skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"May I suggest the time has come (or, rather, has been here a long time)"

Well, I agree that this attitude "all bad things are the fault of 'the west'" is quite stupid.

But the US is the hegemonial power and wants to maintain it. So it is natural that those in charge get the flak for things going wrong.

And about things going wrong: how about the whole war on terror?

Was it really a surprise, that you can't make the world a safer place, if you attack countries(against international law in one case), to punish some individuals?

And Guantanamo is still open.

So yes, the west has some democratic and liberal values worth defending against dictators and co. And some only understand the language of raw power. But maybe that would still work better, if we would stick to those principles all the time and not just, when it suits us.
> Delusional parasitosis is quite the opposite of "Munchhausen's".

It's possible for things to exist in a nexus between opposites, is it not? Morgellons is something that people only ever "have" if they go looking for it. Self-diagnosis of extreme, rare, "special" diseases that rational people disbelieve, and Munchausens are not that far apart, surely.

> And QAnon-followers are in their majority not suffering from psychotic delusions.

I didn't say that -- or mean it. [0]

What I said was that the emergence of Morgellons -- an internet phenomenon -- is a small model of what later happened with QAnon. Both are non-true, at leas partly fabricated, online phenomena, that simultaneously do not exist and cannot be ignored.

The problem comes when you have a bunch of people who are scientifically ignorant, predisposed towards a simple belief that explains things for them, and several bad faith actors (in QAnon's case, Cernovich and the Watkins family, in the Morgellons case, the Morgellons Research Foundation and several blogs). What you end up with is a self-reinforcing bubble of belief around a fallacy that cannot then be ignored, like scar tissue around a tiny fragment of talc.

[0] That said, there are for certain delusional aspects of QAnon. It has a Millerite nature and is also spawning even more fringe cults like the JFK reincarnation faction; it absolutely is unpicking people's control over their psychoses, as can be seen from the January 6 defendants.
There's a slight pause between when you click and the elevator starts rising.
This solves a different set of problems, but is similar in some ways.
There are some sub-reddits that are sorta like that.

/r/SomebodyMakeThis

/r/somebodybuildthis

/r/stealmyidea

/r/startupideas

etc. come to mind.
Every company or government will eventually see itself in checkmate. It is in the best interest of companies to push that as far down the road as possible.
Try applying load to the CPU and see what cpuinfo_cur_freq reports. If I boot my ThinkPad W530 (workstation laptop with a large power envelope) with no / dead battery, it will say full speed is available, but it will remain at the minimum speed until the battery is partially charged and I reboot.
Can you explain, in your pricing plan, what is an "API call"? It isn't very clear from the landing page what that entails.
It's not the matter of sanctions. Any conflict disrupts China's very own supply chains, the economic fallout would be considerable.
These types of links are why I'm still hopeful for the internet as a platform. What a hit of crazy weirdness out of some random persons brain, just excellent.
> XUL seemed like a good idea as a basis for building native-looking web applications. It's too bad it has been abandoned.

Didn't XUL do roughly what React Native, and other similar frameworks, do today?

edit I see that XUL did its own rendering rather than using native widgets, but the overall goal seems about the same.
Stockpiling is another option if you rely on something critical that is difficult to produce at home.
This is a super cool idea, I'm surprised there isn't ambiguity in parsing shell commands vs python.

For example if a user types "a | b", do they want to run process a and pipe it into b, or are they trying to bitwise or variables a and b?
I still don't see how this pricing model is usable in a database with a query planner. The user is not in control over the query plan, the database is. This is a recipe for disaster, and I'd never feel comfortable with this. Even with good understanding of how the database works there is pretty much no way to ensure that the database doesn't do some suprising full table scans.
Haha, I know what you mean. I think almost everyone skips the ads to a certain extent. But you still end up hearing about them at some point. Some of my favorite podcasts are Lex Fridman, Tim Ferris and Andrew Huberman. So there is no way around hearing some "Athletic Greens" ads. And after a while, I actually bought some :D

Great to hear your feedback regarding tipping. Maybe we should prioritize this feature.
Well, this is an embarrassment, conceptually. Though I admit I can’t read the text and am taking no time to translate, I surmise from the structure that it’s a bunch of wherefores resulting in a plea to stop, with an errant assumption that the decision makers would be swayed by such a thing, particularly now that the ball is rolling.

The window scene comes to mind, though not exactly a good analogy, there’s a similar naïveté and presumptive air I find cringeworthy, and destined to be doused with the cold water of reality.
https://youtu.be/4S7QARslq74
Any given company has the right to make their employees work in an office, but they better be prepared for the consequences of that decision. They are either going to lose out on talent or they are going to lose out on the cost of said talent (higher salaries/better benefits to convince someone to unnecessarily sit in an office). It’s just a silly hill to die on for so many of these companies.
> But why is this bad policy?

