skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO the fear of nuclear disaster is overrated. I say this as a child of the sixties, who was subjected to endless frightening propaganda during the Cold War.

If you can find the publication "Nuclear War Survival Skills" by Cresson H. Kearny, published by Oak Ridge National Laboratory — it was posted in an HN thread the other day — look to page 23: "Unsurvivable 'nuclear winter' is a discredited theory that, since its conception in 1982, has been used to frighten additional millions..." The document has quite a few "Myth/Facts" items for one's consideration.

Reading Wikipedia regarding the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should provide some amount of comfort. About a third of their populations died immediately/very soon after the blast. Of those surviving: "the average lifespan of survivors was reduced by only a few months compared to those not exposed to radiation."

So if you live in a big city, the odds are already in your favour. If you live in a smaller city or town, you're probably not going to be nuked anyway.

Radiation falls off exponentially quickly. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both re-occupied within a year of the bombing.

More than 2000 nuclear bomb tests have taken place. In 1961 alone, 140 tests were conducted. For decades after, forty to sixty nukes a year were detonated. And yet more radiation was sent up into the atmosphere via a few nuclear power plant incidents. And yet we've continued ticking along just fine. The detonation of a few hundred bombs will not have a big global impact. It certainly wouldn't cause anything like a nuclear winter.

Finally, it seems very likely that Russian corruption is so pervasive that it's unlikely that their missiles have been well-maintained. You don't get to be a billionaire oligarch by spending government funding appropriately: you steal it and tell the bosses that, sure, those warheads you never plan to use are in great condition. IMO if the command comes down the line, the missiles will largely fail to launch; and of those that do successfully launch, few will make it to their target, and fewer yet will successfully detonate.
Neeva has a free tier (with only access to the search engine, so people can still test the search aspect), but when you pay for it now you ALSO get LastPass premium and Bitdefender VPN Premium as well, along with all their integrations into your system.

If you trust these people are doing what they say, it's a pretty good deal for securing your internet spaces and trying to get away from google, imo.
Unrelated, but I'm curious if console emulators could gain performance by hand-writing certain parts of it in assembly (the JIT recompiler, for example).
The ADA is enforced by civil lawsuits. You can make a lot of money going around finding "violations" and suing over them. In the heyday of compliance for restaurants, a fair number of iconic restaurants in our area were put out of business by these lawsuits because they were in old buildings where it was just not possible to make accommodations. No rooms for ramps. No way to put in elevators. You get the idea.

This action may result in some benefits for those who need it, but the main beneficiaries will be law firms.
I read this more as an indication that "liberal" philosophy is at best hypocritical (liberals "want things" (e.g. free education/housing) as long as they don't have to pay/work for it themselves) and at best contradictory (e.g. "open borders" while at the same time "social security").
"Ian Barnes, Enfield Council's deputy leader, said it was "quite emotional" when the pair - who have been temporarily nicknamed Justin Beaver and Sigourney Beaver - were released into the wild."
"Every sperm is sacred"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk
>if this hadn't happened then the UK would have joined the euro

>brexit under the euro would have been all but impossible

Not necessarily. The Guardian speculated in 2013 (<http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2013/jun/...>) that if Britain had joined the Euro:

* The mid-2000s British housing bubble, and its collapse in 2007, would have been even bigger.

* Britain would have had to ask the IMF, ECB, and EU for loans.

* The Tories would in 2010 have promised a referendum to leave the Euro and won a majority. Labour would have won fewer than 100 seats, and UKIP would have "made spectacular gains".

* The anti-Euro side would have won the referendum, and the currency would have collapsed.

* "after a deep and painful recession economic recovery began".

* "Britain would have destroyed the euro on departure, and would now be on the point of leaving the EU altogether. The idea that Farage might be the next prime minister would be quite credible."
Accessibility and JS are not mutually exclusive. It's just much easier to do accessibility without JS.
He's dead. There's no longer justification for "thankfully."
I changed my mind about remote. Before pandemic I have been considering some fully remote roles, after pandemic - very unlikely. Working from home made me realize how much I miss talking to people at work in the meatspace. Going back to office in April and cannot wait.
Oh, they are all the time, but they are posted here 5 to 10 years before we see them crop up in the world outside of here.

"DRM bad" was common here long before the days people were figuring out that getting their blue ray player working with their TV was going to be a pain in the ass.

Just wait and a few more years and it will be mainstream that Google actually sucks.
> The local rulers have de facto control over government, jurisdictional and businesses

> ...the rule of the law does not apply...

