skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I won't attempt to defend NATO interventions in other countries, but disbanding it like the Warsaw Pact was never a real option so long as Russia continued to maintain a significant military capability including nuclear weapons. The Warsaw Pact was never a real thing to begin with. It was a total fiction, not a voluntary alliance of (somewhat) equal sovereign states like NATO. All of the other Warsaw Pact members were under military occupation by the USSR and had zero real decision making authority. Any attempt to go their own way was immediately, violently crushed. So dissolving the Warsaw Pact when the USSR disintegrated meant nothing.

And before someone tries to draw a false equivalence between the USSR's role in the Warsaw Pact and the USA's role in NATO, those were hardly the same. NATO members were free to leave at any time without fear of a US invasion. France actually did withdraw from the NATO command structure for a while and nothing happened to them.
Of course we can question Reagan but when it comes to political/ideological flamebait, it's best to (a) avoid it and (b) stay on topic.

Whimsical off-topic stuff can be ok, but flamewar off-topic stuff isn't, and a greatest-hits of bad Reagan is definitely that.

This is in the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) and there's lots of past explanation at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... and https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que..., though you might have to scroll through boilerplate to get to the more substantial explanations.
Most major news organizations are driven more by ad sales than seeking truth. They say what their patrons want them to.

I don't know if I agree with GP, but I understand where the sentiment is coming from. It's not that Rogan is a paragon, it's that the average quality of MSM journalism is low enough he may be able to crawl over the bar.
regarding FTS: https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/pull/85185 just sayin'.
Its not just about life carrying on though. It wont carry on as usual for humans, and these findings show that we can expect a more rapid and greater increase in temperature than initially expected. This will disrupt food and water supplies, cause inhospitable deserts to grow, and displace a lot of people and animals that were once in tune with their ecosystem before the rapid changes began.

Not to mention we are already halfway to more than doubling pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 levels, the nightmare scenario with 4+ degree warming of the planet seems more likely. These findings mean its going to happen even faster than we thought.
I liked when it was appearing randomly in reddit threads but ultimately the story kinda fizzled out. Creepypasta type fiction tends to do that, big concept, scope expansion, then a rushed ending. Actually it's kind of a hallmark of SF/F in general...
The "SafeStack" [1] scheme is probably the most well-known that does that. The "safe" stack is the normal stack, and the "unsafe" stack contains all automatic variables that could get dereferenced - including arrays that could overflow.
The security of the scheme depends on keeping the location of the safe stack secret, which for one thing means that all code in the program needs to use the SafeStack ABI.
It is used more or less in several BSD Unices (most notably HardenedBSD), and it is the default in Fuchsia (except when the program was written in Go).

CPU architectures that have register windows [2] tend to spill shifted-out registers onto a separate stack lazily, and those registers could contain the return pointer.

[1] <https://clang.llvm.org/docs/SafeStack.html>

[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register_window>
I don't know what's more impressive, this tractor or the fact the author has worked a single dev job for 17 years after graduating lol
The Dynamic Runtime Inlining project
Okay so this is more of a POC than a real implementation, but what a great idea!
Just chiming in: your art looks amazing! I can totally imagine some incredible game cutscenes in this style.
I read "Gorbachev: His Life and Times" almost randomly five years ago. I'm going off of memory, but my primary takeaway from the book was your comment.

Gorbachev believed in Western ideals, maybe a bit too much. The Western leaders were extremely supportive of his reforms and promised to be with him. After the Wall fell, and Russian economy nose dived, no one was there for him. People were starving on the streets, Gorbachev asked for humanitarian aid, but nothing came.

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/23/world/gorbachev-pleads-fo...

I think he pleaded for $3B from Helmut Kohl in the end, but even that was too much. IIRC, the book ended with a bitter note on Western promises, what Russia could have become, along with a warning on consequences in the future.
Meanwhile... the state government passed the largest income tax cut in its history just a few months ago. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/mississippi/articles...
Would you be available for a quick chat?
I'd love to hear more about this! Especially on the things that can be improved on your current setup.

I actually have a closed beta on a product that allows you to have a unified ui for tickets across github repos. Perhaps it'll be a good fit.
You can largely avoid useMemo by keeping your props and state in the format you actually need them.

The solution for more complex useMemo and useCallback usage is to create your own hooks.

You can compose all the hooks into a single hook that your component uses and return from that hook whatever your component needs. This is common with components that have a lot of event listeners that can trigger local state and/or redux state changes.

We have a spreadsheet component and the individual cells had some pretty gnarly hooks and after pulling them into their own custom hook we've been able to maintain them nicely.
I really only used my Alexa as a voice activated kitchen timer.

I’d thought about trying to productize a local-only one that only does the 1 thing with no network connectivity.