That's not the right question to ask. The right question to ask is 'Who is this bad for?'

The Jones act, for instance, is good for US shipworkers, and for enforcement of US shipping laws, but moderately bad for Hawai'i, and really, really bad for Puerto Rico.

Who do you care more about? Preserving the comfort of the continental American middle class employed in maritime transportation, or a bunch of people in Puerto Rico? The answer to that question determines how you see the Jones act.
Please look up Bitcoin's Lightning Network. There really is no excuse for perpetuating outdated information, it has been out for a while and has substantial use.
In the long term, perhaps climate change would make russia an attractive destination for immigration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY9NjD_5WWo
> Which city was this, if you don't mind saying? About how many units in your building? Was there any attempt by the city to manage the curbsides with permits etc? I'd think that'd be part of the solution in this case.

SW Ohio - outer suburbs, so township level governance, not town/village/city. Around 800 I think. No, there aren't actually any public streets suitable for parking. The complex was on a private drive right off of a minor highway and it connected to another private subdivision. So the only viable street parking was in a private, gated subdivision (the gate didn't stop people).
You misread what I was saying.
I am not saying abortion doesn't have an impact, but Roe vs Wade did not. There were a lot of abortions prior to the legalization in the US. I am not positive, but it may have been legal in some states just not nationally (didn't want to look it up to confirm).

This is why the date of legalization of abortion did not seem to have an impact in Europe and also why restrictions on abortion in some countries did not have an impact.
I had seen the black bar before, but didn't know what it was about.
Meh. Of course they will double down on huge real estate deals they can't bail out of because they're likely long-term.

But the companies will try to make it sound literally every other way except the truth. They have to save face after all, plus "admitting defeat" has real consequences on your stock price.

So business as usual really.

I'll be eating a lot of popcorn in the next few years. I can bet many people will leave their jobs if the company enforces return to office. The fallout will be long and interesting to watch.
I hope not. I love working at home.

I save money and time not having to commute, not having to buy lunch to be social, and best of all I get to spend more time with my growing kids (priceless).
I think the big advantage that companies have is a mission statement in which most everyone is progressing towards within the company. Much of government operates almost the complete opposite, and in a world that is changing faster and faster every day, the politicians are falling farther and farther behind.
Ask the Democrats and judges if they think that's reasonable.

And where will you ship them to? Smaller cities don't want them and they'll be inhospitable enough they won't want to be there either - they'd rather ship themselves back where they can stay close to their drug sources and still rotate with their panhandling around enough that the locals don't get too familiar with them.

So if you want to do something about the vagrant encampments being in the city you live in, the most effective thing that you can do is move to where they aren't, which is what everyone else who cared that much about it already did long ago.
Its less about minimal amount of work and more about what you can get away with. You now tolerate less performant and lazier solutions because hardware is so much faster and you can now get away with it in front of your users. For example, microsoft excel feels no faster or more special or does anything more really than the version I was using in 1995 which was served on cd rom or even floppies, compared to a couple GB over the air download for an application that today still takes time to open up on modern hardware. MS gets away with this because users expect the same features as 30 years ago and also expect excel to remain as slow as it felt 30 years ago. You could be lazy back in the day, but you still had to ensure your program was small enough to actually ship on physical media, and could actually run on this hardware thats several orders of magnitude slower than what developers expect users to be running today. So you can definitely get away with being even more lazy, less optimized, less performant, and still have a job shipping 'functional' software today, than what the constraints were decades ago.
Shutting down atomic power in Germany was such a brilliant move.
I keep seeing this being repeated, but the state of nuclear deterrence is very different than during the Cuban missile crisis. The US, UK, France, and Russia all have enough nuclear-armed subs sitting just outside of enemy waters to destroy every major target on both sides. The US doesn’t have nuclear weapons in Poland, nor does it need them. Russia cannot stop thousands of ICBMs and hundreds of sub-launched closer range nukes, and neither can the US.
Someone needs to get to work on retrofits to improve those vehicles.

An electric assist could double the MPG. Stop & Start uses lot of gas. A battery, short range capable, coupled with a charging system to top it off, could handle much of the route at much higher efficiency, even allowing for the gas engine to idle, for example.
An inaccuracy. The important propaganda is aimed at the 10–20% of the population that has a stake and an impact on politics. Patrons of outlets like The New York Times. That’s most of what media critics like Chomsky has been writing about for half a century.

Most of the population of liberal democracies (or at least in the US) have very little influence on politics. To the point where they are not being propagandized against as much as they are kept distracted with less “serious” things than opinion pieces about killing babies in incubators.
Romanian here.
Our government said we could host up to 500.000 refugees.

