skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This extended excusing of bad behaviour doesn’t wash. You can’t reject part of a standard, when you’re one of the stewards of it. Either you’re committed, or you’re not. Like cabinet government, debates prior to decision don’t factor into your necessary commitment to the decision once it is made. A lower moral standard is only available for those who don’t claim to be the high priests.

Trivialising the issue with whataboutism doesn’t make Apple any less culpable. Sure, shit sticks to other vendors too. Google often behave appallingly, but this’ll be my first and last mention of them in this thread, and I feel just fine about that having given them plenty of stick in the past. My comment was and remains about WebKit.
Or given that Arduino uses C++, just use co-routines instead.
> the US Navy/Pentagon who have found no explanation of this phenomenon thus far.

"Released no explanation to the public" != "have found no explanation". The DoD is simply not in a habit of releasing information to the public unless they're instructed to do so by the executive branch.
Yes, and lose a bunch of money. :)

You could argue cold calling is worse than a tracking cookie. But I would still have salesmen cold call for a privacy focused product, for example.
Yeah, sadly zero is not falsy in Ruby.
Tenet, anyone?
The word "defeatist", for example, has no particular political connotations now. But in Germany in 1917 it was a weapon, used by Ludendorff in a purge of those who favored a negotiated peace. At the start of World War II it was used extensively by Churchill and his supporters to silence their opponents. In 1940, any argument against Churchill's aggressive policy was "defeatist". Was it right or wrong? Ideally, no one got far enough to ask that.

We have such labels today, of course, quite a lot of them, from the all-purpose "inappropriate" to the dreaded "divisive." In any period, it should be easy to figure out what such labels are, simply by looking at what people call ideas they disagree with besides untrue. When a politician says his opponent is mistaken, that's a straightforward criticism, but when he attacks a statement as "divisive" or "racially insensitive" instead of arguing that it's false, we should start paying attention.

So another way to figure out which of our taboos future generations will laugh at is to start with the labels. Take a label — "sexist", for example — and try to think of some ideas that would be called that. Then for each ask, might this be true?
Sabine Hossenfelder has a great explanation of 5G controversy[1] that is somewhat relevant. Explains why it is probably not dangerous, but also indicates why some additional study is warranted.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBsP-bmDLOo
Given how horribly interactions between more technologically advanced and lesser technologically advanced societies seem to harm the lesser ones I'm not sure it would turn out well for humanity.
Why, at the time, were Navy pilots behaving so incredulously, and why did they not pull up along-side the UFO and simply eyeball its identification? And why did they let it get away? What is it that Navy pilots are supposed to be doing when they're inscrutably not pursuing possible unidentified threats?
> Reminds me when about ten years ago ... but upgrading the docking station firmware was possible only from Windows.

For me, it was less than 10 days ago. The battery on my Thinkpad X1 (that has 5 years onsite warranty) stopped charging. I run Debian, and had got rid of the Windows partition entirely. They demanded a battery report from Windows. It took a long time, but I was able to convince them the report from their extended battery test in the BIOS saying the battery had failed sufficed, and the battery was replaced.

The new battery lasted about 1 month, then it developed the same fault. Same story - after a day worth of arguing, they agreed to replace the battery.

That battery lasted 3 days, then developed the same fault. The story went the same way, right up until they said they fix it by replacing the battery to which I responded "I don't think that's a good idea". (By this time I had developed suspicion the USB-C chipset was somehow killing the battery.) The next step was to replace the motherboard until I filed a Windows battery report. No amount of pleading "hey, you have a report from your own BIOS saying the battery is faulty, it doesn't charge while in the BIOS when no OS is running, and it should charge while off when _nothing_ is running - what possible influence could Windows have on this" worked.

They sent a link me what they said was a "live Windows" USB recovery drive. It was a Windows program. I was able to run it Windows in an kvm instance. It wasn't "live Windows" of course - it was a "wipe SSD with a fresh install of Windows" USB. Not being keen on wiping all my work and risking a backup not working, I bought a new SSD, and let it wipe that. It took about a wasted day (I'm a contractor) to install Windows, let it upgrade itself, and then install the latest Lenovo drivers for everything (which they insisted on), then run the battery report. During the time the laptop started freezing - but it turned out unplugging the 4K USB-C Philips monitor fixed that, adding more evidence to my theory the USB-C interface was on the way out.

The motherboard is scheduled to be replaced today. I'm betting they won't bring a battery and replace the one the USB-C chipset has killed. They go to all this trouble to provide good diagnostics in the firmware, and then don't train their staff to use it. I'm sometimes gob smacked by just how much time these companies cost themselves.
Hypersonics are a boogieman imo. You'll get one volley before everyone starts rolling out flak or other anti-warhead defenses, and hypersonics have a gigantic weakness in not being able to maneuver for beans. Once you're going over a mile per sec -> predicting where you'll be to fill it with crap to destroy you isn't that hard.

