skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the diplomats killed in Benghazi 10 years ago was also a diplomat for one of the major EVE alliances (and a moderator on the forums from which they draw their members) and was on alliance comms the night when it happened. Very nice guy who led an interesting life.

https://www.wired.com/2012/09/vilerat/
Reminds me of this scene from War Games https://youtu.be/iRsycWRQrc8?t=66
The mains breaker controls both legs, but they are separately protected. So if a protection sensor fails, it might only interrupt one leg. The switch controls both legs though.

I've done a lot of electrical work in old houses, but only in big cities where a failing inspection is just not tolerated. I've seen old country homes where regulation is ... less strict. This might not be an urban/rural divide, but that's my experience having lived in both.

I'm amazed that you were able to buy or sell a house that did not pass inspection. If the buyer was financing, the mortgage would require insurance, which would require inspection. In a cash sale, the buyer should be sophisticated enough to take responsibility for the repairs.

I think (in my high-regulation states) it's actually not legal to sell a house that does not pass a safety inspection. At least not without surrendering the certificate of occupancy until repairs are completed and inspected.
What is your degree of confidence in an alert coming out of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that warns of a Category 5 Hurricane making landfall in the next 6 hours, with accompanying dangerously high winds and a record-setting storm surge?

Is that enough to warrant forced evacuations from homes?

This isn't a hypothetical.

Do you, or do you not, think that we as a society should immediately act upon information from the NOAA about hurricanes?
What made it the "greatest country on earth" was not being in Europe when WWII was fought.
That does NOT look fun
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> The only real place H.265 lives on is [...]

Funnily enough, the pirate seas have lots of h265 booty. Easy for that crowd, nobody cares about the patents there.
> lightswitches can be just as dangerous as breaker panels

That's very much not the case. A light switch, at least in the US, is just 120V. Sure, it could kill you, but 99.999% of the time it'll just annoy you if you touch the hot wire inadvertently. You can easily get 240V inside the panel, however, and on top of that you can easily get it at 200A. I'm a lot more careful when I've got the panel cover off for any reason.
For what it's worth, I'm working on a software simulation that will allow testing of different systems, to see how close a system of voting can come to aggregating the preferences of voters. Back in 1953, Kenneth Arrow published his Impossibility Theorem, which proved that rank voting failed to aggregate voter preferences. He later won a Nobel Prize, in part for this work. But Arrow remained hopeful about "approval" voting, where the voters get an infinite number of votes. The central problem is that our voting systems today tend to be course-grained, and they need to be fine-grained if they are to aggregate the will of the voters, without having small, random variations swamp the results. So I'm working on a simulation to let everyone experiment with all the possible variables: how many votes, how many candidates, etc.
I saw similar bots who copy-paste news content into videos. It's funny to a certain degree. Imagine you are the person doing this, trying to figure out for months how to make money online. In the end, you come to the conclusion that you have to spam YouTube and upload as much as possible - in an automated way... =)

A more elaborate scam are those graphic card reviews: They claim for example to test 4 different GPUs and show them in split screen with FPS and memory information. In reality, it's probably just 1 GPU with the displayed information being faked, because from the pictures alone, you can't see a difference. The information one has to display for the different GPUs can be easily acquired from legitimate graphic card reviews. These videos get millions of views, with positive ratings. Some of these channels probably make >10k a month.
Frankly, you sound like a bit of a whiner who holds the opposite opinion. I don't understand why most conversations orient to this binary right / wrong argumentation when the issue is almost always more subtle.
To be honest, as a European I think it's a good thing and we're already seeing its consequences: salaries which are way lower than US ones have already started rising, and lots of interesting startups that didn't want to hire us before have changed their minds.

So at least on our side of the ocean it's pretty good! I just hope there's no negative impact for Americans and we can all enjoy this change.
Thinking about this more I agree with you and think the answer for me is to simply have the cameras off by default and only use implicitly when away and monitoring makes me feel better. They provide little, possibly negative, service during the time a household member is home. Being from a similar background as you I have a hard time with the labels rich/wealthy, so my apologies for being defensive. The wealth aspect is interesting as you pointed out because that is what I think of in the past, however now I think it is accessible for many as costs of cameras and online video storage come down. The usefulness of camera surveillance seems to diminish though when you are not trying to spy on people who have privelaged access to your home that are not household members and may or may not deserve the same level of privacy (to bring this full circle back to work surveillance).
How Small Is It
> the microphones installed in our desks were picking these noises up

I'd have a fleet of these things in the office within a week of that memo haha

https://www.amazon.com/AnnoyingPCB-Ultimate-Productivity-Des...

