skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Technically those are all conspiracy theories yes.

However colloquially a conspiracy theorist is a person who believes in the further-fetched conspiracies on the spectrum.

The term is pretty exclusive to that kind of "Bill Gates invented COVID so he could inject us with tracking and mind control chips" person :)
This is a fantastic moral cause. You are the tip of the spear. Well done. Thank you.
s/private/piston/
Not 100, more than 100,000 Soviet personnel were sent to Vietnam during the war, sometime participated in fighting themselves - [0]

China also actively involved in the war. At the peak of their involvement, 170,000 Chinese troops were present in North Vietnam - [1]

[0] - https://www.rbth.com/history/332396-how-soviets-fought-again...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_in_the_Vietnam_War
It was actually supposed to remain in service until 2040: https://tass.com/defense/1174875
> We apply the Occam's razor here.

Occam's razor is ... flawed. "Lazy" if I'm not trying to be polite. Its a tool you use to keep from going mad, but it doesn't provide correct answers, just _sometimes_ statistically correct ones. Sure fine, you admit its not a very good metric, I do disagree here.

> You are not accounting the entire philosophy of test driven development, where one specifies functionality as tests upfront, and later writes code to pass those tests.

Some of that philosophy is flawed too.

Your anecdotes are interesting, I would like to see a comparison of the difference between the programs and your synthesized versions.

But back to the philosophy bit - if you specify your functionality in your tests, you are still writing the code in test form. It doesn't matter if you translate the test back to code manually or automatically, you're still employing some meta language to code your program. Saying "if this do that" in a test and then writing code with an if/else loop is not impressive, or useful.

To me, the philosophy of the test is to verify functionality, not to completely specify it. Going backwards to code, and just making it very easy to do so, you've either written your program in test form already, or you've produced some swiss cheese code.
Exactly. I read it with that story in mind.
If only someone had thought of a way to monetize it so that Google would not purchase it and later run roughshod over it before letting it fall into disuse.
Even more pessimistically, stopping investment into further nuclear technology (i.e. de-emphasizing it in universities as a possible career path and indicating that demand will be falling in the open market) will accelerate its decline, and likely lead to countries becoming even more reliant on fossil fuels in the short term. The death of tooling, industry knowledge and parts manufacturing capacity specific to that industry will make nuclear plants even more unappealing. If battery tech or other energy storage takes longer than expected to come up to speed, we'll still be reliant on fossil fuels for baseload capacity. It's utopian thinking; devoting any resources to the second-best option is unacceptable, since pure renewables are just "better."

There's a saying about that line of logic, isn't there? A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Having lived in Tokyo long enough to have witnessed crime (with blood on the pavement), reported crime to the police, have people admit their minor criminal behaviour to me, and also hear second hand reports of serous criminal behaviour of people I know, I would limit the time I leave a high end laptop unattended in a busy Starbucks to the time it takes to order a refill/snack or go to the toilet :-) in fact I’ve done it probably hundreds of times.
Which is to say I have no real concerns about crime there, but am no idealist.
I would not leave a laptop unattended in my own country for any amount of time, the culture of westerners is far more opportunistic for even minor individual gain, and much less conscious of one’s place in society.
I do not count Thinkpad as open enough to be in the same segment anymore. I have owned many generations of them and some are still in use but will not be getting a newer one the way things look now.

One practical aspect is how they are very inconsistent in making crucial firmware updates available. In theory, they're on fwupd/LVFS. In practice, that can lag behind by months or even years and the only way to get necessary updates to get security fixes or get certain hardware working is many times to boot from Windows.
mainne englo shikshakon ke saath adhyayan kiya, lekin seedhe Sri BKS Iyengar ke vansh ke tahat. mere shikshak bahut satark the. main bahut achchhe svaasthy mein hoon aur tees saal baad ab meree achchhee aadaten hain. Light on Pranayama kee adhikaansh takaneeken ek shaharavaasee ke lie, yahaan tak ki mere lie bhee, bahut unnat hain.

edit: apologies for the terrible Hindi, but since YNews was so rude to a guest with a downvote, I wanted to show some respect to the South Asian knowledge. Yogas citta vritti naroda'ha -- namaste
If that's childish, then fuck being an adult. In fact, if you want to step it up a notch, than being an "adult" is having as many children as you can to pass on your genes. Anything more than that is stuff humans made up to not be bored when they get past child bearing age.
Derren Brown is not a mentalist as far as I understand the term.