Who cares if you can blow up one target once? Unless you marshal enough to wipeout enough infrastructure to really cripple your opponent, it won't do you much good anyway; and if you do cripple them, and they're nuclear, congratulations; you just won a nuclear response. You now have bigger problems.
in my experience they seem to be more efficient at super-heating ceramic plates than water filled organic matter which still manages to be frozen in the center
While that may or may not be true, you haven't actually offered any sort of refutation or insight into the topic at hand. While I'm not 15, who should I find more credible, the guy making a dispassionate general argument that makes sense, or the old hipster being like "whatever pg is laaaammme"?

(Also how is what you're saying unsayable? People say this on practically every PG essay here. It's very obviously quite sayable)
There are different levels of suitability for everything, including scientific and technical innovation. Combine advantageous intellectual predisposition with a "privileged" education, and you may get a "genius". I appreciate these people, but I'm more impressed by those who excelled (even if to a lesser extent than their aristocratically educated contemporaries) against all odds. Especially when the underdog is working actively against their disadvantages instead of lurking on forums pasting about the unfairness of society and the plight of the proletariat.
True -- but note that Yellen was appointed by the same president.
Prices will stay the same, but days on market increases. Inflation works itself through the system and eventually there will be a buyer.
From Wikipedia:

> 1985: The original Star Wars film was re-released on VHS, LaserDisc, and Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) with an improved audio mix. The LaserDisc and CED sped the film up by 3% to fit onto a single disc.[10][b]

> 1993: The original trilogy was released on LaserDisc as "The Definitive Collection". With the exception of a new THX audio mix, scratch and dirt removal, and color balance changes, it matched the original theatrical releases.[10]

> 1995: The original trilogy was re-released on VHS with THX audio, advertised as the final release of the theatrical versions.[12][13][14]

I'm guessing the '93 LaserDisc (like the '95 VHS) lacked those obvious matting artifacts on some of the space shots, but the '85 release still had them.
And I'd invite you to re-read my comment. He agrees with my main point:

> In static-system vs. static-system warfare. Thus, in Syria – where the Syrian Civil War has been waged as a series of starve-or-surrender urban sieges, a hallmark of static vs. static fighting – you see significant use of chemical weapons, especially as a terror tactic against besieged civilians.

The Russians being in a similar situation because they do not have equipment suitable for a highly mobile army (I don't quite expect them to use them for reasons below, but worth pointing out).

There's a lot wrong with his take. A lot of what he is writing is unsourced conjecture. It's like saying man portable missiles are irrelevant when you can have the CIA topple their government and remove their will to fight.

For one, conventional arms are horribly inefficient at killing in the first place! It's thousands of rounds fired for a confirmed kill, and the stat is equally as bad for artillery. Any marginal improvement is a big deal.

He does not convincingly separate their lack of legitimate use from moral concerns. Developed nuclear states don't use them for a lot of reasons, but a huge issue is that chemical weapons are on the escalation ladder. In the US's case it's also that we don't want to kill indiscriminately. He so much as states this at one point:

> In essence, the two big powers of the Cold War (and, as a side note, also the lesser components of the Warsaw Pact and NATO) spent the whole Cold War looking for an effective way to use chemical weapons against each other, and seem to have – by the end – concluded on the balance that there wasn’t one. Either conventional weapons get the job done, or you escalate to nuclear systems.

> But if chemical weapons can still be effective against static system armies, why don’t modern system armies (generally) use chemical weapons against them? Because they don’t need to. Experience has tended to show that static system armies are already so vulnerable to the conventional capability of top-flight modern system armies that chemical munitions offer no benefits beyond what precision-guided munitions (PGMs), rapid maneuver (something the Iraqi army showed a profound inability to cope with in both 1991 and 2003), and the tactics (down to the small unit) of the modern system do.

I take no exception to this, but basically no large army has encountered a case where they need quickly deployed area denial that is different from landmines. A massive retreat into the interior of a country may be such a case, but you run into issues where a decapitation against that state is probably going to be more effective.

For what it's worth, this is why Russia's concern of NATO countries walking up into it is nonsensical. It's just, perhaps, they never realized how nonsensical it was, as their defense planners do not have experience with a highly dynamic army. (But oddly they seem to have some idea of what might happen, as this is what likely led to their development of nuclear/neutron mortars and artillery. But any situation where those would come out is going to be ICBM time anyway.)
Show HN: SimpleKV – an extremely simple, anonymous key-value store
The idea of TS is not bad, but they had to forbid any and other ways to escape the type system. I get tons of runtime errors on my TS projects as well because someone down the chain decided they couldn't be bothered with types.

