skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, and it's easily provable by looking at old literature. The word "Hakenkreuz" is ancient and was used in the 19th century[1], decades before the national-socialism.

I have a hard time understanding why so many people want them to be two different symbols. The symbol is not the problem, but the meaning it conveys, right? The context matters, see the difference between Germany and Finland - both used the Hakenkreuz, but they are not the same, as the context is different, isn't it?

Context is everything. The German Army still uses a version of the Iron Cross, but the context is different - using the same symbol on a flag from the German Empire has a vastly different meaning.

[1] For example: https://books.google.de/books?id=VbkNkkgHvYgC&pg=PA1&printse...
I'd love to pick this article apart, but instead I'll just offer this:

The Phoenix missile (which used to be carried by the F-14) is borderline hypersonic [0]. And it is shot at airplanes.

Now imagine an Exocet-type missile but at a much higher speed.

A fast missile does one very important thing - it reduces the time the defender has to react, and thereby increases the odds of the attack succeeding. Glide-paths, targeting, etc are just variations of an attack plan - speed is what kills.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-54_Phoenix#:~:text=Speed%3...
Appreciate the detail. I'm not sure I see the conclusion as obvious though; if a 2kg weapon is going Mach 20 (as the weapon in the OP apparently does), with 1kg of that being TNT, then the explosives only provided 20% of the energy (rounding to the nearest 10% to make the example clearer). If you just lobbed the same 1kg weapon at Mach 20 then you'd have halved the weight, and reduced the energy to 40%. Presumably lower weight means easier to maneuver (more agile for intercepting or avoiding countermeasures, depending on what you're trying to hit).

It seems like around Mach 10-20 is where the tradeoff could become non-obvious, depending on how much you value weighing less?
You joke about nukes, but since they're such an "unthinkable" weapon they've become almost useless for most people who have them. You need them so that others with fewer compunctions are not able to steamroll you, but as an actual help to the kinds of conflicts currently going on and likely to happen in the future, they're just not as effective.

Whether that's fast cruise missiles, more powerful drones, more disposable drones, robot warriors, cyber-warfare, etc. militaries are trying to find the technology that breaks the stalemate caused by MADD.
Lovely but unfortunately Mac only.
I said absurdly reductionist and definitely meant that. :) There is a ton going on under the hood to make it work well, to fully implement postgres, and to work efficiently.
I don't think access to SoC documentation would have solved very many of the problems described in the article. The author still would have had to fiddle with device trees, secure firmware, u-boot, pxeboot, and getting a kernel with the right drivers built in.

RISC-V also doesn't solve SoC documentation access. Most of Arm's CPU documentation is freely available, its all the other stuff SoC vendors bolt on that's hard to get access to. I don't see RISC-V changing that.
>When you're going hypersonic, 'maneuverable' is relative; the turning radius is quite huge and such missiles will be easy for Aegis to track during the terminal phase.

Except the associated plasma shielding makes it invisible to radar. And the Russian ones are capable of sea skimming and maneuvering at mach 8 in the terminal phase. At those speeds, you're talking horizon to impact in seconds. We really have nothing that can touch it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon

We like to think of ourselves as massively advanced beyond Russia and China, and we are to an extent. But the reality is that the US military has wasted the last 20 years in pointless counterinsurgency operations that have narrowed our view to the actual threats we face, and de-prioritized this kind of cutting edge stuff. There's some serious catching up we'll need to do (both technologically and organizationally) to maintain deterrence against the rising conventional threats of authoritarian major powers.
I think it just moves the goal post of the problem. If I now have a 200ms window, then I need to optimize for that 200ms cutoff. I want to do as much work as possible while _still reaching the cutoff_ and so minimization of "non work" still matters. Not only that, but now you incentivize filling up that 200ms with 200ms of analysis.
License seems to be apache V2, see https://github.com/comby-tools/comby/blob/master/LICENSE.

