skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So let me break down how I read it. This is what the person was replying to, he quoted it so will I:

> Again: you can't get white activist gun owners to defend a licensed gun owner who was surprised and shot in his own home by police executing a no-knock warrant that wasn't for him.

Which is first, an absolute, and absolutes are rarely true. Second, you said defend. "...you can't get white activist gun owners to defend a licensed gun owner..." Defining a police shooting as a bad shooting (illegal) is defending the victim of the shooting. To defend the police and not the victim would be to justify it the shooting as a good shooting (valid/legal). Based on what he said, he points to everyone he knows defended the victim claiming it was a bad shooting, therefore, everyone he knew defended the victim and not the police.

It sounds like you might want to slow down a bit and give people the benefit of the doubt, maybe take the time to read and understand what people write. I have the same affliction myself sometimes.
Most of the world does not have government run health care, what they have is government run health insurance. Hospitals, doctors, health care providers in general are privately operated and anyone with the right credentials can go ahead and start their own practice/clinic, but the government provides single payer and universal health insurance.
I like that! He loves math so it's probably something that he'll gravitate towards.
I do actually work for a tech startup (Purism). Been bouncing from one to another mostly interesting job for a few years before that.

I want to continue trying to make the world better, including sustaining myself through Open Source. Pretty much the dream.

The remaining piece of the dream is to challenge/indulge myself and build a bike computer (jazda.org).

If the world hadn't been on the brink of multiple crises I'd be doing basic science though.
> Irrelevant. That was a voluntary intervention, not an invocation of the Treaty's mutual defense aspects. Individual NATO members were not required to participate; three (Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland) did not.

I'm not saying it would be a verbal and written requirement to participate, and yet, they might have to for other political reasons, like a supply of additional defensive equipment or maintenance programs. For instance, some countries did participate in wars on the side of NATO even though they are not even a part of the alliance. All at the expense of human lives and taxpayers' money [1][2].

Before you say that the US interventions are not NATO interventions, could you name at least one instance from this list [3] where the US was not an active participant of and was actually disapproving of other members' actions? I'm asking because there's a valid growing sentiment with an element of truth in it that NATO without the US is not a potent alliance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Mechanized_Brigade_(Ukrain...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Mechanized_Brigade_(Ukrain...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_operations
"could platform" ... perfect typo!
Much of the field seems to be fixated on throwing massive compute resources at models with results that can neither be evaluated nor reproduced.

"the Recommender Systems research community is facing a crisis where a significant number of papers present results that contribute little to collective knowledge […] often because the research lacks the […] evaluation to be properly judged and, hence, to provide meaningful contributions"

https://doi.org/10.1145%2F2532508.2532513

More here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recommender_system#Reproducibi...
For some reason, I felt compelled to google the subject of the news article regarding the murder of Dallas Morning News photographer, Larry Provart, age 29. It appears that his murder remains unsolved to this day.
For some reason archive.ph does not load for me today.
Perforce acquires DevOps power Puppet
Being a mercenary is great if what makes you happy is being a mercenary. The problem is that mercenaries excel at destroying things and getting paid for it, not at creating things.
Certain personality traits associated with cognitive functioning late in life
Maybe. Recommendation systems definitely seem to get worse as they scale. Amazon's was incredible circa 2000. Pandora seems to be getting worse and more repetitive. Netflix kept getting better and better until they ended their contest and since then they seem to have only become worse.
I went through this ritual almost every time:

$ java --version
Unrecognized option: --version
$ java -v
Unrecognized option: -v
$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_312"

Looks like this was fixed in JDK 11.

But Java isn't as sadistic as Go lang:

$ go --version
[scrolls off screen]
$ go --version | less
[scrolls off screen]
$ go --version 2>&1 | less
[search for 'version' command]
$ go version
go version go1.17.2 linux/amd64
> Would you act differently knowing that giving someone else a chance may lead to the development of a medicine that will save your life a few years down the road?

A counterargument to this is that I’d personally pick today over tomorrow almost every time. So yes, not gambling on the future, but doing what’s right for yourself today is +ev.
You cannot meaningfully change any organization without being one of the ~10 most powerful people in it.
The math the models are doing are similar to rote rule chaining as opposed to calculation. The errors made look like kludged together lookups. I wonder if you could sequence the training of a model so that you could reinforce calculations over lookups, to encourage the development of an accurate and advanced mathematics module.