I imagine the best place for these would be in the faux ceiling above a smoke detector
I don't see how the tax rate impacts your inflation pace. Your net wage increases with the percentage raise you get as well. W * R * (1 - T) / W * (1 - T) = W * R / W = R, no? (Wage, Raise, and Tax as the variables).
Try shrinking it, searching for text, or scrolling. It's a chart, and a small part of the top left corner is empty.
The spirit of the tax benefit, like all tax benefits, was to help some special interest avoid their taxes.
Assuming you're importing it as a black box abstraction, then absolutely.

'isEven' really shouldn't be a dependency though, either through npm or internally. 'x % 2 === 0' works fine for integers and can be inlined, or if you're using it a bunch and want slightly cleaner code, you can define it as a lambda alongside the code that uses it. Then everyone can see exactly what it's doing with the full context.

The real issue is overabstraction. Even if you do everything "right" and have it as an internal dependency with all the correct error handling, it still makes the code a pain in the ass to read.
Child mental health in 2022: Parents have their say
We must be looking at different graphs. See p.7

https://indico.fnal.gov/event/16264/contributions/36466/atta...

You can see the classic Pareto frontier, with LZ4 filling the niche at the very bottom right edge of the graph.
Its unfortunate that people like you exist because it sabotages solving problems out of your insecurity of needing to be perceived as “the smartest person in the room”. Your Self trying to reject what I am telling you with cognitive-loops of tropes about me being 22 or being on 4chan, does bot alter the reality that you are quite wrong and as uninformed as your subconscious clearly knows you are.

I am not at all one affected by any of what I said, so your dismissal only serves to further delude yourself and possibly misdirect others who are susceptible to your type of manipulation.

Also, I am not your daddy or teacher, stop trying to waste my time to provide the proofs you will simply dismiss, because you are too lazy to do the work yourself and discovering contradictory truths would require you to face that deep insecurity that drives you. Better keep believing you know best and are the smartest guy in the room.

You sound like a flat earth type, demanding I provide all the proofs you can easily find yourself, just to dismiss them out of hand because they don’t align with your self-image and preconceived notions.

I know. Its a strong mental cage you are in.
Bats buzz like wasps and bees. The sound may deter hungry owls
This article is from before the war and seems to have taken the russian war theorists claims at face value. Now we know reality is different. For example NATO artillery has self proppelled gps guided shells that far outrange the bigger russian calibers. So you don’t need as many artillery piece when your first shot is a hit and the enemy is not even in range to shoot back anyway

Ukraine also developped a very interesting custom software to target their artillery, here’s a twitter thread about it: https://mobile.twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1523791050313...
I recently discovered a nice Youtube extension that replaces all thumbnails with a screenshot from somewhere within the video. I feel it gives a better insight into the content of the video compared to the clickbait cover photo they everyone adds now.

I still use YouTube far less than I used to in the past. It's probably a combination of less interesting content being made now and the increasingly egregious ads.
If we're going to call a spade a spade, then let's go ahead and say that the majority of the packages that are always referenced in those discussions (is-even, is-odd, etc) is maintained and primarily used by a minority of developers that are very well known in the ecosystem.

This minority makes money out of their popularity in the NPM ecosystem. Having 1000 NPM packages is better for your reputation than having 100. And having all 1000 packages with lots of weekly downloads is better than having just a portion of that.

But how do they achieve that? Well, they have 1000 NPM packages, so each one depends on 5 to 10, that then depends on a few handful more. You have packages for checking if an HTTP status is a certain number, you have packages that have colors as constants, you have is-even, is-odd and so on. All that exists to maintain that closed ecosystem.

So out of the 1000 they basically have 20 useful tools and 980 garbage packages that exist only to maintain their own ecosystem.

Most people isn't using is-even or is-odd directly. They imported some other packages that are quite useful, but often need 10-20 sub-dependencies. Another interesting thing is that those shitty packages aren't really that important in applications. They're often used in build tools, CI and testing, tools for making CLI tools, and the sort.

The crazy thing is that a lot of people using is-even/is-odd aren't really "noobs": they're probably experienced developers that said "fuck it, I'll use some random tool from the web" when facing some random a problem.
I see a lot of comments here pointing to new/inexperienced developers. As one of those guys, I have to say JS community is not that great at keeping blogs/docs/tutorials up to date. Take react for example the learning section is quite out of date and no one develops using classes anymore.
Dislikes are so toxic.

I always felt that Reddit would be so much better if you can upvote what you like and simply ignore the rest. Wouldn't that work? The stuff that people like or find quality posts will rise, so logically the rest will be further down. So why do we need a downvote button?

