skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, it would be trivial for a president with a lot of stock in EV companies to reduce domestic oil drilling/pipelines, start a "police action" in the Middle East that combined with super harsh sanctions on Iran, Russia and Venezuela sends oil soaring.
> Does an ad get contaminated by association?

People buying ads certainly think so. Or more specifically they think their brand or product denoted in the ad will be associated with the context in which it appears.

And they are the customers.
No fucking shit. Twitter needs leadership that won't censor.
I hope this turns out better than the moribund Space Quest reboot [0] from the original authors, which has been languishing for the ten years since its Kickstarter.

[0] https://guysfromandromeda.com/
I bought a new Mac Mini a couple of years ago, and set it up with 2 nice 27" UHD monitors, a good keyboard, and an excellent mouse. I love this setup so much. Since it's always plugged in, it's optimized for performance, not portability. There's no issue with docking, as everything's always where I left it. And finally, I have a desk in my home office and that's where I work. When I leave my office at the end of the day, I'm done doing "serious" work.

I have an iPad Pro I carry around the house for content consumption and doing lightweight work like blogging (with a keyboard case) or replying to emails. But while I could write software on my iPad, it's just so much more comfortable at the desk in my office that in practice I'm not going to.

So far, separating between "work" and "play" modes has been a huge success for me.
When working at home (most days) my Macbook Pro is mostly a terminal to my desktop running VMs on ESXi. Silent, fast, solid.

I love that the Mac can run the VMs I need in a pinch when I need to leave the house but it's always whining when doing so.
I gotta make a call-out for the book "Hackers" by Steven Levy. The book had a nice section covering those days back at MIT when Spacewar was developed.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hackers/9781449390259/
https://grumpygamer.com/april_fools_2022
How about the best of both worlds? I WFH 100% and my home desktop is a W10 PC with a Ryzen 5 1400, 24GB memory, RTX 3050, a modest (too small) SSD that needs an upgrade to a 1TB NVMe, but the real thing that makes it my Go-To for everything is my four 23/24" 1080p monitors, with one of them being portrait mode. Screen space wins. There isn't anything I need to do that this computer can't do. The PSU is several years old. The case is from the Vista era. It's not scoring any points for being snazzy, water cooled, or RGB LED'd. It just works.

The laptop? An old T420 that does what I need when I need it, and nothing more. I don't TRY to do my Whole Life on it because it's not good at that. In a pinch, it's enough.
the problem is when your presumed feeling leads to a different and possibly wrong decision.
It’s all about trust. You can’t develop an intimate relationship with someone who hides their feelings. Being fake in a misguided attempt to avoid disappointing people is deeply unkind (and probably exhausting).
This description has been life the last 4 years.
I agreed with your first sentence but not the rest. It's not a problem because pain is not inherently a problem.

Yes it's going to hurt to find out someone doesn't want to go through with plans. It's going to hurt even more to find out they really don't enjoy your company as much as you thought they did, or as much as you do theirs. But how is keeping your head buried in the sand going to be more beneficial in the long run?
Eyesight, fine motor skills, learning and using technology, sure you can find some old people who can function as drone operators but they won’t be as effective as young people.

They won’t be able to ruck into the front lines with a pack of drone equipment to support front line units.

They aren’t doing effective manufacturing of drones.

Old people can shoot an ak47 but they aren’t effective combat soldiers.
Also: in some cases the makers of ‘secure laptops’ are playing an entirely different game to lower costs. From economies of scale (in every stage of the pipeline) to deals with advertisers and parts vendors, bringing a new laptop to market with none of those strings is a much more challenging undertaking than I think many of us (including me) give them credit for.
Technically, it pays respect to the ending of MI2 by opening the game with Guybrush inexplicably lost at sea in a bumper car.
I think I’ll put Direnv on my todo list and consider not using Autoenv any more. I like the way it’s able to unroll the environment, though the equivalent is possible by e.g. starting a new login shell. Is it time to stop using Bash as my interactive shell? I didn’t even realize MacOS had gone all zsh/sh on me because I long ago installed an up-to-date Bash so as not to curse so much...I enjoy my Macs but I’m starting to get all container-loving, unikernel affectionate, functions-as-a-service-friendly, commodity-hardware grasping. And there’s the constant undercurrent of Nix envy my subconscious surfaces occasionally...
Or closer to more recent events, imagine signing a contract to defend your country from NATO or Chinese invaders, and then one evening receiving an order to kill your friends and relatives in Ukraine...
Ok, we'll use the more specific part of the title above.

Submitted title was '“Policy-Relevant” Social Science Is Mostly a Fraud', which wasn't so bad - it's indeed what the article title says - but maybe it's misleading on the article's own part.
There's £2k+ worth of compute on my office desk, the size of a thick book that I haven't touched in years...

