skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting point about both is that the proponents garnered their support through extensive lies, directly and through the media.

Public support of the Iraq war went hand in hand with the UN both finding WMDs and approving action[0].

The lies about Brexit are pretty infamous: from £350m/week for the NHS to stoking immigration fears and the fabrication of EU powers.

While it's disappointing that people are convinced by these types of lies, I'm not sure they're fully to blame; or that it does much good to do so. The bigger question is how do you combat these lies. The ones that seem to tickle the part of the brain where factual arguments don't seem to have much sway.

[0] https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/iraq-last-pre-war-polls
All those countries elect leaders who decide to keep the languages they teach. A foreign country doesn't threaten them with invasion because of school curriculum. That's an INSANE argument!

Sure it's a divided country. No question. You don't bomb countries for being divided. Had Putin stayed in the Dunbas area that would have been a moderate excuse. He chose to attack the entire country and assassinate the elected president.

You sound like the people who tell a beaten wife that she shouldn't have talked back... Putin is a criminal and you're making excuses for him. He tried to take Ukraine in the gentle way by installing a puppet. When that didn't work he's trying force. Ukraine was distancing itself from Russia because of Putins policies.

You're picking small things to justify terrible HUGE things. If someone says something bad to you on the street shooting their head off would be justifiable?

That's the level of excuses I'm reading here.
The guidelines on this site specifically ask you not to write comments like this:

Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is a particularly egregious instance, because this article discusses a phenomenon that should be especially interesting to HN (overwhelmingly widespread abuse in academic science labs), and yet here we are bickering over whether the article used the word "whiteness" appropriately in one paragraph.
Update: Huzzah! 1982, It was Rob Pike's "Blit", the Bell Labs Intelligent Terminal, pictured here tiling with a connection to SDF! I knew I wasn't losing my mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blit_(computer_terminal)
Can anyone recommend event-driven architecture book?
Hi all! I am trying to expand my knowledge in event-driven architecture to apply in a simple producer/consumer service I am building.
Can anyone recommend event-driven architecture book?
Immediate first thought.
You're missing the point..

Its not that she caved into the greens to stay in power, closing the nuclear power plants and converting to gas.

Its that she did all that, AND chose Russian gas.
meh. I make a little bit more than that at a FAANG and my job is vastly different than a one man show contractor. My work (and any Staff-level job really) is a lot more talking to other engineers and help them being productive, steer the product in the right direction and some high impact coding.

For the OP it's probably a lot more dealing with clients and building stuff from the ground up which you don't tend to do at FAANG at all. I'm not saying it's not as important, it's just very different skill wise.
No one here seems especially fun at parties.
It is pretty average for a contractor in Europe. Contractors/Freelancers have always been paid above normal wages, because the contracts offer more flexibility to the employers.
Here's a nice factoid from it:

> circa 1970 Accidental production of first glass bubbles at 3M plant in Guin, AL

> circa 1975 Cryogenic research testing by G. R. Cunnington and C. L. Tien at UC Berkeley
I might have been to young to actually have noticed it. But from what I remember, in 2014 Google didn't have the reputation it has now.
So the parents failed at providing the 4-H experience. Selling the livestock is a vital part of the program.

But this sounds like there was a contract that the parents were attempting to back out of…because the girl threw a tantrum. It’s ok to ask, but offering to pay the value of the goat doesn’t mean they have to accept the payment and void the contract.
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but it's easy to say money isn't everything when you're already earning £120k/$140k pa.
The optimal amount of crime in a society is non-zero because a society with zero crime would be a dystopian police state where innocent people sometimes get caught up in the justice system's net to make sure it catches all of the criminals.

The classic principle of Anglosphere common law is that its better to let 10 criminals get away with it than to convict 1 innocent person. The same idea applies to fraud because overzealous fraud prevention causes problems for legitimate users whose actions incorrectly get detected as possible fraud. The benefit to tolerating a low amount of fraud is that your product won't be hostile to your legitimate users. The benefit to tolerating a low amount of crime is that you will live in a free society rather than a dystopian tyranny. Freedom is good and it is worth giving up quite a bit of safety for the sake of being free.
Even regular employment is OK. Tested that myself. It actually is better from taxation view for the employee compared to working for EU native companies - might not apply to all EU states though - but it does in my country of residence, thanks to the bilateral double taxation avoidance deal.
I enjoyed the podcast and also reading your balanced replies on Hacker News. It seems like you're not easily offended and you've had enough experience to understand why people take other (extreme) views.
Not to veer off topic, but this felt tangential with the mention of thawing peat.

I've read some analysis that says global warming will make much more of Russia arable and open up lots of new economic opportunities. China will gain new shipping lanes through the Arctic. Canada will also get more useful land, etc.

