skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW there were deaths caused by the MKULTRA program[1], but the implication that LSD caused the deaths is probably not correct.

This is sort of just a historical dump since it’s a fascinating story: The notable death people remember is the Army officer who “jumped” out of his hotel window in NYC. Years later the Watergate investigation revealed the MKULTRA program and connected it to the Army officer’s death. CIA sort of implied “yeah we were doing stuff with LSD mind control and he went crazy,” but some (like the officer’s son) believe that is also a cover story. AFAIK the son still believes his father was going to blow the whistle on some sort of chem or bio weapon development (the father was a scientist at Fort Detrick, the US military’s bioweapon development center at the time) and he was assassinated before going public.

Anyway, the son’s theory almost seems like the most believable part of the whole MKULTRA universe.

[1] Among MKULTRA’s damage is arguably the creation of the Unabomber. Ted was an unknowing test subject at Harvard where he was basically emotionally tortured by a CIA agent posing as a fellow student. He had his beliefs — which he was always strongly identified with — systematically dismantled in order to cause emotional distress.
Yes, there is much more to the story. This is going to be one sided, but this is a faq from the plantiffs with plenty of examples of what the dean was doing; far far beyond just handing out flyers.

https://www.lawlion.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/UPDATED-F...
And I, in turn, strongly disagree with you. The paradox of tolerance is a product of sloppy thinking and mostly amounts to tribalism in a fancy coat. And antifascists refuse to tolerate many things substantially milder than actual fascism.
This doesn't necessarily go against your point, but I have seen far too many innocent people coerced into pleading guilty to actually believe someone is guilty based on a guilty plea.
The ones that aren't there, are not there! I can link you to some that aren't, but they show up as [flagged] and don't do a good job of illustrating my point[0].

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769867

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769585

[2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769281
Minecraft is transparently not a good. You get a license to it, you don't own it. You don't buy the copy, you buy the license to the copy.

You go to the video store, you get a VHS tape. You don't own the media on the tape. You can use the tape.

That is the deal for proprietary software. That's what you agreed to with your purchase. You consented to the model. You agreed to the terms of the license.

There's nothing misleading about software licensing. You buy a license, that the company and you agree before you spend money on it, that the company can change at any time. There's nothing unconscionable about that. You knowingly went into the deal, and so you should have to deal with the consequences of it.

Governments need to stop babysitting people who make stupid decisions unless it's genuinely urgent; markets don't work when consumers can yell at legislators and judges enough to invalidate the mechanisms of them. It's getting a bit ridiculous.

Should have grabbed a copy of software with a better license. Better luck next time.
If that system can actually be implemented, it would make playing minecraft as a non-groomer adult so much more fun, too. Child players on these public servers tend to beg hard for valuable in-game items, and frustratingly though understandably, they complain a lot about chat posts above their reading level. If Microsoft/Mojang made an adults-only Java version to solve this problem and I had to use my ID to prove who I am, I would buy the game again, at double price. Worth every penny. And they'd save resources by not trying to boil the entire in-game communication ocean.
> We had landing rockets in the 80's, but Boom was trying to do several things that are completely new. SpaceX's real technology is about launching the rockets cheaply, not re-using them (which is only part of the problem).

And we had supersonic passenger jets in the 60's. But they weren't economically viable. I'd argue that Boom is trying to do exactly what SpaceX is doing for rockets, which is to make supersonic air travel make economic sense. Any engineering that they need to do is really towards that goal.
This is clearly how Microsoft is finally going to rid itself of Notch’s original $20 to play forever deal. Bedrock edition didn’t get enough people off Java edition, micro transactions didn’t lure enough people away, so now they’ve just implemented a really loose report-to-ban system and let the online community tear itself apart.

When you’ve invested multiple billions in a property, these are the sorts of choices you make to protect that investment.
I think you are getting played by kids that are saying offensive things in chat.
We mostly already have the combined-cycle gas turbines, and are burning NG on them, so their capital cost is already sunk.

