skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A friend is a very good university lecturer in physics, and a pacifist. He isn't particularly please about the fact that a decent number of his students will turn the particular lessons he teaches towards the production of weapons.
- The Cyberiad
- The Futurological Congress
That’s the thing though. The President only has the powers as designated in the Constitution, mostly in Article II, and what Congress gives him per their legislative authority.

Any power they have given, they can also strip away. Any office they have instituted, they can also remove. Any cabinet position they created can also be removed. Any Presidential appointment including Article III judges and justices can be impeached and removed.

Executive orders only go as far as the President’s authority either over his branch (the entire Executive power) or through laws which he is charged to enforce. The reason he has a lot of discretion is precisely because Congress gives a lot of discretion, and they really don’t have to.

But, somehow we have managed to for a while now elect mostly mooks that don’t particularly want their power. The framers imagined branches of government which would jealously guard the powers they did have, but that doesn’t really work if a branch is not jealously guarding its own power. Open primaries were probably a mistake, because it leaves legislators vulnerable to primary challengers backed by Presidents and other powerful Government Officers.
If you were able to physically manufacture an object with inversely decreasing index of refraction, would you observe light bend as it does around a black hole? Or do impurities in the substance / difficulty of manufacturing w/ different IORs make this impossible in practice?
never once was it said by the go devs that generics are bad. it was asserted that generics are complicated to get right and they wanted to take their time.
So why are the Chinese doing it?

https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/chinas-new-weapon-j...
Hands-On with PostgreSQL Authorization – Part 2 – Row-Level Security
We are building our native app off from our web app, using Capacitor. One single codebase, 3 platforms targeted. Using very well established technologies that have a very good DX.
“the US was hobbled by 50 response plans”

Pure nonsense. How are such small minds able to make it so far?
Nah?
You don't put cruise missiles in space. You put mass in space.

I supposed the point would be to hit the highest priority targets and nothing else. Loss of command and logistics has a profound effect on endurance
Dart as a language is so far behind I refuse to use Flutter (and I did try it for a bit)

It's like going from Kotlin to Java, or Swift to ObjC, or Typescript to Js. Tooling stinks, language features are missing, ergonomics are bad.
Correct, but the reality was we couldn't afford a larger sample to see if Flutter is superior or not to other options.
Unpatched plugins threaten millions of WordPress websites
In a rant that was (at one time) legendary, the late Erik Naggum responded to the argument that XML was nothing more than another way to write s-exprs, and if you like s-exprs, the only quibble you have with XML is the syntax.

Erik wrote, They are not identical. The aspects you are willing to ignore are more important than the aspects you are willing to accept. He went on to write a great deal more that I am not willing to quote, but at its core was this same argument:

Sometimes two things seem very similar, but the ways in which they are similar are unimportant, and the ways in which they differ are profound.

My guess is that little aphorisms like this will come into and out of fashion over and over again, because this argument is one we will have over and over again.

https://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html
They're synonyms for "Daylight Savings". Slow down before accusing people making an amusing pun.
haven't forgotton. Typos happen not only in the tld. So check and warn if you will. But indeed let it happen and don't gag people.

You need the opt-in and have people confirm or repeat in case.
People have been saying this for a long time and it hasn’t come true, and while that doesn’t mean it won’t eventually, I would ask: what will make it become true?
>Especially if you release 20,30,4000 new zero-days on the same day.

Interesting example of how cyber attacks could blow back. Anything you put in a virus can be taken out and used against you.
"is it that in the past there was not a similar proportion of the brightest working on similarly pointless and wasteful problems"

It is that in the past a large portion of the world's brightest were working in the fields or fishing or mining or making bowls or adding up numbers as a clerk.
Ancient sarcophagus found under Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
Tigran Khudaverdyan steps down from his roles at Yandex N.V.
Microsoft's story isn't that different from the Google one. Microsoft had a Java language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_J%2B%2B). Arguably, they had a better language designer in Anders Hjelsberg, as well as a lot of component-based development experience from COM, that enabled them to build a platform that was in many ways better. Things like WebForms were relatively stunted as model for web development and would be replaced by MVC aligning to what the world was mostly doing all along.
Austria and the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia at the time) used to have one of these too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GK_D%C3%BCrnrohr
This is the intention behind most clickbait titles and not something I would like to see encouraged on HN.
Ask HN: Workflow to Convert Physical Drawings to Google Draw?
Are there any good tools to convert physical/sketch drawings into something usable for flow charts and digital diagrams (eg for use in Google Draw or something similar). I would like to be able to sketch out flowcharts/diagrams on paper, convert to digital form, and then manipulate it digitally. I really dislike drawing out lines and shapes in software.
Nope it's 5:30 instead of 4:30.
That's not how it works, and they're not very useful at all. The amount of actual product you need is non-trivial and at that point you might as well just use modern conventional munitions.

