skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but I’m not coding in Java any more. I’m coding in Python, Go and Rust which all have great VS Code support.
Accurate. And in a trade magazine, most the ads are making a value proposition of some sort; the ones that are purely based on emotional appeals tend to end up as industry memes, synonymous with vacuity.
All that may well be true [I am not familiar with Jacobin or Breitbart] but that by itself does not nullify the posted article. Smells ad hominem.

> History is clear that this is equivalent to calling for extrajudicial killing of people

I dont follow. What's the equivalence.

@ncmncm @AnimalMuppet Thanks for clearing it up for me.
> The concrete casks sit on a heavy concrete pad, located adjacent to the former Trojan Nuclear Plant site.

> The ISFSI storage pad is surrounded by a secured area, which is monitored and protected round the clock.

Same word games as the other one.

The reactor itself is temporarily buried awaiting movement to Yucca Mountain, which has no planned date.
Really? It's worked for me on services that don't allow virtual numbers. If that's no longer the case I'm open to alternative solutions.
According to his letter, the professor is resigning as a protest of how one of his colleague in anthropology was treated. The colleague (Jeff Brantingham) developed a predictive policing system, turned it into a company (PredPol), and started selling it to police departments. Brantingham was widely critiqued for PredPol, including by many computer scientists and statisticians. You can find many critiques of PredPol in ACM journals.

Here are the alleged acts of "thought policing" mentioned in the article:

1. Graduate students signed a letter critiquing his work and calling for the UCLA administration to investigate the ethics of the project

2. The anthro department has various sections. The sociocultural anthropology section of the anthro department decided to not allow him to list courses under sociocultural anthro. He continued to teach the class under a different anthro section.

3. The anthro department held a public panel discussion about the state of the field with regards to issues of race, and during that panel, his research and business were criticized

4. The anthro department did not issue any press releases publicizing his work

5. He stopped going to faculty meetings

Other allegations of "thought crimes" at UCLA anthro are sprinkled in, but are more just examples of people expressing views the author disagrees with, including:

1. Someone in the department used the word "Latinx" at a panel. There is no claim that anyone was sanctioned, punished, or even criticized for using Latina or Latino.

2. The department is no longer requiring GRE scores.

3. Candidates for jobs and promotions must include a statement discussing one's contributions to diversity.

4. Statements were issued by various deparments critiquing Israel's actions

Seems to me like someone just doesn't like having to defend their low-quality work.
There's still plenty of people unhappy with it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/06/technology/tiktok-blackou...
For thirty years people have been asking that question, telling us to use "renewables" instead. Renewables aren't getting here fast enough, we can wait another thirty years burning fossil fuels or we can start building nuclear plants now.
I like react, and next. I use it at work and it pays my bills. But I 100% agree with you, the complexity is mind blowing. And I'm pretty scared of all the upcoming server components, etc...

It is a very powerful tool for sure, but it is so misused in places where it is not needed.
LoRa can get you tens of kilometers line of sight, and sometimes over a hundred. What kind of reasonable distances can one get with BLE?
Non-existent? 4% of the population, according to StatsCan, compared with 12% in the US. Not sure that 4% is small enough to not matter, equally unsure that 12% is large enough to skew results as heavily as you would seem to suggest.
I've seen this in Ruby and Elixir that drives me a little nuts:

if !is_nil(foo)
Exactly. It's like KeePassXC. It's a local app but the syncing of your password file is on you. You can choose to sync it however you want. You can choose to use Dropbox/Google Drive/etc or choose not to sync at all. The benefit you have a choice and you have complete control of the data/file. Nobody can take that away from you.
James Caan, Oscar nominee for ‘The Godfather,’ dies at 82
> More recently, the Asian-American Studies Department posted to its website a statement accusing Israel of settler colonialism, racial apartheid, and so on.

So they're accusing Israel of the same thing multiple UN resolutions have condemned Israel for - its occupation of Palestine's West Bank, its colonial settlements etc. Manson (appropriate name) is who is on the fringe of world opinion, not those opposing Israel's racial apartheid, and the US taxpayer's financing of Israel's racial apartheid.
>I do think the title reflects the news and is factually correct.

This is one of those times where one is only "technically" correct thanks to weasel-y phrasing.
Plenty of forums don't require an account until you want to write a post, if all you wish to do is consume content you're free to read all you want.

Historically this was the default on the web, it's a relatively recent phenomenon for sites like instagram/fb to require login to even read anything.

YouTube manages to deliver plenty of entertainment value without a login to this day, until you try to look at "mature content".
Thanks for the info. I just checked out the Valve Index. I don’t think it woks with my MacBook, but it looks like a promising product. I will try to remember to check them out in the future.
Was their name Yellow Horse in English? Yes

I have a feeling that if it was written in the original language it would go through, since many English names also have adjective noun original meanings like ‘beautiful flower’. The legal name is in English, so anyone expecting it to be written in the original language is expecting too much.
It has nothing to do with anyone's disagreement with anyone and everything to do with the fact that predictive criminology was the core "science" behind the entire Nazi movement.

