skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What exactly does "far right" mean in this context?...I'm not sure if you and I would draw those lines in the same places

This is an invitation to murky waters, wherein it is impossible to have a discussion. I don't think figuring out where to draw the lines terminology-wise is as important as the fact that there has objectively been a hard rightward shift in the GOP.

>do you mean to say that ethno-nationalism is "far right", or only "extreme" forms of it?

Again, it is not as important to make this semantic distinction as it is to note that there's been a decisive shift towards ethno-nationalism in the GOP, and that sentiment is associated with right-wing politics. So this is further evidence of their rightward shift.

>Neville Chamberlain famously sought to appease Hitler

Neither did Nixon going to China make him a Communist. That would be a silly assertion, right? But, of course, the correct analogy here would be Chamberlain courting and appeasing a faction of Nazi sympathizers within his own country for political game.

>Trump "centering" the "minority" of the Republican base to

Yes that's part of it. There was also a rightward push of more moderate constituents, which is of course what happens in these lurches.

>Any relevant survey data or other quantitative measures?

Yes. Everywhere.
> There's nothing wrong with elevating talented no name actors but you need to pepper in some name recognition.

That pepper is doubtlessly good for marketing, but I think it's bad for the art. With some exceptions, every time a famous celebrity is in a movie, it breaks immersion for me. I think fame makes an actor intrinsically worse at their job, even when their acting skill is the reason for their fame.

Except for Gary Oldman of course.
FWIW, my wording is based on the constitution. specifically, Amendment 9, which states:

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

So what rights are those? That's up to the courts and lawmakers to decide. And they have. Folks disagree with the choices they made and the justifications they gave.

For example, I disagree that a right which has been in place for 50 years, with millions of women exercising that right yearly, is somehow not part of the US' social and moral fabric. But since the founders didn't do it (debatable, there were laws allowing abortions on the books at the founding of the US), it's OK to take that right away.

> the parties actually turned into into a challenge about Roe v. Wade itself

The SCOTUS did that. As noted in Roberts' concurring opinion (which was still one of the 4 votes against), this specific case could have been solved without tearing down the RvW ruling.

"... the State never argued that we should grant review for that purpose [overturning RvW]."

"The Court’s decision to overrule Roe and Casey is a serious jolt to the legal system—regardless of how you view those cases. A narrower decision rejecting the misguided viability line would be markedly less unsettling, and nothing more is needed to decide this case."
Where do you think you are?

This site started is effectively a Y-Combinator watercooler. Just because it has the term “Hacker” doesn’t mean what you think it means.
You’re just really confused about what equity is. It’s not “equality of outcome.” The whole point of seeking equity is to free the out-performers from the chains holding them down.

Edit to add:

Seeking equity is about surfacing relevant merit, and fighting irrelevant demerits. For example if someone has the skill to be a great engineer they should not be given the job of taking notes in meetings just because they are a woman. Gender is irrelevant to engineering. But many people who aren’t male find their engineering career progression slowed because of their gender. That is not an equitable outcome.

But obviously it’s impossible to create an equal outcome: you can’t magically make everyone on Earth a great engineer.
A group policy can be enabled on most variants of Windows (dating back to around NT 4 or Windows 2000, I think) to start with a dialog saying "Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to begin", and pretty much nothing else, exactly for the reasons you describe.
I think Jackson did a fine job. That doesn't mean, however, everybody past him should copy what he did forever or ask him for his permission or opinion. One great production of Hamlet doesn't mean Hamlet has now look like that from now on forever and whoever did it owns the story. One of the things that makes the story great is that there are many angles possible and many creative approaches available. So no Jackson involvement is no problem for me.
This was true with sports 100 years ago too, just we didn't know the most optimal techniques by then.
They don't cite the source, but the claim in the article is that the average age of top-billed actors has gone up faster than the average age of the audience, not that yesteryear had 0 older stars.
This is why I really like NixOS for home deployments. I already use it to configure my laptops and desktops. Works great for configuring a little server to run services & timers too.

Updating & deploying is simple too. I can `git push` some changes from any of my computers, and then ssh (which is trivial to set up w/avahi using NixOS) into the server and `git pull && nixos-rebuild switch`.
What do you mean? Why can’t you just pull down version 1.3 of a file by specifying the version number in the command?
I spoke to a radiologist in a regional hospital in a rural area. I believe they were in talks among themselves at the hospital to buy one of the da Vinci machines. This physician’s contention was that new surgeons operating mostly through these robots aren’t necessarily effective to react to a bleeder during a procedure. He was no doubt skeptical of the surgeons he was seeing operating with these things. Curious what your wife thinks.

Also… any words of wisdom for someone about to enter med school?
>Right, but even with a volunteer fire department, at least there's normally water that they can use to save the neighbor houses once they arrive on-scene.

