skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This middle school level take always pops up. Anything other than militarism and endless escalation for the military industrial complex is falsely labelled as appeasement to continuously sell war.

History didn't start in 1930s Germany. The causes and events of "WWII" are far more complex than "we appeased Hitler and WWII sucked so therefore anything other than instantly destroying the enemy is appeasement and that's bad".

Musk might not understand the region perfectly and his proposal might be imperfect, but his general sentiment to try and find some form of common ground is smarter than beating the war drums as hard as possible until we see nuclear missiles filling the skies.
Musk stories are downranked on HN. Dang has confirmed this. They don't want to expose Musk to the type of analysis and criticism that a forum of real engineers might engage in.
There was an early edition of C++: How To Program by Deitel & Deitel that had a yellow cover[1]. And those books were notoriously long, on the order of 800+ pages quite often, with lots and lots of exercises. So maybe that?

[1]: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/fUwAAOSwOA5fohoY/s-l400.jpg
~13m + 1, dammit!
it doesnt have to work, only potential to work when assembled, otherwise the whole federal definition of receiver, and firearm starts to crumble into something approaching reality.

for example a 2x4 profiled to fit an AR upper, and having one [!] hole [!] drilled where the trigger group belongs, is considered a firearm; if you dont drill in to the FCG pocket you have a lower blank [not a firearm yet]
Datacenters often have agreements to shed load in emergencies - I was working on a machine inside a datacenter in San Diego when they announced that SDGE had asked them to throw to generator as the load was too high. This was back in the Enron days.

If you've never been in a secure datacenter when they throw, it's fun.
Meh. My future is a linux laptop with emacs and ssh.

But yeah. I feel you. The Edge is where all the cool kids are hanging out.

And as much as it sounds like a buzzword, terminating TLS at the edge is and calling back to central services via a proxy w/ warm connections to the backend is pretty easy to deploy and does wonders for perceived latency.
I see two extremes: one represented by this professor who IMHO cares too little about students --- still he deserves to keep his job. The other extreme is more dangerous and is about University professors actively accepting and facilitating immature behaviour by students. Where could a sweet spot be drawn along this gradient?
> I fear RCV is going to poison the well for any FPTP alternatives for a long time to come.

Which, cynically, might be the reason it has achieved the level of adoption that it has so far. We at least have to consider the possibility that the current major parties will only (disingenuously) support reforms that will, in the long run, further entrench their duopoly.
Based on published information, Tiktok is behaving significantly worse than any other major player in this market.

Just one example: There are no reports of Meta (etc) logging my keystrokes and data OUTSIDE of what I enter into the app/website.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33049774
> ranked choice is what has the growing momentum

Using that as justification for why ranked choice should be adopted is circular reasoning.
Indeed, if the price goes above 54 and remains above 54, he will get a good deal.

It will do neither of those things. It's only even getting near 54 because of the impending deal. People buying now know that when the deal closes, the shares will be worth 54, so if they can buy for less than that, then buy, buy, buy. Once the deal closes, it's profit-taking time, so sell, sell, sell--and the stock price plummets.
I believe that solution is possible for the Lisp-modified task description:

Write a cyclic quine that reproduces itself through 128 Lisp languages

because we easily have that many, or more.
First thing I looked for as well.
That's nothing.

You want to learn what to do during winter power outages?

Join us down in Houston! Or anywhere in Texas for that matter.
I worked in a company that got bought by GE... was incredible how much waste and odd decisions were made. Felt like layers and layers of bureaucracy, and that their main reason for buying us was because they had billions offshore and didn't want to pay taxes to bring it back to USA.

My faith in anything they do is very low.
Don't be a party pooper. This is just RPC via HTTP. ;)
> There is one more point I would like to add to the "less friction to start." This is the killer feature for education

So now the children have 2 entities spying on them: the school and the cloud provider.
There is no “rational” decision when your mind does not work correctly. Subjectively it is but it is objectively both wrong (because false) and imprudent (because data is discarded which should not be).

I am speaking from experience as a depressive person (not actively sick right now): I know that I do not think objectively when I am ill, but I only know this when I am not ill.
They are awful and do nothing except waste taxpayer money. If you want to really want to get rid of a gun, you get much more for your money by selling it to a gun store. It can also lead to the destruction of historically interesting guns. Luckily, in this respect, some states such as Arizona which prohibits the state and local governments from destroying firearms. So we they don't do "buybacks" here anymore.
“ In any case, a 60,000 year civilisation not involving much in the way of capitalism seems to at least point to the possibility that what many contemporaries imagine from their very limited experience of the varieties of human experience to be 'human nature' is, in fact, merely a description of their own local culture.”

