skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was not about 'biological weapons' just slightly dangerous pandemic research.

The issue is not so much the hyper details but the ultimate confusion that arrives from the weird web of interwoven relationships, differing levels of complacency, lack of transparency, corruption in some cases ... without really a proper target to point a finger at (except the Chinese government, it's a clear problem there).

It's an intriguing situation really. The 'truth' is not some Scooby Doo 'reveal' but a messy confluence of issues that circle right back to our own institutions and credibility. The populist rage makers could do almost anything they want with it.
Ask HN: Green Manufacturing Businesses in the Automated Home-Agriculture Field?
I.E.: Allow citizens to grow their own crops in an automated way using minimal hardware.

Not sure if it was the best way to ask the question but I need a job and this is something I could get behind.
TTRD

test driven re-design?
Not offended. Our team has a long history in open source and have seen both the triumphs and challenges over the years. It's very difficult to build a sustainable client-side open source tool without some other business off to the side that supports it (example: nextjs/vercel).

I like the simplicity and clarity of just directly charging for the valuable thing. Nothing wrong with the other models, they just aren't for us.
It is assumed but not proven that _why's final thoughts about killing that pseudonym are captured in CLOSURE [1].

There's a lot of different takeaways from that and other contemporary writings of _why. Some of them are that _why wished to pursue the Right to Be Forgotten, not just in the GDPR terminology sense, but in a "Last Chance to See" existential way. Those impressions yield that _why watched the internet transition from "pseudonyms are fine and ephemeral" to "everyone knows your real name and pseudonyms are permanent fixtures in the modern internet" and tried as hard as possible to kill everything about that pseudonym as Performance Art. As a reminder of an internet long gone. As a reminder of a Right to be Forgotten.

From that perspective, this archive is maybe a bit of putting a Banksy into the Louvre. It's out of context, it's maybe against the artist's wishes, it's kind of weird and over-pedestalizing a legendary figure.

(Arguably _why's last stand failed to account for that little last bit, that human tendency even older than the internet of myth making and legend building. As this shows, as the history of mentions of _why on HN alone every few months shows, legends loom large in culture and _why was already a part of the programming legendarium before he tried to murder that pseudonym.)

[1] https://github.com/steveklabnik/CLOSURE/raw/master/CLOSURE.p...
Trying to make sure I understand this.

According to the article, the "spookiness" comes from a misunderstanding of what a polarizer does. It doesn't "block" all light polarized on axes different from the polarizer. We know this is true because otherwise sunglasses would transmit much less light than they do. Imagine sunglasses could block any photon within +/- 1 degree of the polarization plane. That means that just 1/180th of the light would get through. But the observed transmission is much higher.

Instead, the polarizer does two things. First, it emits light polarized parallel to its axis. But, and this is the key, all incident light gets effectively passed. Along the way the intensity (amplitude, or "magnitude" in the article) is attenuated based on deviation from the polarizer's plane. The attenuation is 0% for light polarized in parallel and 100% for light polarized perpendicularly.

Now we can understand the experiment with a new mental model. Three filters are placed in series (A, B, and C). However, we can disregard A for the most part and treat this as a two-filter system (B, C), where the light exiting B is attenuated relative to the light entering A and polarized along B's axis. This model explains all of the observations.
All my future developments will be in Lazarus but I have one mega-client with a big Delphi production program I have to keep happy for the foreseeable future or until their large team of developers and advisors can decide which language/platform/infrastructure etc they want to redevelop it in.

3+ years of consultants and meetings but not one line of code so far :-)
I don't see how you can develop anything without at least technical clarity on what the components of your system should do.
At one point, I had a decade's worth of SANS course material. So much of it was ancient and no longer valid. I threw it away. It wastes space and could only lead others astray since the industry is always progressing, and Windows NT bugs and hardening guidelines are pretty much meaningless today. Ironically some of the tools SANS taught decades ago are still pertinent today, but courses on them alone... not so much.

There are some that I really enjoy and I keep them. But they are very much the minority. Outdated stuff goes to the trash, because when it comes to collectables, most technical books are not and never will be. The ones that are, really are.

I still have original QNX manuals because although I'll probably never use a QNX system in a technical manner ever again, there are things in those manuals that are pure gold. Ironically, some of the material is considered modern because of SBCs and whatnot. Like Photon, which under a different umbrella, entails a fairly common feature set these days. So I keep them.

A bunch of 15 year old PERL books? Trash. Not the PERL 5 stuff, but that's because I'm not the least bit interested in PERL 6, so there's no update of the bookshelves there. But I definitely haven't kept the pre-Perl 5 books. Why would I? Same with all the old Linux Administrator's Guides et al, because nothing they recommend and focus on even exists in that format anymore.
I always contend that most of our technology and most of the web is still in the "Get it working" stage of Kent Beck's infamous "Get it working, get it right, get it fast" methodology. In the "Get it working" stage, any name will do, if the goal is to get it to work. Then, due to constraints somehow it gets shipped in that stage, because afterall, it does work. Working technology is more valuable than non-working technology.

