skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 36 and have manifested Tourette's Syndrome since I was about six. My entire family has it and was part of a study at the University of Utah because of the unique circumstances of our family being particularly large and a particularly common manifestation of Tourette's throughout the family.

Anyway, I'm interested in the commentary in the link above that those with Tourette's are "free," particularly with their ability to say things that are inappropriate. I have pretty extreme facial tics (maybe one every few minutes) and head shaking coupled with verbal "oh shit!" that I've been able to kind of disguise as a cough.

I personally definitely say very shocking things very often. People say I'm, "abrasive" or "tactless" "with no filter."

I'm terrified to exist in this world of cancel culture, as I often find myself saying things that are very offensive in public. Fortunately I've been able to hold down a job at Adobe for nine years now without saying anything THAT "bad," but still I feel it's only a matter of time.

If I DO say something like the Anne Frank comment of that YouTuber, should I feel attacked if people don't let me say whatever it is my "disability" makes me say? Am I truly free to just say anything and just claim it was the Tourette's!? I don't think so. I think I'm still responsible for what I say, even if I don't mean to say it, because there's no way for someone to know if it's legitimate or not, and even if it was just Tourette's, I've just potentially injured people with my words.

This kind of makes me think about the plight of pedophiles. Is it their fault they're attracted to kids? No, but it is their fault if they act on it, because the kids can't (and definitely shouldn't) consent. If I "act" on my Tourette's, I feel like it's kind of still my fault. Though I recognize this is different because I don't really choose everything I say or do, but I can definitely hold it back and say nothing, though it's hard.

Also, if something is written, it's kind of hard to claim it was Tourette's because I could have gone back and edited it. Or maybe because of the lack of filter, it's not really my fault but my disability manifesting itself.

Even here on HN someone posted about an app they were creating for a very specific subset of people, and I mentioned that that reminded me of another thing that was made specifically for a subset of people, and I received a warning that if I kept up that kind of behavior, I would be banned from participating in future HN discussions.

Was that discrimination? Or was that me just overstepping societal norms that I could have definitely not posted, as it was in written form?
Ask HN: What’s the most secure OS for servers? Why?
Just based on the number of breaches, exploits and zero days that are always in the news I’m curious. If you needed to setup servers and your main priority was security, what would you choose and why?
> If the west fuck it up in the next weeks, it may see a last warning over the baltic sea in form of a light brighter than thousand suns.

For those of us in fear of seeing that light brighter than a thousand suns, what do you think fucking up / not fucking up would look like on the part of the west?
The gist is, Montreux Convention ensures free travel through the straits at peacetime but allows for restrictions at wartime. Wartime could be a war that involves the countries with a shore on the Black sea but not Turkey or a war where Turkey is involved too.

So the news is, Turkey took its time to decide if this is a War or a limited time military operation and come to conclusion that this is a war indeed. As a result Turkey activated the passage restrictions for military ships at a wartime where Turkey is not taking part in. This essentially means, the Russian(an other Black sea nations) ships that are based in the Black sea can get through but Turkey may restrict those based elsewhere. It also means that Turkey can restrict American and other 3rd party warships from passing through the Bosphorus.

The purpose of the Montreux Convention is to keep peace in the Black sea by allowing free movement at peacetime(Turks can't stop ships from passing, therefore no reason to take it away from Turkey with force) and predefined restrictions at wartime(Turks can stop ships that are not based there, therefore limit the military build up), so this is not necessarily a pro-Russian or pro-Ukrainian move.

Turkey sees the Montreux Convention as a primary mean to keep Turkey neutral in conflicts involving Russia and Istanbul out of the interests of large powers.
_High-altitude_ explosions create EMP. And nuke yield can be dialed down to Hiroshima levels.
The difference is there was theoretically something to be gained in Ukraine.

I’m not sure what the benefits are of nuclear war.