The reason why it fell out of favour isn't because it's dangerous, it's because it was ineffective outside of TV and film.
The Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand had a lot of aftershocks and a lot of people left the city to avoid them.
Here is an article saying that there were 11,200 aftershocks in the following 2 years.

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/11000-aftershocks-christ...
Sometimes original codepaths (such as BIOS) are still present in modern machines, but basically forgotten. In those cases you may be able to execute code that hasn't been tested/expected in quite awhile.

However, I think the raw BIOS functions don't work in extended mode, but I may be wrong.
Stanislaw Lem had a genius for dissecting a certain kind of bureaucratic paranoia, and so I very much wish Lem was around to write something about the very bad intelligence that convinced Putin that the invasion of Ukraine would be easy. In "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub" Lem relates the story of a man who has just joined the secret intelligence service and who now needs to find out what his first assignment is. He goes to one part of the bureau to ask for his assignment, but they have no proof that he is who he says he is, so they send him elsewhere, so he goes to another part, but they are a bit suspicious that he doesn't yet know his assignment. How can they be sure he really is part of the secret intelligence service? He tries to simplify the conversation: where should I go to find my assignment? Now the bureaucrats are even more suspicious, he's asking where he can find more information, isn't that something an enemy spy would ask, to learn more about how the secret intelligence service works? And yet, they have to proof he is a spy, so they cannot accuse him, so they simply send him somewhere else. When he gets to that other place, the bureaucrats are even more paranoid, here is a guy who has been bouncing around the agency, gathering information, but not doing any real work? Maybe he is a spy? Yet they have no proof he is a spy so...

A slightly different kind of paranoia and delusion shaped Russian intelligence on Ukraine, but I think Lem would have been the perfect writer to dissect it.
> I am not aware of any travel restrictions, so there's no "escape".

https://zona.media/article/2022/03/02/border
The upstream of the fork, https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon

Neither has been updated in more than a year.
Were you testing on an iPhone? They had a big issue on iPhones that they fixed a couple of months back.

Flutter is a very Android first framework, for obvious reasons.
Thank you so much! Please try out the product and let me know your feedback.
Dart is also surprisingly nice, in a lot of ways.

I don't want to get down too much into the details because much of language design is subjective. I found it very easy to work with because it has a lot of the edges sanded off, relative to JavaScript. The developer experience is pretty good.
Exactly how idk, I leave that to the economist experts. I just want full proletarian ownership of the means of production so the theft of our production through surpus value from paying low wages. This can only happen after revolution as the bourgeoisie will never willingly give away their privileges and control of the whole society.
> In Swedish telephone directories there used to be a section entitled "Om kriget kommer" (If there's war).

I love this, as in California the phone directories all had a section about what to do in an earthquake and other emergency. Local knowledge for local situations.

The reason was that in those days the telephone book was the only book you could guarantee would be in every house (the unstated reason was that it was the only thing a government could use to push a message into every house -- even in the US where the phone system was nominally private, the government exerted significant pressure on their operations).

I wonder how many people even knew that section existed, much less consulted it.
The same way other dangerous stuff is made?

There is plenty of dangerous chemicals made on a huge scale - sulfuric acid, cyanide, explosives, ...
Breakthrough opens door to low-cost green hydrogen
Wait, I thought you were criticizing Nix because it uses symbolic links.

I originally used Absible but switched to Nix. I found ansible to be too idiosyncratic and brittle to maintain. It also isn't inherently idempotent though it's supposed to be used that way.
I cannot use dart again after trying out Kotlin. Dart is just not good.
Stupid question: is your customer base all in your time zone?
I think the point was you can’t innovate past the laws of physics not that people can’t innovate.
Ukraine Starts Trial Connection to European Electricity Grid
Try reading Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
By the way, what kind of product do you work with? Would be great to know your usecase.
It's surprising how much we're doing nice things for Russia like banning them from our electron apps and dark pattern SaaSs.
I continuously increase the economic output of my computer without any increase in consumption of physical resources. In fact, my output has increased near exponentially over the last several years, while my computer has remained the same, and it's electricity consumption has remained constant.
I don't disagree, but you kind of answered your own question here:

> Unless companies start hiring to mentor people this will not change, and probably TS will just eat all the others in the long run.

