skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you cite any of the reasons that led them to think Iraq had WMDs? Any of the documents they used?

Because this is pretty easy to search

>In December 2002, Bush declared, "We do not know whether or not [Iraq] has a nuclear weapon." That was not what the National Intelligence Estimate said. As Tenet would later testify, "We said that Saddam did not have a nuclear weapon and probably would have been unable to make one until 2007 to 2009." Bush did know whether or not Iraq had a nuclear weapon — and lied and said he didn’t know to hype the threat.

>On CNN in September 2002, Condoleezza Rice claimed that aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq were "only really suited for nuclear weapons programs." This was precisely the opposite of what nuclear experts at the Energy Department were saying; they argue that not only was it very possible the tubes were for nonnuclear purposes but that it was very likely they were too

>In August 2002, Dick Cheney declared, "Simply stated, there's no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." But as Corn notes, at that time there was "no confirmed intelligence at this point establishing that Saddam had revived a major WMD operation." Gen. Anthony Zinni, who had heard the same intelligence and attended Cheney’s speech, would later say in a documentary, "It was a total shock. I couldn't believe the vice president was saying this, you know?

The americans lied and it led to a million lost lives and ruined the future of an entire generation. I guess it's different from the current situation and no one actually cares but I think it's important to not forget how vile the 2003 invasion was. Yes we don't have to bring it up (I didnt) in every conversation but we don't have to whitewash the events either

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/9/12123022/george-w-bush-lies-ira...
It absolutely is not protected free speech to spread lies about someone. Unless a person is actually a traitor, we should punish anyone that throws around that deleterious label, otherwise we allow such people to get away with being lying bullies.
Top 2% puts you fairly deep into the six figures, no? I've not even surpassed top 10% and haven't had too much issue getting into 2 homes in the last 3 years. Both in areas I would consider "semi-desirable", which leaves me wondering what exactly do other folks consider "semi-desirable"? Unless of course you mean buying a home outright, in which case this makes total sense
We did written standups for about 2 months, they just died, everyone stopped doing them.

I think discipline is important, but I can also see how they must not have been adding enough value for them to remain a thing.
I mean technically, I believe your ISP and network provider are able to know that you are using Tor.

At least that's how that Harvard kid was "caught" [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6924905
Legally different but still grudge and destruction with no or negligible chance of recourse.
Yeah - totally agreed re: eng time > server costs; the db costs are the least significant part of the equation.

Fundamentally, I'm trying to optimize for something like "developer happiness as we build out lots of new features quickly". My dream workflow would look something like: take the Typescript types we've defined on the client, and shove that somewhere in the cloud; then later query to pull out exactly the data we need to render any particular view of our site (ala GraphQL)

AND I'd really like to not have to spend a lot of up-front time knowing exactly which indices to set up, or to figure out complicated migrations later. And I'd like to not think about hosting/managing replications, etc. Maybe that's too many asks, and I'm being too greedy! I'm just hoping that someone's solved this pain point already, and I just haven't heard about it.
It comes from the privatization of government-run businesses during the fall of the Soviet Union.
what difference does it make being able to track lobby money in the US?
Is the claim that not enough houses are being built or have been built backed up by data? Real estate investors don't seem to have much problem finding homes to turn into rentals.
Transfer mechanism are all that any currencies are. All currencies are dependent on being spendable. Thats just a question of adaptation, as in somebody else accepting it in the expectation that it will hold value and be spendable in the future.

Involuntary adaptation historically leads to drastic inflation with the trust in the purchasing power degrading. If you are forced to accept it despite low trust, you are motivated to exchange it for any other store of value. And are reluctant to produce stuff for which you have to accept a degrading currency. Both of which harms the actual economy.
Yeah, now people just drive around doing leisure activities and buying a lot of sporting equipment.

I don't think WFH solves the worlds problems.

Before WFH I lived in a city and rode my bike everywhere. Went to a shared gym, because I lived in a city, owning a car was difficult etc.

Now I moved away, live in a house, fill it with stuff I probably didn't need and drive around. I will say I do all I can to not drive, I still have my bikes, but I'm still driving 100% more to when I didn't even own a car.
It's reappeared a few times for me in mobile probably due to some changes done with new defaults. Of course the mobile browser already blocks access to about:config also so it's very hard to harden it against tracking.
https://archive.is/SBEpB
Similar story to me a few years later. I starting out by hosting a Lineage 2 server emulator back around 2005. Slowly got into tweaking a few things, debugging performance issues, eventually writing whole new features. Learned a whole lot about databases from that experience so in 2010 at my first helpdesk job, they found out "you know SQL?!"...so I then was given a ton of reports to write, and quickly a whole lot more responsibilities, launching my career into databases.

