skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a long and complex piece that took me over 15 mins fast-skim
reading.

The whole thing seemed to be building up to a conclusion that - no,
one cannot mechanically reduce the whole of Art History to a matrix of
influence coefficients, and here's why... - but no, it died with a
whimper on the altar of reductionist positivism. Was the point to
"debunk or demystify Art"?

Reading deeper, for myself, I think this strays into the treacherous
waters of determinism versus "artistic will". There is no mention of
archetypes, synchronicity, metaphor, the transformative nature of art,
or that (socio-political function) "all art is propaganda". As you
say it tried to "de-psychologise" art.

> Expecting a professor of evolutionary biology to understand this is
like expecting Andy Warhol to be an expert on mRNA vaccine
design. It's pure Dunning-Kruger - someone out of their depth having
opinions about something they don't have the first clue about.

I am not sure that evolutionary biologists shouldn't get to speak on
art. This is a strange interregnum we are in, in which, for example:
economists presume to speak on all and every matter because in their
world "everything is economics". In a specialised world we all know
everything there is to know about nothing at all, and so feel
frustrated for the "whole and connected" life of mind that once
existed.

As a (well read and aging) computer
scientist I find myself straying into areas of "expertise" I really
have no claim to, but think insights from my field have something to
contribute.

The problem comes when claims are made that "evolutionary biology
_explains_ X", or that "systems theory _explains_ Y". No it doesn't.
It is one viewpoint in a multi-dimensional, multi-causal tapestry of
human life and enquiry.
> Children in every demographic group have been affected, but Black and Hispanic children, as well as those from low-income families, those with disabilities and those who are not fluent in English, have fallen the furthest behind.

The pandemic affected everybody almost equally by political jurisdiction so demographic stratification suggests there is more to blame in addition to the pandemic. Looking at young children in my area my first blame is convenient access to touchscreens.
I don’t see the connection between the two?
Sometimes I wonder if the people who work on such websites even occasionally visit their own site. I just don't understand.
At this point, I feel like we should be wary of any company SoftBank invests a ton of money in.
Russia's invasion puts a new light on Trump's Ukraine pressure campaign
"This is a common misconception among the public and one of the first things they teach you in your first-year property law course."

Typical lawyer response - I know more than you and I'll give you an answer that looks down on you without addressing the meat of the topic.

"Property rights are about control and exclusionary rights, not about physical things like land and widgets."

I haven't said otherwise. This reinforces my position that these terrible metaphors draw people off topic and do not translate to virtual property the same - the whole reason trespass and computer trespass are separate crimes with separate elements. In fact, I believe that most laws around computer resources have too much influence from traditional laws because the politicians and judges who wrote them relied too heavily on concepts from the physical world due to habit and a lack of understanding of the new concepts around technology and its possibilities.

The real question is whether the laws are appropriate. It's an asymmetrical power dynamic that favors the stated intent of the owner over the stated intent of the user, even ignoring the actions of the owner when they're contrary to their stated intent. Computer trespass and unauthorized access is much more complicated and lacks the protective mechanisms that physical property laws have to protect non-owners. For example, consent and intent to let others use a computer resource is terribly vague. You don't need written permission to visit a website, there aren't clearly posted boundaries with signs stating this or that resource is off limits, etc. Even ToS tend to very poorly define boundaries within a system.

Without clearly defined and posted boundaries as well as a lack of explicit grants or revocation of privileges in publicly accessible cyber spaces, we have created a system that favors the undefined undermining the underlying concepts of strict construction - that laws need to be defined strictly so that they can be applied equally and so that they are knowable to the subjects. In the case of cyber laws, relying on the stated intent of the owner which was not well defined anywhere nor communicated to the user as well as ignoring the intent preceived through the actions of the owner that contradict their stated intent.

What we have is a system that will allow bad laws to stand because of unequal enforcement. Accessing publically available URLs and the data returned can either lead to charges from the FBI against an unknown person, or to widespread support for a reporter. Prosecutorial and law enforcement discretion means that we can use the laws only against undesirables and leave the majority of the population unaffected even if they met the elements of the offense. If it doesn't affect you, then why fix it...
The reality is that fuel type isn't a choice for the vast majority of people. A heat pump installed is a year or more salary for most people if it's even an option.

Not owning a car is equally impractical in many parts of the world unless you happen to have considerable salary.