It creeped me out too so I got rid of all of the smart stuff.

Free product idea if anyone wants it! I’ll take 2.
I was always amazed by it. Other PDAs used a special alphabet one had to memorize, but Newton learned and recognized natural handwriting. And while Newton didn't last long, the handwriting recognition did, reincarnated as Inkwell.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkwell_(Macintosh)
And Chomsky.
Evidence-Based Software Engineering
> Democracy does not imply friend of or aligned with the West.

It seems like it does, though? I mean, no, it's not like India or Brazil are subjugated client states of the US or Germany or whatever, but they know where their natural allies are and which direction the wind blows in international relationships. Market democracies are going to stick together, if for no other reason than because they'll end up poorer if they don't, and they don't like that.
> There's no such thing as "right to rent video."

There is, strictly speaking—it's part of the exclusive rights that Title 17 lays out for copyright owners[1]. It's just that (a) it forces you to be in the business of doing the rentals yourself (you don't get to just point at someone with an interest doing rentals and dictate terms to them, sans contract), and (b) even if you're doing your own rentals, if you're also selling copies, then there's nothing stopping someone from doing an end-run around your rental business by just buying a copy from you and doing things their way with that copy.

(Granted, this doesn't make the person you were replying to any more correct about what they meant when they said you couldn't do this.)

1. "distribute copies [...] by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending"
This thing of yours is quite an accomplishment. Even so, I hope it goes no further. If it does (& it probably will, because it is convenient), most of the computing world will have stacked yet another sub-optimal low-level mono-culture on top of the one that was already there.

From the robustness/survivability perspective, the mono-cultures we have are bad enough.
A Future History of Biomedical Progress – Markov Bio
Handwriting recognition is a "hard" problem, and the Newton tried to take it on directly, with more or less success. Other companies went for workarounds. Some people retrained humans to write in such a way that the PDA could easily recognize it, e.g. Palm with their Graffiti writing system used with PalmOS. Others just put a keyboard on the device, as in the early WinCE devices, and which reached the pinnacle of evolution on the Blackberry. Then smartphone makers just turned that into a software keyboard on the screen, which is what we see in iOS and Android.

Now, the big thing is voice recognition, which is also a "hard" problem. But we no longer need to seek workarounds the way we did with handwriting recognition, for two reasons: first, because the phone itself now contains much more processing power than the early PDAs did, and second (and more important), the evolution of high-speed wireless networking makes it not only possible, but feasible, to offload the "hard" parts of voice recognition to an even more powerful server somewhere on the Internet. Which enables, not only voice recognition, but software agents like Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant.

One day there will likely be a breakthrough somewhere that makes the gap between handwriting recognition and voice recognition look like child's play. I'm not sure what that will be. Maybe direct brain interfacing, as in William Gibson's or Jim Strickland's science-fiction universes, or as in John Scalzi's "BrainPal"?

(Taken from some musings I wrote on Facebook back in 2018)
Maybe you should survey more regular people? So many people say "I just use X because I don't want Y" where X is apple/google/facebook/etc and Y is something bad they're heard about or experienced from going to random webpages or something their kids did.
That joke was told about many of the soviet leaders...
The opportunity has always been there. The company, like many before them, simply ran into the limits of physics.
And less than a century ago, scores of people drew background images for Disney animated feature films, with the better ones getting allowed to draw main characters, and the best having final say in accepting or rejecting drawings.

I guess the same happened with those creating and animating 3D models for the likes of Toy Story.
I’ve always wanted to get one of these old Apple Newtons and trying to upgrade the built in handwriting recognition system with something a bit more modern, within the limitations of having 8mb of ram :). Anyone have any experience hacking them?
One interesting thing about going to continuous (or near-continuous) testing is you can get much narrower error bars on your baseline.

If you test once a month, how do you know if you accidentally tested during a transient spike?

If you test continuously, you can roll up those measurements to get things like p95, stddev, whatever.

So it’s useful even if you don’t want to respond in minutes to a spike. (You probably don’t need per-second readings for this, hourly would be enough.)

I don’t know if transient spikes are considered a risk factor, but you also get more chance to resolve those too.
Is FT a good source of this sort of news? I suppose it's as good as any other aggregation. Googled "evidence that Covid-19 is leaving people sicker" and found one that wasn't paywalled.

> newly published study which identified significant brain shrinkage in a cohort of about 400 people aged between 51 and 81 who had recovered from coronavirus.