I’m not sure about that conclusion, which is why I was asking for an example so I can read up on it. My main question is what caused them to not grow exponentially? In most non industrial societies it was higher mortality than modern life, and I really doubt that’s something people want to return to. But I’m not familiar with the cultures you mentioned and will look into it. Curious if you have a point of view on what limited their growth.

My main point is that I think capitalism is somewhat irrelevant to this issue. I don’t think this problem originated with capitalism and I don’t think the main driver is capitalism.

I also see rays of hope.

1) birth rates have been going down heavily in modern industrial societies. Without immigration America’s population would be growing very much. Economists freak out about this, but it may force the change in our system we both seem to want.

2) we might innovate our way out. I would not want to bet solely on this like many others do, but it’s certainly a possible.

Regarding human nature, I believe the evidence is rather strong that we are wired to reproduce as much as possible through natural selection. And that we are wired to seek high social status because it leads to higher reproduction. I.e. we are wired for growth.
One is controlled by an authoritarian government, the others are private (publicly traded) corporations in a democratic country.
It’s definitely a heel move. I also fail to see how a small unprofitable firm (like most startups) is evidence of competition.
"He's really going to feel that in the morning when the painkillers wear off" as the weightlifter (fake) tears his arms out from the socket.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU

RIP Phil Hartman, the greatest SNL actor of all time.
I meant that the type of gun is something that criminals use, not that the specific guns being turned in were destined to become criminal's guns.

i.e. turning away 3D printed derringers is not putting a gun on the streets that is likely to be useful for crime.
Yup, I imagine most people living outside NY/NYC probably don't know to read NYPost articles with a heavy grain of salt.
> Often you've got the feeling of "magicians" using technobabble to let things look much more difficult or new than they are.

Just one of the ways people work to keep salaries up ;)
Reading up on the Colorado river on Wikipedia I came across this interesting claim;

"the Colorado is so intensively managed that each drop of its water is used an average of 17 times in a single year."

Sadly I don't have the knowledge to put that in context.
an induced hallucination of another kind
When your game developer has and needs a $4k workstation, and they work from home half the week. No reason to buy them another machine and have them maintain two seperate workspaces, we just give them parsec.

All our staff seem happy and we don't get complaints. Author hasn't tried modern tools it seems.

Another use case: mobile people with laptops, who sometimes want to hop in to a play test or show a game off to a vendor. No need for them to have a gaming laptop 99% of the time, when an X1 carbon + parsec to a beefy box work fine.
Love how people in this topic keep arguing about the most strawman interpretation of the article.

Noone is saying we should commit "neurodivergent" individuals with a minor Adderall addiction into mental asylums where they will be subjected to shock therapy... The article is about severely ill paranoid schizophrenics, who are ticking timebombs when off their meds.

Sorry, but this is not some "on the spectrum" hippy bullshit - these people are seriously ill and need to be treated, and kept in check to make sure they stick to their treatment.
Just running my display at 60Hz vs 30Hz is enough. The pointer feels extremely laggy at 30Hz, despite that being a higher refresh rate than a movie.
MBA programs just cargo cult whatever is appears to be working. They're like trend followers who just amplify whatever is already happening not trend setters.
E. Nesbit used grief, politics, imagination to make a new kind of book for kids
> Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a former associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, is chairman of Do No Harm.

> We are a national association of medical professionals combating the attack on our healthcare system from woke activists.

As a rule, posting an article from NY Post is rarely a good idea if there's an alternative. This one was written by a person that has a direct interest in the case.
The gun buyback surely had ads just to get people to even show up, not yet including the staff time of people working the event and the gift cards.
Nope. I find good podcasts to be at the right level. Hidden brain for the most part hits that. To me, information density isn't as important as to how it is communicated. I actually like some interviewer interviewee panels because they draw out connections that you may not get in an information dense dump. Some of these podcasts episodes (like this one) though are interviews about the book the interviewee wrote, so the density you are looking for is likely in the book.

If you like information dense podcasts you'd like Huberman's podcast as he just lays everything out there.
This is some absolutely wrong dosage, please don't ever take actual 400ug doses unless you really know what you're doing. Most tabs sold as 200ug are in the 30-80ug range, so people tend to severely overestimate the dosage.
This was an incredibly bold operation from the begining.
They planned to exit one way or another, using the incorporated in the US to gain trust and the plan was not to just disappear, but file for bankruptcy as in "it happens".

It is remarkable how they used the depositors or investors money to pay for their lawyers and yet the government considers this a chapter 11 instead of 7, as if there is any way to conduct business going forward.
Reputation gone, money gone, the owners gone.

Every time something like this happens, on such a scale, makes you wonder, how can so many people fall for this?