They have a comparison section in their faq (https://comby.dev/docs/faq):

"Coccinelle uses a declarative syntax for matching constructs like function calls, if-statements, expression blocks, and so on for the C language. Some notable differences are that Coccinelle provides a patch-like format to express transformations (handy when you want to inline smaller changes in a broader context) and metavariable declarations (handy for developing and organizing more sophisticated patterns). For an example, see the file null_ref.cocci. Coccinelle works only for the C language, and may struggle to parse files that contain non-standard C constructs, like GCC inline assembly. Recent Coccinelle work has started expanding support for Java. In contrast, Comby’s syntax targets a wide range of languages and is more robust to matching patterns in the presence of unrecognized constructs. Comby is more suited to writing quick find-replace patterns for languages beyond C, and works well on C languages too."
Meh. They're the same height and have the exact same nose, but the other eye-catching similarities (same hair color, same haircut, same beard/stache, same regal countenance) are superficial. If they had different haircuts, shaved faces, and were captured in a more candid scene, I'm not sure that we'd see much of a similarity.

Here's another image[0] of them in which they look less like twins (ignoring the over-the-top superficial similarities).
[0]https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/106/590x/King-G...
> People play Melee with ping differences bigger than that and it works fine lol. Waaay more technical game shows that there's tolerance.

I dunno; I'd imagine people would be mad if there was a 15ms ping differential in Melee. I think the online/netplay tournament results are already looked at different than offline, console results.

Moreover, I'm pretty sure that you can't have a differential ping in a P2P game with rollback, so the competitive issues are different between the two scenes. I understand Riot wanting to equalize them. In Melee specifically, I think that the players have to decide on a common frame delay to play, right? If so, then the Melee community has come to the same solution for competitive netplay as Riot has.
Also horses that could run at 100mph for 5 hours at a time would be far better than early cars. They run on clean renewable fuel, have built in natural intelligence to avoid crashes and carry drunk drivers, and come in a variety of pleasing colors (not just black!).

The main benefit of cars was that if you delay maintenance your transportation doesn’t die.
> This is just plain wrong, I'm not sure what the counterfactual is here. The Nazi symbol is rotated by 45 degrees, the other one isn't.

No, you are incorrect. The Nazi one is often "rotated", but it is not always. It's quite easy to find photos where it is not, such as this from Nuremberg in 1937. https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/nuremberg-rall...

The religious swastika does not have inherent directionality; its orientation depends on the context in which it is used.
> have timeouts (<30min) in their video mode due to some import tax reason

People are often misinformed about EU laws, but on the other hand the EU has no shortage of ridiculous laws that give fodder to the euroskeptics.

In this case, it DOES look like the 30 minute limit is the EU's fault[1]. Thankfully it ended in 2019.

[1]: https://www.fujirumors.com/yes-eu-import-duty-reason-fujifil...
These $10 selfie sticks with handles that open into a stand are actually great and much more compact and portable when closed than even a small tripod https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09B6QHZK5
>”For those unfamiliar, it's possible to construct highly efficient, and expensive, MTG decks that trigger game-winning infinite combos within 1-4 turns. There's a continuous scale of deck effectiveness from this point”

You been to FNM too? /s

The cool thing about this project is that, from what I could generate, these could be legitimate cards. 2/2 blue flying. 3/4 zombie. 2/6 red giant. This is actually really cool. I’d love to see an AI generated green red aggro deck from this just to see how it would play.
It's correct that people moved around since forever. But I think applying the the concept of illegal immigration to colonization of Americas doesn't make sense.

The indigenous Americans didn't organize their societies as nation states.

So, I doubt that they had "borders" in the sense used here. Supporting this is the fact that their cartography wasn't very advanced. Here's how their maps looked like: https://www.archaeology.org/issues/338-features/maps/7549-ma...
I suck at lol, the amount of ping it takes for me to be able to tell it's different is only like 30-40 ms. Pro players being able to tell and care at half that seems pretty likely.
> Automated subways are just autonomous cars that work in a highly constrained environment. Ie, this is that Tesla and Boring Co are attempting to build. The difference between tunnels and streets is the complexity of the environment.

