skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isnt the guns. Canada has basically all the same guns and the Canadian PM doesnt travel with an army. It is about information. The US president's every movement is announced publicly days or weeks in advance. His advance team openly secures routes ahead of his convoy. They are effectively daring someone to try something. Cananda does it differently. Thier PM's exact moves are not announced to the world the week before. And when he goes somewhere he doesnt bring an army, rather he uses mostly local police who know the terrain. Thats the benifit of having a national police force (RCMP). The american secret service isnt integrated with the hundreds of different police agencies in the US. They dont trust them. So they bring thier own army every time, to face down all the potential troublemakers who know exactly where the president is going to be standing almost to the minute.
I like big promises and I cannot lie?
He makes it clear he’s the sort to play ball, so he gets the money for the campaign. He plays ball, so he gets paid. And it’s not $400k, it’s $10-20 million per year indefinitely. See my other comment—-the Clintons made $150 million on speeches alone between 2001 and 2016.
In your long, meandering post that reminds me of the long, meandering thread you linked, you claim that anyone who supports free speech is "actually a deeper enemy of discourse" than a censor. That's creepy Orwellian nonsense and anyone "smart" enough to convince themselves that up is down should not be making decisions.

This actually isn't hard. Ban racial slurs, "doxxing," calls to genocide, and low effort provocations. Don't ban ideas because you're convinced they are wrong or dangerous.
> - There's nothing you can do about this, so just forget about it.

It depends. My friend had a bad tinitus for years. He thought it was from clubbing and the jet noise in the military.

He just has bad hearing and with his hearing aids, the tinitus is gone.
> private citizens getting doxxed, slandered, and sometimes fired from their jobs because of a racist tweet or off-putting remark.

I think even more concerning for most people is a mob going after and firing people who didn't do these things. David Shor getting fired because he Tweeted that rioting was a bad political tactic, causing angry Twitter users to successfully press his employers to fire him. The case of the guy who got fired because someone thought he made an "OK" sign while driving and whipped up an angry Twitter mob (both cases are discussed here[1]).

Here's a random case I had stumbled upon a few years back that's now been forgotten[2] - man posts video of Chipotle telling him he has to pay for his burrito first because they say he's taken burritos without paying for them, accuses Chipotle workers of racism, and whips up a Twitter mob. Chipotle immediately apologizes and fires the manager. Then people notice old Tweets from the same guy bragging about stealing burritos from Chipotle. This leads Chipotle to rehire the person. If a random person decides to lie about you and whip of a Twitter mob, you have to hope that they've been so sloppy as to brag about their crimes on Twitter beforehand, because a simple unverified accusation from any random person is enough to get you fired.

And even after many cases like this, Twitter still let's people try to create Twitter mobs to get revenge on private citizens (particularly jarring when Yishan is arguing that the reason news articles are censored is to avoid angry mobs). However, they'll ban people who politely state heterodox opinions on controversial subjects (even if they are relatively common positions among the public). And since Yishan brings up Reddit, it's worth noting that they have a similar approach as well (whipping up angry mobs is fine, heterodox positions are not).

This culture on these sites is a result of the choices that social media companies have made (and not just the choices mentioned above, but others like the efforts made to push engagement). We see the results of that choice by the state of these sites. And the people involved, instead of taking responsibility for what they've created, decide to dump all the blame on the users.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...
[2] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/chipotle-rehires-manage...
I prefer async/await but this is a contrived example.

For starters you can just write:

const myfunc = () => new Promise(resolve => resolve())

or

Promise.resolve()
I would upvote this as insightful if we were still on Slashdot. These one-man pioneers like to further the impression that they are the sole reasons for their success, but the reality is that we all build on the shoulders if giants. I am not shitting on his ability to make his endeavours successful - I am just saying that the proportion of his responsibility for it is much lower than most people think.

I'm not sure what it is about some societies that like to make a single person out to be an idol. We see it in team sports, scientists who work in large teams, businesses where CEOs are deemed several thousand times more of a factor than other workers, medicine where doctors are placed on pedestals. I guess people like a hero, and the alternative explanation, that hundreds of hard working and bright people came together to make something happen, is less compelling.
I don’t disagree - I think Lehman Brothers was a great example that you can have a giant bank go under. The productive assets of Lehman were back at work within six months and the value destroying units disappeared. I think had the Fed/Treasury let Bear Stearns go bankrupt instead of making JPMC swallow them (same for BofA and Merrill Lynch) it might have ripped the band aid off, rather than dragging it out.

But importantly — bailing out the banks isn’t really bailing out the banks, it’s bailing out the banks’ creditors.
Overall it seems to me like a confirmation that when you know how to do something very well (drawing) the tools used become less relevant when you have also the dedication and patience.

