skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brushed under the carpet? Reminders that America is colonialist/white supremacist/had slavery are daily. Just because the role of a single, specific university is less known than a war with almost a million dead does not mean the former was brushed under the carpet.

And I'm not sure everyone does remember the civil war - this report doesn't mention any links between Harvard or its donors, and the Union. It looked for "links to slavery" and used them for a "public reckoning", but ignored any reckoning already done - to say nothing of any generic good Harvard may have done that benefited people of color, such as bringing the smallpox vaccine to the US (which Benjamin Waterhouse tested on his own family), or anesthesia.

Like a trial where only the prosecution is allowed. One can only conclude that if paying a literal price in blood gets ignored, so too will any present-day efforts by Harvard at a "reckoning", and a decade from now they'll have to "reckon" all over again, forever.
Did they have a convoy of tanks in Syria? My understanding is that it was primarily air assault. That would seem to support the idea that practice is necessary for an effective military.
Thank you. I am quite stupid.

Talent is real, but generally speaking, ascribing failure or lack of progress to lack of talent is a mistake.
What does Nikola Tesla have to do with battery-powered cars if they are not run wirelessly? I must be missing something.
They don't force it on macOS, so your description of this as a fait accompli doesn't quite gel.
> If I had some disease and hundreds or people told me that spinning around in circles for a few minutes would cure it,

If you believed in that cure then it would be likely you'd treat the disease with less caution and be more likely to catch and spread it due to believing in a fairy tale cure. You also may avoid getting actual treatments due to believing you already had an effective treatment. Both of these were huge issues with ivermectin.
With religion motivated cow protection being one significant platform on which the ruling party ran and won the elections, this has changed dramatically. There are two axes at play here, (i) the religious symbolism of cow that is dear to the Hindu supremacist ruling party and the (ii) Islamophobia axes of the same party. Consequently the cow slaughter has been drastically reduced in the states they control, by a concerted effort of the state machinery and by the actions murderous lynch mobs whose violence the government is, naturally, blind towards.

Even Congress party supported a ban on cow slaughter in various Northern states, going back into the 50s, long before BJP (the party you're referring to) was born.

You may want to read this article, which goes over the story of cow-slaughter ban in India: https://scroll.in/article/759157/a-short-account-of-indias-l...
Ahh. I consider this to be pivotal moment. This will force nato countries to rapidly seek alternate energy sources, and they have likely already been doing that. Russia is making a large bet. We will see what will happen as this progresses westward. I’m betting energy pain will hurt western economies , but Russia will have forced itself from those energy markets. These folks are creating a death spiral for their own economy of their own making. Let’s not forget that also Finland and Sweden set to announce plans to join Nato soon.
Something is rotten in the state of academia when looking at the evidence there are mathematicians, scientists and social scientists standing bravely in favour of a high bar and a quality education program in mathematics.

On the other side of the argument you have people from the Department of Education who specialize in Mathematics Education who seem happy to lower the bar as far as possible in the name of equality.

When I was in University the Department of Education was the most woke department on campus, except for perhaps the Department of Gender Studies. We are now seeing policies that favour wokeness ahead of the best interests of the students affected by the policies.
>And how many tracks have I finished since I started all this? None.

I used to give my friends grief over this!

For most of my adult life, I've been making music - starting out on trackers, joining a punk band as a drummer (who had never played drums at that point), switching up to bass, and then due to life circumstances, moving to a smaller space in the suburbs and going back to electronic music. I made a little pact to myself that I wouldn't buy new equipment unless I recorded and released music, which not only worked out well for my productivity, but kept me familiarized with why I'd bought the gear that I had in the first place, keeping new acquisitions at bay.

A buddy of mine who moved across the country has a pretty fantastic collection of music equipment, and we'd trade tracks now and then, and I'd harass him: "Have you written a single song yet, with all that gear?"

Lately, I've taken a different view though. There's probably more content uploaded to YouTube in a single day than I could watch in my lifetime. While it used to be that "releasing an album" was kind of a special event, and that there were certain pipelines that could mean your weird side project landed in the ears of millions of people, what does a 'release' even mean today?

If you find catharsis in endless noodling, or swimming in sound design, absolutely soak it up, and who cares if you never release it? There are people who spend hundreds of dollars on white noise generators because it helps them relax. When I got my first 'real' synthesizer, a Kawai K3M, I used to set the filter to sample-and-hold, run it through delay and reverb, and just let that burble on while I fell asleep. That's fine!