Everyone doing small things to reduce their overall impact during peak hours is something everyone can participate in at no cost and can have major impact.
Search Bulava / Topol tests 201x, RU test fires ICBMs successfully every year. Reporting of current RU incompetence doesn't suggest anything deficient with their rocketry functionality except not much missiles were used, and a few precision strikes on runways were consistently off course by several meters and missed the runway, indicating user error. Several meters doesn't matter with nukes.
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Korea/Vietnam- Invited by host governments

Grenada- response to a coup d'e´tat with a multinational force

Panama- technically Noriega declared a state of war first (not the brightest move)

Desert Storm - response to Iraqi invasion/aggression

Haiti - restore democratically elected president

Bosnia- UN sanctioned response to Serbian aggression

Afghanistan- response to Twin Towers - 9/11 aggression. The worst thing we did was actually trying to be 'virtuous' and nation build when we weren't wanted. Get in, decapitate government, make it clear we will rinse and repeat as necessary as long as they host terrorists, leave them alone, with maybe one air base to carry through on the threat if necessary.

Iraq take 2- this is the most questionable one and definitely the most unwise one. Iraq/Saddam had continuously been aggressive post Deseret Storm and hadn't abided by peace terms, so in a legalistic sense, this was justifiable, from pretty much every other sense, moronic.

Libya- National Transition Council was the recognized government at the time of Gaddafi's killing. Supporting any particular faction in the civil war before it played out though, was worse than useless.

Killing of OBL in Pakistan - considering we started an invasion of Afghanistan over him, going after him on Pakistani soil seems rather mild.

Generally it is a pattern of being the world's police and/or avenging attacks, not wars of aggression to capture territory.

Now if you're talking Cold War CIA, then the list of nasty manipulations justified by fear of what the 'bad guys' were doing is a long and not defendable list...
57 years ago back in 1965 there was Soupy Sales and those "funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. Presidents".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-OGy3Kh7yM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#New_Year's_Day_inc...
I mean, it holds true in small cities I've seen too. As for towns with tons of space, they'll probably spread out. You need a certainly density to support a mixed use development, and people who decide to live in lower density areas are making a choice to trade certain advantages (job density, walkability) for living space and/or lawns. So they're not going to opt into mixed use living.
// is only a comment if there is only whitespace directly before it?
I use them on my desktop, too. There are none in this WebView embedded in this mobile app, though.
I would assume that detonating a nuclear bomb in a desert would cause fewer debris than detonating one in a built up and dense area
Right, but it's $5.66 to me. So the utility has driven me away from the globally efficient solution.
I never thought about it like that, thanks for that insight
> Higher stages of civilization will require more power

If anything, a "higher stage" of civilization would be perfectly sustainable and highly energy efficient.

There's nothing civilized in being a parasitic species.
Huh, that's really interesting, the Firefox dev tools even do proper syntax highlighting. I wonder how JSX parsers react to this. A quick test with an online Babel parser is throwing errors, so I assume it's just not supported? But maybe there's a setting.

JSX also by default doesn't have an easy way to insert comments into the generated HTML, so I don't think JSX is the reason why it wouldn't be supported in Babel. My understanding was always that it has more to do with comments being treated slightly differently than normal document nodes, but I could be wrong.

I guess more likely the reasoning is that it's just obscure. I've been programming JS for a reasonably long time and never knew this was supported.
Modern cities burning.
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Are there internal controversies? Another core member left a few days ago.
I’m 45 and I’m just now half way through my last chemo treatment for colon cancer. I would not say I’m you for cancer but definitely on the younger end of the spectrum for this type of cancer. I probably wouldn’t have gotten the colonoscopy that found the cancer had I not been lucky enough for the cancer to cause an infection where gut bacteria passed through my colon and made me extremely sick. I treated that with antibiotics and got a colonoscopy.

Results were that it was stage 3 c as I had 4 lymph nodes affected. The first step was surgery and about 12”/30cm of my colon was removed right where it meets the small intestine. This was the most difficult surgery I have been through and happens during the delta surge last summer. That means I couldn’t have visitors for the week I was in recovery.

Next up was surgery for a port after 3 weeks of healing. That went in my right shoulder near my collar bone with an iv line to my jugular. Once that healed started the chemo…

I didn’t take to chemo very well at first and I had a severe reaction to one of the drugs and landed in the hospital again for a few days. They could not figure out what was really happening but I basically had severe chest pain and jaw pain. They suspected heart/cardio problems and did a cardiac cath which came back normal thankfully. The fix was to reduce the dose of that particular drug by half. As time wore on the other drug in the cocktail started causing neuropathy in my fingers, feet and teeth/gums. Picture your finger tips always asleep. That can last for up 2 years but in some cases is permanent.

Now that I’m on the other side of the diagnosis and treatment I still have the post treatment scan. Typically colon cancer makes its was up to the lungs and brain if left unchecked. I get that scan mid April. To me that is the scariest part. I think it would be a huge gut punch to find out that it spread even after surgery and chemo.

As for life post treatment there are adjustments I have had to make:
While I used to like spicy food my colon has decided that spice is a laxative now and usually sends me to the restroom within 2 hours. I have to plan my coffee intake with meetings. I have some days when things seem normal and the others when I’m going to the rest room 4-6 times per day.