The only miscalculation I can think of is assuming the other side won’t respond.
> But we didn't. And even if the way that was handled sucks and the intelligence was faulty and I was utterly against invading Iraq because it seemed the wrong thing to do, right after 9/11 the whole world stood with the USA.

The cost-benefit analysis was entirely different. Europe got on the bandwagon with the global superpower. The benefit was that they stayed in the good graces of the global superpower. The risks were not existential—-they signed on for a pair of wars against third world countries. There was zero risk of provoking a world war. There was zero risk of atomic bombs being dropped at home.

Compare to the current crisis. The benefit to the US of fighting the Ruskies is—-what? We would gain weak ally. The costs would be our THIRD Great War fought in Europe for the benefit of Europeans. With the risk of world war or even nuclear war.

And don’t preach to Americans about doing “the right thing” in Europe. Hundreds of thousands of our boys are buried on your soil—-the cost of a long history of ‘standing as one’ with our European allies.
Avril Lavigne: 'I still do the groceries'
If you took a baby's pacifier away and actually gave it your full attention it probably would.
Having seen the whole thing from up close and having lots of contacts in Eastern Europe - former USSR countries and also in Russia I have a bit of a home court advantage here but still it boggles the mind how short sighted and detached from reality some of this is. Weirder still how exactly those people are accusing others of not knowing how the world works. The world is a messy, extremely interconnected hairball with several major fraction lines running through it each of which has the power to reduce our population problems in a heartbeat. To ignore that - or to try to live as though these problems do not exist - has to be the ultimate in being willfully blind. It probably is just some kind of fear response, like being told that your safe little haven isn't really safe. But as long as nuclear weapons are armed and ready to go - on all sides - there are no safe places, and any conflict that involves a nuclear power has the potential to spiral completely out of control, more so when autocrats and dictators are involved.
I live in a mid density city with a nice ambient hum. Indeed the neighbors in my building are respectful, as are the neighbors on either side. But I think the ambient hum is key to the peaceful atmosphere, when living in a city. The biggest threat we’ve experienced in terms of noise is blue jays that I finally staved off after months, by occasionally assaulting them with a super soaker. Other birdsong is pleasant, I hear some right now and open the window wider.

I say this as somebody fairly particular about my comfort. I can’t stand interior transformer hums for example.
Which operating system is this intended for?
Apparently only the rich can afford solar at this point.
"Stargate" is the code name for the new release.

The project as a whole is called "DERO".

The DERO project is also the source of the Graviton key-value database, which was popular on HN about 18 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24390596
What part of Russian being a Slavic language is controversial?
You'd be amazed at how much etiquette there is on nuclear weapons use.
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It affects processing overhead rates. Even if you have a very low rate of returns you are paying the bank for the possibility that this would happen, so I can easily understand someone looking at a charge which adds up to n million dollars a year and thinking it’s worth saving.
Windows is my guess, based on the source.
RT should not be propagated. It’s just more of Russia’s lies.
Europe can't stop buying Russian gas. Here's why
True but someone had to think of the idea. This wasn’t really a thing that people talked about doing until her TT blew up.

The choice was always framed as “live at home but miss out on campus life” and she was like “hey, I found a way to do both.” The idea is really only obvious in hindsight.
Ask HN: Recommended Books on Geopolitics
Given the current events, I'd like to suggest a thread on books that can help us understand not only the current events but the overall global scenario.

A requirement would be that they're as objective as can be, and provide at least some concrete or historical evidence to their claims.

Think about it as "What books would Hari Seldon recommend?"
I have (and probably will) never voluntarily use a DI framework in any language. There's zero downside to manually doing it. It's explicit, incredibly easy, and you can easily trace backward to see how the program is constructed.
I feel like this is twisting numbers. The fact that 60% are "impuls buys" doesn't mean you are "tricked into buying more". If someone is renovating or moving, then they might go to Ikea to find a new bed or a new sofa, and then find they also need a sofa table, or bed table that they had not planned to buy. This is typically what we do, we don't make a full list of what we need ahead of time, we know some major parts, and then we browse and pick up more things we need. That might mean that 60% of what we buy wasn't "planned" but we weren't tricked into buying more stuff, we just figured out what we wanted along the way.

