skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I agree that it's second-hand smoke to the public, but it's definitely first-hand smoke to the user.

I mean, yea it's great you can use the smartphone to do those noble things you listed, but that's not what 99% of the people standing in line, head crooked down, eyes glazed, thumb flying back and forth are doing. They're scrolling insta or snap, or tiktok, chasing that continuous dopamine drip. I remember pre-pandemic walking past a huge line outside of a movie theater, and every single person was scrolling content, eerily silent, not even talking to the people they were with. These people were not checking in on local safety information.

I'm not going to shame them. If that's how you want to live your life, it doesn't affect me. I don't care if the guy in front of me in line is high on drugs or high on instagram as long as 1. I don't smell it and 2. he moves forward along with everyone when the line moves.
Given current times, I would recommend checking history and diffing with earlier versions in case latest changes mysteriously give it an angle favorable to e.g. the aggressor, just in case. (From a quick glance I have not immediately noticed strong evidence of manipulation, but did not carefully check.)
It sounded to me like GGP was interested in hearing about any SSN that was assumed to be public knowledge, and Russia's was just the igniting spark for the question. GP makes it clear that, yes, there exists an example where the SSN is a public identifier.

GGP:

> Are their identification codes used as a shitty master password to their life too? I'd love to get to a system where your tax id was assumed to public knowledge
Also, besides the form factor (pda/phone) there was - before the Win-CE - the mis-known Windows for Pen Computing (essentially Windows 3.11), I used to have a Compaq "laptop" that was actually a tablet (with detachable keyboard), the Compaq Concerto that was actually quite usable with the specific pen, whether that is to be seen as a precursor of the iPad/tablet or of the Microsoft Surface or similar, it came well before anything else (and lasted only a very brief time):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto
What you want is predictability and stability. The bullwhip effect of supply chain disruptions alternate between shortages and gluts, and they both cause economic damage.

Having a glut of a product or resource destroys manufacturing capability as employees get furloughed, factories shut down, and talent is lost. ...it then creates a shortage when demand picks up and so on.

Markets are good at reacting if the future is predictive, but if it is unexpected, then there is damage in both shortages and gluts.

Importantly, the more complex and deep a supply chain is, the more unpredictable and magnified the bullwhip effect becomes, even when you expect gluts/shortages. This is because every participant in the chain attempts to cushion themselves from the shocks by stockpiling and timing their sales.
We've been very unconscious about our acceptance and deployment of technologies, and I don't know that there's really any way around that. It's sort of a Catch-22, technologies empower the individual. Reflecting on it, they tend to create a path of least resistance which is typically isolated (visiting Radio Shack in person as opposed to online). This isolation is inhumane though, we're social animals at heart, but it's way easier to find exactly what you want in the online catalogue of literally everything than it is to move around in the physical world, dealing with x, y, and z. Ultimately, as an arbitrary unit (society?), we've sort of walled ourselves into a really undesirable landscape that I'd argue we're pretty actually fucking averse to.

We hand off these novelties to future generations without any real bearing, all the organizations, traditions, adaptations, and more or less say "You figure it out." And the craziest thing is just the fucking rapidity of it all. Think of life in the 1920's. People have lived that long, 100 years. Imagine the cognitive whiplash watching highways and motor vehicles emerging, radio, television, the nuclear bomb, commercial airliners and transcontinental travel being trivialized, mass warfare, helicopters, wireless communication, calculators, computers, internet and the list goes on - every alteration of the nuanced fiber weave of the social fabric that all those techniques have shorn, altered or displaced.

We have no real reference point in the here and now that can comprehensively assist us in a meaningful convergence, we've sort of been shot into a dark vacuum entirely unconscious of the consequences with the pretense that it's what we desire. But I think we're quickly coming to find, at least those conscious of the implications, is that what we desire isn't necessarily good for us.

But the thing is, I don't think it's probable that we could really retard the unraveling of a technology. If it wasn't Ford it would've been someone else. I don't think it's possible to limit human curiosity, if not culture A, then culture B will ask the questions.
Documenting equipment losses during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
To add, there's no requirement that you must keep tabs on every atrocity in the world at all times. No one is forcing people to check twitter every hour to tank your emotional energy every day.
Intel gets worse, but Power11 might get better
Putin's troll likely confirmed. How much are you paid for it?
and the internet died a little bit that day, we saw a glimpse of what it could be and it was glorious... however the socio-economic and political realities disallow such a grand, free, widespread accessibility of all kinds of media.
From the Russian point of view that's your mortal enemy that has expanded for the past 20 year and now it's knocking on your borders. How would the US react were Canada, an "independent, democratic country", "voluntarily joining a defence-alliance" with Russia that allowed Russian military to place missiles right on the US border?
Because then it stops being a side project and becomes an obligation, which would take all - or at least most of - the joy out of it.
Weirdly, only toxic people want to work for a company involved in literal genocide.
Interestingly, it works both ways. I recently wanted to play some oldschool Command & Conquer with some friends, and it was very easy to get these old games running in Wine, but my friends (with modern Windows laptops) couldn’t get it to work. Not even with compatibility mode.

