skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/crime/psni-assessment-of-i...

There is good evidence to indicate that the IRA Army Council is still heavily involved in running Sinn Fein. And it is no wonder, because the links between the two organisations are pretty tight and always have been. The party still calls itself "the political wing of the Provisional IRA". In response to an audience member shouting "Up the 'RA", Gerry Adams famously replied with glee "They haven't gone away you know".

Sinn Fein to this day praises and commemorates former IRA murderers. Michelle O'Neill comes from a family of proud IRA members. I could go on.

Endorsing the organisation now is endorsing its history and aims, which haven't diverged despite the young faces and heavy layers of PR gloss.

> pride at having held off the British Army

And a lot of civilians who guarded prisons, happened to be going to work, were 'suspected' touts, were buying fish and chips, or were watching military parades to commemorate real sacrifice like that made in WWII.

Real reconciliation would be possible with moderate nationalists, not people who call Unionists "bastards" in private, or say "equality is a trojan horse for Nationalism".
As people pour in, it appears I am the only one left with contrarian view. I had watched this movie and didn't realize the scene was really all that special. I couldn't even recall it, let alone remember it forever. I have seen perhaps hundreds other far more moving scenes in other WWII movies (everything from Schindler's List to Saving Private Ryan to Downfall) that I far more vividly remember. It feels like one of those fallacies where someone will come up with why certain wine is best in the world and then crowd joins in to agree while everyone else wonders what was so special about it.
Yeah, "brittle", or "fragile", or "tightly coupled to the implementation"

In any case, it's not good. Also not uncommon.
Please do cite some examples because that just doesn't reflect my experience at all. They are never malicious, they only argue about the details to often mind numbing degrees, and are routinely engaging with the science by e.g. citing new datasets recently published.
Those engines last forever. I had a C-class from that vintage, it looked like you could walk in on one side and out the other without opening the doors (great: nobody ever thought of stealing that car). But the engine just kept on working and as far as I know it still runs (in Limburg, with a friend that I haven't seen since COVID).
Last time I talked with someone about this, they convinced me there was some rare, possibly even research-only x86_64 chip that didn't support it, so my point is that if my hazy memory of someone else's argument is correct, that it doesn't matter, treat it as if it's exactly 100% anyway.

It's 100% of what matters, so in practice I'm in full agreement with you.
OK, so I do agree with that. It’s worth having a conversation about.

But I don’t feel like this rose to the level of an actual proposal. It was very short to assert a claim with such wide-reaching implications as “we should start ignoring leap seconds”. As such, I don’t think it calls for an in-depth rebuttal.

Consider:

Proposer: “It’s time to leave Unicode in the past. It requires us to update every part of our system to deal with UTF-8 strings instead of much simpler ASCII, and we’re spending a lot of resources. Because it’s so hard and expensive, we should all use well-tested ASCII code. People who want to interoperate with our system can just rename themselves to use the Latin-1 alphabet.”

Everyone else: “No.”

Yes, it is hard, and people have spent a lot of, ahem, time and money to figure out how to manage this at scale. But there are real-world-tested approaches to dealing with the issue, and I firmly believe it’s better to work out and coordinate on the remaining rough edges than to throw the whole thing away to make a handful of engineers’ jobs easier.
The McDonald Observatory gun shooting incident (1970)
Citizens United said that you and I have the same right to band together to engage in political speech as the New York Times.
I actually think we should allow cigarette ads again, I don't think anyone is harmed by being able to see a sign telling them something.

But also, think about it this way: isn't this the other side of the slippery slope argument? I'm sure when cigarette ads were first banned, people made the argument that it would be used to justify banning other ads later, and were told that was a slippery slope fallacy... Now, you're essentially saying "we've already banned cigarette ads, if we're not going to ban gun ads too then we might as well re-allow cigarette ads!"
> To clarify, I'm only talking about code in the same project that everyone has access to. I'm not talking about defining an API for other people to use that don't have access to the code, like when you make a library.

A lot of people are ignoring this part of the question. The primary usefulness of object-oriented programming is scope control. Dependencies kill teams, and scope control helps them survive. The more I limit the scope of something, the easier for someone else to understand it and make necessary changes.

Imagine a language without scope control: When people try to understand how something works and what might break it, they have to consider all possible points of entry, which becomes every variable & function in your class.

