skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always find "UFO are aliens" belief so non-logical.

Like a FTL civilization would even be curious about earth, having such advanced sensor technology to avoid dust at beyond light speed that they actually need to cruise around in the atmosphere?

Or that their ship would be so small? There's no penalty for mass in space, why not make it the size of a city? Certainly a FTL civilization has no construction limitations.

We have small plane-sized craft because of our limitations on power and mass and construction abilities. Aliens that can "visit" would be nothing like us.
Compared to a MiG-29 they are.

Some of the fighter jets mentioned have the range to make it from Kiev to Moscow (not that they would ever get that far for other reasons)
I don’t know, it might be a silly idea. But have you ever thought that parents should be responsible for their children?

The only thing that the EU has done is make web browsing worse by forcing a damn cookie popup on every damn website.
Is this kind of burnout perhaps in part due to the level of mechanization provided by the defacto platform for open source projects now: GitHub?

It seems like it’s more frequent, but maybe that’s just me.

It’s great that GitHub exists and lowers the barrier for anyone to develop and share open source efforts. But you also become a slave to its various very well automated processes. As a creative altruistic agent, that can actually take a lot of the fun out of it. And make one feel trapped by the process machine.

It seems in old days, when things were less standardized, maintainers had more creative control over not only the code, but the process/community around it.

I’m not advocating for a demise of GitHub. Just kind of wondering if this is the price we pay.
No worries, I could have been more clear.
Don't they have proprietary databases to query? Or can I download their data and do my own analysis?
Even the extremists admit (thought they try to hide it) the Bill Clinton paid down the debt by raising taxes and cutting military spending by not starting large new wars. Caro insulted Clinton for proposing a $200B/ye deficit, right before Bush 2 issued a one-year addition of $1T in new military spending for his personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein launched on false pretenses.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/no-bill-clinton-didnt-balanc...
Sure, getting a copyright requires virtually nothing, nothing gets checked, what would they check? It's content you say you created - stamp!

I have registered hundreds of copyrights. That is not at all how it works.

This is exactly how it works:

https://www.copyright.gov/comp3/chap600/ch600-examination-pr...
is it Stripe?
There is a massive difference social media today is run by the largest corporations that exist and design in a way that it is the most addictive possible.

I would argue it is similar to alcohol or tabacco this way. Shouting think of the children because some kids/teenagers get drunk at some point is way overkill. However once the tabacco/alcohol industry started directly marketing to them it was quite a different matter.
Pick the simplest tech stack you can find.

There is a lot of merit in that argument.

It never ceases to amaze me how much effort we now spend on nothing but infrastructure and architecture. It's like the Cloud Way of "cattle not pets" and "infinite horizontal scalability" may no longer be questioned.

Meanwhile you could build almost anything in this space with little more than a rack of real servers, some respectable application code written in a fast language, and a bit of scripting and OSS for the glue.

Obviously that sort of environment wouldn't be sufficient for every modern, online-first application but how many years would it take to outgrow it? Many applications never reach that scale. The lucky few would be in a great position to expand from if their starting point was simple and transparent with minimal dependencies.
TUI actually stands for Tangible User Interface, suggest changing the acronym so as to not confuse and pollute it : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangible_user_interface
Texas did intensify it, in particular by trying to use private enforcement as a mechanism for doing an end-run around federal constitutional oversight of state law (it remains to be seen whether this will work once it's fully litigated). But private enforcement mechanisms have been an almost unique feature of U.S. law for considerably longer than that.

This is a pretty good law review article from 10 years ago: J. Maria Glover (2012). The Structural Role of Private Enforcement Mechanisms in Public Law. William & Mary Law Review 53:1137–1217. https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol53/iss4/3. A quote:

> The American regulatory system is unique in that it expressly relies on a diffuse set of regulators, including private parties, rather than on a centralized bureaucracy for the effectuation of its substantive aims. In contrast with more traditional conceptions of private enforcement as an ad hoc supplement to public law, this Article argues that private regulation through litigation is integral to the structure of the modern administrative state. Private litigation and the mechanisms that enable it are not merely add-ons to our regulatory regime, much less are they fundamentally at odds with it.
In fact, I thought this was already a thing; I'm pretty sure last time I was on a DE with an application menu, it had ex. htop in there.
that's not how it goes, in practice one is somewhere in between the different cultures/civilizations, and there are always actors that are not very cosy with each other...
Of course every investment shines beautifully after 6 months
Yeah honestly I have very little faith in a license, especially on such a small project, to actually do anything. Mostly a small platform tbh. It did keep dug from being accepted to homebrew though
As a further update, consider this search:

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=16.80454...