Imho downvote/dislike buttons on social sites simply validates toxic behaviour, as well as those behaviour from people that wouldn't think of themselves as angry or toxic and yet feel like they need to "fix" the world for others... which almost invariably means they have anger they haven't "digested" yet and so they keep seeing it into the world; anywhere but in themselves. And crucially no amount of dislike/downvotes will make the world a better place - all they do is increase polarization.
I get your point that everything always goes up eventually, but there will be unpredictable events that reshape the market like COVID, war, 9/11, hurricanes, and many other “one-time” events that we can’t even predict right now. Just because these things kind of happened at different times doesn’t mean 10 of these things won’t happen all at the exact same time or back to back for many years. Imagine having a COVID lockdown, on top of a fuel shortage, and a food shortage, on top of a war, on top of countries defaulting on debt. If even any two of those happened in lockstep it would spell disaster for many company’s as we know. We got lucky there wasn’t another major crisis during COVID lockdowns although to this day we are dealing with the supply chain issues created with strict lockdowns and China is still or really just starting now to lock down in a major way, so now the supply chain issues we had aren’t just on our side of the ocean but theirs as well. It’s a miracle it didn’t happen on both sides at the same time.
Everytime I wonder if we're doomed I just remember we were locked in mortal combat with ourselves only 140 years ago. Sociopolitical relations seem absolutely rosy in comparison! America has been through a lot (to put it mildly), this is far from the worst of our historical challenges.
What is the reality here? If a company adds MDM software to a laptop they have given you for work and you use it at home on your home network. Is it easy enough for them (in theory) to get on to the network and look on your kids or partners devices?

Or is that tin hat thinking?
> The shop in between Holborn and Tottenham Court road, by any chance?

Beatties, I think. I used to pop in there on my way home from Touche Ross, accountants, where I had a mangement gig - I used to think "If only I had back then compared to what I do now ..." - and had grand designs for an N-guage railway setup - girlfriend vetoed it. Never bought anything. Ooh, but wait, I do seem to remember buying my little nephew an R/C car there!

Regarding the F177, the shop was in Southgate, North London, cannot remember the name, oposite tube station, but I am right :-)
Show HN: I applied Recursion into a function that encodes recursion-An OS YC App
From Annoyance to Pleasure – The Artistic Popup Approach
To delete something, I imagine you set it to undefined. I don't know anyone who uses the undefined state at rest for anything interesting.
Elon Can Legally Transform Twitter with Pseudonymous Free Speech
Yes...though I'd say to rule out sha1, or any other "no longer considered secure" hashes. The space & time savings (vs, say, sha-512) are really not worth baking into your backup format & procedures. Keep in mind that you might need to really verify the integrity of your backup during a ransomware incident, or as part of a high-stakes legal situation, or ...
People love agency and sense of progress through gathering virtual points.
You are looking for Sousveillance ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance).

And here's a paper on his it can be attempted at workplaces:
https://www.sjjg.uk/pdfs/cecchinato-gould-pitts-2020-self-tr...
YouTube has plastered the same 10 video essays across the homepage for almost six months now. I have watched these videos in their entirety. I don't want to watch them again. It feels weird that every time I login to YouTube I just...don't see anything I actually want to watch?
I don't think that works for newly created videos. You can bring up the count for old videos, but I don't believe you can add new dislikes.
Positional syntaxes are extensible: you can add new optional arguments at the tail end, such that when those are missing, the old behavior is provided.

The JSON could use positional syntax, since JSON has [ ] arrays, and that would reduce its clutter.

The S-exp could use keyword arguments; it would still be nicer. Note that if we do so, we still want the operation to be positionally determined; i.e. to be the first element.

(patch
(replace :path (baz) :value "boo")
(add :path (hello bim) :value ("world"))
(remove :path (foo)))

JSON becomes even more verbose to achieve something like this

["op", {"kw1" : "arg", "kw2" : 3.1, ...}]
Impacts of Software Updates
> Sure, for a few years you can coast on what the developers you laid off/fired built but cracks will start to show and you can't just slot in developers like RAM sticks.

This is the key point, software is a creative field - and you ultimately aren't going to get more than maintenance/routine upgrades from an outsourced firm. They simply don't care enough to want to go beyond their contract. You aren't going to be able to get top-tier talent to work in your timezone if that means working a graveyard shift.
The great human-robot convergence. AI and robotics are getting closer to humans and humans (especially workers) are pushed closer to robots
I wouldn't call it easy - they might be able to see what is publicly shared, but shouldn't have any non-public access to the other computers/devices. But most of all, they wouldn't dare. Mistakes and individual excesses happen, though.
Zero TVs, IoT devices, home automatons, etc. I generally dislike anything that beeps, anything with LEDs. Though I built my own house, I don't even own a microwave. The stove is gas. I like candles. In winter we heat with firewood. Though I have ornamental gardens, I have no watering timers, I water everything by walking around and pointing at it with the hose.

