skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article you've linked to claims:

"some journalists — in Canada and abroad — mistakenly called the unmarked graves being located "mass graves," inadvertently invoking the horrors of the Holocaust. But the vast majority, following the lead of Indigenous spokespeople, got it right"

The problem with this is that it's impossible to verify - who are "some journalists", and who is the "vast majority"? But anyway, if you google for "215 children bodies found", you'll find that claim plastered all over the Net. First-page search results include CBC itself, BBC, NPR, CNN etc. So this is, at best, misleading.

The other statement that made me go hmph is:

"Denialists, to be clear, do not deny the existence of residential schools or even some of the harms of the IRS system. Rather, they seek to downplay or distort basic IRS facts and question the validity of ongoing research to shake public confidence and undermine truth and reconciliation efforts. "

It is unclear which "basic facts" they claim to be distorted. The article admits that it's not the existence of schools or the abuse that happened in them in general. I've read some of the denialist articles, and the only claims regarding facts of the matter can find there are that no bodies - indeed, no graves! - have actually been verified in this one particular case. That claim is easy to verify.

The article seems to be claiming, in essence, that any skepticism in this regard is inherently wrong, regardless of facts or lack thereof.
It's hard to believe that, given he only said one was wrong, you think he might have meant the others were wrong as well. You should try to rephrase your question to get at your eventual point, rather than try to lead people.
As far as I can tell, Seismiquery is a system for searching for seismic data collections.

Any additional information beyond this you could offer or clarify?
Yeah, feel free to shoot me an email for like $25 of credit. For startups, we usually do $100 (just send a request from your startup email address).

Even with $5 credits, we had people abusing the system and creating multiple accounts to cryptocurrency mine. So we chose $1 as an amount that would be so low that nobody would want to take advantage of, haha :)
My favorite oddball sorting algorithm is StalinSort. It runs in (O)1 time, making it probably the fastest sorting algorithm in the world.

It iterates through the list, and deletes every item in the list that isn't ordered. The remaining list is therefore automatically ordered.
yeah, what started out as a good piece of writing devolved into a dogmatic narrative
Flamewar has nothing to do with providing sources. Nor does it have to do with being right or not. It's easy to be both right and replete with sources and still be doing name-calling, snark, aggression, or other things that the HN guidelines ask commenters to avoid.

It has to do with inflaming discussion to the point where people angrily hurl talking points and attacks at each other. That's far removed from the curious conversation, respectful across differences, that we want here.

This is not a difficult concept for anyone familiar with internet threads. Moreover, the ways that you've been breaking the site guidelines are not borderline cases. Please just fix this.

Pointing fingers at the bad behavior of others doesn't seem relevant to this point. You've been breaking HN's rules badly for a long time now. If you first fix this, and then have something to say about other people's bad behavior, or about moderation failures, I'd be happy to address it.

By the way, you've also posted lots of good comments that are perfectly within the site guidelines. I appreciate that, and I definitely don't want to ban you. Unfortunately, bad comments do more damage than good comments add value; plus they add to existential risk (since the default fate of most internet forums is self-destruction, sooner or later). So we need to do something about the bad comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or looking down into the bench, closing ones eyes, and thinking about a pile of dead kittens!
This is too funny. I predicted that when I entered this post the first comment would be HN people bemoaning complexity. And indeed it was.

The commenter's proposed solution was WASM. Wasm doesn't solve the issues in this post. What does this post talk about:

- serving content from the edge (wasm doesn't do anything there)
- asset optimization (wasm doesn't help)

- pre-rendering complex pages to static HTML+css (wasm doesn't help)

More broadly, minimizing network trips, pre-fetching data, etc. etc. these are all things where Wasm won't help any more or less than JS.
i do a lot of uC work, i meant that for this task on that uC, it is a lot of bytes, less than half that many can easily accomplish this task. possibly less, if i could be bothered to spend time
I still mostly remember the day a coworker convinced me that object pooling was dead because it tears the mature generation a new one over and over.

It's nice when the runtime solves a problem you've had to solve yourself, but it also takes a bit of your fun away, even if your coworkers are relieved not to have to deal with 'clever' code anymore.
Looks like a faas.
She hired an expert to get the ruling “line of duty” because it changes and increases his life insurance payouts. It also gives her access to survivors benefits and a slew of other things like part of his pension.
Not sure what you’re using but all my Linux boxes have boot instantly since I switched to ssds. I run a handful of hard drives, dedicated gpu, etc
You're suggesting the government would distribute their vaccine passport app exclusively through Meta? Why would they do that?
I listened to a podcast this week (https://why-is-this-happening-with-chris-hayes.simplecast.co...) where GPS featured prominently. It's about an upcoming ~Netflix show (called The G Word), so I assume there'll be a whole episode on it?
My understanding of that paper is that it does not dispute the feedback effects, but rather seeks to quantify them, specifically the climate sensitivity for CO2, CH4 and N2O.