If anything he's a strong skeptic against it.
I am pretty anti-crypto generally but I feel compelled to reply to your maximalist position that there is "no practical value whatsoever, current or potential" to blockchains. The one use case I have seen for blockchain that is real is that cryptocurrency is great for moving money around the world when governments or banks maybe don't want you to do so. At the very least the experience of sending crypto is about as annoying or a little bit less annoying than sending a wire, and you can avoid all those pesky AML/KYC requirements that banks and payment processors impose.

I am not suggesting that this isn't ethically fraught -- of course it is. But one can imagine uses. I personally have known a couple people who fled Syria during the civil war, and bitcoin was a useful way to pull money out of the country, and much less dangerous than carrying a suitcase of cash.
Good that she could self-advocate!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_coat_hypertension describes the condition.
Hmm this is a great catch. The figures quoted in their Methods and Results ("from 135±2 mm Hg to 126±3 mm Hg") don't seem to match any in Table 2.
> 2021 Dell XPS 15. Had to retire it very early -- trackpad issues

Me over here with a 2021 XPS 15 using a mouse 24/7 because the touchpad lags hard on linux but refuses to admit I got burnt lol. I'd be over the moon if framework released a 15" model.
Governments tends to hoard information, they just store everything they can for "future references". Later on the process they can use some types of algorithm to dig and cross information for a target or whatever, but is a different matter. Nobody is going to say "ok track me, but don't use an algorithm" that would be the lesser problem, obviously the tracking is the issue there. As I said before, is a different discussion.
The development of proximity fuses was amazing. They were so vital the Allies spent a billion 1940s dollars on them (not on development or munitions containing them, just on building the actual fuses). Here are some articles: https://slate.com/technology/2020/08/12-seconds-silence-merl..., https://www.historynet.com/proximity-fuze/
You asserted comically sweeping claims about an entire industry and nascent family of technologies being solely rooted in “scams” and “schemes”.

Those two words usually have a higher burden of proof… unless you’re just putting on a rhetorical performance, that is. QED “unserious”
Kinda.

If you can buy 1 share at $1, that means that yes.

But a controlling interest in something almost always requires more than 1 share. It may require millions or billions of shares.

And once folks figure out that they’re the couple percent that will block that controlling interest, their own prices tend to change.

That volume of shares also means you can't just buy from the person who is happy to sell right now, you need to convince folks who don't plan to sell ever, or aren't in a hurry, or don't need money right now. Their prices tend to be different too.

And just like buying a tank of gas is different than buying an oil field, the value propositions and likely price discussions are different.

If you can buy an oil field of gas one tank at a time, more power to you - but you’ll likely quickly discover it doesn’t scale the way you want.
Yes, it doesn't have nukes anymore. I fear that one sad bit of fallout from Russia's invasion will be that no country will ever voluntarily give up nukes again.
Who said anything about the public? A "breaking news platform" being of relevance to journalists is valuable enough for it to be a large company; whether anyone from "the public" makes direct use of it, they still indirectly depend on its existence.