All of these should be red flags - even if you yourself are shady, you want strong property rights and rule of law, not whatever the local despot feels like doing that day.
FWIW, not just naturalized citizens, if you expand the 'Foreign Nationals' entry under 'Who can't contribute' in [0] it expands to:

An individual who is not a citizen of the United States or a national of the United States and has not been lawfully admitted to the U.S. for permanent residence, as defined in 8 U.S.C. § 1101(a)(20); or
...

Suggesting that you can also donate if you have permanent resident status (aka 'green card holder'), regardless of citizenship.

[0] https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate...
By guessing, and being asked a bunch of questions without inter-question context.

It’s just people going “probably a small number”, being asked to quantify that, and throwing out 20-30% because that feels like one.
How would that even work? Define the border between SEO and abuse.
I'm curious as to which reasons/tradeoffs were involved in the decision to use harmonic centrality, if you wouldn't mind sharing.
I cite Christopher Alexander's work in "A Pattern Language" all the time when talking about community structures.

His influence in all sorts of industries was profound.
_Secondhand Time_ is good, although a Russian friend who lived through it has quibbles with parts of it.

For coverage of the formation of the "new Russia", _Nothing is True and Everything is Possible_ is good.
Oh man yeah, good time. The 90s were even better (I remember when nearly every SMTP server was an open relay, and every company used smtp.example.com so you could easily guess the hostname), although the world was so much less connected. The early 2000s everybody was getting computers so even though some tricks weren't easy anymore, there was an abundance of juice.
oh, its an ad for their garbage extension. I see.
I was very involved with public transit activism for two decades. One of the most disappointing things about the switch to remote work during the pandemic is how many of my friends I met through transit activism have turned against WFH. We used to push for "commute alternatives" of which both transit and work from home were just two of a range of alternatives. But it turns out much of that was simple lip service to transit alternatives that were easy to support because they weren't widely adopted. Once WFH suddenly gained a large chunk of market share, they got very hostile to it. Transit became the one and only acceptable choice. Turned out that many weren't motivated by wanting to have less dependence on private automobiles that clog up and pollute cities but rather they have a vision of everyone living in dense high rise buildings clustered together in city centers. Even though WFH helps unclog city streets and cleans the air, it is now considered bad because it goes against the ultimate goal of dense cities with plentiful transit to get around within the city. If people can live in low population density areas while eliminating 90% of the miles driven per year, that's considered a bad thing because it doesn't support the urban vision they have that can only work if alternatives aren't allowed to exist. Quite disappointing.
Yes. Source: I was employee 24 at Opendoor. Zillow's pricing algorithms are and always were terrible.

They tried to paper over this during their iBuying push with humans, and then in an effort to outgrow Opendoor, they incentivized growing at any cost without the proper controls to prevent adverse selection. And due to some unfortunate timing with the market cooling, they got wrecked for it.
I do yes, and I can't really imagine being able to do my job without it.
Well let's make this real.

Sites with people hired to optimize the robots.txt file are ranked higher than those without. If we ban all websites that hire people to optimize their robots.txt, then a lot of the web isn't indexed and the search results suffer.

Or if we ban every creator on tik tok who posts a lot of text in a short video, then a lot of creators are going to be de-platformed and moved elsewhere.

The point of what I wrote is that 'humans are really god at following rules, so much so that they often are able to manipulate rules to their advantage, without breaking said rules.

That's why this is such a hard problem to counter.
I think it's underappreciated how much Christopher Alexander influenced a generation of software engineers. Those building in the 1980s,1990s, and early 2000s were directly impacted by his work. I feel a lot of that culture has been lost over the last 15 years, which is a shame.
One of the problems with thinking about "the future" is that one generally only has "today" to think about it with.
- Near monopolies are hard to get away from
I’m building a robot that can track nerf darts and shoot them out of the air.

I’ve worked on other projects in robotics and object tracking (perception for self driving cars), but this has a whole different set of challenges.

Nerf rival rounds travel at over 100 feet per second and shooting them out of the air requires aiming systems that are precise to less than half the width of a human hair and timing precision of 600 times faster than the blink of an eye.

This is the first part of the series of me building the project (and my first video!) so I’d love to hear what you think!
Yeah, I guess if someone gets away with something bad you shouldn't care about it ever again.

Guy murders your kids anyone can murder anyone from now on, no big deal
If the WiFi is free... you're the product!
Expectations around dividends could be priced in though. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dividendirrelevance.asp
Xbox Cloud Gaming Now Supports Steam Deck Through Microsoft Edge
You cant set your IP range to a Google IP
Researchers discover new form of ice
> the richest people in america got that way by creating enormous amounts of value and then capturing lots of it for themselves.

