skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I created an HN account just to second this comment. I still can’t understand the thought processes that goes into similar blogs that like to trash one OS for another or another.

If you like something, awesome! But making something else look bad because you didn’t like it does not make your thing any better.
He's about fifty years too late.
> A lot of spending in the military is wasteful. This typically means a lot of people just are free loading.

Same could be said of any sufficiently large government run programme. Military, healthcare, social security, etc.
> Blood is not the only way to achieve peace! There are non-violent ways to sustain and build peace.

Totally agree. “The blood of others” can still flow in their veins. The point is it has to be staked. There is no evidenced system of peace that doesn’t contain a threat of violence. We’ve tried for decades with sanctions; they fail in everything other than degrading the enemy.
It’s not just direct military action by the US it’s also that we support a lot of the current dictators around the world while claiming to be the beacon of democracy. But the whole point of whether we are passive or aggressive is besides the fact that we don’t care properly for the people who are paying for the military that it’s supposedly defends.
What else could Elon Musk have bought for $43B?
I’m using a similar setup (G15) for “AI” dev on Linux, it works very well with the Asus-laptop utils.

To complement other points:

- you can put the nvidia card in “compute” or “hybrid” mode, which removes the need for X restarts. Compute is really nice, the computer runs on IGP (which is vey capable) and all cuda workloads seamlessly wake up the nvidia card, no question asked

- the above means that the pc is nearly silent, maybe helped by the AMD cpu, while being pretty capable with the 8 real zen3 cores

- no issues really on Linux, and the Asus-laptop tools allow you to switch off the leds or cap the battery charge. The wifi card was an issue initially, quickly fixed with a newer kernel

- the screen is 120Hz, and this is really appreciated actually

I would buy a newer version in a pinch
James Bruton is doing it open source. Lets say James isn't successful and someone else builds the ironman robots that construct more and eventually ends all scarcity but hoards to become ultra wealthy.

That ultra wealthy beyond trillionaire can't consume or spend that money. What it effectively would do it pull the money out of the economy. Deflation would be rampant and productive workers would be worth their weight in gold. Central banks would effectively have to print so much money to avoid deflation that everyone would become effectively rich.

I dont see this as a problem in the future.
We could also train some neural models to mimic Dang's behavior, no need to get all genetical here
"Someone also tried to pick it and failed"

How did you know someone tried to pick it?
I think the author makes a fair point, but the analogies and examples in this piece offended my aesthetic sensibilities to the point that I find myself wanting to disagree with him purely out of spite.

> Some of these exclusion criteria are pretty straightforward. […] you’d want to avoid any participants with conditions that make them predisposed to gain or lose weight, as that would make an apples-to-apples comparison across groups more difficult.

Absolutely!

> However, there are other exclusion criteria that I don’t understand at all. Why no oral contraceptive use? Why no smoking? Why no diabetes[…]?

Smoking makes you lose weight. Diabetes is literally characterized by abnormal metabolism.

> There might well be good reasons for these exclusions that I’m not aware of. […] However, those reasons are not outlined here.

Agreed. There should at least be a sentence in a supplement somewhere.

One things about trials and extrapolation is that trails are tightly controlled and will never reflect real world conditions in terms of the patient population, the intervention, or the context in which the intervention is performed.

This is a double edged sword. It’s good because you can get “cleaner” measurements and data by getting rid of cofounders and such. But it’s bad because your trial scenario may be unrealistic and your results may not translate into the clinic.

If anything good has come out of Surveillance capitalism and those shitty EPIC / Cerner EHR systems that everybody (except for hospital quality people) hates, it is a drastic improvement in capabilities for post market data collection (i.e. real world data).

RWD is increasingly a thing at FDA. I think the big issue there which needs public discussion is the extent to which post market data collection should either replace or augment clinical trials. If you replace clinical trials with RWD then you are essentially running mass experiments on sick people with untested drugs, which is monstrous. If you purely augment, then it is basically like a tax and you are driving up the cost and complexity of drug development.
Still, I love that we live in a world where making such an open device with 24 included games is possible.

If that gets you excited you should check out the Funkey S. Same open hardware and open software and included community games, but also with the ability to emulate your favorite handheld consoles.
> All it takes is one sociopath

No, it does not.

The are probably tenths of millions of sociopaths out there and 99.99% of them are not given the power to become dictators/CEOs.

In healthy societies they don't even get hired as cops.
Device dependent. Too old and volte won't work. Also, Samsung devices typically will not have working volte on LOS and other custom roms.
Coffee, tea and nagging at Japan’s anti-procrastination cafe
Wouldn’t the war machine also be one of the most incentivised to find alternative energy sources? Can’t defend your country if you can’t source enough energy (legacy and renewables).
It's as continuous a want discrete function can be, but yes it has a region of explosive growth, sort of like a sigmoid.