See also: Reuters / Associated Press / etc.
The attention could be split in a content-first vs. personality-first ranking approach, the key problems becomes (1) signal quality, fame/likes/subs can be a rough proxy and (2) monetized attention can exist across both but its easier to end up with a meaningful monetization payout when aggregated by fame.
I know you're arguing in good faith but don't you think putting crazy hypotheticals like Xi buying any US company is a little silly? There are probably better examples to further your point.
I don't know of a workaround, though I've never tried. I would assume there's none, since it's not a "three free stories"-style paywall.
huh? apple hasn't used the "hinge" touchpad since 2015, more than 7 years ago. unlike afaik every other touchpad out there, the actuation force is actually adjustable. i'm not sure whether this is necessarily a good change, but it certainly is a change, and your data seems woefully out of date.
This reminds me of an app of mine that was a top 20 paid app 8+ years ago in the Apple app store. To try and gain more users, I decided I'd try a little test and make the app free for a short amount of time. What I did not realize was that changing the app from paid to free would completely remove my app from the top 20 charts and the free app ended up at the bottom of the free charts.

The app gained positions pretty fast in the free charts, but it never got close to what it was before. Biggest mistake I could have made in hindsight and there was nothing I could do about it. This was my first app in the app store, so I hand no experience with how things worked.
Well, ok, and I misread your post, thank you for clarification. But you've employed a straw man, because no one has claimed anything about historical examples of programming to make claims about how old computer science is. What I did instead (in the GGGGP comment?) was give ancient examples of computer science to show how old it must be, at a minimum. Now, of course, there was no CS department in a university 5000 years ago. Nevertheless, computer science was performed in ancient Sumer, and we know this because we found their abacuses.
remember: Musk is the same person that posted this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1503276966874595330

democracy doesn't matter when the rich seek to bend the world to their will.
Thanks for sharing this, I've bookmarked it to check out more later, but from the links you provided, it looks like Chicken Scheme is pretty friendly to use.
1000 fans theory and all, get those scripts on substack!
This is probably the extent of ascii art it was trained with. There’s a link to an old geocities site that probably made its way into the pile
But that's an easy fix. If they delete the repo, delete the stars. If they make it private, indicate it is now private in some way.
What might be a good toy project to try with this? I've had a vague interest in lisp for a while, and fennel seems like a good entry point, I just need some direction on a small project that would be a good fit for the language.
Along these lines, I thought Lulu Cheng's (Substack VP) hiring post was quite telling of the malaise in Twitter (and frankly all Big Tech):

> If you’re a Twitter employee who’s considering resigning because you’re worried about Elon Musk pushing for less regulated speech… please do not come work here.

https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1511376638487019524
Fun things to try with breathing:

- When lightly exercising, close eyes and focus on breathing. Note effects on heart rate.

- Get into an uncomfortable (but safe) position such as a deep squat, crab position, etc. Close eyes and focus on breathing. Note effects on feelings of discomfort, and effort to maintain the position.
The headline is very revealing of the incredibly slanted way the Ukraine war has been covered in "Western" media.

When I read the headline, I immediately thought to myself, "which war?", until I saw the article was from the Economist and I knew they were referring to Ukraine. Just the use the term "the war" implicitly implies that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the only war (or at least the only war worth mentioning by "western media") raging. In fact, there are numerous wars raging right now. As a US citizen and close observer of our foreign policy and actions around the world, I have been floored by the hypocrisy and double standards in the coverage of the Ukraine war (despite hypocrisy and double standards being the norm). This is not an endorsement of Russia's illegal war of aggression against Ukraine but an indictment of "western media" and "western" governments in general.

For example, we (the United States), illegally invaded Syria a decade ago. A war of aggression just as illegal under international law as Russia's invasion of Ukraine. There were no indignant outcries on NBC or CNN or by any of the pundits who are today absurdly crying about the "disruption of the post world war 2 order". Our troops are illegally occupying Syria, today. Over 350,000 people have died there since the war started a decade ago. We bombed (and continue to bomb) civilian infrastructure with absolutely no military value in Syria. How can politicians and pundits (not to mention my fellow citizens) cry about the depravity and the crimes of Russians when our own country is engaged in the same crimes, right now, today? Many will exclaim this is "whataboutism" to explain away their cognitive dissonance. But it's about universal standards, credibility, and hypocrisy. If we condemn Russia for their illegal war while at the same time prosecuting illegal wars of our own, we expose ourselves at liars and hypocrites who don't oppose illegal war, just Russia. It is quite sickening when our so-called leaders stand up and give sanctimonious speeches about defending "democracy and human rights" while prosecuting our own illegal wars and propping up the most vicious dictatorships in the world, from Saudi Arabia to Egypt, where democracy and human rights are completely absent.