So many things have this "#NamingDebt" too. Naming Debt is one of the hardest types of debt to fix.

One way that I have found to prevent naming debt while working towards the "Get it working" stage is to pick ridiculous names, absurd names. It isn't always possible because to work towards things, you want things to make sense in your own brain. But sometimes it can work.
I'm glad The Oatmeal is taking a stand against this. The popup asking for my email felt genuine.
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You are repeating what rest of us know but the outcome here is exactly the same as you would when you declare it a public domain. You lose control over its distribution.

You are also wrong on the scenario with leaked photos. The partner who leaked is liable not the rest of us who view it and share it.

Your last sentence also couldn't be further from the truth. Someone who is making ad revenues also isn't at fault and compliance with DMCA notice would be enough for them to continue operating.
It’s because the “re-emission” is coherent in the sense that it’s in the same phase as the incoming light. As a decent analogy: when you sing a pure note, it “excites” (vibrates) air molecules as it travels, and those air molecules in turn bump into other molecules, all at random, but still all in phase so that whoever is listening hears the original note. Similarly, when light goes through ordinary glass, it wiggles the electrons in the glass, which in turn change the way the light propagates, refracting it while still preserving an image.

Any textbook on electricity and magnetism will cover this in a section called something like “Maxwell’s equations in materials”.
Not at all the same.

Most authors are deliberately trying to elicit emotion in their writing, and you can decide if you want to keep reading or not. Personally, I often get to a point where I realise my mood is being negatively affected by writing, and decide to move on. But that's part of the experience of reading in any media.

The difference is that Facebook would be selective about what writing they would move you on to, in order to deliberately manipulate your emotional state over a long period of time.

If you read the damninteresting post and felt bad, maybe you would decide to go check out xkcd or theoatmeal or something. But on Facebook, the next article would have a similar sentiment, so you didn't get the unicorn break you needed to maintain a good mood.

The decision to move on was taken away from you, without your knowledge, in the interests of "research".
Tumblr's owned by Automattic now, and they're throwing in some Indieweb features ([this] doesn't look official, but it actually is!). It also has proper RSS. Using a platform like that rather than a totally closed one like FB seems to me like a step up.

[this]: https://github.com/indieweb/tumblr
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80% of the country lives in urban areas.
I'm so sorry--quite sincerely. I don't think I would describe my area much differently. I hope Americans rethink things before we're dead.
CNN covering fentanyl this year:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/18/health/fentanyl-fatal-overdos...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/health/overdose-deaths-record...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/health/teen-overdose-deaths-w...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/11/health/drug-overdose-deaths-r...

CNN Covering Immigration this year:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/politics/nearly-6000-daily-bo...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/25/politics/border-surge-immigra...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/us/texas-immigrants-charter-b...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/22/politics/ice-immigrants-id-ca...
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/politics/muriel-bowser-migran...
A fair point, and I can't remember what my point was going to be (perhaps I meant to delete this sentence). But on the other hand, you never talk about the alternative to plain text, and I think every alternative I've ever heard of has been "visual" in some sense. In fact I'm not sure what other options there are other than "visual" and "plain text".

Perhaps what you were saying is that each developer should be able to choose whether they're working visually or in plain-text, with the underlying model being neither (binary? XML?). If you chose to work in LISP for the day, the computer would transpile the underlying model to LISP, and then transpile it back when you're done? I think this is the "magic" part, where some, what, AI does this for you? We're so far away from that being effective, and the benefits are just not there when you're truly fluent in the programming language. Every single instance I've ever seen of "Each developer can pick how it appears on their machine!" has made communication and synchronization between developers worse, not better.
most countries run on WhatsBook (aka WhatsApp) and InstaBook (aka Instagram).

I can't get a drivers license appointment with the local goverment without a mobile number associated with WhatsBook. ...which is a cia/five-eyes dream.

And same for InstaBook. You cannot relate to anyone or find business. Being banned (always without a reason) on InstaBooks means you just lost years of networking because you can't even see the list or contact anyone in any way if all you had was InstaBook direct messages before.
Google Has a Productivity Problem, Can Sundar Pichai Solve It?
I disagree. Photons don’t have identity - you can’t distinguish old from new. This is true of all bosons, and it’s quite important to how they behave.
2. This one is basically limited by what a 3 position slider (usb/bt1/bt2) can do, the firmware could do up to 5. We could offer an alternative firmware where the slider can do bt1/bt2/bt3, and USB or Bluetooth is automatically determined by whether it's plugged in or not if that helps.

