skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thank you. from what I understand the appeals process isn't easy. what are your thoughts on a grassroots campaign? interviewing the jurors? going to the local press? the jurors spent 9 days out of their personal life, giving up their work, family and more to to arrive at the verdict.
Sure, but how many of those have to handle billions of empty tuples?
I think you're assuming that fighting back is the only option. Yesterday, I saw my friend's two year old throw the toys of the five year old and the five year old didn't immediately punch his younger brother, but instead he cried. By crying, both parents were alerted and immediately came to his aid, and frankly scolded the two year old for throwing the toys (indirect revenge?).

Maybe you could argue that by crying, the older child was getting revenge on the younger because he knew his parents would come to scold him. Or maybe the kid just wanted comfort because he lost something he cared about. It was hard for me to know whether his intention was to receive comfort and attention or to have his parents shame his brother, maybe both?

> Combine that with scarcity and a higher propensity for violence

I guess I don't see this as a given as much as it seems you do. I suppose I think people act violently out of pain, most of us just lashing out at each other because we think they hurt us first, more cooperative by nature than competitive, but maybe I'm describing your views inaccurately.
Another Russian here. 99% of usage of Tor and Bitcoin is Russia is to purchase drugs — darknet has almost completely replaced street dealers in the whole country, and there's an addiction epidemic going on. At the same time, most of drug trade in Russia has been managed by various branches of police and secret police (actual police, rosgvardia, fsb, fskn in the past), and large marketplaces are likely directly owned by them. So there's a huge monetary incentive to keep Tor network available, which I think is much more important to people in power than a dozen or so journalists and activists who might publish some anti-government banalities on some darknet forum that nobody (unfortunately, in my personal view) reads or gives a shit about anyway.

Russians at large know perfectly well that their media is censored and the government is corrupt. They just don't care.
>The environmental lobby does not exist,

does the renewable industry magically not have the same politico-economic incentives to lobby politicians like every other industry?
This makes me think that the height of serial killers was in the 70s, and is now generally blamed on parents coming back from wars and raising kids badly.
I went to university long before covid, and all the old exams + usually the (professors) solutions were available online, mostly on professors own websites, so the students would know what types of assignments were on exams and could prepare properly (there was still a very wide variety).

Exams were done in classrooms, with multiple people (usually TAs) watching, pen, paper, usually notes/book or even old exams were allowed (or at minimum 1 sheet of whatever you wanted on). Yeah sure, some minimal cheating was still possible, but not a lot.
This is just a more detailed version of my point lol you just listed the reasons they are not free.
Completely agree with both paragraphs.

And unfortunately, in my experience as both a university tutor back in the day, and now as a hiring manager for some candidates - international students, even those who studied at local universities - are by far the least qualified in all areas.

The international student game is a billion dollar industry that lines the pockets of university staff, allows constant round-the-year renovations of university facilities, and allows the universities to present themselves as "diverse and inclusive" learning environments.

The problem will never be solved as long as money is involved.
I find it helped local teams communicate with global teams. We stopped having impromptu meetings in the kitchen instead it was in slack and anyone could join
>This shows that Nuclear power might actually be a hindrance towards an electrified future, as governments have historically put to much faith in it, which was ultimately unwarranted, instead of investing in renewables.

Historically the countries that invested in nuclear and hydro have been most successful in lowering the carbon intensity of their energy sector. Looking at the data, Germany does not appear to be nearly as successful as France. In 2021 France's electricity averaged 68 gCO2/kWh, and Germany averaged 364 gCO2/kWh.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/low-carbon-share-energy?t...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/carbon-intensity-electric...
The Minimalist Design Trend: Why Less Is More
Unfortunately COVID stopped this for a while, but agree this is the only way to stop this kind of behavior.
Evacuation warning as blaze explodes to more than 30,000 acres
In the mid 1990s I wrote my Master's thesis about the difference between Analytical and Continental philosophy. To summarise it: The difference is more sociological (who quotes whom), historical (which are the classics you refer to, such as Kant vs. Hume, etc.) and a matter of style (a tendency (not more) to use formal logical to make something explicit or do without it) than actual philosophical differences.

