skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simply a false dichotomy that we have the choice between committing to nuclear energy generation, or catastrophic climate change.

We don't need nuclear energy. We really, really don't.
> But you don't get to live near society and not "opt in" to our laws. You can protest the laws, you can choose to break the laws (and face any consequences). But you can't just pretend that anarchy should be the default status until you sign some imagined physical contract.

Prohibition was defeated because people broke the laws curtailing their individual freedom to drink alcohol. Individuals have been smoking marijuana despite a federal and state bans on it with the latter being being lifted recently but speedily. The abortion issue, at this moment, concerns the right of one to opt out of laws that curtail bodily independence.

The social contract is fiction. Every freedom that has ever been sought or protected starts with the individual spiting the mandates of society while circumventing or blunting its punishments. That's not anarchy but a foundational cornerstone of liberty.
> I personally slightly prefer approval voting (e.g. select all candidates you like, no ranking, most votes wins).

Yes, I like this one a lot more.

> There are municipalities and states that have implemented both.

I think for low-stake elections that most people don't vote in anyway, experimentation is relatively safe. But I wouldn't want to try anything new with fiery federal elections, particularly not the presidential election. The risk of confusion resulting in costly civil unrest is too high.

> More importantly, a large minority of people in the US who already believe the current voting system isn't fair

Yes, but they tolerate it for the most part.
The goodness was actually the book. The writing was simple and clear, the examples were self-contained and practical. It was a perfect textbook. Many years ago I gave my tattered copy to a second-cousin when he was about 15 and it totally changed his life; he became a coder and never looked back.
I have advised, consulted for, or worked full time at 20+ companies, interviewed at too many to think about counting, and conducted technical interviews at 10+.

Without exception the companies that weighted academic algorithm skills over practical architecture skill and implementation experience had some of the most confident and brazen mistakes in security or scalability and some of the poorest work-life balance.
I'm struggling myself to find videogames for my daughter (almost 4). She played Kirby star allies and Yoshi's Crafted World (both finished now), but after that I've been struggling to find any meaningful game that had the right difficulty, right theme and didn't have the requirement of being able to read.

I avoid all tablet games because there is too much garbage.

Anyway, depending on the age of your kids, those two have "cartoon violence", yoshi throwing eggs, not sure if you would count it as that.

Does super mario count as violent with jumping on monster heads?
Even if the database contains banding by household income for example? Why does the USPS need that to do their job?
Brave doesn’t show what targeting was used…
The hardware and the OS which are second and to none IMO. And yes I’ve used Ubuntu and Windows for years and they don’t even come close.
>I feel that people have just embraced Agile blindly and simply forgot about basic modelling.

Very Good Point!

If you only look at things piecemeal and never holistically, the need for modeling and corresponding tools decreases.
Bioshock for example.
This is slightly offtopic but windows 95 ran on 4mb of ram. 8mb was considered luxurious at the time. Visual Studio 6, launched in 1998, ran fine with 16mb of ram. It had almost all of the debugging features we have today, and it worked flawlessly every time.

Half a gigabyte of ram was, and still is, a gargantuan amount of memory.
Do you have a sample/example eDSL in java? I would find this interesting.
Heh. I actually had to google that expression. I guess I'm one of them, then. :(
Ah, my bad. Can't delete the original reply anymore, sorry.
The founder of Tito’s, Bert Beveridge, has a background in geophysics, and he’s a billionaire. I’m sure he thinks it’s money well spent, to which I’d agree.
Having worked in marketing, they absolutely worked with a data broker. You don't blindly send out mailers. You use data brokers to zone in on a target market. "This zip code is more like to buy X while this zip code is more like to buy Y."
Credit where credit is due. Well done, Mercedes, well done.
Dyson Sphere Program is similar but definitely non-violent.
> any type of hard drugs, like alcohol and tobacco, in grocery stores.