You and I both know this will not change. Thus, TS will eat all the others. That's an underlying assumption in my article, to be honest.
A Dark Forest Saga
Tiny battery-free devices float in the wind like dandelion seeds
Anecdotally that also doesn’t really check out for me. I can’t name a single time me or anyone I know traveled to see a sports team unless it was something like the national championship or the Super Bowl. Maybe people see a sports team if they’re already visiting a city, but I just don’t associate “travel“ and “vacation“ with going to see a regular season game of any sport as the main objective.
Nope, mid-to-high range Android phone from mid-2017. Haven't tried Flutter on iOS at all.
I'm not what there is to believe in mask effectiveness?

There are studies about it.

You don't get infected with COVID just because it's a mix of your own immune reaction, the amount of particles etc.

A mask is really easy to wear and reduces your risk.

I'm not advocating for mask mandates at this point or let's say I don't care about it but if you want to reduce the risk of having COVID while on holiday, I would suggest trying to wear a mask.

Independently of it, in Germany the hospitalization is currently high and plenty of personal is sick. I still don't want to be in a situation of having something really bad and having to be in a hospital right now.
"They" are not proactive, because they know people hiding bad things need time and coordination. So, only taking notice (and notes) and investigating strange patterns is enough.

But also a lot of what the GP says doesn't apply, because on the case of terrorism, "They" is either the police or random people, so "They" definitively do not have antidotes or training on how to handle known poisons.
https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a33835845/what-i...
You should read "Oryx and Crake" by Atwood
If they put any CDN in front of it. Or another web server hosted in a datacenter.

Cloudflare isn't anything unique or special aside from getting a bunch of VC funding so they could make the entry level plan free. Historically CDNs didn't do this because most sites don't need it, and abuse was common. However it clearly worked out for them in community name recognition.
How do you compose those small utilities?
Lem's Cyberiad is my favorite by him, and one of my favorite science fiction books of all time. It's hilarious, witty, and philosophical. Lem treats issues from AI to ethics in a deeply humorous and intelligent way. The closest book I can think of to it is Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, but that's in a completely different style from Lem's Cyberiad. Highly, highly recommended.
> You will spend year teaching someone then he leaves for another company who gave him 20% rase.

This only makes sense if you hired the person at 20% below their market rate under the belief that they were less valuable as a hire simply because they didn't have a specific skillset you needed, and then once they acquired that skillset you failed to adjust their salary accordingly.

But the entire thesis of the OPs comment is that we shouldn't be valuing staff based on any one specific technical skillset, but rather based on their broader software development skills and experience, because learning the ins and outs of any specific software stack is not itself that difficult given enough experience.

Solution: hire and retain at a competitive market rate. Problem solved.
I'm a software developer with no RSI, who originally bought an Advantage (and then Advantage 2) to play Starcraft II better...

* it's just vastly more comfortable than any ordinary keyboard. I now consider any "ergonomic" keyboard without key wells to be a joke, including the cheaper Kinesis keyboards like the Freestyle.

* you can get a version with "linear" cherry mx red switches for gaming, which is what I did.

* no drivers, no autohotkey scripts, nothing.

* every key is easily remapped; press a key you want to remap, press the key you want it remapped to, repeat until done. Put that escape key on top of caps lock where it belongs.

* there's a crucial "keypad shift" function where you can make one of the keys a modifier that remaps all the other keys. The default functionality is to give you access to numpad and media keys while holding the kpshift key, but you can freely reprogram any of the keys to trigger macros, move hard-to-reach keys to a better position, etc. Basically doubles the available keys.

* as many profiles as you want. You can completely reconfigure the keyboard for each activity you do. The other day I wanted to play the original Diablo 1, which doesn't support changing shortcut keys, so it took me 2min to create a profile that moves the uncomfortable F5-F8 spell casting keys to the home row. Again, there's no alt tabbing or mucking around with GUI's or config files; you just remap keys on the fly while playing the game.

* other stuff like programmable macros, etc. I don't really use this personally.

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edit: I realized I didn't really answer the original question. For software developers specifically I would say at the end of the day it comes down to comfort. The key wells, thumb clusters, and wrist pads ultimately keep your hands in a comfortable position. And the programmability features ultimately work in service of comfort as well: having modifiers like CTRL/ALT/SHIFT available on the big thumb keys makes emacs chords much less of a stretch. Having Super/Windows on a thumb key makes i3/sway window management very comfortable. And the kpshift feature I described above makes it so you can move lots of functionality to the home row instead of stretching for it somewhere else.
Sun activity: Another CME coming, 2 more flares, a radio blackout
I bought a house in the past year and have become a regular at Home Depot. Now that I'm aware, I have noticed that I've had very little issue with their online search. And the site tells me exactly the aisle and bay # to get it
No experience with Chicago here. I can say that the general sentiment that there are areas that you don't want to be in, especially after dark, is a valid one. Personal experiences validate this for areas like north Philly. But to your point, some areas within those general areas are not too bad, like Temple's campus.
I agree with you -- it's hard to safely kill a runaway thread but it's not hard to kill a runaway process. But I think it's worth noting that the performance characteristics of IPC can be very bad
I know that we all have our preferences of langauges, but is Javascript in 2022 actually any worse than anything else as a scripting language? What would you prefer instead?
Well it's specifically CSP using cooperative multitasking (sadly no multithreading support unlike go) and a go-like API. CSP is a lot less specific than that.
This is far more fun than believing in an emerging accident. You don't have to eat corn syrup, btw.
they are worldwide!
Vectorizing the Code of Federal Regulations
I think because many people's first exposure to CSP was in go, go-style-concurrency has become the crescent wrench of CSP.
In general, a wikipedia link with no additional comment does little to advance a discussion in any direction.

