skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuclear bombs are strongly disinclined to "go boom" unlike say TNT. Turning the energy from splitting atoms into a large explosion, which is what you want from a weapon, will require precise timing. If you get it wrong either nothing happens, or you maybe create a small detonation, and cover a modestly sized area with dangerous debris from the failed attempt. Just throw a box of grenades into a waste water treatment plant or something instead for a fraction of the cost.
It's in our history to worry about it :')
In the US, a lot of wildlife conservation work involves trapping and tagging wild animals. I listen to a popular hunting podcast where wildlife biologists are often brought on as guests, and a LOT of the information they get seems to be directly from GPS collars. Science is the primary and proper tool for wildlife management policy under the North American Model of conservation, and GPS collars are the primary way of tracking things like mortality, migration, etc. that inform such science.

The main thing to remember is that, practically speaking, conservation is about a population, not the individuals within the population. The point isn't to save the individual deer, rather the point is to make sure that 100 years from now, deer are still around. This is how things like the the Pittman-Robertson Act are justified -- funding wildlife conservation from tag/license sales to hunters to kill wildlife. The results (the foundation of arguably the most successful wildlife restoration programs in human history, responsible for bringing dozens of major species back from near-extinction) speak for themselves.
It sounds to me like the student did not get accepted into a highly competitive program and used his racial prejudice to come up with a racist target to blame.

He adopted the null hypothesis that his lack of acceptance to the program was due to random chance alone. The evidence used to reject that null hypothesis consisted of some hand-picked samples from a subpopulation of applicants with whom he had social-networking contacts (and sure, he's got some friends who don't look like him, maybe even some of his best friends), further categorized by him and his collaborator subjectively into racial groups and the proxy metric of being on the dean's list, compiled into some regression numbers of unspecified strength. There are plenty of opportunities for skew and bias an the method of his research. If this study was robust enough, there would be plenty of parties interested enough that it would be a career-making, not career-breaking publication.

The author of the piece simply wanted an anecdata to support his racist views, and if you're thinking "hell yeah, white guys gotta stand together to stop those people" you're exactly the base he's pandering to.
Honestly, the biggest risk in failure is that the missile gets launched, but the payload is a dud. So now, your country gets the punishment for launching a nuke, but none of the benefits.
This conflict hardly involves US interests. We’re involved insofar as our allies may need us to help them, but Ukraine is not important to the US
It's the configuration complexity clock!

http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-complex...
Breathing into a paper bag is a stereotypical "calm yourself down when panicking" technique, but I've done it mid-panic and it has had an effect on me. With that being said, it's debatable as to how well it works.
I don't think this passes. Anonymized post IDs still are information about a person. You can piece together posts & likes and conclude with good accuracy that a specific person is making the post. As an example, if me, My Mom, and my brother's girlfriend all like a post it's likely that my brother made it. That makes those anonymized IDs personal information based on the GPRD definition:

“any information”
“relating to”
“an identified or identifiable”
“natural person”

https://gdpr.eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/

Ultimately the problem is that the GDPR is written broadly enough to encompass basically everything.
Don't forget good old fashioned tallow and lard.
Very well done, I like this quite a bit
Russia recognises the independence of the whole Donbas and Luhansk, not just the parts held by the rebels. And now they're going yo take them by force.
Hostage situation in Apple Store, Amsterdam ongoing
Syria and South American countries have US military by force.
> Their best bet is probably to give them up, in hopes Russia will not invade the entire country.

The concessions Russia is looking for from the West are retreat from the NATO countries of Eastern Europe so that Russia can do (or, turn them into puppets with the threat of doing) the same thing to them that it is now doing to Ukraine.

The first part is nakedly overt, the second part is not even all that subtle in their intent. They’ve been very clear that Russia is entitled to a sphere of influence around its borders under its effective exclusive direction.
Wikipedia will be a short and less inflammatory summary of the "breathless media circus", which is still really not good enough.
I've been running my mail server for about 15 years, give or take. First with qmail/dovecot/squirrelmail and now with postfix/dovecot/roundcube.

Mostly smooth sailing.
Not NSO types but regular criminal groups. They already have access to many US orgs just not enough personell to do the hands on keyboard hacking (as opposed to malware).

They will do a ton of hacking but it's not like them to do it just for the sake if making noise. They will posture and distract but at any scale thry will have a strategic objective.

Be worried about everyone else that is expecting you to waste efforts worrying about russians when you don't have to. What immature teams do is setup too much monitoring, geo block russia,etc... introducing a false sense if security and alert fatigue at the same time.

If you haven't already, work on good detections for lateral movement, ransomware and wipers. If you have, just another tuesday.
It is a signal to noise issue. If you are a day trader, daily financial news may be relevant.

99.9% of news isn't relevant or actionable for most people.