Naturally this makes the layout of Ikea important, because if you never go through the lighting department, you're not going to remember that you'd actually been wanting a desklamp and pick one out. But this isn't some sort of clever psychological hack thats tricking you into buying a lamp you don't need.
If the store is so crowded you can't fit, that means IKEA's only mistake is in not opening more stores.
> Russia will similarly crushed, and dismembered as a country now.

I hope not - and I don' think that anyone wants that.

I think it's clear that Putin is not fit lead any more and the apparatus that he has built is corrupt and disfunctional.

I don't want Russia crushed and dismembered. I'd like a stable, happy, healthy Russia with new, non-paranoid leadership, and Putin living in a small dacha somewhere.
This is fake.

Defense condition levels are classified. There is no API/portal/platform/server/script you can run/ping to get that information.
Looks more like a caricature of Tojo than emperor Showa to me.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caricature
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki_Tojo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirohito
This is why Bitwig was recently able to add Ableton project import.
Check also the guy's homepage as he's working on some interesting software and hardware projects.

https://ssalewski.de/

edit:

He also wrote a GTK4 programming guide with Nim examples, which was already submitted here in 2020.

https://ssalewski.de/gtkprogramming.html

Strangely, neither of those books is linked on his homepage.
Same here. I remember the first time finding it because I wanted to get to the food area and one other specific area and thought there has to be a better way. They're not hard to spot if you look for them, doorways (with or without doors) in the walls separating areas.

Now I'll either 'go on the tour' or get the item and out, usually a mix touring a couple areas. The food is also a really good deal and somewhat different from the usual fare. I remember getting a bocconcini and tomato salad for a few dollars. The food is designed to keep you shopping, but you can take advantage of it separately.
I think it adds the thumbnails? I’m puzzled as well, gotta admit even after switching to Mac Mini last year, from Ubuntu & Windows, I didn’t even pay attention to that.

On the other hand, the Win + (number) shortcuts I can’t live without and there are very few solutions on macOS which surprises me, because those min/max/switch shortcuts ate incredibly simple and intuitive.
Zulip is working on having public view of streams without having an account. It's already being experimently deployed on the Zulip Dev's server.So that should make its way to other consumer servers soon!
the hope is on Russian people - if they will find guts to go to Kremlin and overthrow the old crazy dickhead
Random paywalled book does not qualify as a basis for "expert consensus".
“The making of the atomic bomb” by Richard Rhodes is a fantastic history of nuclear physics.
But still requires slight variation in the commands compared to other distros
>You need approximately a 5KW laser to do the job. Virtually all satellites have this much power available.

"have this much power available" is one part. "having laser system to use that power" is another. If they couldn't get it to work with a laser mounted on top of a 747, what makes you think they can get it to work on a satellite?
TLDR: R&D, cheap capital, Wright's Law, better accounting.

Like all new tech stacks, solar and wind benefited from modest R&D, access to cheap capital (subsidies, financial markets), "economies of scale" (low enough unit cost with high enough production rate to unlock Wright's Law aka the learning curve).

It remains to be seen if (or when) renewables will benefit from better accounting. Most impactfully, carbon tax to bake externalities into the street price of fossil fuels. Also, better energy market designs. And crucially, sufficient hush (extortion) money to soak up all the stranded assets held by incumbents. All those polluting coal power plants being run at a loss, teetering on the edge bankruptcy, because some revenue is better than none.

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FWIW, my thesis doesn't account for turf battles preventing widespread adoption. In the case of high volt energy transmission, required for next growth phase of renewables, the blocker in the USA are all the jurisdictional boundaries. We can't just build up the new power lines we need, because every Bubba in every county in every state needs to be bought off.