I mean, you could provide me with any graphic tool in the world, even the most advanced ones, and I wouldn't be able to produce anything half as beautiful as those cutaways.
Maybe they should not be required in the ideal state, but I don't think it's wise to design your processes to only accommodate the ideal state.
> resumes have to be handwritten.

This is elitist evil.
Not all things are computable though, no?
If you find this interesting you might enjoy the larger social cycles proposed in [1] H.S. Generational Theory.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generat...
The Special Escort Group[1] is interesting: they are highly skilled at moving the VIP with minimum of fuss and disruption, even using whistles rather than sirens to minimise the effect of their passage and only closing one junction at a time.

Possibly because the default reaction to a flashy and obnoxiously visible convoy in the UK might be an eye roll and "fuck's sake, get over yourself".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Escort_Group_(Metropol...
This is exactly the type of comment I was originally writing about, where there is no respect for other people's right to form their own conclusion.
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I'm not saying that people that can see the difference don't exist. I'm saying that many people exist that don't see that difference.
Is a Lexus overengineered, or just better at a cost?

If you don't lose a pencil, it lasts for decades and the cost is trivial.
Are you saying covid will just go away once the lockdown is over?
Maybe they did or didn't - but regardless of what those companies might have once done, they are now all owning big solar and wind businesses too.

If you look at the people asking tough questions about climatology, none of them have any links with energy firms. The median climate change skeptic is a retired engineer of some kind, or sometimes a retired climatologist. They don't have any links and they attack climate science because they think science should be accurate and disagree that big changes should be made on the back of bad science, but disagree that this particular field is accurate. That's it, that's their whole motivation.

Doesn't matter. Look at the post you're replying to. It's greyed out. You aren't allowed to even observe that people get cancelled for arguing about climate change - that's how far it's gone.
So when I meet a flat earther I need to be respectful and acknowledge the earth is flat?
Those people consider it to be part of their identity too.

Why is it ok to dismiss one group but we have to be respectful of another?

Anyway, I never said I want to mock people in their face but the ideas they believe in should be fair game.
"And the worst part, the part that is going to hurt ALL OF HUMANITY, is that this will distract from his mission at SpaceX and Tesla, because it's not just going to suck up his time and attention, IT WILL DAMAGE HIS PSYCHE."

Ugh, so cringy.
> This is ignoring the point: positive rights should not exist

I’m confused by this statement. You don’t have an inalienable right to keep the area around your home exactly how you want it either. That’s a positive right and requires taking the rights of others, for example by enforcement of zoning laws that affect land owned by other people.
The mods hid it not me.
It was about Russia, but I see this creeping up a little bit in France. The recent president was a bit too quick to put police blocks everytime there was a manifestation. They were a little more brutal and unhinged than usual and the president didn't seem to be annoyed about it. If he pushes further in that direction I'll be afraid of the police in the streets and will suddenly lie about my beliefs in public out of fear of being threatened or arrested.

Western countries have flaws, yeah the media spread bullshit depending on which interests each channel has, US police is too gun-ready, the financial world is rigged, etc etc but so far people can still speak up, it's a subtle but crucial difference.
> you think it's a complicated legal issue if a country that wasn't attacked or was about to attacks another one

It is. Look up Article 51 of the UN charter. Russia's case is that there was an imminent attack on its sovereign ally. As I said, I don't think that would hold up, but it's a logical argument. "Country wasn't attacked" is not how this law works.

> annexation of Crimea

I have a similar opinion there, which is that Russia was on a poor legal footing for that action, although did proffer a defense, but that the US played a large role in that happening. Recall that simultaneous with that conflict was Ukraine's democratically-elected president being overthrown in a violent coup that by all appearances was backed by the US.

> Putin's rant how Ukraine shouldn't be a country

I didn't comment on that because I've never heard that. I'd have to read his comments to comment myself.

> those new NATO countries don't have nukes stationed in them

If the point here is that NATO participation isn't a threat to Russia, I would just say that of course it is, or the US wouldn't have expanded it.

> the whole European NATO standing army is not larger than Russia's

Germany just said they're increasing their defense budget to 100B euros.

There's a deeper issue here by the way, which is that I'm simply not going to continue to go along with the line that I and, I see, my entire country has been fed my entire life, that America #1, and we're the good guys, and everyone else who doesn't do exactly what we say are the bad guys, and be told who I have to hate and who needs a righteous war to straighten them out.

Every single hot military conflict the US has been involved in in my lifetime has turned out to be immoral, wrong, based on lies, or best-case scenario, absolutely none of our business and not something we should have been involved in. I have zero trust in anything the government, or the media they appear to control, has to say at this point.
Trouble getting it to work in Firefox on Mac OS
Question: if someone built an alternative (e.g. open-source) version of Twitter, could the new EU regulation (see [1]) aid in forcing Twitter to interoperate with that new service?

