skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice set of advices, save for a disturbing novelty sharpener.

In some old school design bureau I once noticed a curious style of sharpening, where the shaved wood would be tapered at unusually extended length (over one inch) instead of just one cm. This style would be hand cut.

I guess, the utility is probably two fold - this makes the bottom part of the pencil skinier so it's easier to handle it with those bulky drafter's rulers, also it saves time to keep the tip resharpened, as less wood needs to be shaved off during the work.

Additionaly, with longer slope it's probably easier to keep the tip pointy by rolling it on the side.

The ugliest sharpening job comes with those stubby Teconderoga school pencils, little core to use and steep tip.
This is jarringly orthogonal to the point you are replying to, did you mean to reply to another comment?
Artix Linux Debuginfod Deployment
I link to an example below.

Actually I don’t think they are pro republican. It is just pure (dirty) business - in this case how to get their main competitor banned.

Just as I don’t think Zuckerberg was a communist or anything of the sort when he went to China and asked Xi Jinping to be godfather for his children.
Ha wow, haven’t looked at that since college. I was in a speech and parliamentary debate society (drinking group with a debate problem 100%) and we actually were pretty strict about RRO. That was half the fun truth be told.

Taught me a lot about procedure and how it can be used as a tool (or a cudgel).
The most important thing to know about the field of economics is the only people who get funding are the people who tell the public that the government should do whatever it was the government wanted to do.

Example: you won't get funding if you go around saying there's no such thing as a labor shortage in a market economy, even though this is entry level economics. Why would that tank your career? Because big business has paid the government to pull the right levers to suppress your wages. The solution to a labor shortage is higher wages, but that can't be the government's response to their donors. Technically you can say the truth, but you better not be very loud about it.
Thanks for the link. I love how Gott started with simple everyday objects.
from https://github.com/elliotgoodrich/SSO-23/blob/master/README....

MSVC 32
GCC 32
Clang 24

SDS is not typesafe, no SSO, no slices.
Forget about Cloudflare. The true runners of the internet are RIPE, ICANN, etc, who power the whole TLD and domain infrastructure which enables the whole internet operation in the first place. That is why even the Ukrainian government unsuccessfully tried to ban all Russian IPs via the same 'misinformation' excuse [0] [1] which that failure was unsurprising.

Cloudflare still operates in Russia and is also used by Gab Inc., Truth Social, etc which many on this site, see them for some reason as 'undesirables'. Hence this, What are you going to do about that? Request to ICANN, RIPE, etc to de-platform the whole of Cloudflare because of the existence of a tiny minority of undesirables using them for years?

Please go ahead and try. I'm waiting.

And once you have done that, let's also ask ICANN and RIPE to de-platform another bigger haven rife of spreading (mis/dis)information, which is Facebook Inc. since they were part of spreading misinformation which fuelled an atrocity in another country. [2]

I guarantee you that ICANN and RIPE will do absolutely nothing.

[0] https://www.ripe.net/publications/news/announcements/ripe-nc...

[1] https://www.freiheit.org/taiwan/icann-rejects-ukraines-reque...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...
So then what's the difference between that and saying "the conservatory", as in the original comment, for the same reason?
Ask HN: Any (ex) US Consulate officers on HN?
I run a US non-immigrant community portal that has over 300K monthly visits. I sense there is a bigger opportunity to collaborate with the US consulate officer. I've tried LinkedIn, searching gov records, et al to contact ex-consulate officers. As a last attempt, want to give it a try here.

Any help with leads (forums/groups/websites) on where I can find them is really appreciated. If you (or your network) are an ex-US consulate officer, kindly drop an email to saradhi@extracttable.com. TIA.
Well you are in a very safe place and advising Ukrainians to put their lives at risk instead of negotiating a settlement in accordance with what Zelensky proposed in March and the United states disagreed with.

You look even more stupid. And Chomsky absolutely did not ask Ukraine to "roll over". So you are also just making shit up.