David Roberts of https://volts.wtf does a great job of covering these policy tarpits.
That's still such an inconsequential effect compared to the additional heat trapping caused by atmospheric ghg increases from fossil fuel burning that it doesn't really tip the scales. Solar does solve the biggest problem: ghg emissions. In order of importance: #1: stopping emission of greenhouse gasses on a huge, planet destroying scale, ~#15 reducing current ghg concentrations back to baseline, ~#900 worrying about reflectivity or absorption levels of solar energy installations.
It seems Russia's air forces capabilities were over-estimated and Ukraine's under-estimated. Ukraine is still flying fighter jets (MiG-29s and Su-27s)...
The Commodore 64 Programmers Reference Guide

The Transactor magazine

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Al Jazeera is an excellent news source on Middle Eastern affairs, also its telling how you shifted the conversation to the source (this story has been confirmed by the AP and other sources as well) when your false claim about he IDF was proven wrong.

The IDF are war criminals, worse than the Russians
Respectful neighbors in the Bay Area?

Which city?
He means that the local currency is set to depreciate by half in a span of a week. And the bottom might be far far lower.
> My dad gave me his book he used in the 70s

That would probably be the second edition, published in 1967. The first edition was in 1961.

If you have a kid and they go to a college that uses Apostol you can give them your 2nd edition without worrying that it will be too far off from the current edition because the second edition is the current edition.

Same with volume 2. The 1969 second edition is the current edition. The first edition was in 1962.

Anyone happen to know of a list somewhere that lists subjects and for each gives you information on how well it can be learned from old books?

For undergraduate calculus for example a 50 year old textbook is fine. At worst some of the example and exercises might be outdated or maybe mildly sexist by today's standards.

On the other hand, that 20 year old book on learning Java with Symmantec Visual Cafe sitting on one of my bookshelves is probably nearly completely useless.

In between would be books where parts of them are still relevant and accurate and parts of them have been superseded and would at best only be worth reading for historical purposes.
It counts as a taxable event.
when you will see a bright light you will be very lucky to know some classified information.
German Parliament convened today, they will triple funding for the Bundeswehr.
The book that did this for me:

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles (Nisan and Schocken)

https://www.amazon.com/Elements-Computing-Systems-second-Pri...
Kenji is no longer an owner at Wursthall.
I've read a couple dozen. Best by far is David Wootton's The Invention of Science. Wootton has the language skills to work through the primary materials, and shows how in 100 years we went from educated people believing in werewolves and possession to having a modern, materialist understanding of reality.

https://www.inventionofscience.com
> send aid, supplies, and troops immediately to Ukraine, regardless of the geopolitics involved.

How? When Ukraine's borders are surrounded by Russian armies and Pro-Russian separatists now.

If you are talking about having done that pro-actively, then that's a failure on your part. One that may have a profound effect on Ukraine's defense.
Yes. You can purchase dollars in exchange of Rubles.

Previous week it was aprox. 80 Rubles per U.S. Dollar.

Now due to the White House's statement that there will be sanctions against the Russia's central bank (they shouldn't able to use the reserves to keep Ruble stable) it is predicted that Ruble will collapse tomorrow.
You must have missed the part where it is stated several times it is "PRIVATE OSINT" they arent pretending its official, just best guess on based on OSINT. USEUCOM at Level 2 shouldnt be suprising given Putins moves in the last couple of hours.
130 degrees inside? I don't think so. Seems like a New Yorker mistake.
> Hundreds of thousands of our boys are buried on your soil—-the cost of a long history of ‘standing as one’ with our European allies.

I haven't heard that one in a long time, but thank you for reminding me. You were there? My grandparents and parents were there. And I've seen up close what a Russian annexed country looks like. Believe me you don't want either.

> Europe got on the bandwagon with the global superpower.

Ah ok. I will re-calibrate accordingly.