All quakes 7 and above from 2011-01-01 until today. Some stats:

Total quakes - 16

Number of quakes in March - 6

Number of quakes in April - 3

Number of quakes in February - 2

Months with 1 quake - 5, 7, 8, 10, 12

Probability of quake in March - 37.5%

Probability of quake in March (+- 1 month) - 68.75%
I can see where you're coming from, but let's be real, those IRC and game chat rooms were far from well run or safe for minors, and made minimal to no effort to keep minors out. Most still don't.

And modern social media really is different in that it's deliberately designed to be addictive and basically prey on insecurities. (or just outright create new ones) They don't do much if anything in terms of not straight up enhancing bullying etc either.

Another difference is, unlike our parents, who simply didn't know much about the internet, and as a result had lots of unfounded fears, our generation are digital natives and very familiar with all the problems. We're just used to and desensitized to them.

With adults, that's one thing, but with minors, it's pretty inexcusable imo. It's not unreasonable to want to protect your children and adolescents from harm, whether from smoking or from social media.
possibly but will you bet jail time on it?
On point one, CPI uses a combination of "owners equivalent rents" and more traditional rent measures.

Owner's equivalent rent is basically just a survey where they ask homeowners how much they could rent their house for. So survey participants understanding of market rents may lag.

But more importantly, when they survey renters, they ask them what they're currently paying. So if somebody is in a one year lease, and gets surveyed in month 11, they will give a rent figure that's almost a year old. On top of this, CPI includes rent controlled units, below market rent units etc. In some sense this is "correct" because it reflects what people are paying... But the whole value of CPI is to be a forecasting tool. Using lagging metrics is bad design imo.

Finally, they only survey 1/6 of the housing stock each month. So the whole sample is not updated every month.

To your second question, the biggest change is that CPI used to use home prices rather than the OER measure. That metric would show 15-20% rather than the 5% we get from their current formula. Given that the shelter component is the biggest weight in the CPI, it would shift the number up a few points.
Yeah, many serious CJK fonts do have multiple weights, but are rarer than Western fonts. Much rarer still, CJK fonts with two or more weights or even the full gamut (100 through 900). This severely constrains typographic choices.
The fact that we have more compelling distractions than survival is because we have largely solved all the problems required for us to thrive.

The genius of prehistoric times would have been to discover better ideas to survive or hunt.

The genius of the previous generation was to improve computation.
We are here being distracted by TikTok precisely because of that.

The genius of the next generation would be something else important to the current time.

No matter what the context of the time is, genius will emerge.

The criteria of what genetics, skills and training you need to be a genius will definitely change to suit the time. Einstein, Von Neuman, Russell or Darwin are no longer going to be the geniuses of today the same way they wouldn't be the geniuses of the previous generation.

TLDR; Genius is an emergent phenomenon that is rooted in the valuable contemporary problems that need to be solved.
History rhymes: it was barely a decade ago California's violent video game ban made contact with the First Amendment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchan...
Assuming a standard vesting schedule of 4 years. Wouldn’t you have left with 0.75% of equity?

I wonder if any money would have been left after dilution and preferred shares.
It's not a problem with C itself. But it's a problem that C, which has loosely defined ABI, is actually used as the standard ABI of the OS.
And the OS is not only about system call, but about system libraries (window manager, ...), and interoperabiloty between languages
Those are some really archaic and distracting ligatures though.
There are inkjet printers that use bottled ink, but inkjet printers basically suck either way. Cartridges dry out, print heads clog, etc. TLDR: get a laser printer.
The dirty secret is that civil lawsuits and common law are a constitutional blind spot. So much of the constitution only really applies to state actors[0], which means that private litigants are relatively unrestrained[1] in their ability to wield state power against other private litigants. In other words, the constitution doesn't care about your rights until and unless it means you being put behind bars.

The reason why SCOTUS is humoring Texas is because actually stopping their legal shenaniganery requires legislating a whole new tort reform regime from the bench. 'Cause that's the only thing that would really work to stop Texas: ending or severely curtailing "private AG"[2] causes of action in the law. But that also means rolling back a lot of legal liability that corporations otherwise would have for their actions. Balancing this properly would be difficult - it's something that Congress really should be doing, not the Supreme Court... but they never did, so now here we are.

[0] "State actors" means all levels of government plus private corporations acting in the role of a government.

[1] For starters, the 5th Amendment does not apply to civil litigation. If the government wants to throw you in jail for 10 years for making counterfeit Mickey Mouse merch, you are allowed to refuse to testify and the court cannot assume your guilt from a refusal to testify. However, if Disney sued you for $10,000,000 for the same tort, you can be forced to testify against yourself and refusal to do so will result in an "adverse inference" being placed upon you.

