skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Red states tend to have a much higher population of black residents

It sounds like you're taking the article to mean "voting Republican is causal to murder", and are rebutting with "being black is causal to murder" (but are using a corollary fact to imply it). However, the first statement isn't being made by the article, and your implied rebuttal is neither verifiable nor does it even rebut the first statement, were the article making it. It's also unnecessarily provocative (unnecessary due to its irrelevance as described above). Of course this is all assumption you've forced me to make. By itself, the sentence you wrote doesn't say anything directly - you haven't connected it to the article explicitly.

Your second paragraph has the same problem, but the implication is more obvious: You believe the properties you've listed cause high murder rates. That doesn't seem to be true, though - can you either elaborate subjectively, or provide some other writeup that points to that conclusion?
I had myself a hearty laugh recently when I was in Vegas and the casino elevator wall screen panels had the ACTIVATE WINDOWS banner overlaid on the videos.
Interesting.

Were / are you a chem major?

Any other major topics or readings you could recommend for someone wanting a general understanding of key concepts in modern chemistry? I'd suppose generally: materials, synthesis, o-chem, and chem-eng.

My own background: began a hard-science degree. One year undergrad uni chem.
Their Privacy... Page(?)[1] is pretty light on the privacy but has interesting details about how the scan supposedly works.

[1]https://worldcoin.org/privacy-by-design

Edit- The prominent link in the footer labeled "Privacy" takes you to that blog post (just like the "Privacy" link in the menu) but the grey link in the footer labeled "Privacy Statement" takes you to their actual Privacy Policy: https://worldcoin.org/privacy-statement
I'm not quite sure what it was, it was maybe 3-4 weeks ago. I think part of the problem is that different searches return different results:

"2x4 birch plywood" returns the correct results in the first two slots - 2'x4' birch plywood in 1/2" and 3/4".

"2'x4' birch plywood" returns those two correct results above in the 3rd/4th positions as you noted. As a customer, this is a signal that I need to be real good at searching on HD's website and start thinking up clever permutations for my searches.

Also, IIRC, at the time it also returned 2"x4" lumber either at or near the top of the results. Well, if I put "plywood" in the search string, I expect plywood, not results for every length of 2"x4" lumber that HD carries. I was pretty irritated at the time and I'm actually surprised that "2x4 birch plywood" even appears in the top row of the results.
Tenured university members made pretty good money. As they do now, to be fair - it just got much harder to get there, because of larger and fiercer competition for a shrinking number of positions, so the effort/benefit ratio has fallen quite dramatically.
Slightly off topic but I would love it if HN just banned twitter links and mandated nitter links or something.
Yeah this is comical. State’s rights have eroded so much since the inception of the country that it’s considered strange or experimental when a state governs with autonomy as designed.
Yes, that is the premise of the article. And even a whole team with several missiles might not defeat some of these systems. It seems the Russians did not deploy their tanks with these. I wonder if that is what Russia requested from the Chinese. They seem to have a system whose capabilities are untested so far.
He used to be a Democrat - one of the excuses people had for voting for him was that he would really govern from the left. There are (probably authentic) photos of him palling around with the Clintons. He praised Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State.

I don't think you can deepfake Donald Trump. The man is a recursive deepfake of himself.
It does seem like high resolution would make a big difference. If you look at pictures of tanks that are pretty fully covered with reactive armor, there are still lots of gaps of varying sizes for things like hatches, view ports, exhaust, between reactive armor modules, and so on. So a high res focal plane could direct the weapon into one of many sweet spots.
> Is that toxic bottle still sealed, in the fridge, after you've left the institution?

Quite possibly!

The previous occupant of my bench area (and hence adjoining fridge space) left some barely-labeled custom radioactive compounds(!!) in the fridge me to find shortly after I took over that space, so I know how that feels.

After consulting suitably-trained personnel, the contents of the vials were then disposed of ... by pouring down a standard sink, with lots of running water.

