skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To people who aren't victims, this looks like a power shift but also a "break" from having to be a good person. Specifically there is a sense that political/social power is being systematically transferred from non-protected groups that have traditionally held power, to marginalized or protected classes of people. Whether the above shift in political power is true or not is irrelevant - as the true nature of who holds power hasn't shifted in any significant way from what I can tell.

The power hasn't shifted, but the rules for how that power is used have changed. And that has real-world impacts.

To use an example, Joe Biden is an old white guy, like all but one President before him. In that sense the power hasn't shifted. But his administration has created government programs that make benefits available to, e.g., wealthy Indians, but not poor Appalachians: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/sba-cant-priorit.... That's an economically meaningful change in how power is used.

To use another example, universities, film, the media, etc., are still controlled by white people. But those white people openly discriminate in favor of non-whites, creating a powerful incentive to identify as some sort of minority and make that identification a prominent part of one's scholarship.

In my view, America has become minoritarian, in a way that has diverted our attention from the general welfare, and created perverse incentives for members of minority groups. The story from the other day is a great example: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/25/us/sundance-jihad-rehab-m.... We have created a system where a Lebanese-American film maker has every incentive to attack a movie about Muslims made by a white woman, regardless of the movie's merit. We should not be surprised that people respond to those incentives.
This isn't an either/or: Kanye West (or anybody else) can be simultaneously shrewd, calculating, and mentally unwell. Nobody has claimed that Kanye is stupid or otherwise compensating, only that he has a publicly attested history of mental health problems.
Agree. And "victimization" is Step 4. in Vi Hart's remarkable video: https://youtu.be/deg1wmYjwtk
Technology hasn’t progressed past the need for large, filled apertures.
I am not convinced that AA is actively trying to block this app. I used to work for a major anti-bot vendor, so from that I know that all airlines suffer heavily from price scraping and try to protect their flight search endpoints. The impact to them is due to fees from the centralized data services that all airlines depend on.
For many processes where the lifecycle is limited, freeing memory can be waste of time; most notably freeing memory just before exiting is complete waste.
The fantasy of winning has non zero utility to players. Spending 2$ on a 400+ Million dollar prize can be fun up until the moment know you actually lost.

I enjoy the experience enough to delay checking the numbers and thus savor the experience for significantly longer. Similarly I don’t particularly feel the need to regularly play as the occasional ticket is enough to keep the near zero possibility of a future win alive.

Never playing on the other hand kills the fantasy. So in terms of what value I personally get from ~8$/year, lottery tickets are awesome.
From a customer support PoV, soft deletes have the wonderful property that you can assuage the upset / irate individual on the other end of the phone that their data can indeed be recovered from whatever mishap they just engineered and do so with a simple query.

Yes - backups can help - but without live backups (WAL shipping or equivalent) you still risk some form of data loss. And if you have those, you just have soft deletes on a system level rather than an in-DB level + a vastly more complex system of partial restores.
Indeed. Gross ticket sales would be approximately double the reported revenue.
We have a free speech platform though. Practically everyone has decided not to use it. I think the echo chamber that self selecting which moderators you want has created huge problems, but we can't force people to use 4chan when they don't want to.
I would 100% completely rule it out in survival situations. The probability of making a contact and that contact being of use is very low. There are far more productive uses of your time than bashing brass. I say that as a regular QRP CW operator.

In a survival situation you're better off with VHF/UHF HTs and a tested network of people that you already know who have them and how to use them. And even that is of dubious use.
Hah! TIL. I had no idea someone did this. But it's smart. I should have thought of it!

(I'm the author of ripgrep.)
51 days is nothing. The Airbus A350 had to be rebooted every 149 hours: https://www.theregister.com/2019/07/25/a350_power_cycle_soft...
> This can apply to protocols, APIs, file formats etc. It is good to think about how, for example, a client/server system will detect and respond to different versions ahead of time (i.e. even when there is only one version),

A blogpost/article about YAGNI manages to suggest a rather nuanced feature should always be included, that isn't needed, right up front.
Nobody of any reputation would claim global warming is going to end civilization.
> Students need more exposure to the way everyday things work and are made.

Why does it have to be one or the other? Besides, algebra can also be taught in a more visual way and featuring more concrete reasoning, such as via complex word-problems that can be solved with a mix of arithmetic and algebraic approaches.
> there is an expensive congestion charge

Pales in comparison to the cost of parking. An afternoon in the Q-Park at Westminster is £45, 3 times the price of the congestion charge.
> misaligned headlights on pickup trucks

Never had a problem with pickups but I've had several dozen experiences where the headlights behind me were "blinding" and in most cases the vehicle in question ended up being an Audi, Mercedes or BMW. In later years, this "headlight disease" spread to other mainstream brands - can't say I've ever been blinding by "big pickup guy".
In the literature I have read, this point is one of the first things they clarify and address common criticisms.
If you're doing three-wire control [0], it also means you can add additional "stop" buttons by wiring them all into the circuit in series.

A nice-to-have addition to your table saw is a big red stop button you can reach with your foot so you don't have to take your hands off of your work pieces to shut the saw down if things have gotten more interesting than you expected them to. Three wire control makes this super easy to add (once you've found the big red mushroom-head n/c switch, of course).