Think of all the Jenga games. What is the probability of the tower collapsing on turn T (or T/H, for a tower of size H), graphed as a function of T (or T/H)?
OTP has some structures to help with upgrading that we didn't use. Mostly, you have to keep upgrading in mind when you make changes. Easy ones are things like if you add another field into a record (like a struct) that you're using for process state, you need to still handle the old version of the record, since it will be loaded into processes with old state. This is similar to what you need to do with APIs (local library or remote calls to other computers), but it's a little unusual to consider it in a running process.

For cp/install; cp will generally write over the existing file, but install unlinks and then writes a new file. If you've mmaped the file, you get changes in your process from cp (copy on write doesn't apply to mmap), but not with install (the old file is kept around until it's no longer referenced).
The relevant market is Toronto. I agree if you look at markets like the entire US including major rural and suburban areas the story is quite different but I think what you've done is average a bunch of shrinking economies into the rapidly growing ones. I could have been more clear that this was about housing prices in rapidly growing major urban centres rather than housing prices anywhere in the nation.
In theory, yes, and it has worked sometimes ( the EU). But as many agressors have shown time and again, you can't count on anything but brute power in the end. Neutrality ( Belgium), UN ( Ukraine), they don't work sufficiently well.

As a sibling comment says, Si vis pacem para bellum has withstood the test of time.

Of course the US wasting money having 10 aircraft carriers and 10 "mini" aircraft carriers ( the same size as other countries' 1-2 aircraft carriers) doesn't really fit into that and certainly isn't for defence.
That's all nice except I don't use any other Facebook product besides Whatsapp.

And what device and operating system not from Big Tech you use to run these "alternatives"?
I felt it worked as a reference. Yeah, it might explain something using concepts you don't understand, but you can backtrack as far as necessary, then start working your way back to where you started.
Also highly recommended is gron [0], to make json easily searchable

[0] https://github.com/TomNomNom/gron
Sure, but military spending isn't necessarily war-making.

Case in point: the biggest expenditure of the US Military is... Healthcare, the Veteran's Affair's department. The next biggest expenditures are Research and Development (which includes DARPA-funded projects. Technically defense, but I don't think anyone would call the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Network_Challenge Darpa Network Challenge a "wargame")

By just looking at military spending per department, you over-estimate the amount of money spent on warmaking.

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So defense-spending is one metric (too much money allocated), and maybe "tons of explosives" is too little.

USA didn't really have that many casualties in Iraq or Afghanistan (it wasn't like Vietnam or Korea where huge amounts of injured soldiers existed). As such, the VA-department is largely handling things like COVID19, diabetes, and other "typical" ailments. While technically "department of defense" funds, I don't think it really counts as "military expenditure", not in the way the article is discussing anyway.
Magisk Hide was replaced with "Zygisk DenyList". Which is fine, my main complaint is that you cannot guess from the name that it is doing essentially the same thing. The reasons for that can be read here:

https://topjohnwu.medium.com/state-of-magisk-2021-fe29fdaee4...
"They made it all up." [1]

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

> ... please explain this finding ...

A committee does not have the same requirements as a court of law and is permitted to be speculative in it's findings. Trump was acquitted on all impeachment charges and no criminal collusion with Russia was established.

I suggest pulling on this thread [1] checkout these fines [2] regarding this debunked document [3] and follow this investigation [4] and consider the meaning of collusion.

"Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty"

--

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/24/muel...

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/11/04/the-real-collusion-was-the-cre...

[2] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/30/dnc-clinton-campaig...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier

[4] https://www.foxnews.com/politics/durham-cia-concluded-data-a...
Archived: https://archive.ph/4tG4K
Diagrams lets you draw the cloud system architecture in Python code
On the topic of "novel, non-pin-tumbler mechanisms": I can recommend the videos by Stuff Made Here [1][2], where he designs two novel anti-picking lock mechanisms, and the related video [3] where LockPickingLawyer tries to pick and bypass them. Together they give a whole new understanding of lock design and picking methods.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7vPNcnYWQ4
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2NY29iQdI
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecy1FBdCRbQ
> Are these people really dumb