No, they’re really not, just like trains aren’t just cars that operate in constrained environments. They have a number of advantages, including feasibility, max speed, efficiency.

The main reason I know this is a poor comparison is that they are already in use in many countries (and they look nothing like cramped tunnels with traffic jams).

> A typical LRT car has 5 segments, 50 seats and a total capacity of 250.

The Paris metro has two automated lines, one built that way and one retrofitted. The retrofitted line, line 1, uses cars with capacity for 722 people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP_05 (by comparison, an NYC train can carry around 2,000 people, they are longer).

During rush hour, they have headway of 3 minutes (I’ve seen less in other subway systems, as little as 1m30, indeed it looks like line 14 has an 85 second minimum headway for safety).

> What if instead every 6 seconds a five person vehicle rolled by?

You’re going to struggle to embark in 6 seconds. If we solve that problem (with magical thinking or otherwise), subways are even more advantageous, since that’s where they waste tons of time!

> it is highly unlikely that it needs to stop at every stop, so as long as you have a separate loading/unloading zone you can get transit capacity, seating for everyone, less waiting etc. THAT is your autonomous EVs based transit system.

Turns out tons of people go to the same small set of stations, so you’re going to have a large problem embarking and disembarking in the given space. Same with time, everyone wants to move around at the same time.

Again, this is a solved engineering problem, there’s no need for train-like-but-not-as-good transit autonomous individual EVs.
You can still find some downloads on OLD blogspot aggregators but many of those links point to archives on Mediafire and Megaupload, both of which are no longer around.

piratebay might still point to trackers that have copies, but bittorrent isn't as popular as it was in the past
My guess is that they did not add in the client delay.
I'm sorry I don't think I can access that content.

Is it along the lines of jurisdictions that have laws on the books to try to prevent rumor or malicious speech from causing runs on the banking system?

What if you're telling the truth when you say a bank (or some other financial institution or vehicle) is bankrupt and that investors should withdraw their money?

A bit like shouting fire in a crowded theatre, when the theatre actually is on fire... not a crime, more of a public duty.
So true. It's almost ironic how they mention they feel good when something good happens to someone else, but when not everyone may feel the same, then it's their problem.

"Why can't this be happening to me?" is considered envy, but "Why are you not happy for others like me?" is considered moral high ground.
Interesting, this reminds me of how perpetual motion machines can be dismissed out of hand by citing the 2nd law of thermodynamics. As with plausible-seeming perpetual motion machines, the key to a popular stablecoin seems to be to make it complicated enough that it's difficult to analyze from first principles.
They have already denied the US the South China Sea -- just by expanding their economy. The US is a joke here. China -- for example -- in the last 20 years has started more than 400 companies in the Philipenes at least and where else? Structural changes to the economy, basically. While Europe and the US persist in this 1970s: "we will give the primitives subsidies and cash prizes" -- demonstrating that they are totally out of touch with the region. Colonialism is over. These countries have money. China is actually installing economic zones and other structures which give them direct control over the region. Aircraft Carrier Groups are no match for this.

I'm not saying I like or dislike it. But its incrediably evident if you live in the region.
Android manufacturers besides Samsung already don’t make any money. The last thing they are going to do is go after an even smaller niche.
Not practical for US who has platforms to hit global targets at much lower costs, i.e. money spent on hypersonic research can build up enough JASSMs to last until WW5.

But IMO useful backup if adversaries manage to negate platforms like carriers and long range bombers. Basically, establishing conventional MAD with CONUS Prompt Global Strike using icbm/hypersonics.

