skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I realize your focus is defending an ideological ally but your zeal is leading you to make two key omissions:

1. PayPal is not synonymous with free speech. His ability to speak and have his views heard by anyone who wants to doesn’t appear to be impeded in any way. A key difference between that and the other companies you mentioned is that you don’t usually have a choice about, say, your water company because physical infrastructure doesn’t make that easy. In contrast, there are many options for sending money and PayPal can interchangeably be replaced with a variety of services.

2. PayPal didn’t exercise their right to freely choose who they associate with because he’s right wing, but rather because he violated their policy about COVID misinformation: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/paypal-free-speech-union-...

That’s a pretty big distinction: he could continue doing everything he’s been doing except for lying about health and safety, and PayPal would be happy to continue processing money for him.
Not once per person who reads the book though, only once per library, or more accurately, once per concurrent check out.
As someone who lived on Long Island at the time, I can tell you that there were dozens, if not hundreds, of eye witnesses from both the beach and the water that claimed to have seen a missile fly up and hit the plane. There was explosive residue consistent with a missile found on on the wreckage of the plane. One of the lead investigators thought it was a missile, and he was shuffled out of the investigation.
All kinds of mental disorders have associated changes in imaging. The real question is how would such a weapon be able to harm people at a distance without being detected?

If you look at something like transcranial magnetic stimulation, it doesn't seem like the kind of brain tweaking that you could do without someone noticing. Anything energy-based (electromagnetic or sound) strong enough to affect the brain should be quite detectable. I suppose there could be chemical ways of doing it but I would think they could be detected as well.

I also remember an interview with one of those suffering from Havana Syndrome who talked about how tough his job was and how he could stand up to nearly any pressure so there's no way this could be a manifestation of anxiety. Which makes me think that it is anxiety in someone whose belief system doesn't allow them to admit (even to themselves) that it might be a possibility.
Pgmoneta: A backup / restore solution for PostgreSQL
>I do not believe the religious are in some way actually oppressed

Then again, there are western countries where women cannot control what parts of their body they reveal in government jobs. They have to show their hair-- Muslim women cannot wear a hijab. The problem is when discussions about religion come up people don't think about the experiences of most of the other religions in the world, they default to whatever branches of Christianity exist around them.

>Ironically this runs up against the preferences of the people the left wishes to keep inside their political tent - they are almost universally more religious on average than white people.

Yes. And while I generally support the democrats more, I as a minority feel they are going to run into big problems if they continue the way they do. Allowing the anti-religious sentiments will push away a lot of people that currently make up their base. Whether you like religion or not, it's a bad strategy.
"Tools don't spark joy": is this a case of "each to their own" or is it a case of "owning the wrong tools"? There are a lot of people out there for whom tools spark joy (ok, ok, I am one) and given that they provide a much-needed bit of control over your context/environment this seems reasonable.

As for hiking equipment, I think you really need to be somewhere remarkable to be somewhere where kit, rather than understanding and attitude, really makes a difference. These places exist. But there are a lot of places you can enjoy just fine with little or no specialised stuff and I feel the kit fetishists waste a lot of energy and material while putting normal people off.
That's just about 80. Any client can handle that. Use a watch directory or a client that allows to add *.torrent or drag them all to a GUI and hold down Enter or sumthin ;-)
Does it have an @ sign? Try sending to it.
More specifically, business models which expected to make money by extracting money from everyday citizens after first establishing a bunch of customers don’t actually make sense because tons of companies are doing the same thing while ignoring that everyday people don’t have any disposable income anymore and will never pay for their products and services.

The continued running of the economy is practically dependant on a wealth transfer to labour so we can enable a second wealth transfer to capital.
In fact many of the witnesses were active duty military and military veterans who knew exactly what a missile looked like.
I stopped reading before I got done with the "the existence of a hurricane proves that climate change is making the weather worse".

We are past the point where zealots and "persuaders" telling bald-faced lies to try to increase hysteria is in any way helpful.
How well did the economics of this kind of an operation end up working out? Seems like these were a fairly recent development, so they really wouldn't have had much time, say, the 500 days cited to reach profitability.

It would be interesting to see how the GPU driver side of this works. If they boot Ubuntu, what kind of GPU driver is required to run the GPU? Is it open source amdgpu compatible?

In any case, these would work rather well for some kind of VPS server hosting or maybe more like dedicated server hosting, given the density/form factor. That is assuming the driver situation doesn't preclude a choice of operating system...
They’re not just claiming circumstantial evidence. The plaintiff says they have FOIA documents describing confiscated Navy radar tapes that show an object striking TWA 800.