I'd say it's less "dumb" and more that the incentives are aligned in such a way that they just won't do it. But we know that it works well. Netflix I think is/was known for finding out new market rates and just giving everyone a raise to reflect that rate so they don't leave. Also I think people in positions where they're making the call on rates don't have data or other information to really assess what we see as so obvious, which is that losing an engineer over a 5% pay increase during a period of inflation is far more costly than just giving them the pay increase. But I see this kind of thing all the time. There are a lot of what I call "boomerang companies" especially Fortune 500 where if you want a meaningful raise at the company you have to leave and then get hired back. Problem is many leave and don't come back, so the company churns talented people and keeps all the people who can't get higher rates on the market. It's really silly.
As quoted in the article, Mexico is many years from producing any lithium. So far only discovered in clay which has no known method to extract. Different from any other productive location in the world. If the private enterprises were just beginning to research this weak potential, how can The State expect to make better progress?
> Still, I love that we live in a world where making such an open device with 24 included games is possible.

It sounds like you love the idea of it (I do too), which I think is true of a lot of failed products. I'm not saying that you should buy it or that it will fail, just that there's an interesting lesson there for creators — loving that something exists isn't enough.
> "There are non-violent ways to sustain and build peace."

There are but only if both sides agree to it. Once once side decides to use war, what will you stop them with?

QED war will be forever with us.
iTerm2 is pretty sluggish, has some memory leaks that I hit every now and then, and doesn't emulate some escape sequences correctly (bold, reset).

But it has Cmd+Shift+E, which I wish some other emulators I like would just wholesale copy that feature.

Honestly, it's one of the better emulators out there; it's my recommendation if you're otherwise stuck on macOS.
> If a user decides to perform some real-world criminal act based on something he read on Twitter, we already have laws and enforcement mechanisms to deal with that. Morally the individuals themselves are responsible for their actions, not Twitter.

The problem is that the most dangerous content is appealing to people on a very low emotional level, it's called "stochastic terrorism" for a reason. Just take the QAnon crap about children being held hostage and mined for adrenochrome in the basement of a pizza parlor. Yes, the dude deciding to shoot up a pizza parlor [1] should be punished for his actions - but should those who published the crap or hosted the crap be allowed to get off without consequences? What about the baseless claims of a "stolen" election that led to a putsch attempt and the deaths of seven people [2]? Neither of what was published was illegal, even under European laws, but nevertheless real, actual people died.

99.9999999% of people won't fall for QAnon content to the degree they get violent over it, but it only takes one gullible-enough person and suddenly something that most (>50%) of the population would dismiss as crap becomes an actual cause for massive harm. If hundreds are gullible enough, you get a Jan 6th-scale event. And if millions are gullible enough, you get Trump, Orban, Kaczynski or Brexit (as well as, again, an accompanying rise in violence, murder and terrorism based on these people and their ideologies).

In my opinion, actions have to be taken against the peddlers of QAnon, election fraud and other propaganda before the stochastic terrorism principle applies and people get killed as a result. And the worst contributor to that is unmoderated and undermoderated social media, no matter if it's 4chan and the other chans that gave rise to QAnon, Facebook and Twitter that gave rise to Trump or Telegram that gave rise to the corona deniers and anti-5G conspiracy peddlers.

Democracy is not something that is god-given, democracy is something that has to be fought over to obtain it (and in every country, that fight cost millions of deaths) and has to be fought over to keep it alive - sometimes bloody (e.g. in Ukraine), sometimes at the election campaigns, and always at a legislative level. Democracy needs the attention of everyone and the counteraction against threats - including curbing the freedom of speech, where proven to be necessary.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/business/media/comet-ping...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol...
If I understand the idea of the linked article correctly, I sometimes do a similar thing in Java by defining an Iterator that implements some sort of traversal over a recursive data structure, then can apply any operations to the returned items using a for loop, applying an anonymous function to all the items, etc.

From some of the sibling comments, seems like there is a strong connection between these recursion schemes and iterator strategies?
Military teams are built around trust in underlying training and well-defined roles with well-defined hierarchy with clear paths of ownership and succession. Everybody knows who will take charge of the fire team if the fire team leader is dead, everyone knows who will take the squad if the squad leader is dead. The succession path is tested every time one of those leaders is away. The working leaders in fire teams and squads are the only word or authority that matters, most of the time.

This is the biggest thing I had to get used to in corporate environments. Software teams, even when you're a lead, really only have hierarchy starting with a manager. Managers, on the other hand, are rarely technical (or technical enough) and are oddballs in the example of a fire team. It'd be like throwing someone from admin into an engineering battalion and being like, "hey, here's a metal detector, you're in charge now."
> The knee to the neck also surprised J.D. Smith, a Marine veteran of the first Gulf War and a Seattle police officer since 1998. Smith had spent years pursuing drug dealers, killers, and pimps and had subdued a lot of people. “That’s not even a proper technique,” says Smith. “We put a knee in between the shoulder blades, and it never chokes anybody out.”

