skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the point is that, once you get out the nooses and guillotines and start lining partisans up against the wall, you're no longer participating in a legitimate, democratic process.

In the oft-quoted "Tree of liberty" letter written by Thomas Jefferson regarding Shay's Rebellion[0], he condemned the actual violence as being born in ignorance and considered it the result of the failure of government to properly "set them right to facts, pardon and pacify them" - even as he praised the spirit which led to it.

Revolution against tyranny is, itself, an act of tyranny (often of a population against itself) and while the ends may be considered justifiable (and always are by the revolutionaries) the means often are not.

[0]https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/105.html
> Every issue is a partisan issue, which is why we have parties.

No, we have parties because some issues are partisan. If every issue was partisan, then "partisan" wouldn't have any meaning. Trivial counter proof: the PATRIOT Acts was a bipartisan issue.

> Nevada doesn't want it and enlists their allies for support. It so happens that they are Democrats, and it's true that there is an anti nuclear wing of the Democratic party, but that's not really the issue here. They don't want to be forced to take nuclear waste and their allies support them.

You referenced a 50/50 split in congress as an obstacle as though one party is opposes nuclear and one party favors it. I don't think that's the case--I think there's strong anti-nuclear representation on both sides.

> That's democracy. You get votes by trading your top issues for other people's. It tends to settle into parties to formalize the arrangements.

Right, but that doesn't imply that nuclear is a partisan issue, contra your claims.
I mean, if QM wasn't true we would observe something else, wouldn't we? I don't understand how this is a meaningful question.
> At the risk of seeming callous, I am not convinced it is obvious that bridges should never collapse.

Nobody is saying that a bridge should last forever. They're saying repair it as long as you can, then replace the bridge so that a collapse never happens.
> I'm just wondering "out loud" for 2 reasons:

because it feels like you're being a valuable skeptic, even though you aren't?

because you think "just asking questions," the way scare political news commentators, delivers something positive?

because you think the work of scientists should be judged based on the debunking of a source that has nothing to do with the science you're openly questioning?

because you've become so comfortable explaining your behavior to people who are openly telling you to your face that it's not appropriate that you don't even hear them saying "this isn't appropriate" anymore?

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> prior reports have emphasized an important distinction

I took a look at your new link, and I don't see any important distinction being emphasized.

THIS IS NOT AN INVITATION FOR YOU TO EXPLAIN.

This is me saying "nothing is being emphasized to the point that someone who, unlike you, has domain specific training can even notice it."

In reality, you've hyper-focused on some irrelevant detail, and now you're desperately trying to figure out why that irrelevant detail isn't present other places.

"Well yes, don't you see? Sure, this paper is about fuel efficiency, but this one doesn't cover kerosene cars, and the other one emphasized an important distinction about kerosene cars"

In reality it's likely to be some detail the paper put in to silence a different walrus.

Yes, I see that you quoted a random statistical detail about age groups and likelihoods.

You want to know why this doesn't matter?

Every vaccine you've ever taken has this risk. All of them.

We just don't talk about it for the same reason that we don't talk about a seatbelt's risk of causing a broken rib, which can puncture your lung, and kill you. Happens twice a year in this country.

Why?

Because twice a year is nothing, and we don't want to spend the rest of our lives talking to people who really want to deeply study that twice a year number, as if there's something valuable there.

The real issue is you have no statistical intuition, so you don't recognize that you're wasting everyone's time chasing ghosts.

The downside, of course, is that STUPID PEOPLE CAN SEE YOU.

And they think you're challenging whether the vaccine is a good idea.

And no, it really doesn't matter if you say you aren't doing that. Stupid people see scary numbers and they remember what Fox News said, and they end up not taking the vaccine, because with five billion people worldwide having a dose in their arm, their dumb ass is so scared by people like you that they're still going to wait and see.

And you, desperate to feel intelligent, will not stop trying to ply these bullshit nonsense numbers, to show everyone else how much you get it.

Please stop doing this soon.

You're killing stupid people.
If that was true, wouldn't other anti-helminitics show the same effect ?
I have been developing iOS apps since 2014, and was active in the jailbreaking scene before then. I don't believe any one person understands the entirety of what is going on when they launch an app. Remember, iOS is based on macOS, which is based on NeXTSTEP, last released in 1995!

iOS has been plagued by a whole host of bugs from the 90s and below. Remember effective Power? (https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/189064/364414) A Unicode memory allocation bug, the code for which was probably written decades ago and intended to run on a CRT monitor. I find it hard to believe anyone at Apple had interacted with that code since the initial iPhone release. Probably nobody at Apple in 2015 knew it existed. It's so unfathomably complicated.
>Go listen to Carmack or watch Jonathan Blow's code stuff. Far more interesting things there.