> Heart attacks on the rise across almost every age group. (Change in number of deaths caused by heart attack by age group 2021 compared to 2019)

After 2 years of intermittent lockdowns, working from home, and not a whole lot of public events to attend, my heart health deteriorated greatly even before I got Covid-19, so I don't think that's a great statistic.
It’d be nice but it’s called “allow substitutions” or something. Maybe the database column is r-or-d
I understand the activation but please let's keep internecine punctuation conflict off HN.
Perhaps not, but if the stripe makes them more visible to the people living nearby, then they may not want the turbines there at all.
This paper attempts to correct for the inconsistent data and reporting around mortality, excess mortality, and deaths that were actually caused by SarsCoV2.

They use actuarial science (what insurance & risk analysis uses) to predict a baseline for mortality if no pandemic occurred. This should be a fairly accurate representation working of historical data.

It is sad that this submission has been flagged by zealots as it represents an interesting approach to determining the impact of the pandemic and attempts to correct for factors that unfortunately alter the data toward the negative- such as hospital funding contingent on diagnosis.
Not when it comes to clock speed.

Note that the total power a CPU draws is proportional to its capacitance (fixed) * its frequency * the square of its voltage + some other stuff that's generally the same across CPUs of the same generation.

But that doesn't quite tell the whole story, either; as you increase the frequency you also have to feed more voltage to the CPU to keep it stable for signal-processing reasons (a higher voltage means more difference between 0 and 1, and when you're right on the edge of it not working that will make the difference between a successful compute and a crash).

As such, when you're trying to make a CPU and want to chase clocks, you get bit twice: first by the increased frequency due to physics, and twice by the (square of the) increased voltage requirements for stability. So running at 6 GHz and requiring 1.2V to get there is significantly more expensive power-wise than running that same processor at 4 GHz and only needing 0.8V.

The only real way to fix that is microarchitecture, of course; the trick with Intel in particular is that they've been milking the same architecture they came up with in 2007 and aside from adding some Atom cores to its latest models have done basically nothing but shrink the die so it's natural that they're falling behind now.
I think that’s an interesting connection and way to look at this. I first encountered that sort of artistic inspiration on a Twitter account that randomly generated sheet music snippets. Sure the generation could be garbage, but that gives the artist a starting point to say “this is bad because X, it should be more like Y”. And of course with these AI models, the generation is more likely to be good. Having a divined/generated starting point for creative work can definitely be an invaluable tool.
Build tension and then... man door hand hook car door
Air pollution supposedly kills 2,000,000 people a year. Nuclear energy has killed far less than that in its entire history. Debates around this topic tend to have no basis in rationality at all, and many of the most vocal “environmentalists” are really just extreme anti-consumerist or anti-capitalist.

Talk to somebody from the anti-wind lobby of environmentalists and you’ll likely discover their preferred solution is that we simply stop using energy for things like heating, or watching tv, or using our computers…
Free speech mean you can say whatever you want and people have to engage in respectful debate with you and also you are free from any obligations or social consequences.
I think I may have the opposite problem. I have contrarian tendencies. I have a strong natural desire to argue against group consensus. When I see too many people agreeing about something to the point that they're not really thinking anymore, I have to take the opposite side. I also generally dislike the kinds of people who always jump on the latest social bandwagon and support the current thing. I can't stand people who can't think for themselves and yet are aggressive when it comes to spreading whatever ideas authority figures have managed to implant into their minds.

It makes no sense to me why someone would spend so much energy and invest so much of their ego into an idea which not only they didn't come up with but which they haven't even bothered to analyze from first principles.

It disturbs me that people can be at once so malleable to the will of authority figures and yet so rigid and stubbornly resistant to basic reasoning.
This is really excellent. I have a hook that is producing updated data every second, it’s pretty annoying that this causes everything below where the hook was included to be re-rendered each time, even if the updated data isn’t included. I can’t help but think using redux and connecting components to a global store as far down the hierarchy as possible was much more efficient. Is there an alternative way to do this with hooks to avoid re-rendering?

One thing I’ve started doing everywhere is putting a logger.debug(“rendering WidgetX”) at the top of every component to catch anything weird as I go along, it’s been pretty helpful.
Get a Mac Mini and use VNC along with a GitHub/GitLab runner. Works quite well!
Capitalism is just an economic system with predominantly private ownership of the means of production. Whether a country's set of economically productive organizations are owned by shareholders via a stock exchange or by whomever was powerful enough to take control of them by corrupt means seems irrelevant, no?
Yes we're already stuck with all these mono-cultures, so why not just define the union of all these mono-cultures into a single build target?
ConfigExpress: Auto Generate and Audit System Configurations
ah I see, I did not get that it seems. Cool, yeah I think your analysis of the AI's output is quite solid.
What's your proposition then? How it's best to go forward from where we are, if you don't trust the current organization abilities?
> was living in destitute poverty through most of the cold wa

Genuinely asking, did you live East of the Wall back then?

