skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think Paul may inadvertently be adding to the actual biggest problem in civilized discourse these days — weaponized victimization and othering.

Would you mind giving me quotes from the post to back up these assertions?
There are companies that scrape Twitter and have human adjudicators who try to find buried but impactful trending news gems. I wonder if this stems from them...
It seems so unnecessarily cruel to not wait for brain death. Why risk causing unnecessary suffering? Why treat a living human as dead meat? What kind of society creates doctors and staff who would do such things?
That's really neat. That's like near TNG computer cool.

You know when on TNG they ask Computer for a bunch of related things and it somehow knows what they're talking about.
Spotting attacks is the basis for defending against attacks. The only way you can actually defend against an opponent is to see his angle and you don't win a game where you only "defend" unless your opponent blunders.

In chess there are two possibilities that give you an advantage material and positional advantage. If you plan on "defending" your position you most likely want to protect your pieces and don't leave them undefened, but that is not enough since you have to take into account forks and binds and more. If you want to play defensive you can try placing your figures in a more defensive style (see hedgehog or similar), but that is not something you can derive chess problems from.
So long story short. Chess problems on defending are in essence the same as the attacking once. You have to find the actual threat. If you want to be better at defending just take the time and try to understand what your opponent is planning as well. It is the same thought process in the end and you will get better with time.
> Then both in terms of any arbitrary area in the US or any arbitrary city in the US, it's unusually dense (much more dense than the mean density.)

I haven’t visited DC so I’ll have to take your word for it. But it should be noted that I can’t find anything online that supports yours assessment of DC being unusually dense.

And even if it is, that just makes a stronger case for the need of better public transport services.

> Many places in the US have these and both DC and the suburbs around it are full of them.

I’m sure they are but having a park and ride scheme is only of benefit if you invest in public transport, which, by your own admission, DC doesn’t.
This is a weird take on history and divorced from the reality we live in even now.

The first ever web browser written by Tim Berners Lee at CERN on a NeXt computer was a web editor as well.

He envisioned that every web user would be a web creator. He is quoted many times as saying this.

Today: you can still stand up a web server at your house and forward the ports on your router. Unless you’re behind a carrier grade NAT (as those are becoming much more common now that IPv4 is exhausted).
Just about 20 years ago, “we” (popular open source company) were told by big Silicon Valley names we’d all recognize that we were “too grey”. We were mostly 30s/40s. Didn’t have anything to do with any of our work or skills (every one of them was using and still uses our product). Just age, or the appearance of age.
Dynamic Users with Systemd
Can you give some examples of this happening to “nobodies” in the sense of [internet] fame or clout? Also not if the media riled things up too. I’m sure this stuff happens but I’m not around the places people keep saying this happens (usually Twitter). I’ve only seen examples of people who were internet famous or some other reasons that wouldn’t overlap with a casual GitHub user.
Not that anyone was asking, but it turns out that unlike "tweeting" [0], "pinning" [1] is not a trademarked activity so people should feel free to "pin" to their heart's content on their self-hosted solutions.

[0] https://www.mandourlaw.com/twitter-wins-rights-tweet-tradema...

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/26/pinterest-loses-pin-tradem...
Here is a good summary of the largest efforts to make corridors worldwide :

https://www.planetcustodian.com/important-wildlife-corridors...

Here is a good (but old) recap of the (lack of) research into their efficacy :

https://www.biologydiscussion.com/articles/benefits-of-conse...
Allowing safe, uninterrupted movement of species. All ecosystems would be (almost) entirely connected to their neighbors, human settlement has upset this and its causing fragmented struggling ecosystems
Fair enough - I appreciate your thoughts.

Is it a shame in your view, that the raw data is not being made easily available? Wouldn't that make it easier to say what is going on?