If you want to defend the core of Nazi beliefs for use as a modern technology, you should expect some societal pushback don't you think?
You can connect any oculus quest device to your desktop and use it just like Vive with steamvr aka peripheral. It is an officially supported functionality. They didnt remove it by creating Quest, they just added standalone mode in addition to the "peripheral" mode.
it’s already happening:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220608-china-s-drone...
Unfortunately the reason I switched back to Neovim is that Helix doesn't have plugin support yet, so one can't really add new features, even if most of the popular ones are built in, like tree-sitter.
Genuinely curious what city you are thinking of that would make it not a great idea to walk around in?
American cities were dense and at a point in time the US had the most advanced public transit systems in the world.

In the wake of the collective Futurama[0] craze car companies managed to buy it and tear it down. American cities were not build for the cars, they were bulldozed[1] for the cars.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurama_(New_York_World%27s_F...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/smpr1q/1...
I don’t fully trust America; nevertheless having America build these systems is the right thing for Americans as I trust other countries less to have Americans’ best interests in mind.
You might find this interesting:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/ukraine-ru...
SOC2: The screenshots will continue until security improves
> A lot of R&D is a waste.

If its speculative, then its either going to deliver a multiple of its investment, or just be a cost, but one that may be worth it to explore an opportunity. I doubt that R&D which proves no viable product is feasible, or no market exists, is more wasteful than allowing a business to wither on aging uncompetitive product lines for want of proper R&D.
> Second, you are ONE country, you have ONE president.

We also have fifty governors, 100 senators, 435 house reps, nine supreme court justices, and countless state legislators. We do not live in a dictatorship. Yet.

Of these, it's the court that has changed most wildly over the past 8 years.

> soon it will be much less diverse than you can imagine right now.

I think it's possible to say "overturning Roe v. Wade didn't make abortion illegal in California, as your worst case presumption might assume" and still believe that GOP gerrymandering, Supreme Court appointments, and attempted coups are an existential threat to majority rule.
One should keep worrying about the people that have their hands on these weapons.

It's the humans that people should keep worrying about seriously.

AI is far, far, far away from having a will.
It's always been like this for me. I used to respond and engage to build a relationship "just in case", but they churn so fast there's no point.
> Turkey already have autonomous predator drones [0], and they have been used in the battlefield.

Turkey is part of NATO.

> China, Iran, and Russia do (they surely do or soon will), we are at massive disadvantage.

Countries like Iran and Russia aren't able to sustain an electronics industry to produce something as complicated as AI Computer vision drones. I hope I don't need to explain why.

> We will have to deploy humans on the field when they won't have to. That is a gap too wide to exist. It is more fundamental than gunpowder.

This is unsubstantiated fear mongering. The economies are too intertwined for either US or China to deploy their forces full-scale. If we ever get to the point of a full-scale confrontation, some AI-drones will be the least of your worries.

> AI scientists of today should help develop autonomous killing machines. Freedom isn't free.

Yikes.
You avoided my question.

Moreover I don't believe they're asking for software to make this decision for them. Rather, I would think they want to be able to decide how much police presence they get. Just because I'm fine with X outcome in the present, that doesn't imply I am fine with arbitrary software that happens to lead to X outcome in the present.
He thought it was just a theory he had, but it’s actually an observable fact in America.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32014821#32016867
I was a UCLA student. But being in the math department really insulated me against many of those cultural wars. My fellow students and my professors preferred to chat about topology and algebra, not wokeness or blackness or social justice.
Metro Exodus Gets Custom AMD FSRAA (Nvidia DLSS Clone)
Unfortunately as far as email is concerned this is not so true anymore. Many years ago I used to do as you described but eventually switched to hosted services due to the likelihood of any messages being sent from said self-hosted server being flagged as spam in the best case, or never received in the worst case as you'll receive an undeliverable message due to the sender requirements of many organizations.

As with most nice things the bad actors (spam, phishing, etc.) in society will abuse things to the point that we can no longer have them.
This is like saying "database normal forms are overrated - they make my SQL more complex and harder to read!"

Well, yes, they do. They also make your database slower. This doesn't mean they are overrated - this means they are tradeoffs. Like everything engineering.

With DB normal forms you buy integrity (i.e. keeping the data consistent as it changes) and you pay with performance and schema complexity. Usually this is a sensible tradeoff because integrity is more important. But, for example, if your data never changes - you will be paying for nothing. Or, perhaps, you can't afford the performance price and you have some other way to ensure integrity. Then you de-normalize.