for what are called computers:

1 desktop - a 2013 box that I built

1 laptop - a Microsoft surface

1 phone - a pixel 5

1 camera - Leica Q2 (well and a Praktica MTL5 made in East Germany)

And one kindle. And an iPad, for work testing. I'm a web developer. I love technology. But it has to feel and serve very human purposes to be worthwhile.
It does at least blacklist that exact video.
China reinforces tight control over plane crash mystery
The problem is more fundamental:

Those are all things I like, but I don’t want most of them most of the time — and YouTube gives me no way to signal what state I’m in. And because it shoves them all in a large pile, I get very few if any recommendations related to what Im looking for right now.

People are faceted, but YouTube fails to design UX to accommodate that reality — instead trying to be everything at once and so failing to be anything, ever.
There’s comments above that explains it “working”. Here’s a site that explains it better. TLDR, taxes go up a lot, private spending for medical procedures slightly falls. Quality of care drops. Pretty well a losing proposition all the way around.

https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/how-socia...
You can and should negotiate terms of employment before signing. The more we stand up for ourselves the less we will slide down this slippery slope.
> As long as you don’t spend the money people give you, you’ll have 1:1 dollars to stable coin.

The lure of fractional reserve banking is strong. Crypto ideologues don't seem to get this because they think crypto is immune from the same forces that create monetary inflation. Just because it's not fiat, doesn't mean that economic actors don't have an an incentive to take profit any which way they can.
Guns are legal in every single state.
I’m just curious, how is it you can say that … just totally ignoring the story and the fact that no one claimed anything like what your response would be a valid response to. Its baffling to me when people do that. Can you explain it?

Please read what I wrote again. My theory is that you have some innate and subconscious bias that is so overwhelming that you leap to defense in an illogical and instinctual manner, regardless of anything else, kind of like a body guard may leap into action on a car backfiring. Is that about accurate?
If by fun you mean spreadsheets.
No, it assumes amnesia on the part of the voters. There is an abundance of evidence backing up the assumption of amnesia. Study after study shows that voters are only paying attention for the 6 months before an election. Even where 80% of the voters follow events and are well informed, the election is determined by the 20% who are poorly informed. There is a fix for this, discussed here:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/how-to-fix-democracy-empowe...
Now try converting the equation into interpretive dance.

What's your actual point?
I loved this game growing up. (F-19 I never got F-117A). Thanks for bringing back memories.
For some reason, both liberals and right-wingers need to think that they're the vast majority of people, and if there were real democracy everything would be going their way.
> Why is abortion literally a major topic in every presidential election over decades?

Abortion is a big issue that will continue to come up because one group of people view it as literally murdering a child and another group see it as a minor medical procedure. In reality the debate should just be "how many weeks into pregnancy should it be allowed?", but that's hard to sell in a campaign so politicians will go hard one way or the other.
I've seen several roll-your-own solutions to this, but I have yet to see one that supports "copy" and "move". And rarely do I see one that supports "test". I like those features, even if I think the "op"syntax is clumsy as anything and add/update/remove can just be a JSON object be key:value/new_value/undefined
Not just the rich. PEOPLE must be made to do the right thing.
Non-essential dependencies are for the weak and every single company that I worked for.
It just seems to be a management platform to allow you to deploy and track the runtimes of an unlimited number of Workers (i.e. functions) that operate in a tenant-isolated manner.

This is surprisingly easy to do with AWS Lambda right now, even though you need to understand the security implications and mitigate them to make this work safely. You just have to look at the Twilio functions implementation to see how someone achieves this at scale today. But having a prebuilt solution designed specifically for this is promising.

It's a good idea though, but yet another blog article with no info on pricing and the only way to access it is by going to Cloudflare cap-in-hand to ask politely. Who knows when (or if) this will ever become publicly available or be cost-effective long-term.
> I’ve read this but always had a hard time believing it. Why would the omega 6/3 ratio matter? Seems like a falsehood peddled by people trying to convince you to buy more expensive unsustainable hunted fish.

What I read 20 years ago when Omega 3s were starting to be a thing, is that Omega 3s are processed into certain anti-inflammatory compounds, and Omega 6s into certain pro-inflammatory compounds. "Natural" diets had the two fats balanced, but modern Western diets have reduced Omega 3s and increased Omega 6s, leading to more inflammation.

IIRC, one big mechanism for the change is feeding our food crappy food to increase production (e.g. switching from typically grass-fed to typically grain-fed beef).
That might be a 1960s-70s-era Zinsco.

If so, you should get it replaced right away. Easy access to the internals is the least of your concerns -- these panels are unsafe as designed, and responsible for much fire and death.