Obviously it's going to wreak havoc on ecosystems and species diversity and the climates of other nations, but you don't see the lopsided benefits mentioned frequently or how these factor into the calculus of certain nations.
Thanks - but this is about animal rights and our culture of eating meat, is it not?

If those people who took away the goat had more compassion then this little girl would still have her goat friend.

The little girl and the goat had a bond and it was broken because we just view these animals as objects / property and not as sentient beings that 'are too much like us' as Carl Sagan used to say.
If it is any consolation, you have to be pretty intelligent to tie yourself into such knots of falsehood. Getting yourself out of such knots takes more than other people need. Take a hint.
I thought people got along with Rust due to its features and semantics and learned to live with the syntax. Not it being something one would copy. (I'm personally still hoping for a Ratfor/Coffeescript transpiler)

Also, wonder how long it'll take until we see a "Aluminia" fork...
We can't even get cheap gas or a stable electric grid. I wouldn't hold my breath for nanobots any time soon...
You really do need to look at the whole picture of cost of living & quality of life. Sure someone in the Bay Area could make 5x that, but that doesn't mean they're living 5x better or things aren't 5x more expensive.
Interesting bit of mass psychology about the status. The bike-enthusiast set do very much have their own currents of fashion, and are a crowd apart from the pragmatic cyclists.

Probably this is more significant in places where the simple city bikes and casual commuters are in the minority and many/most bikers on the road are some kind of serious hobbyists.
Reminds me of the fabulous Grass Mud Horse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse
I mean, in this context I don't think when the word "big" was used it was referring to the surface area from a bird's eye view.

There's many different ways you could think of something as being "big", but in this context I believe either volume, mass or even drag coefficient is what is most relevant to the thread.
re: sports

Five Thirty Eight writes about this from time to time. Three points shots in basketball. Going for it on fourth down. Going for a two point conversion. You can work out the stats for all this sort of thing--and there are apparently biases for various reasons why coaches/players don't always follow the EV strategy.
Dogs that go to a no kill shelter get transferred to the kill shelter if they aren’t adopted
Could I please email you my info?
You premise is kids don't want to eat animals but we force them to eat it. And they don't realize what that is.
If you ever read John Scalzi's story on how he got to where he is (mid-list author??), he frequently says that he got lucky. He posted his _Old Man's War_ story on his blog, and an editor saw it and threw money at him.

By the time he made his big sale, he'd been writing for years. If you have six minutes to blow, go to his Audible page for his latest[1], scroll down to the video John Scalzi: My Story, and he talks about it.

That said, he also says he likes to pay it forward by pushing budding authors when he can to spread the luck.

--

[1] https://www.audible.com/pd/Travel-by-Bullet-Audiobook/B0B838...
https://archive.ph/xrJQh
I'm 50 and care about nothing apart from my family. That's why I want to be around for them by having a good work / life balance which for me means working as I've described. I can worry about the money when they've left home :-)
I use Ubuntu and always uninstall snap. It's not needed at all. I will switch distros next time I need to reinstall though, probably to Fedora Silverblue.
Can anyone explain what's going? I am /r/OutOfTheLoop
> or we can advocate for change and try to be more patient, kind and accepting, and, I think, I would like to advocate the latter

4-H auctions finance the programme. If the auctions become unreliable because parents couldn’t bother to identify an attachment early and message their intent to renegotiate a contract until right before the auction, the programme is threatened. It’s also baffling the parents didn’t try to buy the goat off the purchaser, its lawful owner, instead of asking the venue to void a contract. (EDIT: It appears they did and the buyer said they were fine reversing the contract. Nobody did anything to document this, however, and the family taking the goat home after the auction prejudiced them.)

It’s also against the pathos of the programme? Knowing you’re raising livestock is the point.
I think lisp or scheme does. I was often confused by that when I was playing with it
If we, the discerning consumer, could just take and toss the flyer being
thrust into our faces by the picketer outside the Amazon warehouse (or
the free software movement's equivalent), the world and HN would be a
less acrimonious place.
Completely unnecessary, a lot of adults had a chance to stop and think but they didn’t. How about we don’t hold 10-year old 4-H members to contracts (pretty sure they can’t anyway). Why are Sheriff deputies jumping on a case like this. Maybe the parents should not have let it get that far to be auctioned off, seems like they would have know before that their daughter considered it a pet.
I was riding almost every day in almost any weather a cheap e-bike for commuting to work in Berlin. I felt many times that I could ride faster on a normal bike, but acceleration and ease of going uphill or against the wind was worth it. It was more disadvantages of this particular bike. Now I think the best commuting e-bike would have a small battery and it would not be obvious looking at it that it is an electrified bike.

I also have commuted with my regular, non-fancy bike. I have seen people riding slowly, but comfortably their dutch style bikes. It seems like a non-issue. You ride what fits you or what you have available.

