skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to stop them by preempting their decision to choose war. Well-fed, housed, clothed, educated, wealthy, happy people don't decide to make war. People who don't want to get shot at and killed, nor see their brothers and sons (and sisters and daughters) shot at and killed; people who are aware and educated of the horrors of war (not like Americans of the last 20 years while we made war in the Middle East) won't vote for or follow leaders who decide to make war. People currently living in poverty and squalor, if they're generously lifted out of those conditions rather than left behind and exploited, don't decide to make war. People make war because they believe it will improve their lives; if they don't believe this then they wouldn't.

It may be unrealistic, but the appetite for war is waning as civilization advances. The question is whether that cultural advancement will allow us to cut it off before technological advancement dooms us with easily accessible superweapons....
> Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Eisenhower is quite wrong here, because the world is not lacking for food or clothing; we have plenty enough to feed, clothe, shelter everyone, and generally attend to their basic needs. What the world is in desperate need of is good policymaking that promotes human flourishing, as opposed to dictators or criminal cartels depriving their own people of the freedom they need to thrive and grow wealthier through good, productive work and investment. Good national and collective defense is a key part of the solution despite its drawbacks, and we haven't managed to come up with a workable alternative.
The parent post even says, "I'm at the point in my life," which doesn't sound like they're saying it's for everyone.

Further, are you sure that "entertains me when I'm bored" represents a benefit? I think boredom serves a useful purpose, and quelling it with empty activity might defeat that purpose.
Before 89, the working class of my country had control of the state and most of the economy. There were of course many problems, but wealth inequality was far lower, essentials were cheap (rent at 5% of income!) and jobs were guaranteed.

NATO waged economic warfare and funded fascists (particularly intensified in the 80s), culminating in a violent coup by the army. Since then, we've seen hyperinflation, privatisations, austerity and deregulation. While technology is much improved, the relative proportion of wages spent on essentials is vastly increased and most well paid jobs are for foreign companies that extract profits outside the country.
No I had made some errors when claiming that. Their time of departure will always appear, both to us and to them, to have been further back in time than their point of arrival.

We will disagree on how much farther in the past, but we will agree that it is in the past. For example, if they are moving at almost the speed of light, and zipping past us, to them it may seem that they left their planet a few seconds ago, and only traveled a few meters; but to us and to their friends back home, it may seem like it took them 1 million years and they moved almost 1 million light-years.

We will also disagree on the order of some events, but only those that have already happened from both our perspectives.
> Are those marks visible with the naked eye or do you have to use magnification to see them?

Visible with the naked eye

> Are there any pics anywhere that show what such marks look like, and could they be caused by anything other than picking?

Sure, it's possible they could have been caused by something else, but it's unlikely given the context.

Yes, there are photos, but I'm not able to share them at the moment. When I travel internationally to "sketchy" places, I always photograph my luggage thoroughly before and after transiting.
Germany followed a mutual cooperation approach to Russia. It was foreign policy doctrine for years, Ostpolitik. It didn't stop Russia invading a sovereign neighbour and it prevented Germany from reacting due to the dependence.
I find the smartphone app menu model vastly superior to the others. I can take 10 minutes to get an order sorted out (ordering with a family takes far longer than a solo order), and I don't slow down the line of people in onesies-and-twosies who already know exactly what they want.

From my perspective, screen-based ordering from multiple kiosks with one or two cashiers is the only way forward, and although from a labour perspective it sucks for locals, it's almost definite that as the number of cashiers required goes down to below one per store, there will be a move to remote models with centralized resources (cashiers assigned to multiple stores) basically acting as intermediaries for the kiosks. It's not even a wage or working conditions issue, it's a labour requirement issue.
Soon I will need to use chrome on my iphone just to keep up with webapps that rely on apis not supported by Safari? That's terrible. I already have to use chrome on the desktop to be able to use a hanful of apps and I'm not pleased.
Anybody who wants a very sobering view of how the Cold War was waged by the US and its NATO allies and their strong institutions should probably read Command and Control. It's a borderline miracle we're all here to discuss this on the internet.

If anybody can recommend a similar book about the Soviet side, I'd be extremely interested in reading it.
Accessibility and Real-Time Apps: Clearing Fog and Picking Fruit
One of the first 'real' modern uses [0] of Opposed Piston Diesel engines in by Fairbanks Morse, for military uses.

the Army is funding [1] Cummins new $87M opposed piston diesel engines for vehicles, they will have about a 25% decrease in fuel use. (which is HUGE for an army that has to carry their own fuel) That will definitely be quickly implemented by the major transportation companies, since fuel is such a huge part of their cost for trucking.

0. https://www.fairbanksmorse.com/blog/new-opposed-piston-engin...

1. https://www.greencarcongress.com/2021/08/20210803-ace.html
> There's outrage around taking jobs from locals in Toronto…

Assuming they can even find someone to fill the position.