While working as a data analyst a few years later, I wanted to improve my programming skills. So as a side project I did a whole lot of work on a ground-up rewrite for a year or so...I had reimplemented: player and npc movement code, npc spawning, a basic AI system (attack, flee, loiter, travel), pathfinding, inventory and equipment slots working, item drops in the world and being able to pick them up, chat (direct and global), and probably a few more things I can't remember!

I was pretty uninterested in the actual Lineage2 gameplay at that point, so I was trying to get the basics working so I could implement a more interesting combat system / skill tree. The game engine had some extreme limitations on what you could actually control just from the server side, but I had a system working that repurposed a news bulletin UI that the engine had in-place to inject some custom HTML based UI's that I could send over from the server. So I was able to disable the existing skill tree UI and inject my replacement system that I was designing.

That project got put on hold when I decided to start my company in 2015. It was amazing for learning, because I was actually interested in it. As I got older, my interest in gaming and gamedev have both waned. No interest at all in going into that hyper competitive market!
I have no affiliation with Netflix, I just like using av1an which supports vmaf quality targets.

If Netflix wants to hire me, dm me, lol.
Asahi Linux isn't an Apple produced product. It's a third party reverse engineered product
America is actively against letting your kid out of your sight, with the fear of bad actors perpetuated by primetime news channels being the driving factor. The advent of only needing to part with your child when you drop them off at school, or watch them get on the bus, provides a framework for chain-of-custody and accountability if anything were to happen to the child. Unless you still allow car access for the parents worried about this, simply putting more schools within a mile or two of homes isn't going to work without parents being on board.
Yep, I enabled it. The rest of the UI is fine as it seems to use regular HTML so it will show up in the accessibility tree. The problem is the text editing area itself which uses canvas.
> You also skipped over the the part of your opinion being not reason enough to start societal conflict

this is just a nonsensical argument. should we not push back against flat earthers because "what harm are they causing"? we should strive for an evidence based intelligent society. when morons push drugs without sufficient evidence the press and society at large should push back. too bad if Trump's and Joe Rogan's feelings are hurt.

> Producing more would also not have been a problem

It took months to get production of masks to sufficient levels.
Gistemp Climate Spiral
There were many multiples less people online. The internet economy was almost nothing back then.

There’s no comparing how things were in the 90s and early 00s to now.

Every social media company before Facebook faltered or began losing a good chunk of their user base fairly quickly. Until that stopped happening with Facebook and IG for over a decade now.

Reddit’s position has also been here for a decade now.
> It's emblematic of Mozilla turning into “just another digital lifestyle brand” and losing the ideology that made Mozilla what it was, radically user-empowering. It's pathetic, in the classical sense that I pity Mozilla for how faint a shadow of its former self it's become.

I've been looking to put words to what's going wrong at Mozilla recently but you captured this perfectly.
I agree with you. But we’ve had decades to get better at accessibility, and yet it’s practically mostly worse today than with desktop apps in 1999.

A forcing function is needed. Those wheelchair ramps didn’t get built because architects and real estate developers thought it was fun and interesting.
I believe that people overestimate the percentage of the population for many small minority groups. I do not, however, believe that the mean estimate for transgender population is 21%. I don't believe they think 30% live in NYC, 30% in Texas, and 32% in California, leaving 8% of the population living anywhere else. The lowest estimate is 20%, and the highest estimate is 65% (even though several categories actually included well over 80%).

It looks rather like a bunch of people said 50% to everything, skewing the means towards the middle.
Stocks have value because of dividends (or for stocks that don’t yet pay dividends, the likelihood that one day they will pay dividends).

But ultimately, it is a bet on actual cash transfers from the profits of the business to your own pockets. All share price appreciation comes from bets (maybe far removed in time) on future dividend payments.

Most crypto has no basis for value like this. Tokens based on proof of stake or utility tokens do, but Bitcoin is pure speculation on future speculation.
You could use PostgreSQL with your own back-end. Related to this, I'm working on an SDK for Flutter that works via REST and is quite easy to use: https://nexusdev.tools/
You're forgetting FATCA, which is a hassle for anyone who needs a bank account in a foreign country to get paid.
Doesn't quantum computing render most cryptographic security obsolete? I'm a cryptocurrency skeptic, but I've been under the impression that quantum computing is just as much a concern for traditional banking as for cryptocurrencies.
One big thing for me is that EVERYONE is remote. It is way harder when some people are remote and some people are in the office. If some people are in the office, they are going to talk in person and make decisions in person. Remote workers can be left out.

