to eradicate it was because as you say it is very deadly and very contagious.

Something with a mortality rate of 30+% and kills children at orders of magnitude higher rate than COVID has is far easier to convince the world populace to vaccinate for than something with 1-2 order of magnitude lower CFR.

So you can most 100%, certainly say, it was eradicated because it is so deadly. If only say 0.5% of people died from it, disproportionately the elderly those with comorbidities, eradicating smallpox would have been a hell of a lot harder to get worldwide vaccinations on board. A hell of a lot.
They definitely rescued the campaign IMO. Multiplayer is missing quite a few features, though it is a load of fun as is and feels distinctly like Halo.
But rent a worker is small scale. It is not signing a multi million euro contract.

Consultants are a thing here, and they may be the closest companies get to not knowing what they buy.

I mean, I’m not saying that the other way works. All our major IT systems are delayed and over budget, but there are detailed and outlined requirements that aren’t delivered.
What do you think of TCES, in particular for low-grade heat and cooling at the household level, where its lack of reservoir insulation matters in a way that it doesn't matter at utility scale? Is there a good review article you'd recommend reading?
I can't say that I'm convinced by this post.
Liquid biopsies are going to be more useful than imaging scans for early cancer detection.
That material gets absorbed differently by the different social spheres. Those FAANG kids might listen to it, enjoy it, maybe as a way to rebel, escape or act cool, but it's not part of their culture. They will grow up to be like their FAANG parents and, in turn, also look down on it.

It's not like I never enjoyed 50 cents.

The problem is when it's part of the culture to the point where it's internalized.
I tried them all a few months ago. Poetry was the best in my opinion.
I realize that this is a car-and-mouse game that you might not want to talk about in public, but are there techniques that you’ve found to work? Is just throttling the CPU for anon accounts sufficient to make it not worth the trouble?
Ah, decadence is such an interesting word to bring up. It does fit the feel of our times because it implies both having a lot but yet also a certain moral emptiness.

Every time inequality comes up here on HN, someone always pipes up to say, "Consumers are able to afford more goods today than they ever have. We're doing fine." And, sure, I get we can have more shirts, games, a processed food than ever. Yes, definitely some of those material goods are important (clean water, healthy food, medicine, shelter).

But there is clearly something missing in our lives, and "decadence" describes it exactly. We have too much of things that don't mean anything and too little of the things that mean everything.
I think I'm starting to like poetry too!
How do they benchmark the quality of their search results?
Many cities in the formerly industrial parts of the US that have had these police long since defunded by economic circumstance. You don't have rampant crime in those places.

The west coast's crime problem has nothing to do with money and everything to do with executive policy (to not do much prosecuting, to the point where crimes that were formerly opportunistic are now low risk enough to become reliable sources of income for those so inclined) that's slowly being copied in more and more cities hence the overall trend.
> their wages and have their and their colleagues jobs cut

Is this not literally the idea? The issue with "defund the police" slogan is that defunding isn't the end goal. The idea is to reduce the size, scope, militarization, and budget of the police force _and_ use that money to instead fund programs to help citizens and the local economy.

Part of the platform is absolutely to reduce the current scope of the widely militarized police force in the US.
This becomes interesting in post-communist countries. Trying to keep the communist status quo... is that right or left? From your perspective right (and I believe you make a good point), but they will identify as left, and their opponents will identify as right.
Also hard disagree. Everyone I know takes papers quite seriously, there's a major push to get more information into the literature (publish null effect estimates!), etc.

This feels a lot like the graduate students on the Academia StackExchange who are convinced the moment they present their idea it will get stolen, while every faculty member is like "I have a list of my own ideas that I don't have time to work on as long as my arm."
Police departments, and thus municipalities, have to pay for both the allocation and maintenance of all equipment given from the 1033 Program.
Right. Even putting aside blockchain-based systems, you can have systems without a dictator because they're based on voting.

Suppose the root is a set of public keys, each with a top level domain. Adding one requires a supermajority of the others to agree. Removing one is impossible; it can sign its own successor and that's it. You now have a federated system with no single chokepoint.
Sorry I don't seem to understand your argument. You're comparing the budgets in nominal terms without accounting for inflation. For example the $630 million this year won't be able to fund as many officers and services like the year prior due to inflation. Budgets are typically increased across the board to account for inflation.
Sure. Frontend development, mostly on a single React-based project, for which we receive mockups from a dedicated designer. Using CSS modules, with SCSS (not sure we even needed the SCSS; we do sometimes use its nesting and ampersands; but I think we could have just as well written vanilla CSS syntax).

Other times, I would write web components with lit. With shadow dom, web components would have their own little bits of CSS, which provides sufficient amount of encapsulation that neither CSS modules nor SCSS are really necessary.

I don't have any problems with importing CSS from (S)CSS files or writing it inside of a LitElement-based web component. I don't have any problem with writing CSS by hand either. I find it strange that people would want to learn another domain-specific language for CSS, in addition to the CSS itself and DOM's camel-cased style dialect.
Are you saying cops don’t serve and protect?

Do you know any who rushed into active mass shooting scenes, which is clearly a dangerous place to be? If you did, then you might think differently.

Have cops used undue force? Yes.
Are there some that are on a power trip and need to be fired? Yes.

That doesn’t change what the police officers I know are like, nor the risks they are taking with every patrol.