If I can't answer the question "how will this inform a decision I have to make?" the news is purely entertainment. If entertainment doesn't make your life better, don't consume it.

There is no value in having an "informed opinion" about topics that don't change your life.
Could be a diplomatic tactic, threaten greater destruction so people are relieved when he takes less.
Invading the entire country would be very costly. Russia has a superior military but Ukraine’s is still very large, and the attacker needs superior numbers to begin with (a general principle). And they would have to deal with a lot more insurgency warfare as they move into the west of the country.

I think Russia might possibly have ambitions of conquering the east of the Ukraine up to Dnieper but no further. Which is still a large area, to be sure.
If you use Customs and Border Patrol's trusted traveler programs (or some other gov sites), you may already have a login.gov account since that is what they have been using for a few years now.
I acknowledged that in my post.
If ever there were a time when the question, "why is this on HN?" were appropriate, this would be it.

It's a support issue on a t-mo forum that needs to be routed to the appropriate department, nothing to be seen here. Unless one of the three people that clicked an up arrow care to enlighten us.
Dates back to 1985, in case anyone is wondering.
Another footnote: English vocabulary and etymology also encode history beyond provenance.

The words in English for meat and its sources are the go-to example.

The words for the animals, are from Anglo-Saxon. The words for the meat as you eat it, are from French.

Because England acquired its French from occupation c. 1066; the peasants knew the animals but it was the new French-speaking aristocracy were the ones that ate them.
Title was hard for me to grok, but the article is great. Where are the fandom communities today?
What's that old saying?

"A lie can travel around the world, while the truth is still putting its boots on."
For reference, there have been a number (dozens, at least) of nuclear devices dropped accidentally all over the world (some of which landed in the USA), but none have ever accidentally detonated.

This was a plot device in the popular Fallout games. Where a city had built up around a nuclear bomb which failed to detonate during a nuclear war.
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but given history and human nature, it is not an unreasonable concern.
Indeed, the wording is confusing. If he "is the first two" then he "is a good governor". So with a more generous reading, you must be referring to the second clauses of each of the first two.
Also homage. This page gives a list, which is just those plus derivatives:

https://yolainebodin.com/the-language-nook/english/english-w...
I’d say, to the average person the Brutalist aesthetic is certainly synonymous with ugly minimalism.
There also the instructive examples of how such things were (and are) used in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Bloc, China...
Yeah Alpine Meadows is the default spot for me when I go to Tahoe. I’ll only go to Squaw on a non-holiday weekday with new snow.
This includes being subscribed to r/worldnews and r/politics.
The main issue is if it's required. Not so worried about myself - I'm a veteran which means my fingerprints and DNA are already on file with the feds somewhere :), but US Citizens with no particular connection to the federal government absolutely shouldn't have to need a "National ID."
This is a great article, I can surely relate and confirm the main points, from my experience. I ‘quit’ news a few years ago, and it greatly improved my mood. Obsessively trying to stay ‘informed’ can be quite stressful, and I believe gives you a warped sense of what the world is really like.

I’m not completely in the dark. I still scan headlines a few minutes of the day, but I have switched completely to RSS feeds. I use the NetNewsWire app on my iPhone, and I have feeds from all the major news networks.

This way I’m in complete control of my intake, and I get a completely text based experience (my settings default to ‘reader’ mode once I click through to the article website). I get to just read, and not be bothered with all the other ads & nonsense on news sites.

It’s really nice to consume news on my own terms, and not what the Google news algorithm wants me to see. Or not consume it at all and be happy :) Taking a step away from obsessively reading articles everyday can go along way from disconnecting from the ‘propaganda machine’, and thinking for yourself, instead of getting sucked into whatever ‘narrative of the day’ is.
Not until society demands corporate responsibility with their cash....
Horde Webmail 5.2.22 – Account Takeover via Email
Your dad's broader point is a really good one, but the example of Andrew Cuomo doesn't seem like the best to me depending on when it was said.

For a while there Cuomo was being talked about very seriously as the heir apparent to the Democrat presidential nomination. I agree with OP that "civic duty" is a silly reason for watching the news, but when it comes to voting to give people massive amount of power, that really does matter.

Now that Cuomo is out, I agree, for those of us not in NY his actions are less consequential.
Well, I would say that any physical implementation of a Turing machine will eventually halt because you cannot guarantee an infinite energy supply. So if we're willing to ignore physical limitations then humans can be Turing complete - if not, then no machine be either.
Romania prepared to accept 500K Ukrainian refugees, official says
I'm a foreigner (yes, I know, sorry, sorry) who is a "US Person" and thus needs to (and, to be perfectly clear, is happy to, I'm sorry, I'm not-sorry, I'm sorry about being not-sorry?) pay US income tax.

The IRS system is, by far, the worst I've ever had to deal with, and in this I'm comparing the US to countries like Rwanda, where, for some weird reason, I'm also required to pay taxes.