Until enough renewable generation is built out, it will be silly to build storage, so the turbines will continue burning NG, just increasingly mainly at night and on dark, calm winter days. As their duty cycle declines, their total annual operating cost falls in proportion. As chemical synthesis and compressed or liquified air storage gets built out, later, the fraction of their (reduced) operating time they spend driven by those instead of NG increases. As non-synfuel storage capacity (battery, pumped hydro, mineshaft gravitic, buoyancy) increases, running time and maintenance load declines further, as those pick up more load. Synfuel and compressed air will be mixed into NG in proportion increasing with stock on hand, rather than running on one fuel for a while and then another. Eventually NG falls out of the mix.

Operating the turbines only when the renewables and non-fuel storage are not supplying enough power cuts the maintenance load, therefore operating cost per unit calendar time. Not running does not mean you are not getting revenue: revenue comes in for the renewable-generated power, produced at near-zero marginal cost.

Running a turbine only sometimes extends its total life, so its capital cost is amortized over just as many kWh produced, either way, just longer in, again, calendar time.
The same language has a very different meaning when coming from a people who have been colonized rather than coming from the colonizer. People who have been oppressed have every right to celebrate the passing of their oppressors.
The battle against malaria in Africa has stalled
When we were looking at homes, I was surprised how many had TVs mounted (and angled downward) from above the fireplace. I get not wanting to take out the fireplace, and I get wanting to have a TV in a communal room. But boy would it be much nicer if you could unroll a screen at an appropriate height (e.g., not all the way down from the ceiling) on a temporary basis.
Flip the Switch for 5.5 Seconds
Brexit being bad does not make the EU good and leaving it a notable decline. If nothing else (ignoring short term economic issues) it reduces the soft power that the UK had notably.

The EU is not without a great many issues, notably the weakness is the central banking mechanisms of the EU/Euro - and the Euro in inseparable from the EU, and tbh, kinda endemic of the issues with the EU. It's an almost country, its missing the accountability of a full country, but still has some sovereign powers. I think the flaws in the EU are fixable, but not without making it look more like a democratic supranational government.

However, for all of the EU's flaws - the UK is hurting now, largely because of Brexit - who knows, in 50 years it may turn out for the best. But I honestly suspect not - only time will tell.
Thank you for creating and sharing this example. I think the fact of merely loading a shared library as modifying the FP behavior is the real shocker, more than any particular FP computation that hinges on denormals.

Still, I think one of the great wins with denormals is that they make "x == y iff x-y == 0" true; absent denormals you can have two normalized x and y, x != y, such y-x evaluates to 0. So for an example, maybe something that involves y > x and yet ceil(y-x) == 0, which is surprising. The only setting I can think of is something like making a histogram (with flipped indices, like your pixel row) of differences of values, so that ceil(y-x) == 0 leads to an invalid histogram index.

Some values are x=1e-32 and y=1.0000011e-32, which parse (via sscanf) to:

x = 0:00010100:10011111011000100011111 = (-1)^0 * 2^( 20-127) * (1+5222687/2^23)
y = 0:00010100:10011111011000100101110 = (-1)^0 * 2^( 20-127) * (1+5222702/2^23)

and then the denormalized difference d = x-y should be:

d = 0:00000000:11110000000000000000000 = (-1)^0 * 2^(1-127) * (0+7864320/2^23)

Having some specific values sidesteps concerns about nextafterf(). In this case I think y is many ulps above x, not just 1.
I’d much rather them focus on LE Audio over lossless. The battery impact will be more valuable to most consumers than the quality difference, I expect.
No large social platform will spend a dime more on moderation than they are compelled to by law.
Yes. For the most part, only injury settlements / awards are not “income” and thus not taxable.
She was a symbol of an institution that has brought perhaps the most harm out of any institution in our time. She was also the leader and sovereign of the UK while they engaged in atrocities against Malaysia and much of the rest of Asia and as GP points out Africa. She is not just "some women" and it is a position of privilege to see her as such.
I honestly don't think anyone will care about the monarchy much after this. Charles just has zero charisma and William is pretty wooden as well. The queen had a vibe and presence that won't be repeated.
I get why the 450% increase on BERT is the headline, but I think it's even more impressive that the smallest increase vs. A100 is still 50% (for ResNet).