Those were the days :eek:
Making a new github account takes less time and effort than you've spent just typing out this question.
Wish it was available to read! I assumed that sailboats' sails billowed naturally
Dart is absolutely a C-style language.*

———

* In all the ways that don't matter.
I don't get while actual uncured bacon i.e. fresh pork belly is not more popular. Just add salt and fry and in my opinion it tastes even better than cured bacon.
Add to it the ecosystem of libraries which are virtually non existent for Flutter.
Even Google (pioneer of Flutter) doesn’t have all their standard SDKs ported for Flutter.

We played around with Flutter for a total one day before ditching the idea altogether (in favour of native Android with Kotlin)
My logic is that refusing to engage is not an ethically superior position when the capability is necessary. Engaging in difficult, high-risk, but necessary issues as best you can is.

That doesn't mean everyone needs to work on weapons, just that the work on weapons is necessary and those that do it are not ethically compromised in some way. It's just a recognition of this without pretending not engaging is somehow more morally pure. Not engaging is just removing yourself from dealing with the actual hard ethical issues.
7.3 magnitude quake hits north Japan, tsunami alert issued
> because it was impossible to find Flutter people and, most importantly, people who were proficient on that platform

If you can't find them, you gotta train them
Nah. There's no point in putting hypersonic cruise missiles in space. Too expensive, and not survivable. Those weapons will be launched from air, ground, and surface platforms. Magazine depths will be so limited that they'll only be used for the highest priority targets. They won't be enough to end any major conflict by themselves.
There were studies showing that there's no such thing as "catching up on sleep".
Can you provide some examples? I read a lot of international relations literature; while I am not an expert, I don't recall seeing that.

> China was a global power by other measures

By what measure? Not economically; they were very poor. Not culturally.
Interesting, and duly noted.

> Why assume this is Western virtue signaling?

In my case: because my wife (who is Ukrainian) told me so. I also have other Russian speaking friends (who live in the West though) who have expressed similar opinions. With that said: I'm open to changing my mind. And I get that words/phrases change in meaning over time, and gain new significance.

Still curious what Ukrainians think: was this is a thing for you all, before this awful war?
I'm not so sure. At VMware in the 2000s we had Marketing Executive who had been a tenured math professor at Stanford. He joined early probably following the primary technical founder at VMware, Mendel Rosenblum, but still.
Focusing on energy inputs instead of resource consumption allows for more generalized approach to the idea of "limits".

A material shovel produced requires energy in form of human operator.

A Simpsons SD requires energy to play from the electric grid.

All energy is traced back to resource consumption it's just a matter of steps involved.

The laws of thermodynamics are inescapable.

Energy is the value added that ultimately creates what we refer to as the economy.

In summary:
The "economy" is indistinguishable from "energy" consumption. That's that hard wall of the limits on growth.
I've had a lot of success by running HTML pages through mozilla's readability[0] tool (actually the go port of it[1]) before indexing it.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/readability

[1]: https://github.com/go-shiori/go-readability
The general consensus whenever this is asked is: use work resources for work, and personal resources for personal.

In other words, don't cross the streams.
I almost see this as a hiring screening problem.

Companies need to stop hiring people that put work off on other people, and should have parts of their interview process that screen out people who are "leeches" who don't want to take initiative.
Windows needs a live cd + ram drive and we could fix stuff like this :)
Such an infantryman would be quite vulnerable to a tank. Out sped (tanks can go > 80kph on terrain even fat-tired e-bikes would balk at), out gunned (excluding the cannon, there's also typically an anti-personnel mounted machine gun), out ranged (tanks can hit over 8k away), and without the anti-tank missiles, unable to damage a tank.

It's why tanks came into being in the first place; they're quite capable against the average infantryman.
Really? With the biolabs?
Ancient Japanese Stone Said to Contain ‘Demon’ Cracks Open
That is really in the attack of captain obvious territory. Next we can expect - we turn our algorithm to find energy storage molecules and what we got is explosives.
Just because your local neck of the woods does or doesn’t do something doesn’t mean that’s how everyone else does it.
I’m sympathetic to cryptocurrency but here are the things that seem scammy to me, compared to other, non-scammy cryptocurrencies.

