skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with conspiracy theories is that they tend to be less useful as a way to sus out actual abuses of power and more useful as an ink blot test. People see what they want to see, because humans are creatures of fiction that can't stand the thought of living in an objective reality where coincidences are just coincidences and the most boring explanation is probably true.

The World Economic Forum is just a bog-standard capitalist outfit. Their more out-there views are not particularly divorced from the rentier capitalism of the New Gilded Age. To be unambiguous about it, that means a heady mix of international megacorporations, uncensored corporate speech[0], copyright maximalism, and the Brussels Effect[1]. The Occam's Razor explanation for the WEF is that greedy corporations that want to maximize profits are going to be greedy and profit-maximizing - in other words, it's the "capitalist agenda".

But if you have particular kinds of brainworms[2], you're going to ignore the greed that you don't want to talk about and start making up reasons for their actions wholly unrelated to what they actually think. For example, if you think white people are being "replaced", then you'll look past the obvious explanation and into the fringes of the ink blots, and come back thinking that the WEF was created by the powerless to oppress the powerful with... power they don't have.

In cases where conspiracies have actually tried to discredit defectors, it usually fails. In fact, it fails so hard that it becomes a meme, like "Russia denies" or "I did not have sexual relations[3] with that woman". Most actual conspiracies are just not that well thought out[4] enough for this to work, while the people writing the conspiracy theories are actually overthinking things.

What actually kills conspiracy theories is conflicting information - i.e. the conspiracy theory not actually lining up with reality. There will always be people who still buy it, though, because conspiracy theories that are not true always substitute veracity with narrative salience. In fact, sometimes being widely known to be false benefits the conspiracy theory, because now you can work the debunking of obvious lies into your conspiracy narrative and make it more salient than ever. And there's no actual conspiracy on the debunking side, either. You are not being smeared by the media because they're all in on trying to hide the truth - remember, coordination leaves evidence. You are being smeared by the media because you are on the side of narrative fiction.

[0] Sometimes complained about under the banner of "money is not speech"

[1] The process by which treaties agreed to by rich countries tie the hands of non-party countries by way of tolerance.

[2] Typically the "50s red scare" strain of anticommunism

[3] it's only sex if the balls are touching - Bill Clinton

[4] Reason being that being in a position of power gives you symptoms of brain damage. In order to implement a successful conspiracy you need power, and that power will blunt your reasoning over time.
Ironically this could well be a brilliant counter intelligence post pretending to be as stupid as it sounds.

What better way to make sure the FBI keeps removing people's freedom than by making it a partisan issue?

Trump, born in 1943, was responsible for Hoovers cache of compromat. A word that entered the Russian lexicon because the KGB was so impressed by what he was doing in Washington in the 1930s.
Not really. Scripting languages implemented on WASM are doing it by compiling their main interpreter to WASM, not the source that the interpreter would execute.
My suggestion was to have the information with you, and release it to the police if and when privacy concerns are not as relevant in comparison.
There is a race right now to be more performant. .NET, Java, Go already participate, Rust/C++ are anyway there. So to stay relevant they have to start participate. .NET went through the same some years ago.

And why they were not addressed: because starting a certain points, the optimization are e.g. processor specific or non intuitive to understand. Making it hard to maintain vs a simple straight forward solution.
It's important to note that the cops partake such actions on the directions from higher-ups.
That is specifically and explicitly intended for workstations, i.e. desktops and laptops... not for servers.
> Here's the thing about conspiracies: they have a shelf life. The amount of time you can keep a conspiracy secret is bounded by the number of conspirators, how well you can get them to shut up, and how long it has been since the conspiracy occurred. You can take a secret only you know to your grave, but work in a group of ten and someone will confess before their death. Bring in hundreds or thousands and the conspiracy will be blown open accidentally before you can even execute on it.

That's what they want you think!
>Which typical Air buyer needs 16gb ram, the college student with 50 tabs open and Spotify in the background?