I volunteered at an addiction and methadone clinic for awhile. I recommend you try it then come talk about what “hard drugs” are.
> As said in the article, we already share

The article says that a number of people uses «loyalty programs». It mentions tracking though «debit card», and last time I checked Norwegians still have circulating cash. It does not mention Google, but surely there will be Norwegians that do not share data with it. Let us highlight that surely, some do not share at all.

I do not understand, contextually, the idea of «balanc[ing] the private sector power».
The tao that can be sequence diagrammed is not the true tao, either.
The information you linked doesn't seem to indicate that a grocery store would do this.

> Level 3 credit card data involves large transactions that take place primarily with B2B or business-to-government (B2G). These transactions take place using corporate purchasing cards, which allow the companies or government agencies to monitor purchases and have access to detailed spending reports.

Instead, it seems that level 1 would be what most businesses that sell to consumers would use

> Level 1 data primarily refers to small business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions. This level only requires the following information for credit card transactions:

Merchant name
Purchase amount
Date
Billing zip code
In theory, a democratic government is supposed to be beholden to its people, but the problem you are describing occurs when the government is no longer under the power of the population.
It is slow for me on both Linux and Windows on very recent hardware. It takes seconds to open. Moving around and resizing drawings lags pretty badly.

With that said, Inkscape is a really good software.
:)
How about Chapter 12 of Agner's awesome manual (https://agner.org/optimize/optimizing_cpp.pdf), http://const.me/articles/simd/simd.pdf, https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/simd/ ?

Does anyone have others to share?
I absolutely love speed runs and think they’re a great expression of the hacker mentality.

To take a subtle bug in something like a physics engine and bend it to your will to eek out another 5s save off the world record is absolutely fascinating.

Not to mention things like TASBot which always makes a great GDQ watch https://youtu.be/7CgXvIuZR40 and got me interested in speed running in the first place!
Forced cooperation with police is definitely a usage of cooperate. If you’re only exposure to U.S. English is popular media, then I could see how you associate cooperate with a police context. However, I don’t think that’s the first thing people in the U.S. think of when they hear the word.
The US can stop you making disclosures for very specific cases - aka the Patriot act which is a federal law. But majority of requests are done by other people.

Quite simply saying "We have no idea how many are still in place" actually, we have an idea. That idea is not many. It's simply FUD to talk about the US' ability to stop disclosures when talking about who is making the most requests. Especially when the US is still pretty near the top for countries making requests.
No, this is a list of columnar database systems - gp was saying the index, which is often (but not always) stored separately from the main db records.
“Donbas and lugansk” is not a thing. You are incorrect about very basic details in these issues, that I’d advise actually listening to people that know “Donbas” refers to both Donetsk and Luhansk Republics, for starters, unlike yourself.
The press and government are two distinct powers. All that you listed, FBI, attorney, Congress, are all part of the government, which is the one which controls and directs what the NSA does.

Leaking to the press is not a bug. Seeking maximum distance from what you denounce is sane. You have the same problems in the private sector, where you are directed to voice your complain to HR.

Secrecy is a poison.
Highway looks awesome from a quick glance. Definitely going to set some time aside to play with it and read it.

Sort of tangentially related, what sort of tools are you using for disassembly in 2022? Is there anything better than objdump today? What I really want is a version of godbolt that reads compile_commands.json and can show me the godbolt-style color-coded disassembly for an entire binary, any function. I find that when I’m asking these sort of questions I’m wasting a lot of time fitting my problem into godbolt so I can just get a rough idea of what’s coming out, because it’s so much faster (maybe 10x) to read the color tagged version from godbolt than it is to do the same with objdump.