I know from traveling around the states there is a significant problem in getting people to work in restaurants as they can just go down the street and get an entry level ‘career’.
> Yet nobody ever got around to punishing social media for their violation of these regulations.

That's a negative regulation, thee only actor that can violate it is government. It is impossible for a social media platform to violate the cited regulation.

It's true that if there is another regulation applicable to platform conduct, there are platform actions that would take the platform out of the immunity provided by the cited regulation (but those hypothetical other regulations would also be constrained by the First Amendment, whether or not the Section 230 immunity applied.)
The big winner in Elon Musk's Twitter deal
> perhaps it's a simple cost reduction to maximize profit

yeaaahh... perhaps? maybe? who can tell? it is a mystery.
In the first scenario they only exercise if there is a sale which may or may not be on the horizon when the options plan is set up. It's a way of showing appreciation for employees since there is no guarantee after a sale that the reasons for the company having value will still be in place. If you want to keep people around after a sale it's usually a good idea to reevaluate your options strategy anyway and it's not a good look for options to just vanish after a sale. You want your people to be invested in a sale happening if that is your planned exit. This is a way to sweeten the pot for them.
Fantastic! It even has Adobe Photoshop 3. So much fun.

Makes me wonder if in the year 2040, we'll be able to do anything similar at all.

"Oooh! Photoshop CC on Microsoft Windows 13 running inside a browser running on macOS 43! Oh, wait. 'Cannot connect to DRM server.' 'Cannot connect to advertising server.' 'Cannot connect to marketing server.' 'Cannot connect to telemetry server.' 'Cannot authenticate login. Aborting.'"

(I'm not harshing on MS. Just moaning that software is so tied to ephemeral services these days.)
What we are seeing now in the car industry that there is a lot of grouping up to save cost.

We will have a few really large groups, VW, Toyota, Stellantis, Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi alliance. GM has also lost a gigantic amount of vehicle volume in the last 10 years. There will likely be even more consolidation.

In general volume is going down and because of supply issues its not going up as much as people thought this year.
The problem is credit cards have used manipulative terms of service to force users of all other payment methods to subsidize the cost of credit card use. They’ve then driven up credit card usage by giving consumers rewards for doing so. As they’ve done so fees have gone up and with them the size of the subsidy had as well.
Isn't this a thing on some university campus? I seem to recall robots being driven by Colombians delivering cafeteria food to res.
People review bomb competitors, so you buy a product from a competitor and rate it a zero, say it burst into fire etc (was popular when battery fires were in the news). The popularity spiking is to get folks higher up on charts etc. Away from the top few it's pretty easy to get up (for a few days).
Coca-Cola investigating claims of hack after ransomware group hawks stolen data
Russia Legalizes Shady Imports of AMD, Intel and Apple Goods to Dodge Sanctions
The global dangers of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
You have to realize that most people's commutes are 30+ mins though, right?
Here's an example of "shitposter" being used in early 2005. The posts won't load for me but the dates and titles are visible. I can personally recall earlier instances from other archvies dating all the way back to 2001, but I can't find those anymore.

https://www.usenetarchives.com/index.php?s=shitpost&t=0&p=1
yes shopify runs on truffleruby. It is the fastest ruby VM by far and can seamlessly call state of the art Java libraries.
GraalVM is the VM to rule them all and unify currently incompatible billions of dollars libraries ecosystems.
Despite being the computer science breakthrough of the decade, people are not getting it yet.
>>>getting intelligence information from other countries.

Don't underestimate the massive value (and massive expense, for NATO) associated with providing that intelligence. Ukraine is basically playing Starcraft with a "disable fog of war" cheatcode activated.
Build software to ~harass~ track warehouse workers.

"Anyone can learn to code bruh"

170k base + 300k RSU "man I can't afford anything in [high COL area]"

"Therapy is really useful y'all"

- average SWE
If you've never used or seen a CRT display, you don't know what you're missing. A modern ultra-high resolution CRT monitor would absolutely sell today.
They are used for surgery. The fact that the cost of the technology is decreasing towards the point it can be economically used for tot preparation is a feature, not a bug.
Are there really that many mainstream projects that use alternative dependency handling? Go modules were introduced in v1.11 and they seem pretty mature.

The replace directive seems to solve the issues with forked projects in particular. [1]

1 - https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules#when-should-i-use-...
Show HN: BreadBuddy, an open-source SwiftUI/MVVM recipe scheduler for iOS
Maybe we need a new word, anachromorphism.
Game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions
Are you under some illusion that Freshii, a publicly traded company, should have a different goal?
The very same "K" has co-authored the equivalent Go book: https://www.gopl.io/
I can only recommend it, though I wished they would make a second edition including all the new language features. But for the base language, it is still great.
This article just appears to quote most of the content from the original[1].
It'd be better if the original was in the front page instead.