In my 30s I was in marathon shape until I severely broke my foot at 38. I have slowly gotten out of shape since. I think this was a bit of a lifestyle reminder for me so the plan is get back in shape and check my diet.

I have quit alcohol for treatment so I’m going on about 9 months with no drinking. I don’t know if I will continue abstaining or not.
I am certain that had I not had that infection I wouldn’t have gotten a colonoscopy. I think that’s the takeaway for me. Get your colons checked folks. Age 40 is the new recommendation my doc has mentioned.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33329607/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27063-4

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-39...
Some pro model CRTs were 1920 * 1280. I have a 21" Viewsonic in a closet that still works every time I try it, but wow is it heavy and bulky compared to what we're used to today.
In part because they would be over cities and built up areas resulting in a lot more particles and soot entering the atmosphere. Nearly every nuclear test, if not all of them, took place in areas with very little such material.
So that's about double US prices -- why is the price so high in Europe? Or rather, is it low in the US because we're a big oil producer?
Some parents are more educated and have more money to compensate for the shortfalls of remote learning.
> There will be few incumbent Ford dealers that won't also sell Ford's electric products

Assuming it's an option. The Ford electric company could go the same route as Tesla and dealerships would have the same recourse they have now against Tesla, because it's a new company.
Of course they should be interviewed back, what's the alternative?

Hey team, so this is Steve from another department in another company. He's been assigned to our team, so. Of course we're handling text in the Chromium engine and Steve's backgound is in threat analysis, but I guess we'll figure something along the way. Welcome, Steve
> North American zoning certainly isn't ideal, IMHO. But a mix of superblocks, both dense and sparse mixed-zone housing, single family homes, and high rises would appeal to me.

Take a look at Chicago from your mapping tool of choice. Slowly zoom out until the street names fall away and the minor roads start to disappear. The dominant feature is their 4x4 grid of major roads and it extends even to the close-in suburbs - especially in the north and south.

Perhaps you can call this the North American version of the superblock. Density is concentrated along these major roads (and the central business district, of course). The inner roads have that mix of single family homes, townhouses, high-rises, etc. depending on the neighborhood you are in.
The only thing to understand - and accept - is that you will always pick the wrong queue. So will everyone else. Always.

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I appreciate that this truism has nothing to do with the article.
A funny piece, but oh boy that author sure has some Opinions they had to squeeze in there.
That JPEG can be losslessly (bit-wise identical) transcoded to JPEG XL and back to JPEG, while the JPEG XL is smaller than the JPEG is bizarre to me. Does anyone know how that works?
> EU is not a country

I don't know about that. A lot of anti-Brexit folks really seem to have felt loyalty to it the way others feel to their states. It sends ambassadors to other states, so it has its own foreign policy. It doesn't have its own military, yet, but it does have a common defense framework. Seems to me that it is at least a semi-state.

Is the United States one state or fifty plus one?
It says something about the state of media or the calibration of right/left these days that The Wall Street Journal is not considered a right wing source.
Under duress you'd be surprised what you'd publicly support.

It's not as if every Russian has the luxury to say what they want and not fear extreme retaliation.

Instead of "Russians", think instead "diverse group of humans living under a violent, jealous, unpredictable regime."

Just like victims of domestic abuse struggle to escape their abuser, it's not as easy to say "fuck off" or actually leave as keyboard pundits would have us believe.

If you want some history about making lists, check out the McCarthy Trials.
It's really unfortunate that there isn't a single, high-quality reference source (with an API) for song lyrics, the way there is for artist/album metadata (MusicBrainz) or cover art (Cover Art Archive).

No source that I'm aware of provides a public API, leaving tools like beets to haphazardly scrape a handful of websites[1].

[1]: https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.6.0/plugins/lyrics.html
Disagree. No one is obliged to be recipient of psyop by state actor.
One Way Smart Developers Make Bad Strategic Decisions
There’s always mpg123
They're likely prescribed by PR people who think of everyone in bulk and less intelligent than themselves. The people actually building the site probably hate it.
The future has zero mass, thus has zero energy, thus most likely doesn't exist yet. It's a really long gamble to say that it does.
I'm familiar with some of them (primarily criticisms that the nuclear family is the /only/ acceptable family structure where other forms exist and are healthy) but simply presenting a nuclear family is fairly innocuous.
As others said, the only thing that changed is that most people stopped caring and moved on to streaming.
This article is such a good demonstration (IMO) that computers are really fast, but that we have gotten really bad at actually making reasonable use of them.
IRS Abandons Facial Recognition Plans
Important footnote: Unless you are in an JavaScript module file. They work in scripts only. E.g. the following is a syntax error in a module but a valid script:

<!-- ok if it's a script only
--> console.log("ok");
No idea. I really do not have a good way to measure this. I am also quite skeptical of things like IQ tests as a means for measuring such things. I've had some in depth discussions with a friend that is a psychoanalyst about these tests and have read up on them myself. My limited understanding is that they are mostly useful for putting a person into a range but getting exact numbers is not feasible, meaning that the tests giving a specific number is really just an approximation in a range and that also varies by which of the two standard tests is used.