1. You are paid in a pyramid scheme model where you are paid for each recruitment you make regardless of economic contribution. Other cryptocurrencies pay for economic value (mining, validating, etc.). This pays just for signing people up.

2. Except actually you’re not paid because WorldCoin is having (surprise) regulation issues.

3. WorldCoin suddenly pulling out of countries due to regulation. In crypto-Twitter vernacular, a rug pull for the operators.

4. Closed source everything. Hardware design. Zero knowledge proof algorithm.

5. 3% pre-mine to founders. If this were to become a large currency, a few people would have 3% of the world’s money.
An Antimatter Experiment Shows Surprises Near Absolute Zero
Reminds me of this project I saw a while ago on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hfClQh3rxM
No, I'm not agreeing at all. The title and the first line of the article literally state that red states have a murder problem compared to blue states and use bogus stats. You don't know my stance on this issue because I have not stated it. I'm simply saying that you cannot take a stance from the information presented in this article.
Did you just fall through a time portal from 2008? JavaScript hasn't been the exclusive domain of "script kiddies" for a loooong time.
> We don't have Einsteins because the brightest people don't work on astrophysics because there's no money in it.

Einstein worked in a patent office from 1902-1909. In 1905 he published four papers on the photoelectric effect (laying the way for quantum physics), Brownian motion (proving the existence of atoms), special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy (leading to atomic energy).

From the beginning Einstein wanted to be a teacher and had little interest in money. Has money suddenly become more important to everyone?
I replaced the controller[0] in mine and moved the f-keys to a separate QMK layer so I didn't have to use the tiny rubber keys anymore.

[0] https://github.com/kinx-project/kint
I’m really curious how close this translation is to the original. I’ve read Lem in multiple languages (not Polish) and found huge differences seemingly based on making his wordplay “work” in the translated language.
thanks, i'm dumb
> I can't imagine I was the only one.

I'm sure not, and hopefully the description I provided isn't a blanket one. And, to be clear, I'm also not trying to say that working for any of those organizations is per se unethical. I don't think that this is the case.

The point, rather, is that ethical and moral considerations are actually much nearer to us than might appear at first blush. Sometimes this happens by the mere nature of the work (killing people more efficiently) and sometimes by scale (now when we surface search results, we make direct impacts on what people learn, where they shop, how they receive advertisements, etc., none of which was true in 1999). Navigating this isn't easy (indeed, you can make an argument that there is a morally good outcome for killing people more efficiently; I'm not saying it's necessarily a good one, but that one can be made), but we don't routinely equip people to think about it.

To make matters worse, our cultural assumptions shift over time. The Google/Facebook difference is illustrative. Page and Brin are a generation older than Zuckerberg, and their assumptions about what it means to be moral are probably not the same. These assumptions also change based on circumstance--when we scale a business from a garage to a billion dollars, it's hard to maintain the True North on your moral compass (assuming such a thing exists).

Anyway, I think a deep skepticism about human nature and the utility of technology is probably very useful in these situations.
I'm tempted to post the address of my DEC running NeXT ...
My first time I worked on an SGI workstation, I remember running TeX on it. I thought nothing happened because the process that took around 10 seconds on my 486 tower ran so quickly that the window didn't even scroll: It just repainted with the new output.
Antiproton Orbiting Helium Ion
I found this very annoying the other way.

I have added my card via the play store, but now my chrome tries to auto-populate the credit card number. I'm pretty unhappy with it, since I don't want that information in google chrome.

(Sounds like the same thing, they share the data between all of the services, which doesn't feel great when the data they're freely sharing is credit card info.)
They had me at the combination of the words "scriptable" and "DNS." My monkey brain is susceptible to that clever trick.