Getting an ITIN (sort-of like a SSN, except you're not supposed to use it like that, otherwise they will send Ted Cruz after you...) is an absolute pain, mostly because you can only request it by phone, and literally nobody you talk to is able to spell your name right, DESPITE you repeating it endlessly in just about any spelling alphabet possible.

So, you now have a dozen-or-so ITINs (again, like SSNs), all in different names, none of them yours. So, you file your taxes using the ITIN in the names that is closest to yours, and specify this on your tax forms.

You send in your forms, and your check, which is cashed immediately. Repeat the next year, and so on.

Now, after FOURTEEN years or so, you get sent a letter, informing you of a tax audit, and demanding you are physically present in Austin, Texas, two weeks from the postmark of the letter (never mind it reached you three months after that, and never mind you're located in Europe, which at that time was denied access to the US due to COVID-19).

So, you get a lawyer, which costs close to US$ 8000. The lawyer contacts the IRS, which continues to insist on an in-person interview in the past.

So, now you're out US$ 8000, and can never travel to the US again.

But, yeah, lovely that they now allow additional login tools...
This is what the Web should be like, really. Swarms of users enjoying some realm of knowledge, and building a decentralized corpus by the mere act of using it and leaving trails, with a shared toolkit to exploit those trails.

Unfortunately, the entire software industry has followed a business model in the manner of consumer goods production, guiding each individual's entire experience through packaged products and services.

Rather, the capitalism inherent in unmediated peer-to-peer relationships could have taken the form of developers providing an open platform for users to create their own tools, and offering them the necessary training to get the most out of those tools.

Instead there are huge proprietary platforms that promise in their advertising to empower users and enhance their creativity, but are designed to do the opposite, capping any activity that seems dangerous to them and limiting actions to a small, safe subset.
Apple isn't immune from this sort of thing. A long time back I had an iPhone < 6 months old that bricked on me. I thought it would be a simple replacement but the Genius tech told me the moisture sensor had triggered and they couldn't do a warranty replacement. My phone had never been close to a drop of water, and it was going around the news at the time that this issue with false positives on the moisture sensor were common, but Apple wouldn't make good on it.

I quit Apple then & there-- previously I had used apple laptops, iPods, iPhones, iPads since they had first been released, but decided I wouldn't pay their premium anymore if I wasn't going to get premium service.

About two years later I got a small settlement from a class action brought against Apple over their use of faulty moisture sensors. Not enough to cover repair cost, though I didn't get it repaired, I switched to Android.
Welp, though the assumption "most voters own real estate" is becoming less and less true everyday.
Does this not make it CCPA uncompliant? Or GDPR uncompliant (if HN is served in EU)?
I've been late for the party. I started 2012, but I agree, not sure why this is a big deal.
> The definition that's usually used in sociology involves structural power and, perhaps most importantly, white supremacy.

The definition in itself is racist. It's doublethink!
The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas
Regarding the Arctic ground squirrels:

> the water inside the squirrels becomes a supercooled liquid.

Does that mean that if you grab a squirrel and shake it, it freezes instantly?
Similar vanity metrics are used in the webdev world. Vue's Github repo has 193k stars, React has 183k, and Flutter has 137k. Based on that data, some people would claim Vue is more popular than React. The truth is that it is only more popular among developers, and even that may be a stretch. More companies are hiring React devs because they have tons of proprietary legacy code written in React.
These arguments are nearly identical to those laid out by Neal Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death, who pointed out -- almost 40 years ago, I might add -- that television news has become entertainment, not news.
Indeed. Can't edit the comment tho. Great native speaking feedback because indeed although she liked it a lot, it wasn't enough to make her squirt.
I've been using Flutter to (re-)create a public transport app. Relatively straightforward - mostly just calls a few REST APIs and renders the results. I found myself getting up and running very quickly. Building static UIs is incredibly easy. Dynamic/stateful UIs requires wrapping your head around the BLOC pattern, streams and StreamBuilder widgets (unless you go with StatefulWidgets). This is my first foray into reactive/async code, so it took a few days, but eventually it just "clicked".
I was a bit apprehensive about Dart, but I have to say it's a pretty nice language. Feels like a stripped-down Java with some nice quality-of-life features.
Magnesium definately can help calm the nerves in the short term. the vast majority of the population is deficient in this essential mineral. try to get it from natural sources: bananas, cashew nuts, leafy greens, whole grains, beans, cacao powder (this is a very dense source for it).