You don't get these types of generational improvements in the CPU world these days. In some ways though,it’s better that the gains go to the GPU because, after years of talk, we actually do seem to be in the middle of some really awesome ML developments.
> Nobody can operate at scale as a non profit.

Wikipedia seems like the biggest tech counterexample.
Tracking is a fascinating subject. In Search and Rescue, it is one of the pillars of our skillset.

I just came off three days of participation in this search†.

Depending on the area, terrain, environment, and situation, tracking to either directly locate the subject or narrow the search area can be a crucial task leading to the resolution of an incident.

† https://www.noozhawk.com/article/search_for_hiker_missing_on...

https://keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/2022/09/07/sear...

https://www.noozhawk.com/article/body_of_missing_hiker_found...

https://keyt.com/news/santa-barbara-s-county/2022/09/08/tim-...
They consented to the terms when installing, and the license that says they had to accept the terms at purchase, so them not knowing is entirely on them.

I'm not pro-Microsoft, but it's really on the consumers, here, if they didn't know what they got themselves into.
Ansible is absurdly terrible. But good luck finding anyone who wants to use any other configuration management tool for less than 20 servers.

Jenkins is horrible. But it's by far the most ubiquitous ci/cd thing.

Terraform is less horrible, but still pretty bad. Yet it's impossible to work for any company that wants to do IaC and not use it.

If the Peter Principle says "incompetence rises to the top", the Poettering Principle should be "the most popular garbage rises to the top".
If you are a fan of The Castro please consider supporting the campaign to maintain it's historic seating: https://www.savethecastrotheatre.org/
I feel like Compaq was evolutionary, and DEC was revolutionary.

Their great coups are more about timing than anything else, I'd say.

By showing up shortly after the very first generation of "PC Compatibles", they managed to miss the tendency to build something "better but not compatible", and had a chance to plan a strategy for when IBM's lawyers came calling.

Getting a 386 to market was inevitable; if they didn't do it, someone else would. Without Compaq, the PS/2 Model 80 might have been the first 386 PC, but it would still have had a hard time fighting off cheaper and more versatile ISA-bus clones.

Maybe I'm still resentful of the mid-late 90s days, when the dream was a standard AT chassis and power supply and its reliable upgrade path, rather than manufacturers like Compaq with their zany form factors.
https://rankings.thefire.org/rank/school/oberlin-college:

Ranking #135, Speech Climate: Slightly Below Average

So, pretty normal.
Can't believe how successfully they were in rebranding themselves as "royal family" given everything that was happening to other monarchies in europe during ww2
Enjoyed the excerpts and thank you!

I take a few to mean more than 2 centigrams. So 30mg minimum. Thats 300x the 'normal' dose.
Right - it's a bit like saying "some more undefined behavior please!" and then being surprised at being surprised.
>My only point is that starting a business is something that consumes your entire life.

John - this is for sure not true. I've known a lot of business owners that work a straight 9-5 and have done VERY well. Not Facebook, but $300,000-$400,000 per year, that's top 1% earners.

I know a LOT of business owners that come in one day per week to check on how their team is doing.

This whole "24/7 work" is just a load of nonsense. Do some? Sure. But we all have a choice, and I know as an actual fact so many people that are successful do not do that. For a fact. And, I know people in the exact same industry, don't pretty much the exact same thing, that work 18 hours per day. Usually the one working 8 hours per day is wealthier, because generally, the person who works 8 hours per day is organized and prioritized, and the person working 18 hours a day is unorganized, doesn't know what they are doing, can't prioritize, etc.

