skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed, I stopped reading after this sentence.
I am far from the only person who expressed concern about what happened in Australia. I also saw huge numbers of Australians protesting in the streets, unless you are claiming that the lockdown protests are somehow hyperbolic and not real.

Human Rights Watch [1] documented a variety of arbitrary abuses and disturbing authoritarian trends. I watched videos of police choke-slamming an innocent woman for not wearing a mask [2], people being forcefully kidnapped from their homes and taken to camps (!) [3], and many other abuses.

The comparison with the National Socialist regime in WWII is not a comparison of specific ideologies, as I already made very clear, but of a societal-level adoption of coercive actions and narratives in the name of serving the greater good. There is a desensitization that occurs and, IMO, any honest student of history would see the exact same forces at play.

1: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/24/australia-harsh-police-r...

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Svogj_qPL_I

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGFdWcJU7-0
This is a great idea! I would love to see some real examples, what can people think of that would work for this?
I guess at that point of ones career they can basically write their own job description and budget, and people will line up to pay them whatever that description says.
How they are pushing? There was no chance for Ukraine to be in NATO since Crimea and Donbas.
The real question is why would shareholders that care about profits own Twitter stock? In its entire history there have been 2 years it didn’t lose money and actually recorded a profit.
We need an AI to design a language that is optimal for humans to program with. Languages should be designed by behavioral scientists rather that computer scientists bcause their goal is to adapt to the human rather than the machine. For example one of the biggest limitations of humans is limited capacity of working memory. Async paradigms exhaust this limit very early and lead to frustration compared to serial programming. Writing one of them in the form of the other doesn't solve any problem and is indeed a travesty
Bullshit fascist apologia, Ukraine is a sovereign democratic nation, end of story.
I don’t think you understand securitization or bond ratings.
Arguing with someone that their opinion is wrong is not gaslighting. Gaslighting is denying fundamental reality. Like a man screaming obscenities at his girlfriend and then later telling her he never used any curse words towards her.

You can debate whether a joke is racist or a joke about race, or whether there's a difference between the two. It's not gaslighting
Phenylethylamine works somewhat like that: take 2-3g and don't drink. If you do, you'll heavily regret it as it will fuck up your blood pressure to the point of getting all red and passing out. Not safe at all, but it did work for me for a while. Quitting out of fear can work.

A better alternative to treating alcoholism and anxiety are gabapentinoids and gabaergics. There are a few of them, and indeed Gabapentin has been known to be used exactly for these purposes in the US (not Europe, God no, they'll think you're fucking insane).

At low-moderate dosages, they give the anxiety relief/relaxation effects of alcohol with none of the negative effects, except withdrawals - several days of insomnia/nightmares if stopping them abruptly. They work on the same receptors as alcohol, so it's kind of a replacement, and it's much easier to taper off them. However if you start taking them together, that can be a problem, as they complement each other. You can end up drinking less... or getting even more fucked every night. As always, gotta be really careful and follow some rules.

I have quit alcohol completely after more than a decade of use and abuse, I realized it's fucking me more than helping (actually always knew, but it was irresistible). Lately I was mainly using it to go to sleep, so I found this wonderful drug called Tizanidine, an alpha2 agonist prescribed as a muscle relaxant, but at slightly higher doses it quite literally knocks you tf out.

No major negative side effects besides indeed, relaxing muscles (so it's best to exercise when waking up or your joints may be in danger), no withdrawals. Tolerance builds up rather fast, after 2 weeks you need double the dosage. But 4 weeks was enough for alcohol cravings to subside a bit. I still miss the taste of beer hah.

Since I could fall asleep at any time, that was one major reason to not need alcohol. I even stopped myself from going to the store by taking Tizanidine as soon as I started thinking about beer (which was almost always in the evening). Then I found something for depression (SSRIs don't work).

You'll say, "you just traded one drug for another" - yes, I did, however the positive:negative effects ratio has massively shifted towards the former.

And I regularly quit my (self-made or self acquired... man, fuck mental healthcare) medication so I can test how addicted I am. It's nothing like alcohol was, that is absolutely life destroying shit that I hope I never taste ever again for the rest of my life.
People keep bringing up your point 5 here. Almost every other comment seems to parrot this idea that there is some paragon of free speech that Twitter doesn't achieve.

Setting all the discussion of what free speech should be, aside,
I don't see people making the point that Twitter's huge success as a social media platform may actually relate to their moderation policies. Twitter was found to be more resistant to fake news than other social media sites. I don't know whether this relates to the public nature of tweets or their moderation.

Twitter's moderation policy may exactly be the reason the platform has done so well, and rather than clamouring for Twitter to change, I'd suggest that we allow the free market to allow another platform with different a moderation approach to compete.
Care to give some examples of the helpers? I always just use new Promise()
Nuclear winter/autumn depends on the formation of a firestorm. Only a large sustained firestorm that sustains its own wind system will lift soot into the stratosphere. In the Gulf war, there were no sustained firestorms because fuel was below the ground and came from spot sources.

