skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly what to me constitutes the essence of the crisis of our time. It concerns the relationship of the individual to society. The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence upon society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence. Moreover, his position in society is such that the egotistical drives of his make-up are constantly being accentuated, while his social drives, which are by nature weaker, progressively deteriorate. All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this process of deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, only through devoting himself to society.

I was really not expecting such a present, modern, & clear political clash to have been so clearly elaborated 3/4 of a century ago. This is incredible to hear.

This still feels like the defining struggle. We thresh constantly with whether we are willing or not to try for better.

So far in my life time, the USG has been effectively obstructed so effectively trying new legislation to try & doing anything different- we have only minor tweaks & shifts, usually passed under omnibus spending bills. (Obamacare/Romneycare is one noteable exception, which we then spent a colossal amount of federal & state time trying to rescind.)

It saddens me so deeply that there are so few chances to try and do good. Attempts at progress & collectivism are challenged heavily, rarely emerge, and usually only in tattered sorry pieces after going through the legislative gauntlet. There's only mild evidence government can be effective, but to me it feels like it's because we have collectively worked so very hard against trying. Because of exactly the attitude & mindset & fear Einstein described, 73 years ago.
I wouldn't be so quick to write off birdsong as speech based on this one species—given the dramatic variability in form, behavior, and habitat across the animal kingdom, a particular family of birds where the males don't "talk" wouldn't surprise me at all.
These type of "ads" can already be disabled by turning of "Tips and suggestions" in the System->Notification settings.
Take enough mass away to stop fusion.
As a fellow user of Google Maps, I'd gladly give up those features to make the roads a little safer. You have different priorities.
Pine is one block north of Pike. They are all but identical intersections.
> Ads in the tools that I use for my work are unacceptable.

why you working with the home edition then?
I made a chrome extension of this! So it won't disappear when you refresh the page: https://github.com/ekofi/hn_avatar_ext/
"High stake" exams in my country already have radio jamming devices for years.
As someone who is not really into Debian, how different it is from Ubuntu? Would you use Ubuntu for production servers?
> This is literally one of Russias demands, which the US has the power to unilaterally grant or deny.

Again, incorrect. Why do you keep saying stuff that is factually incorrect?

> US arms, money, and support are necessary if Ukraine has any chance of long term success.

They would certainly help, but they are not the only kind of support that Ukraine is receiving.

> NATO will always fall in line with US demands.

This too is incorrect. The US has not asked Ukraine to 'join NATO', it has been the other way around. Russia has been told in no uncertain terms that it isn't up to them whether or not Ukraine joins NATO, but that this is up to NATO (and it's various partners).

The US is obviously a formidable player in international politics and in many ways and on many fronts it is the only player. And currently several partners in NATO have wildly different viewpoints on how to deal best with the war in Ukraine, but one thing they all seem to agree on is simply that as long as the war is limited to Ukrainian territory that they will not intervene directly. That said, NATO, and in particular Poland is already involved in quite a few ways and their decisions have a very large effect on the outcome.

This stopped being about Ukraine vs Russia a while ago, the question that matters is whether or not it will spiral out of control and pull the rest of the Eastern European countries into it and how if that happens NATO will respond. And for all of the statements that have been made the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. Personally I hope that Ukraine with continued assistance from Europe and the US will hold out long enough that someone with a bit more sense will seize power in Russia, which is the best possible outcome.

Failing that you may get to a point where you regret living in this particular decade. Who does or does not join NATO is utterly irrelevant compared to the stakes, and Russia can demand all it wants, as long as it does not withdraw (or at least declares a ceasefire) from Ukraine the crisis is deepening by the day.
The same way metal detectors work in other places, like airports: if you set off the detector for a valid medical reason, you should be prepared to show the card your doctor gave you attesting to this fact.
I said bioengineering, not genetic engineering. Selective breeding would count, but with wheat crossing traits is done (and has been for over a century) in a hand-process of mixing pollen for 10-12 generations - it's not just selective evolutionary pressures. Furthermore, wheat has been subject to a lot of alternative methods of genomic modification, like exposure to gamma rays to induce mutations.
One of the most prominent customs of Americans is that we pretend to have no culture or customs on a national level. Of course, we actually do project a culture, and whenever that becomes apparent, many Americans are unhappy, because that culture isn't aligned well with their personal values.
> The $100k per year for incarceration includes food, medical care, counseling, maintenance, facilities, etc. The cost just for housing is dramatically lower than $100k/year. You are comparing just the cost of housing with the cost of taking care of all a person's needs.

I wouldn't start by saying that the US prison system takes care of any inmate's needs, even if they spend a fabulously large amount of money seemingly earmarked for that task.