Edit: along the same lines, what can people do (or rather, what do you do) about situations like this: https://github.com/google/highway/blob/master/hwy/examples/b... where things might get better in the future but for now we have to implement it another way? How do you avoid regressions and how do you track workarounds? I want some sort of database that tries competing implementations on every build and emits a compiler warning when things get better. How are you dealing with this?
> 0 bytes

Such a weird way of saying they haven't disclosed data. They might say they disclosed the data by writing the user's details on a piece of paper and submitting that to the government.
“Personally, I don't enjoy the emotion of being angry.”

no one cares
What were the two tools used?
Nuclear, Fukushima, Chernobyl and the Benefit of Low Dose Radiation
To be fair, this particular compiler was relatively cheap. The number £30 springs to mind (which included the book), but I'm not sure if that was the price or just my faulty memory. The internet wasn't a thing for home users in 1989.

Only a couple of years later I had access to the internet and was downloading DJGPP. Fun fact is I now work with DJ.
Youtube does for the rest of us
Don't really know about macOS, but Ubuntu 18.04 is a distro with, what, 6 years old packages ? There have been a lot of bugfixes to the whole stack since then which will never make it to older Ubuntus - remember than the "stable" in linux distros means "does not change", not "does not crash".
You are indeed not dumb. Coinbase is a bit of an oxymoron. If decentralized value exchange takes off, that will surely be the end of Coinbase. To a degree, Coinbase's demise is baked into crypto's success - which is kinda funny to think about. Coinbase has always seemed like a bit of a money grab, and crypto veterans sort've treat it this way.
"Hydrogen power is most suited for trains and air transportation, where electrification is difficult."

Yeah, its hard to power a plane by electricity, but trains..?
Definitely, I have on my TODO to give turbostat a try.
> The CEO replied, "Why would I do that after paying for a million dollar lesson?"

That's a variation of something supposedly said by IBM's Thomas J. Watson, Sr.: “Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?” [0]

[0] https://blog.4psa.com/quote-day-thomas-john-watson-sr-ibm/ (which doesn't include a source for the quote)
I am working on a project that is basically a 100+ acre farm that is collectively owned and will be mostly(eventually fully) automated.

It is the kind of farm that appeals for those who don’t want to wrestle with tractors, are nature lovers, not tech phobic and are ok with farming co-operatively.

Initial stages..so any input on what SWE/farmers really expect would be much appreciated. It would help me figure out what my future tech farmers would want and what they can tolerate.

The main focus is on automating enough so one person is able to handle 1-5 acres(0.5-2 hectares approx) without additional labour. And building a community so there is tool sharing and collectively sell as a co-op.

I have taken in inputs from mostly Americans. I don’t know if something like this will work elsewhere in the world. It’s certainly challenging in the USA…not least because of zoning and certain other issues. Especially in California.
With respect-

I know what you mean when you say "government is monopolistic" but with a moment's reflection perhaps you will agree that- certainly in the US- it is an incorrect statement.

There is the abstraction called "government" which in its definition implies a singleton-ness- even this in practice fails the test because every US jurisdiction is overseen by multiple overlapping "governmental" authorities, and people interact with different ones often in conflict with each other all the time.

However the more significant objections to "government is monopolistic" are these:

In the "monopoly" sense there is literally no actual service in which any layer of US government is the sole provider. Mail delivery? Nope- UPS, Fedex, etc. Rule making? Ha. Contract law exists and in simple obvious ways even supercedes constitutional protections. Policing? Lots of private security around. Education? Tons of private schools around, including frauds that siphon public dollars while excluding public kids. Health care? Don't make me laugh/cry at the private predatory brutally expensive evilness that is so much of the US healthcare "system". Money supply? Nope, nearly all dollars are created and manager by private entities. Military? Also plenty of options here, none in any sense "well-regulated".

Which brings me to the "-olistic" suffix of monopolistic, which implies an intent to monopolize, a set of behaviors that prevents competition and the existence of alternatives to the singleton. In this way, as the above shows and which is plainly evident- there is virtually no domain in which the US government acts as a predatory singleton. The "-ilistic" is the most deceptive and incorrect sense of the statement "government (in the US) is monopolistic" because it simply isn't.