It might be relevant, but it's an extremely low-value comment. A good chunk of the people reading the comment (and caring about it) will already know it's describing false-flag operations.

A good way to think about good HN comments is "is there a specific point I'm trying to make". Anything that doesn't try to articulate a point is likely to be downvoted.
Is the cookie consent form on this website legal? I have no way to non-consent while still reading the content, which I believe is my right
Could this lead to a storage mechanism for anti-protons?
> During the reality TV phase I remember thinking "this is all garbage", and then shows like The Sopranos and The West Wing kicked off an era...

The West Wing and The Sopranos l started in 1999. Jackass and Survivor started in 2000.
Thanks for sharing your experience. To your last point, I think it's a tradeoff. The number of individuals getting killed is going down, but we're closer than ever to the ability kill everyone more easily (beyond nukes: weaponized viruses, etc). Scientists who are drawn to a field of research may not be practically connecting the dots about what they're actually working on, or the full implications of their work (eg: gain of function research). These are the people I'm referring to when I mention them not realizing the weight of violence that they are contributing to.
This looks neat. It even has a linux version - I'll give it a go.
> The availability of developers who know a language or tech isn't a limiting factor if you're willing to hire people and give them the time to learn.

It is a job satisfaction risk though. Just because a person is capable of learning a language or technology, it doesn’t mean that once they have learnt it they will find satisfaction in using it every day. Surely most people with a decent amount of experience has at least one language or technology they dislike?

Only hiring people who have experience with the language or technology doesn’t just mean that they can be productive much sooner, it also means that you are selecting only the people who know they want to work with it every day whilst filtering out people who would end up disliking it.
The main reason you still need conventional armor instead of just EW is to protect against rounds from a tank, which an APS is unlikely to help against. I suppose you could try to use EW to try and blind a tanks sensors and cause them to miss a shot, but that seems risky and not scalable. Armor also protects against lighter anti-armor weapons like the NLAW. While the NLAW is certainly a potent weapon, it will not penetrate the frontal hull of a modern tank, APS or not.

Tactical mobility is a bit overrated, it's not like you can outrun an ATGM. Though a system with better operational and strategic mobility would certainly be valuable. Modern tanks can't cross a lot of bridges due to weight constraints, and can only be air transported in the largest aircraft. For reference: the C-5 galaxy, one of the largest cargo planes in existence, can carry 2 abrams tanks; the more common C-17 can carry 1; while the C-130 can't carry any (it could transport roughly 28% of an abrams). If you could get a decent armored fighting vehicle down to 20-30 tons that opens up a lot of operational and strategic transport options.
Quantity is a quality all of its own.

Being able to identify many such compounds very quickly implies some new threat models that are a bit disturbing.

Of the 40000 substances identified, perhaps one of them has another interesting characteristic we've never seen in a toxic compound before? Perhaps such characteristics could be idenfified and filtered for, and perhaps someone could pin down something entirely unique and outside of any threat-assessment anyone's produced.

>and not surprising at all
it's obvious in retrospect, but they claim that the threat vector had not been seriously concidered before, and I see no reason to doubt their assessment. Many things aren't surprising once they've been pointed out, but were missed for far too long beforehand, and I personally had never concidered this before, despite seeing multiple articles about AI-generated substances for positive purposes.
Why do you prefer using your personal GitHub account for work?
Sounds like needs to be consistent within each subgraphs of grids and synchronous at connection points
The argument applies equally well to React vs Vue. Ultimately it doesn't really matter if you slightly prefer the ergonomics or API of one over the other. There is simply no argument whatsoever from a standpoint of community support, tooling, documentation, libraries, and hiring pool that React has a 10x advantage over Vue. If it were the other way around, I would just as happily use Vue. But it isn't, so I use React.
glad other people see that as a problem as well. it irritates me to no end esp considering possible solutions are fairly straight forward but people can't get buyin from the golang team.

for the record it stopped working in go 1.15. 1.14 was the last version it worked in.