> And as for the paper you cited... looks like it was written by a bunch of old (retired) engineers who have absolutely no clue about actual atmospheric science.

Surely if their approach is valid, and the maths is correct, then who they are, their age, and their field of expertise is irrelevant?

Now admittedly I've only got part way through the paper, but I've yet to find an error in their maths.

I therefor assume that either you have found an error in their maths, or that you can state why their approach is invalid. I'd appreciate it if you could explicitly state those failings.

Thanks.
Stories recounting cruel physical and sexual abuse are only a google search away. Of thousands of children being disappeared. Of being woken in the middle of the night to dig graves.
Perhaps, a lava tube has become active and gassing, or heating the trapped methane above,

and the increased gas pressure is fracturing the rock above to form a line of fissures which are producing burp craters
Maybe this is apocryphal, but I think I remember hearing that Reddit was originally written in some kind of lisp. Not to say it doesn't owe its success to python.
To be fair, they definitely got into a rut in the JDK 6-7 timeframe. I maintain it's no accident that memcache came into its own during this period. That was a major pain point, and going out-of-process shouldn't have been necessary.
Maybe express trains only go one way?
It's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I am skeptical, you are mistrustful, he is a denialist.
https://getwacup.com/
I don’t understand this article. It says “If demand continues along its current growth path, European cities will want 100% of new urban buses to be zero-emission by 2026”, but also states that regulation is needed to reach that.

If all demand will be for zero-emission buses by 2026, why would the EU have to spend time making it “a requirement on manufacturers to only supply zero-emission buses”? I’m reasonably sure they won’t manufacture them when there’s no demand.
Disco Diffusion (and generated art in general) is really cool: https://replicate.com/nightmareai/disco-diffusion/examples

Happy to give you whatever credits you need (would $25 be enough?) to try running some cool stuff on our infrastructure. And feel free to email me the results of whatever you do at jonathan@tensordock.com :)
One probably coincidental thing is that the move to margarine and other more "sustainable" foods happened roughly in the same period as books and thoughts like "the limits to growth" came about.
> I know I have lost a lot of trust in medical authorities.

If you do some introspection, you ll find that you originally had no reason to trust them in the first place.

You trusted them because you assigned attributes such as conscience, morality etc that can be reasonabily attributed to one human being. But these authorities are mobs, a group of humans, and you cannot never expect a mob to have a conscience.
It's not always a tradeoff:

Nim switched from GC to RC and it even increased performance.
My point exactly. They specifically solicited feedback from r/python and not from Hacker News.
You wouldn't build a solar farm particularly close to any of the major TX cities which sprawl for long distances because the land is worth more than the solar panels.
Only because there are no viable alternatives to a 10 hour flight. But the alternative to a 10 hour train ride is a 1-2 hour flight.
It failed to find anything on me and I've had my number for over a decade.
This is a testament to the vision, strategy and execution by Lisa Su - probably the world's best female CEO and one of the best CEOs in general.

The seeds for this success were planted nearly a decade ago, and Intel mocked them relentlessly at the time for going down this path.

It also goes to show that you need an engineer in charge to be successful in the semi business. A pencil-pushing finance guy will torpedo your company long term in exchange for short term number juicing.
> The quote, here, was ill used, as it so often is.

You’ve misread me/my intent, i’m afraid.
Feel free to break them down and ship them to me, or some other parent of a young kid. Those sets are expensive!
Actually I just didn't share data because I forgot the name of the author who has best spoken to this critique, but I dug him up and it's Jason Hickel. He responded directly to Steven Pinker's rosy optimism about the world, in particular pointing out that our bar for what is extreme poverty is a made up number that is too low. If you use a more reasonable measure for extreme poverty, the situation looks a little different. It has improved in some areas and expanded in others. Notably, people like Pinker use their argument to say basically that capitalism is good. But Hickel points out that most of the gains were in China, where the economic system that led to all this growth was a very mixed system of capitalism combined with heavy state control. So under no circumstances can we conclude that free market capitalism is the main driver of reductions in extreme poverty.

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2019/2/3/pinker-and-global-...
Has anyone done a good paper on how memory bank affinity for processors affects these costs?
All Steam Deck Customers Will Receive Their Devices by Year's End
Certainly more than just possible. Could you say how?
Isn't there already userspace access to the kernel's crypto machinery?

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/crypto/userspace-if.h...
> Essentially, whereas tracing GC has pauses while tracing live data, reference counting has pauses while tracing garbage.