[2] Laws which allow private individuals to bring class action lawsuits on behalf of some public interest, in lieu of the US government prosecuting them. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_attorney_general
Ok to be fair Fuschia could define their system API using Protobuf and it would work for them
Making Hybrid Work Work
If not being distracted is what is required to be a "genius" today, those that are inherently less likely to be distracted will emerge.
If you’re confident the sale of the stock in one year would net a profit, that one year between exercise and the sale allows for long-term capital gains treatment (usually 15% or whatever it is these days) vs short-term capital gains, which is taxed at your income level.

Worst case, it can be a 37% (federal) + 13% (CA) tax hit. Doesn’t make most people too happy, if you’re lucky enough to hit it that big.

Not a CPA, I’m sure there are different situations, but this is the simplest explanation I know of, from experience.
> I'm in the habit of keeping a text file with all software I've installed and updating it immediately. Really helps remember stuff like this.

Coincidental - I just reinstalled my machine and this is the first site I came to. I keep all the applications I installed in a 'packages.new' file, and do

apt-get install -y `cat packages.new`

when I get a new machine.
Unless your options grants included some antidillution clause (unlikely) you didn't have anywhere near 1% 10 years later.
I think poster is referring to the fact that the U.S. gives Israel almost 4 billion dollars in aid a year.

It's not that Israel has infiltrated America but instead the fact that American politician do not expect to be electable unless they behave as a "friend to Israel" given certain jewish and christian communities are willing to campaign against politicians on this issue.

This means the Israeli representatives can even come to the U.S. and act like belligerent a-holes and the politicians have to put up with it to win elections.

If the poster was really suggesting infiltration rather than being sarcastic I would assume they are perhaps trading in antisemitic conspiracy theories.
If you believe this phenomenon started in Texas last year, you might want to do some research, and correct your post. It's been going on a lot longer than that.
Gord is no longer maintained - is there an active alternative?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Yeah, but it's a kicking the can down the road kind of situation. The mistake of acting too late has already been made.

Pushing asset prices higher and higher beyond what a neutral interest rate would support just sets up bigger declines in the future.

At least a lot of the froth in the higher multiple stocks has been cooled off at this point.
Now please do the original hardware.
I was super impressed by your detailed investigation in that thread! Thank you for your contributions!
Oh, also, the guy who did that prank is a billionaire now.
The non-typewriter text does look good, but just the thought of having to do the regex on it is terrifying.
There was no vesting in this case. The shares were explicitly conditional on current employment when they became eligible to be exercised. Mind you I'm next to clueless about options, but I remember that language being in whatever I signed.
Genius is counterfactual:
"If this person did not exist, this thing wouldn't have been discovered or created."

Impossible to prove after the fact considering that in order for their discovery to be recognized, it has to be understood and somewhat built upon the ideas that are accepted today.
That's an important point, which will make white hats think twice if they are going to report stuff like this in the future or keep it to themselves and deny anything that might circle back.
> Yeah you can now write "uint8_t" instead of "char", but the point is that the ecosystem is a landmine and all the maimed people are shamed with "you should have read the 400 page map"

You're criticizing syntax from 30 years ago. Yes, the backwards compatibility (to me) is a BONUS. I would not want to junk working code that I paid for, just so I can use uint8_t. You have the option to begin a slow migration of old code into more modern code - without paying the massive cost of re-writing from scratch.

I guess I am not able to connect with your criticism since it is far removed from my original point - What are examples of normal C++ syntax where the language screws you over with UB? Its a honest question - I'm not longer a C++ dev but I am curious to know what people are talking about.
How do you keep track when installing appimages, flatpaks, tarballs, compiling source and things like that?
> I can see where you're coming from, but let's be real, those IRC and game chat rooms were far from well run or safe for minors, and made no to minimal efforts to keep minors out. Most still don't.

I wouldn't be here if not for those!

I grew up in a conservative town with little exposure to outside ideas and my parents were overly protective. The early internet sans filters and "filter bubble" algorithms gave me much needed perspective on the world.

IRC and forums were fundamentally a part of shaping who I am today.
Standard Time approximates a fixed noon. DST is a poorly-done jury-rig to make it track dawn instead.
Josh Wardle created Wordle as part of an ongoing quest to design online spaces
1) it was just published today

2) successfully rigging a presidential election is more significant than attempting to influence a congressional primary

3) these people were caught and prosecuted by the federal government, Russian interference was encouraged by the POTUS in 2017 (post Jan 20)
It would be super nice if new issues (and PRs) could be made hidden from non-repo-members by default until they're triaged by a repo member (or until some timeout passes without the issue being closed/deleted).