[1] https://mymodernmet.com/ancient-egyptians-attendance-record/
It looks like a fractional scaling issue.
It's all about your threat model. The lock on your front door doesn't prevent someone with the right tools from getting in either, but it still provides meaningful security against large groups of potential attackers.

FWIW, Windows Hello does try to defend against this attack by requiring special cameras that operate in the infrared band.
In the before-times, in the long-long-ago, we could modify basic system settings from a nice discoverable GUI control panel. Why is the future year of 2022, no doubt filled with flying cars and personal jetpacks, continually found to be unable to deliver features we took for granted in 1995?
> "I'm at the point in my life," which doesn't sound like they're saying it's for everyone.

I took that as a generalization, but maybe they did mean in their specific life, rather than every human's life.

> Further, are you sure that "entertains me when I'm bored" represents a benefit?

I do, sometimes I'm bored and want to be productive, sometimes I want to be unproductive. The phone is for the latter. If I didn't have it, I wouldn't be productive, I'd just be feeling bad.
LTSpice is probably better for beginners, and my impression is that it is faster at the things it can do. Micro-Cap is really nice and does a whole lot more, though. And they're free, so you can have both!
Different kind of lock, but I discovered the other day that the tumbler combination lock box I use for my car keys while surfing can be trivially picked - and there are youtube videos. Apparently this has been a big problem in SF in the last few years. Perhaps a dial combination lock box (e.g. Kidde) will be more secure.
Yes we'd love to support graphql in the long term. I guess the question is the best approach. Everything in the backend is a microservice written using grpc. So we wondered whether we'd need to stitch the relationship between them all together first or just offer a straight up graphql API per service. Would love some thoughts on the best approach here.
Such a good idea! This will be huge.
> I'm the kind of weird pacifistic person who literally sat down at school and took the beating from the bullies, safe in the knowledge that I had the moral high ground. It didn't make me feel much better when they broke my ribs, but I've never punched someone in my life.

I really really heavily blame adults here. It is adults who prefer silence and own comfort that teach kids to be passive and just take it. This is not in kids interest at all. And I don't even mean that you should have beat them up back.

Adults should have work with both aggressor and victim. They should have teach the victim healthy assertively and how to set boundaries before bullying gets that bad. And they should have taught the bullies to stop being bullies. And when aggressors are uncontrolable and relationships impossible to navigate for victim, when it escalated to the level of broken ribs, adults are responsible for stopping it all.
> Radiation (since you were basically looking into a beta-radiation emitter).

This is completely wrong while technically correct. Sure, electron guns throw electrons around. So you are looking at a beta-emitter. But those electrons can't leave the tube. Even if they could - CRTs have, depending on size and application, an acceleration voltage of somewhere between 10 and 30 kV - this translates to a range of a few centimeters in air at best.

CRTs do produce radiation, namely X-rays by way of bremsstrahlung due to the electrons getting, well, bremsed at the screen. This is part of the reason why CRTs are heavy (aside from faceplate structural integrity); leaded glass is heavy.

> Flashing

Visible flicker is obviously undesirable, but low duty cycle displays are preferable for moving images.
In fact, jq already has `map`, which would replace the article's pattern of `[.[]|add]` with `map(add)`. It is defined as such:

def map(f): [.[] | f];

Many built-in functions in jq are implemented in jq, in terms of a small set of core primitives. The implementations can be inspected in builtin.jq.

https://github.com/stedolan/jq/blob/master/src/builtin.jq#L3
Sorry, if this was just used / out of production CD's then I'm probably wrong.

However, this IS an issue in everything from book lists (which predate Amazon actually and happen outside of amazon with bulk book buys) to I thought regular music "sales" which have become easier to manipulate because total unit sales are low (given streaming etc etc).
I am but only with uBlock Origin turned on. uBlock Origin blocks something and then the page goes into an infinite loop requesting https://wpcontent.svc.halowaypoint.com/purchase-content/game... and https://wpcontent.svc.halowaypoint.com/content-ratings/esrb/... over and over again. It is also rapidly using up memory so eventually you run low and the whole browser starts performing poorly. Whitelisting the site in uBlock Origin is a workaround.
Very much disagree. They actually do more work then you suggest they do. And they upstream that work quite often, and its open source.

Second, if you want X/K then why would you care about Pop? How is PopOS existing bad for you?
Chrome gets closer and closer to becoming the new Internet Explorer in terms of browser interoperability, privacy, and lock in.
You are missing the point, but sure. I think we're being a bit pedantic if we're arguing the humanity of beheading vs. stoning. The end result is the same.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/woman-stoned-death-...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Saudi_Ar...