That was very interesting to me.
Predicting developments in real world conflict from patterns of failed logins
American and British Special Forces Veterans Are Ready to Join Ukraine’s Fight
title edited a bit because of 80 characters limit
That dramatically misses the context within the article; this is being used by the author as reasonable consideration of potential problem with the theory rather than as support for it:

"The main reason I don't like this theory is kind of an efficient-markets reason: there are literally billions of men who are concerned about hair loss. The most popular preventative treatment for hair loss carries the risk of nasty side effects, like depression or erectile disfunction. If we could prevent hair loss and even regrow hair by breaking the causal chain "upstream" of hormones, why isn't this totally common knowledge? Why aren't anti-hair-loss subreddits like /r/tressless constantly advocating for botox injections as a supplement or replacement for hormonal treatments?"
I am not the OP but I had my view on this kind of changed by watching YouTube essay "Lies of Heroism – Redefining the Anti-War Film" [1]. Whey you think about movies like for example Enemy at the Gates, they show the gruesome reality of the battlefield, but it is usually interpreted in a way that makes the suffering feel meaningful, heroic. Contrast that with Come and See, where there is no heroism, no ultimate meaning of the suffering, just meaningless hellish nightmare.

[1] https://youtu.be/yf0G2MPBEYM
> Why sell Ford some chip for $1 when they are paying $12 today?

That's a very good point. When you're competing to get your part selected for a new design, you want to sell it cheap, but once they've done all the work of incorporating your part and testing it, you want to make it expensive. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Most of those vulnerabilities were added later, the original bitcoin software had an extraordinarily low defect rate. While some of the bugs in the original were very severe indeed (particularly in Bitcoin script), there were very few in total.

The original code was essentially perfectly portable and extremely clean. It's true that it was was highly integrated, and lacked significant modularity-- but this also made it small and simple. Its use of modern techniques and conscious style made it completely free of broad classes of bugs.

The more modern code is highly abstracted and modular, but much more difficult to read, understand, and review. But its level of functionality wouldn't be realistic or maintainable (particularly by such a large number of participants) otherwise. That level of functionality didn't exist in the original code.

The ugly comment is the sort of remark made by junior developers who can't distinguish style different from what they learned from poor quality. Poor quality code also differs from their preferred style, but not everything that does is poor quality. By any objective metric, -- save modularity/abstraction-- the original code base was extremely high quality including the metrics that matter most: the defect rate. The level of abstraction wasn't optimum for the work that came latter, but it wasn't later and prematurely abstracting would have made the code far less clear (and probably less reliable).
I recommend "To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science" by Steven Weinberg.
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick

This is specific to "Information, communication, and information theory." but it's still quite broad and a great read.
I think you are asking this as if they are receiving social security benefits? We all have these numbers in Sweden for example. Its birth date plus 4 unique digits amounting to a hash code (and gender)
I never said that Germans are perfect or that they don't criticize other European countries. I am in fact Austrian, we are the number 1 nation in Europe when it comes to bashing Germans. So I also don't know how I can play victim, given that I am not German.

It's easy for you to accuse me of not having a "genuine debate". From my perspective, you have continuously ignored all points I brought up.

Again, remember what we are discussing here: a unified EU army. My whole argument is that when I look at the way Germany is bashed by some EU countries, I don't know how the Germans will like that. Go ahead and rephrase: "If I look at the amount of disagreement between European countries, I don't see how many nations can be happy about a unified army."

Please, explain to me how Germans would feel when Orban and PIS have power over their soldiers? Again, easy when it is to fight against Putin. But what about the refugee situation? How can we fight for common values, when in Hungary and in Poland, the leaders are actively against freedom and promoting authoritarianism?

When Germany sent helmets to Ukraine, the whole world laughed at them. The Polish PM came to Germany and basically spat in Scholzes face. Now Germany is shipping weapons. In violation of German law, which states that Germany is not allowed to ship weapons to active war zones. A law that was made to ensure Germany would not repeat mistakes of the past.

Is it so hard for to acknowledge that Germany might have a hard time with all this stuff? Can you not see how the descendants of the Nazis, who swore themselves "never again", might have a hard time to jump back into being a military power? Can you not maybe try to empathize with people who, after they opened their borders to refugees have been met with harsh criticism from other countries, who are openly anti-muslim, now have hard time seeing these "shared values"?
And can you maybe also understand why these people might be a little upset about how everyone constantly harks at them for "not doing enough", when in fact they are always on board with all sanctions and already have one of the biggest military budget in Europe?