Swinging the pendulum back to 'finish stuff' - a big thing that helped me was joining a band. When three other people are like "shut up it's fine, hit record" and then you do it, and then people buy it and don't complain about the little things you wish you could have done better, it really helps you emerge from that weird "perfectionist" bubble that solo musicians can fall into. Define a scope, fulfill that scope, come up with some cover art (pay an artist friend, use Photoshop, pay someone on Fiverr, whatever), upload it to Bandcamp, and tell your friends.
As an example of how this differs, with traditional 3d printing you could not print a reasonably large ∩ shape (aka set intersection or cap) without support or help structures because the beams would fall over before you're done. With the new approach you can as the resulting object is created "in place" as opposed to layer by layer from bottom up.
I really like the Equation Editor in the Claris Works folder. Specifically, I like the "holes" UI when writing an equation using a summation editor, for example. I feel like modern equation editors have lost that, but maybe I've just used the wrong ones. Does anyone have any ones they'd recommend, or pointers to more uses of 2D editors with "hole" UIs?
Zillow seems to think there are more than 500 in California:

https://www.zillow.com/ca/?searchQueryState=%7B%22pagination...
Incidentally, Apple reseller resource CDs[1] also contained fully functional copies of PageMaker, licensed only for customizing Apple marketing materials, along with the assets (product photography, custom Apple internal-use fonts) required to do so.

Creating period-correct marketing materials for projects like this emulator could be a fun art project.

[1] https://archive.org/search.php?query=arple
This sounds a lot like the watch has been magnetized. First thing to try is degaussing it
I think even the peak oil people said something like "Unless things change, we're going to run out of oil"

But more to the point, I have a colleague who regularly speaks in future-past tense, speaking like some goals have already been accomplished. I complain about it sometimes, but I also think it is useful. I know that sometimes I will get into a problem finding spiral - listing all the things that can go wrong and need to be taken care of before I start a task. I know this is not useful, but it is something my brain does.

I think the wisdom here is realizing that these parts of the brain or people in an organization need to take turns and be very careful about assuming a terminal condition of a system. There are both very real problems to be solved and very real value available.

I'm not sure you can do both at the same time; it may be something our brain rewrites in a more pleasing form after the fact.
Haha, top bants. I genuinely love it.

FWIW I wasn't insulting anyone. Evidence that I'm not a hater:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30980395

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30960680

Low-variance outcomes are just that: low-variance. If you're a decent FAANG engineer, you're making in the $500k at least by your 5th year, if not earlier, which puts your net worth at 50 at around $25 million. Pretty good outcome and quite certain.
Reward Offer for Information on Russian Military Intelligence NotPetya Officers
I don't see the word "normal" in my comment but judging by their behavior with Windows and Chrome: yes, they will pick whatever works.
Huw Price nicely explains that the normal formulation of the second law of thermodynamic uses circular reasoning about the direction of time. This was already spotted by Boltzmann who even proposed that the physical direction of time was the direction of entropy increase. From Boltzmann point of view if in some part of the Universe all particles would move by a chance as if one sees a movie in reverse then the time there would also reverse the direction.

But that is also problematic for many reasons. So nobody really knows why we perceive changes in the world as if coming from a state of low entropy to the state of high entropy. From pure probability reasoning and symmetry of time (even if the latter is not 100% true, it does not matter, since the error will not affect the statistical reasoning) if a system at some moment in a state with a low probability then both in the future and the past it is more likely to find the system in a more probable state with a higher entropy.
From a computer science point of view, what kind of transformations are impossible to express in jmespath but are possible in jq?
Absolutely fair.

This one example just stuck with me when I read it because of how serindipitous his mRNA research turned out to be during an all out worldwide pandemic.
I use a thing called AutoRaise on the work Mac, seems to work well with barrier (synergy).
Very cool, and no doubt a difficult to accomplish feat. But it's unclear how useful it is. The author has a comment in this thread that "in some situations a full reload still might be needed", which makes sense, but also severely damages confidence in the tool. It will be very difficult for a user to understand when a full reload is needed, and if they don't have confidence that the correct code is always running, it makes them less likely to use it.

If you can make it crystal clear when full reloading is needed, so that users can gain an intuition about that, it would help this tool a lot.
True. But have you tried the latest Ubuntu for example? Everything works out of the box on my HP EliteBook. Touchpad works great as well. I didn't need to configure anything.

Time hasn't stood still. Both Windows and Linux have improved tremendously.
My mistake!

https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html
Ok, we've changed to that above.
It feels so good seeing this utterly ridiculously ideology so thoroughly debunked, and rightfully attributed for the destructive attacks on education.

I've run into it so often by a vocal minority who slander anyone who objects. Fortunately, the popularity is waning.
To digress a bit: good education will be a finite resource as we have finite number of good educators and good schools. I don't think it's possible for everyone to access good education, especially given that we have different definition for "good education". Saying everyone should go to MIT (or any scarce education resource) is like saying living in beach property is human right. Maybe so, but it'll be a different topic.
Trump has never been officially sanctioned under the 14th Amendment so your point is moot. There's not even a direct relationship between the 1st and 14th Amendments.
Potable water with nutrients, bioflavinoids, and antibiotic content is definitely an excusable reason.
Many places, especially American Southeast or Midwest.