Damning if true, but a lot hinges on documents we haven’t seen.
If that is true then that is enough of a selling point. Cloud providers with 5 9's have one or two outages a year. If you need the uptime for systems that can't have one outage in a decade, is there a competing solution?
Missiles don't really look any different to what you'd think it would. They look just like very big fireworks until they burn out (and then they are basically invisible, just like fireworks).
Same here in the UK with local council (government) and NHS (healthcare) jobs.

The system is basically in a zombie state since Covid-19, a sizeable portion of staff either left those areas because of redundancy, overworked or stressed, died from Covid or went and found a better job elsewhere.

These institutions have become atrophied (weakened) but not given a chance to replenish.

No-one has done anything to address it. Giving payrises or better work conditions won't solve it, there is an apathy in these institutions, brought around by crippling bureaucracy. This apathy translates into poor recruitment and external sentiment by the public, "oh you don't want a job in the NHS, its hard unforgiving work with low pay".

Going to be a hard and unforgiving winter for the poorest and most vulnerable this year who need public services in the UK.

Anecdotally - a friend in North of Spain says a similar issue as well.
Can you tell us what book it is?
Hot-plugging hard drives is a bare minimum. There are many other points of failure and a failure of any of the following WILL result in downtime while the component is replaced: disk controller, CPU, memory, NIC. Having dual NICs and dual processors helps, but it's still a far cry from 100% availability.
I can think contracting population to be one thorny issue the Baltic states face, but how else is Kazakhstan in a better spot than say Estonia?
Deliver (2012)
> it appears that the default font size for most browsers is 16px, so 38rem is 608px. supporting 600px displays at a minimum seems reasonable.

I dont get the logic here. If the goal is 600px, why are we using rem?
I'm fine if you want to share my book with your friend or with a group of friends. However, library !== the entire world.

Moreover, libraries buy book(s) so they can share more copies if there is a demand.

Without authors getting paid for their work there won't be any books at all, except books from those authors who are willing to write them for free of charge. But I assume you don't like online libraries with free books online for some reason.
You can get a pretty good story here: https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architecture...
That argument is self refuting. Such wealthy enclaves are wealthy enclaves by virtue of the local planning laws that ban poor people from being allowed to live there.
pdfgrep is great. Worked like a charme to diff updates to a contract
This is an amazing tip! I use TTS quite a lot for checking certain accessibility issues, never once thought to use it for my own writing.
>I disagree about the font-size. I say go very small (pack more info on a screen)

Why, is it a contest who can cram the more? People can always scroll, and they know how to do that better than they know how to increase the text (not to mention most read on mobile phones, were even fewer know how to change the text size)

>old newspapers pack in the text, older readers can wear spectacles or use magnifying glass

Seems like the worst argument one could chose in favor of this idea...
> network bandwidth, which ultimately limits the performance of distributed file systems.

Oops, that's nonsense. I had my coffee now...
Yeah I don't actually value happiness but insofar as I do it simply means headphones. Good headphones. Audio quality yeah, but also unique way it plays songs, listen to everything all over again. And convenience, so for instance Airpods are the best headphone right now because it works well with masks, you don't have to put one over the other, meaning removing one requires removing the other. The convenience, the battery life, all that. Audio isn't just what you hear when everything's set up, it's also hearing sound when other systems would play nothing.
That is absolutely the plan. And if it weren’t for human-trafficked labor, we would have reached low points like this a long time ago. There are plenty more humans to traffic in the world, and the ruling elite has no problem starving them away from their families and communities then congratulating themselves as though they have done a good deed.
Robert Reich is a politico with a political agenda, and that article is in a US politics opinion section. Inflation is a major US electoral issue, and the Biden admin has tried to shift blame to greedy companies (not that it's necessarily fair to put the blame on the Biden admin, that's another issue altogether). And even if he were an economist (which he's not, despite the PPE degree), economists can be political hacks just like anyone else (Paul Krugman comes to mind).
I hate this. But I don't need to adjust the AC either, which is a better solution IMHO, because it works so good.
arc [1] / racket implimentation of demystifycpp might be able to provide something 'usable'/presentable at the command line and/or as a straight up web browser html file.

[1] : https://arclanguage.github.io/
Personally, we should all aim to be tolerant of others' paradigms. Religions are really just heuristics for how to live, including being sources of comfort based on the idea there is some larger purpose. And aggressively shitting on someone's belief system in passing conversation is a terribly unkind thing to do.

But societally, religion has been used to keep people down for millennia. It continues to drastically fuck up our political environment, like the recent attempts of prohibiting basic medical care. Religion's proper place is that of personal belief system, not as a Schelling point to rally around for oppressing others. Until its malevolent societal power has been neutered, it's not terribly surprising that many of those of us on the receiving end will overreact.