If we're going to play that game, which college student requires a new MacBook Air at all?

I'm an industry professional and do my development on used ThinkPads. Sure there are are some people out there who need more processing power than I do, but not many, and certainly not in college.
Because that requires DisplayPort MultiStream Transport, which Apple's chipsets for unknown reasons do not support.
Was the project run by a team based in Africa or Europe?
> Because it's developed and maintained by volunteers

Who is working on python voluntarily? I would assume that, like the Linux kernel, the main contributors are highly paid. Certainly, having worked at Dropbox, I can attest to at least some of them being highly paid.
That’s something that has always puzzled me as well.

Given the popularity, you’d think Python would have had several generations of JITs by now and yet it still runs interpreted, AFAIK.

JavaScript has proven that any language can be made fast given enough money and brains, no matter how dynamic.

Maybe Python's C escape hatch is so good that it’s not worth the trouble. It’s still puzzling to me though.
The problem with this sort of product is you’re asking a consumer (very price conscious) to pay for an app where they’re going to do a lot of data entry to get any use out of it. Do you provide enough value over using Zillow, Trulia, etc tooling to justify both the money and the effort?
Health trusts swapped patient data for shares in an AI firm. May lost millions
Another AI hype and companies trying to cash in.

Also the sharing of patient data skirts the edge IMO...
While not ideal, this can be mitigated with multiprocessing. Python asyncio exposes interfaces for interacting with multiple processes [1].

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-eventloop.html#asy...
Or the margin on them is so small that they take less loss letting you keep the item instead of paying shipping and adding to the loss of an item that may not be re-sellable.
Python 3.11 Might Slip to December Due to Outstanding Bugs
Do they have a copy of the source or any ability to reproduce your work? If not, just take your ball and go home.
I recently got back into playing GTA V (Well GTA Online really). On the one hand I wish that Rockstar would put out GTA VI and set it somewhere like Vice City again, it's clear that GTA:O is their cash cow and they don't want to give it up and ties into some generally scummy behavior from Rockstar/Take2 Interactive (devs and publishers of GTA).

On the other hand though, for a game that is nearly a decade old, it has aged like fine wine. You would think a game that is nearing a decade old would start to decline in popularity but with the constant updates, it almost feels like an RPG or an old school MMO nowdays, and content updates as well as general graphical updates for new generation consoles make this game look like it came out just 2-3 years ago.
> Python was meant as a scrypting language that was easy to learn and work with on all levels.

Being fast isn't contradictory with this goal. If anything, this is a lesson that so many developers forget. Things should be fast by default.
How is this working against civil forfeiture?

How is this working against the % of the population incarcerated?

disclaimer: gun owner and competitive sport shooter.
This is very interesting and has a lot of potential, especially for people who struggle to brush their teeth, but I think there's another future where brushing and flossing largely become obsolete. If we could develop a more effective mouthwash tailored to restoring each persons oral microbiome we could likely reduce the need for brushing and flossing and instead replace it with a daily mouth rinse that clears out food debris and selectively targets pathogenic bacteria while promoting healthy species.

I'm a bit biased, though, because this is something we're working towards building at my company down the road.
it means you are not following PEP8

if you get non descriptive errors, it means you haven't followed proper exception handling/management

its not the fault of Python but the developer. go ahead and downvote me but you if you mentioned parent's comment in an interview, you would not receive a call back or at least I hope the interviewer is realizing the skill gap.
Diffware – summary of the changes between two files or directories
Individuals want customization, novelty and the ability to relate between one another and share and show off.....companies want ubiquity and uniformity amongst their user base......
The wrong kind? That's a bold claim. It was developed with the design oversight of Mike Pondsmith; based on lore, maps and art from his original source material.
I do too.