DRY is similar. As mentioned in the sibling thread, it's not about mechanically avoiding repeated code - just like normal forms are not about never having the same value in two different rows. It's about maintining logical integrity of your code as it changes. PI=3.14159265359? Probably safe to copy around. An implementation of some use case? Probably not.

I'd say following DRY/STEP principle is a sensible default. If a reviewer asks you why your code is not DRY - you should be able to articulate a reason.
See - this is exactly the kind of irrational comment that is a problem. "multi-kilometer" "1%" "catastrophically". ...these are all emotionally driven elements to an argument that does not hold water under scientific scrutiny.

Reactors like Chernobyl and Fukishima are not built today and cannot meltdown. The chance of meltdown is nearly 0%. ...and the danger of meltdown on a modern reactor is like what happened at Three Mile Island (which is basically nothing). No one died, nor was even irradiated. ...and even that type of meltdown is no longer possible.

...and finally "multi kilometer" is not even that big. The Earth is 300 million square kilometers in area. Even if your estimate was correct (which it isn't), then it still wouldn't be a big deal.
I wrote code like that sometimes. Equaling false is more specific, depending on language. There are many falsey things that are not false themselves.
My 14 year old types faster than most adults. And has been able to do so for a couple of years. She wanted the skill for the game One Hour, One Life and there are free typing apps out there.
If information is physically fundamental, the fundamental "particle" would be some sort of bit. Planck's constant could be that bit.

All other particles would be derivative, and their being caused by some base rules.

Physics will only be complete when fully explained in terms of information, regardless of the physical reality of information. The two aspects of explanation are 1. the rules and 2. what are the bits? Perhaps both those things are one.

Perhaps bits are not fundamental and quaternary bits are, but that would still implicate information as fundamental.
I completely agree with your post but say with only partial sarcasm that the US/EU will develop these first, followed shortly by China but only after they steal the technology behind it. Then a trickle-down from there.
It didn't for me 10 years ago but now it does.
thanks for trying it out!
Correct, the real issue is - the most beneficial thing for users is to only share data as needed, but what scaled and was profitable was "leak everybody's data everywhere all the time."

Now, the cracks are showing in this approach, mostly because of the ones who do it poorly. Perhaps the ones to watch out for though, are the ones who do it well, e.g. Google Apps?
>Before Facebook bought Oculus there was cooperation and native software interoptibility between Vive and Rift.

With respect, did you ever use a Vive or a Rift CV1? They absolutely had much worst interoperability prior to FB. The launch of CV2 gated it behind the Oculus store, making it impossible to use Steam with the CV2 before overwhelming negative feedback changed it.
Decentral Bank fixes bug that let one user mint 10T USN for just $10
Zombie/alien invasion.

Americans are going to be driving 120 MPH waving their guns.

Europeans are going to be driving 55 KMH holding their 5cm long steak knife.

Your only hope will to be get Russia to come help.
Fantastic read.
Michael Crichton meets Malcolm Gladwell meets Michael Lewis.
Of course the scale is large. Anything that replaces fossil fuel use is large. That doesn't mean it impossible, or even uncompetitive.

If you think there is some specific resource limit that would prevent adequate storage (from all storage technologies) from being implemented, do please tell me what you think it is. Realize you have to kill ALL the disparate storage technologies to make this argument, not just one specific one.
Remember that if anyone manages to get any kind of mesh network working that regular users can use, they will get immediate and very hard pushback from mobile network providers.

People will stop spending $1000/year to have a cell connection if they can browse the web and message friends using your mesh network for free.
Love it. There is a similar concept in German I believe called "Lustwandeln".
If the statement is "if (!isGreen)", it's much clearer to say "if is not green" than it is to say "if is green is false". Putting == true or == false makes you convert a clear statement "is green" into "true" or "false" instead of just being a natural English statement. It would be like saying in conversation, "I want to go to the store is false" instead of "I don't want to go to the store".
Ask HN: Thinking of writing article(s) on Sales for Engineers
Before I got into Software, I spent a decade or so doing sales. I'm thinking about writing some articles or an article on "Sales for Engineers" but I'm curious if people would be interested in it and/or how I could do a better job of writing the article(s).

Would you be interested in it?
What would you like to know about sales?
What would you like to know about marketing?
What are other articles/ books missing?
What is talked about too little/ too much?
Tolkien's lecture/essay from 1939 (ominous!), "On Fairy Stories", remains a delight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Fairy-Stories
It is legitimate to tax consumption of goods and services, e.g. make gondolieres pay an extra 10 Euros of taxes per trip. It is not legitimate to tax people based on race, sex, or country of origin - in fact, the entry fee scheme probably violates European Law, if unevenly applied (e.g. residents are not forced to pay).

See also: the German "foreigner's toll road" scheme.
The Planck constant isn't infinite.
There was no need for instant messaging and yet people don't use mail exclusively.