Today fuel loads in major cities are much lower than they were from the 60s to 80s and that makes it more unlikely for firestorms to start from cities.

There are a huge caveats to this thinking though.

1) Fuel loads from above-ground oil, natural gas, and coal storage areas are big enough to start a massive firestorm. Cushing, Oklahoma alone has enough fuel to cause severe cooling.

2) Nuclear strikes to some specific areas, California during a fire season, might create a firestorm that covers a large percentage of the state and burns everything down in just few hours.
I didn’t read the article like that at all.

How would you handle two asynchronous saves which can happen in parallel without using a Promise.all? Don’t think you can…and that’s pretty much the entire point of the article.

Async/await is useless unless you are willing to serialize your calls defeating the entire point of async code.
Romania Should Give the MiG-21 Lancers It Just Grounded to Ukraine
Chinese astronauts land on Earth after China's longest crewed space mission
Tips on how to read a science paper like this that involves mice or rats and makes lots of implicit and explicit bd claims about relevance to humans:

(from of a card carrying neurogeneticist who uses mice and rats to study the biology and treatment of human diseases, specifically alcoholism and substance use disorders)

Step 1: Go to Methods section of the paper and check the SEX, AGE, and TYPE(s) of mice or rats that that the team used.

Here is what this team writes:

“Male ICR mice were used for behavioral experiments (age: 6–10 weeks; Tokyo Laboratory Animals Science Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan). The total number of animals used in the study were 232 animals.”

So SEX = all males

AGE = 6 to 10 wks, which in human terms is roughly 12 to 19 years-of-age — teenagers.

TYPE = ICR = Imperial College Institute of Cancer Research albino outbred mouse stock

Do you see any problems yet with the design?

Step 2: How many mice did they study? ANSWER = 232. This is a substantial number of mice to study, so we expect to see dense data plots and low error terms.

Step 3: Check if they tried to do the work blinded to the treatment groups.

Step 4: Review the individual case data and statistics only if you feel the work passed steps 1, 2, and 3, above.

The goal of the first four steps is to establish the likely relevance of results and their generality to both sexes, multiple ages, and to other types of mice or rodents. Once that is established then and only then can we speculate in relevance to humans.

This study FAILS on all three of the first steps—one sex; one narrow age range, one quirky type of outbred stock.

Do not even bother to read the results. Instead send the authors a letter asking them why they thought they could ignore studying female mice. Ask them why they only studied juveniles. Ask them why they did not study other types of mice before getting their public relations team all fired up. Ask them if they think this work robustly generalizes from young male iCR mice to humanity at large.

I love using rodents in research because you CAN do the studies right! Work using rodents CAN be highly relevant to humans heath care.

Mice and rats can be great models for human disease but only if used correctly—rodents and primates are in the same super-order of mammals—the euarchontoglires, aka the superprimates! They are evolutionarily a bit closer to us than are cats, dogs, pigs, bats, whales, and giraffes.

Below is a link to my first study using mice if you want to see how research using rodents should be done. I was a young assistant professor with little funding at a second tier research institution. If I could do this then, then researchers at the top research institution in Japan should be able to do the right thing today.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8929428/
> Is there a special kind of celebrity niche that the billionaire businessman fills that occupies an ancient hierarchical part of our society?

It’s interesting thinking of the English heritage. French heritage would lead to different views on how to deal with pseudo royalty.

> I read Yishan's post here as kind of like a duke commissioning an epic poem in the hopes it'll influence the king.

He writes at the beginning that a lot of people are requesting his take, so he made it public instead of answering each individually. It doesn’t feel like he cares much about what Elon would think about his opinion.
Hyperscript can help with this. https://hyperscript.org/

Makes using a bit of JavaScript relatively simple, just not much in Stack Exchange yet which means reading docs..
GeoWorks Ensemble (1991)
The picture just says 1000 words but not in the way meant. This just shows the power is somewhere else ;-)
For a while now I've been worried about this -- either integrations asking for full read/write access for a service that might seem to need only read.

Or maybe worse, integrations asking for access to anything my account has access to, when I only want to grant it to one repo or organization, or only to public repos and not private ones.

Whenever I've reached out to inquire/complain about this, I've been told that github does not give them granular enough auth settings to ask for less than this.

Is this true? I don't know. When I've tried looking at the relevant github docs myself, i quickly get confused.

Does anyone understand the github auth architecture -- does it need to be fixed to allow more granular access, or are integrations just not using it properly? Like... who should I be complaining to?
Exactly. This genre is all about “taxes as punishment against people I hate” and has nothing to do with orderly government.
> Would your joke about non-binary people be about the idea of being non-binary or at the expense of the people who are non-binary?