Long term, permanent housing is always going to beat incarceration, when we're talking about the same population. It might cost more at first, but those costs are overwhelmingly fixed and then much smaller future variables. The variables that aren't covered (food, medical care, etc., as you've correctly observed) can often be transferred from carceral programs. Fewer people in prisons also means less money spent on maintaining the physical and human plant; some 20% of the individual costs listed above.
I haven’t seen that ad, but I’m also using a Pihole, so maybe it has just been blocked. Agreed, though, advertising is unwelcome.
> My psychiatrist does IV ketamine treatments for depression. I'm not sure what dosage she uses, but from what she's told me, it's not a drug trip, and a lot of people don't feel any different during the treatment.

At 0.5mg/kg intravenous, there's no way that people wouldn't feel anything. It's not necessarily a "drug trip", but pretty much anybody can tell the difference between that large of a dose of ketamine vs. a saline solution.

For trials in cases like this, it's common to use a group which receives either a smaller dose of the drug or a drug that is intended to mimic some of the subjectively observable side effects.
The irony analogy I envision is pouring a bottle on a small fire, expecting it to be water, and having it turn out to be gasoline.

That is, in an effort to solve problem A, you introduce solution B, but solution B only makes A worse than it was.
True, it's an uphill battle, particularly with any kind of specialized HW, but I'm all in now.
> It might not revert to teosinte

It's so genetically different that it definitely would not. But honestly who cares what it would do if you just tossed out some seed and walked away?

> Just because we were able to selectively breed something doesn't mean we 'improved it' we improved it for very specific purposes

Definitionally that is an improvement. What are you trying to say here?

Also corn was selectively bred for thousands of years to grow in relatively poor soil, it just doesn't fix nitrogen.

> A wild plant wouldn't care about any of that, and it would quickly morph into something that exchanges nutrients with other plant in a community

You can already plant beans with corn to fix nitrogen and you don't need to fertilize, you just get lower yields per acre. Not all plants share nutrients like that, and certainly not all of the plants we might want to eat.

This line of thinking totally ignores how much food we're now able to grow on so little land. Obviously we could make better use of cover crops, advancements in no til planting, drip irrigation, and managing soil health but we've done something really amazing. For the first time in human history, there's plenty of food for everyone year after year.
Marketing is feel good wording, usually nothing of real value or substance. So words like "Pro" and "Premium" come off as "classy," but in no way shape or form reflect upon the quality or content of what's being marketed. It's all hot air to swindle you into spending your tendies.

Sometimes companies do use "Pro" or "Premium" to separate product lines and usually the puffed up one might have more features, which is where trust in Pro/Premium comes from (probably), however, eventually the terms become meaningless as product lines merge, situations like in this article occur, and don't forget the companies that just slap those words onto things to make whatever they're selling just seem better than they are ("premium" sound quality on $8 earbuds for example. wtf?).

maybe I'm just getting old and cynical...
Gallery-DL
Sounds like the well worn "sabotage and save" tactics used in the UK
to deliver schools and hospitals into private hands. First they are
starved of funds, salaries lowered to bring in incompetent and corrupt
administrators, then a string of consultants to bleed them further,
before eventually they are declared "failing institutions" and sold
off cheap to cronies who will "invest".

Hurting people in order to rush in and save them is obviously quite a
common maneuver in politics (think false-flags), whereas in psychology
it's "Factitious Disorder" (Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy).

Doing it on the scale of a whole town so that a company can ride in
and "save these poor people" with jobs seems quite audacious, but it's
an improvement over what happened to Aboriginal Australians when
mining companies needed their land.
> My understanding is that crime is mostly a young person's thing. The older people get the less likely they're to commit crime.

This makes sense; younger people tend to be less risk averse. Not sure if “aging people out” is the right solution: people who get out of prison usually have worse prospects than when they go in, so (assuming older people are in fact less likely to commit crime) we’d be trading one social problem for another (health/welfare/homelessness).

Also, from an ethical standpoint, I don’t think I could get behind long incarceration times and strict punishments for petty crimes just to reduce the rate of crime. These are real (young) people with lives that are being upended for some mistakes.
A way to avoid this is to make it possible to fail. I mean, when one fails medical exam, not too much pressure / shame on the student -- they can simply do other type of work.
We are "one technological step" away from many things.

Fermat's last theorem was formulated in 1637 and proven in 1995, 358 years later. In those 358 years we can assume that at least 4 very long lived generations of people lived (more like 6-10 based on average life expectancies at the time).