I'm one of those weirdos that disable transient-mark-mode because I don't feel like it does the right thing for all situations where you use mark. Sometimes I want to use mark like a cheap bookmark and C-x C-x between mark and point, sometimes I use the rectangle commands and for those transient-mark-mode only makes things worse.

(I know the CUA mode has some fancy rectangle features, but that's not for me)
Is there a good no-nonsense way to clean PDFs of possible threats? Hunting around I see mentions of converting PDF->Postscript->PDF to remove junk, but I also see mentions that Postscript is its own security mess.
Having both Task and Future was a pretty strange move; and the lack of static typing certainly doesn't help: the moment you get a Task wrapping another Task wrapping the actual result, you really want some static analysis tool to tell you that you forgot one "await".
Python is compiled to a VM (that is CPython). The semantics and implementation of the VM haven't prioritized performance as much as some other systems. Here we're seeing improvements in the implementation. But the semantics will be the hard part, as those semantics limit the performance. For instance "a + b" is (I believe) compiled into bytecodes that pretty much follow the expression. But the implementation of "add" has to take into account __add__() and the possible function calls and exceptions and return types that implies. If you compiled that all down to machine code (which people have done) you'd still have to run all that code to check types and the existence of methods and so on.
The Best Things in Life Are Model Free (2018)
Amazon's Alexa AI generates speech in dead relative's voices
I spent an embarrassing amount on a lackluster early 2019 MBP. It's fine as a general purpose laptop but is just a little too slow for serious dev work, a little too heavy as the main travel laptop, battery life a little too short for my liking.

I got an M1 for my work laptop maybe 4 months ago and it might honestly be the best laptop I've ever used.
Veterans Affairs? Virginia?
life hack here is find recruiters from your origin (iran) and it becomes their problem to find your match not yours
> ... a plot involving time travel

A violation of Knox Rule number II.
The vast majority of scientists I know (I'm a scientist also) are self-doubting to a fault and often feel stupid even if they're not.
Off course they don't agree. Though I have asked numerous times to come up with scientific research or arguments that prove the science in e.g. Accelerate! wrong, no-one, not even the strongest opponent of CI, TDD or such, ever has produced that.

Instead, people come with handwavy nonharguments that "in this particular scenario it is different". To which I neither agree nor disagree. I only have proof that it does apply, even to scenario X. It's up to "you" to then, scientifically prove that it doesn't apply.

Point being: again: we should have discussions about tabs, spaces, TDD, CI, lean, agile, microservices based on scientific research. In a scientific manner. Not based on anecdotes and personal feelings.
Google isn't my gatekeeper. Stop using them and giving them power
Because the $ is currently so strong against Euro, and others.
Probably not, unless you're working with containers. Most desktop users are not, I suspect... unless they are developers building containers for later deployment on servers.
Spreadsheet McSpreadsheetface
History of the Russian River
> It only works if you focus solely on western Europe, where the decline of Rome left a nasty gap in the records. Elsewhere – in Tang China, Abbasid Persia and in the rest of the Islamic world, which only developed in the seventh century – history continued apace.

Sounds to me like Europe moved at a relativistically faster speed than the rest of the world which accounts for the missing time. People in the 1500s just didn't have the tools to explain it yet.
Probably better you have rolling A/B replacements that stop the replacement run if the replacement doesn't come up.

This is mostly an in-place upgrade issue?
The right move here would have been to have separate work/personal computers so that this PDF never landed on a system with access to the Ronin network.

I know I'm pushing a boulder uphill with that one but it really is the way to go, better for both the individual and the company.
Canadas multiculturalism approach is working great. It’s the American melting pot that has dissolved into tribal identity politics. It helps that Canada can have more than two parties to vote for - when Americas 2 political parties go off the rails, there isn’t a third you can switch to who is acting more maturely
The part about the dynamo being 10x lower 500 m.y.a. compared to today suggests that the background radiation was 10x higher. They point out that lower dynamo leads to more atmospheric loss to space, thus limiting biological activity. Butthe the great reduction in radiation could be similarly impactful, allowing for more manageable genetic mutation.
https://stumblingon.com/

I like this clone.
>All the fun and weird stuff is still around, it just typically doesn't SEO well and doesn't show up on Google, and is too long-tail to show up on popularity-based algorithms like those of Reddit or Facebook.