I remember an old adage about adding a remote team member... "if one team member is remote, all team members need to behave like they are remote"

When some communication is electronic and some is verbal, the team members who can only see half the conversation are going to be left out of decisions.
The mobile version has much more of a problem with taking no for an answer :)

It's not quite as bad as Microsoft "We really think you should try to use edge so we'll set it as default for you with every major update! And bug you with popups everywhere we can!" But not as clear as the desktop version either.

In fact the mobile one has so many settings and add-ons blocked that sometimes it feels as if it's made by a different company. It completely lacks the things that make Firefox great :(

I still use it because of sync and uBlock origin which at least works now.. But it's pretty mediocre imo. And most of this is intentional design.
> The figures (eg $21M) and names dropped (eg Stanford) are an appeal to authority, which does make me curious.

They have the 'names' because they are a reputable group of people. They have been at this problem for a while, first with extensive research that required clock sync as a pre-requisite, and then to evolving into clock sync as a formidable problem unto itself.

Clockwork is a rename of the company as far as I can tell. Their original name (Tick Tock Networks) [1] was probably too close to what has become a very popular homophone.

[1]: https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/6947372
My daughter takes an electric bluebird to school. It has broken down numerous times this year, it has even stopped mid-route due to low battery (no idea who's to blame for that). Nevertheless it's nice to see progress and things will get better.
I've vaguely wondered what it means for clocks to be in synch, when talking about time differences much smaller than the time it takes for light to travel between the various clocks.
People are so clueless about law, this comment is a great example. A licence is worth jack shit in a criminal case (which this would be, if prosecuted).
Talk to any 70 year old, they'll say $100 was a lot of money in those days. At 7 pct inflation your pp will get cut in half in 10 years, but im being pedantic since this is obvious to everyone.
What are you willing to pay me for the service?
They're both assets.
If they are renting them out, the homes are not being hoarded, they are being lived in.

The real problem isn't a problem of vacant units, it's a problem of unbuilt units.
I really appreciate how NASA is handling the James Webb. Instead of waiting for everything to be _done_ done, they’re bringing us all along for the setup, giving us “alpha” and “beta” images (if you will), and in so doing keeping interest in the telescope. I know it’ll continue, and I’m all hype about it.
These are all nice.

But at the same time, they're (mostly) representative of the bulk of the 8-bit scene. They only go so far.

Ben Eater demonstrates what it takes to get a 6502 up on a breadboard (and, with the modern processors and RAM, it's not a whole lot).

In the Z80 world, there's dozens of little Z80 systems with a UART and a flash drive booting CP/M in all sorts of form factors.

But that's where it stops.

There isn't anyone going full boat with a comparable 8-bit video system. The primary question of folks looking at these things, or wanting to do one themselves, is "how do I do video". They all want memory mapped video. Many want color and sprites.

But even skipping color, something akin to a TRS-80 and it's 64x16 screen on a hacked TV set. Or the PET or Apple 40x24 B&W characters. Forget graphics and color and lines. How about "hello world"? I mean, Woz did it with paperclips and shiny gum wrappers, at least so I'm told.

That's where things go off the deep end. It's like there's these simple baby steps to get to a UART, but video? That's...just not in the cards.

Ben Eater did a nice series on getting a VGA video signal using discrete components. It's really informative.

Demonstrably video is very difficult. Apparently anyone that can decipher a tool like KiCad can come up with a 8-Bit processor and a UART. But nobody, anywhere, is doing video.

The few that are doing anything are these retro clones striving to duplicate C-64s, trying to step above the hobby market and break out with a commercial product. But even they struggle.

I just find it curious how this last step seems so out of reach.

The problem may simply be there's nothing to display video on. An 8-bit machine driving even a VGA monitor is asking an awful lot, and I don't know what it takes to convert composite video to run on a modern display, either a VGA or HDMI. I would think if someone came up with THAT circuit, composite in, VGA out, as a "black box", something the board designers could plug in to, like the old RCA boxes we used to use tuned to Channel 3, then maybe that's the breakthrough thats missing from the community. They they could fall back on the old composite circuits from that past.
Mostly because I dislike and prefer not to use Google. It's also just nice to not co-mingle accounts in that way for something this specific. I have an app I use exclusively for holding my flight information for any flights I take. I don't use it a lot, but it's nice to know that I have one single app to look in for flight info. If I'd unified all my eventing around Google Cal or such, then yea, I could probably just use that, but I didn't, so having a few purpose-built apps is nice.
This is too facile a response, I know people like this who are not Christian, and they are many times immigrants.

While these people don't meet very many transgender people, the media gives them the impression that this is because they live in a bubble, which for immigrants is often true. They estimate based on the assumption that their experience is very far from representative. They have the same impression of the number of homosexuals, and they usually know several, but they also get the impression that average Americans know far more than they do. I've lived in immigrant communities for a long time and this has been an amusing point of confusion for decades.