Java programmers often pitch fits about "getters" and "setters", insisting that every variable be private and guarded by a public method. In your context, you might find this to be kind of silly since we're mostly just moving scope control around instead of limiting it, but good luck fighting that battle (I'm not going to try). At any rate, I still would not use this kind of annoyance as an excuse to wave off scope control as nothing but bureaucratic boilerplate. It has real value when used pragmatically.
It invented a lot of common cliches and tropes that are frequently used in other movies so in many ways it's a victim of its own success. For example in Star Wars the planet of Tatooine is Casablanca and the Cantina is Rick's Cafe.
The main thesis of the article is that they cannot pay for it.
> We’re an adtech business

Get fucked.
Even if people merely socially alienated him for placing an idea into consideration, that's a restriction on freedom of speech, particularly as academia is supposed to be a place where people can freely consider and debate ideas without worry of reprisals.
I was a supporter of the ACLU back in the day. But when they changed from defending free speech, to working against it, I was not sure what to do. FIRE is now what the ACLU used to be, and I am so happy to have a organization fighting for this.
Sure, if you're looking for anecdotal data I can provide some. I don't know about 'more', but I'd argue it was definitely not 'less' social.

I can't speak to the income stuff because I also worked remote during this time, but I will say there were less divisions along economic lines out there than there are in the city, for sure. People share meat and produce with each other regardless of whether they are pulling in a bay-area tech salary or they are working HVAC for the county. We're more similar than you think around a bonfire or with fishing poles in our hands.

I live in a city now so these thoughts are comparing some of my experiences in both places:

- I spent more time with my neighbors helping each other, sitting around a fire, cooking and sharing food than I do in the city.
- seasonal help was much more of a thing in the country - we'd help each other every spring with brush clearing and burning, fall harvests, culling and processing.
- I'd go to bars just as much as I would here in town, and there was a coffeeshop from which I'd work (though much more rarely compared to now).
- We'd drive in to town to go to sporting events or concerts together, like I drive across town now for the same thing with my friends.
- we'd go hunting/fishing together, I guess sort of like I'd go paddling boarding here in town.
- volunteering and charity work was very different - you'd mostly go directly help whoever needed help; there weren't as much donation drives or petitions signed.

In coming up with that little list it occurred to me that just like in a city there are people that stay to themselves, there's definitely folks in the rural areas that do that also. It might vary so much from person to person that it's not a good comparison to make between rural/urban environments.
So why isn't michigan conquering ohio or vice versa right now? Why aren't the canadians from the hinterland coming in to take over vancouver? Because they are "on the same side" which is ultimately a meaningless political device. It's still humans versus humans in michigan or ohio or the U.S. or anywhere else. It stands to reason that one day we could possibly be all on the same side, and we could have no fear of conquest from our fellow humans, just like those humans who are in michigan have no fear of conquest by ohioans today. In that world, having an advanced military would be about as useless as an ohio police department having ICBMs.
We have spoken with several account managers, but they’ve ”forwarded the ticket to another team and can’t do anything more”

The hackers are currently thrown out, so we’re not losing tens of thousands in revenue daily because they are spending it, but rather because the account is blocked we can’t run campaigns on behalf of our customers.
I remember my grandmother having one of those. The name of it was radar range. Had a pretty heavy hum when you ran it.
"I hated advertisers when I was younger. I'm older now. Still hate them."

Unsolicited advertising is a cancer on this planet. It should be completely banned.
Exactly! And then complain there is an over-population issue because the average engineer can't buy a house within 20km radius of world's top billionares. If there is an issue it's that the wealth is concertrated in few "small" areas.

What makes people think housing should be affordable in the "most wanted" locations? You can't physically fit unlimited people in a small area.
Those large aluminum ships crack because aluminum has poor fatigue performance when subjected to repeated cycling. Small aluminum boat? You're probably fine for a lifetime. 400ft aluminum boat? Good luck with that.
its all true.
or you can go the Secure Scuttlebutt route where the user resolves a name based on some simple function of how your peers (which you explicitly choose) resolve it.

Blockchain DNS will probably happen first, but i think name resolution which doesn’t require global consensus is under-appreciated. it’s like if i ask wikipedia (or a non-localized Google) for the page on “i3”, v.s. asking a random selection of my friends for the page on “i3”: i’m just always going to get a better result by more heavily weighting the response of my peers than the responses of people far-removed from me.
FaceID adds friction to using my phone. Plus, looking at my phone doesn't necessarily mean I want it unlocked. I'll often glance at my phone to see a recent text, put it back in my pocket and then a few minutes later wonder why my pocket is warm...oh right it's probably sitting there unlocked with an app open.
> our hypercapitalist society for decades

The US has been turning away from free markets for at least a century now.
There are enough housing subsidies aimed at the wealthy.
I don't think it has to be even, but there is certainly a ratio.

Sometimes you have to let developers overengineer something or work on something a little too much so they don't go insane and take you with them. Or quit and go somewhere else.