Being "close" to something doesn't mean anything. Doing it is the real challenge. Everything before that is wishful thinking.
If we are to assume that bluetooth implants and other embedded tech that can prompt a user near-instantly with information are an eventuality, I think there is an interesting question to consider:

If everyday people have near-instant access to information, how will we continue to assess expertise moving forward? Surely it’s not enough to just have access to rote information, like in the case of the cheating test-taker. We will also expect our experts to have the deep understanding that comes from experience in a domain.

Will we need different language to describe flavors of knowledge and expertise? If so, will the nature of test-taking and assessment need to evolve to identify people who actually have an understanding of the thing being tested, instead of testing for rote answers?
Actually doing nothing and stopping them on the way out would be ideal, in my opinion. It gives them the chance to get cocky ("woohoo haven't get caught yet let me ramp this up a bit") and be more obvious about it, as well. (Unless it's the kind of cheating that disrupts others, of course, but hopefully it isn't?)
Christianity without tears?
What a fantastic selection of sources
I'm sure that there are takeaways from these two conflicts for military strategists. However they have to be very limited in the context of an invasion of Taiwan.

IMHO invading Taiwan would be an operation on the scale of D-Day, and when D-Day occured the Allied had already by-and-large gained control of the skies.
Brb learning rice engraving. Or maybe I'll just buy a laser engraver.
What I can’t help notice about o365 is that the web versions are less buggy and more stable and are catching up in feature completeness. Desktop outlook needs to be purged with fire. This makes me wonder for how long it will be necessary to use Windows to get the full o365 experience.
I’m sorry but you are strongly over exaggerating the (side) effects of i.v. ketamine. It’s not a dose that sends you in a K hole. It’s way less than that. Some get sedation and some do get dissociative symptoms which can unmask the study arm of the patient. Approximately one out of ten got at least one of those side effects. Sedation can be mimicked with midazolam, so if you use that as placebo, you get 90 % of the patients that are not obvious, which medicine they got. I do agree that a better ”placebo” would be good to use.

The problem with ketamine and suicidality studies is that suicides - thankfully don’t happen very often - so we have no direct evidence that ketamine prevents suicides. Of course if it would only alleviate suffering and wouldn’t increase the rate of suicides, that would be a win too.
In a similar vein...

A fellow was stuck on his rooftop in a flood. He was praying to God for help.

Soon a man in a rowboat came by and the fellow shouted to the man on the roof, “Jump in, I can save you.”

The stranded fellow shouted back, “No, it’s OK, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me.”

So the rowboat went on.

Then a motorboat came by. “The fellow in the motorboat shouted, “Jump in, I can save you.”

To this the stranded man said, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.”

So the motorboat went on.

Then a helicopter came by and the pilot shouted down, “Grab this rope and I will lift you to safety.”

To this the stranded man again replied, “No thanks, I’m praying to God and he is going to save me. I have faith.”

So the helicopter reluctantly flew away.

Soon the water rose above the rooftop and the man drowned. He went to Heaven. He finally got his chance to discuss this whole situation with God, at which point he exclaimed, “I had faith in you but you didn’t save me, you let me drown. I don’t understand why!”

To this God replied, “I sent you a rowboat and a motorboat and a helicopter, what more did you expect?”

I know a few doctors who have told me they've used this one on people who refuse care for religious reasons. Unfortunately they said it rarely works.
Cyber attack in Israel prompts declaration of emergency state
Students cheated with phones and hidden small speakers at exams that are not about reproducing stuff from memory, the student would tell the friend on the other side the question and somehow the friend would find or know the correct answer.
These are pretty easy to find online: https://www.ebay.com/itm/254882338954

Id rather fail an exam than put a tiny magnet into my ear in the hopes to get it back out...
> I don't want to teach OO concepts

Does python really force this? I can see this being the with java -- a language often used in intro to CS courses.
I guess its better than "Meow Meow" but I feel bad for the blind.
Hah. I’ve been using Windows for my primary desktop for 30 years. I’m removing it the instant I start getting ads like that. That’s my limit.
I wondered if this uptick was recent within the last couple years and it's not:

> The findings stemmed from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study, which is a peer-reviewed, large-scale assessment of global health trends

> Over the past 30 years, stroke incidence among adults 49 and younger has continued to increase in Southern states and the Midwest, the American Heart Association said in February. Rates have declined for those older than 75.
MS's corporate customers using Exchange365 are getting Office365 pop-up ads. Office 2019 gets Office365 pop-up ads. MS Teams users are getting MS teams upsell pop-up ads. When these advertisements get sent to 9k corporate users, it causes a bunch of trouble tickets.
> if you can tolerate a delay, use Glacier

S3 recently added a Coldline-like "Glacier Instant Retrieval" class, FYI. Their "Deep Archive" class (the cheapest) still does require restore operations that take hours to complete, though.