Also, having to do type definitions for modules which don't have types is a massive pain.
Overall, I appreciate the type safety, but I don't think TS delivers on that promise and I'd rather use a real typed language.
Same could have been done in Modula-2 or Object Pascal, to name just two among many, including the Assembly and setjmp/longjmp parts.
Aren't they encased in some bio-compatible metal, essentially making them a faraday cage that should be immune even to direct exposure?
There is enough videos of F-18s doing 'push the throttle and bank' in a level flight on YouTube. It's fast, but it's not instantenious. And as an arm-chair pilot I can say what a multiton plane doesn't stay at the altitude with the engines at idle.

Also the last weekend I caught a 40" bass.
I’ve met folks who’ve worked in that industry that won’t leave one running unattended.
This is whining about process and not getting your way, which just confirms my earlier hypothesis about fragile egos.

Apple are complaining here about their own failure to be convincing. They’ve then had the better part of a decade to find a better approach, and produced nothing concrete. Compounding one failure with another doesn’t improve their position.

This isn’t David v Goliath; WHATWG has four members, and none of them are underdogs. None of the participants here deserve even a shred of sympathy.
Actually this is logically impossible, since you can't prove a negative.
What's the latest science on microwaving plastic containers? Many now say "microwave safe" on them... did something change, like the research or the plastics used?

Many of my friends still refuse to do it, but I'm not sure if that's still well-founded. My thought process is: well, the lawyers let 'em explicitly print "safe" on there... so they must be pretty damn sure.
If someone wants to get better informed about such common myths like you mentioned, what books or material should I read?
> its the radar data

Did the Navy release the radar data, or an analysis based on it?
The 1979-1982 interest rate spike was preceded by 15 years of faffing around, playing at raising interest rates, and then chickening out, with a backdrop of rising persistent inflation. I think it's likely to play out exactly as you describe, but that's exactly how it played out in the 70s.

I'm much less certain that it will end the same way, but there are big problems with all the alternatives too (yuan, euro, crypto, gold) so who knows.
I think it's even worse than that, because by being "webby" here Deno has committed itself to alert(); multiple browser vendors (including Mozilla) have advocated removing alert() from the web platform.

(They want to do that because alert() "stops the world" by blocking the main thread event loop, and because they make it easy for a site to post a message that appears to come from Chrome itself, or from another website.)

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/hTOXi...

> We’re on a long, slow path to deprecate and remove window.alert/confirm/prompt and beforeunload handlers due to their role in user-hostile event loop pausing, as well as phishing and other abuse mechanisms. We’ve been successfully chipping away at them in various cases, e.g. background tabs, subframes with no user interaction, and now cross-origin subframes. Each step is hard-fought progress toward the eventual goal, and we should consider carefully whether we want to regress, even in an opt-in manner.

Rich Harris has a good blog post about this. https://dev.to/richharris/stay-alert-d
"Thank you, Computer." *ZAP* "YOU DID NOT SAY THANK YOU FRIEND COMPUTER."
I am implying, and in no way do I take myself to be doing anything more noble than shitposting here, that the kinds of forbidden opinions he is probably imagining himself to suffer for, are radically different from the kinds of opinions that people who actually end up suffering for their opinions have.

MY big opinion that I'm violating right now: Never Post. Especially about "cancel culture".

Cheers
> Red states tend to have a much higher population of black residents, a group that is well established to have much higher crime rates. Black people are 13% of the national population but commit 52% of the murders.

Expanding this to causation - that black people cause more crime - is not only a complete misuse of statistics - nothing there shows correlation, much less causation - it is an old racist saw. For example, a society which relegates people based on their skin color to poverty, lack of access to jobs, education, and healthcare, and continual discrimination, might be the causal agent. It could be that people in poverty, with poor educations, and difficult employment, are correlated with crime (but we'd need to look that up).

> Many of those red states have very liberal DAs who are refusing to prosecute certain crimes, asking for extremely low bail, and pursuing very short prison sentences, while also aggressively prosecuting alleged police misconduct.

Those DA's seem less prevelant in red states - is there some correlation there? And do you have evidence that these things increase crime rates? Most of the research says otherwise, the opposite practices had little impact for many years, and the people most affected by crime vote for these DAs.
There used to be Infinality which made fonts look amazing on Linux a decade ago. https://web.archive.org/web/20151103070844/http://www.infina... . Now it looks like https://gist.github.com/cryzed/e002e7057435f02cc7894b9e748c5... is a good source of info on how to achieve this. macOS still probably wins on font rendering for whatever reason, but at least we have:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid_fonts

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Source+Code+Pro

and now

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inter
Depends on the size of the cracks you want to observe. For aircraft they use ultrasounds. I assume you dad used x-ray because methane and H2 are extremely small (they can’t be contained in, for example, water pipes, so the same goes for diagnostics and wavelengths).
Thanks. I don’t have an opinion on it.