Lol... no. There are so many flawed assumptions here I'm not sure where to start. Basically everything you said was wrong.

First, the "neighbor house" would typically be hundreds of yards away at the absolute closest.

Second, the availability of water for fire fighting purposes in rural areas is commonly dubious normally. It's exceedingly rare that a residence will have any form of pressurized water like "personal hydrant" type of system. At best, they might have a 2,500 gallon polyethylene tank, or a pond they could dip into, IF the volunteer fire department has a pump and hose setup, which is itself kind of rare or slow to arrive.

Third, a lot of the efforts on scene are unlikely to involve water at all. It's more like wild-land fire style where you might try to cut fire lines and stuff to try and prevent igniting surrounding areas, evacuate and render aid to affected people, etc.
You're also seeing the effects of plastic surgery and/or aggressive anti-aging procedures. Actors are aging slower, superficially, and this is leaving less leading or main roles (in an already diminished blockbuster schedule) open to a new younger group of actors. The same actors are staying around longer. For marketing reasons, there is less incentive to debut a new actor (unless it's a serious prestige picture), and the actors get caught in a weird state of body modification and refusing to age. A lot of their faces move oddly now. This goes for male and female actors.
Tried to look it up, but she's kept her age secret.

I'm surprised that works in 2022!
Yes and no. Not all land are equal & not all surrounding ecosystem are same. For example growing palm trees has more bad effects in Indonesia compared to growing in country like India.
Oh please... a subthread which the GP started by retconning Tolkien as "what passes for white supremacy these days" to argue it was being ruined by casting (with digressions into Marxism spoiling beauty) now itself gets retconned as "nobody complaining about having minorities"

Every film makes hundreds of decisions to appeal to different sections of movie audiences and live up to expectations of modern movies from casting unusually attractive people to typecasting English accents in a non-English world to cutting half the original scenes in a book and shoehorning an implied love interest in there, yet somehow all this pandering to consumers' cultural sensitivities that actually change established storylines get less hostility than the decision to cast a black woman in a fantasy series whose entirely new [for licensing and lack of material reasons] plot lines aren't even known yet. If people consider Tolkien's world not having segregated casting to being "crap Hollywood wants to shove down our throats", it's hard to believe they're doing so more out of concern diverse issues aren't being represented properly and less out of hostility to the idea that white people might not always be the default.

the irony is of course that whilst being far from woke, Tolkien thought white supremacist ethnography utterly risible, included a Legolas/Gimli subplot as heavy-handed as any Hollywood antiracism parable, wasn't especially bothered about describing skin tones or appearance, and to the extent he did, made it clear that Middle Earth as a precursor to the modern world included darker skinned people.
rebase is a multi stage command that often requires force push. as good as it can be, discouraging it’s use, especially in contexts where git is considered challenging, is probably the play.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamewar comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, unfortunately. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
This needs to be said more. Especially for the young, disability insurance is vastly more important than life insurance usually.

When I got licensed, they quoted to us saying that "you are 8 times more likely to need disability insurance than life insurance (and you are guaranteed to die!)." This is due to something like 20-25% of people needing disability insurance during their working careers and most people dying during retirement with not a lot of bills left behind.
That's extremely interesting and I didn't know it.

Conventional wisdom dictates that consoles sell at a loss.
You are off by a factor of ten [0].

[0] https://home.cern/resources/faqs/facts-and-figures-about-lhc
Insofar as "Severance" is a metaphor for compartmentalization, yes: it's a ubiquitous reality.
I came here to say the same exact thing! These courses are excellent.

As a follow-up to those courses, there are also some courses about the middle ages by Philip Daileader that pick-up the story at the decline of the Western empire.

(Also, I'm deriving great value from the Wondrium app).
Basically no common A/C is 30% efficient in any sense of the word. There's a scenario where you can argue it can get as low as 50%, but no common A/C I have ever heard of is using moving less than 2x heat power as electricity power used. 30% is wrong no matter how you cut it.

And, "efficiency" doesn't matter. COP does. COP is what is reflected on your electrical bills.
It is easier to have unknown actors/actress to sign up for longer contract I believe.

Such high-profile show is unlikely to use super expensive and well known actors/actress for big roles, due to budget and commitment issue.
So... I want to preface this by saying that I'm very, very far from being an expert on this topic. Although Tao's compiler has a MIR optimiser, it only covers the basics (inlining, constant folding + symbolic execution, etc.).