For every content criterion that people have brought up to mark the difference between Analytical and Continental philosophy, one could usually find a prominent philosopher in either camp who match or does not match it:

Analytical philosophy: Formal logic? -- The early Wittgenstein is fond of it, but the late Wittgenstein moves away from it.

Analytical philosophy: Problems of philosophy as language problems? -- But Nietzsche and his fans (such as Mauthner).

Analytical philosophy: Importance of natural sciences for philosophy? -- But Cassirer.

Continental philosophy: Focus on hermeneutics? -- But Rorty.

Continental philosophy: Organic thinking (Hegel, etc.)? -- But Quine's holism.

Continental philosophy: Existentialism -- But many on the continent were not convinced. But many in the USA were interested. But Wittgensteins's mysticism.

...
That's okay, but I would never send my phone in for repair without wiping it first no matter what. Surely I'm not alone :-)
Justifying cheating because of those points about institutions feels like justifying stealing because of high inflation.
So you would be okay with the person you assaulted you not facing consequences, like prison?
From Github:

> 16K stars, 755 forks, 52 open, 354 closed issues

From the linked Patreon page:

> 7 patrons, CA$36/month

> Next goal: CA$76.88 per month - I can pay all my monthly bills

This is why the open-source software is sad. The author will keep burning through his youthful energy in return for some words of appreciation (but much more issues and demands), and will at best quietly give up at some moment, or at worst freak out and have his colors/faker moment [0].

At the same time, products like this create the expectations that some types of software should be free (i.e. subsidized by the author's willingness to not have a life) and make it 10x harder for people like the author to turn their work into a revenue-generating business.

That said, if you have 16K stars on Github, you absolutely do have enough userbase to sell a paid premium edition and eventually grow it into your main job.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29863672
Makes me wonder, if people really cared the market should react to it and have products to cater to those needs. Maybe my interests and people with similar interests are a very small minority, everything now is setup via an app - toasters to routers to vacuums. The sad truth is probably that vast majority of people like the convenience of an app and don't care about privacy or data collection and the products/market is heading there.
"pneumatic": so basically they apply pressure by injecting air into spider's valve and it moves?

How is "necrobotics" a real field of research? :p
I was curious too, and found he answered this question during the reddit AMA for this release (https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/wc0sqc/bevy_08/):

We've been peeling back the layers of the "editor onion" for awhile now. We've been focused on "foundational engine systems" since Bevy first released. But from here on out, our focus will be shifting. My next big project is "asset preprocessing", which is an important part of editor workflows. Other prominent Bevy developers have started to shift their focus toward preparing Bevy UI for editor scenarios.

I would like to break ground on the editor by the end of the year and have some sort of scene editor MVP proved out. This is ambitious, but I think it is possible given where we are at now. It will be awhile before we have a final editor workflow sorted out, but this will be an open, iterative process that the community will be able to follow along with as it develops.

Mobile is in a pretty good spot at this point: iOS support is pretty stable now. People have already started publishing Bevy iOS apps to the Apple App Store: https://noumenal.app.

Android is close, but not quite there yet. As of this release, Android builds kind of work again. You can build and deploy android apps, but they lose their renderer context if you suspend or resume the app. Audio also doesn't work yet :)
Engaging article. Not sure why Brexit caused increased interest in allotments?
Yeah, it takes its sweet time downloading large games. I get about 40mbps. On the upside, Switch games tend to be much smaller than their next-gen counterparts.