Few things affect consistent delivery as much as bad employee retention and burnout.
This is where the value of documentation comes in, as well as some process around your data model. If you need this to keep you safe you are doing something terribly wrong somewhere.
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Likely security in layers. Why expose your control plane to attacks directly from the internet if you don't have to? Cuts down login attempts noise in logs since anything would have to be coming from the VPC. Other than initial setup of a bastion -- that's the tradeoff -- sounds like less to worry about for a small shop or a startup. Same for Cloud SQL or any other managed service.
UTC was never to make astronomy applications easier. The only thing that has changed is that cheap computers make it easier for astronomers to use UTC as a starting point.
I understood perfectly.

Starship is 9 meters wide.
There aren't much alternatives anymore.
If I go to a physical shop I won't get any dumb dishwasher anymore. That's how I got my current "smart" one.
Nintendo is kind of the exception to the rule though. By the very nature of a game being a Nintendo game they can put out new IP and get a lot of attention organically. They can also pin it to the top of their storefront or, in the old days, force retailers to carry it and promote it.

If you are average publisher you have none of those options, so you have to either sell your game on merit or on following trends. Unfortunately most publishers choose the later as it is more perdictable.
> Please, for the love of all that is holy, consider what white nationalists explicitly want to do.

This raises a related, but much tougher, issue.

Does free speech include false speech? Does it include misleading speech? White nationalists are not known for telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Does free speech allow them to make up claims about raping children? Should someone be allowed to make those claims in a college classroom? Should someone be allowed to present photos of child rapists, but only people of one race, without even acknowledging the existence of the other child rapists? This quickly becomes the dominant issue when you go down this road. I find the naive "pro-free speech" stance to be unsatisfying.
Precisely. The regulatory environment in the US is astounding.

People yell at Apple for being a monopoly but android exists and the consumers just don’t care.

Amazon tried to launch a line of phones and no one cared.

If things were really so oppressive the consumers would demand something else but they just don’t care.
How does a massive company like Intel who's work heavily involves code/compiler optimization not profile their drivers for something this simple?
The first step is typically to get users who like the platform enough to use, share, and advocate for it.
The DUP had some informal ties by way of some members appearing on stage alongside loyalist paramilitaries in the past, but it was never the political party of any paramilitary group of note.

The unionist party run by the UVF is the PUP and it is barely a rounding error in the polls.

Sinn Fein has many members of senior IRA rank and calls itself "the political wing of the PIRA".

The two are not identical.
VW is an affordable brand.
Casings can be reused and reloaded to make new bullets.

And you could build a black-powder gun that might be a bit less accurate but would involve nothing really traceable.
> They don't have the background in math, in coding, in economics

And for those of us that do have backgrounds in every one of these fields, we notice the abuse of formal industry terms with crypto-exclusive definitions that weaken the economic structure or flat out fabricate fantasy.

Cryptocurrencies are a great idea for a more mature civilization. We are not that civilization.
> Also not uncommon.

Fair enough.

Typically this is a case of people not really getting what unit tests are for, so they end up testing the implementation rather than the behavior.
nah, nobody gives a shit about service and amenities. You choose the train that goes where you need to go fastest, that's the only thing that matters. Agencies coordinate with each other to build complementary lines. Nobody chooses to use a train because it's run by Toei vs JR, and train lines generally do not overlap.

Leasing infrastructure sounds alright tho
for anyone else wondering about TDB:

> Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB, from the French Temps Dynamique Barycentrique)
You started off by insulting people who write code that has security holes. I started off by saying the solution is to make APIs that make writing security holes harder.

You characterized people who write code with security holes as "stupid/lazy", that is elitism.

About ~10 years ago, a lot of databases used to ship with no PW on by default. This lead to a lot of information disclosures as people new to the cloud based world setup a DB and all of a sudden it was world readable with no authentication needed.

When this happened, a bunch of experienced DBAs started saying the problem was mass incompetence on the part of these "young developers who think they know how to be a DBA." Their proposed solution was for companies to start hiring "real DBAs".

The actual solution was to have databases not allow exposure over a public IP unless a password is set, which is now the default on the vast majority of databases, and when it isn't, there are giant warning banners that flash everywhere alerting developers to the giant security hole they are about to deploy.

I'm not saying elitism is always bad. Those DBAs who understand exactly how query optimizers work and exactly how databases store everything under the hood are needed, just as the developers who know the detailed ins and outs and proper usage of low level operating system APIs are needed.

But if a lot of otherwise capable developers keep making the same mistake using some tool or API or cloud service, instead of trying to assign blame to individuals for being stupid or lazy, we as an industry should instead ask ourselves why so many people are having the exact same problem.

I'm elitist about plenty of things, and it took me time to realize that just because I know the "best" or "correct" way for something to be done, doesn't mean that everyone else needs to do that thing in the "best" way.