I am not sure greed is the only factor, there must be more behind it, some shrinks will have a field day.

And all the victims are now asking for a government intervention.

There is no free lunch, even mashinkis money will come at a large cost. From what I read, many lost over 100k and some lost 7 digits, certainly some shady people amongst these.

In conclusion, this was planned from the very beginning. If they could run this profitable, fine, if not, they hiding money followed by chapter 11 was the backup plan.
I have practically always used bounds checked vectors and strings.

In the old days, all C++ frameworks bundled with compilers tended to have bounds checking enabled by default (Turbo Vision, OWL, VCL, MFC, PowerPlant, CSet++, Qt,...).

Nowadays I always set _ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL to 1 on VC++, unless I am not allowed to.

Mostly the performance problems that were dealt with, had to do with badly chosen algorithms and data structures.

Modern Android ships with FORTIFY enabled.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/04/fortify-in...
calling this test biased is stupid. people who study hard score better. its the same with any test all over the world.
There's a common way people from scientific communities (such as HN) look at the world - there's a "real world" out there, and in order to improve our understanding of things we should approximate (discover the rules that govern) this real world and try to minimize our subjective experiences as much as possible. I fully subscribe to this view, the real world has to be same for everyone, right?

But there's another way to look at things which is prevalent in other circles, and if someday you decide to learn to meditate, I'm confident you'll get it.

How do you know the "real world" exists? Maybe you're a brain inside a jar "in the machine", and all the things you experience are being generated by the machine. In that case, how is an hallucination any different from any other experience you have? It isn't, it's exactly the same, it's just another experience. How you interpret it may be different, if you realize it's an hallucination, but the process itself is the same.

When you look at a tree, you can't just see the tree, you can only see the model that your mind creates of that tree, from the light that reaches your eyes, the sound, maybe touch etc - this is true for everything you experience.

Obviously the first perspective is very useful, it's science. But the second perspective is also very very useful, if you want to know why I can elaborate : )
They're not required to divulge documents. They're required to respond to the subpoena. An acceptable response is that you don't want to divulge because they're confidential or the request is too burdensome.
Unfortunately the government (of all stripes) tends to reject predictions it doesn't like:

try this one from 20 years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3034088.stm

(it's on this topic of energy)
A competitor can’t enter the market to compete on price because Google subsidizes their product with ads. Thats the very picture of predatory, anticompetitive behavior. You can’t know what the market would be if Android were forced to compete fairly.
(disclaimer: have no actual context and have just skimmed the various articles)

It's interesting to read the perspective of the students as well:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nyu/comments/xvsgk0/the_professor_j...
> IMO Meta is fundamentally built on data collection

Isn’t their whole Metaverse thing a gamble to get away from that? Why does data collection prevent creating a good VR experience. If anything it should align goals well (spend as much time in VR as possible, so as much in VR as possible). Besides, most DataCollection companies offer CollectionFree enterprise contracts… which is where the money for this probably is.

(Btw I’m a huge fan of this sort of product and I hope a respectful company wins.. I’m just skeptical that meta can’t fund their way to success. )
Except it doesn't. The full clause you are discussing:

"Specifically, this termination fee is payable by Parent to Twitter if the Merger Agreement is terminated by Twitter because (1) the conditions to Parent’s and Acquisition Sub’s obligations to consummate the Merger are satisfied and the Parent fails to consummate the Merger as required pursuant to, and in the circumstances specified in, the Merger Agreement;"

The comment conviently cut the first part of the sentence where the clause is effective if the acquisition is terminated by Twitter.
It's the same with coins.

However fiat money must be protected by people with guns against forgery. With one exception: people in power are allowed to counterfeit it, thus robbing the common people, under protection of people with guns.

Gold and Bitcoin are immune to both types of forgery.
Buyback as in you bought it from somewhere, and the government buys it from you. Buyback doesn't, to me anyway, imply that the government sold it to you in the first place.
This is a well-trodden path. The government finances the projects over a number of years through the capital markets and then levees a tax to cover the payments. They are quite interchangeable. 30% of New Yorkers and 35% of DC residents don't even have access to cars. 90% of Hong Kongers don't have cars. Yet they manage to thrive.
This has happened to us twice in the past week and a half.

All of our passwords are randomly generated with entropy greater than 150 bits.

Have seen several others reporting this as well.
Why does it warm your heart? Even if you’re pro 2A, why would you want to undermine buy back programs, which even in the least charitable description remove unwanted firearms which could otherwise be stolen or end up in the hands of a child?
A Statement from the Election Integrity Partnership, targeted by Misinfo
If there’s on average “ high percentage of withdrawals and low grades” compared to the course taught by other instructors, yeah I think that’s fair.