This topic has already been beaten to death here.

https://www.counterpunch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Open...

"
To stress the main point again, you do reject diplomacy, evading the fact by keeping to
negotiation strategy. And your apologetics for Washington’s undermining of diplomacy
makes that even clearer.
We are left with your very clear advocacy of the “ghastly experiment,” which I do find
shocking.
I hope you will reconsider your position, and think through the evasions and
misrepresentations.
The proper reaction would be to publicly withdraw the accusations that you have widely
circulated, but that’s your business.
And it’s far less important than publicly withdrawing your advocacy of the ghastly experiment.
That reinforces the stand of others who are willing to gamble with the fate of Ukrainians, and
far beyond."

As chomsky explains, the so called supporters of Ukraine - sitting on a comfortable couch in another country- are insisting on performing a "ghastly experiment" with the Ukrainian people. The correspondence above, shows how chomsky's critics really have no interest in the well being of Ukrainians, but are more focused on beating up Putin, just like you.
Some countries have, e.g. France.
The grounds cited are drivel. There are other reasons one can dislike GraphQL, but the ones cited in the article are strictly nonsense.
It’s good to be inspired by the greats like Carmack, but understand that they are a representation of a transcendent ideal to strive for.

Also when you were in your formative years, your time playing video games was not entirely wasted. During young adulthood your brain is still growing, video games are giving your neocortex practice at:

- Fine grained motor control
- The ability to concentrate
- Understanding the complex interactions of rule based systems

Now that you’ve got a little older you are starting to appreciate and question the strategic value of those actions and not just the tactical benefits - welcome to adulthood - your perception of time is broadening, your meta-cognition had formed, and you’re ready to enter the world and push at the edges of yourself.

Self doubt is normal, but make sure that it’s driving constructive criticism of your actions and not over analysis that leads to paralysis. Failures are a necessary part of the path, so take every valuable learning from each failure, re-orient yourself upwards, and keep going. We have never been in a better position as a society for industrious people to launch companies, for the information to self teach to be freely available, and for an ambitious young person to maximise their potential, keep going!
Good point. Many innovative projects (roads, bridges, etc.) were built by Roman army engineers who, while not necessarily elite, were certainly educated and could record their methods. So yes, innovation in areas pertaining to the military advanced much faster. What's surprising though is that improvements in steel production would have produced far superior weapons and therefore you think would be something the Romans would put a lot of effort into innovating on. I'm guessing that blacksmithing wasn't the type of grand project that required oversight/planning by educated army engineers. Or perhaps the hardness of the Roman swords and spears didn't make much difference compared to other military factors (discipline, tactics, defenses, etc.)
You can start with electric power grids. The oil industry. Many advances in locomotives. Check out the 1893 world's fair in Chicago. The automobile industry. Airplanes.

I'm curious what industry came from Russia?
In the 90s there was a campaign about the new worldwide 10-digit phone number format.

So if you own some 31.x block, you could have a phone number which matches your IP.
Which came first?
The Bible very explicitly teaches that there are no other gods. Here is one passage among many.

Isaiah 44:6-8 ESV

Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORD of hosts: "I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god. [7] Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before me, since I appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is to come, and what will happen. [8] Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any."
Allowing the courts to legislate makes them broken. That is job of of congress.

Appealing to the age of the constitution to defend the courts arrogating power which that constitution did not grant is complete nonsense. If you want the courts to have that power, pass an amendment. If you don't want to do that but still want the courts to be able to create law, then bringing up the constitution is pointless. You have already tossed it in the waste bin.
With or without sarcasm, your comment adds little to the conversation, and encourages flaming - that is why it is being downvoted.
Define Better (Modified Newtonian Dynamics)
>It was a prettification of IRC, which of course nobody pays one fuck of a cent for

It's a lot more than that. Addimg a persistent message history and multi-device identities to IRC is pretty huge, otherwise bouncers would never have existed.