Anything in this world meant for usage by a large number of people, a product, API, flat packed furniture, setting up a printer, needs to cater to the needs of the job that people want to get done. Saying people are "doing it wrong", well, at best that approach gets companies put out of business (see: Everyone selling smartphones who wasn't Apple/Google), and at worst the harm can be magnified many fold.
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Midnight on your clock is very likely tens of minutes or even hours offset from solar midnight, let alone seconds: http://blog.poormansmath.net/images/SolarTimeVsStandardTimeV...
huge changes in SAAS or app UIs. When every a company totally changes the UI, they rarely think of all the time users put into learning the original UI.
> Yes, they absolutely do,

They do, but that's not the primary enforcement mechanism.
Living in a bigger city doesn't mean more friends necessarily, it means more diverse friend groups which small towns seriously lack. They tend to have a monoculture.
The reason you don't have basements is because you don't have to worry about the Frontline.

If you did, land would be worth $21k less per lot - to make up for the cost to dig a basement.
> If you work in pure marketing (like an ad agency) you also don't generally get to pick what it is you're selling.

They're mercenaries, and mercenaries have a choice. "Oh no my boss said I have to advertise these cigarettes and I don't have a choice because... I work for this agency" Just walk out of the office and go find an honest job.

A conscripted soldier might be said to have no choice, but mercenaries do. Marketers do. They chose the money.
Sure, and it should have said New York Times is not a person and therefore gets no say in any matter. The Pareto bit I mentioned means even if we band together they ultimately have disproportionate resources.

It's employees / shareholders et al can vote how they like, but that's different than the New York Times (or Russia for that matter), swaying an election.
It's not that they don't have DF for 23.976 because it's hard, they don't because it wasn't needed. A 23.976 framerate was never broadcasted as it wasn't part of the NTSC standard. In fact, rarely did anyone actually edit at 23.976 unless it was going back to film. They cut the telecined film as 29.97 video with no regard to A-frames or any other methods that would enable the edit to cleanly go back to source frame rate. They so didn't care that some times the film cadence changes on every single edit. Why? Because nobody needed it nor could they possibly imagine the time of the internet and digital streaming that could do any frame rate to even bother wasting time trying to do it "right".
>> It's public knowledge that they intend to launch a lot more satellites before that, so they are probably counting on that to help them.

Yeah, but they also want to substantially increase the number of subscribers. It seems a shame to add capacity and not users just to get a cheque from the government for hitting some arbitrary numbers. IIRC they could have bid for a lower speed target that they would probably be hitting today.
Wrt to salt water corrosion, having been around folks involved with boats and boatbuilding all my life, the 'best' material for building a boat or yacht is an ever-green topic with no resolution in sight. Of course, for factory-produced boats made in large series, GRP reigns supreme, which is why most boats out there are GRP, but for one-offs it's still hotly debated. Steel, aluminum, wood (in all kinds of variations), GRP all have their pros and cons. People even made yachts out of ferrocement, though it seems the popularity of that method has waned.
Do aftermarket "anti-rust coatings" actually work? Y'know, the kind people are always trying to sell you at auto dealerships and the like?
> Sounds like pushing a narrative of western/NATO blame for a war Putin chose on his terms/his time, without any specific NATO trigger event forcing Putin's hand at this time.

Henry A. Kissinger is pushing the same narrative. Would you call HAK poorly informed on the matter?
The concept of mobile parking apps is good, but the execution is pretty crappy. But then, i think, hey the fact that i have to drive a car because transit infrastructure is crap in America, and then i have to park said car (and all the annoyances that come with finding parking in some cities without getting tickets or worse towed away due to awfully written parking signage), and then to use a crappy mobile app to pay for said parking...it all makes me feel crappy all over. So, i submit that the crappy "tech" that has worsened our lives is the poor-planning of our American cities with their *car first* approach to design. Sure, the car can be considered both good and bad, mobile apps can be considered good and bad...but the design of our American cities itself that seemingly places cars above all else...wow, that takes the cake!

I do apologize for launching into a mild rant there...i guess i have deeper issues with mobile parking apps than i originally thought. ;-)
I use auto-formatters so that I don't have to deal with coworkers telling me to add a new line or that I put too many/few levels of indentation.

Formatters do nothing for code quality. Linters can help quality but it's more of a last line of defense for common errors, not a signal that your code is 'good'.
> that allows us to buy / rent a quality house (which is close to impossible in Berlin even making 200k/year [due to neck breaking tax and cost of living])

Just, how? If you have 200k/year, taxes and Berlin's low cost of living should have almost no impact on you. That's like more than than 4 times the median German salary, in one of the cheapest city of the country (rent is of course expensive, but that's mostly depending on the neighborhood). I spent 3 years in Berlin and now live in Hamburg, I cannot imagine that you have problem finding a decent place and living a very comfortable life there given your income.

Anyway, if you do not like Berlin, there is a lot of other places in Germany with different politics, taxes, and social life.