Choosing to live in California or New York is a poor choice for many people.
> With a competent manager there should be no hard feelings when framed as a market adjustment.

It's not "hard feelings", it's "Chris is more likely to leave than Pat."
What a great approach, it's impressive to take a non-trivial problem previously requiring continual human toil and intelligently automating it away.

Once I read how they pulled it off, I was like "oh, duh!", but admittedly I didn't immediately think of the solution on my own.
$10m

https://rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/foreign-malicious-cybe...

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https://twitter.com/RFJ_USA/status/1518983587697147906

>GRU officers Yuriy Sergeyevich Andrienko (Юрий Сергеевич Андриенко), Sergey Vladimirovich Detistov (Сергей Владимирович Детистов), Pavel Valeryevich Frolov (Павел Валерьевич Фролов), Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev (Анатолий Сергеевич Ковалев), Artem Valeryevich Ochichenko (Артем Валерьевич Очиченко), and Petr Nikolayevich Pliskin (Петр Николаевич Плискин) were members of a conspiracy that deployed destructive malware and took other disruptive actions for the strategic benefit of Russia through unauthorized access to victim computers.

>All six individuals work in the GRU’s Unit 74455, also known by cybersecurity researchers as Sandworm Team, Telebots, Voodoo Bear, and Iron Viking.

>These individuals were members of the criminal conspiracy responsible for the June 27, 2017, destructive malware infection of computers in the United States and worldwide using malware known as NotPetya. These cyber intrusions damaged the computers of hospitals and other medical facilities in the Heritage Valley Health System (Heritage Valley) in western Pennsylvania, a large U.S. pharmaceutical manufacturer, and other U.S. private sector entities. The malicious cyber activities collectively cost these U.S. entities nearly $1 billion in losses.
> leaving only the 2 to be the day

I think you meant "to be the month" there. qed■
I've heard pretty terrible things about Germany tolerating bullying, +1 for that count I guess.
Non-interactive Elements with the inert attribute
You're saying it's one of the "most powerful social forces in the US right now"... is there any particular reasoning here? To be honest, it sounds like an extremist take on the nature vs nurture argument which has been playing out for millennia and I don't see a reason to believe that somehow the extreme version nurture side of the argument has become dominant here. If anything, it's easy to remember the pendulum swinging back and forth in the past decades, and the pendulum doesn't seem to swing that far in either direction.

> Many of these people are in the civil service and so this will influence their view.

It influences the political pressures placed on people in the civil service more than anything else. People in the civil service are in the civil service for a long time, typically. Often they are in the civil service for decades. On the other hand, elected officials and political appointees rotate in and out much more quickly.

I know people in the civil service, they have a much more long-term and level-headed view of things, and my impression is that they "weather the storm" of changing political pressures. At least, the ones who survive in the job do. Political appointees and elected officials are much more mercurial. Appointees know that their position is (somewhat) an extension of their own political power to begin with.
I don’t know the historical record for ancient Egypt, but I imagine we are way bigger and way smarter on average because of childhood nutrition and lack of parasites - see also, North Korea.
At Blizzard, employees get free stuff like free sub for WoW. If its free you value it less (I had Apple TV+ for free for a year and the only thing I watched was Snoopy with my kid). They are encouraged to play other games to get inspiration from, amd they do (but AFAIK not during work hours, though perhaps during lunch break or on friday afternoon?)
If they had high levels of baseline vasopressin, shouldn't this make it easier to stay hydrated because it increase the amount of fluid reabsorbed by the kidneys?
I like the approach! Since this is HN would you be willing to talk about the tech stack at all?
I don't have any specific memory of using At Ease on a school computer, but we had a couple of them in the children's section of the local library.

My middle school is where they got really into computers, a bunch of early G3 iMacs in each classroom and each student had a networked home folder with a schoolname.org/~user website, back in the early 2000s.

I ended up not going into computers as a profession (so far), but I poke around with hobby projects and really appreciate how powerful the modern web tooling has gotten, though it's also vastly more complicated.
HTML event handler attributes: down the rabbit hole
> But what does fraternity mean for diverse people? What is the unifying principle?

Same needs.
> It's a real travesty that law suits cost money

> The party that is suing also has to pay a sum of money

How much thought have you given to this?
While biometrics are imperfect (because you can't change or even hide the key), it's not quite as bad as you make out.