VR will work for the next generation when children grow up on VR playgrounds because parents can pretend that they don't watch tv all day.

You don't need a phone anymore. An LTE watch and a VR headset are enough for your online activities because the majority of time is spent in VR. If you have to decide between a cheap phone and a cheap VR set or a good VR set because you already have the watch, you will choose the VR set. You won't chose the expensive phone alone, because you need a VR set to interact with your friends.

Once the market accepts VR, regular flats become too expensive and everybody will live in small, windowless apartment that are only bearable when you spent all your time in VR. And since you spent all your time in VR, it's perfectly acceptable to rent a small, windowless apartment.
Just because you pull a number out of your ass doesn't make it a statistic.
I'd love to know more about the people working on this and their motivations. Extremely, extremely talented hackers working on open source emulation of video game systems from 21 and 16 years ago.

Are they financially independent? Do they have a day job?
Honestly, I think any online platform that has chat that children can be a part of it going to encounter the same issues. You can do your best to protect and educate them. You can talk to them about what they're playing; get involved so you are more likely to notice issues. But there's always going to be risks. It's scary, but I don't think locking everything risky away from a child is the right route either.

I tend to think of it like letting your child go to the park with friends. The risks are different, but the concept is the same; the only way to really remove the risk is to be watching them every second, which isn't overly realistic.
Very interesting! So basically what this story says means that the nuclear operator in France has been selling the electricity at a loss, so much so that they are way behind on maintenance and almost bankrupt.

Which in turn means that the actual cost of nuclear power in France is higher than has been reported so far. The cost has just been postponed for decades, until now.

It's certainly bad timing to discover it now - what a nasty "perfect storm" of unfortunate events we are having for electricity in Europe this year. :(
These are definitely red flags, but it feels like investors (especially at early stages) rarely look at these things.
Then in later stages, investors weigh who the early investors are too heavily, and it becomes a big game of emperors new clothes.
The existence of suburbs itself is a subsidy to cars, almost every suburb is a money sink of infrastructure maintenance.

Video essay for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw6qyyrTeI
In the introduction, is the "leopard" stuff related to the Adrian Bott quote:
“‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.”?

If so, either I am reading this incorrectly or the author of the introduction is using it in a new (to me) way.
The phrase originally, as I understand it, refers to a result of some poorly thought through action committed by the 'victim' of the 'face eating'.

In this context it would imply that the coworkers in the cubicles did something stupid and are now facing the consequences of their own stupid actions.

I highly doubt this is what the author meant to convey, so I can't help but think I'm mistaken in how I read it.
Is there an older/different version of the leopard-face-eating that I'm missing?
You can search for the keywords on PF5NU1G, BIOS, AMIBCP, EC and find plenty of discussions there (w/ info on making your own unlocked BIOS if you want), although the Tuxedo/Schenker people have also done a fair amount of work making sure the laptop works well with Linux.

The point general of buying from a Linux computer mfgr is to get a supported machine, so if you don't trust Slimbook, you can order basically the same laptop (w/ a slightly better display) from Tuxedo or similar class Linux laptops from Star Labs, HP, System76, or Framework.
I was about to disagree, but I realized that 12 year olds typing fast is probably even more rare now than it was when I was 12. Let's just say, in the days of dialup lol ;) At the time, I typed faster than anyone I knew, other than a couple computer-geek friends who also spent hours chatting online etc.
I think it would do well for America's national security if non-experts didn't give their opinions publicly and this was enforced through our legal system.
> Asse II salt mine should never have been used in the 1960s and 1970s as a site to dump nuclear waste, said Ingo Bautz of the Federal Office for Radiation Protection.

> “Today, nobody would choose this mine to place radioactive waste,” Bautz told journalists during a recent tour of the mine, in the north-western state of Lower Saxony.

How is this applicable in 2022? This proves his point, not yours. The problems from your article have long been solved.
I would say that it really depends on how you think about "the system."

If the hardware is in-scope for the system, you're generally out of luck at having provable guarantees unless you're willing to operate a foundry and courier your own products.

I think it comes down to threat modeling. You have some threshold where it's unreasonable for someone to attack a system for less than $X spend. Right now on iOS I think that's on the order of $500k-$1m usd.
> For instance, I think ~90% of ivy league schools have a Jewish Dean.

I mean, it's probably 100% that have a (at least one) Jewish Dean, but then ivy league schools have lots of Deans. Harvard, for instance, has 15.

They don't exactly put religion in their bio, but I’d be surprised if less than one or more than two of the 15 are Jewish.
What does it mean to block third party cookies on a VR headset?
I’ve used React, Vue, Knockout, and just plain vanilla JS, and Vue is what I reach for now for personal projects. React is great if it’s already set up but I don’t want to waste any time with a build system for personal projects. With Vue I just add a link to a CDN, copy paste the hello world code in and I’m off to the races.