We all had that one professor who everyone was afraid to take. School is still a business, a lot of those guys are better off in research or writing textbooks.
> If you have lived in a country with load-shedding and have experienced this before, as far as your average household goes, 3 hours without power is barely an inconvenience.

I live in the US (TX) where load shedding is rare, but I did lose power from roughly 11:30a yesterday until ~11:30 today due to a snafu with the power company. Discovered this just prior to my 12pm Zoom meeting.

Three hours while I sleep matters not. Three hours when I need my wifi for work is quite annoying.

A more robust energy supply should be the goal, but better failure modes would also be of value.
The C++ jobs I've been approached about are in the music and gaming industries. Both jobs are audio-related. I have a strong background in audio signal analysis and processing, despite my minimal C++ chops.
Maybe I am missing something, but which GET is not idempotent?
Marble races are fantastic, but not as good as the hotwheels races (3d botmaker diecast racing or something like that, the announcers are pretty funny)
> You made a site complaining about the subpoena [..] I'm guessing you haven't seen a subpoena before - they are all like this

If everyone kept their mouths shut as you suggest, we wouldn't know about how rotten the legal system is until it was our turn at the gallows.
You can get the same improvement by reading a test prep book. You need to know the 3-4-5 triangle, this list of word definitions, a handful of other stuff. How much time you have. Now take a few practice tests, also freely or cheaply available anywhere. All of it should be a review of methods and skills you already have from school. That is the point of the test after all.

To me, those test prep places always seemed to be struggling with legitimacy. It's not like hiring a tutor to help you learn difficult concepts for the first time.
I never understood grade grubbers. Even in elementary or middle school I would encounter kids who would fight the teacher over a couple points on a test because of some badly worded question or technicalities about why they’re right. Usually they were Asian or Indian. I learned from one of these kids one day that if they got any kind of bad grade their dad would beat the shit out of them.
> Try to send a text but end up using iMessage

iMessage is the default SMS and messaging app on iPhones. It’s what most people use for texting as well as messaging on iPhone.
Sociology, maybe. Medicine, certainly not. Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/1520/

Medicine is demonstrably saving lives year on year. Some plagues have been entirely eliminated; for others we're on the verge of stamping them out.

Medicine is a more complex science than physics or chemistry, with more variables leading to more room for errors. But nobody seemed to think medicine was political until it coincided with a political ideology that happened to have a penchant for declaring sciences "political" whenever they didn't want to accept them.
If the chess world's aim is to play wholly as humans, it failed a long time ago. Engines control all modern GMs early play, with natural play only beginning when a player's memory fails. One of the ironies about the current scandal is that some of the most sanctimonious critics of cheating don't think twice when pushing out 20+ moves predetermined by the engine.
"Stochastic terrorism"
> A well-insulated wall, being necessary for the warmth of a free House, the right of the people to keep and bear R15, shall not be infringed.

We lost our furnace during the winter and it took us about a week to realize it, because the house lost heat so slowly. 3 hours should be nothing unless you've no insulation at all, in which case you have other problems.
Good thing is, those changes are _generally_ reversible. In some computers you might have to cut board traces though.
I don't think craftmanship will ever go away. Better tools allow us to make more stuff and bigger stuff and more complex stuff - AI will be just another tool that creatives can use.
Reducing the access to means of suicide greatly reduces the number of suicides. Many suicides are the result of a short term crisis or encouraged by having an easy means todo it.

So getting rid of the unused gun in the attic for a few hundred or thousand dollars may well be a simple and cheap technique to reduce suicides.
The missing piece of this article is where his writing was going to end up. Was he writing for Readers Digest? The New Yorker? A trade paperback? I feel like the editorial process would be considerably different based on the who is publishing the work and the intended audience.
What a silly comparison. You get what you pay for and if you under-fund transit you end up with bunks. If you fund it appropriately you get gorgeous and efficient systems like Hong Kong MTR and Singapore MRT. Or even the new electric Caltrains [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/Caltrain/status/1559318073940647936/phot...
If you do decide to partake, make sure you have someone with you, not only in case things go awry but just to help guide you along. It can be very disorienting and scary, when you start realizing the shop has sailed, so to speak. Hard to put it to words, and I'm sure people experience it differently, but if you start to panic things can take a turn. I had a friend once call me, terrified and barely coherent, when I showed up they were not even sure how much time had passed or what they'd done. Luckily I was able to calm them down, and things went smoothly from there.

Most importantly do research and be very very careful with doses or combinations, as (depending on what you have and where you got it) it's possible to overdo it when you think you didn't take enough. Better to err on the side of caution than to be overwhelmed, and because people react differently don't just think because someone else's dose worked for them that it will work for you.