It seems though that this issue is highly politicised, and that there is no easy way for us to review the real information. We get changes of definitions (the definitions of vaccines, viruses have been changed), the way of reporting deaths was changed (eg dying 'with' not 'of' covid), even what counts as vaccinated is surprising to me (you are only considered vaccinated a full 2 weeks after you have your second jab (presumably the same applies to boosters)).

So, we don't know the terms of what is being collected, and that data is not being provided. For me this is a major problem, and I see no reason for the secrecy.
Talk about self-fuffilling prophecy. It is like saying that because your legs are a little scrawny you should stay in a wheelchair for the rest of your life.

Exposing the failings of the sources of information is always a good thing. Trust is not some resource which is an unconditional good. It must be worthy of it to be any good. Otherwise it is like thinking that if you give your dog all As in premed and med school he will become a capable doctor.
This joke got me thinking, is there a way to calculate the number of times events of a certain improbability could have possibly occurred in the current time the universe has existed? What do the odds look like for an event so improbable it could have possibly only occurred once so far??
> people Graham agrees with are encouraged to weaponize their victimization, while people he disagrees with are denied.

Where do you get that from the original post? I am not seeing it.
I use Eero Pro, don't use any of the content filtering or anything, and would still say it's the best WiFi experience I've ever had, far better than the Unifi network it replaced.

However, I do wish it had battery and 4G backup. I know that sounds pretty niche, but nowadays with regular consumer security cameras, alarm systems, smoke detectors, thermostats, etc. all running on WiFi with built-in battery backups, it would be very nice if I could still connect to them all if the power or internet drops out.

Interestingly my Ring alarm has battery and 4G backup, and that's also owned by Amazon. Supposedly there's a Ring Alarm Pro Base Station which is a sort of Eero/Ring hybrid device, but that doesn't exist in the UK, and is equivalent to the non-Pro Eero anyway.

I might add a Firewalla Gold and a UPS, but it's a lot of hassle and negates some of the value of Eero.
Gravity similar to earth, breathable air. So my body still works fine on this new planet.

Mediterranean climate would be great, but that's negotiable.

I like your analogy with ice cars and electric cars. It perfectly captures the value system that drives space colonizatuon. It's the fetishization of technology. Because it requires advanced technology, therefore, in and of itself, space travel is the right thing to pursue. It's a modernist mindset.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220127005808/en/Fed...

still has a 5.5 cent overhead but that's a lot better than whats currently on offer
> never in my experience (I am over 40) have I ever even seen a resume with potential ever get turned away due to age.

No one has ever told me they turned someone down due to age, but probably because it is against the law.

We interviewed a guy who knew what we were doing inside and out, and he was older than all of us. On top of this, he had a nice, friendly personality. We had been interviewing for this position for a while. The lead and manager turned him down. He would be paid less than a Google L3 would get paid (this was ten years ago, and it was not a tech company). I protested saying "what are you looking for? If he isn't good enough, what are you expecting to come in? what was wrong with him?" The reply was "I don't think he would be happy if we called him at 3 AM if some problem came up". The problem was they thought he was too old. He was probably in his late 50s.
I think the problem is that the "build out" option is constrained by mountains and bodies of water (in the desirable areas) and lack of water (in the undesirable areas). Therefore, they would have to build up. This seems to trigger lots of NIMBY and it would have to be better constructed than in other parts of the US given that the ground can wiggle or even liquify from time to time.

And the bottom line is "who will pay for it".
It is not the smartphones. It is the user.

I am using my phone to control my entire house: Cameras, door alarms, motion detectors, laundry machines, dishwasher, smart door bell, sprinkler system, smart lights, thermostat, smart plugs for fans and other utilities, garage door, solar panel, backyard garden controllers as well as their logging system.

This is only for the house, I also check my finances (banking, stocks, credit), all client communications (slack, skype, whatsapp, ringcentral, keepass). My health applications for smart stuff like garmin watch and garmin heart rate, bicycle sensors, weight scale, for work: office apps including microsoft and google. My dog greatly benefits from the apps I use including ordering his food with two taps, his schedules for vet visits with direct vet contact thru the app, training schedules, etc. I can listen to music in my car the way I want thanks to Spotify, or listen to great podcast like this american life directly thru their app. I can identify songs with shazam. The list can go forever.