The key to a happy Switch life is a large micro sd card. Fortunately even 1tb are affordable now.
HarfBuzz: Why FreeType glyph widths is 10x slower than internal functions
From the article:

Wax presumably knew something more than we do of the student’s qualifications in making the statement. But even if she didn’t, how can her assertion that a black student with two Ivy League schools on her resume is likely to have benefited from affirmative action be taken as an insult in a culture that openly defends the positive good and undeniable need for affirmative action to achieve desired levels of minority representation? It is widely known that black students on average have lower GPAs and standardized test scores than whites and Asians, and that their performance relative to other groups remains comparatively low through the college years. How is it an unmentionable transgression for Wax to allude to a set of facts no one who knows the data disputes?

This is where the article lost me. The position stated above is disingenuous. The writer apparently doesn’t understand that something can be true and stated in an insulting or inappropriate way or stated in a demeaning way. Telling a student that they are a double Ivy due to external programs and not talent is inappropriate even if it is true. You don’t demean your students or attempt to tear them down in this way. A person lacking a sufficient amount of tact ought not be a teacher.

Saying inappropriate things to a student and being punished for it is not on par with banning books or banning teaching of certain concepts. This is obvious.
I’ve interviewed so many masters CS degree holders from prestigious schools.

0 of them, 0, could declare variables and get through hello world.
Abundance of caution, defense in depth.

If nobody lives there, nobody has to live with it.
> This comment is sarcasm, right? Perhaps becoming a billionaire is out of reach, but growing your portfolio by 5-20% annually is highly likely

This is incredibly out of touch.

The GP comment was talking about the kind of people who don't even own stocks and probably can't afford to buy even a single share, because it would eat into their budget much more than a $2-5 lottery ticket.

Also, lottery ticket EV isn't -100%, it's anywhere between -50% and -80%.

The stock portfolio growth numbers are also wrong for long-term, but we'll let that one slide.
RIP Craig Burton, one of the founders of Novell
If only he had a site with a short bio and a feed of posts on the topic of this thread. Oh well, I guess we'll never know.

Just click the link dude. It explains itself.
> teaching methods are failing some children

if you assume that all children are equally capable of learning everything then you are forced to conclude that teaching methods are failing some children. But if you "believe in science" (it's quite popular today to profess belief in science), you don't believe assumptions like that.
There definitely is an element of vengeance in capital punishment as well. "Eye for an eye".

I am not fully on board with that, but, on the other hand, I cannot pretend to myself that I'd consider "Eichmann being hanged" somehow morally bad or evil. In a sense, he had it coming, like many of his peers. More recently, the people who raped and killed their way through Bucha, deserve the same treatment.

But I can see that them hanging won't deter further butchers of next Buchas. People commit such crimes while feeling virtually sure that they won't ever be punished for them, and they are often right - too many war criminals expired in a luxurious bed at home. Notably, Stalin's executioners were never tried by an international tribunal unlike their Nazi counterparts, because the USSR won the war.

If the butchers of Bucha were to hang, it would be mostly motivated by vengeance.
That vision needs waste disposal or processing, which Jimmy Carter halted when he took office. It matters little that Ronald Reagan removed the prohibition, as investors will not put capital toward that again because the investment can be wiped out a few years later based on whims of politics. Without waste processing, storage of waste onsite forever creates an investment problem for new construction in USA.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nuclearpower-waste-id...

'Former President Jimmy Carter halted reprocessing in 1977, citing proliferation concerns.'
It's relevant, because we didn't ban western media (well, our own) back then, for spreading false propaganda (ending in many many deaths), and we're banning RT now, because it's "them" and not "us".

If we hate false news/propaganda/... then ban cnn (and many other media), but we clearly want (and allow) "that kind" of propaganda, just not the russian one.
You are shaping the future simply by voting for where you work and then doing that work to the best (or worst) of your ability.
> Seem to me that if your phone can't even boot up, then repair mode is moot

I've never needed to repair a phone, but I assumed the repair shop asked for your password. (And some other comments have said as much here.) Do they not do that?

