skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the validity or significance of the paper depends on whether LSAT questions are fit for DK's purpose, we have entered a much more subjective realm than whether they mishandled the statistical analysis - but as we are there, now, I feel that this particular question is not as bad as it is being portrayed.

Firstly, I think we should put aside the fact that it is labeled as a test of "logical reasoning": it is certainly not a test of formal logical reasoning, and an ambiguous or erroneous label does not necessarily make it a bad question (it is not necessary that it be characterized at all.)

Secondly, we are not logically obliged to accept that it has only one answer among the options presented, though if it has more or less than one while the people who posed it thought it had exactly one, that is a problem (I once was nearly expelled from a class for making this point at greater length than the instructor liked!) On the other hand, the question asks which of the candidate answers is most strongly suggested by the passage, which is not a statement that the others are false.

Here, however, it certainly has no more than one answer among the candidates: there is nothing in the passage that has any bearing on options A, B, D or E
- this is perhaps most obvious in the case of B, but the others are like it. In particular, with respect to D, that specific issue is not raised, and furthermore, if it was the government's opinion now that D was the case to the extent of having a bearing on the decision, there would be no need to explain its position in terms of a potential future determination that the tests are inconclusive.

C, on the other hand, is suggested by the government's explanation: if the tests were conclusive, their future refutation would not be a worry.

As I said, this is not a test of formal logic, where the government's response would not imply the possibility of future refutation. Nevertheless, to explain something on the basis of a premise that is only formally possible would be almost as much an informal fallacy as begging the question, IMHO, and one might suspect it is being offered deceitfully (a concept that has no place at all in logic.)

The sort of analysis of natural language called for here (to see what are and are not the issues being considered) is useful and important, for lawyers and the rest of us, and it is, as I have set out above, more objective than "makes sense" or "sounds plausible." If people were more practiced in analytical reading, then corporations, governments and other organizations would less easily get away with blatant non-sequiturs in their explanations of their positions and actions ("there is no evidence the attackers took any personal or confidential information"...)
> The purpose of any art form is to promise a payoff and then deliver on that payoff.

I disagree. Change “any” for “some” and I agree. The way you said it, it just seems like a gamification of art creation. There is very good, if long, essay on that.
You're insane.

Hello from Kyiv.
Yes, you really should die. If you want to have kids, that is. What shouldn't be is growing old and weak. That's the real pain.
but only ever in memory. writing to disk is the issue here.
That, but I imagine the convenient explanation also has a kernel of truth.
some great author, can't even spell 'movement'...
What's happening is large scale conventional warfare. Nothing special or new, it's just the same old horror so to speak.

What's different is that it is widely publicised pretty much live and that it hasn't happened in some time (although in the Syrian civil war Aleppo was similarly flattened). The invasion of Iraq is a bit different in that the gap between Iraqi and US capabilities was so great that the US did not really need to go all the way on that occasion (and of course they didn't want to show you, anyway).
Show HN: I built an app to create and deploy NFT collections
https://opensquare.click/

Would love some feedback
The financial situation is more complicated if you're comparing a group that no longer has the option of commuting into an office even if they'd be fine with that and a group being forced to commute into an office who don't want to.

The former may have--or have had--significant home upgrade costs to make working from home more palatable.

But, yeah, the latter is going to be in the hundreds of dollars a month for many (most?) people. If I drove the 20 miles or so into my suburban office and bought a cheap cafeteria lunch that would be in the maybe $400 dollars a month range. If I commuted into our office in the city either by train or car and ate out at least some days, you're getting closer to $1K per month.
It's interesting to read the language, the attitude, and the general tone of the conversations in those threads. Nothing has changed.

I did some things when I was their age that would get me time breaking rocks today. It seems like nothing in the hacking culture has changed. The only different things are that we were moving in slow motion because of the speed of our connections.

We even used to store our loot in "the cloud," too. Usually the mainframe accounts of college philosophy and literature professors who never logged in and so never used their disk quotas.
Tabler is a really awesome theme - sits right on top of bootstrap, and gives a very cohesive look for backends/admin interfaces. Also, the corresponding email template library is fantastic and only costs $30. Doesn’t seem like the project as a whole gets enough love.
Yes, you aren't allowed to resist. Embrace the corporate death grip.
You believe, I would imagine, that a hockey stick graph of rising temperatures is evidence for anthropogenic climate change. I believe that the hockey stick graphs of votes going nearly solely for Biden at the 11th hour are evidence of spread cheating. But there's mountains of other corroborating evidence. Look it up yourself. I'm not your research librarian. And it would be a waste of time anyway. No matter what I produce, you will dismiss it.
> They claim to "care about people", "care about the environment", etc.

yes but no one believes this. so what does that matter.
I think we’re approaching a point in human evolution where we should all be obsessed with death. Like, spending R&R time on biology.