And the number of paying customers shows that people are, in fact, very willing to pay for it. Slack just really sucks at b2b marketing, which is why Teams eclipsed them so quickly.
England.
I don't have a prevailing interest is how the universe was formed. The subject matter doesn't interest me. What does interest me is that the generally accepted position of all scientists who worked in this field said "Big Bang" was the de facto position. Until is suddenly isn't.

That just throws the whole reputation of all those scientists into doubt with the average Joe.
Using brain implants to solve drug addiction.
Yeah, they're very hard to find when you just quickly check where you're needed.
>But the government also did take the finances under control, restructured (literal "changed the structure of", not defaulted) its debits, added controls to the banking system, restructured the banks, pegged the currency to the dollar, made a campaign of price transparency, and a lot of other things.

And how much of what you just listed worked the exact same way as the new currency trick, through being a frame to influence public perception?
Thats the important perspective i took away from it, that i was thinking about economics wrong. In the end the way it works is through crafting stories to get the market participants to believe certain things. Because that is all the economy is, people and their behavior. And if you want to influence behavior, you have to influence how people think.
This predates the AI thing by years.
Thanks, I'll go look at what's happening
Trump's Truth Social stopped paying it's hosting bills 1 month after launching
AWS Compute Savings Plans
What did you mean by "simplicity" when you wrote:

> She redefines science to require simplicity, when it simply doesn't require it.

The point of my example is to show that you don't add unnecessary complexity if you don't need to. But if you think that weather and plasma physics are examples of "ghastly complex" things, you're not talking about the same category of complexity as the one every scientist will argue against.

It's the difference between saying "go is hard" because it took until AlphaGo to make an AI to play it well vs. "go is easy" because the rules fit on a matchbox in a normal font.
Yes, it is a concern.
https://singularityhub.com/2022/08/26/meta-is-building-an-ai...
This. Imagine the arrogance necessary to believe that you can understand economics, finance, geopolitics, and the vast arrays of industries and competing companies well enough by studying as a hobby in your spare time to get better returns than professional investors who literally spend their entire careers trying to beat the market, and fail on average.

Just VTSAX and chill.
Interesting! I've been using webrtcbin for some production work but it's been broadcasting of low latent internally used video with no user input back. I've seen demos of user input with webrtcbin, but have never done it in practice. If you can, do you mind sharing why webrtcbin wasn't a good fit for you (or why MediaSoup was better)?
The Bush family are war criminals.
I am interested in philosophy. Wikipedia’s articles on the topic are very uneven - some are okay, others are really bad.

There are two freely accessible online philosophy encyclopaedias written by actual philosophy academics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) - both are miles better than Wikipedia. (IEP tends to be more accessible for beginners - some of Stanford’s articles can get quite esoteric and technical.) Another very good philosophy encyclopedia is Routledge’s, albeit it is not freely available online (or at least, not legally). Why rely on Wikipedia when there are much more reliable and higher quality alternatives?
Thanks.

> I think that the sheer amount of available negentropy that we are ignoring makes it inevitable that someone will find a solution

The problem is that negentropy is not the limiting factor. Obviously solutions exist for long-term sustainable energy sources. We even know what they are: Solar. Wind. Batteries. The limiting factor is not knowledge nor negentropy, it's socio-political. We (i.e. pretty much the whole planet) have to implement a solution before the climate changes to the point where there are large-scale planet-wide crop failures. That is the part I am not optimistic about. I don't think our current socio-political structure can handle a global famine, and it also doesn't seem to be capable of allocating the economic sacrifice needed to avoid one.

The thing that scares me most is that the rate of change in the climate is much much faster than I ever expected it to be. Twelve years ago my wife and I moved from LA to SF thinking that would be enough to escape the worst effects. But just in those twelve years I've seen dramatic changes in the climate here. We've gone from reliably wet winters to unprecedented drought and heat in just over a decade. That scares the holy bejesus out of me because if you extrapolate that rate of change into the future we're looking at a very real possibility of global famine before I die, and I'm not that young.