Amazon and Walmart, however- are defining the practice.

And when it comes to "nominal democratic control"- don't get me started. A responsive customer service agent is the devil's version of democracy. No thank you.

Cheers.
Haven Park
Does anyone here use this program for recreational art?
Huh, I hadn't thought about it that way - you're right, infrequent changes could indeed be a good proxy for stability! (or for "dead-and-forgotten" :D)

Complexity is an interesting measure too - I'm currently not sure how we'd model this, but this could definitely help codeowners understand which parts of their codebase is currently difficult for people to wrap their heads around. Or whether there's any complex parts that there's only a single contributor to, without whom the project would be left with a serious knowledge gap.

Once this can run as part of a CI pipeline and thus lives directly in the repo, I'd also love to add an overlay with the output of the testsuite to see which parts of the codebase aren't covered by tests! Or the output of a profiler, to see which functions are actually called the most.
The Gunk - while the violence there is really marginal, the game itself is really charming.
This was very common. I remember asking my parents to buy me a C compiler for Christmas, back in the early 90's. (Lattice C on the Amiga. It later became SAS/C!)

I think it was at least half a dozen floppies. It also came with a huge set of documentation.
I am confounded as to why I have not heard of this. I'd appreciate it if someone could link me the official statement.
Psst runs on Rosetta just fine on my M1 Mini. Only issue they're using drawing the window themselves and it has issues re-drawing itself after wake
Often these side artifacts turn into a make-work time-sink. Stuck on a hard problem? Distract yourself with a new ToDo app. Fix the auto diagram generator.

Honestly, freehand diagrams are best. You’ll exercise your own understanding of the code base as you draw.
> Individuals have been smoking marijuana despite a federal and state bans on it with the latter being being lifted recently but speedily

sigh I was hoping we’d see recreational In Florida, as even the older more conservative people seem to have embraced it.

I believe it was supposed to be a ballot option, but it was struck down apparently because pendantic lawyers took issue with a single phrase. I’m not sure why that means it has to be removed for this ballot, why can’t the proposers just fix the wording and resubmit.
nothing happened before google

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/113379.113380
The little ISP I started back in '93 used the Mix DB for our accounting system. We wrote a Perl lib for it (that was turned it into a client/server type architecture.) It was GREAT.
Goldman Sachs senior chairman urges 'dial back' on negativity over economy
I really don't think they are comparable situations.

Things are working out for China at the moment. No reason to press the issue, possibly upsetting the favorable status quo, until they are powerful enough that they know nobody will say anything.
To power a microwave oven for a couple of hours? Geez. Not the scale that is needed, at all.

I recently did some calculations:

How many kWh of energy does a 1 person house need for one year electricity and heating?

And I think it came out to about 40,000 kWh.

The fascinating thing is that this amount of energy could be harvested with solar panels, even in places like the UK or Germany, with an area needed not much bigger than the roof area of the house.

The problem is only storing these amounts of energy - and specifically, seasonal storage, from summer to winter.

Batteries are not an option for this. You‘d need the batteries of 400 Tesla Model X. The installation would cost several millions of dollars. And each home using that many batteries would mean hundreds of electric vehicles that cannot be built.

But with hydrogen, it would actually work. In fact, hydrogen could be a plug-and-play solution for heating systems that currently run on oil or gas. You just replace the fuel tanks, and perhaps the burner unit. This way, you don‘t lose energy by first converting H2 to electricity and then to heat.

As a home owner, you‘d gain full energy independence. Price changes in electricity or oil would no longer affect you. And, on a global scale, if citizens harvest their own energy, and can store it seasonally, conflicts about oil or gas just will no longer be of any importance. It will be easier to just harvest the energy that drops on your land for free from the sky.
Hmm, the way I used "deep" is in the sense that it's meaningful, not that there's a deep/rich storyline. The depth I was talking about is that it shows going through stages of grief.