Neural networks can do math, but a lookup and memorized value model is structurally a lot different than a calculator model. The difference between them is a matter of weights for any given architecture. Tokenizing properly for math would help, but doing bit level tokenizing would be best, because that would allow multimodal domains to integrate more readily (i.e. audio/video/text models could share learned features more easily than if you are using parsed or domain specific tokens.) It's a great time to be alive.
words words words. why even bother drawing the talking heads?
Yeah problem with tasking the TSA with busting people for carrying small amounts of drugs is because drugs are common and weapons are rare, and terrorists even rarer all they'll do then is look for drugs.
I gave some very honest feedback during my exit interview at Yahoo when I left, and I was blacklisted. So from then on I never ever gave exit interview feedback ever. It’s not worth it.
Bending space-time definitely leaves traces! That's what we call gravity.

The problem with all this stuff is that you can come to with explanations for everything, but at a certain point the explanations require so many further explanations that the whole situation becomes absurd. For example, sure, maybe they're trying to desensitise us to their existence, except alien sightings come in all sorts of different shapes and formats. Okay, well maybe it's not just one group of aliens, maybe there's multiple different groups, except now we've got to imagine some sort of alien council acting together in this plan with little-to-no disagreement.

Each little step down this path is somewhat plausible, but if you step back and view the claim as a whole (their is an intergalactic council of aliens with incredible travel and cloaking abilities (outside of visible wavelengths), doing undercover excitements on humans, possibly with the knowledge of our governments, in order to desensitise us to their existence), it becomes absurd.

This sort of thing is the problem for which Occam's Razor was invented: given a problem with two solutions, one of which requires fewer assumptions than the other, take the solution with the fewest assumptions. So: do we accept the various mundane explanations for these events, or do we imagine some incredibly specific untestable scenario involving aliens that come to earth with nonsensical motives behaving in ways that even we as humans would describe as illogical?

As an aside, this idea that we need to be desensitised to aliens seems kind of weird to me. Humans are really good at dealing with weird events. We're living through a climate catastrophe, a pandemic on a scale unknown to previous generations living in less connected worlds, we live our lives perpetually attached to a world knowledge centre, and all of this in the last few decades. I mean, aliens would definitely be something else entirely, but I can't imagine that it wouldn't very quickly become just another part of our lives.
When did the 90's invent a time machine?
Nebula is a peer-to-peer "overlay network" VPN, I'm trialing it to potentially run on all of our servers to secure the networking. It was developed at slack and deployed on all their servers.

LunarVim is just an opinionated neovim setup with all the bells and whistles. I got tired of pushing along my 20 year old vi configs and trying to get various advanced features working through various plugins, so I started evaluating just using something else, including spacevim, kakoune, onivim2.. Ended up sticking with LunarVim.
Just because health care is untethered from your employment status does not mean it is single payer or fully nationalized.

See this plan for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy_Americans_Act

It would transition away from employer-provided health insurance, to employer-subsidized insurance, having instead individuals choose their health care plan from state-approved private insurers. It sought to make the cost of health insurance more transparent to consumers, with the expectation being that this would increase market pressures to drive health insurance costs down.
The ark lands after The Flood. Noah lets all the animals out. Says, "Go and multiply." Several months pass. Noah decides to check up on the animals. All are doing fine except a pair of snakes. "What's the problem?" says Noah. "Cut down some trees and let us live there", say the snakes. Noah follows their advice. Several more weeks pass. Noah checks on the snakes again. Lots of little snakes, everybody is happy. Noah asks, "Want to tell me how the trees helped?" "Certainly", say the snakes. "We're adders, and we need logs to multiply."
Real answer:

I absolutely love being alive right now. A Higgs boson! Confirmed objects from outside our solar system! A real life picture of a black hole! We’re just at the start of being able to learn these things, and it’s getting better by the year. I love it.

Conspiracy answer:

The alien probe launched 10,000 years ago just determined that either:

1) Our atmosphere is sufficiently thick to cause the object to disintegrate over seconds instead of instantaneously, meaning there’s enough raw gaseous material to be interesting, or

2) We have an active defense system, meaning the local inhabitants are smart enough to be interesting.

In 46 years, when the light reaches its origin around 26 Draconis, observations will be recorded, reports will be filed, and plans will be made.
Haha. I was meaning true monochrome cameras without the color array filter ( like the bayer or x-trans ) in front of the sensor. Like Leica monochrome cameras ( Leica M9M and later models ). You get a lot more detail that way and theoretically tonal / gray separation should be better as well.

I do actually have two Sigma Foveon cameras ( DP2 and DP3 Merrill ) where the sensor is layered and each RGB pixel is layered on top of another. The detail you get out of those sensors is amazing the first time you see it. Black and white converts better too. That said I would still like a true monochrome camera to play with at some point.
My credit card was declined at the Walmart store I Know I’m Not Broke
How would you verify that?
Here's an even easier set of requirement to simplify the first case:

- Require all research to publish their source code.

- Require all research to publish their raw data minus "PII".