I think the main legitimate beef I’ve seen is how seemingly good cops still stand up for cops that are obviously bad.
You are correct that the public does not want to pay for them, this does not mean the government should be allowed to adopt them as well

The government should not adopt anything as law that is not publically accessible, the law absolutely has to open access to all persons if you are expected to follow it.

If the public does not want to fund the creation of building codes, then the building codes need to be done away with, or simplified to the point where the public will be willing to fund there

The building codes, like most standards, are filled with all kinds of things that have nothing to do with safety which the the sole area the government should be concerned with.

Government should have a safety code, then let the market compete for builders that want to voluntarily adopt the other standards
You don’t believe there are people afraid to call the police? You’re not familiar of any stories of people who requested police assistance only to end up a victim?
Having used PDM now for several projects, it's my preferred package manager over poetry and others. Its dependency resolver is both faster and more forgiving than poetry's. I also like the built-in task management system similar to npm's.
So Hospital of Transfiguration is an absolutely incredible - if haunting - book, and as much as I love Lem's Sci-Fi, that one is a masterpiece as well. Also I have no idea if they are even available in English, but the two follow ups to it, "Wśród umarłych"(Among the dead) and "Powrót"(Return) are also worth reading, even though Lem never agreed to republish them, as he only agreed to write them to get around the communist censorship. I think from the perspective of time it's easy to see throught the pages written clearly to appease the communist censors, and end up with a worthy follow up to the first book.
Perhaps, perhaps not, this is an explicit limit of Femi estimates.

But you do also have to include the power cost of displays when the game machine doesn’t have one built in, adding 10-120W.

And the older consoles didn’t all vanish into the ether when new models arrived; my brother still has an original Xbox 360, and not for lack of money to upgrade. So I expect many of its contemporaries to also contribute to the total number of gaming units, not just total sales of most recent Xbox + most recent PlayStation + most recent Nintendo console.
I believe there was indeed a two-pronged approach in that NK also proclaimed the material to be an obvious example of the detrimental effects of capitalism in SK.
The only reasonable way I can see to do this, would be to have an IPv4v2 packet within an IPv4v1 packet. So the v4v1 packet is delivered to its endpoint then stripped and the v4v2 packet traverses onwards to its destination.

This doesn't solve the dual-stack issues, as either the endpoint needs both v4v1 and v4v2 stacks, or it needs to be offloaded at the router - essentially re-inventing NAT.

What v6 has done, is essentially say there's no way to do this without breaking things, so we might as well break everything at once. So a lot of things that were optional, hacky bolt-ons in v4 have been adopted properly, because if we're going to add a 2nd stack, we might as well make the effort worth it - because lets face it, we're not going to have another chance to make a 20+ year transition any time soon.
Brave's long-term problem is that Google can set the cost of Brave's ongoing maintenance to whatever they want. In the 90s Microsoft called this "keeping the competition on a treadmill".
Because the ramdisk provided by ipxe.efi can't be mounted by kernel, as it disappears once ExitBootServices is called early in kernel boot code.

However, booting linux using ipxe.efi involves downloading to the temporary ramdisk the kernel and initrd image(s), then booting it as normal uefi executable passing initrd image(s) as parameters. The UEFI "wrapper" used by kernel uses UEFI calls to copy contents of initrd into kernel-accessible memory before early boot code removes the temporary ramdisk.

But so long as you do not hit ExitBootServices(), ipxe.efi installs a simple filesystem driver that stores everything in memory and mounts an instance of it as "current directory" for all actions in your boot script.
> Walking and spraying multiple houses... I was surprise there was no return fire, then I saw it was CA.

Most folks on my street own a gun.

First of all, I probably wouldn't have time to wait for cover, make it to my safe, pull a gun, take the safety off, make it to a safe position, aim, and fire before the threat left.

But set that aside.

No way in hell me or any of my neighbors would return fire at a moving target in a residential neighborhood. That's 100% how you accidentally kill someone (or get killed yourself).
There will be loud complainers for every major game that will ever be released at this point.

I've been playing it quite a bit, and sure I'd love more maps and at first the experience seemed to be given too slowly, but the gameplay itself is pretty rock solid and it's the most time I've put into any multiplayer shooter in a long time.

Easily played it more than the last few Call of Duties, Valorant, and Fortnite combined, and more than I played any Halo game since Halo Reach.

Also, if I had to pay $60 for it, I might not have tried it for quite some time, since I haven't really gotten into the past couple of Halo games. It being free made me go "sure what the hell, let's try it."

I even paid the ~$10 for the battle pass, something I never usually do, but I felt like I had enough fun with it it was worth tossing them $10.
A chief function of mines isn't so much where they are as where they aren't, but that the enemy thinks they might be.

Navigating minefields takes either time, a total disregard for consequence, or ignorance. None are especially effective countermeasures in heat of battle.
They're basically a gossip forum that keeps tabs on what people share about themselves publicly if they find a given person particularly amusing.
Very little money, and more than that, very little unallocated money. I'm fortunate enough to have a decently well funded lab, but almost all of that funding is spoken for. Your Compelling New Product needs to be compelling enough for me to put it into grants anticipating it'll still be around in several years, often enough to get around most grants not being funded.
I'm not sure which exact 4k panel(s) Lenovo is shipping with the T14 this year. From what notebookcheck has tested, the P14 4k panel they had was pretty good (still a bit slow, but usable, and no PWM), while the X1 carbon 4k panel they got was unusable (fast enough, but 200hz PWM so basically guarantees that it'll cause headaches).
Microsoft already switched to Chromium because they decided not to devote engineering resources to keep up with Google.