I feel like this quote was misinterpreted.
e.g. usages of 'shitpost' on the 4chan /jp/ board from 2008.

https://warosu.org/jp/?task=search2&search_text=shitpost&sea...

I'm sure it's trivial to find even older examples but this was just the first thing that sprang to mind.
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> As someone born behind the Iron Curtain, here’s my reply to Eisenhouer: all those guns made, ships launched and rockets fired contributed to me, and a few hundred million people like me, being free now

No it didn't. China switching sides and joining the US is what led to the fall of the soviet union. Just like if china, india, etc abandoned russia today, the russian federation will implode within a generation.

> rather than living in a North Korea-type Gulag.

North korean style gulag exists because of increased military spending. Because north korea is constantly under threat of an attack from the greatest bully in the world ( who constantly increased military spending ), they have to set aside a significant portion of their budget to defense which leads an unhappy population which leads to suppression of the population.

> Edit: they also contributed to a few other hundred million ( W Europe, Japan, etc) continuing to be free rather than being occupied by the USSR.

It also led to much of europe being turned into rubble and japan being nuked.

Not a single bullet or tank or missile contributed to you being "free". But bullets, tanks, missiles, etc kept you under soviet rule.
Surely all those guns can also put people behind North Korea type gulags, and caused a few hundred million to be occupied by the USSR?
if you read around on the internet, in various and sundry forums, there is a rising acknowledgement among people that maybe their friends who accidentally got their girlfriend pregnant in high school and then got married and started working right away were the lucky ones...

at the time it seemed as if those friends had messed up royally, but in hindsight, looking back over time and it seems as if the ones who got a girl pregnant in high school, dropped out and started working and got married often had the best outcomes...anecdotal evidence...but there is some logic behind it...
> I won't buy a phone that I can't run LineageOS on. MicroG.

I won't buy one that doesn't have an aux port. Do you know any lineage-supporting modern phones that have an aux port (and an SD slot, ideally!) by chance?
Site down? archive.org has: https://web.archive.org/web/20220426103006/https://shkspr.mo...
> That’s what makes it an IDE, that the basic text editing features and the compiler are both integrated.

Rather arbitrary distinction that doesn't even hold true for all IDEs out there.
This resonates for many disciplines, even in engineering, I found my college course (pre-University in the UK) to be much more useful than most of what I did at University but there is a mixture of universities wanting the income; some companies who insist on degrees at least as a crude measure of ability; peer or family pressure etc.

At least when I graduated in 1998, I only had loans of around $8K, since the course back then was free to take, in the US, I can't believe the sums involved but when you see the gravy train and insecurity in some institutions, it is no wonder they rinse their students for as much as possible.

I think we are seeing more routes now into work that look more like traineeships especially in comp-sci and other technical roles.
How does this help in technical discussions? Your example is from political discussions, do you mean that TS should get offended over others javascript preferences? Or to get offended when someone suggest a micro service architecture? Not sure how it applies.
> Have been using linux desktops since 2010

Thats probably why its so stable for you, you know it well, and that increased control of it allows you to make it as stable as you need.

However, generally speaking, Linux does not specialise in stability
I believe the FDA relies on the "maximum expected utility principle" - a cornerstone of free-market economic theory.

> "By combining the concept of utility with the notion of rational decision making, economists in the mid-twentieth century established a basis for the maximum expected utility principle. This principle is a key concept behind the creation of autonomous decision-making agents."

https://algorithmsbook.com/files/dm.pdf

This has been expressed in the past as "Each portion of wealth has a corresponding portion of happiness, and of two individuals with unequal fortunes, he who has the most wealth has the most happiness."

A good way to accumulate wealth and maximize happiness is to sell drugs, and preventing the sale of drugs because of concerns over ill effects reduces wealth and brings sadness to the pharmaceutical corporation and its shareholders and board members; such sadness prevents them from hiring ex-FDA employees as consultants or managers, thus defeating the principle of maximum expected utility.

The autonomous decision-making agents at the FDA therefore have no choice but to rubber stamp everything that comes across their desk. Doing anything else would be irrational.
> Simple: it's bad, very bad. Increasing expenditure increases the threat level: it's the whole point.

Not necessarily, after a certain point MAD comes to play ( assuming rational actors, which Putin is not).
Why Your PRs Aren’t Improving Quality
A New Religion
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1

Works on my M1 Max well enough to be satisfied with my mouse in SC2.
Be careful with that thing, it's a confidential coffee maker