Also for what it's worth, the rabid atheist seems to be a less frequent real-world occurrence than the religious person who won't stop mentioning the concept of god.
The government was very skeptical of Havana syndrome very a long time. It was outright dismissed until it became very widespread and got lots of news attention.
Keep being in denial - this winter will be a freezing cold one for the EU, that's pretty much a given if you look at the energy price developments as we speak.

I don't see you refute the numbers, you're just attacking the messenger.

> This is the price we are willing to pay

Oh interesting. Yea you're sure the majority of your people are willing to starve and freeze for the sake of corrupt politics and a pseudo-moralistic cause? Have you asked them?

Perhaps speak for yourself only. And good luck to you and your family doing your part in reducing gas demand if you're so "willing".
Back in 2012 Russia bragged they had a program to develop microwave based "psychotronic" weapons. Maybe they got somewhere with it.

https://www.guns.com/news/2012/04/06/putin-russia-develop-ps...
Create and deploy a Discord bot in Rust, in under 20 minutes (for free)
shuttle has released support for Serenity (a Rust library for the Discord API) a while back and now we have a tutorial ready for anyone willing to give it a go: https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2022/09/14/serentity-discord-bot (creating a simple Discord bot, extending it to a weather forecast bot and deploying it with shuttle, for free).

To give you some context on shuttle; it is a Rust-native cloud development platform (open-source) that allows you to deploy your Rust app (or Discord bot, in this case) by adding a single annotation to your main file. Once you do that, you can run `cargo shuttle deploy` and your app/bot is all set!
Well, threaten them with blackouts if they dont cut enough usage.
> we've been re-inventing the same concepts in computing since the 1960s. I think a lot of the re-invention is really being driven by hardware capabilities, languages and fashion. We're seeing it with Rust right now

I often hear the argument that there is nothing really new in programming and that everything was already done in some way or other back in the 1960s.

I completely disagree with this and find it harmful. There is genuine innovation and new research happening in computer science all the time. The example you gave, the Rust language, is based on linear type theory that was first developed in the 1990s. Nothing like it existed in the 1960s and that is why it offers real improvement to software development.

Today, software development is slow, buggy, expensive and late. We owe it to ourselves to continue to research and search out ways to improve our craft. And this is happening. Newer programming languages and tools DO incorporate innovations from recent computer science research and are better for it. We should celebrate this rather than cynically pretend that all computer science research halted in 1969.
I know, I was just talking about the sugared versions of soft drinks, as the OP mentioned sugar overload.
You can ask a four year old if a hotdog is a vegetable and get a yes or no if you want, just in how you ask. Kids often want to please.
> We do not link to the Pirate Library Mirror from this blog. Please find it yourself.

Good. That's why their site has survived this far.
Judging by the responses here, it seems like HN has shifted to taking right wing talking points.
I have one single tip.
Don't use storyboards / nibs.
Write all you view code by hand. Stackviews and your own layer of helper functions are you friend. I can write UI faster in code than would ever be possible in nib tooling.
To say nothing of managing conflicts in those files. You won't look back!
> Fitbit

I'd rather not excercise than have my health data feed the GOOGL advertising engine, thank you. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/09/google-will-start-as... Because I do not trust them to uphold the EU rules.
> Surprisingly

Nothing about this is surprising. When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

Free speech is simply not the main value of what can loosely be called the left. Nor is historical truth or even opposition to slavery, as a review of The Woman King [0] (and the film itself, casting Black slavers as heroes and White abolitionists as villains), and alternating ignorance of or apologetics for the historical Middle Eastern slave trade [1,2,3,4] or present-day African slavery reveal [5].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32967317

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Saharan_slave_trade

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade

[4] How Islam moderated slavery - https://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/history/slave...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_contemporary_Africa - nominally they are against it, yet reserve all their moral outrage and rhetoric only for cases when whites were slavers. The 600 thousand dead, sacrificed in the civil war to end slavery, failed to appease them.
Microsoft wouldn't exist in this case.
VM on pc with lots of ram. Works fine for me.
The saddest vote (outside of immigration) in Swiss history is our complete destruction of nuclear energy in terms of both research and production. Instead of building new reactors we have committed to ... something. I only hope we can overturn this complete idiocy and start to build new reactors.

Having been a fan of this for so long this is just sad and pathetic that we now have to consider things like rolling blackouts.

That this is a thing in Europe in general is sad.
It's not silly -- the long term goal is to stop burning natural gas completely, and we can't do that unless we stop burning it.
Same. Are they faking the abnormally high rates of suicide too?
Should we sanction such usages, or should they be sanctioned?
Russia is trying to capitalize on this but the current EU/NATO consensus on the Ukraine conflict will only strengthen even further.