Again, this is not a defense of Russia's illegal war, although it will be taken as such by people consumed by the blanket propaganda saturating our society. This is a defense of universal standards, truth, morality and objective reality. If we want to be able to credibly condemn the wrongdoing of others and claim the moral authority to mete out justice, then we need to lead by example and actually earn the moral authority that we falsely claim.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/20/us/airstrike-us-isis-dam....
It's still very awkward for them to have such different valuations.
Researchers gain new insights in language processing from simple AI
Yes, it comes down to war.

Let’s assume he’s extremely unlikely to attack Germany. What about his successor, and his successor’s successor? It’s unfortunate but many “crazy” people have ended up running dictatorships.
The US imports energy from Russia, too. Increasingly under Trump.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=M...

Ukraine bought energy from Russia, too. They ended gas imports from Russia some time ago, now importing it from other countries, which import it from Russia.
> Powerbreathe seems like an unnecessary uni-tasking gadget conforming to western sensibilities.

This is an incredibly elitist and exclusive observation.

The use of a tool that provides positive health benefits to assist those unfamiliar with zen breathing techniques should be applauded. Meditation is ‘easy’ to those who are open and have time to commit to it, and it’s not for everyone. To some it might even be outside their own cultural or personal comfort zone, and that is entirely OK.

And what on earth is the problem with a ‘uni-tasking gadget’? My garage, bathroom and kitchen drawers are all full of these things. In fact, with the obvious exception of the smart phone, it’s the multi-tasking gadgets that should be derided (the outdoors industry is full of these, as epitomised by the ‘axesaw’).
Stop Breaking Dashboards Using Cube's Semantic Layer
Nuclear can't replace the role of gas in Europe, but getting rid of nuclear makes the problem much worse. Germany has been warned about this constantly and they seem to think they know better. We'll see, right now they look like stubborn fools that are now unable to do much of anything to help stop Russia.
"The user shouldn't be stupid" - which is what you're saying sounds like to my ears - is not an approach that scales well.

Mistakes happen. It's better to have a really good Undo than a lot of confirmation dialogs.
Ooh, yeah, nice little art project. Well done.

A bit of a tangent, but gosh did I find Dancer in the Dark to be traumatizing. So sad! Bjork (whom I love) said she wouldn't do movies again after that one but I was happy to see her pop up in The Northman trailer.
It's adjustable with a screw down. In general though breathing through the nose just will not replicate the inspiratory effort required to use this device. Not even close.
Honestly I like the energy here. Just have to distance myself from a bit from people on sociopathic spectrum. I did 'lucked out' and joined a company that IPO'd, but honestly probably didn't make it much more than other people who started companies outside of the bay area. Also the access to nature has been amazing for me and my mental health.

- Studied in UK, came to US for a major and landed a job in finance then data science.

- Mostly hanging out with fiends from work (or previous work). Not much of a 'normal' social scene except around events.

- Just love the idea of living and breathing hard and meaningful problems. Bay area has interesting stuff going on all the time.

- I thought SF would be a beautiful, clean city. It's really is a dirty place. Oh well, I put up with it.
- Dating sucked. Met my wife here in the city outside of dating context (long story).

- Feeling like the industry is losing momentum. Less inspiring, more grinding. We should focus on hard problems, but a ton of money is spent on stupid get rich schemes. Software is making the world a worse place?
1920x1080 on a 14" display is unfortunately not something i will be okay with anymore. i feel like 2k resolution is the sweet spot for this size display.