I think one of the main reasons that Haskell failed to solve this is actually the same reason that many lower level languages failed: it places too many requirements on data representation. In the case of C/C++ and even (to a lesser extent) modern languages like Rust and Swift, this is because they make promises about representation to the programmer that allow you to circumvent aspects of the language and still write correct code: be it transmutation, casting, field offsets, etc. In the case of Haskell, lists have an entirely arbitrary length and the language makes no effort to constrain this requirement in the type system, meaning that the compiler can only speculatively optimise a list into an unboxed array. In a language with dependent types, it should be possible to constrain the size of a list with the type system, allowing the optimiser to do its job without need for speculative whole-program analysis.

The other reason Haskell doesn't quite succeed is monomorphisation (or lack thereof). Haskell's support for first-class higher-ranked types means that the language can't feasibly make promises about monomorphisation, and as a result it needs to revert to boxing and dynamic dispatch far more than it really should. Conversely, Tao is designed to monomorphise in all cases from the start.

Rust demonstrates that functional programming (and in particular, programming with higher-order functions) is more than possible to optimise very well, and it does this by promising monomorphisation through the type system, allowing the compiler to aggressively perform static dispatch and inlining.

From what I've seen, GHC also fails to pick a lot of low-hanging fruit. The last time I checked (perhaps this has since changed) GHC often struggles with things like TCO and inlining in relatively simple cases as a byproduct of its design (all functions are dynamically dispatched by default, with inlining being a speculative optimisation).

I need to do a little more writing about exactly what ideas I have for Tao, but other languages of similar ilk demonstrate that Haskell is very far from the pinnacle of what is possible (for example, Koka's Perceus reference reuse: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#why-perceus).
sql server has the index tuning wizard (itwiz) that will sample your data and make suggestions, and more lately the missing index stuff as a consequence of how the execution planner is designed (iirc it tries to generate optimal plans regardless of what indexes are available and when plans are eliminated because the necessary indexes don't exist it emits records for the various "missing index" dmvs)
Felt employee here, only the map creator needs an account. Viewers can view the map anonymously (unless the creator restricts anonymous viewing). One benefit is that you can zoom out or zoom in from a Felt map, where you can't do that with a screenshot (unless you're on CSI of course). But there's plenty of cases where a screenshot will still work, and that's fine!
I remember Terry Jones doing some slapstick documentary on the First Crusade, and described how some footsoldiers wearing padded "armor", would be seen with multiple arrows sticking out of the armor in battle, and still fighting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambeson
If you run like you would for a 100m race you wouldn't even be able to complete a 400m race.
It's a bit annoying to use on phones but I think that might actually be a (completely unintentional) advantage.
I helped with the closure of Intuit’s data centers and it was absolutely the right move for them. The amount of resources needed to maintain data centers world wide is significant.
What if one of those lines fires the missiles?
My theory is that Movies are not the dominant cultural force for the younger generation. Their celebrity idols are on social media ( and musicians but nothing new there).
Ctl+Alt+Del has been a BIOS designated interrupt for REBOOT since the DOS 3 (or even before, but that's the edge of my memory) days.

Win9x "tried" to intercept it; but was never 100% successful.
Wouldn't matter. Tons of bots are scraping every inch of the internet all the time, and if something been online for five seconds, it has been cached/stored somewhere. Always assume that anything you've put up on the internet, can forever be accessed by someone.

The only thing you can do is rotating the token/secret.
Movies about high school go back to the 1950s, nearly always with a cast of "teenagers" that have lines and receding hairlines and are 28 years old. To me, they look ridiculous pretending to be kids.
Why? Couldn’t one model the various tissues and bones, fluids, surface tensions, resistance to cutting etc?
Boomers? I'm only in my 40s and have a whole lot of 80s and 90s nostalgia that Hollywood is milking the F out of. I'm hoping I won't die any time soon. Tom Cruise and Ed Harris are just the stars of some of my favorite movies from when I was a kid. Jennifer Connelly one of my first crushes. Not sure Top Gun is just targeting boomers.
I get Arch. The docs are spot on. It's very polished and you can actually learn quite a bit.

However, for work, I need something not bleeding edge, and hope Manjaros tests and security test, will help in that regard. That it's a positive thing they wait about 2 weeks.

I had to tweak Manjaro a little, but so much worked out of the box. Don't have that dedicated time for ricing, though default installs in Arch seems very sanely configured.
Tailscale Based VPN on DigitalOcean Droplet
The Pacific was definitely not expensive because of its cast (none of the leads, Sledge, Leckie, or Basilone, were well-known). You can just watch the show and see where the money went.
OpenSSH has merely chosen that as its current default. Surely multiple algorithms will be supported in the future as they have in the past.
So we’re back to Kubernetes! ;)
Oh sorry. CGI is why, it isn’t strange if you watch the credits and see armies of animators at multiple studios.
I've run into a few celebrity actors in real life. They all look quite a bit older than on screen, and much less handsome/beautiful in real life. Hollywood makeup and lighting works very well, they know their craft!
> Ultimately companies that abdicate their informatics operations like this will give their profits to their data-center operators, who will be empowered to charge them whatever price they want.