Long term, it sounds like you work at a severely toxic work place. there's only one thing to do with such a place, get it out of your life.

as far as "being a web developer", much of people's mental pain and conflict in their lives comes from their sense of identity. Long term advice: look up a mystic named "Sadhguru" on youtube and watch some of his better known speeches (some of this stuff is seriously life changing knowledge). that will give you some insights into how to begin deal with life problems.
i am with you. that's ridiculous and inexcusable on samsung's part. thank you for documenting and posting this. i am following suit. no more samsung for me. their reputation has been declining anyway.
The NewsHour is fantastic. Occasionally they fall into the same traps that any news source can, but it's a great way to learn about what's going on with a minimal amount of sensationalism.

I disagree with the post article that "staying up to date" is some fundamentally bullshit concept. It can help you prioritize what you care about influencing in the world, even if that influence is relatively small.
I pointed out that the Economist isn't that great in another comment, but turning around and leaping to its defense:

It tends to give an overview of geopolitical events that do have some meaning. For instance, your entire idea of the Philippines may be that it's a US ally, has a lot of beaches and happy people. The Economist (or something similar) may then clue you in that no, actually, the country is on the edge of falling to dictatorship and in bed with China. That info is slanted, and may not be useful for you taking any substantive action; but on the other hand, it gives you a starting point if, say, you ever had a Filipino coworker. It also tells you something about the broader world, such as the fact that a lot of democracies are starting to look fragile enough that you might want to consider learning enough to decide whether that could actually be a local problem. (This isn't a screed, just an example; the Philippines may be fine and your local democracy may be strong!)

If you already knew a decent amount about the situation -- well, maybe just skip that particular article, or give it a quick skim and move on. Maybe look at the Economist as a sampler, rather than something to read cover to cover. It also has stuff like the Technology Quarterly, which actually covers a much broader range of tech concepts than, say, HN.
I wouldn't say that it's on accident. The theoretical definition of Regular Expressions is specifically not Turing complete. But Regex as a tool just isn't as useful in that form, so it was deliberately extended to be Turing complete with new operators.
I just want to give you big ups for going with the waitlist approach. I think the status quo these days would be to try to grow way too fast in order to keep up with the demand (and outpace competition etc). I look forward to seeing if this works out for you.
I'll bite. The Economist is a right-wing publication. The quality of the writing is usually pretty good so it's not a bad choice if you're in to that sort of thing, but it is propaganda.
> Root cause

> Traditional C++ exceptions have two main problems:

> 1) the exceptions are allocated in dynamic memory because of inheritance and because of non-local constructs like std::current_exception. This prevents basic optimizations like transforming a throw into a goto, because other parts of the program should be able to see that dynamically allocated exception object. And it causes problems with throwing exceptions in out-of-memory situations.

> 2) exception unwinding is effectively single-threaded, because the table driven unwinder logic used by modern C++ compilers grabs a global mutex to protect the tables from concurrent changes. This has disastrous consequences for high core counts and makes exceptions nearly unusable on such machines.

That's really interesting. I've become very anti-exceptions in recent years far various much-discussed reasons (eg hard to follow, false economy, difficult if not impossible to write threadsafe C++ code in particular, use of exceptions as flow control is an anti-pattern).

One of the porposals is a value-or-error type object, which is basically what Rust has. I really like Rust's enums and match expressions.

It seems so difficult to make changes like this to C++ at this point, at what point do you just have to start again?
Short term:

Benzos and other GABa active drugs (highly effective, highly addictive, can reduce cognitive performance while on them)

Betablockers (propranolol) (not effective for all kind of anxiety/panic issues, non addictive, might make you feel weak/weird)

Long term:

Meditation, CBT
> G-tummo meditation, she went on, is not a state of relaxation but arousal.

This actually makes total sense.
Google News is filled with spam and cheap attention grabbing garbage these days IMO. It’s also highly targeted leading to a bubble. But I agree with both of you otherwise!
Why Flutter is not your choice for building the best app in the world?
Yeah. Those people who spend a few million dollars on a 30-second-long ad during the Super Bowl? They aren't stupid. They aren't mistaken. It really is worth it to them.

But... if the commercials can do that to your kids, what about the programming? If ads have the effect that you have observed, does programming that is full of sex and violence have no effect?

The one mitigating factor I can see is the direction of the intended addiction. The ads are designed to make you want the product; the programming is designed to make you want more of the programming (not necessarily to want more sex or more violence). That might make it different from the ads. Still, based on the observed effect of the ads, I'm pretty incredulous of anyone claiming that the programming has no effect...
Killed by the walled gardens, where you're supposed to admire the flowers cultivated by the employees but you are not allowed to set up your own farm.
Good point. Adding letters would be key.
My main reason to move from Mail-in-a-Box[1] to AWS WorkMail[2] to finally Microsoft Office 365[3] was that there is no other implementation which supports all MS Outlook features like native MS Exchange.

Are there any (Self-Hosted?) alternatives nowadays?

1: https://mailinabox.email
2: https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/
3: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/exchange/excha...
As I said, I am literally playing it right now. It really is!