EDIT: sorry, i meant QHD (1440p) (2560x1440)
>I mostly blame the Iraq war.

The Iraq war is mostly to blame in the recent past, but only because our attacks on Libya, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere haven't received the media coverage they warranted. We utterly destroyed Libya, which was the most prosperous country in Africa, in 2014. Today Libyans are being sold there in open-air slave markets. How many Americans know this? Our troops are occupying Syria illegally, right now. Where is the outrage?
A short term price target should incorporate long term cashflow expectations
I would use .NET 6 (aka cross-platform .NET Core) for the backend, and I would do as much server-side rendering, simple forms, and the PRG pattern as I can. Minimal javascript, JS frameworks (maybe React) for highly-interactive pages. Standard RDBMS (likely Sql Server), with some initial planning on how to achieve horizontal scale as the clientbase grows, but not get too lost in the weeds on planning for a future that may never come. Maybe sprinkle in some Redis, a cloud queue/service bus, and some blob storage as needed.
PRC's been fairly prescient around regulating/managing the internet/tech, folks here whine, but west increasingly adopting PRC censorship and filtering, and eventually we will see sense in regulating algos. Tech was already in crosshairs, PRC simply more able to execute. Just an aside, new focus on algo mirrors PRC developing concepts around warfare, from informatization and now intelligization. Former about info, latter about algos. I hope those terms get more use.
If your whole job is to use power-tools, the fact of using power-tools by itself — scary to some — becomes benign for you. `rm -rf` isn't scary to type if you e.g. write CI scripts intended to run in sandboxes all day. Deleting a repo isn't scary if you delete a lot of pointless repos.

A prompt that pops up to warn you that you're doing something potentially dangerous, when you know that what you're doing is benign, is a prompt that's crying wolf. You'll learn to tune it out.
"the biggest accidental community loss in open source history"

This was very much drama for very little.

Sure, some might follow the project to know about updates, but if people care that much if they are using the latest version of a CLI tool then they will certainly check it out again later.

Very very few people of those who followed the project cares, and close to nobody cares what percentile the project ranks as by number of stars on github. Heck, even the author cares so little that he let himself mess around mindlessly while ignoring warnings and forgetting what the project was called.

Github warned about the action, and even required written confirmation to make sure it was the correct repo. The author also makes a point about naming being different for orgs and private, but if the github repo had any meaning then the author must have been very aware of what the name of it was.

Sure, github can add even more roadblocks and confirmations for those who are very careless despite all the warnings, but I don't want that personally. It's a tradeoff, and I think github has the right balance.

But sure, the situation is mildly annoying for those few who actually care.

But the dumbest part: The complaint about github not using time to restore backups to correct the mistakes of the author. Sure, they probably could, but how will they decide if a user should get special treatment? If they start bringing out backups for some users then there will be a lot of others expecting and asking for the same thing, and more.

Some might say that it won't be a problem, but considering that the author is already expecting github to restore their backups for him because github restored their own backups only proves the problem.
are you referring to this? https://hackaday.com/tag/key-fob/
for a car, for a door, etc.
Wow, I had never heard that. Seems quite an odd thing to be proud of - it's a necessary evil. You'd think the exact opposite, like 'giving people a voice', would be a stronger motivation.
Come back when you have tried that with CJK. There is no font or rendering that can make that comfortable to read.

If it works for you, great, I'm just tired of people telling me I don't understand what I want and I shouldn't have to write a blog post justifying myself everytime I claim that higher screen res makes a huge difference for my use-case. It's not like Chinese language is an edge-case.
In both cases the dialog clearly warns you, with bolded text, on a separate line, of the consequences of your actions.

"We were in the top Xth percentile" makes the author sound like a complete tool and I have little sympathy for them, especially given they're already back to 3k stars.

Expecting the dialog to say "now, you've got 50,000 stars, are you REALLY REALLY SURE?" is just infantile, but really matches the overall tone the author has.