skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean by 'metaphysical' here? I'm under the impression that metaphysics is a pretty deep branch of philosophy -- more like Descartes saying "how do I know I can know things", less like us saying the physics is probably magic. You seems to have landed on a particularly intense form of relativism, which is a fine way to run your life, particularly if it leads you to be open to the experiences of others. But I think it is different from metaphysics (although I'm not very educated in philosophy, generally).

With respect to atoms -- the standard of 'realness' science seem to use is whether we can make reliable predictions about the behavior of a thing, and atoms seem to have put quite a few points up on the scoreboard compared to the woo-woo stuff. Now, if a real philosopher were here they'd probably point out that all of science suffers from the 'problem of induction' and that gathering a preponderance of evidence doesn't really prove anything, but c'mon we're mostly engineers at best here. Our models aren't wrong, they are just limited to a subset of the entire universe of possible phenomena (the ones people will pay to exploit, obviously).
Probably not, which is why you probably wouldn't want to openly send the military. But you might, e.g., perform cyberattacks yourself.
Well sowell blames the depression first on hoover for doing the very progressive thing of interfering with the economy and he made things worse. Sowell also states that all of FDR's policies made everything worse as well.

Similarly, sowell believes democrats caused the 08 recession via affirmative action housing policies and that Obama put the economy into a a coma until trump got things back in order. Sowell is an economist by trade, by the way.

We can both agree the economy thrived under Clinton, and I would add bush senior. Clinton was a rarity for being relatively fiscally responsible.
The engines don't move the ship at all. The ship stays where it is and the engines move the universe around it.

Maybe the G force is absorbed by the entire universe.
Look at how we say climate change as opposed to global warming, or global freezing. What hubris we have as humans that we are wanting to freeze in place the climate. If you go back in time and look at the climate, it has changed.

With that, please provide with a serious set of facts, that we can model impacts that can be implemented to change the system. Please bear in mind that I just watched a model tell us to lock down a system. People said that the model had issues, they were pilloried for questioning it. The model turned out to be politically motivated and has been shown to be adjusted to justify a lockdown. Now, with a serious set of facts tell me that the people who are doing the models are not politically susceptible. Now, with a serious face tell me that the climate change modeling community does not have a positive feedback loop to encourage dire warnings, please include that we just watched the sciences go along with bad ideas to make sure they kept their NIH funding. Finally, please include Michael Mann’s active avoidance of sharing data because his hockey stick model failed in its data.

My metric for finding out if people understand reality is to ask the following:
Is nuclear power on the table as a base load provider?

If the answer is “no” then the person is not versed in what we need and is a signal to smile and get away from them.
It would have a bigger effect of the Govt set these things up, to increase incentives for local produce etc. Doing it on the individual level is a losing battle. Most people don't care (or don't understand the implications), so long as they get there xyz to eat.
Ask HN: How some ShowHNs were able to have both url and text?
Normally when you post something, you either post a link with no body, or text with no link. However, I noticed some ShowHNs had both, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30517299. How was it achieved?

I have 2 speculations, not sure if one is correct? 1. The author submitted a link, then made a regular comment, and a mod decided to move that comment into the body. 2. The author filled both the url and the text fields when submitting the post, in which case the text would be hidden by default, and a mod decided to reveal it.
Yes - ish. Depends on the distro. Ubuntu 20.04 has 5.4, for example, and I suspect many use that.
and yet even a T-34 is much taller, let alone a Sherman.

and correlation is not causation either.

I'm not arguing that trucks aren't big, but they are neither anywhere close to the size of tanks, nor does this article say that, regardless of the poor title.
> The web, although newer, is just as dull these days.

I think it's that we stopped building, promoting, and improving new public protocols. And by "we" I mean "tech giants". There should be an open, widely-used social layer atop the Web, supported by everything under the sun. Why isn't there? Facebook and Google and Twitter have infinity money (thanks to advertising and/or VC) to throw at free products that lock in users, instead. Why's chat more silo'd now than ever? Similar reason, deep pockets with large marketing & advertising budgets pushing products that deliberately don't interoperate well. Et cetera.

We couldn't invent email today. I'm not even sure we could invent the Web, anymore. For values of "invent" that include getting enough support for something to really be a standard that's widely used, not just a few white papers and something a few enthusiasts use, doomed to obscurity. This state of things is not because we ran out of things that would make excellent, useful protocols.
Because it's one thing to attack hardware in Ukraine and have some collateral damage in other parts of the world, and an entirely different thing to directly attack an expensive space asset of another country just because it is used to provide service to Ukraine.

Also, the affected ground stations are in Germany, the satellite belongs to a US company.
> Why is it that every time any subject about mathematics comes up there is always a complaint about notation?