Overestimating their prevalence is generally considered more polite than underestimating their prevalence, so people sandbag on the overestimation side. It is similar to if you asked people how old you are or how much you weigh; they will always sandbag to the more socially flattering side of their true estimate.
This is further complicated with what is happening at NIST, with NTRU-Prime:

https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/rou...

"Formal complaint regarding 8 June 2021 incident - 2021.06.15, Daniel J. Bernstein

"Executive summary. A week ago Dr. Daniel Apon from NIST publicly accused me of professional misconduct. Specifically, he accused me of initiating private contact with NIST so as to provide false information to NIST regarding the timing of an upcoming announcement relevant to NIST’s ongoing decisions..."
Eritrea as well.
From a 2014 study in Norfolk, UK[0] (note: UK should have relatively similar child obesity rates as the US at this time, given they only surpassed the US in 2018[1]):

> This study shows that young people living closer to school are more likely to walk to school than those living further away (Panter et al., 2008, Pont et al., 2009). The novel contribution of this work is the identification of the threshold distances that children walk to school, and that this increases as young people age; the criterion distances were 1421 m (0.8 miles) at 10 years, 1627 m (~1 mile) at 11 years and 3046 m (~1.9 miles) at 14 years.

However, note that US suburbs are often vastly more spread out while servicing the same size population: for example, Worcester, England at 100k population is only 12 square miles[2] and Chico California with 100k population is 34 square miles[3].

0: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135382921...

1: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5750341/Bigger-11-y...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worcester,_England

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chico,_California
If the clocks are programmed to know their distances from each other, you can account for that.
No, not at all. My only argument is that we can't pretend it's all just for their own good because it will make them finally see the light and get rid of their government. That's just not true, it won't happen and I think it's just something people say to themselves because they aren't comfortable with the reality that they are pushing for an entire civilian population to suffer.

It's war, so again no moral judgment on that, but sugar-coating it is even worse than admitting the truth.

A bit off topic but if you think the west was supporting and hugging russia or ukraine in the 1990s and 2000s, you might need to revisit how we got here.
You start with an actual store of value that gets degraded over time through the people holding power over it (think mints). The coin starts with a high silver or gold content and with ever economic woe the ruler finds themselves in a new coin gets minted with some copper and tin added. Or just prints more.

Power comes into play as to dictating what currency people are forced to use. That the old coins had to be handed back in or dictating the adaptation. They implode when there is nothing backing it what so ever. At its core its Greshams law at work, with currencies or with other store of values.

If i am not mistaken Graeber has quite a few examples of this mechanism.
Think this is the classical image of that star, taken in visible light:

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=2MASS+J175540...

Click on fullscreen icon on right-hand side, then zoom out until FoV on bottom left says about 10.63' to 12.23'.

Best I understood, that should be about the same field as the Webb image, based on the instrument definitions I read about. And I wasn't able to line up any dots visually - the new Webb image was taken with a red filter, so I thought it's likely showing photons no one's seen before.

Paging any astros for corrections.
Pegasus: What you need to know about Israeli spyware
It needs to be there and needs to be protected just like free speech needs to be protected.

This doesn't mean anything. Lots of things "need to be there" and aren't. If it doesn't work, it won't work, even if you think it should work.
The last part of what you wrote isn’t what a lot of people are saying. At all. I don’t want any of that. I didn’t see many comments wanting that. Most want proper filtering and other older previously functioning features like more scopes and respecting plus sign, quotes, and so on.
I'd be interested in any details on that, i.e. what the house is like.

One lightbulb that went off for me when reading his books was the pattern of "windows on 2 sides of a room".

I realized the house I grew up in was a big mass-produced rectangle with windows on the front and back. And since no rooms spanned the house front to back, that means that no room in the ~3000 sq ft. house had windows on 2 sides. (This is close to "McMansion" architecture but not quite)

Since then I've noticed people gravitate towards rooms with windows on 2 sides, and now I live in a apartment with many windows.

For better or worse I've lived on both coasts and everything is "economically optimized" there. In SF and NYC it's very common to see long skinny apartments that were split down the middle at some point in the last ~50 years, lacking windows. And it's also common to see very boxy and optimized new buildings, i.e. lacking architecture. They're optimized for density and not living quality.

I may be buying a house, but these requirements basically amount to extremely expensive, old houses of a limited stock. I'd be interested in any counterexamples to that!
The web has - as it inevitably would - adapted to being searched by Google.

This makes it much harder to be a good search engine.

I have no idea how to quantify how much the decline is because of that.
Derp, yes I did mean Boeing. BO pulled out of commercial crew a while back. Thank you for the correction.
Crystalline and fluid intelligence in large language models