That line is so thin, one person might think it has been crossed while another might not. Ideally, the joke would be about the idea but some will say that’s still at the expense of those people.

Mocking the mentally ill has been done for decades. I don’t think there should be any taboo in humor. There’s always someone who will be offended, no matter who or what you joke about.

For the record, I don’t think non-binary people are mentally ill.
Christopher Hitchens' Last Interview
Germany Inc. Played Russian Roulette – and Lost
Hey I hear you, I'm not gonna gaslight your experience, let met just say this:

1) Getting a job that pays well isn't that easy in most fields

2) Getting a job as a software dev in FAANG or somewhere else desirable to many devs is plain difficult; you are competing against dozens and sometimes hundreds of candidates, some of whom are pretty good. There is no real "dev shortage" for these companies, if anything there's a huge inflation of devs who are qualified and want to work for them.

3) The tech interview process sucks and almost everyone acknowledges this and hates it; just 2 days ago I was asked a riddle about how to measure 45 minutes when burning ropes that take 60 minutes to burn. That was freaking half the interview, the other half was a difficult array question. Looking at the solution now there's no way I could come up with it even on a good day. And the company was a run of the mill company most people haven't even heard of, not exactly a FAANG. I was interviewing for a team with a pretty esoteric tech stack which I am super qualified for - but alas I get stressed when confronted with boys scouts riddles in a high pressure situation - so I must not be worthy of the job.

What I'm saying is - I think we all suffer in this together, it might be a bit better for recent grads but not by much. In the next downturn you will have dozens of people who know you well and will recommend you and help you get a job - a recent grad has nothing and will be the first to be let go since most of them can't really produce much yet. I'd take being 50 something with 2 decade worth of experience and connections than being a recent grad now.
const x = somethingAsync();
const y = somethingAsyncToo();

return { foo: await x, bar: await y }

There is no point in returning one before the other because you need both?
If every race was treated equally there would be no racism. I think that’s pretty self evident.

Also, no one is asking you to accept it, it’s the law in many countries.
I mocked creationism too. You can mock my dying mother for all I care.
I wouldn’t like it but believe in your right to say whatever you want.
I apologise if I left you with that one when I left my first job in 2003!

:)
That second statement makes me think you don't have authority to speak about Vim.
This forum is obsessed with stock. Some things are bigger than the financial 'value' of a company.
Extortion is a reliable source of rents, once legalized.
What are the most effective ways to get cars out of cities?
For a simple case like this I'd probably just go with something like tmp.$$.tmp.
> I'd be interested to know if you can link to a single example of someone insisting that they be referred to using a neopronoun (and not accepting e.g. they).

Read the HRC FAQ you just linked to in the previous comment. It includes this:

> Some transgender and non-binary people do not identify with the gender binary and prefer not to use pronouns typically associated with men (he/him) or women (she/her). Instead, they may prefer if people simply use their names, use gender neutral pronouns such as “they/them” or use other pronouns such as “fae/faer” or “ey/em.”
I have always wondered if putting confidential info in even private git repo was a good idea, although it seems to be a common practice? I feel like that question has been answered, for me anyway.
I was introduced to vidir through ranger's :bulkrename feature. Extremely handy. I don't think I've used the other stuff, but from reading the thread, vipe sounds great.
"We have more data than ever, more good data than ever, a lower proportion of data that are good, a lack of strategic thinking about what data are needed to answer questions of interest, sub-optimal analysis of data, and an occasional tendency to do research that should not be done."
It is not the US, it is the neocon falcons in the Department of State. The Pentagon in several times has shown to be a lot less eager for a war than the DoS.

They have been hell bent on using Ukraine situation as a starter on their plan of destroying Russia since the same sinister figures were in the Obama administration.

They are the Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheneys of our time, and to compound the tragedy they found in Putin, the Putin of our time.

Between they and Wladimir they form the coalition of the eager with the willing.

And nobody seems to care that Victoria Nuland and their ilk are happily leading us to the abyss of nuclear war.
Next: calculating 4004 on the Pi
"Also anecdote: the easiest way to quit alcohol is with xanax."

Ugh. Replacing addiction with addiction. Go this route if you have extreme medical conditions requiring it. EG. You are an alcoholic with serious liver issues, then by all means substitue xanax. Rehabs are full of people with xanax issues.
Async/await is certainly not promises. In fact it would be much better implemented without promises as I proposed here: https://es.discourse.group/t/callback-based-simplified-async...

I would even say that async/await is anti-promise, it takes the main functionality of promises, a caching layer for results and errors that allows you to add the code continuation later and elsewhere (which is a major footgun imo) and coerces the execution flow back to going on the next line and provided immediately at compile time which results in a cleaner flow but not as clean, stateless, efficient or functional as if you were to remove the promises completely. Having an additional caching layer and state machine around every asynchronous function call is quite inefficient.