In other words, it's a bunch of dead websites and there is little incentive to create anything out of the ordinary.
1. They can use Facebook on desktop, or again, the mobile app.

2. Past misbehavior means greater scrutiny would be put upon Facebook, especially if they launch an unprecedented new product as high-profile as a competing Meta app store.

3. Regulators can and will act against Facebook for such restrictive behavior as well. People who want to use Reddit on mobile have the option of Apollo.

4. Apple still controls their devices from an OS level. They can enforce plenty of security and privacy features from there. On MacOS already, apps that aren't on the Mac App Store must still undergo notarization. Why do you doubt Apple's ability to execute? The App Store is not the final word on security.
All Star Wars dialogue, sorted alphabetically (2014)
First true exascale supercomputer?
I don't enjoy macOS but I enjoy the hardware.

All of my work goes into (local/alpha/beta) production linux box that's why the mac is technically just a display.

And when I say local, I refer to a linux server, the mac connects to it. the macOS terminal does a nice work doing that, don't think there would be any difference in that regard if the laptop was running linux.

The new mac checks all of the hardware boxes that I wanted. Even occasional gaming if I felt like it.
I feel you. I'm in a similar position pay wise (my benefits kind of suck though, especially family health insurance). At least know this, and possibly use it for encouragement: I'm going down the road of re-learning all the data structures and algorithm stuff, aiming at a FAANG job, at this age. It's possibly an easier jump (emotionally) for me, given that I know my earning potential is higher elsewhere, and benefits in my case will be many times better. Nonetheless, it is a challenge, and someone in your age group (older, really) has rightly or wrongly decided to undertake it, so anything potentially is possible :)
> To some extent, the PDF viewer/OS doesn't matter. A dedicated and well resourced attacker like the Lazarus Group will find holes in all of them.

I dispute this: the web browser is one of the most defended pieces of software of all time, especially relative to its complexity. I would find it much safer to open a potentially malicious PDF in my browser's JS-based reader than using a desktop reader.

> The "right" move here would have been for the employee not to download the compromised pdf, and short of that, for the IT Security team at Ronin to quickly detect the weird traffic that resulted and isolate the validators to prevent a compromise of their critical assets.

It also probably would have been helpful if one employee didn't have access to almost half of the validators, especially on a system they're accessing email with.
There are a lot of dynamically typed languages that are significantly faster than python. Late binding issues can be effectively worked around.
Game of Active Directory v2
Is Apple Failing at Modems?
Depends on the drugs, the set, the setting, your mindset.

You can smoke the right sort of weed and go on a journey of realisations and epiphanies, actively rewiring your brain into a state of openness, causing a fuckton of new connections to be formed and old ones to be strengthened, ending up in causing a massive boost in creativity.

Or you just sit on the couch, bathing in the feeling inside of you.

A little bit of cocaine and you're just awake and aware, a little bit too much cocaine and your ego explodes, exposing a lust for sex and power.

A lot of the experience also depends on your ability to introspect. The better your connection to your body, the better not just the experience, but the easier you can drag it into normalcy.

I could go on and on and on, I guess.