This may have been the case through the 1960s but post 1970s American is very much back on the crypto-aristocrat track with people inheriting vast wealth or being given jobs as money managers or financiers due to family influence and then rent-seeking the hell out of anything that smells like money.
One doesn't need to know history to be affected by it.
Perhaps only one. So? Killing people in the physical universe is the problem.
Single Family homes have the benefit of more autonomy where as building up means you're living on-top of your neighbor, its not binary but we should acknowledge the clear QoL tradeoffs of condensed living.

Maybe its inevitable and necessary to force more people into condensed housing, maybe the societal benefits really outweigh the tradeoffs.
> "It's hard" doesn't generally fly as an excuse; it certainly won't in court.

ADA requires reasonable accomidations, so it's hard is a reasonable excuse. If the accomidation is too expensive or too time consuming, it might not be reasonable.
It's great to see Linux adopting VMgenid. RDSEED over RDRAND when available also makes sense.

> In the per-cpu extension of that design, all entropy is extracted to a “base” crng. Then, each time a per-cpu crng is used, it makes sure that it is up to date with the latest entropy in the base crng. If it is, then it continues on doing fast key erasure with its own key. If it isn’t, then it does fast key erasure with the base crng’s key in order to derive its new one.

Beautiful. This is essentially the same thing the Windows 10 design does in the kernel.
google "sucks" because ads. It might have other problems, but when you can buy your competitor name as a keyword ad and on mobile you need to scroll 1+1/2 screens to get to maybe the 1st organic result and the ad is barely different from the organic, you end up with a sucky search engine, no matter the algorithm.

The competitor website is not a slightly suboptimal result for the query: it's literally the wrong result if I'm not adding "alternative" to the search query. I'm sorry.
Canadian has free healthcare and still has diesel public/school buses
I use yandex
our oligarchs are more subtle in how they deal with things. the last time citizens tried to call out our oligarchs in a significant, grassroots way, they invented & deployed modern identity politics so we'd stop #occupying and start in-fighting—we still have yet to recover.
Censorship of truth is misinformation.
This SLS rocket and the Orion vehicle is what is holding back programs like Artemis. For almost 20 years they have consumed 3 to 5 billion per year. That money invested differently could have financed amazing things.

Even in the absence of Starship it is actually holding back the space program.

Artemis a horrible architecture, its an architecture developed that was FORCED TO use existing SLS/Orion and Gateway programs.

Free from constraints a very different architecture would have developed.
Citizens United wanted to pay for commercials for their movie on cable within 30 days of the last primary election. They were free to distribute their movie as far and as wide as they desired.
> it was exceptionally easy to crack public wifi networks

This may be because public wifi networks are public, which means they're open, which means there's no wifi password or encryption. Cracking a public wifi network takes all the effort of merely joining the wireless network with a mobile device.
The implicit CDF of income is hilarious. Most people are broke ... but of the people who aren't broke, most of them are making a million a year!
Nope not even close.

Ivermectin does not help covid. Period. It is not contested. The people who tell you it is contested are interested in selling it to you. It is snake oil in the context of covid.

It is great for other things. But for covid it is a good indication you are a deluded idiot. (with 95% confidence)
Most people don't really evaluate things on their merit in a logical way like they think they do. Most behavior and opinions are picked up subconsciously based on what seems to be trending around them. Then comes the rationalization.

In other words, the herd moved towards WFH and got used to it. Now there are less rationalizations for commuting.

The few actual thoughts based on real-world observation now have actual experience of WFH to reference, which means fewer made up nonsense reasons to dislike it.

One thing that always stupidly gets left out of these conversations is the radical difference in situations for some people. Before, when kids were at home also, some parents were literally required to do two jobs while at home -- teacher and their normal job.

Or some people had spouses who did not understand WFH and did not respect boundaries.

But with the kids back in school it's a totally different situation for many.
Ya, well, as a war critic, I label them as traitors.

Nothing will take the West down harder then wastefully spending money it doesn't have and making enemies around the world by culvert and overt military actions.

And nothing is less Democratic then powerful agencies that aren't properly overseen by elected representation.
On the managerial front (and PMs, to a lesser extent), I think the perma-demic calls for a different kind of work. Most devs love to be heads-down alone and cranking. Managers, not so much.

- Communications are different. I think we're all trying to figure out the "right" protocols[1] for video meetings, as an example. That kind of thing hits managers especially hard. Managers (and PMs) are there not to wrangle code, but to wrangle meetings so the devs can be more productive!

- Control changed. Micromanagement in any form (except via malware stalking) just got a lot harder. Even the softer "managing by walking around" doesn't work now. Delegation is more important than ever. And most managers were promoted into position because they did things well, not because they loosely lead things into happening. So it takes some manager (re-?)training.