The assumption that there is a much better notation is one I tend to see only with the HN crowd. Outside of this group, even people who dislike the notation and/or struggle with math do not claim that a better/simpler one obviously exists.
> I expect those doing the laughing couldn't possibly be fooling themselves about their motivations. Only other people do that.

That's a non-answer.

> but it's equally obvious there are real phenomena which are unexplained.

Yes, that's how the natural world works, and it's science's mission to try to understand it.

There's almost no logical connection or implication from "unexplained phenomena" to "evidence of extraterrestrial life".

> For example, the Hessdalen Lights.

Well, the case for ET life there is really tenuous and the people and organizations jumping to that conclusion are suspect.

> The scientific approach is to collect data and generate theories which try to explain it.

Yes, and UFOlogists really fail to understand this. Or rather, they do not want to, because for various reasons they cling to their need for intelligent ET life visiting us and abducting people or doing flyovers over their houses.

> Meanwhile we have no idea what alien intelligence would be like, or what it would be capable of.

We do have some ideas. The universe of possibilities for intelligent life is finite.

If your ET life is unrecognizable as such, uninterested in meaningful interaction with us, and essentially invisible to our perception, then that's... a not very interesting perspective, is it? By all means it's indistinguishable from the nonexistence of ET life, except maybe in a faith-like sort of manner, which is uninteresting to science.

In many ways UFOlogy is a modern religion.
It’s not the focus of the article—which is clearly intended to narrowly focus on the current state of macOS UI APIs—so I can’t fault it for having no mention of Electron. But it’s hard not to see a huge Electron-shaped hole in the picture painted. At least for my usage, nearly all of my dailyish use apps are either:

- built in (Finder, Activity Monitor, Reminders)

- macOS native but get little benefit from that other than existing before Electron (iTerm, Tower but even that is an ancient unmaintained version because I’m not sold on the subscription model)

- Some Chromium thing, mostly Electron (~90% of my daily usage if not more)

And I know this will vary by user but… I suspect that breakdown is similar for anyone using more than built-ins. I love the idea of “Mac-assed Mac apps”[1], but there just… aren’t many and they’re either very specialized (Panic stuff and Pixelmator being prominent examples) or very minimal and of unpredictable quality (the vast majority of the Mac App Store). Though this is a good reminder that I want to buy Paw[2] even though I currently don’t have much use for it.

But like… being real, the issue isn’t that native macOS UI toolkits are bad in some way. The issue is that nobody is developing platform-specific desktop UIs at all, give or take first parties and marginalia. If anything, Linux is healthier in this respect than anything else, and that’s because it’s already a hodgepodge of community efforts.

1: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2020/03/20/mac-assed-mac-a...

2: https://paw.cloud/
Deadlines: perfectionism isn't an issue in itself, spending eternity achieving it, is. Pick a milestone (e.g. MVP of feature X) and a due date. Once you hit that milestone promptly, pick another and repeat.

On a different note, perfectionism can be a symptom of procrastination. It requires much less will power to fine tune an existing thing, than it is to start something new or work through early steps. If this is the case, then apply the usual anti-procrastination techniques: vow to put X minutes a day into a project in order to make it a habit and get the ball rolling; identify obstacles that are creating friction; re-think the design and simplify; breakdown the task to make it less intimidating; etc.
Good Ol' Shoe - Working [from Wag the Dog] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v4ZLwevXAI
Yeah, 17 loops is a small enough number that is honestly probably not bother figuring out how to automate git bisect and a test.

The real deal was tracking it down and creating a reproducible test.
> Ukraine has existed as a "country" only for a few decades.

So what, Canada only existed as a "country" for a few decades, maybe US military should bomb their cities and take it then.
Has it in yours?
Please, space after full stop.
Yandex provides further update on convertible bonds
Residents have been doing their bit, no doubt, but it hasn't "trickled up". Additionally, State Governments have been implementing their own policies due to the federal policy vacuum.

The absence of Government policy and support for industrial-scale solar and wind installations has driven away a fair bit of investment (according to a number of articles I've read over the years). And there's not just lack of Government support, but overt negativity:
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/sas-big-battery-just-ano... (Scott Morrison, treasurer at the time, is now Australia's prime minister)

Amusing follow-up: https://reneweconomy.com.au/on-first-day-as-pm-morrison-lear...
Do I remember you? What do you remember?
What’s amusing is a few years back there WAS a security bug so critical that they DID handle it in a special and strange way.
The whole Linux-on-the-desktop objective seemed like chasing where the puck was, that was a decade ago. Having connected, anywhere-we-go any-device-we-have cross-user-capable software is the new baseline.

It's not just open source. Personal software in general is failing. Failing to become interpersonal. But if we simply glue in centralized services (how we typically connect), we begin walking down a vulgar path of anti-personalization/de-personalization. New ways must emerge to keep personal software relevant (imho).
I'm building out a feed reader for fun and I've noticed this same issue.