I'm struggling to see what this could be used for, but the comments here help.

In summary:

- an alternative to anycast.
- an alternative to routing inside your app (your app could detect the IP, and have different behavior based on rules internally). This means you are always going to the same origin, which scriptable DNS would prevent, you could put things at the edge and reduce hops.

Why else would you use this?
IEA: Oil market heads for 'biggest supply crisis in decades'
This sounds beautiful, like producing music where your instruments are an entire continent's electrical grid.
Yep it's so racist the NFL uses it yearly....
I generally don't update firmware ever unless there is a problem. One exception is bios. Then if I have the occassional mysterious freeze/reboot I'll try it. Also if there is something like known ram size or particular hardware fix. But I can count those on 1 hand over 20 years. Also I suppose there are cases when you bought stuff just as it came out, there can be useful firmware updates after the first several months it is on the market.
Just a little nitpick: I got curious why they choose a brush to represent the project. The icon is very related to art and illustration, but very poor in representing the scope of the project. Maybe something more… designed?
Sorry i didn't reply sooner; yes, it's compressed video, but no frame drops on a clear path - i was able to get some i-frame weirdness a few times flying low over about 800 meters of trees, but no control issues.
One of the problems I faced when my family got our first computer in '97 was there was no included programming environment on Win 95, not even a Basic interpreter. I remember my local library was full of those kids programming books with little games you could type in, and I had no way of putting them in and running them.

Worse, the only programming books I could get running back then were those "Learn Java in 24 Hours" style books that came with a cd that included a compiler, but no IDE. I remember giving up after a lesson or two because all I had was notepad to type in the code, and the errors thrown were too complex to understand. (Probably a missed semicolon.)
Russia used them extensively in Syria quite recently, so the concerns are valid.
Why do rusdians waste time on this when they should be getting fuel to their fuel starved convoys?
My understanding is it’s fairly easy to detect and jam this kind of signal
Reminds me of László Polgár - who wanted to show the world that if focused properly, any child can become stellar at something. He chose chess since it was an easy-to-measure-outcome mental activity. Two daughters become the best and second-best female chess players in the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r
I have 2 KA2's, one for my personal and work rigs, respectively. I've honestly never had a problem with their noise level, they sound pretty much the same as any other modern and commonly available mechanical keyboard.

For shits-n-gigs I bought a Dactyl Ergodox from Oh My Keycaps, I'm still waiting on it to be delivered but I'm really stoked. I would never go back to a typical keyboard.
> The only thing I can think of is they're finding something during last-minute research that makes you untouchable. Maybe a really damning search result?

Hah. Since it happened 3/3 times, I started wondering if it was just me. As far as I'm aware there is nothing bad about me on the internet, so I don't think it's that :P

But it somewhat reassures me to read that others have been in the same boat.
Hopefully this does not sound snarky, but I expect to see 2'x4' birch plywood, in 1/2" and 3/4", in the first two slots!

4'x8' sheets are fine, but later in the results.

2"x4" lumber should not appear and is like showing me a toilet when I want a sink. Also see my reply below.
Using a Multi-Armed Bandit with Thompson Sampling to Identify Responsive Dashers
My primary hesitation with posts like this is that it mixes engineering points (performance, developer experience, code sharing) with a more general business point: hiring.

Hiring is a cost. There are costs to any decision. Opportunity cost, risk, business continuity, operational costs, etc. Hiring is generalizable so it makes for an easy example here.

I would hope that experienced folks making decisions like "React Native or Flutter" would weigh the full gamut of costs in their specific business context.
I remember the aftershocks, and I still have ptsd regarding earthquakes. I've felt a few small ones back stateside and feels like it starts the cycle over again. Not sure how long it will take for me to get over it.
> I define the arts as things artist make.

And "artist" as "anyone who manages to sell some shit that doesn't fit into any other category", judging from your links?