The essence of async/await is not promises, it's the underlying javascript generator (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...) functionality combined with asynchronous code to stop and start the generator. It's the ability to pause and resume function execution based on asynchronous operations.

The promise functionality, the caching layer and state machine for results is basically sanitized away with async/await, it becomes dead-weight computation. The only benefit of promises in async/await code is being able to more easily interface with other promise laden code which you don't need once you have async/await and a library like https://www.npmjs.com/package/async for more complex cases.

Note that promises based async/await is also a mess of an implementation that breaks stack traces and needs to support tons of odd statement corner cases (basically anything that can return an object that could be a promise) whereas a continuation passing style async/await would be a much simpler implementation that would only apply to function calls and maintain stack traces. We would get that stack trace support automatically because of the great work of whoever implemented javascript generators which seem to already carry stack traces across paused/resumed functions (if you don't wrap in promises).
Good for the host, but not good for the refugees.
I think the point of Yishan's post is that social networks are not the equivalent of telephone companies, they're their own thing and can't really be compared to what came before or treated as such.
"Yours faithfully" is just weird. Faithful to what? Why are you faithful to an unidentified individual or entity? Not judging you personally here; it's just weird. Sounds archaic, borderline creepy.
As soon as you need to chain Promises, this gets very annoying and you quickly find yourself in a nested callback hell.
The EMP; the radiation sickness; the nuclear winter; the resulting famine: just because the horsemen of the apocalypse ride precisely the required horseflesh to seat a string quartet does not make the idea Bach. https://youtu.be/cW9FqU2JNBI
I am not the NSA. And the comment was not meant to be understood as talking about every crazy nutter conspiracy theory aggregated into a Wikipedia page.

So what are you stating with the comment? All conspiracy theories are false or did not originate on some less outrageous event?
I think you didn't read what I wrote, did I say 'rust is good' ? I meant the rust compiler contains logic you are searching for. And you need to learn about being polite to people trying to help you.
Yeah, I have grafana cloud monitoring my personal websites and there have been several incidents/outages from netlify over the past month. A tweet to them went unanswered as well. The downtime has been bad enough that I’m thinking of moving out for netlify and just deploy them on either GitHub pages or S3 & Cloudfront.
Normal Heroku usage doesn’t download a zip because it uses git directly, but I’ve seen plenty of CI tools download zips.
Assuming AVX-512 actually works well (haven't had the opportunity to use it myself), it could be very useful in high-end gamedev. Data-oriented programming is popular there, which makes it much easier to optimize data transformations w/ SIMD. Good compilers can even do some auto-vectorization (it's a nice boost with no additional programmer effort but you can't rely on it much). GPUs tend to be already fully loaded by the intensive rendering workload, so there is a large incentive to squeeze as much as you can out of the CPU.
> In terms of knowledge

Perhaps, but efficacy is knowledge combined with experience. Experience requires time, diverse challenges, mistakes and so on.

Many bootcampers (and low-level developers generally) seem to think you can jump ahead to being senior/lead without actually gaining the experience, making the mistakes and learning the lessons first-hand.

Sadly, there's plenty of crap low-level companies that will hire them too.
Speculation:

One of the game companies that do distribution (valve, epic)

Working with old colleagues (as a C-level?) at oxide.

One of the major cloud providers, very likely microsoft.
My prediction is that Elon will have sold a majority of his stake in Twitter soon, netting him a huge gain before the dust settles. And he’ll likely get a small symbolic fine again for his blatant market manipulation.
Is that any more elitist than judging the resume by grammar or by the prestige of the schools, former employers, and references it lists? Hiring is a situation where you're literally looking for the best: it's by definition elitist.
Owning and Operating Private Prisons
Everyone simply thought “real estate only goes up.” In valuing the mortgage, the credit worthiness of the borrower was secondary to the value of the home, and the data still bears out half the story. In rising real estate markets mortgages simply don’t default. Problem is, everyone forgot real estate can go down.
Yeah, I didn't say anything about it being certain. I was outlining why it was developed.
You really end up creating promises manually, the vast majority are downstream from an IO call like fetch() or a database query.
My personal account audit log says “salesforce-revocation-bot” removed my Heroku Dashboard OAuth Application a few hours ago.
It sounds like the unique attribute you're describing in humans is nuance and contextual understanding, but we developed those as a way of doing something a neutral network does inherently by means of error adjustment.

I don't think there's ever an expectation that the data is "truth" but that we have to contextualize it and adjust it. Humans adapted to those through different mechanisms than NN but the goal is still fundamentally the same: to predict something with as much accuracy as possible despite the infinite noise of the data that is the world.
I adore this kind of precise and incrementally improved solution.

To me this exhibits the very best of the engineering craft: small, measurable improvements anchored in real issues faced by the consumer/client.