All because Apple deems it the only way to run xcode...

At least the client paid for the machine (enterprise, this was their way of having reproducable builds... Until the pandemic but a halt to their project)
> Modern economic powers like the UK do not use their militaries for self-defense.

Modern economic powers have militaries and alliances that make attacking them unattractive. They have sufficient teeth to dissuade conflict.

If you are fortunate enough to live in a Western democracy your safety and security is preserved by the actions of those who you call morally compromised.
Oh! I had failed to read that Byrd would have to pay for the city's defense, and that Byrd's agreement prohibits suing the city.
> And some 80% of that are retweets or replies, not original tweets.

Somewhat related:

I recently found the feature where you can go through your contacts and ignore the retweets of them individually. I don't know how long this feature has been around but it's great!
Oberlin is legally and financially responsible for the speech of its adult students?

Are Universities and corporations responsible for the speech, views, and research of their professors and employees? This absolutely chills speech; public groups must now censor the actions of their individual members or find themselves liable legally for their ostensibly protected 1st Amendment rights.

If you are a free speech absolutist or even believe in culture of free speech, which includes factually incorrect or unpopular speech, this is a troubling ruling.
There are multiple dialects of English language and the author is definitely not from California.
>What is the Yeomanry anyway?

>In 1797 the Kingdom of Great Britain feared an invasion by the French. You may think of the British as always having a large standing Army, but it was relatively small at the start of the Napoleonic era. To give a better chance of defending the nation against invasion, volunteer units of part-time soldiers were formed to serve only within Great Britain. Infantry were easy to form as they just needed weapons and other basic equipment, but cavalry posed a problem in that it needed trained horses. A way to get these was to borrow them from local farmers and country estates.

As an American I interpret this to mean that the British took to heart a lesson learned from their recent experience in the American Revolution. I am reminded of this particular amendment to the US Constitution which was ratified by the US states in late 1791, a few years before the establishment of the Yeomanry.

>Amendment II

>A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Codifying this amendment in the Bill of Rights is the cornerstone for guaranteeing that trained individuals could be available to the United States should an external threat to the security of the new country arise.

This amendment has obviously become a trigger and a political dividing line here in the US. It's a shame. It is the one amendment of all of them that guarantees that a random collection of individual citizens drawn from any random locality can be quickly made ready to serve their country as an effective fighting force if called upon to serve.

Perhaps it is seen as too outdated, too permissive, etc. though in fact it is short and sweet defining the important desired outcome - (A well regulated militia,) the reasoning behind the need for that outcome - (being necessary to the security of a free state,) the specific right granted - (the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.)

It would have been awesome if they had laid out the responsibilities of the citizenry who exercise this right and the types of arms permissible for a citizen to keep and bear. I'm sure we can figure it all out in time. I'm not holding my breath though and you shouldn't either.
Wouldn't / shouldn't a judge throw out a sweeping clause like this if challenged in court?
I won’t mince words; it is unquestionably immoral and evil to join or even support the American military in any capacity in its current form. I say that as someone with direct knowledge and experience, and someone that is not “left” or subscribes to the whole “America always was evil” nonsense, even though there is a legitimate angle to that claim too.

The American military is a lying, conniving, duplicitous, war mongering, murderous entity just like the whole American government has ever increasingly become. The institution and its diabolical leaders want your skills and your soul. Make that deal with the devil as you see fit.

There, I said my piece/peace. Make of it what you want.
SE Editor-in-Chief here. We include <i> within <cite> because 1) reading systems often have different default CSS which may not even recognize <cite> and 2) <cite> often contains both a title and an author, and in those cases we want only one or the other to be italicized. SE's default CSS for epigraphs (probably the most common place where <cite> is found) is to give <cite> small caps, italicize the title if there is one, but don't italicize the author.

I believe our use of <cite> predates the modern definition of its use, and in any case it's so infrequently found in a web context that I don't think there's much agreement about how it should be used anyway. (For example MDN says the work title must be in <cite>, but at SE we often only include an author name, like <cite>--Shakespeare</cite>.)
Dead hand can be stopped by the normal command and control system. The idea is that by starting the timer in a way that guarantees the missiles launch if command and control is wiped out, that gives them another option than 'launch the missiles now because we won't get a second chance'.
> I don't recommend that any community makes a social media follower equivalent in value to an academic citation metric, but there may be specific cases where, for example, having more than 1000 social media followers grants you the same allowance of a resource (e.g. compute cycles, or disk space) as having 1 research paper cited in a prestigious journal.

Okay, let's explore that. Now a researcher has an incentive to go buy social media followers as a hack to get compute resources.