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/24/dma-political-agreement
Yes, there’s a protocol and it’s called the alcohol withdrawal scale. Advocating for people to switch from alcohol to xanax to quit drinking… this is utter madness and I strongly advise anyone who reads this to completely disregard this advice.
I’ve been ramping up learning rails over the past year. When I wanted to set up an environment on my laptop I googled “install rails M1 Mac” and found a guide and it worked first try.

When I wanted to set it up on another machine I did the same. It also worked.

Then I was pulling down a repo I had been working on and realized I had the wrong ruby version. I knew this because I had an error message that said something like can’t find this ruby version. So then I googled how do I change the active ruby version rails or something. I read the answers and changed the version then it all worked.

I’ve been doing some version of digital development of something or other for a living since about 1997.

Except for switching from trying to find the right page in a book to typing it into google it’s been basically the same process described above every time. Every year, every language.

Not sure rails is special.
I don't understand at all what you're saying. Sounds like you push your code to a branch called master that tracks master but sits on a separate repo and then you apply your commits after approval via patches? Seems like you're recreating the concept of branches using repos and then using patches instead of merging.

Either way, just so you know, this kind of attitude and that you think it's a-ok to use such a convoluted process for what is effectively the same thing would 100% mean me not hiring you. That may not mean much on some random forum on the net, but you will encounter it a lot as the industry is definitely not aligned to this odd flow you described.
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It is not the US per se. But many people are eager to do it. Like with the no-fly zone. I understand that Ukraine was asking for it. They are desperate and already in war. But NATO directly attacking (SAMs inside) Russia and Belarus is probably not the best idea.
Please define speculation. Do you define it as pure luck? If so, your claim is tautological.
Why not use a couple of motorcycles and two MRAPs, one main and one replacement in the even the main suffers an incident?
Choosing how to spend money is a mixture of many things including desires, needs, awareness, understanding, planning, and luck.
Another Australian here. “Cheers” or “Regards” every time. I see no need for greater formality than that.
Bracha mentions somewhat offhand that JIT technology originated in the APL world. Anyone have links to the foundational work there?
new Promise() is not how you want to create a promise in JS (except when you really have to), just like 'new'/'delete' are not how you ant to allocate memory in C++ (except when you really have to). There are lots of helpers in that class that make promises significantly more ergonomic.
Here is a picture of the Dutch Minister President and his motorcade:

https://www.ad.nl/den-haag/alleen-rutte-fietst-nog-naar-zijn...

Unfortunately even he had to have personal protection during the last couple of years for a period because of threats against him with respect to an attack or an attempt to kidnap him.
Nobodies throwing zero days against Dave and Susan's Toy Store, it's just not economically feasible.
This is why it's important to have 'bait' to know if secrets are stolen or attackers have access to something they shouldn't.

For example, my site, serverthiefbait.com might help...
The only thing that cures alcoholism is a desire (and thorough conviction) to not to die with the dishonor of being a drunk.
I would prefer to see how we're progressing on the 'prevention of anxiety in the first place' front rather than another money-making band-aid for illusory effect.

Not dismissing anxiety and a desire from those suffering to get out of it, but this wreaks of another case of solving difficult/complex problems with 'simple' solutions...
The answers on https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/76594/if-you-are-a-l... strongly suggest that the IRS generally would not share these papers with other law enforcement agencies (except under very special circumstances).
My bad, lol. But yeah

The actual Russian duma website: http://duma.gov.ru/en/
Or it was a training event. There are more fake convoys out there than real ones, and yes they will block traffic during practice events.
It should probably be head canon, but bearing the game's name in mind, head cannon might be accurate too.
That project of 'overwhelming might' looked pretty silly when they got the beast stuck a while ago.

Also, pretty wild to see your comment downvoted, someone must feel upset that you aren't giving 'proper respect' or something to that effect. Have an upvote.
> Like, bailout retail instead of Wall Street?

That’s a nice sentiment, but on a practical level what does that really mean? Who do you want to cut checks to, and for how much? And more importantly why?

As a taxpayer, why should someone who lost money get mine? If some retail investor put money with one of your so-called “corrupt and incompetent” banks why should they be made whole with my money?
Backups should be handled by an external process, otherwise, your script also needs to take into account:
- Number of backups to retain and cleaning up old versions
- Monitoring of backups. What if backing up fails?
- The script itself can tamper with the backups unintentionally?

Speaking from (bad) experience
Cool dude. Makes me want to emigrate to NL.
I agree.

That said, there is a remaining question: should (by which I mean: is it socially desirable) the component of randomness leading to land value appreciation also multiply * the value of improvements?