[SPOILERS AHEAD]

[SPOILERS AHEAD]

[SPOILERS AHEAD]

(no username pun intended)

As she is grieving, the world is bland and she's lost her voice in the world. As she processes grief, her voice and powers come back to her. The world represents human perception, while her voice and her powers represent how we interact with the world. Eg, as we grieve our perception is diminished, and our ability to handle/do things is also diminished.

The little cute creature that come and help you are a metaphor that it's okay to let friends in and that they can help you through your grief.

The "enemies" are the dark side of grief, the ones that tries to pull us down and makes recovery harder. So, depression, anxiety, and just "brain demons" (eh dark thoughts) in general.

[END OF SPOILERS]

There's other elements that I think also act as good metaphors, but I don't want to make the post too long.

Also, I discovered the game during a difficult time, so I could just be looking into it too much. Lol

Edit: wordsmithing
Be careful with the right wording here: this USPS service is not selling any data.

It is just delivering snail mail.

The only data flow here is from Brave to USPS: please send our mailing to this definition of the target group.

USPS does not send Brave a list of addresses or even names. Brave does not give USPS a list of addresses or names.
The tagging of posts without having to resort to metadata. If anything, I wish it was a more common convention elsewhere. Helps to search by, say, topics or hobbies. It's the media craze of "hashtag (insert-marketing-campaign-relevant-for-a-week-here)" that gets old.
I just can't with the aphorisms. Ashes to ashes and dust to dust. So there.

Make an actual argument.
"Very specific cases", like the rest of their spying, right.

You can believe that if you want, but I'm not remotely convinced. We consistently find that the US spies and abuses its power more than anyone imagines. By induction, unless anything profound changes, I'll bet on that trend continuing.
> The aim of the sanctions is not regime change, but the degradation of the Russian military's ability to wage war.

This is addressed directly in the article:

> There are many plausible reasons one might inflict economic harm on an opposing country: [...]. Or they might be kept in place to degrade the Russian economy over the long term, thus frustrating Russian attempts to modernize their military in the decades to come. [...] It is not clear to me which, if any, of these rationales motivate our current sanctions regime.

You write:

> I think there is a still a lot of room to investigate how much the strategic bombings affected the targets ability to deploy it's forces

and the article places some breadcrumbs about that too:

> the collapse imagined by the early air theorists of the ‘30s was possible if the indiscriminate carpet bombing of World War II were replaced by surgical, precision strikes on enemy
Same can be said for Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea. That's hundreds of millions of people enjoying great lives thanks to being or having been protected by US from the beasts across their borders. At the same time, is there any nation on Earth that's actually grateful for what Putin's Russia did for (to) them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRjsu9-Vznc&t=347s
I'm aware of Secret Chats, but there's extra friction to enable it and I suspect most Telegram users are not aware of them at all - or are unwilling to use them for almost everything.

Also they should now update that FAQ answer where they say:

> To this day, we have disclosed 0 bytes of user data to third parties, including governments.

In fact, if the OP is indeed true, they should probably update the entire answer since it's misguiding at best, and an outright lie at worst.
Why the need to wait for loom when there is Kotlin and coroutines?
Thanks for the clarification, I interpreted your original post as referring to the story and not the side note about Assange.
The assumption that anyone beside yourself has your best interest at heart is the one thing that I simply cannot comprehend. Time and time again, humans have shown that they do not care about others beyond what is expected within the rules of the society ( and even then it really depends on how well those rules are enforced - see recent pandemic's 'we are all in this together' messages but from yachts ).

Realistically, only you can have your own interests at heart. Obviously, exceptions in the form children and mental handicaps comes in, but, well.. does government and corporations see the population at large as children?

In other words, being tracked is not good for the individual regardless of who is tracking you. It doesn't matter if government tracking is better or worse. They are both bad and they erode your ability to do things as you see fit.
Definitely a bug and not a feature. I’ve never had this happen, ever.