I doubt we could do that, but I'm sure they have enough spaces right now for all reffugees.

The news is that no ukrainian refugees want to stay in romanian provided places at the moment -- they either have relatives/friends where they'll be staying with or they immediately want to go to wealthier countries in Central/Western Europe.

That could probably change as more ukrainians flee -- those desperate and those that have no friends or means to travel to other parts.

I've seen footage of ukrainian mothers WALKING for two hours to the border with their children, it broke my heart.
Oh yeah I had that recently in a project (IE support required, so no type=number). When you try this, you will eventually find that you use so many keys during normal operation that a whitelist just isn't feasible. Left, right, tab, Home, End, Ctrl+C/V, Shift+Ins, …
It is a great way to check if you're logged in. Mine is #fff
Thanks, I think we should clarify this as well. Any call to our API via "Fast Forward to Production" (right click on notebook to see) or an autocomplete call.
Is there some evidence that humans really react that differently all else being equal?

Literally anything that can affect our bodies might be a confounding factor: sleep; water intake; type, frequency, duration, and difficulty of exercise; sunlight exposure; climate (average temperature, humidity, temperature swings, atmospheric salinity); elevation; latitude, etc...
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I think the stronger message is that the US is trying to move chip manufacturing to the US so it will not care about Taiwan.
We don't have a clear date yet when we will tackle it, but it will definitely come. And the more users request it, the sooner it will come. So I'll add your vot to this request ;)
Are your private feeds all podcasts or also some other content?
Thank you for sharing, I had been looking for this after seeing it on here the other day but I couldn't remember the name or anything at all.
Show HN: A Network of Knowledge Feeds
Hi Everyone,

I wanted to talk to this community about a particular story from my experience to see how the community feels. I have noticed that I have a lot of educated friends from top universities in my country who are having problems finding work due to a lack of experience, which has brought me to a conclusion that diplomas and CVs are not really good at conveying the knowledge someone has.

A friend of mine who is already working on his own company told me that he had trouble finding people to work for him, so I thought about an idea that I am currently incorporating into my app. Perhaps we could make it much easier for you to show your knowledge to companies, as easy as show and tell. A network of live knowledge feeds that constantly keep updating over time showing how someone has evolved.

If you know something, put it on full display for everyone to see, show something you have made and explain how you made something so that everyone can understand. If you are good at something, you probably won’t have a hard time explaining it to others, and other people could perhaps learn something by simply following your feed.

Educational Institutions have curriculums that aren’t really adaptable, but if we rely on people expressing their unique knowledge to the world, we can create countless combinations of curriculums that will be much more adaptable for the problems we have to face today.

I will be trying this approach with some friends over the coming days. My friends are looking for graphic designers, software engineers and music producers. They have established brands and are going to ask people who want to work with them to submit something they made and explain how they did it for everyone to see.

You are welcome to join us at EWS (https://edify.ws/club/10). If this sounds like a good idea, maybe we can kick off a challenge that you can share with your friends to #ShowWhatYouKnow. If you have a company, are looking for employees, maybe you can ask people to show something they made and explain how they made it to see whether someone has the knowledge required to work for you.
> However, the staff that built our course revision system decided to make it so that every single change should go through all layers of approvals. So if I want to change the title of an assignment, according to this tool, I need the department to approve.

I have to wonder if the rule wasn’t put in place a long time ago after someone (tenured) tried sneaking in something truly controversial in the curriculum he planned to teach. Dr. Lemire doesn’t teach a controversial subject -at least having an opinion on vectorized instruction sets won’t get you on the news- and sounds like the type of researcher that values teaching a lot so I assume he frequently updates his course material and must be annoyed by this.

Keeping in mind that recently a university close by (lower caliber but still) fired a professor for saying the N-Word in a classroom as part of a required reading during a race and literature class [0]. Maybe it’s the king of backlash they want to avoid.

> An actual policeman can be intimidating. However, it is a human being. If they ask something that does not make sense, you are likely to question them. You are also maybe more likely to think that a policeman could be mistaken. Software is like a deaf policeman. And people want software to be correct.

It’s ironic because the Province he’s writing this from had policeman enforcing a mandatory curfew (because of Covid of course) and would slap fines on people being outside after the designated hours. No matter if they were simply walking alone or their dog.

To anyone with high school level biology that should sound a little ridiculous. Walking alone you can’t really transmit or catch an airborne disease. Interacting with a policeman sure.

> I think that there is great danger in some of the recent "digit ID" initiatives that various governments are pushing. Suppose, for example, that your driver's license is on your mobile phone. It seems reasonable, at first, for the government to be able to activate it and deactivate it remotely. You no longer need to go to a government office to get your new driver's license. However, it now makes it possible for a civil servant to decide that you cannot drive your car on Tuesdays. They do not need a new law, they do not need your consent, they can just switch a flag inside a server.