Her points make absolute sense for how RSS and Atom are supposed to be used (and probably are used by her and other's who don't monetize content) but are absolutely not how the (monetized content) sites like Reuters use it.
Seven Second Summits
Congress to legislate to suspend trade-relations, Ban energy Imports from Russia
So flying objects remain unidentified until they're identified?
(I want to preface this comment by saying I don't mean in any way to rebut the thrust of the article, I worried this could be taken that way, rather it's a commentary on the inconsistency of feed implementations that I don't find discussed much.)

As a somewhat orthogonal observation, I've found it's surprisingly hard to write a crawler that's well behaved with consistent heuristics across a variety of different feed providers.

Usage of published vs pubdate vs updated, which is changed when, (or all three just containing 1970 and/or the current time), reordered feeds, items published out of order _regardless_ of the scheme used, changing urls/ids, etc. Whatever set of heuristics one uses for some sites may not apply to others. Now, this begs the question of "why not make parameterize and tune", and yes, this is largely what I've resolved to, but it's, to the core point, more of a moving target than one would expect from how ostensibly simple RSS is.

At the end of the day, in many cases I just fall back to using a cache of recently-seen-urls and, when possible, short-circuit the enumeration when I cross one. (Similar disclaimer, I do love me some RSS, I've just never had a good opportunity to rant about this.)
I have been known to drop into Pitr's accent. No one gets it.
Like I said, I'm not opposed to what you're saying, it just seems like calling it the free market is just distracting from your point, which is to solve this with regulations.

The contradiction kind of jumped out at me, and it sounds like it has jumped out at others before based on what you said. Your original comment could be paraphrased as "regulate the market and then let the unregulated market do its magic." Why not just avoid all that and just take out the "free" part? Its the market part thats doing the work.
same almost gave up after clicking/right-clicking all over and nothing.. Thanks. What the hell's an iPod? /s
South Australia went a full week on renewables recently, and regularly does full days. You could probably nitpick technicalities but that any portion of any day could be served entirely on solar and wind is a massive achievement and one I don't see rolling backward any time soon.
> If you're taking chapter exams on some material, I think you ought to have worked enough problems so that formulas/constants are drilled into your head.

Well, sure, but, if you don't, then what's the point of punishing you? As a teacher, frankly, I'd be happy to have my students bring in any static resources they wanted to consult—I say 'static' to emphasise not, e.g., consulting a cheating site, although it's fine with me if they've pre-compiled solutions in advance to any problems they think might be interesting or important—except that (1) I think that would encourage bad study habits, and, more importantly, (2) it would be unwieldy in a packed classroom to try to have adjacent people juggling multiple textbooks, notebooks, etc.

In fact, I loved the freedom to give extended-time, fully open-book, open-note exams during the fully remote classes. I wish I could still do that; if cheating weren't so endemic under those conditions, then I would.
I maintain a ROM for primarily older devices, the big feature is automated kernel CVE patching.
My patcher was able to patch the 15 affected devices I support, and I'll have builds up in the next few days.
https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/divestos-build/-/commit/5...
And my goodness I’d love to switch from VSCode to Nova if I could figure out how to both support my own debugging story and know how to document it for the larger VSCode crowd, but last I checked both are impossible and I work in open source so I’m going to milk the cows in the field they’re actually grazing (I have no idea if I’m butchering an existing aphorism or just butchering one I just made up).
They don’t need to label it security even, just a “upgrade now, upgrade soon, upgrade whenever”.

But they clearly don’t want nor care about making that call (and even more clearly basically expect everyone to run the latest kernel at all times (and if you run into a bug there no doubt you’ll be told to not run the latest kernels).
Agreed basically. The G+ era murdered the engineering driven vision of the future & replaced it with more gloss-coated shit-consumerism.

Things werent going great with Buzz, Salmon, OpenSocial. But they were teething, finding themselves, evolving. That all got killed by one vain executive, who murdered an explorable interconnected future for a cheapass Facebook knock-off.

It's sad af it takes a massive name to drive big change, to get people hyped. There's plenty of interesting-ish projects about that could, that deserve uptake, usage, advancement. Maybe BlueSky will have technics sufficiently capable to match & drive a new interconnected angle. Im so tired of the ongoing re-silo-ization of all computing.
> Are you saying that you are able to read all incoming linux patches, and easily identify changes which fixes a security problem, so that you can come up with a POC by the time the security issue is announced?

Their point is that a full-time attacker (and there's enough money in it to do it as a full-time job these days) can look for obfuscated commits and take the time to deobfuscate them, whereas a defender doesn't have that kind of time.
In this particular moment in human history we should aim to reduce energy consumption. Using 80 watt led bulbs to produce more light completely offsets the gain in efficiency that they provide. And It makes me feel more discouraged about our future.
This isn’t rocket science.