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/9/5/beheadings-fl...
Sometimes attempts at rectifying abuses create other abuses. Science is about verifiable facts, and how to verify them. Science can't defend itself against abuses. That is on each of us.
I had a fever so my Mummy made me stay home.
There's an actual Brian Kernighan book on Go: "The Go Programming Language". (gopl.io)
It is true, because lobbying is not passing a law or regulation.

In fact, a large corporation must make political contributions, otherwise they'll be targeted by the politicians (as Microsoft discovered in the 90's.) Large corporations are expected to pay tribute.
>A fully qualified EE understands circuits at a deep mathematical level.

this is so funny. i have a buddy who's finishing up his phd in ee that works on SDR and who lead a team that won the darpa spectrum challenge a few years ago. he has no idea (absolutely no idea) how odes model LRC systems. i'm closer to CS than EE so he was explaining SDR to me and at some point i said "oh like the ode representation <something something>" and he had no clue what i was talking about. sure he took the class where that was covered but he completely ignored it (probably barely passed).

just one data point.
Moderation is not easy, but it's not that hard either. Actually, it has already been figured out. It's partly what the legal system is about. We also know a few online forums that work just great (or, you could say well enough). This includes HN, but it's not the only one. I happen to moderate a few rather large FB groups (about 50k people in 3 groups). Now while they are not too active, it's pretty obvious what works. And yes, one of them is transparency. Just as with the legal system.

And this is one of the things that are broken on the large social media platforms. I mostly use FB, so that's what I know about. But what they do is so ridiculous, that I started to collect their decisions. I've been banned for a week for calling a politician, a public figure (with 50k followers) "braindead" in response to a really stupid comment he made publicly under news article. (That's all I said. It's a widely used expression in Hungarian for saying that someone is an idiot. It's the exact same term as the medical one for someone being in the state of brain death. Not exactly a nice thing to say someone but not over the top either.)

He used his public profile (not his personal one, but the FB page). I got blocked 20 minutes after making the comment for harassment . Their policy explicitly says that public figures should accept more than ordinary people. And this is what the law says as well. At the same time I keep reporting people making homophobic, racist comments or simply just being flat out rude, using obscene remarks (addressing me or others) and they almost always get rejected after 3 days.

But since transparency is non-existent, no one really knows what's acceptable and what's not, what the consequences are (it seems that the penalties get longer and longer, doesn't matter how serious the violation is, but there might be an expiration, so maybe only the last year counts).

At the same time what I found to be working (which is the same I see here) is that instead of deleting, which is inefficient for a lot of reasons, you should issue warnings, explaining what is not OK with the comment. This seems inefficient at first, but it works because it adds transparency and helps everyone understand and internalize the rules. It also helps people to calm down because they'll see that if others misbehave they won't get away with it either.

But yes, algorithms don't work (yet), especially not in non-English languages. Underpaid, invisible, who-knows-whos might be cheap, but they don't cut it either.
I broadly agree with the points he is making, but I have a few bones to pick. First though, I appreciate his definition of science: "Science: a process that allows us to understanding how the world works by careful empirical investigation supplemented by rigorous theoretical analysis and predictions that are then subject to additional empirical testing." This is well stated.

However he unfortunately he later states "I would argue that there is only one kind of knowledge, at least about the real world, and that is empirical knowledge." This goes entirely too far, it seems to reject not just the existence of a priori knowledge, but also intuition derived from the shared experience of being human, knowledge derived from informal experience, etc. He's strayed into scientism; the belief that all truth is exclusively discovered through science. This is a common belief system for 'engineery-types', but it often leads people astray when they ignore and eschew qualitative analysis and focus exclusively on empirical quantitative data. This was McNamara's fallacy; he thought he could win a war by collecting enough quantitative data and crunching numbers, ignoring any consideration that didn't lend itself to numerical analysis as unscientific. He was subsequently blindsided by public sentiment in Vietnam and America, and lost the war.

A few examples of knowledge that isn't empirical: Using your shared humanity to intuit what somebody else is feeling, in order to have compassion for them. Creating art that you know is aesthetically pleasing, without first performing any empirical analysis of what that even means. Knowing that all humans deserve human rights.
Don't really think SWEs are being taken advantage of the same way other employees at successful tech companies are. (Coming from the perspective of an SWE)
>"You need a dictatorship to protect a small nation free from a much larger power with a history of all kinds of evil."

That evil seems to be way less for small nation than the one coming from a dictatorship. If I was North Korean I'll vote with both of my hands to not "be free" and ingested as one more state of the US.

In reality this however also leads to the US destroying countries and leaving them in the state of disrepair. And due to the US having the biggest military and economy dick it risks no punishment.
> Okay, except this is nothing like that.

And yet… desktop Linux isn’t widely popular.
Covid-19-Vitamin D paper retracted by Springer Nature journal
Well Twitter is a company based in the USA so I don't see why the rest of the world's laws should be relevant here.