Again, the author’s country just demonstrated the slippery slope by arbitrarily freezing assets and bank accounts on suspicion of being friendly to a group of (first amendment protected) protesters. Instead of following the legal pathway of demonstrating a reasonable reason to a (non-political) judge to get an account frozen, the government just gave themselves emergency powers to do as they please. No oversight. No reasonable doubt? Doesn’t matter.

What’s next, someone has a black sounding name and too much money in his account? Freeze it, most likely crime money.

[0] https://globalnews.ca/news/8450947/quebec-university-academi...
Ethnic cleansing. Genocide triggers a responsibility to intervene, under the UN charter.

Aren't euphemisms wonderful?
Signing a lease or building a new office is always a project by some highly paid non-technical person with 'executive' skills. I wonder why?
How do you even begin testing the market hypothesis?

https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/09...
Solar costs stay in line because it is easy to count panels, and multiply by by the very public cost per panel. Similarly for wind, and for storage.

But few have the skills to estimate what any part of nuke should cost.
Most excellent, but the music needs to fade-in and the ride should end with a ding.
Does C standard naming have a Y2K problem? :)
First I've read of this line of thinking. The rational makes sense and nothing seems glaringly wrong with this scenario. To your last point I believe it's also that it secures his corridor to Crimea and will secure the three pipelines that run through Ukraine. Supply of gas is a point of leverage Putin has on Europe. Securing the channels for it and also of the second largest source of reserves (Ukraine's) furthers to solidify that point for him.
I don't understand your infowar reasoning at all. Pripyat and its immediate vicinity is just an unpopulated area with a decomissioned nuclear power station in it.

Is the subtext that Putin plans to blow it up, or what? I'm pretty sure that attacking central Europe with a dirty bomb would make it very difficult for NATO to avoid invoking Article 5.
Don't you want "interrupt ABIs" for that specific usecase?

IIRC `#[naked]` are only really guaranteed to allow inline assembly, so it's like defining a function in `global_asm!` except for monomorphization and generally interfacing better with the rest of the language.
Your original comment reads like an absolute:

> autocracies are inherently unstable

Making that claim, and holding up democracies in contrast to that, implies that democracies are inherently stable in a way that autocracies are not. I don't think that's a reasonable claim to make.

> Comparatively democracies are more peaceful than autocracies.

> And autocracies for sure have committed far worse atrocities in total numbers.

Completely agree here. I would certainly agree that autocracies tend to commit worse atrocities, but that isn't necessarily directly connected with the stability of the regime.
I sorta loathe this sort of revisionist history. Especially the type which casually tries to wipe out 200+ years of American democratic history by simply saying, "Yeah, but it wasn't a real democracy." So cliche!

There's just too many pedantic definitions, technicalities and arbitrary choices which make any sort of analysis like this arguable in soooo many ways.

Just one glaring example: The US has "technically" been a Democratic Republic since our Constitution was ratified in 1789. But Boston, where I grew up, was founded in 1630, 159 years earlier. Massachusetts and other states implemented various democratic systems that continued through the founding of the Federal government. Putting the line at 1789 doesn't tell the full story because the states of the United States are all pseudo-nation states and existed decades before the Union, and I will bet many exist nearly unchanged after the Union is dissolved some day as well.

One could also argue that after the English Civil War, the king was mostly a figurehead and that the Parliament was actually a form of representative government that was copied by the Americans, and that we were basically throwing a hissy fit for having to pay our fair share of taxes and not really rebelling against tyranny. In fact England had been electing representatives to Parliament since the 1500s. And that's totally a valid way of looking at it. The point stands.

Anyways, I feel that the American pride in the fact that we're the first "real" democracy (for whatever definition of real you want) is well founded *without any caveats*. Our ancestors could have done better, and so can we!
Average folks are powerless. The problem is that those who have enough power to make an impact still act like they are powerless.
I think I would have enjoyed pandemic a lot more if I was not married or had kids. It was nice to get out of so many boring social obligations. I tried to play more video games, caught up on various shows, picked up new hobbies, creatively socialized like hiking, or meeting outdoors.

But a few weeks in my wife got really depressed, she didn't want to do anything but complain about lockdowns. I spent rest of next two years trying to cheer her up. It was exhausting. So finally I gave up on social distancing guidelines and we started to socialize like normal. But for some reason she continues to complain about lockdowns, covid, etc. I am spending all my energy cheering her.
What's interesting is that people with Charisma fit this bill better than people who are competent.
So far I’ve seen a few major companies change policy after an employee exodus.
Fair. I guess Georgia? Crossing the Caucasus Mountains is harder than crossing the European Plains.