Flip side is this is massively benefitial to PRC (or anyone else) who can't catchup in conventional force posture to hit CONUS with anything but hypersonics. For them it's low hanging asymmetric fruit that comprehensively deters US power projection. IMO we're entering era where advanced rocketry including meter level CEP and accurate terminal guidance will proliferate and obviate a lot advantages of current power projection platforms.
> The symbol is not the problem, but the meaning it conveys, right?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you take a symbol, rip out its symbolic meaning, replace the symbolic meaning with a completely new symbolic meaning, in my opinion you end up with a new symbol that may share some visual aspects, but has nothing to do with the other symbol in terms of what a symbol actually is - conveying symbolic meaning. It's still going to be a new symbol with different context, and calling a Hakenkreuz (as used by the Nazi regime) a Swastika is more likely incorrect than correct.

Appropriation and following complete perversion of the original symbolic meaning does not make the resulting output interchangeable with the original symbol.
Re (2), I always soft-block (block and then unblock) rather than unfollow, mainly because I view my twitter feed as a collection of friends, and I'd rather "terminate the relationship" than make it one-sided. If I want to preserve the relationship but find them annoying, I'll mute them.
"According to our analysis, web3 paid out $174,000 per creator, while Meta paid out $0.10 per user, Spotify paid out $636 per artist, and YouTube paid out $2.47 per channel. Web3 is tiny but mighty."

If you like me are wondering what this sentence means: According to the slide deck, they arrived at $174,000 by taking the aggregate sales of NFTs on OpenSea ("Includes ETH-denominated primary sales...plus creator royalties from secondary sales", says a footnote there) and dividing by 22,400 "creators", which I guess means accounts selling NFTs.
They have to know what to hit and make sure the target they are tracking is actually a real target.
The flavor text really makes the card. "It scavenges with a tide of deceit" makes it feel as if the AI knew the card did nothing when scavenging.
He was responding to this statement:

> I can't see a single facial feature that the both of them share.
It says they transferred half of funds from procurement to R&D, probably because previous tests failures.
Again, i think the phenomenon here is similar: if you can’t even get a phone you can operate one handed properly, you may as well get a bigger screen anyways.

I’m not saying that this is people’s preferred choice, I’m saying it’s a logical decision given the choices available that seems counterintuitive from first principles (and assuming a market with real choices).
Race is a rough, subjective, culturally-bound summary of characteristics. If you're already evaluating characteristics, adding either your guess of race or a self-reported race is like injecting gossip into good data.

If the outcome that you're trying to predict is also affected by perceptions of race, you've built a gossip feedback loop.
As I understand, the drivers (webcam utility? not sure) are built for x86. For some reason they don't work in apps which are built for M1, so the camera only works if an app which needs a video is running in emulation mode.

So, if you want to use Canon DSLR on M1 in a web browser (e.g. google meet), get a browser built for x86.

I'm using Chromium, it can be downloaded for x86. The issue is that Chromium doesn't have screen share feature. So, for screen share, I'm using Chrome, and joining the call for the second time, in "companion mode". That's 2 separate browsers to participate in a call. Maybe there is a way to get Chrome or Firefox for x86, but I was a bit too lazy when setting it up :)
It's not that I mind them tweeting their politics that much, it's that I don't want them annoying my followers.
If true, it seems easy to optimize for your own happiness (or lack of hurt) by replacing more-likely-to-succeed friends with less-likely-to-succeed ones...
Missing Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact - the most recent (and apparently last) small phone that Sony made.
> Current Aegis and CIWS defensive tech will not hit something traveling that fast.

Aegis BDM is designed to hit hypersonic reentry vehicles. CIWS is irrelevant, why even bring it up?
Sounds similar to ML research
> I can't even find this album on eBay, and you can find everything there!

i hope that discussing secondhand sales in the context of piracy might not be off-topic. if it is on topic, discogs.com is a decent source for most secondhand recordings. if you visit [1] you'll see there are two different sellers offering copies there, as well as price histories. i have not found many releases not listed on discogs.

[1]: https://www.discogs.com/release/6768123-Straighten-Things-Ou...
> One day your bubble will burst

Now you are wishing it on others? Sorry, not going to happen.
Paripi koumei!
So do I. My hands are small for current phone sizes. I need to use both hands to type.
> it will have no chance in h* to last through the day

My previous Xperia Compact, which is of about the same dimensions as mini, survived for a couple of days easily when new.