If you’re the mayor of a city, build density if you want to maximize incoming tax revenue compared to the costs of maintaining the infrastructure to support it. Of course you don’t want to have 1 Taco Bell when you could have 300 condos!

What this doesn’t mean, though, is that suburbs are inherently bad or insolvent. In fact, most American suburbs are separate tax entities altogether from cities and then do often have higher property tax rates as a necessity to pay for infrastructure.
Even if SAT was an IQ test and IQ was not a faulty measurement of something humans don't fully understand, it would still only show you the upper limit of someones potential, like the maximum speed of a car -- useful when driven on a racetrack not the freeway or city street -- in reality motivation to apply your intelligence in a useful way and having a personality and perseverance to acheive success, much like speed limits, other cars and road conditions are the real barrier. It's not how fast you drive, it's how efficiently you drive and work with/around others.

I am glad they brought up the SAT because do they really think a student that gets a perfect score on it could have done so without years of studying (barring actual genius)? Intelligence capcity is real, much like physical strength capacity is real but just like how a female marine can outperform an average office worker in combat a well studied low-intelligence student can acheive more than an underacheiving genius. And even then, I don't get why people don't get the difference between intelligence and wisdom, without the latter you're only good for party tricks and showing off not accomplishing anything.

IQ matters in that it is a bell curve distribution where the peak and tail are relevant but for everyone in between it has little relevance imo.
Google flags its own generated emails sent from itself to its gmail users as phishing emails. I am not making this up. Think about that.
Ask HN: How do software houses find work?
And how do you hire a software house? What do you analyze?
> This felt like it was written by a physicist or engineer.

I just compared it to my undergrad's math curriculum and it matches up pretty well. Everything you mentioned is an elective.
Yes -- on the perimeter of the main square there is all of that exactly -- its pretty convenient for sure but having stores / shops like that on each of these super blocks I imagine works when you have tons of people living around there. Many of these complexes have say 20 buildings and each building houses probably 100 people.
I understand how you came to that conclusion, since those graphs are extremely confusingly designed*, but the 10% change is the predicted change in margin of victory (which the article is examining because said prediction was wrong), and the actual change is more or less negligible, trending slightly towards more Republican.

Behind the paywall, the article text confirms this:

>However, there was scant evidence that white voters without degrees preferred Mr Biden to Mrs Clinton. Mr Trump’s margins of victory in white working-class counties this year were just as large on average, and in some places even bigger, than in 2016.

* Honestly, they're astoundingly bad, to the point of being actively misleading if you're not looking carefully. I highly suspect they were thrown together by someone without statistics training using bad autofit at the last minute.
The State Governments have been surprisingly good at filling the vacuum left by the federal government.
This. There's just not that much to say. There's nothing to debate; we're pretty much unanimously for peace and against aggression. There's nothing that we techies and entrepreneurs are going to do to make any difference, unless you're up at Elon Musk's scale. The only arguing is going to be politics (NATO response, appease Russia, etc) and that's exactly what HN tries to avoid.

At most we're involved in tangential economic affairs, like cutting off the payment infrastructure. Topics like that do seem to be getting about the right amount of attention here, a thread or two per day.
typedef union Buffet {

// SSO
struct {
char sso[15] // in-situ data
uint8_t ssolen:4 // in-situ length
}

I feel like this doesn’t work in ARM GCC. Or rather it works but it’s going to be 16 bytes right there. Are systems that are not aligned also default to packed? Does that matter here?
If by OS X you meant the GUI, then no OS X wasn't designed for people like you, the original Mac was designed for people who don't want to deal with MS DOS command lines and the GUI design choice have largely been kept intact for almost 40 years. So no you're probably not their target audience. But thank you for allowing for the possibility of preference projection, instead of insisting one way of doing things is inherently superior to another like the others. We don't want everything work the same way otherwise what's the point. To a unix newbie, using mv as a rename function is also extremely strange but to the OG this could well be the most beautiful and efficient implementation.
I am disappointed there is no discussion of the morality of the research and article.

This seems like a morally bankrupt justification for corporate totalitarianism. The goal of the article isn't to help solve customer problems, it's to reduce costs and maximize profits in any way legally possible.

Twitter has plenty of "moral outrage" spam and complaints that really are not customer service issues, and I am sympathetic to not engaging in that kind of advocacy and those kinds of complaints, but often customers have real issues that "customer dis-service" often fails to remediate, and if there's no other option but "alternative means", then those means are justified in the name of producing consumer benefit.
That all fits in well with the hierarchical way of assigning addresses in Tokyo as opposed to the street name and number used in much of the western world. I wonder if the address scheme came first or the urban development pattern came first and the address scheme followed.
Yes, convention is to refer to them as unidentified unless they're identified.