Your reasoning feels just as wrong as the GP's.
Such a privacy nightmare. It's mind-boggling that a group of engineers brought this thing to life, the whole time thinking "this is a good idea. we'll compile a database of people's iris' and associate it with a public transaction ledger". The only world in which this makes sense is one where an express goal is to help the state track the money of individuals (you might like that in a democratic society with strong traditions around rule of law and due process, but may like it less in authoritarian nations).
Oh, that's some good news about the WaterPik. Even more happy about my purchase now, thank you!

String flossing has horrible UX. I started using floss picks like Plackers. It made it almost tolerable. Almost.

https://www.plackers.com/product-category/plackers-dental-fl...
The Psychology of Why We Fall Down Internet Rabbit Holes
Capitalism by nature depends on (and incubates) inequality. Everything becomes about acquisition and hoarding of finite resources.

Cryptocurrency, for good or bad, at least seems to democratize access to cryptocurrency systems and services (for some narrowly defined definition of what constitutes access).

Anyone with cryptocurrency, unrestricted internet access, and a computing device can transact on the blockchain. That applies whether they have been erroneously flagged for ToS violation by google, or whether they're a corrupt nation-state that is being sanctioned by other countries. Anyone with the capital can purchase shares in a DAO without needing to be deemed a qualified investor (in theory, if such a DAO was actually decentralized). Or buy and sell crypto more than 5 times a day without meeting requirements to participate in pattern day trading.

There are plenty of inherent problems also, but I think Olsen spends much of his video attacking strawmen.

Crypto isn't going to solve inequality; the blockchain just provides a neutral place for parties to engage in various kinds of transactions/agreements.
That is incredible. It would be an absurd request to ask if a human much less a computer, and so in filling it so well Lem demonstrates the machine's capabilities fat better than any catalog if spec's or everyday human-level task could convey. A truly masterful example of "show, don't tell".
Well, seems like a Shinkansen derailed. It doesn't seem very serious as there's someone tweeting about it from inside that train...[1] There's also a tweet that the part of the overhead power line broke off and fell[2], so it may take a while to get back in service...

[1]: https://twitter.com/tokimemo1130/status/1504110997732139024

[2]: https://twitter.com/R19i90/status/1504112207746936832
http://web.archive.org/web/20220316115827/http://last486.onl...

http://google.com/search?q=cache:http://last486.online/

(not saved/working http://archive.today/http://last486.online/ )
We did that with one guy after month 3, the guy accepted and started Flutter course, etc. He quit the job on month 5 arguing he disliked Flutter and Dart.
As far as I'm aware this is how grid operations are done in the overwhelming majority of the world. You spin a generator up to speed, match phases and close the switch to connect it to the rest of the network. Due to how electricity works, if any connected generator is slightly out of phase with the rest that will generate currents causing it to pulled back into phase in a closed feedback loop. So while it is technically possible for a generator to be out of phase with the network, it can never be outside of phase for very long because literally all the other generators on the network are pulling it back into phase.

If the grids are particularly far from each other and/or with differing frequencies, a DC high voltage line can be used instead but that is certainly not the most used method.
Actually Google Pay is broken in the other direction: it does not sync between devices, while Chrome's credit card autofill does sync. So I have my main credit card in Chrome on all signed-in browsers but if I try to use the Google Pay button on a merchant's site it will only offer cards that I've manually entered in Google Pay on that device before. It's shipping the org chart in the worst way.
You might be looking for this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30699673
> Well... turns out, I had rotated the CPU 180 degrees from it's required position. OMG... here I am a teenager and now I am going to have to pay for a $1200+ part?

I did something similar with an i486 DX4-100; I wasn’t so lucky: the power supply held up, the CPU smoked and it took out the motherboard. Thankfully this was well into the Pentium-II era, but it was still pretty devastating. If I recall correctly, it just slotted in the wrong way like it was meant to go; I guess modern CPU sockets have fixed that.
Oh neat, thanks! I'll have to practice that a bit, but definitely see it coming in handy.