100 years ago, it would be unhealthy - it was certainly an unavoidable outcome. I had this view going through high school and college - biology/anatomy classes never interested me. They were fairly hocus pocus in my eyes - like we were scratching the surface of a world we barely understood and wouldn’t master for dozens of generations. As if a Neanderthal discovered a computer and attempted to understand how it worked - they’d get there, but the original Neanderthal would be long dead before any real answers surfaced.

This changed recently. The hockey stick of progress is clearly forming in biology. With technology like CRISPR, we are starting to get the tools to reverse engineer and bend life to our will. Death doesn’t seem inevitable for my children anymore; our generation might actually be able to partially solve it - at least enough to buy the next generation enough time to fully solve it.
Hell you don't even have to get as specialized as purism, Dell and Lenovo offer Linux pre-installed.
Former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone had a child (his first son) at 90.

As a guy I am not that interested in having babies, we have reached a point where we are not facing underpopulation anymore and will not face it any time soon.

But for Ecclestone having a baby at 90...that's his POE (Proof of Erection), I tip my hat to that.
Here in Europe, banks are now kinda forcing people to use their mobile applications as a "security measure" (2FA, etc). Not doing so can prevent you from using your credit cards online or in some shops. It's probably the main reason I have a smartphone.

Have you ever had those issues before? How do you cope with it?
DK did not measure whether people think they know enough to critique others.
DK did not measure any actual professionals.
One thing that I haven't seen discussed is that the average age of a CNN viewer is 64. Building a streaming service around an elderly audience seems like it'd be tricky. That doesn't mean that it is impossible -- Fox News has done it reasonably well with Fox Nation and Fox News viewers have an average age of 68 (just like MSNBC).

But was this programming built for their elderly audience, or was it supposed to be an attempt at picking up a new, younger audience? Who was this for?

You watch a program like CBS Sunday Morning and it's clear they know who their audience is. Each week, they feature who passed away. They feature anniversaries of things like the Godfather and other stuff that their audience will like to reminisce about. A comedian talking about aging gracefully. Etc. But I don't think CNN did any of that with CNN+.

(Source for age claims: https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/05/24/msnbc-rashid... )
the attack actually seems to be very simple, once you obtained the credentials

luckily, you can just skip the part and buy VPN credentials and session cookies on the dark markets

it's so easy, it's almost cheating
Note that this uses an Intel-specific API, so it doesn’t currently work on AMD or ARM:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/perf-intel-pt.1.html

> Intel Processor Trace is an extension of Intel Architecture that collects information about software execution such as control flow, execution modes and timings and formats it into highly compressed binary packets. […] The main distinguishing feature of Intel Processor Trace is that the decoder can determine the exact flow of software execution.
What do you think about Russians?
Why? Life is long enough when well lived. My intuition is decisively against the idea of stretching longevity. How about we try to make more meaningful the time we are given rather than having more capacity for idleness and dread?
> We all know we're going to die

Not so sure about that. Ernest Becker wrote a book on the subject titled The Denial of Death (though some take issue with psychoanalysis, whether post-Freudian or not).

Even when we tacitly admit to the seeming fact, we still hedge in that our family, religion, culture, species, knowledge, or stories will continue into an infinity that (so far as we know) doesn't exist (this ignores, of course, notions of an afterlife, which can be seen as fulfilling the same need under different constraints). The universe (again, so far as we now) is hurtling towards heat death, and ultimately, producing a billion more generations and having one big humanity party this weekend capped off with Kool-Aid all amounts to the same.

Even then, infinity isn't really such a good anti-depressive. It's just that, unlike other animals (again, so far as we know) we have to craft such psychological defenses against our own analytic mental processes in order to fulfill the more fundamental drive of biological reproduction.
U.S. Is Set to Launch a $6B Effort to Save Nuclear Plants
Not a physicist, so maybe I have a completely wrong idea. But is not superposition of waves different than (in any event less surprising than) superposition in discrete particles?
Large scale conventional warfare does not necessary involves shooting all men over 18 in an area or systematic rapes the way Russia army does. Not ever one of those wars turn into genocide.
I doubt cities will suffer that much. Yes, companies and company rents are a huge part, but we don't exactly have a lack of people who want to live in the city as is. It also depends on the location and site: most offices I see available here cost far less than the equivalent room/apartment. Also creates a lot of jobs for builders and the likes to modify these offices.
If 15-21yo skiddies can buy their way in

I think it's interesting that they're buying their way in. Do those accounts not sell for very much?

Also, now that I know they just buy stolen credentials, and don't even have the talent to actually hack their way into the systems, I'm underwhelmed by their achievements.
manager class in a my friends circle is relived that covid is declared over so they can finally force ppl to office.
United Stations Radio Networks?

United States RussiaN?

USeRName?