People already do buy very expensive bikes that are without a motor. People buy different cars. Some buy expensive sports cars, some buy expensive luxury cars, some buy hybrids for their fuel economy, some buy whatever that was cheap and good enough. All sorts of people have all sorts of reasons to buy all sorts of things. Wether it is bikes or cars. I think if the author has those kind of problems with e-bikes he is not in a mindset to commute with a regular bike either.
Oh yeah, that's gonna bring status to our profession!

Can you imagine "Prison to District Attorney". Or "Prison to Chief of Staff of Hospital".
Exactly, and this is related to the question "What is it with the trend for huge cars?", as this trend has largely been an American one.
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, from Interplay might be a candidate?

It looked like this, in the enhanced/later version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxtIFBLHOQs
Firstly a definition PPI: pixels in a single dimension / size in that dimension in inches.

A nice high end phones screen is like 300 PPI a 20 year old laptop screen is around 100. A nice desktop monitor is 160-240.

A calculator https://www.sven.de/dpi/

It's hard to discuss a monitor being 100ppi@720p because those 2 variables are related via a third variable size. A 720p screen would be 100dpi at about 14" and indeed that is a common size for crappy laptops. A tiny screen with that PPI strapped to your face would look like shit. For instance a 2" square screen would be 200px x 200px.

Resolution matters a lot.
As far as I know it doesn't have a single feature that is really unique. It's more like a combination of things I like from other languages, like syntax and expressions from Rust, defer expressions from Go, UFCS from D.

The overarching theme is to see how far you can go making a language that feels high level without having a garbage collector or RAII. I used to use Deplhi/Pascal a lot when I was younger and it was this kind of language.
I see this common theme among very fast practical algorithms (like timsort or pdqsort) where there is not some secret math or algorithm, rather they are just a bunch of special cases based on heuristics. Often they involve specific knowledge of the hardware instead of treating software as abstract. To me this is the big difference between “computer science” and “computer engineering”.
My homemade e-bike is so fast I can keep up in traffic with cars and enjoy the huge wide roads in the US. It looks like something out of mad max though. The author of the article would have a stroke if they saw it. It can out accelerate a Ferrari to 30 mph. I'm running a 52 volt pack with Panasonic cells. It's crazy.
And still, a considerable amount of people in Hungary (in my opinion 40%+, mostly from the poorer demographics) are strongly opposed to sanctions against Russia if that means the utility costs increase. I bet the memory of the countries on Russia's border function better, but don't underestimate the power of falling living standards paired with wishful thinking (that is, Russia will stop definitely at Ukraine's borders).
Id think your ability to re-use piece parts from one project to another would help save a lot of time too. There are really only say 10 things to build and once you do, simply re-arranging them for different systems probably levels out the workload significantly.
> it wasn't the police's job to make that decision

If my car is stolen and I see it in someone’s garage, I absolutely expect the police to do something about it. In this case, the facts about lawful ownership were straightforward.
This is an article about bullying and abuse by professors and managers of academic labs. It's a huge problem, because early-career researchers depend heavily on approval and references from PIs, and there's a strong element of path-dependence in many academic career situations: you often can't easily just quit and join a different lab. You're captive to the abuse.

As someone with two kids working in academic STEM research labs, I'm interested if people have any horror stories of their own to share about abusive PIs (just because I worry about my own kids and what they're going to face in their fields).

I asked this on a Slack the other day, and I got stories like "my friend's PI called and demanded he come in to work, but my friend's appendix had just burst; the PI said 'I don't care about your appendix'". Or the lab where the researchers had brought in special furniture to create a private area to cry in after the PI had finished berating them. Or the abusive lab with an anomalously high number of suicides.
Mastodon is used by German and European government agencies (e.g. social.bund.de, social.network.europa.eu). There was a real-life meet-up of Mastodon users a few hours away from where I live last month. Jan Boehmermann, a German comedian and TV personality started his own Mastodon server, and the Mastodon logo appears in the intro of his TV show. The uni I studied at uses it, and so does the bank I use.
Except BRICS won’t fight for Russia. China is very explicitly not an ally, and Kazakhstan is openly mocking Putin.

Thus, it’s NATO vs “Nigeria with nukes” alone.
Police unilaterally recover stolen property all the time.
Have you gone down this route?

I think the biggest issue deep generalists fall into is that they can be above average in the entire stack, but not exceptional enough to make the cut for a specialized role in any single thing (i.e the vast majority of publicly advertised roles).

Going down “specialized in boot-strapping startups” route is an interesting remedy. I would imagine the only way to find these opportunities is word of mouth.
My Windows PC randomly wakes from sleep because the mouse moves like 1/2000 DPI in some direction because of air movements or some heavy truck driving by nearby my house.