If I could get something that could measure exact interaction response times of synapses then perhaps that might be a starting point. The equipment exists but doubt I could even afford the grey-market gear nor do I have a place to put it.

One might ask why I take these molecules if I can not measure efficacy. For me it's simple. They are relatively cheap and there are enough studied benefits that even if the gains are marginal I will find that an acceptable net gain in the big picture of my overall health.
> “Sometimes motivation, wanting something, is a lot more important than having the real skill,” Wozniak said.
For those, like me, who find OmniFocus to be overkill, Things might be a better fit. I think it's great.
> The feeling among many product managers and engineers was that if a platform was 99% safe, that was enough, according to one former executive. The point was to find a way to avoid human curation, the person said.

I wonder if the initial batch of engineers working on the product had kids. I remember being horrified when I read about some of the stuff people were finding on the app. It seemed unconscionable that a company would be make a product for kids and have that kind of content (ex: cartoon characters committing suicide).
I wish more people would use these, whenever I buy music off of iTunes or Bandcamp it almost never comes with the lyrics embedded. I know Bandcamp supports it because I recall being delightfully surprised by some music an acquaintance sold there having lyrics; not sure I can recall ever getting them off of iTunes. Every now and then iTunes sells me an album that comes with a PDF of the CD booklet, that’s about the closest it comes.
That's more of an annoyance than an ad.
And to put things in context, Andrew White and Javan Makhmali resigned as well .

https://github.com/rails/website/pull/28

https://github.com/rails/website/pull/25
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Would you recommend a warm or cold white light, after having one for over two years?

At the moment I only have 2 rgb led lightbulbs, which have less than 1k lumens each, so I'm thinking of getting more "white-only" bulbs for more lightning but I'm curious about the warmth of the light: I literally only always go below 2700k.
Worse than that I remember <script language="VBScript"> with IE, yuck!
GM, PG&E to turn electric vehicles into a virtual power grid in California
Yes, and what is contributing to obesity? Are there environmental factors affecting androgenic functions? Is it all just people being sedentary over eaters? Or something else?
"never attribute to malice what can be explained by ignorance"

This is a US based org so they probably have no idea what they are doing around PII data other than what's required by US law and even then.
This would be nice, but I fear we can go too far down this road, particularly with children.

Hormesis is important for our health: exposure to periods of starvation to induce autophagy of senescent cells, exposure to allergens and less-than-lethal pathogens (at a young age) to train our immune systems [1,2], etc.

Obviously we want to minimize heavy metal, PFAS exposure, etc - but living in ultrapure environments risks throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.

Absolutely in favor of better environmental monitoring, but we need to be very selective about the specific things we don't want.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/health/leukemia-clean-childho...
To be more specific: for example, (non-FAANG) senior dev salaries in Poland are pretty much in line with senior dev salaries in France.

Before the covid, typical senior dev net salary in Poland was around ~12-18k PLN per month, while in France it's about 3k EUR per month (a bit higher in Paris, but also more expensive).

One diff is that IT folks in PL typically work on b2b contracts; the upside is lower tax, and tax deductions on car leasing (hence it's easy to get new and very nice car). Downside: minimal state pension (no one in PL believes in state pensions money being managed well).
But force them into a office in their location.
Even if it's true I always see this excuse to not try to reduce your consumption as a pure cop-out. If everyone had this attitude then nothing would ever change.
I appreciate something well designed, simple and durable.

>The Antonov An-2 ("kukuruznik"—corn crop duster; USAF/DoD reporting name Type 22,[5] NATO reporting name Colt[6]) is a Soviet mass-produced single-engine biplane utility/agricultural aircraft designed and manufactured by the Antonov Design Bureau beginning in 1946.[4] Its remarkable durability, high lifting power, and ability to take off and land from poor runways have given it a long service life. The An-2 was produced up to 2001 and remains in service with military and civilian operators around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-2
White people are the largest demographic of poverty in the US.

So racist against white people I guess?
We are no longer on the gold standard and have not been for ages.
Better entropy coding. TL;DR JPEG and other "lossy" compression formats are two steps: the lossy step and a lossless step like ZIP. You keep the lossy step as-is and improve the lossless step.
Long term motivation is a very, very rare characteristics. I'd say it is almost born or influenced by childhood experience, not grown.
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