There is a lot of performative abuse on github, where someone opens an ill-tempered or outright misleading issue, and hurls insults and then takes to twitter or reddit to try to get people to pile on, or they complain that their wall of invective was just summarily closed. And when you do ban people on github it has all kinds of weird side effects like blocking them from commenting on other project's issues where you're active.

In general, GH makes it really hard to ghost people. There have always been people who through personality or situation were unable to participate productively. Under older models of communication it was easy to simply ignore these unproductive actions without initiating any visible response that would trigger retaliation or fixation.
I kind of agree with your War theory. But obviously the war itself doesn't make things happen. Rather it is that it aligns a bunch of things - money, desperation/motivation, smart people.

Maybe lack of a world war is a reason.

Maybe intellectual property law becoming common.

Maybe increasing awareness of the competing billions around us makes for different impulses IE Bezos-aspirations instead of scientific progress. If you have enough money, you can BUY the idea/smart person.

Maybe the glorification of sports/fashion/music/movies/games rather than science/knowledge.
Nothing is more exaggerated news than social media.
The object might of existed for a millisecond. Test of a new stealth tech - quick directional laser burst to temporarily damage/blind IR camera. After that Jet was flying in circles trying to track its own camera glitch.
It would be easier to settle these arguments with code rather than opinions.
It isn't exactly a farm, more a backyard/patio full of succulents. And most of my givings have been to friends/family/acquaintances/neighbors. I've not tried it commercially or for profit, but maybe one day.
Winamp is selling its 1997 skin as an NFT
May I suggest a cookieless and codeless solution with data stored in the EU: https://www.hockeystack.com

We're building the most comprehensive, but still easy-to-use analytics tool out there. Specifically useful for SaaS businesses that want to collect and unify marketing, product engagement, sales, and subscription revenue data.
James Webb Space Telescope just sent us a selfie
Parents can’t control the social landscape their children are born into. Sure, you can try to block the apps and socially isolate them if you care more about making a statement than their emotional wellbeing.

Alternatively we can admit that there is an issue with the amount of power and influence given to a few companies who have privatized all normal communication, especially for the younger generation. There is a reality of psychological and sociological harm that can’t be mitigated by taking your children fishing and giving them a few stern lectures. Full grown adults can’t even fight being manipulated by these apps.
X forwarding works great with traditional apps using oldschool toolkits without any bitmap chrome and all text rendering deferred to the server.
> What is the down side?

The current (fairly large) crop of startups whose exit strategy is to be acquired at large valuations.
> aren't saved to disk

This is a big win. They can’t get stale, they don’t need review, and you don’t have to remind everyone which files should never be edited.
I prefer to use Nim. C is the default backend and abstracts a lot of pain away.
Thank you for the response. You framed it better than I did.
It was stated in writing as 1% of shares at exit time, not as a number of shares. Again, I'm clueless about options. But this was way outside of silicon valley and among people who couldn't care less how things are done there. For example, there was no VC involvement.
The fair market value was $3 per share. I calculated my AMT to be $0 and exercised. The company then retroactively quadrupled their fair market value price and I suddenly had a $10k AMT bill. The company was private, so I couldn't even sell the shares to pay for it.
While it might be a bit hyperbolic to suggest that analytics don't tell you anything new, I've seen vanity metrics toted around on more than one occasion as if it meant anything actionable or otherwise unknowable. I think this is more common than the other way around. It's like the ol' conundrum where an A/B test is performed on a design change, and the B version results in more "engagement" with the site; what they fail to openly mention is that so-called engagement may just be the frustration of the user trying to bypass your crummy design update.

IMO, the best analytics for many businesses is customer acquisition and revenue as well as customer feedback. If you aren't adequately responding to those inherent analytics then you shouldn't yet be using The Google's form of black magic.
Nothing else in the Analytics space gives the right integration between your SEO and PPC. So for example, if I wanted to create an Analytics -based custom PPC audience based on a number of factors such as device, pages visited, events triggered and location (layered) directly into my AdWords campaigns, I'm going to have to use GA. And if I want to use Optimize for my PPC campaigns, then I'm going to have to still use GA. It's all out of the box and it's all "free", compared with the multiple vendors solutions I'd need to make the same scenario work in order to drive sales from web visitors. That's the google lock in right there. Meh.
C is an obsolete [1] programming language that must still be used for interoperability between languages despite not being particularly good at that.

[1] Yes it is. It is lacking many important features. And people claiming they rather not have these features are like an author writing a book with notepad.exe because they think modern Word processor are too complicated.
The FBI's Steve Jobs Files [pdf]
They also use timekeeping for their own purposes, hence they get a say.
"but since the big discoveries had already been made".

This is a tautology. At every point in history, all the big discoveries had already been made.