The other thing that scares me is the melting permafrost and concomitant release of methane. That is a genie that will not go easily back into its bottle. (That is the reason I say that even cutting emissions to zero tomorrow will not solve the problem. The permafrost melting seems irreversible to me at this point.)
Where is the space mirror?
I always read these with scepticism. Either there is some mind-boggling stuff going on in labs that is way way beyond any kind of 'artificial intelligence' we get to experience in our own lives... or a lot of these experiments are being hyped well beyond what they're actually capable of --in pursuit of funding.

As regards the dangers of mind-reading computers in the future. I'm sure we've all read the SciFi memes and know that only stupid people will have their crimes uncovered by the police's computer's probing their memories. The rest of us smart cookies will be able to put up the mental shutters

"I must think of a brick wall! I must think of a brick wall!"

...maybe with an aesthetic bead of sweat forming on our foreheads. So the pigs will just have to fall back on the rubber truncheons, after all.
Don't use 'Director' in the UK unless you have a formal directorship with the business - it's a title with legal standing and repercussions here.

What is the job title on your contract? That is really what you need to cite.

Follow the advice given by others about the structure and grammar on your CV and, yes, talk to recruiters who will give you a realistic opinion on your options and salary expectations for your skills set.

Good luck.

Edit: Wanna roasting?! £60K for what you are doing is quite reasonable unless you are in a location such as London, in fintech or have a unique skills set - which doesn't come across in your description or writing style.

Happy to discuss elsewhere if you wish. FWIW I am in West Sussex.
Gridlock in Washington is a feature, not a bug. The more gridlock, the fewer laws get passed. Unfortunately, there never seems to be much gridlock around spending money.
A Corporate Law Firm Led a Political Revolution
If you have recently felt that the Supreme Court seems beholden to someone, you are not wrong. Don McGahn and the law firm Jones Day are the key figures.
Why do aircraft leave contrails in the sky?
Can I Build a Simple Todo List Blindfolded?
This is good. I don't want some Gary V disciple deciding to do "retail arbitrage" full time---buying all the relatively cheaper products to sell on line.
If it makes you feel any better, it's all equally pointless. Might as well do what you enjoy.
Build Your Free AI InPainting Tool with Stable Diffusion and Gradio
That's horrible. Atrocious, actively spiteful urban design is a big part of why we left the US 10 years ago.

I rode my bike to high school in suburban Sacramento, and I lived, but it was 4.5 miles of terrible stroads the whole way. I want better for my kids.
The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank is good for the lay public.

Much denser is The Road from Mont Pelerin by Philip Mirowski.
> For array bounds checking, if you want it, just a write a structure with buffer length and a getter setter and it is done.

It's so easy, yet buffer overflows remain the #1 problem in shipped C code.

> For all small strings that just locally it serves its purpose nicely.

Not really. Whenever I review other peoples' C code, I look at their use of strlen/strncpy/strxxx functions. They're a rich source of bugs, and I'll usually find one in it (usually an off-by-one error). They don't have to be large strings, either, to be slow.
That makes sense, it seems that I was the one who didn't properly read your comment.
> It would be a huge scandal if any of those cloud providers were
caught peering inside their customer's VMs.

No it wouldn't.

At this point it could be revealed tomorrow by mountain of
incontrovertible evidence and most people would shrug, move on and ask
"what next?".

Snowden. Shrug. Cisco backdoors. Shrug. Pegasus. Shrug. Solar
winds. Shrug...

The past decade can be described by the pattern "It would be a
terrible scandal if X happened", and then precisely X happens. Then
we normalise to it.

> Have I missed that scandal?

You may say it semi-sarcastically, but of course the irony is that
actually you very well could have misse it. You only need to take a
vacation for one week, a major shitstorm hits the front pages and
fades from the news cycle. Now it's the "new normal".