> iPhone Mini has been weak in battery department [1]

The article says "solid battery life", which matches my experience with 13 mini.
Great, lets take each of your examples 1 by 1, and I'll give an explanation of why I think overturning Roe v Wade would be in a very different category:

1. Laws against gay marriage. Gay marriage has been legal in all US states since 2015. But specifically as it relates to encryption, even if gay marriage were made illegal again, it's not quite like people would be getting "surreptitiously" married (the whole point of legal gay marriage is legal benefits and societal acceptance), so I don't think folks would think that a governmental data request would somehow "expose" someone who was gay and married.

2. Lawrence v Texas outlawed most laws against homosexuality in 2003, before most people were aware of the issues of broad data collection (and before tech companies started to go all in on it). But I totally agree, if Lawrence v Texas were overturned, I think it would absolutely be in the bucket of Roe v Wade being overturned as it relates to tech workers thinking government data requests could be "evil".

3. Laws against drugs. Even if you disagree with the war on drugs, I think most tech workers, even if they were uncomfortable with a government data request for drug crimes, could quite easily rationalize it as "OK, the government is probably going after some big drug dealer who does bad shit. They're not likely going to ask Google for a data request for someone with a joint on them." I think that's fundamentally different from them thinking "The government wants data so they can arrest this woman who had an abortion."

4. Laws like asset forfeiture. Again, even if tech workers had real problems with asset forfeiture laws, I think most people could be able to rationalize a data request for it.

And perhaps most importantly is that Roe v. Wade has been the status quo for 50 years. It's not just about "tech workers disagree with a law", but it's about "tech workers seeing an important right being removed", and the emotions involved there are very different. If personal marijuana use was legal nationwide for 50 years, but then SCOTUS suddenly decided it would be OK for governments to start throwing people in jail for it, I think that would be a much more comparable situation.
> If the noise in polygenic scores is random, all that will do is reduce correlations. Random measurement error always reduces the ability to observe relationships. To be clear, I do not know enough about polygenic scores to judge one way or another how the noise "works" vis-a-vis the entire analysis.

That's correct, it is a flaw of the entire analysis, not the PGS in isolation. Yes, the polygenic score, when used to define 'genetic intelligence', will be biased towards zero and will miss a lot of the genetic intelligence. What then happens is the video-game playing becomes a measure of intelligence (genetic or otherwise), capturing what the polygenic score (and other covariates) miss. The logic then works in reverse: the reduced correlation is precisely why the residual confounding works. The worse your 'measurements' are at measuring the underlying trait, the more wiggle room there is for your 'outcomes' to actually be correcting the 'measurements' and not vice versa. See "Statistically Controlling for Confounding Constructs Is Harder than You Think" https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... , Westfall & Yarkoni 2016. (More examples: https://www.gwern.net/notes/Regression )

What OP shows is not that video game playing causes IQ, but IQ causes video game playing. The choice to play video games (or not play them, because you are bad at learning) is an additional 1-item long IQ test and helps corrects for the error.

(And we do in fact know that video gaming & IQ correlate, so nothing new there. We also know from all the brain training randomized experiments that the causal arrow doesn't run in the direction they want it to run. OP is very wrong, including in claiming that the Flynn effect justifies believing in their effect - it actually is a criticism of their claimed causal relationship between IQs have been steady or falling even as video gaming increased massively.)
Hm, I haven't noticed any increased latency when using a DSLR as a webcam.
> But a drop of 60+% in the collateral basket used by DAI is not inconceivable.

Dai has survived a 94% drop in the value of its backing collateral in 2018, and it maintained the peg well. It would, however, be a problem if the drop was _instant_ and sustained. But it should be able to handle the speed of the drop we saw in Luna.

Your point is taken regarding trading types of trust with respect to bugs or backdoors. There is certainly a level of trust required there.
Which distills down to: either you’re famous or you’re famous.