Just no social. I tried not using it for a day after these random people posts; it just made things inconvenient and I missed my schedules. I feel like I am maximizing my tool.

Users who are "scrolling" all day can also abuse drugs, alcohol, coffee, or other things. It is the character. Don't blame the tool.
> It's that when he writes about it, he seems like an unhappy person.

I did not get that impression
It has saved us from being saddled today with many more of these leaky ramshackle contraptions that would have cost a $billion each to take apart.

I live near Indian Point, recently shuttered for leaks. I expect to be made to pay for dismantling it. I am glad I won't need to pay for several more.

Money spent on nukes could have been spent bringing renewable costs down. We could have had solar and wind decades earlier. Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House. Ronald Reagan stripped them off. And here we are.
I think this is a useful take because it points to a positive solution: Taking the time to weigh evidence and context on an individual, case by case basis, as opposed to walking around as if you have a "mute" button for everything.

I was accused of saying something I didn't say at a bar, by a black woman I was talking with. She complained to the bartender who, without having heard any of the conversation, called me a racist and threw me out.

I was very distressed by this. On hearing the story, a friend brought up the fact that bartenders don't have the time or training to resolve every dispute between customers, so they just make snap decisions that are often wrong. He also said that in days gone by, the black person would have been the one who got thrown out in a dispute, and so this is a form of restorative justice. I found this a helpful idea, because it implies that people still aren't treating each other any more equally or listening to both sides, or weighing things wisely or on the merits; and that's what needs to be fixed if we want to have any kind of discourse at all.
Teach them reading, writing, and arithmetics. Everything else can be learned independently (which is too easy these days) or in vocational schools (which surely do not care about the origins of the universe).
No. It isn't insane at all.
There are a lot of different teams.

Some teams are working trying to resolve the Quantum Gravity problem. I doubt this is useful for them, at least for now.

Other team are working in particle colliders. They get a Nobel price if they discover a new particle or a correction to the "Standard Model".

Hopefully both teams will meet somewhere in the middle. Perhaps a new experiment will give a hint about how to make quantum gravity work. Perhaps a new theory of quantum gravity will predict a result that can be tested in a particle collider. Don't expect this to be soon.

And there are many other teams that are working in one of the N-2 areas of Physics that are unrelated and their research is not affected by a Quantum Gravity theory or modification to the "Standard Model".
Perhaps I missed it, but too bad OP didn't submit a fix to LLVM as well, or at least file a bug report there. Sure, rustc was emitting bad IR, but LLVM shouldn't crash! It should catch the issue and exit cleanly with an error message. Probably would have been easier to debug this issue if LLVM hadn't crashed in the first place, too.

Either way, a really fun read. For some reason I enjoy reading debugging stories for bugs that I almost certainly wouldn't be able to solve myself.
that's roughly the idea for gan-based image compression, check out: https://data.vision.ee.ethz.ch/aeirikur/extremecompression
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The best way to TikZ is to copy-paste from previous figures you've created.

The second best is to look for a similar figure on TeXample https://texample.net/tikz/examples/ or stack overflow https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/tikz-pgf

The third best option is to use squared paper to draw by hand, then transfer hand-drawn stuff into TikZ code. It's slow as hell, but works well if you build up a collection of components you can copy-paste into other figs later.

There are also some GUI tools you could try: https://www.mathcha.io/ https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/cheunen/freetikz/freetikz.htm... https://tikzit.github.io/ etc. (more links in this thread https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/84890/does-there-exi... )
Ah, then have you seen someone denied from accessing this town square?
When I see this question asked, I immediately mutter, _yep_.

It isn't that anyone is too old, though, it's that they are asking permission.