The important point is, you might never know. Without homomorphic
encryption you simply have to trust entities that have the means, the
motive, the opportunity and the track record for screwing you over.
I agree 100%. One big problem with Japanese textbooks is that they usually cover formal Japanese only. You encounter Japanese in the wild and see a lot of things handled differently from textbooks or at all. All Japanese All The Time was an intense early solution to this based around learning sentences over specific parts of speech and you intuit as you go.
the metal sings! they can sing by squirting air through their metal!
I've stopped using smart phones for the most part this year so I won't be using it I don't think. I've been scared enough by what I've already learned come to pass that I think I don't need to be scared further by rumor mongering. All I know is that it seems the quality of the media is viewed by my peers as about the same as I'd expect the soviets thought of theirs back in 1986.
> Guy Fieri opened up a pop-up restaurant in my town

Translation: Some anonymous people that know more about spreadsheets than cooking decided to open a business in my town. They realized that making decent food is a slow and expensive way to build a brand recognition, so they entered into a licensing agreement with Guy Fieri instead.
Ohhh, I see it in list view. :) I haven't switched out of table view since I started using the site. Also I've been almost exclusively using the mobile site, you do have to scroll in list view to see the notes. I'll try out the tags. Can you see others' notes/tags? I don't see them, but maybe I'm missing that too. I think it would be cool to bring the social aspect in there too. I left a comment on my own "Want to Listen" post yesterday for the purpose I'm thinking about.

It definitely would be cool to see if people click "want to listen" from someone else, I've already seen albums move from profile to profile. You could even track how each album spreads, and show a "virality" chart...how "contagious" it is, and then how many people actually listen or dig the album eventually.

Still having a lot of fun with this, thanks again!
There are dozens of ethnicities in the Russian federation - you should visit the Russian Ethnographic Museum in St Petersburg - but only one of them is called "Russian", and it is essentially indistinguishable from what you might call "Ukrainian".

In fact, present day Ukraine has a very complex history and is a mixture of ethnic (sub)-groups, and to the extent that you can even talk about a "Ukrainian ethnicity" it contains more internal diversity than the "Ukrainian vs Russian" difference.

And obviously you can't use language as a determinant. If you've ever spent any time in Ukraine you would know that until recently most "ethnic Ukrainians" spoke mostly Russian, even in the West. This is largely the case even today - Zelensky's mother tongue is Russian and his Ukrainian is still pretty rough. And there are ethnic Russians in Ukraine that speak better Ukrainian than Russian.

But setting that aside, and ignoring the fact that even if you accept Ukrainian and Russian as separate ethnicities, they are still incredibly close, like Norwegians and Swedes, it's still hard to understand how this could be an "ethnic cleansing", the bombs and artillery kill Russian and Ukrainian civilians indiscriminately.

I mean if you bomb a city where ethnic Russians make up say 40% of the population, which is not uncommon in Donbass where most of the fighting is taking place, then that proportion won't change. If anything, the overall proportion of Russians in Ukraine will decrease since they are bombing the parts of Ukraine where most of the very large Russian minority lives.

So obviously the war is not about ethnic cleansing. If they just wanted to kill Ukrainians there are millions of them in Russia. It's about political control.

Present day Ukraine also contains many ethnic sub-groups and groups, in the East a large portion are obviously Russians, in the West there is of course a strong Polish influence.

But even setting aside the complex demographic history, and being generous and
The company we attacked pushed back pretty hard, we didn't "down" them, we did mess with them a lot, the other companies caved and announced they weren't importing any more SA wine rather than have us show up at their meetings.

Our goal wasn't to "down" any company, it was to isolate the SA apartheid govt, in this case by reducing their trade - we also went after tinned guavas - no one wants to stock tins of stuff that keeps getting opened in the shop and left to go rancid on the shelves