This is pretty trivial to avoid. When your thread finds itself freeing a big chain of garbage objects, you can have it stop at any arbitrary point and resume normal work, and find some way to schedule the work of freeing the rest of the chain (e.g. on another thread). It's much more complex and expensive to do this for tracing live data, because then you need to manage the scenario where the user program is modifying the graph of live objects while the GC is tracing it, using a write or read barrier; whereas for garbage, by definition you know the user can't touch the data, so a simple list of "objects to be freed" suffices.

"Reads become writes" (indeed, they become atomic read-modify-writes when multiple threads might be refcounting simultaneously) is a problem, though.
> Participate in the community for a while

Well, you see, that's what I'm trying to do here...
Remember Facebook offering people a few bucks to MITM their entire phone? Oh wait, that was on the official App store! And they didn't even ban them!
I turned my iPad Pro into my main computer (2021)
Apple supported OS 9 running 'containerized' atop what was essentially Openstep for a few years.

Worst-case I could see a Windows GUI running atop a heavily-symlinked Debian, and all Office things running Web-based. Everything else that can't run native could be in obscured VMs. At some point, the NT kernel isn't going to cut it.
snapd doesn't block your interactivity. You can start typing in your password and login and start to launch your app, meanwhile the user space startup sequence is still running.
The worst butt-dial in history
I will admit to having only read the first point of the long post, so I'll just respond to that:

> It doesn't take that many different operators before you start running into capacity limits of the network

Don't get this. If there is that much demand, then clearly it makes sense to build out the system? More rails, higher speed, and/or better bypasses for trains that need to stop at each station for example.

It's usually a hard question to predict where public or investment money is best spent, but this situation seems like it would be quite clear.
> Unless it happened again already

Odds are it has.
Because maybe we're not okay with restricting the programs we write that much.
Artillery rounds follow ballistic trajectories, and though interdicting the shell itself is challenging, plotting trajectory to origin makes counter-battery fire quite effecitve.

Howizters and Panzerhaubitzen have greater strategic value than single shells do.

Drones can fly non-predictable paths, and single-use drones don't pave a lane back to origin.
Many computer vision interns lack AI ethics training
RC may turn reads into writes, but of course, GC ends up having to go through literally every piece of memory ever from bottom to top once in a while.

RC limits itself to modifying only relevant objects, whereas GC reads all objects in a super cache-unfriendly way. Yes, an atomic read-modify-write is worse than a read, but it's not worse than a linked-list traversal of all of memory all the time.

And of course, not all kinds of object lend themselves to garbage collection - for instance, file descriptors, since you can't guarantee when or if they'll ever close. So you have to build your own reference counting system on top of your garbage collected system to handle these edge cases.

There's trade-offs, yes, but the trade-off is simply that garbage collected languages refuse to provide the compiler and the runtime all the information they need to know in order to do their jobs - and a massive 30 year long effort kicked off to build a Rube Goldberg machine for closing that knowledge gap.
I said downthread that it might be hard to come up with a more inapposite quote for a story about skepticism of wrongdoing, and you'd've one-upped me here. :)
If I admit that it's taboo, I've proved you wrong? That's backwards. Or if I admit that a biological man can't have a baby? Which, yes, I do admit (barring sci-fi-ish implant science I'm not informed on), but that doesn't prove you wrong either. Regardless, I'm confused about your point - if you're referring to people who literally think that biological men can have babies, it's hard to believe that you think they are so prevalent that they pervade all of public space. Unless you just mean that the unqualified act of declaring they can't in public will provoke a negative reaction, which seems reasonable - without context, that declaration is most often used as part of an implication that we should hate or mistreat certain people, whereas I, for example, am saying it in an honest/relevant (in my opinion) context.
How in the world does this work.....
I think the secret is he uses letters.

Try that invitation to a DDoS on his life with Twitter or email.

If you’re willing to post a physical letter, chances of the content being worth reading are a lot higher.
i appreciate you contributing your experience on this. to be more specific, it looks to me like a lot of the css variables are too granular, likely because they're being generated via scss functions, and so must conform to a set of algorithmic conventions. but a lot of the time, you don't want to tweak just the default border color of the card component separate from its border width separate from the border color of a generic container (or whatever). i haven't delved deep enough to know precisely how this all plays out, but that's what it looks like to me on first perusal.

bootstrap does this as well, and since tabler is built on bootstrap, it seems they're extending that precedent (there's a lot of "!important" going on to, which is not a good sign). i'll admit i'm not much of a bootstrap fan either.

i'm slowly developing my own personal css framework where i'm trying to have no tooling at all, including no scss, and very, very minimal js (and certainly no framework or packaging/transpiling of js at all) by default. it leans heavily on css variables and all the other current css goodies (good riddens IE!). that way, it can fit into any use case without having to worry about tooling conflicts. bulma kinda takes this approach (particularly, no js), but it's weirdly not as extensive as i'd expected it to be.
This. Exactly this.