If they do, I like the idea of a "repair mode password".
HN Travel Polls
https://newatlas.com/science/fly-brains-hack-remote-controll... this seems closer.
My understanding is most of this waste also isn’t as dangerous or as long-lasting.
"countless of Clojure dependencies having died"?

What exact does it mean by "died"? It does not work any more? Very unlikely.

In the Clojure world, it is the norm that a 5 years old library works as well as a one-week old one.

If you mean "died" by "not updated any more", sure that's the norm in Clojure as well. Some libraries are done, and some authors moved on. But most likely, these libraries can still be used just fine.

My production code base contains plenty of libraries that are not updated for ages, but I consider that a benefit, not a fault.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_submarine#Accidents
When it's not that... my dealer tried to upsell some tag protection system... but that's just an excuse for a geolocation harvest racket [1]. You just can't trust anyone today not to abuse their convenience service.

[1] https://www.tagtracking.ca/privacypolicy
Whereas the emissions from fossil fuels are spread uncontained for everyone to enjoy?
I started coding at 14 years old and have 10+ years of software development experience in a range of companies; both startups and corporations in a range of industries. I have 10 years of experience with open source. One of my projects has almost 6K stars on GitHub and almost 100K downloads per week. I even worked for a Y Combinator-backed company for over a year which had tons of big name SV investors including the famous actor Ashton Kutcher and Michael Jordan. My last job was leading the P2P team at a top blockchain company. The scalable P2P network solution which my team developed is still used 3 years after launch and never encountered any issues once launched (no vulnerabilities or bugs which needed patching). It only took 6 months for my team of 4 devs to build it from scratch. I'm willing to bet that it's among the simplest and best designed P2P libraries in the industry.

My record is impeccable. I build highly reliable software fast both as part of a group or as a solo freelancer. Much of my work is in the public domain on GitHub so it's easy to verify all this and check my code quality, automated tests and PR review history.
Show HN: ImThemes – a Dear ImGui theme browser and editor
ImThemes tries to create a nice place to save the Dear ImGui styles (themes) by making live-editing, instant preview when browsing, easy to publish new themes (themes are stored in a TOML file in the GitHub repository) and allowing you to export themes to C++, Nim and TOML.
A serial port? Or perhaps these days, a USB one.
I think it's probably correct to read this within the context of a parent-child relationship eg one of wildly disparate power imbalance where one has significant latitude to use violence and the other has virtually none to stop it.

We can probably assume that people who want to model this behavior also tackle things like self-defense, protection of the innocent, righteous wrath, etc when it's appropriate to discuss them.
It is a marketing website for a paid coaching/membership program
Yes but how is that going to be equalized by another 4 years of the same?
If you hide the SSID, your phone or laptop has to ask for that specific SSID in a probe request every time it scans for nearby networks, even when it's nowhere near your router. If you don't hide the SSID, your phone or laptop can just ask for the wildcard SSID in the probe requests, or even passively listen for the periodic beacons. That is: if you hide your SSID, not only you're announcing to everyone around you all the time your SSID, but also it doesn't hide it very well, since the SSID is still sent in plaintext in the probe request every time your devices attempt to connect to your router.
What is the point of jury trial if the judge can disregard it and reverse the decision completely and has no obligation to show cause? The founders of this great country must be rolling in their graves to see how the checks and balances that they put in place are being dismantled one piece at a time!
Doesn’t matter. I saw 12 students submit the same binary for an assignment and 0 failed the class, let alone were expelled as the “academic integrity policy” would imply.

International students are cash cows, and college is a joke.
Ah, I found the link, "Punishment isn’t about the common good: it’s about spite" on Aeon [0]. The author doesn't state definitively (in the article at least) that punishment is about spite, but rather seems to introduce that it's likely that it is. I haven't read the linked studies yet but hope to.

[0]: https://aeon.co/ideas/punishment-isnt-about-the-common-good-...
His antics are only going to hurt their sales more as new (and frankly better) options hit the market.
> RT is a propaganda department of Russian government

So is BBC. And they lied about iraq having weapons of mass destruction. We didn't ban them.