To form your own opinion, I can highly recommend watching a bunch of videos on YouTube with Warren Buffet, Monish Pabrai, Howard Marks and Ray Dalio and if you get the chance a (audio)book or two of some of them. Especially Warren and Charlie Munger have a great ability to put things into perspective.
Oh look RedHat got that IBM spirit finally ;)
Have you listened to the joe rogan episode where he talks about it?

It seems a little ridiculous to compare the one where he turned his engine off and on one time at night over a couple campers to the episode where multiple pilots see it, with multiple sensors seeing it from planes and from ships. He engaged in horseplay once, therefor anything he ever says should not be believed seems lame.
Ask HN: I ask for the link of an article of personal development published on HN
Can you give me the URL of a HN article, published between March and January (both inclusive), bound to an article written by a spy that explained how to get people to like you and influence them please?
(A spy or someone working in the secret service of a country)

I think I remember one of the things he advised was to make people feel like they were making a choice.
They are little different from millions of others, aside from their excessive power. Wokeism enforcement (as distinguished from being woke, itself) could even be interpreted as a defense against their hegemony.

The Iraq War minted hundreds of them, mostly in Dick Cheney's camp. We will be living with that legacy for generations.
First, that's irrelevant. Second, all we have is your claim. We do have a citation that it's hate speech.
Although you might not like it, the use of your location to improve the database of access points on iOS is carefully anonymized and thus practically harmless and not evil. It’s comparable to Google using your location to build its traffic information if you navigate using Google Maps. If they did it anonymously which I haven’t investigated but doubt.
I don't regard what security researchers like saurik: [0] and cryptographers like Matthew Green [1] to be the typical 'cryptobros' these days since they seem to know what they are talking about when it comes to 'web3' and the technologies behind it.

Heck I even initially hated crypto (and still hate some NFTs), but even I recognise that 'critics' like Stephen Diehl, Molly White, Nicholas Weaver, etc have all deliberately been ignoring the eco-friendly cryptocurrencies and technologies for years. As soon as one is mentioned on Twitter, there are no counter responses or refutations. They are immediately silent.

It seems that even Stripe [2] has recognised that change as well as Moxie, who is also pushing MobileCoin [3], a private and encrypted cryptocurrency into Signal (which he rarely talks about) and pissed off one of his critics. [4]

I think they are finding it very difficult to ignore it. For them, it is only going to get harder.

[0] https://twitter.com/saurik

[1] https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green

[2] https://stripe.com/gb/use-cases/crypto

[3] https://mobilecoin.com

[4] https://www.stephendiehl.com/blog/signal.html
This is a fair point, that he is discussing abstractions.

I almost wrote "I wish people would read moral philosophers on moral philosophy, not tech founders."

He does give some examples, and they seem to fit in two categories: things done by tyrants, and other people thinking you should expand one's moral categories.

I think it's clear that the ones that bother him, in his actual life, are the latter.
Because velocity tends to return to historical norms in a functioning economy, and if velocity doesn't return to historical norms - say it goes to infinity, like in Weimar hyperinflation, or it goes to zero, like in Japan-style depression - you have bigger problems.

The "velocity is dropping so we need to print more" argument runs into scary problems if you make it without understanding why velocity is dropping. If it's because all the wealth is concentrating within a certain sliver of the population (like 2008-2020 U.S), that's a really big problem that's going to cause mass social instability. If it's because everybody's shutting themselves in their room and not spending money or engaging with society (like Japan), that's also a really big problem. If it reverses and returns to historical norms and beyond (as I suspect will happen), that's also a problem.

A big contrarian position in 2008 that I thought was nuts at the time but now think is very likely was that we were going to get "Deflation, then hyperinflation". I didn't understand the hyperinflation part then, but the argument was that deflation would lead the Fed to keep expanding the money supply, which would pool among a small number of people, until some spark triggered that group to spend money. COVID-related supply chain disruptions were that spark, and I think the hyperinflation case is increasingly likely now.
> IBM BIOS being reverse engineered

I assume "clean room" BIOS implementations were important to avoid copyright infringement claims since the BIOS source code was actually provided by IBM in the system's technical reference manual (similarly to other systems of the time):

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/12018/why...

Shame that modern vendors don't provide their system firmware source code.
So we only have one data point of a planet producing what will quite possibly be a spacefaring civilization or, in the very least, one able to comprehend as such.

But if you accept that the Dyson Swarms are a likely outcome then we have a while bunch of negative data points in systems within even thousands of light years of us.

That then brings into focus the hypothesis about Dyson Swarm. Such a thing can be built incrementally, requires no material stronger than stainless steel and requires no energy tech beyond solar power. It is a massive engineering challenge to be sure but not requiring new physics is significant.