So, John, it is just not true. I urge you, if you are starting to run your own business, not to fall for that false god of working 8 days a week, 48 hours per day. I don't care what Elon Musk or anyone else says.

So again, if I were you, I would say to work 9-5 and then when you are done, leave the business at your office, come home and do other things. It's ok, really.

Starting a business does NOT entail what you think it entails. Heck, even someone building a nuclear power plant, all the workers and CEO don't work 18 hours per day.

>This is very different from some sort of bland "do what you love" thing.

I don't think so. Do what you love is at the root of all of the whole work 18 hours a day thing.

>This is recognizing the human truth of what starting a business entails.

I know what starting a business entails. I've started many. A lot of what people say is just simply not true. I've read the same exact things as you have, about how one has to work 24/7 and live and breath it every day. No. I know this is not the case, I've seen it personally. Reality is what you make it. If you say reality is working 18 hours a day, that's what you're going to do. If you say it is 8 hours a day, that is what it will be. And both can succeed, have succeeded. I've seen it, in person.
For anyone else reading this thread- FWIW I bought a Moonlander a few months ago and I haven't been able to switch to it. It's missing just enough keys that I haven't been able to figure out a layout that seems good enough to stick with long enough to get used to it, and so when I use it it's still painfully slow.

There are some extra keys, but some of them seem hard to use well (the big red triangle keys at the top of the thumb clusters) and other things that sound great in practice, like "hold" = modifier but "tap" = insert some character, in practice have turned out to have more annoying rough edges than I had hoped.

It's very well-made though, the configurator works good, etc. Seems like a high-quality gadget, but I wish I thought a bit more about what I would do for arrow keys, special characters, modifiers, etc.

I found the Kinesis thumb clusters a lot more usable when I used to have one, but I really wanted to try a split keyboard this time.
> You may underestimate how truly horrific some of the online communications are in any non-trivial service. Especially when kids are involved.

Then parents should take care of their kids.

This is like dropping them off on a random street corner and then complaining someone is fucking in an adjacent alley. The world isn't kid safe and it shouldn't be.
Do they have any sort of formal process to recognize the new monarch (passing a bill or something) or does it happen automatically?
Sure, that happens. But it's most likely when the accused has too few resources to win at trial. Here the college was clearly in their corner. Why would they plead guilty and say racism was no part of it? Their statements seems very credible under the circumstances.
the question remains, why could you not wait instead of creating a refurbished device due to impatience?
> Huh? How would the ipad detect that?

Ambient accelerometer data (like is used in the Apple Watch for car-crash detection et al) triggering a background FaceID scan when the movement subsides.

> And it doesn't even address the security problem where you don't want other users to see your stuff. (Eg, my kids shouldn't see notifications for me, or be able to read my email).

Think of this sort of setup as a kiosk device — like a library computer. If accounts were allowed to be persistently signed into the device at all, then it would be in a low-integrity way, where you wouldn't be able to access your email et al through the device. Instead, the only things that would sync would be things that "don't matter" to expose to others: preferences, [non-private-browsing] history, game saves, etc.

The point wouldn't be to allow a whole family to share one iDevice for all their personal information management needs. You — and anyone else that has PII to manage — would still need a personal iPhone for that.

The point, instead, would be to have something like a game console, or a streaming box, or an eBook reader — the superset of all of those. Something for everyone in a family to just pass around to do "general family stuff" with games, books, music, movies, etc; without needing to worry about security. But, crucially, while still able to have "their own" bookmarked pages in books, watched episodes in TV shows, game saves, music playlists, and so forth; where that stuff does sync from their profile on this shared device, to any personal devices they also own.

You probably won't see the concrete use-case, if you don't have multiple children. None of them has any PII to manage, but they certainly do want their own open tabs and game saves, and protection from their siblings accidentally stomping over those.