Could you please give the links?
I just want to put a pitch in here that I am related to several LEOs, and I can assure you that the number of "bad people," are a tiny minority. And I am also STRONGLY opposed to this idea that it's OK to attack government buildings, and I don't think I'm alone. If 2020 riots happen again, I think you can expect all out war.
I find it kind of frustrating that Apple would use that as a rationale without taking efforts to support homebrew. If they didn’t like the way homebrew was engineered, they could have afforded to port dpkg or something similar. If they did like homebrew, they should have hired on the core developers.

It’s less true today than it used to be, but Mac was the best Unix developer box in the corporate world. A huge portion of their sales (especially high end sales where they make the most profit) relied on these community efforts.

I’ve moved over to using nix instead of homebrew and it’s so much better that it makes me wonder how it ever got this way. I think this is how.
Many of those CVEs will not impact your application code, though. This is just a side effect of Python having a huge and somewhat crusty standard library.
> Knausenberger said the ACC team would “streamline [existing programs] into one endpoint solution that meets our security, operations, and UX needs.”

Sounds like they're going to get the F-35 of antivirus software. Having multiple programs might not be the problem, but consolidating to just one is an easy sell for a lucrative non-solution.
Key Fed inflation gauge rises 4.9% from a year ago, fastest gain since 1983
That does even transcend the meaning "simple" is used with in SNMP...
> For me personally, A bridge with a 99.9% chance of not collapsing in a given year is good enough.

So you are ok if in a city with 100 bridges there is an average of one collapse every 10 years?
It doesn't even have to be low end hardware. I just gave back a laptop to a client that I was working with in healthcare. It's a 16" MBP with an i7 and 32GB of RAM. The machine itself is really fast but gets bogged down by all the other crap it has to connect to. They had McAfee endpoint security on these things and it would prevent any unauthorized apps from running as well as hog between 50-70% of the CPU during it's daily "checks" (which ran every hour). I eventually had to patch a kernel ktext just to get the endpoint to shut up and stop eating my memory.

The problem isn't hardware necessarily (well it is here), but it's also the bundled software. Not only are these machines old but they are having to load all this extra shit that slows down the whole experience that much more.
Use Invoke-Build as portal to other scripts in the repo. Document scripts using README.md in their own folder.

Then users of your project can type `ib ?` to get the list of available scripts and ib itself will setup context of their execution as needed.
Because you have additional information that separates it from the general case.

Even in mathematics if you add additional constraints you can solve subclasses of problems.
Accelerando
Thanks for bringing those to my attention. Very beautiful indeed.
More people died in Michigan in 2020 than were born
On reddit, I just switch the url to “old.reddit” and that’s it

Twitter doesn’t have “old twitter”… well… one time, I somehow magically summoned mobile interface that looked like from 2013, but I haven’t been able to repeat it. Something with Javascript I suppose
A typical pattern I saw was a team adds a new flag, then gradually rolls it out. Once done the removal is added to the backlog. “High priority” bug fixes and feature work gradually moves the ticket down in the system. Two months later a reorg happens, the team no longer exists, and the work is lost.
Hw-probe: Probe for hardware, check operability and find drivers
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures by Charles Babbage
A proofread version of the 4th enlarged edition (1846) of Babbage's book. The first paragraph is something that I think about a lot in the context of the "technical depth" of things we take for granted:

> There exists, perhaps, no single circumstance which distinguishes our country more remarkably from all others, than the vast extent and perfection to which we have carried the contrivance of tools and machines for forming those conveniences of which so large a quantity is consumed by almost every class of the community. The amount of patient thought, of repeated experiment, of happy exertion of genius, by which our manufactures have been created and carried to their present excellence, is scarcely to be imagined. If we look around the rooms we inhabit, or through those storehouses of every convenience, of every luxury that man can desire, which deck the crowded streets of our larger cities, we shall find in the history of each article, of every fabric, a series of failures which have gradually led the way to excellence; and we shall notice, in the art of making even the most insignificant of them, processes calculated to excite our admiration by their simplicity, or to rivet our attention by their unlooked-for results.
"Stratus Red Team", an open-source adversary emulation tool for the cloud
I actually owned a mall store a few years ago and mall management told us all about the development plans. They look to demolish a big box space on one end and then create an outdoor green space, amphitheater and area for standalone restaurants and shops on the property.

And then add apartments near all that to create a desirable and appealing premium rental environment.