And again, this is not about fighting Putin today, this is about the idea of unified EU army.

So what are you genuinely debating about? What is your point? My point is that a lot of people seem to want to tell the Germans what to do, whenever they don't the others suddenly remind them of unpaid Nazi debt, and when the Germans are unwilling to be a military power because of the same Nazi history, they are being ridiculed. And we are having this whole conversation here, where you basically deny the Germans right to feel a little annoyed by all this.
I don’t think it’s hard to argue that at all.

A different clique is on top in Iraq now, but Iraqi standard of living does not appear to be an improvement over the Saddam years.

If you’re Shi’ite there’s no doubt it’s better now, though.
It's women and children from your neighboring country showing up rather than young men from a country that has nothing in common with yours.
This will likely depend where you live and what options are available to you, but my experience with Ikea's most expensive sofas vs similarly priced alternatives in the market has generally been favorable to the alternatives.

At least with the alternative, you sometimes get to pick from more than a handful of the same designs... I quickly grow tired of seeing the exact same Ikea furnishings in so many homes! I was so glad to finally not have a "KIVIK" in my home after decades of the same design. I'd also happily live the rest of my days never seeing a "POÄNG" chair ever again... That I even know these odd-sounding to me in my native tongue words for these products is a massive testament to their extreme ubiquity now.

EDIT: Out of curiosity I googled how many POÄNG chairs are out there, apparently over 30 million and grows at 1.5 million a year!

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%C3%A4ng
I think most confusions come from how divisive significant white space can be and Python being the most popular among that class of surface syntaxes. I am aware (and maybe you are, too) that there is a long list besides Nim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-side_rule, but this does not seem to be very common knowledge.
I don’t know what’s happened with the url, try this: https://therecord.media/how-this-cybersecurity-researcher-is...

About your question, the reply is in the article! It’s long so I will not quote it all, just read the the article.

PS: if a moderator can modify the URL… thanks!
Further, to be pedantic, it seems needless to call them the Arctic Inuit as they only live in the Arctic.
But sometimes it is. As an example, I've been trying to track down the code that runs for uncaught exception in a controller. It's (probably) somewhere in ActiveController but there's no easy way to find it.
Somebody please put some kind of warning on that link.
In general, oversupply is bad for everyone because all suppliers lose money, but only the ones with deep pockets can survive - increasing market concentration. In this case, I‘m not sure it hurts, since the chip market is already dominated by big companies.
I learned programming and math mostly by self-driven exploration. But for computer science there was a book that hit at the right place and time: Feynman Lectures on Computation.

It's bounced around between publishers over the years and is generally a pain to get. I have the 1996 edition[1] which is out of print. Then there's a 2002 edition[2] and a 2000 edition[3].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Computation-Richard-...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Computation-Frontiers-Physics...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Feynman-Lectures-Computation-Frontier...
> am very concerned about NATO boots crossing into Ukraine

Officially we are far away from that point, unofficially there is an endless stream of weapons flowing right now and I've seen some evidence of 'individuals' from NATO countries are enlisting in the service of Ukraine.

Just like Russia never had a presence in Ukraine until last week. Right?
I assume they have long term contracts in place for this kind of thing so they can't really get screwed over in that way.
Yes, mediocre and derivative.
Authors deserves respect for keeping this book free.

We were lucky to have a paperback low-cost-poorer-countries edition of The MINIX Book[1]. The code in the Minix book was an eye opener.The code clarifies the concept and sharpens the understanding.

Later on in my career as driver/firmware programmer, Computer Systems - A Programmers Perspective[2] and Unix Systems for Modern Architectures[3] helped a lot to clarify confusions and mysteries.

[1] https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Tanenbau...
[2] https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Bryant-C...
[3] https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Schimmel...
It introduces business psychology, for one. You get all this and more, for free:

- An expectation of support which is likely based on the purchaser's subjective past experiences in receiving support, rather than on what's available in your support section

- Pushback from your new customers-who-are-always-right

- Passionate and very specific suggestions for improvement, _for free_, from people who paid and therefore believe they are your target audience

- A complimentary covert contract governing the vendor-purchaser relationship, to accompany whatever you previously made very clear, which they did not and will not read

- A noticeable dilution of others' perspective on your personal values--"ah, they are just sharing that link with us because they make money off of it"

These are just some of the possible outcomes...

Which is not to say it's not worth doing, but there are lots of important factors.
JSON config formats are DSLs—they're embedded in JSON for syntax, but the semantics have to be defined separately.