Garbage collection has a huge, and generally entirely unappreciated win when it comes to threaded code. As with most things, there are tradeoffs, but every reference counting implementation that I've used has turned any concurrent access to shared memory into a huge bottleneck.
My guess is that HN is mostly men, so you're likely to be right, but probably for the wrong reasons.
The dopamine rush hits with novel experiences…

There is nothing novel about working with the same codebase day in and day out…

BUT, I believe it is possible to find the novelty. I’ve found refactoring to be a very peaceful and creative exercise that gives me a healthy dose of dopamine.. you just have to “listen” to the code and follow the refactoring path. The creativity spikes happen when your deciding on what pattern to use or how to name something. It’s simple stuff, but it gets me by and I have found a way to get joy from it.

Unless you want to work at a startup which can provide higher levels of ownership, uncertainty, loss, and reward, getting the dopamine rush will be harder to find on the stable path of an established company.

It’s a trade-off.
I'd say that there's a fairly huge gap between a mass grave, and a bunch of distortions in the soil that are detected by the radar that may (or may not) actually be graves.
> I thought of node as a victory for async more than anything else.

In terms of server-side development? Async is rather useless on the server side. Can't generate a web page or JSON blob with the results of a database query until you actually get those results from the database. I can see the application for something like websockets but I presume most Node sites aren't using those.

I figured its success was due to V8 being reasonably fast, plus a generation of front-end-centric developers coming along who had learned to use JS quite heavily on the front end and didn't realize or didn't care that better options already existed on the back end.
Brazil’s cars have run on ‘green fuel’ for a century, but not without costs
More like Side3: Bad Things will happen sooner or later. So the report of a Bad Thing at a politically useful time is helpful even if it’s loosely supported. Because Bad Thing will happen eventually regardless.

Edit: I don’t think the time of the reports was particularly helpful. The day before the story was verified, someone had published an op-Ed in NYTimes titles “Laugh at my abortion with me.” Nobody’s laughing about a preteen being raped.
People die at schools esp. boarding schools of all kinds, all the time, of normal causes. There aren't really allegations that somehow these schools 'killed people' in the 1960's (i.e. in living memory as you suggest) - or even in the past (when people died at much higher rates than normal population of illness etc.) and your choice of words very clearly misrepresents the situation, which is actually the issue presented in the article: how people lie about serious and inflammatory issues.

There were major revelations about a century ago that Aboriginal children were dying at higher rates than otherwise, mostly due to tuberculosis, which spread rapidly at the shcools over a century ago - it was a 'huge controversy' even in 1922 - when the government commissioned an investigation into the situation. [1]

Also, note (same reference) that deaths from aboriginal kids since WW2/1945 is basically the same as death of kids from the general population overall, which abnegates some idea of even accidental physical genocidal acts due to systematic oppression. These facts, which adds nuance to the situation, create a more realistic dynamic to the historical situation than your choice of words (similar to those in the press) would imply. Hence - misrepresentation and hyperbole.

Residential School history matters, factually.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...
Because your distro's boot chain is a garbage fire?

My boxen (Void or Alpine) consistently come up in count-on-one-hand seconds. If I wanted to start an X desktop at boot, that'd be maybe another second or two.
Yes, it was a precedent breaking ruling - which tend not to be given out lightly. That is a strong indicator that during this motion all of the evidence was under even higher scrutiny.
I’ll check the site out when on non-mobile. But what sort of internet connectivity?
Does anyone care about an arbitrary other person? Sounds unlikely. Even at the 99th percentile of people, I think the most effort I'd expend to make their life better is zero. And, to be honest, I think most people would spend less than $1k to save an arbitrary life. Given that, it sounds rather trite.

Even if they did care (unlikely as that is), there is no way to intervene in an arbitrary 11-year-old's healthcare.

The scope of action is in the design of the society that permits harm as defined in one way or the other. And that's politics. So people are acting in the only way that makes sense.
This write up highlights a depressing fact we all know: the mobile security situation is bleak, to the point of being untenable.

I checked my own device, and despite owning it just about a year, security updates have likely already stopped (although the manufacturer website hasn't exactly confirmed that, just yet) and even if the security updates were still coming, the gap between when they are released and then reach the devices are measured in months, not days, making these exploits worse than zero-days. I have seen no movement in correcting these issues from any of the manufacturers.

You too can check for yourself at source.android.com/security/bulletin
This doesn't have anything to do with communism and the not showing porn when kids are typically around is about accommodating the parents. The difference is that the state doesn't try to control it(like UK where the state tries to implement ID verification for porn) but accommodate it. The society is not alarmist and absolutist, though the general consensus is that kids shouldn't be exposed to porn.

It's a subtle difference, hard to explain of you don't have the experience. It's not something in the laws, it's the attitude.
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Self driving is here. But not like you thought