All of this was while the mall was plenty busy. It’s just the direction they were moving to adapt in a changing world. Some mall management is a lot more forward thinking that others and that had to be kept in mind. Poorly managed malls fail quickly.
And let's tie one hand behind their backs and cover one eye as well while we are at it. I think the idea of giving devs trash hardware because "it's what our users use" is the worst solution possible to solving that problem. Have the devs or another team test on lower-end hardware before pushing a version, don't hobble them while they are creating.
Valid criticism, agreed, and thanks. I'll be fixing that soon, apologize for the inflicted suffering, but hope on balance it was good!
FCC revokes China Unicom's authorization to operate in U.S.
Safari: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/2935/Apple-Safari.html?ve...
Chrome: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/15031/Google-Chrome.html?...

2019: Safari: 166, Chrome: 312
2020: Safari: 76, Chrome: 228
2021: Safari: 33, Chrome: 309

> Safari is much less secure than Chrome

Not by CVE metrics? Which metric are we talking about here?
If you’ve made Python setuid, your security model is already garbage.
Tl;Dr: I'd be really careful with artists and things they tell you they have seen.

Art careers often require a constant, heavy moderation of the gap between subjective sensory perception and objective (commonly perceived or measured) sensory perception. At first the artist may have to force the gap to become fluid. But over time the gap naturally starts to seem very fluid by itself.

The imagination fills in objectively-perceived gaps of missing information very easily, either in terms of imagery or in reasoning/logic.

When I did some casual qualitative interviews with cultist-artists, they were the one group that wanted to believe in their belief systems based mostly on subjective sensory experiences. They were the largest "I've seen things you wouldn't believe" group.

(With respect to the individuals involved; other groups had different perception preferences that would also moderate various issues)
Doesn't give you a step by step tutorial but does have nice big images and links to all sorts of no-code tools and some example ideas that are apparently possible. But when I clicked on one it just took me to homepage of one without any further what to do next steps.
Consistent waning of efficacy against infection over time has been observed regardless of variants[1].

At the same time, we didn't see "massive benefit" against severe cases in breakthrough infections in a matched cohort study[2]. This leads me to suspect that current statistical observations do not reflect reality and may well be artifacts. Paradoxically, we're also observing increased odds of Omikron infection after (two dose) vaccination.

Furthermore, we're administering boosters even to teenagers based on good faith, not good science. Hence, there still is a need for placebo-controlled trials.

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3949410

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.26.21265508v...
That's a strange position to pivot off of - there's no normative claim in that entire passage, just an analytical deconstruction of a societal manifestation.
Thank you for this interesting article. The story behind fonts and printing is absolutely fascinating. Thought-provoking to see the evolution of a font over so many years.
The article is good but I think it makes a simple category error. There is quite a lot of theorizing concerning the justification of extra-legal violence. Riots, though, are characterized by their aimlessnessness. When rioters do discriminate in who they attack and what they destroy we don't call them rioters and we are generally more open to the idea that their actions may be justified.

On Violence (Hannah Arendt), which is cited in the article, is a good discussion. In '67 there was an interesting public discussion with Arendt, Chomsky, and others titled "The Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act?" We tend to think that we're living in tense times but the 60s and 70s were more tense with more politial violence.
Sorry, from my perspective he's talking utter shite. I knew people in northern Ireland who rioted. They were young angry stupid men who didn't give a fuck who's lives they were making a misery. It was a form of collective punishment on people whose only crime was having a business or a car that idiots enjoyed smashing up
It seems like a difference between a scientific philosophy definition of free will vs a common or theological one. I don't think most people would find the unpredictability definition very satisfying, even if philosophers or scientists use it. Lots of very simple systems can be unpredictable, like a decaying atom, but it is not exhibiting free will. I do think most people have an idea of "self" that is not predetermined, or probabilistic, but instead has some form of definite control (whatever that means) over their decisions. As such they can feel "good" about making the "right" decision and "bad for the "wrong" decisions etc. If each decision, no matter how complex the circuitry in your brain has become (remember you didn't have any control over that, it just happened) comes down to a deterministic or probabilistic process, I just don't really find it satisfying to call that "free will".
For historical record, first m68k which could use mmu was m68010

I've never seen m68008 m68010 and m68012 in action though. Seems Sun used them.
There are millions of podcasts adding thousands of hours of content every day, how is this even remotely feasible? Why would Spotify want to do this anyway?
If you don't like it when a podcast includes ads then don't listen to that podcast, this has nothing to do with Spotify.
So, I actually did look this up four days ago, but it seems that PennDOT changed their website? https://www.penndot.gov/ProjectAndPrograms/Bridges/Pages/def... Those excel spreadsheets don't seem to do anything when I click on them.

The note I took was "There are 25,437 bridges in PA. 9.59% of them were rated in “poor” condition last month, with only 34.37% of them being “good”". The original sheet was broken out by county, with Allegheny County basically being the same as the city of Pittsburgh in this regard.

> I just wanted to clarify that, as much as Pittsburgh may be particularly problematic, its infrastructure issues were still replicated across most of the US.