The problem with these sorts of equivalencies is that they are often transitive ($ = followers, followers = compute, therefore $ = compute). I've exploited some myself in a small way (eg. created Gmail accounts to generate 'referrals' to get more free storage), but many developer services have recently had to discontinue their free tiers due to exploitation for mining bitcoin, and there is a whole subculture of travel points and credit card reward hacks, eg. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/07/13/137795995/how-...

Formalizing a mechanism for reputational equivalencies could lead to an explosion of exploitable edge cases similar in spirit to privilege escalation in a security context.
That's always been a problem with using a huge company as your provider: you're effectively meaningless to it unless you're on the top of some huge organization like the US Army. If you can decide whether tens of millions of USD get spent or not then miracles can happen. If you're the average joe worth $20 of business to the company, or worse, pay by watching ads, then you can be sent off to the self-support chat bot and otherwise ignored.

If you need a service of any complexity, and want to have your personal interests taken into account, you're best going with some medium size company -- large enough to be staffed by competent people, but small enough that they still fear bad PR and people going with the competition.
Yup the issue at stake isn't the fact that the student body senate put out those statements, it's that school administrators endorsed them and acted upon them. If the student senate had passed the resolution but Oberlin had not canceled contracts without compensation and admins hadn't handed out flyers there would be no case.
I think you're missing part of the author's point.

Yes, as adults, we are bound to "cause some pain" as you put it in some mundane situations, such as cancelling a plan that someone else has been looking forward to.

But her point is that what matters is expressing and discussing with your friends in that scenario:

- Tell them you don't feel like going out after all, maybe you're drained by work and need some time to cool off

- They could answer that it's fine, they don't mind going out alone

- Or maybe they'll propose to just stay in at your place for a quick dinner, just to catch up for a bit and let you rest

- Or they could let you know that they really need to go out with you, as they are going through a rough patch

- At that point you have a better idea of what different options you both have, and you can make an informed decision either way, deciding between your needs and your friend's needs.

- etc...

Obviously if that friend is important to you and you've already cancelled 3 times then maybe suck it up a bit. It's all a matter of context.

The point is that you should start by not avoiding that interaction with your friend for silly reasons, and relying on tech/tricks is not going to help for long.
I'm probably in the same boat as those people, but in AI. Some of the problems I find interesting are just out of my depth. I don't know exactly what's required and from where to catch up to attempt a particular question in mind.

A PhD student's story on this. https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/73n9pm/d_c...
For the benefit of us all, any sources and links to educate on this :)
He delivered Thimbleweed park so I seems his team is quite capable to deliver :).
> Of course this doesn't excuse the need for a secure backup of those crucial passwords somewhere

Sounds like you need a password manager manager!
They aren't saying it has to be this way, they're just saying it is this way. I think we can conclude that they mean "besides us".

Personally, when someone makes reference to "policy relevant social science," I always ask myself: if the study concluded the opposite, would this person's opinion be different? The answer I come to is almost always no.
Time I've spend monitoring and administering certbot over the last few years: 0.
Are manufacturers responsible for peoples use of firearms?
This one: "Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems"?
Ask HN: Which industry specific factors do you consider before accepting a job?
I never really used GLM, but Eigen was substantially slower than DirectXMath https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXMath for these things. Despite the name, 99% of that library is OS agnostic, only a few small pieces (like perspective projection matrix formula) are specific to Direct3D. When enabled with corresponding macros, inline functions from that library normally compile into pretty efficient manually vectorized SSE, AVX or NEON code.

The only major issue, DirectXMath doesn’t support FP64 precision.
Because you KNOW that if it hits the fan, they'll launch, you aren't as tempted to early launch thinking that if it IS an attack and aimed at you, you won't be able to order the launch.

That probably doesn't clear it up. Let's try again.

1. Nuke incoming, maybe.
2. If it is incoming, it will hit me, and I will be unable to order a retaliation.
3. Therefor, I should order it now to be safe.

Instead you replace 3 with "I will arm the dead hand, and it WAS an actual strike, the dead hand will retaliate for me. If it was not, nothing will happen."
1) You don't need to heat a castle to preserve it.

2) If you really cared, as a society, you'd pay for the (more efficient!) heat pumps through taxes. Funding inefficient heating with Bitcoin just offloads the financial burden to new Bitcoin investors and is unsustainable in the long run anyway. TANSTAAFL.
> usenet is awful unless you're just trading binaries or something.

Using proper indexers and *arr software make using Usenet a breeze.
This almost entirely ignores the phenomenon of insurance companies inflating healthcare costs and making incredibly large profits. Health insurance industry profits ($31bn in 2020) are almost equivalent to what your link says the entire military expenditure for the European theater is ($35bn in 2018).

Not to mention the bureaucratic, political, and productivity costs plus the costs to employers and what individuals pay out of pocket.
> One country designating another country an enemy is not, in fact, a war crime.