Union of Socialist Reddit Nationalists?

Utopian Science Resisting Natalist?

We're shooting in the dark here. The only thing I could glean from your post history is that you might complain about woke people, and even that is really vague.
Why would Russia/DNR voluntarily level a city they want to incorporate into their breakaway republic? That's just falling into the "they're all orcs" propaganda trap.

The use of artillery etc ramped up as the Russians realized they wouldn't take the city any other way, but if the Ukranian army / Azov had vacated Russia would have happily taken the city without a shot fired.

Russia invading is already a war crime, but we don't need to pretend that they're behaving any differently to the way we did in Iraq.
Totally agree. Ukraine will never, ever, give up. The price will be high, but there is no other choice.
Could you expand a bit more on why death is a desirable outcome once you procreate?
Somehow the article fails to mention the weak subscriber numbers and lack of customer demand. Or full CNN's ratings, which would make a logical executive wonder how many people would pay for CNN when it can barely attract viewers for free.
There wasn't one. Pretending to mishear the crowd is how you get out of it. That's literally my point.
Probably not very many--few ISPs would throttle if their customers could easily switch to the single ISP who doesn't throttle. We also don't need to approach this as a theoretical problem: much of the world has ISP competition and they don't seem to have these problems. Further still, throttling Netflix is just one of many problems that derive from lack of ISP competition. High prices for generally shitty service is at least as big of a problem, and NN can't to do much to help there.

I'm not opposed to net neutrality, I just care more about fixing the anti-competitive stuff. If we can do both, all the better.
Thanks for the satire. It's very good. Sounds almost as if you believe it!
(The oil of) Cedarwood? Lavender? Also the oil made out of orange peels. (Not OrangeGlo!)
Another note about remote vs in-person, and this is super inhumane, remote has far less of a loss of productivity.

No tidal waves of sickness, no "train was late, we can start the meeting in 15 minutes" ripples through schedules, no commute, shorter lunch breaks on average, more integration with someone's life (eg: only working at their peak productivity, producing the best work).

Not to mention how big of a benefit it would be if they split a portion of the former office rent between all employees as monthly or quarterly "office stipend". I balked when I found out dingy offices I worked in were costing about $1k / person / month.

Remote work in my opinion is a no-duh for everyone.

Let's see capitalism truly at work for once; if your business can't adapt, it should die.
"+" is probably a bad choice: sum types are a separate thing. In TypeScript, they can be implemented as

Sum<X, Y> = { tag: "left", data: X } | { tag: "right", data: Y }

Generally higher order types are named according to what they do to types, not terms. `x: ICat & IDog` means "x is in the intersection of ICat and IDog", not "x is the intersection of an ICat and an IDog". (The latter interpretation only even makes sense for record types and a few other special cases: what's the intersection of an integer and a string supposed to be?)
We're commenting on the destruction in Mariupol so that's the usual strawman.
Furthermore, Russia is not doing anything that it hasn't already been doing for almost a century.
> Most Russians support this war.

It’s because all the Russians that would not support it know how sick Russia is, and have already left it behind.

All the Russians I know are sane people, but all of them live outside Russia :/
Same. My favorite topic (not easily brought up at parties though). Powerful meditation... Some suggested readings would be Ernest Becker and Sheldon Solomon.
I'm not arguing against it. I'm trying to understand the use case. There is already interop using FAT/exFAT. Apparently the problem with exFAT is not having an executable bit in order to run a Java binary.

File permissions usually don't make sense on an external drive that's moving between computers, much less computers running a different OS.

I just don't see why it's surprising that Microsoft and Apple don't have built-in support for ext when FAT/exFAT support is good enough for 99% of interop use cases.
There are options like Bristol/Didcot/Oxford parkway that do exactly that. Some of the lines are very slow though and need a lot of modernisation to give quick access. I wonder if some of this could be solved one day using small electric regional airlines that could land within the M25 and fly from small town airfields with parking.
> One of our best developers brought his guitar to the office because he said it helped him think.

That would drive me insane. Headphones or not.
But I totally get it! Working remote means I get to do all kinds of things that would probably annoy someone in an office, but help me think or concentrate.
Any theories on why they were so interested in Brazilian fleet management software? I’m guessing the only real value would be extortion but it seemed very specific.

Also it’s always amusing to hear about hackers who partake in the incident response meetings for their own hacks. Not the first time I’ve read that.
I still feel like alot of people are going to value WFH even if it means making less. I've only recently experienced this, but there comes a point where you start to value time over extra money.

For the longest time I always chased the job that paid the most, all else be damned. But as I've made more and more, the amount of extra $$ required for me to move has only gone up.

Recently turned down several offers from companies that offered an extra $25k on my salary but required a drug test (I live in Colorado, I'll let that speak for itself) and in-office work. Each time I've asked myself whether the extra cash would be worth giving up the lifestyle that I currently have, a fairly easy going job where I have plenty of time to peruse outdoor activities. The answer has so far been a consistent NO.