If you want it, make it happen.
Nice.

Now do "why can't Pi be == 3?"
And Intel might have have an opinion on the NIC supply numbers.
Cambridge Centre for Carbon Credits
> You can’t make changes to the metadata (e.g. change the spelling of an artist’s name) without reassembling the entire file to recalculate the offsets.

Isn't this a really, really infrequent operation? And aren't hard drives fast enough these days that reassembling the entire file doesn't even take that long?
Remember, the people back then spouting "my country, right or wrong" would be Canadians today. America, as you recall, is a revolutionary act vs. a legitimate government. The rest were called Loyalists and went north.

But, really, they're "all revolutions are bad except ours" kinds of people.
Why would the poor be sent to Mars? Its my impression the discourse is the other way around; the adventurous, people with options, would mindfully choose to leave earth and start anew.
>So literally at some point a German guy came to France and asked "What's that?" and it made it into being the standard word for it in the language

Makes me think of the various rivers Avon -- so named because Roman cartographers, labelling rivers, accost Celts about what that there is called. The Roman expects a name, but the Celt replies with the word for river in his language: "avon". Is there a term for this? Or better still, a curated list on Wikipedia?
dabeaz pycon talks are always chill and fun
One of the problems with the old notation is the ambiguity. What does each of the following mean?

n =- 5
n = -5
n=-5
Yep. People confuse detection related correlations with causation all of the time.
A major reason for needing to have so much liability insurance in the United States is the insane cost of our medical care.
> I like to point out the Sedition Act of 1918 here. About 100 years ago, a law that literally made it a crime to criticize the government was not only enacted, but upheld by the courts. Can you even imagine that today?

Only in banana republics like the USA. The patriot act went quite far in that direction
I was 99% sure you were exaggerating in a classic HN sort of cliched way. I thought it’s prob in JS code that could be done as shell but this lets it work on Windows too (at least when it came out).

But no. This is actually just a small shell script as you said. Insane!
Could just be me.
They do:

https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-8196445/...
Depends on how decentralized you can inject hydrogen from overflowing renewables, then. If you could do so at the city's connections to the main long-distance network, it might not be economical to have the infrastructure to create methane from it, and, on top, the hydrogen fraction would be CO2-free even if burnt in a normal boiler/stove.
I wonder what upgrades would be needed, though? Are they not already using one of the steel alloys that is resistant to hydrogen embrittlement?
The micro donations idea kind of exists for the use case you mention in the form of the service Flattr.
Degrading and highjacking what might have been a constructive thread. Way to go.

Yes, lots of hypocrisy to go all around—its called human nature. But what Russia is doing TODAY is just plane evil, and what other countries have done and will probably do again does not make Russian action any less evil.
This is the first time I hear this compliment about KDE: being high performance and low memory usage. It's the exact opposite in my experience. The worst performance and most resource hungry desktop environment.

Though to be honest it's been more than 5 years since I tried, so things might have changed since then ... but I really doubt it.
Isn't the part of the bill you linked to just saying "buses and other readily movable facilities shall only be used in emergencies"? What does that have to do with being working class or a minority?
> So what is the secret sauce here?

There isn't one.

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> Is it a scam?

It won't work.

I do not have the ability to tell if it's a scam. They might really believe it. A scam would require them to know they were wrong.

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> Are they bringing anything new to the table?

No.

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> Their timeline is pretty tight with first rig in 2 years and commercial level first power plant in another 2.

You can't even build a bog standard coal plant that fast.

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> They should have demonstrated at least a couple of holes deeper than a few km by now you'd assume.

If you believed in them, yes, I'd agree.
"Americans deserve to feel safe when they’re traveling."

It'd be better if the .gov was engaging in reasonable security practices that also includes mechanisms for citizens and legal residents to seek redress when the .gov puts them on a watch list mistakenly (or on purpose as a means of retribution) rather than making people "feel safe".
> death of a newborn isn't significantly different from the death of a fetus

Sounds like you are trying to quantify (the value of) life. What about mentally handicapped people, are they deemed not valuable humans in your eyes because they are not intelligent?