Yes, russia is led by an ex-kgb dictator... do we really want to be the same as him, and do the same things? Are we really no better at censorship and propaganda than him?
> who might publish some anti-government banalities on some darknet forum that nobody (unfortunately, in my personal view) reads or gives a shit about anyway.

So true, so Slavic. I love the dark Russian humor and bracing cynicism.

We're getting there ever so slowly in the USA...
> but that term [battleships] is sometimes used colloquially to refer to any surface warship other than carriers

Really? I wouldn't be surprised to hear someone call a frigate a cruiser or a littoral combat ship a destroyer or an amphibious assault ship a carrier but everyone knows battleships are the biggest big-gun ships out there.
Challenges in building a decentralized web
I am someone who used to ride bike for transportation a lot. It was nit that bad. It may be cultural, but people were not horribly antisocial.
One would hope.

On the other hand, there's money to be made by selling that data. So I wouldn't blindly assume every manufacturer just leaves it sitting on the table.
This happens to be the only way for some of us to play region-locked games like Tsukihime.
> it’s UB to take the address of a parameter via any mechanism other than explicitly taking the address - which a compiler obviously sees, and because it’s UB the compiler optimizes is free to assume no one is taking the address.

I don't get that: can you express in C++ a code that "take the address of a parameter via any mechanism other than explicitly taking the address"?
Leaving the morbid details aside, it is remarkable how many of our industrial innovations are inspired by existing biology.

After all, the biosphere is an immense laboratory with experiments running nonstop for millions of years, and bad designs weeded out ruthlessly by evolutionary bottlenecks.
> The other safe languages have explicitly taken the view the interop with C++ is bad

I think it's more that interop with C++ is hard and ultimately a lot less valuable than interop with C, which is what the vast majority of languages use for FFI.

> It doesn’t matter how “safe” your language is if the first thing you have to do is make a pure C (even losing potential for automatic lifetime management the C++ would allow) interface.

I don't see how that leads to "it doesn't matter"
Somewhere in a highly secure secret government facility is a recording of Fred Rogers saying, “I’m not angry, I’m just disappointed.”

If I suddenly stop posting here in two days time it’s because They came for me. Please contact Amnesty International.
I only gained access to the 529. I dicovered this.

Yes, I am not experienced.

YES I am fn angry...
Using Nix on macOS
So, it's not the "billion dollar industry"'s fault, but colleges that are becoming more of a joke than ever. There is a way to stop (atleast most of) the cheating, but if colleges are not interested in that, why shame and try to prevent people monetizing the thing colleges themselves allow?
Do you have source for nuclear energy is “too expensive”?
> Corn vs sugar doesn't matter.

It really does. Corn ethanol takes a unit of fossil fuel to produce 1.3 units of ethanol, while sugar cane produces 9 units of ethanol for the same single unit of fossil fuel. I'm not sure what happened to switchgrass, but it's reportedly twice as efficient at producing ethanol as sugar cane, 20:1.

Ethanol isn't a terrible idea, depending on its source (corn is bad, while sugar cane, sugar beets and switchgrass are good). The infrastructure is already in place, takes little cost or effort to convert a petrol vehicle to ethanol, and ethanol provides better performance in ICE vehicles than petroleum, though at the cost of slightly less milage. I think losing a little milage is a small price to pay for better performance, clean air, and no contribution to Climate Change.
Ah well I'm Canadian so I've always been more of a Mr Dressup kind of guy.
Less fear of everything.

Kids are mote likely to move freely around the town too.
It’s not “anything”: it’s not like Fox News is banned, or antivaxers. We are talking about an actual shooting war between a genocidal regime and the western civilization, and the ongoing process of Russia turning from “Nigeria with nukes”[1] into North Korea. It’s a once-per-century event.

1. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russia-nigeria-with-nukes_b_1..., and of course Nigeria got much better future prospects