* Note: I use "PII" here with the intention of it taking the most liberal meaning possible, where privacy trumps transparency absolutely and where de-anonymization is impossible. This would rule out a lot of data, and personally I think we could take a more balanced approach, but even this minimalist approach would be a vast improvement on the current situation.
I have repeat purchased from vendors on eBay for different items based on previous experiences. eBay makes that easy - Amazon is the complete opposite. They hide the vendor as much as possible.
I have 3 cats with “thumbs”. Believe me they’re working on evolving them.
60s and 70s research does not meet modern standards. The validity of almost all medical and psychological research done in the era is very questionable. Some research done in this time was very good, but with psychedelics we are really starting back from square 1 because we've just begun researching it in earnest.

tl;dr If you're in medical or psychological fields and the only empirical evidence you have to back up a claim is from the 60s you are on shaky ground and need to collect more data.
AWS Morning Brief podcast - <10min summary of AWS-related news (host is hilarious)
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/aws-morning-brief/

Twenty Thousand Hertz - Stories about famous sounds
https://www.20k.org/

2.5 Admins - Two sysadmins (one is Jim Salter from Ars) share their knowledge with one non-sysadmin
https://2.5admins.com/

Darknet Diaries - True stories about hacking/security/etc...
https://darknetdiaries.com/

ISC Stormcast - <5min daily podcast about IT security news
https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html
Depends on what you consider "scale". I did 5k+ orders in about 5 years. I scaled back a bit after that because I had some large projects at my main job, but that's not bad scale for hand-made items on a hobby basis. If I'd been devoted to it full time & increased efforts to get more exposure (which I avoided since I had all the sales I could handle already) then even as a solo creator I could have scaled to 25K in that time period & earned a nice salary doing this FT even after setting aside $$ for PTO & retirement funds.

On the other hand, if you consider "scale" to be > $300k/year, then yes it's hard to do it without a manufacturing partner. And that can be a legitimate route even within the traditional Etsy framework! Design something, punch out countless copies w/ the "partner", and do final finishing/customization yourself. Or a few other similar models. The problem is this opened the door for sellers & etsy to rationalize keeping all sorts of definitively not handcrafted items in the marketplace. At best it's handmade by the "partner" through mass cheap 3rd world labor. At worse it's white labelled junk.

Anyway, the entire point of Etsy is that, even if "there's only so much you can get from handcrafting", that was what Etsy was for. The place where true, actual, real handcrafters were selling their items. Sure, it represents a cap on scale, but that was Etsy's mission. Not to become some front end for Aliexpress or the knockoff junk you find on Amazon.
This is amazing! I don't think I'll use it for help (up-arrow, ctrl+w is fewer keystrokes), but I can think of many other situations where I want to substitute one word of a very long command and didn't realize it could be this easy
They should test induced psychedelic-like experiencies without substances too, like meditiation or trance with music...
To be quite honest, the problem is historical. We have over a decade of project plans, support tickets, change control logs, etc in our Jira instance. There's simply no painless way to export that into another product that will have approximately the same functionality and features. There's a few that come close, but all fall short of a drop-in replacement.

The only options now are the $$$$$ "datacenter" license, migrating to the dangerously unstable cloud, or not doing anything and running unsupported EOL software.
People will still be hobbyists with loud cars and motorcycles, though (at least in the US). We literally just need to legislate a package of laws that says people can't make loud noise with their vehicle, repeated offenses result in the vehicle being taken away, and anyone that modifies vehicles to make loud noise will be fined heavily.
Ya, I'm never selling, Image if you rented that sucker out.
Health insurance is not tied to employment status. Anyone can go to healthcare.gov and buy an equivalent BCBS or Kaiser or whatever gold/silver/bronze insurance. Unless you are in a particularly shitty state.

What employers do have is the ability to sell you health insurance with pre tax dollars, which is also available to self employed individuals. But the people who are screwed are those who are employed by employers that do not offer health insurance. They have to buy insurance with post tax dollars.

There is similar bullshit with retirement funding, where employer sponsored retirement account limits are drastically more than individual ones (401k vs IRA), and especially if you are a married couple with 1 spouse with 401k access and one spouse without.
I love stuff like this happening, not for the schadenfreude but for the "what not to do" lessons.

#3,198,191 Don't automate deletion scripts w/o sufficient recovery options.
Same thing with Python:

>>> help

Type help() for interactive help, or help(object) for help about object.

>>> exit

Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit

If you know what I'm trying to do, then just do it!
> For someone who seems versed in many of the schools of meditation, you seem bitter and condescending.

The idea that being a practicioner of meditation somehow brings you to be a spaced out peace loving beatnik is a fiction created by Hollywood.

> If they are wrong, teach them — but not in that tone.

You can not add to a full glass.
you just gotta get the filters right
And landed in the ocean, so he'd have drowned.
Cloud4Ukraine by Dutch Cloud Community
I don't know, and I won't know until later I guess if it is a major mistake or not. He knows that if he wants to go to hang out with friends he can just get their parents number and I will call them and be like hey can our boys hang out, I will come get your kid etc.