* I wrote 'multiply' without evidence, largely based on an educated guess. To what degree is this a reasonable claim?
> all the potential troublemakers

Some of which may be part of those local police forces.
The level of analysis deep learning systems get is considerably out-of-proportion, and speaks to a superstitious view of how ML works. Namely, that it uncovers latent representational structure not present in the data.

(Incidentally, its clear this book doesnt make this mistake, already identifying that NN is basically kNN).

Rather ML algorithms are just rememberings of data coupled with various degrees of compression, with kNN having zero compression -- just a straight weights=data; and NNs having fairly significant levels, where weights=ensemble(compressions(data)).

We should therefore regard the ML step as incredibly trivial, it is just a clever process of averaging over the data given to it. The whole "magic" of ML, such as it is, is *only* in the data. And this is where the word "data" hamstrings our ability to see properly.

Everything *isnt* data; and "data" isnt some source of information. The world exists, and "data" is just what we call any measurement of any part of it by any means. "Data" is only *relevant* to the probelm we're trying to solve if we do incredible amounts of experimental work to carve-the-world along its joints, ie., to have the right concepts; and incredible amounts of work to measure along its joints, ie., to have the right units. *And then* to eliminate all the coincidences and irrelevances. *And then* to provide that to a machine, which at this point, does basically nothing but automate our effort.

Almost all data it is possible to collect is useless, indeed, an infinite amounts is useless. The magic of ML is a sleight-of-hand trick -- we dont really need to know how its averaging of our data does anything useful -- it almost never does.

Rather, it is our "experimental design" which produces the usefulness of the system. ML algorithms are just interpolations and averages through data prepared to produce useful averages by (literally millenia) of human ingenuity.

It takes actual intelligence to do this because the world isnt data, and almost any measurement one cares to make (with eyes, even) produces endless ambiguities and coincidences that you have to "be in the world" to resolve; and resolution is a dynamic process which you "have to be here for".
I guess here's what I'm wondering: did they somehow get multiple Oauth keys, one per account compromised on github -- from both Heroku and Travis, just coincidentally both heroku and travis exposed their customers keys somehow?

Or did they get one Oauth key each from Heroku and Travis that exposed all of their customers data on github? Are there keys that would do this, set up for what purpose?
Who actually thinks like this?

Callbacks were absolutely unmaintainable. Promises (and `async/await`) are really not that hard.
Now uses the proceeds of profiting to build a competitor
How’s that any different?

The US is very far from reasonable in many respects, which is why white supremacists, antivaxxers, etc, flourish. You should get familiar other societies, particularly in the European Union or South Africa.

In Brazil, you’ll go to jail for making racist claims. As you should. How could that be polemic in the 21st century?
> I am now ready to start rendering in GIMP. I use GIMP because it's good and free, but I prefer PAINT for the drawing.

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Just being conscious of side effects really.

From an architecture point of view, maybe you’d like to change the space vs. time tradeoff for a component (maybe apply memoization) in response to a change of business need but that can be nasty when the component itself knows how to go lookup business date by itself or how to send a notification etc.
I’m really curious to see how the rock star of cloud computing follows up Netflix …
No. Allergic reactions are the immune system responding to a substance in a hypersensitive way[1]. There is however a genetic component to how people respond to alcohol. Some people after having 1 drink have a strong desire to continue drinking to blackout levels. Others are more likely to feel sick or sleepy after 2 drinks and have a desire to stop. It isn't an immune system reaction, but it is a reaction.

The AA community generally considers this a disease that has no cure. Once an alcoholic you are permanently an alcoholic. So that is why you'll see people pushing the idea that it is similar to an allergy. They are correct that genetic differences exist, but in the real world, many people have substance abuse problems due to stress or anxiety or childhood trauma. Meaning the biological components are far less of an issue than the psychological and mental health component in most cases of substance abuse. A well documented point of evidence of this is heroin use in Vietnam [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_hypersensitivity
[2] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abst...
Even ignoring the indirect data correlate risk; it is also poor risk management to use one company for your entire digital life. It means having to keep actively abreast of what you lose access to in the event of an account ban & do contingency planning because correlated failures in systems are much more painful than random ones.

Better to just have 1 Google service you use and find someone else for the others. Their search index is a little better than DDG's I think, but the difference is pretty small compared to the risks you outline and the risk of Google going rogue and deciding I'm a Russian or committed some other similar crime & need to be booted from their services.
I would hope that the only way such an app gets trough Apple's review process is by cheating (e.g. detecting that it is being reviewed and behaving differently).

I would also hope that once Apple realizes this, the developer is banned right away – which does not seem to be the case (yet). While the app in question is not available in the App Store anymore, the developer's other apps employing the same scheme still are.