Because I did live East of the Wall (not in the former USSR, though), and I can assure you that we were most certainly not living in "destitute poverty" (my dad was a civil engineer, my mum had graduated from a hydro construction faculty). My parents did end up living in destitute poverty, as in having to get back to literally subsistence agriculture in order to survive, but that only came in the second part of the '90s, once democracy had already been in place for a few good years (and democracy had come with privatizations and price liberalizations).
The concern wasn't dismissed. It was put into contrast with a much greater concern that is often overlooked.
Have you tried Sikuli?
It uses OpenCV in the way you want.

http://sikulix.com/
I'd wager it just reflects the most approachable, easy edits.

Imagine tweaking the page of your favorite Netflix show vs. making an edit to Covid-19 or Ukraine/Russia pages.
The article is from 2015, so yes, you are right, it is easy to say that we have not had insane changes since 2015. And certainly there have not been insane changes between yesterday and today. But if things start changing just 1% more each day it becomes a big deal within a few years.
> The parent comment is correct

I'm sorry but it's not, and I already stated why with reason. They were not asking for "democratic reforms", but for independence.

Call it self-determination if it makes you feel better. Debate my comparisons, fair enough, I just tried to put things in perspective.
You can't seriously claim that the USSR should have been held together as a single empire, contrary to the wishes of most people who lived outside of Russia. The dissolution of the USSR was absolutely, unambiguously a positive event for the human race despite the minor problems which resulted.
Hardly everyone, but left zoomers who are unable to understand the key founding papers and who refuse descriptive comments of the founders on the matter most certainly do. [1]: "While often categorized as a democracy, the United States is more accurately defined as a constitutional federal republic. What does this mean? “Constitutional” refers to the fact that government in the United States is based on a Constitution which is the supreme law of the United States. The Constitution not only provides the framework for how the federal and state governments are structured, but also places significant limits on their powers. “Federal” means that there is both a national government and governments of the 50 states. A “republic” is a form of government in which the people hold power, but elect representatives to exercise that power."

Federalist No_14 also had a lot to say on the matter: “In a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it by their representatives and agents. A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region.”

[1] https://ar.usembassy.gov/education-culture/irc/u-s-governmen...
Yes, this is accurate. But underneath these formalities, just as the parent mentioned, was a weak, gullible and incompetent man who lost control of the country and caused a lot of real pain (90s were hell on earth). He is widely despised by his own people now, despite all the official bs.
Yeah, that line stood out to me as well in exactly the same way. From reading it I think besides the "I'm one of the cool ones" effect she's doing a bit of if by whiskey. Even when she's criticizing Rogan et all she does it in a way they're likely to just be even more proud of.
> without a mac

> Get a Mac
> The state of law and order in Venezuela is thin evidence?

It’s evidence of something, but not a too-high bar of criminal conviction.

> has become a mainstay topic in mainstream conservatism

This says bad things about modern mainstream conservatism, not good things about Francis.
Perhaps for you, but perhaps you also have a massive chip on your shoulder
https://archive.ph/B3B60
Asking one person to speak for a group is a quick way to arrive at personal bias.
wind turbine bird deaths are vastly underestimated
Don't forget Putin was a darling of the US and the West for a long time. Read the praises The Economist sung of him.
I wonder how all of this played into Alfa's decision not to kill protestors in service of the August 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.
You can just work two jobs at once ;-) During the pandemic and the WFH era, some employees have taken on two positions at the same time keeping this secret from both employers. Here's a funny WSJ article about this https://archive.ph/DGQrA. Quote from that article:

“It’s 100% overwhelming, and my wife’s like, ‘How long can you do this?’ ” he says. But “every other Friday, when those paychecks drop, I am reinvigorated.”
Interestingly, South Carolina declared its independence December 20, 1860, and the US Civil War didn't begin until April 12, 1861, when the Confederate Army attacked Fort Sumter.

It's an intriguing historical question what would have happened if Fort Sumter hadn't been attacked. Would the Union have eventually made the first move? Would peaceful negotiations have eventually resulted in some stronger guarantee in the continuance of slavery and an end to secession? Would the Union have eventually dissolved amicably?
See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_costly_or_deadly_hai...
>Intel have been doing two generations of support for absolutely ages.

It's worth noting that most of that was artificial; just enough electrical incompatibility to make you buy a new motherboard if you wanted a new processor (it's ultimately all just slightly different configurations of LGA1156 anyway- look up ASRock's P67 Transformer for more conclusive proof).

Back when they were competing against AMD (pre-2007) they only had one socket, that being LGA775 running from Prescott Pentium 4s all the way through the last Core 2 systems, and supported it for a very, very long time. Sure, it'd require your mainboard manufacturer to keep up to date with BIOS updates to support the new CPUs, but they were ultimately all compatible.