I'd rather make $200k and be happy than make $300k and be miserable.
No. Servers should never see the actual password. What case are you imagining where they need to?
At risk of sounding like an economist: energy is "strategic" or critical to society but it's hard to underestimate the power of markets to rapidly mediate a shift in technology such as the transition from landline to cellular phones, adoption of renewable energy, ...

Certainly the state must put in penalties and incentives to make the transition, but let's take the 'static' out of 'statism' and fight the tendency of the political system to be captured by today's dominant industries.
Glasgow's M8 (incomplete) ringroad is famous for its ski-jumps to no-where and ghost junctions and sliproads.

https://www.roads.org.uk/articles/glasgow

https://www.scottishroadsarchive.org/m8

There's a really good book on the subject matter by John Cullen who was one of the original engineers who worked on the project:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0955378109
And here I thought my explanation at the bottom covered this.

Let's try again:

Python has become a mess. It is no longer a simple productive language to get into like it used to be. Now, you are expected to buy into it's ecosystem, like it is C# or Java.

Well, it is not. It's Python and I am truly sad they are killing it with thousand cuts.
Is this due to the cutting of the coin with cheaper metals ?
Well, feel free to die, but I kind of like living and want to do more of it.
Big Changes in Materials and Processes for IC Manufacturing
The result was the same. Maybe we used less arty and more airstrikes I guess.
> Chris Wallace gets a $9 million contract?? He's laughing his head off all the way to the bank.

I've seen rumors that he is livid. I think the type of personality that takes that job wants to be seen and heard - it's not just about money. He's likely plenty rich as is.
keep in mind that the lapsus guys aren't your average schoolkids

they have collected about $14 million dollars in crypto from various cyber-crime activities and ventures

they were offering up to $20k for intel/credentials publicly on their Telegram

source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60864283
not nytimes. One of the very few places not relying on outrage revenue.
Also, it limits your ability to enjoy your grandkids. My oldest will be out of the house by the time we’re 44/45, and the kids have been informed they have until 27 before I call the Bangladeshi matchmaker. God willing if I life to the normal life expectancy I’ll see my great grands.
Yeah, I think that's fair. I live with myself, and in 2020 i deliberately moved to a two bedroom to use one as my office, expecting more remote work. It's definitely an additional cost I have! I much prefer this though. It's worth it, and I save in other ways (both financial and otherwise).
It looks remarkably (suspiciously) similar to Brian Lovin's website https://brianlovin.com
The level of destruction is bad for the Russians on so many levels. The humanitarian cost, the damage to Russia's reputation internationally, but also tactically. You think it's hard clearing large buildings? Try clearing a pile of rubble. Endless nooks and crannies for defenders to hide in.
Xi Proposes Global Security Initiative at Boao Forum
One proposal could be to also allow taxes to be payed in stocks.

When those bits of stock bits are then transferred to ordinary people, they would be entitled to a bit of the dividends of eventually all companies.

Not thought this all the way through and I'm very much not an economist, so there are lots of impracticalities.

In a way, it's the opposite of 'cease the means of production': distribute the 'means' of capitalism.
Strange you can make the claims while "on mobile" but can't link to sources because you're also "on mobile".
Looks nice and very extensive.

It looks like it's based on the Feather[1] icon set (MIT licensed so all good license-wise).

Personally, I have been using the Lucide [2] icon set, which is also based on Feather. And it does not hide it.

- Feather: 287 icons

- Lucide: 593 icons

- Tabler : 1919 icons

[1] https://github.com/feathericons/feather
[2] https://github.com/lucide-icons/lucide
Because interstellar travel is probably much harder than extend people's lifespan to unreasonable extents. Your children will need room to thrive.
Of course, you could argue it's others who have to die. But that seems a morally difficult position.
You will not convince anyone sensible that the morals and discipline of US troops and officers are anywhere close to the morals and discipline (or the lack thereof) of their Russian counterparts with this whataboutism.
How is this relevant to the parent poster? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
NSwagStudio
I don't know that would be enough to deal with panning and zooming a tile based map, at least not without some severe hackery.
This was already mentioned in previous Axios articles. This article is NEW info.
I don't know about that one, but it wouldn't surprise me either way (still in Lisp or reimplemented/replaced by something else) since such things seem to be hit-and-miss and unless you do some digging it's probably unlikely many programmers of such systems check HN... But for a comparatively old government project in Common Lisp, there's at least one, SPIKE (https://www.stsci.edu/scientific-community/software/spike), that was developed for planning and scheduling the Hubble telescope (and other projects) and is still in use for the JWST (https://www.stsci.edu/contents/newsletters/2018-volume-35-is...).