Am pro-abortion in extreme cases involving rape or abuse. But am also anti-abortion and pro-life. Not sure if there's a category for people who hold this idea.
I agree with this mindset a lot. One example I like about how to deal with exposing a "memory and type safe but still potentially dangerous" API is how rustls supports allowing custom verification for certificates. By default, no such API exists, and server certificates will be verified by the client when connecting, with an error being returned if the validation fails. However, they expose an optional feature for the crate called "dangerous_configuration" which allows writing custom code that inspects a certificate and determines for itself whether or not the certificate is valid. This is useful because often you might want to test something locally or in a trusted environment with a self-signed certificate bit not want to actually deploy code that would potentially allow an untrusted certificate to be accepted.
I'm tempted to reply that I went back to using "vanilla" Zsh, and just added stuff to my awesome repo which is only 3.9KB minified and gzipped.

But not yet.
> By reported, do you mean buried the lede?

No, I mean extensively, both in news articles and opinion pieces, e.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/preside...

> The fact you don't see the problem is inductive of The Problem. Blinders don't change what's true.

I don’t see the problem in this particular instance, because none of the suppositions provided are true. In fact, all those instances have been discussed in mainstream media for so long, they are almost cliches of the Obama administration.

You could have chosen better examples, like how the appalling revelations of the Snowden affair were essentially blamed on previous administrations.

But still, your initial comment sounded like “both sides are bad!”, which is inaccurate and a bit dishonest. The Atlantic just cannot be compared to its counterparts on the far right.
And poor old Billy got the cardboard box.

https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ncarter.phtml

>SNL Transcripts: Gary Busey: 03/10/79: The Carters In Israel

[...]

>Lillian Carter: Jimmy.. Jimmy.. I’ve come to talk to you about your brother.

>President Jimmy Carter: Oh, Mama. Let’s not talk about Billy now.

>Lillian Carter: Ohhh.. Jimmy, you’ve gotta remember that it hasn’t been easy for Billy. You were the oldest and the favorite – you got the wagon, he got the cardboard box; you got the bicycle, he got the cardboard box; you got the brains, he got the cardboard box.

[...]
Watermarked ReRAM: A Technique to Prevent Counterfeit Memory Chips
"...Electronic counterfeiting is a longstanding problem with adverse
long-term effects for many sectors, remaining on the rise. This
article presents a novel low-cost technique to embed watermarking
in devices with resistive-RAM (ReRAM) by manipulating its analog physical characteristics through switching (set/reset) operation
to prevent counterfeiting. We develop a system-level framework
to control memory cells’ physical properties for imprinting irreversible watermarks into commercial ReRAMs that will be retrieved by sensing the changes in cells’ physical properties..."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.02104.pdf
This is so much worse than even the most pro-russian comment I've seen here. But unsurprisingly the replies you are getting are pretty mild and open to the idea. This is just wild, and it just goes to show how the "this is whataboutism let's focus on russia" rhetoric is so weak. Whenever the actual discussion is about American/European imperialism, the crazy war justifications are dominant. The double standards aren't even subtle at this point
Real formal verification is clearly a step up from rust's meaning of "safe", but I don't think it's wrong to try to add another rung to the verification ladder at a different height. Verification technologies have a lot of space to improve in the UX department, here Rust trades off a some verification guarantees for a practical system that is still meaningful.
Unpopular opinion: I took a look at Svelte. Was immediately disappointed that I can’t just drop it in an existing website.

All these frameworks assume you’re writing stuff from scratch. Most commercial software, both internal and external facing, have legacy to deal with.

Even with a brand new app, you have to succumb to npm/webpack/babel stuff. It feels like building a castle on stilts. Inspires confidence, it does not. Back to jQuery I guess.