5. That space is needed for the battery, since the board is too slim to place it elsewhere.
10 items, including: Stable Diffusion and AI art, two product demos, "Foundation Models" naming controversy, "batch entropy regularization" and LLM feature emergence results
If you fax a fake signature, and you have any real or potential gain at all - boom, in the US it's no longer a simple state court case, you are now guilty of (federal) wire fraud.
My advice is to follow the famous quote “given enough eyeballs all bugs are shallow”. Add a “send feedback” link in your application and let your users quickly and easily notify you when something goes wrong. My product has several million users and has zero tests and when bugs get pushed to production, users tell me in seconds. Sometimes pushing bugs to production is part of my workflow and then quickly fixing them allows me to iterate at record speeds.
No one is saying it's not a story, they're saying an increased quantity of coverage by an outlet above a certain baseline is not done for the purposes of informing the public, it's done for an emotional response.
E-David – the Painting robot at work (2017)
Might I suggest elaborating on the incoherence. This reads as a summary of points and then simply exclaiming “incoherent!”.

To summarise alternatively, if you can’t get it in this life, don’t pretend you can, and instead find hope in the next. Given how little we know about consciousness and what happens to it, it’s not technically incoherent. Possibly not provable but not incoherent either.
It's kind of like the educational equivalent of this advice:

> The best exercise is the one you'll stick with!” is a cheesy, cliche answer that you've heard a thousand times before. But it's true. By the most objective definition, the most effective exercise is the one you'll do. Because heavy squats are fantastic for strength, unless you don't do them.

And someone saying, no you still get excercise even if you do the thing you're not going to stick with.
Once you unfollow every page, they'll start bombarding you with "suggested" posts from pages. There's no way to get away from them anymore. It's how they're able to sneak in their overwhelming amount of advertising.
What country requires you to have WhatsApp to get a driver’s license?
How has the `Ask HN' investment discovery strategy worked out for you in the past?
Slow Travel
Maybe it's centric to CommitSyn's experience, but I don't think it's US-centric.

> the second is more along "we do it like that, so all the others probably do it like that as well"

2016 is quite recent for a first encounter anyway, so I don't see it as "we do it like that", just an anecdote that it's spreading. No "others probably do it like that".
After spending more time and money than on fancy keyboards than I'd like to admit, two of these side by side (an informal 'split' keyboard) is by far the easiest on my wrists and shoulder blades.
I for one am happy for River.
Another good memo - less controversial :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32513917
Yes and uber partisanship is identity. We even call it identifying with your party affiliation.

You can see this in how people say “I am a democrat/republican”. They don’t say vote or belong to or member of, people very explicitly talk about it as an identity and both or all parties encourage that.
Mark Zuckerberg's Soulless Metaverse Avatar Keeps Getting Worse
During the pandemic lockdowns I found that reactivating my Facebook account was the best way to figure out if a shop did still exist and how they changed their opening hours ... websites unmaintained all in the walled garden. And looking at my "news feed" reminded me that I don't really miss anything from there.
There's an easy way to settle this. Do 51% of Americans want cash to be legal? If so, most Americans believe in having a money transfer system without AML/KYC.
I totally agree with everything you've written, but would just point out that Facebook (and other social media companies) pay huge amounts of money to some of the smartest people in the world whose sole goal is to get you to scroll, scroll, scroll.

Yes, individuals can choose their relationship to technology, but let's not let the drug pushers off the hook.
(Interesting) Could you elaborate?
can someone explain why people instinctively write SEC when the context of crypto + enforcement is occurring?

The US Treasury is so far removed from the SEC that I don't really understand
Funny I thought the word was great. CLang would need capitalization or a dash.
Gotta love something labeled "for Everybody" that starts off like this:

> The unlock code is a number. You won't be given the number. It is a puzzle where you prove that you have the pre-requisite skills for this course.
None of this either/or reasoning is correct, in my experience. In practice, I write tests both before and after implementation, for different reasons. In practice, my tests both test correctness, and of course they also work as regression tests.

Writing before the fact allows you to test your mental model of the interface, unspoiled by having the implementation fresh in your mind. (Not entirely, since you probably have some implementation ideas very early on.)

Writing tests after the fact is what you must do to explore 1) weak points that occur to you as you implement, and 2) bugs. After-the-fact testing also allows you to hone in on vagueness in the spec, which may show up as (1) or (2).
You should click on his posting history and see the other questions that he’s posted.
Spoiler alert: I'm probably what you'd call a hard line Republican

That said, yes, I've changed the minds of people with fixed ideals, many times, over several decades. Step one is to listen to them without trying to.