> There was zero risk of provoking a world war.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-jan-25-fg-nuke2...
Offering three choices is a trick to make people buy... the one that fits their budget and needs.
Ask HN: What tech do you use for recipes and cooking?
What apps, sites, search engines, blogs do you use for shopping lists, meal prep, managing recipes and general tech for cooking? For example, I use Paprika apps which can download recipes from anywhere, add items to shopping list. Any other apps you recommend?
Like cash, paying with Bitcoin doesn't make anything illegal legal. But unlike a check, wire transfer, or credit-card payment, there is no intermediary like a bank that might autonomously decide to reverse a transaction.

If you steal Bitcoin and use it to pay your Colorado state taxes, you remain liable (1) to the government for your theft, and (2) to the person you stole from for "conversion" of their Bitcoin. The first is a criminal issue (government comes after you); the second is a civil one (person comes after you). But Colorado's revenue agency doesn't care; they got paid and they get to keep it.

If you make up a fake credit-card number and use it to pay your Colorado state taxes, then the bank will eventually figure out what happened and reverse the transaction. Then the Colorado Department of Revenue will come after you for unpaid taxes (as well as for other misdeeds you have committed).

Note that Colorado isn't receiving Bitcoin directly, but rather is using a digital-currency payment processor. That company might decide to reverse iffy transactions. The problem is that the company can't reverse the Bitcoin transaction. They might decide, as part of their business model, to absorb the costs of fraudulent/illegal transactions and pass the (negative) savings onto the customer through fees. But they can't reverse Bitcoin transactions, any more than someone can command cash to fly out of the recipient's pocket and back into their own.
> Turkey has stated continuously in last few days that it will follow the Montreux Convention, under which they cannot restrict vessels going back to their home base, including Russian ones.

Your comment is misleading:

"Turkey called Russia's invasion of Ukraine a "war" on Sunday in a rhetorical shift that could pave the way for the NATO member nation to enact an international pact limiting Russian naval passage to the Black Sea."

"Under the 1936 Montreux Convention, Turkey has control over the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits that connect the Mediterranean and Black seas and can limit the passage of warships during wartime or if threatened."

Clearly they are reconsidering what they said.
Yes, but I'm a bit cross, unlike the Ottomans back then the Russians have nukes, which may ruin my own comfortable and painless fading into oblivion as a German, on my Ottoman in my backyard garden.
I used to teach LaTeX classes for the TeX Users Group starting when I was in college up until my mid 20s (so roughly 1989–1994). It was very challenging to find companies that would rent cars to me when I would travel to various locations to teach.
That’s a very good point. Perhaps non-NATO EU countries (Sweden, Finland, Ireland?) would even be best as NATO itself is such a flashpoint for the conflict.
Human race is not destroying its DNA at current pace for long. Deterioration may be more pronounced in a few generations.

And as to why the child is not formed from bad copies of worn-off cells of a mature parent - it's been some time since I read the book but I think that there was some reset mentioned when a whole new person is formed inside another organism. Fetal stem cells are known to have superior properties.
> The pipeline was supposed to be deadlined completely after nord stream 2.

But NS2 hit the brakes last year. Biden probably wanted something for it, like returning the Donbass. Hence Putin going "fuck it, I'll get the old one then".

That timeline and explanation makes more sense than a smart 69yo mafia boss, at the peak of his powers, just throwing it all away over some ideological bullshit.
maybe if our supply chains were't Just-in-time we wouldnt be talking about these all the time
The hidden costs of cutting Russia off from SWIFT (2021)
The crux of the article is that Turkey is changing their mind. OP built a straw man.
"Question: Is the current Defcon level made public?

Answer: No, the current level is not made public right away for security reasons. The alert status for each military branch may also differ at any given time. The status levels on the 'current' page and regional command pages are determined by community intelligence alerts and known threats but is not recorded on the official Change History page until a status change is revealed to the public by the U.S. government."

Taken from Defcon Level Warning System:

https://www.defconlevel.com/about.php