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/instant-re...

> or GCP's Archive tier

AFAIK, the GCS Archive tier has the same availability characteristics as Coldline and the same latency as all GCS class (10s of milliseconds). It seems like the primary factor for how you'd choose a GCS storage class would be your cost projections based on how long you store objects for and how frequently you access them.

https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes#archiv...
Ok, but if we're talking about a plant that's available in abundance in many, many regions of the world, why are the seeds so expensive?

Do you have to milk clover seeds on the 3rd full moon after the 2nd Sunday after the Summer Solstice, in front of 2 dancing bears and 4 white bats?
Ask HN: How come 3rd party payment systems still exist?
For example, in New Zealand: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/110009318/a-honeypot-for-fraudsters-or-a-simple-way-to-pay-online

That's 3 years ago, and nothing has changed.

As far as I can tell, the 3rd party system has to have your online banking password, because nobody can figure out a reliable way to give a description of a one-off or regular payment in a format such that you can enter it yourself into your online banking without making a silly mistake.
Cross signals in the city often say the names of streets and other words
The music was wonderful!
What I found was that you could remove the other drive. That won't work on an Intel MacBook though...
I'm not. I wasn't waiting around to see how far they will push it.
>1.The nurse administering knew if it was placebo or active (for safety reasons).

I read it as the nurse preparing the IV's knew if it was a placebo, it doesn't really say that the same nurse administered the IV's.
> At the very end we may use proton decay to power virtual world running on computers composed of folded spacetime. Subjective time within the simulation can continue no matter how slow the computation looks from the outside.

That sounds like pure science fiction. Is there even any theoretical basis for the construction of "computers composed of folded spacetime"?
I agree. These people are going to give birth to kids. How do you ensure these kids are not going down the same path?
That statement was not Firefox-specific. Marketing bullshit about saints above blessing lowly ignorant masses incapable of independent action with fad-of-the-year software (with a not so nice user agreement) should not be tolerated.

We can all laugh at people who can't change a search engine, and call them dumb, but when something like Mozilla decides “these users are dumb, they get used to it”, it's a tad different story.
Ok, I've done that above. Submitted title was "Firefox removed Yandex search option (and used misleading bug name to hide)".

Submitters: if you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Engineering is the art of solving problem within constraints ;)

Jokes aside, every O/S essentially needs periodic maintenance, in the form of workarounds, that needs to be applied on every major update. That's just how it works - O/Ss and hardware became too complex to get a handle.

I've found that Linux distros require a lot of work upfront, and relatively little every couple of years (assuming a distro with an LTS release schedule).

I think Mac is similar, except that the work upfront is considerably less.

I'm also familiar with Windows, but I frankly find new developments very offensive, in particular, those on Windows 11, so I ended up sticking with a relatively untweaked Window 10 (used only for specific use cases, thankfully).

The only solution in order to have a very stable system, is to choose a platform and stick with it. Given the ease of switch, I do see engineers switching machine and O/S, illuding themselves of finding a more stable experience, and ending up instead with a lot "upfront" work each time, without managing to stabilize the system.
Isn’t this already the case? At least in my experience interviewing for software development, all the questions are meant to test understanding and the ability to explore and solve problems, never static knowledge.
This is one aspect of homelessness that I never see addressed by those advocating for liberal policies like free housing. What do we do with the people who simply prefer not to work at all? Even giving them Basic Income would not stop them from selling stolen merchandise.
I don’t think PiHole will block this ad. I think it may only show for new phones or something:

https://i.imgur.com/64sP9yh.jpg
A bigger problem with kmeans than figuring out the number of clusters is the fact that the model assumes multivariate gaussian spheres. That's a bad model for most non-toy data.
Ads could be used as canaries/filler for uninitialized memory.

Edit: this segmentation fault is sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends. Use the code SIGSEGV at signup to get a free bonus!
Python > 3.9 works just fine on Windows 7 with the api-ms-win-core-path-l1-1-0.dll Wine hack: https://github.com/nalexandru/api-ms-win-core-path-HACK

It's interesting because once Win 10 support drops there will no longer be any x86 Windows path for Python, but there's still a lot of x86 Windows hardware that still works.

I suppose that's more an argument to move to Linux/FreeBSD though on that hardware... I can understand dropping support for something but single breaking changes shouldn't merit it.
NATO Won’t Let Ukraine Join Soon. Here’s Why
Thats not the case anymore in cities like Seattle/SF/LA that have removed funding from police and discouraged police to arrest for crimes like theft, breaking into cars, etc. In the cases where they are arrested they are released on no-bail hours later to do the same thing.