This winter is going to be a very hard time for Russia.
How do libraries get their books? When was the last time that you checked out a book at your local library?
This article seems to assume the removal of time zones did not come with any other changes to human behaviour to accommodate these things...
Edit: Violent disagreement
> Here’s some thoughts on opening an office for small political or social groups to organize.

> To do a thing correctly is to do a thing slowly. When you look deeper into most things you realize everything is complex in its own ways.

I think this is a translation.
+1 Fastmail. Their 'masked email' feature is brilliant.
People did talk, but they were silenced and the media did not report on it: http://raylahr.com/ntsb-clears-up-twa-800-conspiracy-theory....

> No fewer than four serious professionals within the investigation made specific allegations of evidence theft or tampering: Linda Kunz and Terrel Stacey of TWA, Jim Speer of TWA and ALPA, and Hank Hughes of the NTSB. Their allegations were taken seriously. Kunz and Speer were suspended from the investigation, Kunz permanently. Stacey was arrested. And Hughes was denounced by the FBI’s Kallstrom for his participation in a “kangaroo court of malcontents,” namely a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing.
We don't store any checksums - we just store your files.

The checksum commands:

(md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512, sha512t256, rmd160, skein256, skein512, skein1024, cksum)

... are available to run as you see fit.
This feels like a net loss for both privacy and freedom. It's giving Apple way too much power and too many special privileges. The rule of thumb for things like this should be "would this be feasible on 100% open source hardware?".
Test missiles often have dummy or instrumented warheads. You would not expect it to look anything like.

And while normal warheads typically try to narrowly miss to maximize fragmentation, the SM-2 is quite unique in that it is specifically designed with a contact fuze as fragmentation doesn't work very well for many of its intended targets.
“Christians” do, sure. But not all of us behave like that, or want others to behave like that. This is especially true outside the US, where a huge chunk of the Christian community is watching the US situation with concern.
Plenty of people did talk, including investigators.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/new-film-feeds-con...
I bet they are more up to date than most WordPress installations.
Just like in civilian life, most people in the military are truck mechanics, cooks, and suchlike. Imputing expertise upon such people is misdirection, just the same kind of misdirection this filing is using to impute authority on a person by citing him as "a physicist" and consistently referring to him as "doctor" out of context.
We should do everything we can to fix supply issues. The sooner we do, the better.

But in the meantime , demand has to adjust. Either we do it via monetary policy and any other levers, or inflation will do the job for us.
How many libraries are there? Libraries might be the biggest customer demographic of some books.
It's just too often that what they say disagrees with what they do, and too often that they declare reforms. They promised the freedom of speech, and yet, right now, before the presidential elections, they try to shut the mouths of journalists who criticize them (typically, fabricating cases against them).

And, if you didn't know - the first thing Tokayev did in 2019 when Nazarbayev (the first president who ruled almost 30 years) handed the rein to him - is that he proposed to rename the Kazakhstani capital, Astana, to Nur-Sultan (Nazarbayev's first name). And of course, the Parliament unanimously supported the idea. Not a single member objected.

Few months ago it was "proposed" by someone from the Parliament (of course, not as an own initiative, hence quotes) to rename the capital back to Astana, and Tokayev supported. The parliament voted unanimously. Not a single member objected.

I do agree that things seem better in Kazakshtan now than they were even a decade ago, or even than they are now in most other post-Soviet countries. But it's still way too far...
Your book is free on leanpub. Was this done after it got pirated?
`git frbi` allows you to pick the value that will be passed to `git rebase -i`

I recommend you try it and it should hopefully make sense.
"Very easy for people to make it bigger"

I wonder if that's true for the average (non-nerd) user on a smartphone though. They can likely pinch-and-zoom, but that's a terribly way of reading text since you constantly have to pan back and forth. Have they definitely found the text size adjustment buttons?
Buddhism had its share of violence too, IIRC.
They do this knowing taking no action will be far far worse for everyone. We saw what a decade of stagflation looked like and it’s much worse than limited job losses. Even those who lose jobs will be better off with a short recession rather than costs inflating away their earnings.

The actions taken in 2007 and 2008 were largely because of how terrified decision makers were of the Great Depression (Bernanke in particular was a deep student of that era and saw lots of similarities).

The Fed’s mandate has always been to control inflation and promote employment. The goals sometimes oppose each other. There’s no evidence they have stepped aside from this mandate. Employment was so prioritized by the Fed for so long that their actions promoting it probably fueled some of this inflation, and led to them to not fighting the inflation sooner. Hardly the actions of Vladimir Putin.
Got to love people who believe that eating causes weight loss.
That C in C++ id the part where most of the serious bugs in C++ come from