On iOS at least, it gains affirmative consent by you double clicking a button on the side. It also refuses to recognise your face if your eyes are closed.
With respect to the anti-aliasing on Linux, I run Xfce, which easily allows one to control the font anti-aliasing in the Appearance settings under the Fonts tab. I assume that GNOME and KDE have similar configuration settings. You can also get the same sort of controls in fonts.conf [0] for applications that don't respect Xfce's settings, like Firefox, as I recall. I could make everything as sharp as I'd like with the right settings.

In my experience, basically every window manager has some 90s-esque style as well.

[0] There's more information buried in here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Font_configuration
Pessimism, in the article, is used to mean predicting a future state, given present trends.

Optimism, in the article, is used to mean disbelieving that predicted future.

Given the author framed them this way, of course "pessimism" sounds smarter. "Optimism" is counterfactual.

The meanings of common terms have been mutated to be able to make this point. It's effectively circular reasoning via redefinition.
Can you operate on AST elements? e.g., if you move a selected line of text up/down, does it move the text itself or does it move the underlying AST elements and adapt the text to the changed AST?

Can you select a function and drag and drop it into a different file or class and have the code automatically adapt, add/remove parameters, imports, etc as needed?

If you have two functions called doA, in different modules, and you have a file that imports doA from module 1, and you copy that doA call and paste it in a new file, does the IDE correctly add the import as well, or does it just paste the text and you have to import manually?
From what I've seen there are three major problems with edtech that gives a personalized education:

1) A lot of K-8 education is babysitting. If you let kids do their own thing they'll just watch YouTube and play Roblox instead. Most kids are not _that_ self motivated at this point in life. It's hard for teachers to manage a classroom if everyone is working on different things.

2) Staring at a computer screen is not a great learning experience. A classroom is an interactive, social experience with active feedback. It's hard to socialize when the kid next to you is not working on the same activity or problems you are.

3) Personalizing education diminishes the importance of teachers in the classroom, which teachers unions obviously oppose. Teachers can't teach if every kid is learning something different, and online education strongly promotes winner-take-all dynamics where the best teacher and content can scale up infinitely and dominate.

Out of all these I think 2) and 3) are the hardest problems to solve and whoever solves them is going to meaningfully advance education. But I'm not very convinced by the startups I'm seeing in this space that anyone has solved it yet.
Microsoft rides the cloud, Office and Windows to sustained growth in Q3 2022
That's not the comment I was expecting to see at the top.

I haven't read TFA yet but I popped in to say how much respect I've got for David Deutsch and what an influence he has been on my intellectual development.
This seems to work OK for me. Any chance a modifier is stuck down (try pressing command, option and shift to reset their state). If this still happens, can you file a bug at https://github.com/mihaip/infinite-mac/issues/new?
A bit OT:

The post links to the tutorial "An Introduction to JQ" at [1].

Somewhere inside the tutorial, array operators are introduced like this:

> jq lets you select the whole array [], a specific element [3], or ranges [2:5] and combine these with the object index if needed.

This is not supposed to be criticism on this particular tutorial (I've seen this kind of description quite often), but I could imagine this to be a typical "eyes glaze over" moment, where people subtly lose track of what is happening.

It appears to make sense on first glance, but leaves open the question what "selecting the whole array" actually means - especially, since you can write both ".myarray" and ".myarray[]" and both will select the whole array in a sense.

I think this is the point where one would really need to learn about sequences and about jq's processing model to not get frustrated later.

[1] https://earthly.dev/blog/jq-select/
> It is therefore the tool of charlatans

Charlatans? I don't think there are any charlatans around.

Maybe the bad guys you are referring to are the evil shortsellers working together with the Shortseller's Enrichment Commission? /s
Sequence diagrams are worth knowing. Throw the rest away
maybe they wanted to eliminate a variable/variables.

There's an even simpler explanation: Fasting can provoke dangerous hypoglycaemia in diabetics. The first priority for trials is the safety of the participants.
Would you please stop breaking the site guidelines? You've unfortunately been doing it a lot, in this thread and also in other threads. Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31129481

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30969820

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30951510

We have to eventually ban that sort of account because it destroys what HN is supposed to be for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I wish I could up-vote this comment more than once.
“Taken Down” a Look into Apple’s Transparency Reports
I fear for Meta tomorrow
PiRogue – mobile forensic and network analysis
I get the argument for sure. Neither example is a really good environment for choosing rails specifically.

Also, not that it really matters but I just happen to be a counterpoint to both examples. I'm at home surrounded by hardware for my current work and also wrote / led a remote team instrumental in passing a federal banking audit atop infrastructure as code.

I'm on team sure there's use-cases for local hiring but they're so hard in the minority these days + it's a rails thread that I felt like my stance in my prior comment probably did hold in all cases where that might be the right tool for the job. Like all things though, it depends. :)