One thing's for sure, though: There's no reason not to explore different states of mind.
Ubuntu was originally designed as a desktop OS and its release cycle was synched with the GNOME 2.x release cycle.
It's either/or, and not very clear as to what the real difference is. I upload songs with occasional swearing in them, so I always tick not for kids on my uploads.
I agree, I just gave away my wife's 2007 macbook from grad school and it was a great piece of engineering. I also really like my 2004 T41p until the magnesium hinges broke in half - otherwise another great laptop. For the people saying these new ones are expensive, both of those machines 15-20 years ago were much more expensive.
Fertility and Period Apps Can Be Weaponized in a Post-Roe World
I look at old work the way I look at my old tattoos, they may or may not reflect who I am now but they definitely reflected who I was at the time.
Show HN: Guess That Product
When you only have so many hours to go around, you concentrate on the main goals.
The "Clovis cartel" interference in the study of New World genetics will never stop striking me as bizarre. If someone discovered that, say, Germans from three thousand years ago were genetically unrelated to Germans from ten thousand years ago I think it would barely be noticed, let alone reacted to so defensively.
Meta has an active port to optimize instagram to make it faster and they just open sourced it to have optimizations merged back into CPython

When you have so many large companies with a vested interest in optimization I believe that Python can become faster by doing realistic and targeted optimizations . The other strategies to optimize didn’t work at all or just served internal problems at large companies .
I've never seen a bathroom without a toilet in it in France. Is it regional? Or could it be a matter of the types of lodgings like flats v.s homes?
Ask HN: My girlfriend of three years just broke up with me, how to move forward?
I had been with my girlfriend for three years, i knew we probably wouldn’t last forever but it kinda caught me off guard. I’ve already been moderately depressed so this just makes that worse. I haven’t even texted her, been trying to just move on and forget but it’s hard.

It sucks too because i really just want to talk to my dad because he always knew how to help me and what to say, but he passed three or four years ago so i feel very Alone.

I know it’s better to just move forward, should i block her on everything and just really quit social media? Should i just start grinding code and learning more? It’s sucks because i was trying to build for my portfolio to find and internship for next summer but i keep getting hit with hardships this summer that are making it hard for me to motivate myself. I guess if there’s anyone out there that read this and been in similar shoes, what is my best course of action
Is it just me or is the (x) button on the banner ad on this site not work, and open the ad instead of dismissing it?
Raymond Hettinger gets his Python Contributor salary doubled ever couple of years.
It would not be surprising to come into a restaurant kitchen and see the owner holding a big knife. He might even gesture without setting the knife down first.
ok, So it ends up strongly recommending Ninite as the only way to go for cleanly installing freeware/open source software. Since this is 2019, does anyone have any current info on the reliability of that recommendation?
Yeah Moscow sometimes referred to as Third Rome by people who view it as the continuation. The Holy Roman Empire would have of course differed as the Kaiser (also Caesar derived) similarly counted himself as the continuation of the Roman Empire.
I taught myself HTML after buying a massively thick book from Barnes and Nobles and used only Netscape Navigator 4.01, which came with something called the Netscape Composer HTML editor.

I'd just finished art school and needed to put together a portfolio website. I thought I was so clever... I made the front page contain an illustration of mine dead center on the screen of a very obese man in a jock strap. You had to click his belly to enter the site.

Anyway, that site got me a "Web designer" job at a company in Richardson, Texas, named Micografx. They were a competitor to Adobe at the time and made some pretty cool software including Picture Publisher (a very robust Windows-only photo editor). They had an entire suite of graphical tools. They also made software called Create a Card, where you could create digital postcards on your computer and email them to people.

My first job was to work on a team to convert that software from CD-ROM to 100% online. It was an incredible learning experience and launched my career into the exciting Web design world on the cusp of the dot-com boom.

I partially owe my career to Netscape Navigator 4.01, which was released in 1997.

I really miss that version of the web sometimes.
What’s the purpose of that study? Who came up with the idea of asking random Arab folks if they believe economy is weak under democracy ?
Most of them don’t live under democracy, and all it shows is merely how medias have shaped their political views.

There are much more factors affecting economy than just political regimes.

Doesn’t seem we can get much insights from this. It’s not clear what’s the motivation for conducting such a study, except maybe undermining democracy which is the new fashion among "free thinkers".
The Nuremberg defence?
You get it!