> Probably the easiest way to do it would be at the unlock screen. Have the user lock their ipad then unlock it as a different user via a different profile attached to the fingerprint sensor.

iPads don't have fingerprint sensors. Also, you're expecting a lot out of children (again, the central point of this) to re-lock the device (just to unlock it again) after taking it from their sibling. My impression is that they'd see something they want to do and just start trying to do it. The ideal here would be to automatically switch profiles when this happens, such that they seamlessly get the same app, but with state recorded for their profile, rather than their sibling's.
can confirm..was skeptical but now I could never go back to a normal layout for daily driving...it's a dream and worth every penny and more
Show HN: 31,102 verses of the Bible drawn by Stable Diffusion
Kinesis still does 60 day no BS returns for stuff bought directly through them: https://kinesis-ergo.com/support/returns/

ZSA does 30 day returns: https://ergodox-ez.com/pages/shipping-returns

It's only the tip of the iceberg w/r/t the number of keyboards out there but they're the most polished products and they cover a lot of your more exotic bases (split, key wells, thumb clusters, etc.)
You’re saying the servers are fun and that’s fine. However, I’m of the opinion that it’s the players who make the game fun and if the players choose to play on virtual LAN servers, then they, in essence, opt-out of the censorship.
Oh shit, they are moderating chat in a game for children and responding to player reports?

Pretty ghoulish, if you ask me. /S

Come on, are we really complaining that public chat is moderated now? Is that really where the bar has sunk to?
Cancer and old age, IIRC. The author of this story implies that the drawn out saga may have contributed to the cancer death. [1]

1: https://www.commonsense.news/p/will-i-ever-see-the-36-millio...
Your post made phrased as if he did the majority of the work after he was 50. Anyone who sees two numbers that are less than 1% different would initially think the same. If you're making a point about exponential growth, feel free to use exponential notation, or talk in deltas.

> You just absolutely refuse to comprehend compound growth.

What a bizarre thing to say.
Rocket League has an option called quick-chat. It's only canned messages. And in QC mode you only see or reply QC messages. Make being real toxic difficult.
For me it's the word "modern" makes me think it'll be slow and unnecessary, I think it's just the fact that a lot of apps titled "modern" are slow bad that made us think this when we see the word. (OP's app is decent tho)
The risk of miscommunication in the supply chain between your registrar and SoNIC is much greater than the risk of nation-state attack by Somalia on your TLD. The people at SoNIC are professional.
> I remember when the idiots here were congratulating Uber for killing that woman, because her death wouldn't be in vain; it would improve their self-driving software.

We will reach Peak Scientistic Neo-Liberalism on the back of such sacrifices. Progress, profits, enlightenment, efficiency and safety, at any cost.
The best was Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri (SMAC). That game shed the constraints of historical figures and created an incredible sandbox for exploring the many philosophies of government and society. It wrapped all of it in a rich and complex world with rival factions based on founder ideologies. It tied everything together with a wealth of quotes from real historical figures and fictitious quotes from the faction leaders serving as a commentary on historical thought.

The last one is especially important. Philosophy isn’t just a bunch of stuff written by long dead thinkers, it’s an ongoing conversation. SMAC takes this conversation and continues it, extrapolating into the future with fictional technologies, and turns it into a cohesive narrative about the future of humanity and what a trans-human society might even look like. It’s such a fantastic game!
How do you get that?
Bit of a wild comparison. It's more like the online equivalent of someone getting kicked out of Legoland for swearing around the children.
Why is this a browser extension not a web app on its own domain?

Also curious if there's any flaw in the official HN web app you see that incentives you to make this.
Beavers in Texas, wild! Where I grew up, the beaver had begun recovering from the ravages of European high-fashion fed by Hudson Bay Co. What I saw made them look like little wetlands and flood-control engineers. Now they're called a 'keystone species'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species
I understand your point, but I would be upset if I took my family to Chuck E Cheese's and there was a table full of adults loudly talking about their raunchy escapades from the night before. I think it is a fair assumption that a child's game will have clean chat.