This "ultimate" endgame has been predicted since at least 2006 and we've yet to see anything but price decreases on cloud services. Tons of labor has been invested into deliberate cloud agnosticism with no apparent results. I am fully on board with economic arguments that favor data centers over cloud for some organizations. I don't think the capture-and-increase argument holds evidential water or ever will in a competitive environment, and the environment is more competitive than ever.
Is it a strength that it looks the same and has the same core functionality?

Yes. The site is fast, using it is fast, the information is clear. It performs the function it sets out to perform very well.

Is it a strength that the feature set (mostly) hasn't changed?

Yes and no. It's mostly a good feature set for me, but I know plenty of people who don't use HN, and who could potentially be in the target market. HN does not need to grow, but the realities of business is that most companies do need to (HN obviously not a company itself), and so it is generally good for new users that features are changing in order to grow as the product is theoretically more applicable to them.

There's another aspect that you touch on with the algorithmic timeline argument. Services we use are becoming smarter, and for the most part people like this. Search is a good example of this, HN's search is basic keyword-based search, and I find it practically unusable because I don't always know the right keywords. A significantly smarter version, of the calibre that FAANG style companies could put out, would be great! Of course it would take more effort than it's worth for this user base to create it because investment like that only makes sense at scale.
Mainframes are still the best option for systems that cannot fail. Even business like FedEx is not as critical as some types of business I've seen ran through IBM.

A good example of where these systems come into their own is payment/ACH/wire processing. The consequences of these networks going down are so severe that it is worth it to construct an entire facility with the computer systems and business in mind from the very beginning.

Today, mainframes are more for the type of business that are finding the need to pour the literal foundations for their own datacenters. If you are even considering cloud as a viable path, then this kind of stuff is certainly not for you.
If you are in a weird climate that gives you cold temperatures but consistent sunlight maybe?

But you are also dealing with angle of declination. Solar gain will be diminishing the further north you go even if you get sunlight.
This is exactly my point. I make no judgement as to whether the law is moral or not.

Crypto facilitates illegal activity. You may consider that a feature or a bug - I make no judgement either way.

I would suggest though that when the primary utility is for illegal activity, then it's likely to attract more regulation, and fewer honest users. And that may ultimately affect its attractiveness as a store of value.
Can you define what “equity” is then, according to your understanding?

To me, “freeing the outperformers” sounds like “meritocracy” which I wholeheartedly support!
You can't reliably send, fail, retry, and confirm receipt of a TCP packet in 33ms over arbitrary Internet connections. 8ms is right out. I can get 200us over a local EtherCAT realtime industrial IO network, but that's with careful management of well-isolated single-machine network conditions and it just doesn't work with a cellular modem for download and oversubscribed residential cable for upload. Assuming latency of 120ms (as used in the defaults in the linked tutorial) is much more realistic.

And you also can't set up your system with a 5 second delay to send data every 5 seconds, because any jitter will result in hiccups.

You could set up your system to send out the new data each time the previous buffer is acknowledged, but that's kind of pointless, if you get lucky with a good connection and can send data to be rendered 4.970 to 5.000 seconds from now, what's the difference for the user between doing that versus reducing the network load by approximately a factor of 3 and waiting until you have data for 4.900 to 5.000 seconds?

I think 100ms is a reasonable minimum batch size.
The software doesn't have to be stupid, even if stupid was the best you came up with now.
The cookie banner thing is... entirely optional. Just don't track your visitors, problem solved.
Personal experiences - what is meditation for you, why you came to it and how you define it
Not if you can take your current job remote to TX, FL, NV, or WA...
> I miss IRC now, I miss bulletin boards despite all the flaws, I miss old school web sites that had the same content in the same place even after hitting refresh.

Why miss them? They all still exist. I constantly have my IRC client open and connected to about two dozen channels on Libera (only about five that I actively monitor). Non-Reddit forums for various topics exist too, though, granted, not quite in the quantity that they used to.
Related:

How Design Works (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10190700 - Sept 2015 (19 comments)

Startups, This Is How Design Works - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4995199 - Jan 2013 (2 comments)

Startups, this is how design works. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3793299 - April 2012 (1 comment)

How Design Works - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3791427 - April 2012 (49 comments)

Show HN: Startups, this is how design works. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3789977 - April 2012 (4 comments)
There are several good apps.
> Besides Sean Bean — who was far from A-list — how many of the Games of Thrones cast were well-known?

None A-list, obviously, but (in no particular order) Lena Headey, Iain Glenn, Natalie Dormer, Peter Dinklage, Nicolaj Coster-Waldau, & Charles Dance, arguably.
This is interesting, this could be a major blow to the Chinese dictatorship.