Absolutely, it is an issue everywhere for sure.
In the era of neovim, you can get very far with very few plugins.

Put together neovim, nvim-treesitter and nvim-lspconfig (which are both "official" plugins), and fzf.vim, and you end up with a decent IDE with only one non-official plugin.

Less plugins = less to go wrong, easier to reason about, less configuration needed, more zen.
like, say, a very minor change to string encoding with a 12-year managed rollout

That's exactly the point: it required a massive amount of effort for relatively minor benefits.
Exactly.

It is the same with YouTube. Neither Twitter or YouTube will change and it will only get worse as I have said for years.
Frankly, I think the fact that it breeds this sort of expectation is a knock against semantic versioning. See also the faker/colors dumpster fire.
I use the poop emoji often, I don’t see anything wrong with it. Sometimes it’s faster to convey an idea with that than with a sentence.
That’s nearly the model of the Americana development in the LA area. An outdoor mall modeled to look like a dense, walkable city (complete with trolley car!) with apartments on top. No grocery store though, and priced at 4K+/month
I'm at one and it's pleasant. Pay is smaller than my country's large corps, but I can basically work on all projects and do things however I like. There is ML research as well as interesting dev projects.

It's sometimes annoying to see people use lazy solutions and refuse to learn the proper way, but since I took ownership of the important modules I use early on, I've built a small bubble of good software I can build upon.
My rule of thumb: if it's big enough to have a dedicated HR person, it's not "really" a startup. Or it's not going to feel like one.

The best size IMHO is ~100-1000 employees. Big enough that you have resources at your disposal, but small enough that you can just pick up a problem and start working it.
I would love to encounter these lenient admins/moderators. We just seem to be getting our app at work suspended all the time for the most random things. One time, the whole app was suspended and we needed to create a new app identifier in the play store, because no one was replying to our case :/ I agree that it is a true clown show.
About bloody time - the sooner we move on from the Python 2 to Python 3 fiasco, the better. I get hives every time I see a nice project on Github, recently updated, with "Tested on Python 2.7".
The basic question is interesting, but much of the discussion about riots has an aggressive political framing. Many riots are triggered by wins or losses at prominent sports contests. Also, Stonewall was a riot with a particularly long lasting effect and different dynamics from many others. People in drag humiliating police was a big part of it and property damage was minimal.

Consider this recollection of a riot in 1994:

Having just lived through the hockey riots in Vancouver (the worst mob
action Western Canada has ever seen), it makes me fear not beer-swilling
heteros but the socio-economic system of apartheid they live under. If you
think that makes me an armchair socialist, that's your opinion.

By the way, just talk to a cute 20-year-old rioter who got cruised by a
26-year-old riot squad cop in the middle of the riot. The cop literally
sheltered him with his shield, accompanied him to his car, and gave the kid
his phone number!

Grace under pressure.
Sorry, but I'm not so sure with VSCode I'm nearly instantly productive, with vim I have to spend a lot of time before being able to navigate in C++ files..
Got rid of my Twitter account a couple years ago. Have not missed it once.
Without knowing anything, "needs some repair" and "unexpectedly collapses in broad daylight" are very different things.
I don't think the author was proposing that classical mechanics is something sacred. Rather, are there prohibitive consequences to a world where our invented model of classical mechanics perfectly matches reality?
I think location has to do with it. Riots in DC government buildings are taken more seriously than riots affecting civilian housing and businesses. You can argue that's a double standard, but many people just feel differently when they see rioting in the capital building(vs rioting on Main Street)
No need for that, just test everything in a throttled VM. They are just lazy to optimize
The point is that they aren't "controlling an export", they are trying to restrict free speech.
For the last two decades local and state governments have been getting things done in the absence of a functional federal government. Obviously this isn't uniformly distributed--some state and local governments probably do suck--but on balance state and local governments are outperforming the federal government so it stands to reason that far more bridges will be maintained if it's the responsibility of state and local governments.
At least compared with a few other fairly big cities I've lived in this is a distinctively New York and even Manhattan phenomenon. I drive rarely here but my assumption is that drivers would often never get to turn the corner if they gave crossing pedestrians the polite space they do elsewhere, because of a combination of (foot) traffic density and pedestrians ignoring their light.

That last part, I think, is because New York pedestrian lights have a relatively long "red flashing" phase, which combined with New Yorkers being New Yorkers has the counterintuitive effect that everyone treats red flashing, and even the few seconds after, as "go ahead and start crossing."
Yet I would say the majority of the unicode posts linked on HN are not about non latin scripts but about silly emoji / flags etc
Please keep personal swipes out of your comments here, regardless of what other commenters are doing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, guilty as charged, and not acceptable. I don't yet know how to interact with the reader mode, but there's my weekend now. Thanks for the advance feedback and I hope you remember to check back as well :-)