> Guns

What is the mindset that needs to be changed? Republicans, as a bloc, support the right of anybody of sound mind and character (presumptive prerequisites for being part of a potential [and hopefully unnecessary] well regulated militia) to own a gun. They're pretty flexible about restricting edge cases, as long as those edge cases don't grow to be standardized restrictions. Maybe you think nobody should own a gun, I dunno, but if that's the case it seems like the kind of extreme absolutist position you're complaining about.

> "Freedom of speech" to say _whatever_ on twitter etc

Again, what's the argument here? I can guess you are dog-whistling about how Republicans just want to use racial slurs or something, but it's just a guess and if I'm right then that's a pretty strawman type assumption. Republicans want to not be removed from a pseudo-public forum for holding a minority opinion - surely you can empathize with that framing?

> Vaccines being good

Republicans as a whole are fine with vaccinations, and most are vaccinated many times throughout their life. Don't let the backlash to COVID-19 trick you into thinking they aren't vaccinated for other things. Also, don't confuse vaccines with vaccine mandates, c'mon, no wonder you can't change their minds if that's what you're doing.

> Anything that helps another person is "socialism"

OK I'm beginning to think you're not being honest with your experiences. That is a very gross mischaracterization (in both the senses of disgusting and wholesale). Maybe you mean they are against the idea of welfare payments or wealth redistribution? Those are pretty nuanced concepts even still, so you really gotta get into a proper discussion. Based on these examples you've provided, I have a hard time believing you have really attempted to have a conversation with a Republican, or maybe you have just had very bad luck as I said earlier.

If you want to change minds, you have to know where they are and where you want them to be, and have a path for them to get from A to B.

I bet you and I agree on a lot of things if you'd just be willing to listen.
The internet is forever, as they say.
Say you had a blank slate to rejigger how bandwidth is allocated. What would it look like? Could we move things around and end up with more bandwidth than anyone knows what to do with? What's the ratio of "bad legacy we should cut" to "useful legacy band but it's only around because of legacy, we definitely wouldn't carve a band out for it today if it didn't have one" to "we have to keep this around".

Is it like "well, if you want airplanes not to crash, you need to give up this band to RADAR, and that means there's a fundamental limit on how good wireless communication can possibly be for today's humans?".
Your idea is really interesting.

I rarely (if ever) comment on my mental health online, but I can totally relate to a X-Y quadrant as you describe. Many mental health professional debut their appointment with a dreaded question "how are you feeling today?".

If I had this diagram with me, it would save time and be way more descriptive of my state of mind.

As for the high unhappiness/high unhappiness quadrant: I'm not manic myself but know close ones who are. I think it fits.

Thanks for opening my mind about this.
I think that's mostly a "I tested it with these OS so I can guarantee it works" thing - ZMK should work with pretty much anything out there as long as it can do HID over Bluetooth.
Couldn't we argue that the devs reasonably knew it was being used for money laundering? It got a light shined on it during the investigation of the crypto.com hack. If so, they knew they were profiting off of it, right? [1]

Tornado Cash also did not comply with the OFAC list of known sanctioned wallets.

However, it's clearly not that simple, from the article:

> "If Tornado Cash knows who deposited the money and who took it out, that’s not money laundering."

> "Smart contracts are not legal contracts."

> "Every service provider has a certain amount of illicit activity."

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/01/21/is-tornado-cash...
Politics is politics.

A religious person who believes absolutely in no murder might think that Ukrainians have a duty to retreat; land isn’t worth the price of a single life. Many others feel differently.

But how personal ethics and belief tie into law and governance IS politics.
That seems a bit far fetched. TSMC N3 has 314.73 MTr/mm2. Just making a quick back of the envelope calculation: 314.73 MTr/mm2 is 3177.3266 nm^2 per transistor. That includes interconnect. Making it 1000x smaller would make a single transistor 3nm^2 including interconnect. I would most definitely expect quantum effects at that level.
As predicted, the exit liquidity was reached and the dump was executed [0]. When will these guys learn?

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/wrtqyw/ryan...
David Graeber: ‘To save the world, we’re going to have to stop working’
So they shouldn’t extend health care benefits to an employees partners when they couldn’t legally get married?

Even paying for birth control as part of a woman’s health care benefit is consider political
yes, I recall eagerly installing Mozilla + Thunderbird 1.0 in 2004 but on Hoary Hedgehog (Ubuntu 5.04) not WinXP.
The "it's inconclusive" line is being pushed by FB pretty hard right now, and it feels pretty similar to the smoking industry telling people there's no proof cigarettes cause cancer 20 years ago.

Obviously something is causing marked increases in teen depression and suicide attempts over the same period as the move to 24/7 social media. Sure, it's possible there are other factors, but isn't it obvious that social media is at least playing a significant role?

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/18/990234501/facebook-calls-link...
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Loss of the eePC 900/1000 series is another exhibit in the case that
"Markets are a Myth". How could such a self evidently near perfect
form factor be deemed "niche"?