- Leading vs Managing is a more important divide than before. When people are left to themselves more, they'll find ways to solve their own problems. Partly because people have to solve more of their own problems and partly because managers haven't caught up to how to manage in a perma-demic, that means workers are more likely to self-organize.[2]

- With the lack of human physical contact, we have to focus more on how to measure productivity than on the way it was perceived in the past. This is likely to shock many people, managers or not, who focused more on social aspects. Lots of "soft" measures like "happiness" or "asshole-free-ness" change when the social conditions change. We still don't want to work with assholes, but what that means is shifting.

- Other

- Profit?

Manager Hint: delegate until it hurts. Hurts you and the person you delegated to. Set up checkpoints. And be available to help. Especially with firefighting and scutwork. That helps your team grow and act independently. Even if we ever get back to the office, that habit will pay off.

[1] Pro- or anti-occupy, politically, they addressed comms problems with large open-air meetings meant to include everyone. We need to think along those lines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement_hand_signals

[2] Yes, "organize" was an intentional pun. Unionization in lots of fields, lots of shops is on the rise. And a shocking number of strikes goes unreported in the mainstream media (I can't find my original source, so Bloomberg will do).
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-10-20/the-re...
Rather than using a trusted third party to control the interest rates and money supply, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general provides an alternative market based approach — for energy and computational security that does not require a trusted third party, instead we have verifiable cryptography with hashing and digital signatures.

Solutions without ttp > solutions with ttp
> The typical screener in the hiring process spends 8 seconds or less making a decision to discard or advance a resume to the next stage.

I’ve been involved in hiring several people and this has never been the case. So I’m curious as to where you got those 8 seconds.

Hell, it usually takes the damn HR onboarding systems more than 8 seconds to load each page.
C,P,T are also operators that act on states | ψ>.
There are patterns and practices that make working remotely possible: document with context, clear pull requests, share your intent more deliberately, written stand-ups, give meetings detailed agendas, etc. Those are good habits when you share an office, but they can easily be complemented by sharing the same workspace and whiteboards.

Many teams had to discover those practices during the pandemic; companies that didn’t adopt them effectively likely lost a lot of people to frustration or apparent underperformance. After two years, many people have had the time to find places where those practices are understood and practiced, or at least have met people who know they can be.

The half that thought those were impossible or unlikely discovered it was possible, even enjoyable way of working.

There are still people, many of them my friends, who know and practice those deliberate communication patterns and who still prefer an office—–in particular for small start-ups. In some cases, those make more sense. But they are now a minority.

Other companies haven’t transitioned because they never really tried; many blamed the circumstances for the increasing disfunction of their teams, rather than learn and adapt. With some team members remaining remote, or contagious, unavailable, companies that have not adopted at least some learnings from the forced isolation can now seem very frustrating places to work. Fewer people are going to defend what they increasingly see as a suboptimal system.

I don’t think that the breakdown is as strict as you say. I think that many people have had the opportunity to see the benefits not of remote, but of a way of working that doesn’t rely on the crutch of an office. Some do it well, but a few still prefer the ease of interactions——a minority that typically don’t have time to comment here. Many haven’t learnt but won‘t comment either, because they don’t know what good should look like anymore.
Diversity is usually about larger groups, i. e. women and Black people. There is no "rabid push" to get transgender people on every company board (of usually 9 or 12).

The only "rabid push", with actual force, namely that of law, seems to be about making life harder for these tiny groups, as is happening in "conservative" states.

Maybe people can't believe so much legislative hate is directed at a group of people that barely even registers in the census.
Regardless: as a software employer, I'd currently treat any contributor device as loaded with malware, under surveillance, potentially hostile, and with the possibility that it will reside on competitor networks in future.

Ultimately most of the contributions I'm looking for are plaintext and reviewable -- none of the above properties should be blockers, so the way to maximize contributions is to allow for all of them.
Hi,
Thanks.

Our key differentiators is we can build it as a website and not a canvas. So user can interact like usual dashboard site means it not only can be used for internal but also as customer dashboard
> we have figured out how to do that at Cruise

Really? I think they're taking a huge amount of credit for something that really isn't that complicated. Particularly in the US which has a healthy secondary market.

Sorry if that feels a bit negative, but what is Cruise really bragging about here, and why are they bragging about it? I assume they are thinking this gives them some perceived advantage in hiring, but realistically, any company that has reached their scale and level of success could have such agreements in place, and I'm sure many do.
Merits of the bill aside, I think the headline is spun in a way to make the bill seem totally witless, when it's not. There could be more specific wording, of course, and debating the actual merits of the bill is always fair game, but the title reads as if someone just said "Algorithms are bad for children!" and left it at that. The bill is clearly about content prioritization targeted at minors.
Likely the CNG buses are purchased by wealthy districts and the less well off districts purchase the used diesel buses at a discount.
I agree, though I also wonder what could be the unintended consequences.
none.. it’s all because of paid placement taking priority