Yes, for some applications a JSON DSL is inappropriate, and lots of people dislike the syntax. But it's not a choice between "JSON" and "DSL", it's a choice between using an established syntax or defining your own.
it's a very complex issue to understand the intertial (traditional) forces behind why we cannot have a megaupload.

Maybe we can make some sense of why we cannot have a megaupload by realizing that we are talking about acting against forces that have existed for dozens of hundreds of years, namely commerce in any form. whereas the internet is barely going on 30 years, and even less as a truly mainstream medium.
This is the way. Make it explicit, obvious, and debuggable. I much prefer to pass my dependencies around, and have a bit of duplicated code to programming in a dynamically typed configuration language and trying to figure out why the eff I’m getting runtime errors.
I remember reading it and wondering whether they’d have had more chance of making their fortunes building home computers out of their garages given the era! Great story though (I read the British edition - The Newtonian Casino)
> Linux users tend to be less picky about any possible UX issues induced by Wine. They’ll tolerate a lot of flaws if it means they can have your application at all.

Definitely not true: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28978086 , Ok, the linked article talks about a "native" port, but still...
> And virtual private networks (VPNs), which are often used to circumvent bans in countries such as the United Kingdom, can skew the results by making it appear that users are in a different country.

How does this caveat not make the analysis useless, unless known VPN exits are filtered--which there was no indication of.
Okay I corrected the title. Sorry I’m Italian and I thought: one Inuit, two Inuits. My mistake!
Koyre's From the Closed World to Infinite Universe

Koyre is basically the orginator of the history of science. This was his popularization.

Einstein & Infeld's Evolution of Physics

Picks up where Koyre leaves off.
I would work for free if I didn't need money to get any and all things, from basic necesities to frivolous luxuries
But why would anyone buy anything with USD cash?
In the case of germany specifically i think the situation is more complicated, because they have been missing their 2% quota for some time now, compared to France, UK and even some EE countries after Trump began pressuring member states to fulfill that mark.

There's no discussion we don't want to take from healthcare and other institutions that are beneficial for the citizens, but at the same time with this 100B investment i think germany somewhat catched up(it's not an arms race though, germany has a lot of US presence).As for the poor people joining the military, I don't exactly know how much that applies to Europe's population as it does to US'.Saying we will have poor people >because< there's more funding for defence is a little off for me.Poverty is a more complicated issue even than defence.
I would say yes. All religions, metaphysics and paranormal explanations seem to have come from trying to explain death and an yearning for continuation of life.

Wishing to continue to experience the world is good but lets say if every activity we do, every desire we have, every thought, inhibition, fear, perception can be debugged external and be shown to be deterministic. That would effectively make us code and probably able to run on machines/simulation. In which case, the whole thing at least for me would seem really to be pointless existence. I mean if all our thoughts, desires, perceptions are just code being run by some giant cpu, then well I'm not going to look forward for the execution of more such instructions (:
hi I was the one who made that comment. The JSON incompatibilities I was referring to at that time was for an older version of the JSON proposal. The current version of the JSON operator in SQLite mimics Postgres (and MySQL) perfectly and I'm very happy about that.

In the older version of the proposal, -> was identical to ->> except -> returned NULL on malformed JSON (while ->> raised an error). Both -> and ->> would automatically convert a JSON-encoded SQL string '"like this"' into an SQL string 'like this'. This is not how the -> operator behaves in Postgres and MySQL, and my examples were simply trying to point out that incompatibility.
better to have too much than too little. This is just some lean manufacturing people tut-tutting countries trying to become more independent
I think that is a reasonable counter argument to the solid advice GP shared. In my experience, vendors are usually well aware of their competition. It’s a thin and subtle line between motivating them and recklessly sharing details regarding trade secrets, IP, competitive advantages etc.

Only mentioning this because I wish someone had clued me in earlier in my career. I only learned after my friend in opsec called me out for my loose lips.
I'm sure there is a reason why this can't return a boolean, but the return values here seem suspect at best. Do you actually get any more information out of a 'maybe' response than a 'probably'?
Thanks. Adding it to my collection!
+1 to Daniel Gritzer - but Serious Eats generally has earned my trust now, they must have a really good editorial process over there to keep the quality so high.
At the time of publication they were the only ones covering it.
Defense spending is preventative. If you lower your spending, the threats become more credible. We're literally watching what happens when NATO defensive capabilities don't exist.

The US spends more than is defensively necessary, but NATO as a whole is absolutely spending proportional to the threat level. Perhaps the US should spend less, and the rest of NATO should spend more.
The people represent themselves.
These all sound like pros... A project that makes you intimately familiar with a huge breadth of deep, foundational domains and that forces you to make opinions about esoteric concepts, all while pushing you to go deeper.