The one thing I do know is that there isn't much good left in social media besides a few edge cases where its a resourceful group that hasn't moved off the platforms. I don't use social media anymore. We had to lead by example, so my wife and I both removed it from our lives. We are better off for sure without it.

It is an infinite time suck, and while that might be fine for adults who are grounded in their work life and need an outlet to just relax. Children have so much room to learn, explore and develop that it isn't a healthy eco-system for them to be on for hours and hours a day.
Do you work on recommendations or something similar as part of your job? I don't and I found the article interesting.
"I'm just trying to get to the truth instead of blindly following the media narrative."

The simple truth is that Russia is currently engaged in a genocidal war with the intent of erasing Ukrainian people, which utilizes intentional terror on the civilian population. Everything else can be approximated based on that information.

This is one of the few clear cut conflicts between unspeakable evil and a distinct people who are being eradicated real time.

The ethics of the situation are exactly as clear cut as a Hollywood movie. Russia is the big bad. The Ukraine are the hero. And they are dying by the thousands.
It seems pretty simply. If you get whats advertised, you rate it good. If it isn't, you rate it worse. If it was what was advertised, but you figured out that wasn't actually what you were looking for, the rating for the product should still be good, even though you made the mistake of buying it. That's not the sellers fault in any way.
It's very simple. First reduce the requirements: ignore the melody. Then iterate through the inversions of a chord in closed position, and pick the one with the smallest "distance" from the previous chord.

Using that strategy, you can pick different chord voicing templates, like drop-2 or quartal. An even better method would be to move the "hands" up the keyboard after a tonic chord, that way you don't end up in the low registers too quickly, since jazz harmony tends to go down in 4ths a good bit.
Super!
I will join!
This is great. Do you need to be cautious of overloading your Supabase database and impacting performance with heavy use of multiplayer?
> Was it covering Yugoslavia back in 90s?

Yugoslavia was not an Article 5 action, it arose out of Article 4 regional security consultations. It is important to remember that NATO is not, even in theory, a “defensive alliance” it is a regional security organization with a mutual defense commitment.
I ordered a bunch of stickers from AvE, my one and only purchase on Etsy. It seems ridiculous that he should have to package my stickers with tracking to get them to me, and I live on the other side of the world in the midst of a shipping crisis so I don't care one jot if it takes him a few days to pop my stickers in the mail. Consumer expectations these days are so ridiculous. They're stickers.
The other side to this is that the aforementioned lifestyle is usually described as impoverished (and a product of injustice, not choice). It cannot be the case that living by meager means is at once virtuous/satisfying, and terrible. I vaguely detect a kind of cognitive dissonance about this.

And to be clear, extreme poverty has its own clear definition by the UN, which does not apply here. Poverty is simply: the state of having few material possessions or little income. Presumably, like this Samoan.

Does the romanticization go any further than poverty tourism? This reminds me that Thoreau is popularly denigrated today for being hypocritical, but no one seems to make the connection that it's for (more or less) the same thing. If someone is very well shielded from possible deleterious effects of the state of poverty (not including food and shelter), they're still benefiting from wealth directly or indirectly.
In fact, the case law goes firmly in the other direction.

Management has a ton of latitude to run the business as they see fit. The "remedy" for bad business decisions is supposed to be divesting and starting a competitor, not the courts.

Cases like Dodge v. Ford or Caremark are odd because the board was basically not running a business at all: Ford flat-out said he was doing something not for the business, but in support of his philanthropic beliefs. Caremark was so asleep at the helm that they racked up a quarter-billion dollars in silly fines.

Anyone can, of course, sue over anything, but if it's even vaguely legitimate (and the "facts" in Shlensky v. Wrigley are pretty bonkers, IMO), they won't win.
We're using Swarm in production for a bunch of our small CMS projects and it's been great. "A little bit on top of Docker Compose" is a great way to describe it. It's just so easy to set up, and I think it's still a reasonable option when you want to dockerize stuff you've had running on a VPS.
> That's why each change to the spec results in a new version. It's a self-fork of the previous spec.

That's not how it works, no. There is just the spec [1], which is updated frequently. I am editor of the specification. (There are annual editions as well, but no one should pay attention to these.)

> I'm sure they'd add in support for freezing protoype chains, even if just as an option that can be toggled, but i doubt they'd ever want to break the spec just because they don't like parts of it.

Well, like I said, if Deno's only concern is breaking with the spec here, I expect the spec could be updated to allow this behavior.

[1] https://tc39.es/ecma262/
Sorry about that, broken links have been fixed in the episode and here's a link to the library: https://github.com/pointfreeco/swift-parsing.