Razer mouse, in case it matters.

I think Microsoft could save a whole lot of energy usage globally by pushing a more sensible algorithm with an update.
> Snap is the one reason I most don't want to update Ubuntu

That is no reason to avoid updating. I use the latest Ubuntu and just uninstall snap. It's not needed for anything.
Cloudflare lobbied FTC to stifle security researchers
That describes my outlook after taking MDMA... anxiety has been a constant through my life, and molly showed me what it was like to not feel it. Ever since I have used that as a benchmark in my own quest for healing, and the closer I can get to that feeling without assistance, the further along I know that I am in my journey.

Of course, it's a nice to visit with molly every once in a while. But the real progress is in how I reframe life. Too bad that finding quality MDMA nowadays is so tough.
Many people capable of paying rent declined to do so during the moratorium. Now they’re being evicted, not because their income is too little to afford housing, but because they made a series of truly reckless financial decisions.

Empathy is good, and perhaps we could use more of it, but dismissing someone as “heartless” for questioning the intent of some renters also strikes me as naive.
My keyboard light goes off and on if I toggle my desk fan.
At the fair. It’s part of the showing the animal process. While they are being judged, prospective customers are also evaluating the animals
Are you always in the chair? Then, perhaps you’re the magnet.
> am a fan of honoring contracts and sales.

It's perfectly acceptable to violate a contract. It doesn't matter you're not a fan of this. As long as you follow through with the terms of violating it.

> Breach of contract is not a crime or even a tort. Punitive damages are generally not an available remedy. The only remedies are to make the non-breaching party whole. The main theory behind this rule is that the law should not punish economically efficient breach.

The contract was not in the article but we can assume that it would be whatever financial compensation would be to make them whole. That's something they offered but the other party kept making threats that they would be criminally charged, even though the article states it was within their rights to not sell the goat.

IANAL but I can't imagine what permitted the police to be involved.
One million per day? Or per hour?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_in_Middle-earth
> goat was confiscated prior to auction

The parents told 4-H they changed their mind right before the auction, but the confiscation happened well after [1].

[1] https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article265138311.html
What is your perspective on the article?
If it's wireless flip the switch underneath the mouse to power it off.
Probably that, it's just a ghost blog deployed to a k8s cluster on aws.
Russia already lost half of their armed forces (eg thousand visually confirmed tanks, https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1566090567280463872), and their losses are shooting up again. Gas will get expensive for couple of months, but might become essentially free afterwards - Europe will pay by allowing Russia to persist in its current shape.
You honestly deny that middle earth is not based on Europe? Everything Tolkien wrote was drenched in that reference frame.
Do people who write these things really think these are novel concepts? The amount of arrogance and delusion required to state the obvious is hard to comprehend.
Kids should know where their food comes from and that death is a natural part of life.
We use a company called "Deel" as an intermediary third party that has locations in many countries. These types of companies act as your "employer" in the sense that they pay you and you're legally their employee.

I wonder if there's an opportunity for these third party companies like Deel to put up a job board for remote work positions? This would mesh well with their product as they can say "hey we can help find you qualified candidates and we will deal with the legalities of it"
Cloudflare claim to be a neutral web infrastructure company; a dumb pipe. They provide service to a website run by a Nazi. The website encourages stochastic terrorism behind a paper thin veneer of "please don't do this" (wink wink) caveats.

After a reasonably high profile person was doxed and had armed police pointing guns at her, there's been a campaign to get cloudlfare to follow their own ToS and remove services for this website.

Cloudflare won't, because they claim to be nothing more than a dumb pipe. Those claims are obviously bogus - try running a sex worker site and using cloudflare's services and see how long the site lasts.
One can always record their rental agreement with the county recorder or registrar of deeds.
That doesn't scale. You need to make it frictionless to the end user.

(And I'm using a wired mouse since I hate changing batteries.)
Saving Face: Portraiture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Under this regime I would accept less than zero fraud.
> Every single leader went there and begged Putin not to invade.

Even if that were true, that is not negotiation. Negotiation implies give and take. Given that the US already agreed not to expand NATO to Russia's border (honored by Bush Sr., but broken by Clinton), a good starting point to negotiation would be to agree to honor past commitments.

The vast majority of the people in Crimea (as Donbas) are Russian speaking, and voted to join Russia[1]. Part of the context leading up to the unrest in Crimea was a far-right government in Kieve that proposed policies against Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens[2]. I'm not opining on Russia's actions in 2014 or today, just pointing out that things were and are a lot more complicated than the dominant narrative in the west (I was surprised to find any US mainstream news source that reported on the referendum, at all, to use as a reference).

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crimeans-vote-overwhelmingly-to...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2019/4/9/why-ethnopolitic...
Sheriff recovers stolen property.
(Hum, yess, get more close to the camera...)