But an illegal war of aggression is a crime against humanity, right?
I'm waiting for a System76 laptop with AMD graphics, no numpad(!), and not a 1080p screen. It's hard to talk about price when it doesn't exist.
How to Get User I.P Address in SvelteKit
This post is a fascinating use of grammatic passive voice. The hallmark is gratuitous use of "being" verbs, i.e. "is,was". Passive voice is a way to avoid using active voice, which is an implicit way to avoid responsibility for an error.

"Due to the enormous impact of the failure in the IT system, it is unfortunately not possible to run any trains today."
// =>
"Due to the enormous impact of the failure in the IT system, NS cannot run trains today."

"Although the cause of the failure has now been resolved, the impact is considerable. To be able to start up reliably, systems must be updated and trains must be brought to the right place. That takes time. For our passengers, this is extremely unpleasant news."
// =>
"Although we have fixed the cause of the failure, the failure impacted most of our customers. To fix this failure so that trains would start reliably, we needed to return all trains to a central depot, which took nearly 12 hours. We apologize for the extremely unpleasant interruption."

"The expectation is that tomorrow morning the normal timetable can largely be resumed. The night trains can still run."
// =>
We expect to resume minor operation with night trains first and then major operations tomorrow morning.

"The IT failure occurred at the end of the morning. It affected the system that generates up-to-date schedules for trains and staff. This system is important for safe and scheduled operations: if there is an incident somewhere, the system adjusts itself accordingly. This was not possible due to the failure."
// =>
The IT failure occured at 11am in the scheduling system, a major requirement for safe operation; if train operations are interrupted at one location, the system normally reroutes other trains to prevent collisions. This system failed.

"The international trains are not affected by this failure. For information about the timetables of other transporters, passengers can consult the websites of these transporters."
// =>
The failure did not affect international trains. If you have an inquiry about other transportation services, please consult those services.

"The journey planner is updated."
// =>
We updated the journey planner accordingly to account for the interruptions.

// Generally the use of "passive voice" indicates poorly-taught grammar, however the use could also indicate desire to avoid responsibility.
The article has benchmark results that quantifiably establish direct calls outperforming indirect calls.
I try to buy from the manufacturer operated merchant accounts on Aliexpress, when buying anything more expensive or specialized. Sometimes it's not the cheapest option, but I tend to trust them more.
It’s definitely known that balance matters a lot. I’ve seen many articles and media about the dangers of falls and balance. I wonder if though balance is something that needs to be addressed over a lifetime. It probably involves a huge number of muscles and systems that take years or a lifetime to develop.
I think the bit about the definition of multiplication could be applied to code as well: A source file necessarily contains all possible logic flows, no matter if a flow represents the main operation, an obscure special case or parts that are completely unused or practically unreachable. This can easily hide the "gist" of a function among heaps of clutter.

I think some tool would be interesting that took a code traces or coverage information and generated a view of a code file where each line has a font size dependant on how often that line was executed. Ideally, "important" lines would end up with a large font, while special cases, error checks etc would become "fine print".

I'd be curious if this would help making codebases easier to understand.
> I think Twitter has a far bigger problem than a free speech problem.

Not Twitter has the problem, society has. Twitter is growing fine on its own, there is no end in sight. But the platform is more and more influencing the rest of the world, and usually it's more of the toxic than healthy kind of influence.
A few issues with message brokers, esp. in the system-to-system integration:

- Security: In B2B scenarios or public APIs would you open your broker to the WWW? HTTP has a solid infrastructure, including firewalls, ddos defence, API gateways, certificate management, ...
- Organisational dependencies: Some team needs to maintain the broker (team 1, team 2, or a third platform team). You have a dependency to this team, if you need a new topic, user, ... Who is on call when something goes wrong?
- Technology ingestion: A message broker ingests technology into the system. You need compatible client libraries, handle version upgrades, resilience concepts, learn troubleshooting...
I never said that HN gets by without moderation. I said that I don't feel censored here, and made sure to annotate that I haven't given that specific part of my argument particularly much thought. HN was in no way the focus of my argument.

Maybe the fact that you call yourself an unrepentant trash-talker coincides with what I referred to as absence of culture (not claiming it does or judging, just relating your response to the point I tried to get across).

On the HN-thing: HN doesn't like flamewars or behaviour that is conductive to them - that doesn't mean we're not free to make our point. That's a different thing than behaving with a more or less absolute disregard for the space you're in though, which is probably the part that dang focusses on.
> How many people experiencing day-to-day anxiety /because/ they were enabled to avoid social interactions for so many years because of apps and services like this?

That's a great question! I would love to see some data on this, but until I do, I don't really see any reason to believe this. Anxiety disorders are not a new phenomenon.