[0] https://twcontrols.com/lessons/control-wiring-3-wire-control...
This is the kind of clickbait I can get behind :)
For Eastern Europe WWII was just being between equally sadistic and brutal sides – Germans and Russians. Baltic states are full of stories like the one about my family:

- Occupied in 1940 by Russians, heads of family (especially if politically active and educated) were arrested, tortured and were never seen again.

- Occupied in 1941 by Germans young men were arrested, tortured and never seen again.

- Occupied in 1944 by Russians again survived women with children were sent to Siberia and most of them were never seen again.

From rather big and known family full of educated people only my grandmother and my father survived.

The only real difference between Russians and Germans is that Russians didn't have to take any responsibility for their atrocities. They were winners of the war.
no, when you are banned, you pretty much cant get your account back. When it is locked, there are steps you can undertake to get access restored (like deleting the offending content).
FAST being in China is problematic.

Emblematic of decay of American power that we aren’t rebuilding it. And a betrayal of Puerto Rico, for which this is a symbol of pride.
I think you're right that it's widespread beyond consciously selfish people. Most people naturally reproduce whatever behavior seems to be socially rewarded, and some people don't think very hard into it.

For example, in my social group, who as you can imagine are a bunch of well-off privileged people, there is a small but persistent minority of people who complain about ills that plague less privileged people as if they affected them, too. They aren't a minority of the most selfish people; they might be a pious bunch but they're mostly just not thinking.

So I hear complaints about anxiety over employment, from people with Ivy League degrees who could have ten interviews for higher pay lined up within 48 hours if they wanted. And not just acknowledgment of the emotions that everybody feels regardless of privilege, but explicitly linking their anxiety to real economic precarity and political and policy injustices.

Complaints about how difficult it is to pay for health care, from people who have 1% incomes and walk out of a complex surgery owing a few hundred bucks. That's not the health care crisis that people are talking about!

Complaints about exploitative employment, from salaried people who can and do take a few days off whenever they want, for whatever reason they want, and can disappear from work anytime, no matter how awkward the timing, with no questions asked by saying the words "mental health."

These people aren't consciously lying, but they aren't thinking concretely enough to realize that people aren't going to validate and applaud their words like they would if they came out of the mouth of someone less privileged.

I tell them that if privileged people exploit the sensitivity to mental health in the workplace to such a ridiculous degree, there might be a backlash against it before some people even begin to see the benefits. And if people learn to associate "health care crisis" and "food islands" with wealthy people complaining about nearly imperceptible lifestyle compromises, it's going to make it much harder to make progress politically.

But they don't get it. They aren't thinking below the surface. They're just thinking "people sympathize with and applaud these kinds of complaints so I should voice them as well."
I was more offended by his Space Jews jokes than anything else. I am not Jewish but I think he went too far, but that's what comedians do. Nobody except grandma wants to go see a politically correct comedian.

I think you along with many other people are missing his point. He has a problem with how black people are treated in this country, rightly so, and he has a problem with transgenders who want to say they have suffered more than his community and he is "punching down" on them. Like he said, some transgenders are victims until they need to white, then they call the cops. He signs off the special asking transgender community to stop "punching down" on black people.

He's pretty clear about this but psychopaths will often deliberately misunderstand to make their case.
It is absurd but for a lot of these people the lottery is their “best bet” at getting out of their current financial situation. Consider too that modern lotteries are structured to give you enough of a dopamine hit that you want to keep playing. So maybe one-half or one-third of time you “win” back your $1 or $5 bet. I wonder whether those small-potato lottery prizes are factored in to their calculation of a player’s “income”.
The 500m telescope lacks transmitters - this is an important distinction.

> Fifth, Arecibo's larger secondary platform also housed several transmitters, making it one of only two instruments in the world capable of radar astronomy. ... The NASA-funded Planetary Radar System allowed Arecibo to study solid objects from Mercury to Saturn, and to perform very accurate orbit determination on near-earth objects, particularly potentially hazardous objects.

China's 500m telescope wouldn't be able to capture https://www.planetary.org/space-images/radar-images-of-aster... because it can't send a pulse.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010DPS....42.1317B/abstra...

> We report Arecibo (2380 MHz, 13 cm) and Goldstone (8560 MHz, 3.5 cm) delay-Doppler radar observations of binary near-Earth asteroid (NEA) 65803 Didymos (1996 GT) obtained on five dates between November 14-26, 2003 during the asteroid's approach within 0.048 AU.

You'll note the Goldstone mention there and the "making it one of only two instruments in the world" from the wiki link on the 500 meter article

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_astronomy

> There is one remaining radar astronomy facility in regular use, the Goldstone Solar System Radar.
Ah - I'd forgotten about transaction fees.
For most of these things, you just make a blueprint and stamp it down repeatedly.
Prizes and rewards are given out for being the biggest victim, so it's natural that people want to out-victim one another for additional resources. Anytime there's resources at stake, people will do what they can to gain them. In Canada it's so perverse that it seems like everyday someone is outed, after gaining a prestigious position, for not having any indigenous heritage at all. But, they used that status to rapidly gain resources over competitors.
It takes around 1 or 2 years for the current LGBT flag to become outdated until a new minority in the minority wants its own colors and its own letter.
Experienced sysadmins see the occasional chatter of problems in logs and emails as the pulse of the system, the EKG hooked up to the patient letting you know how things are going.

The right level of logging is usually enough to be annoying but not so annoying you need to reduce it. That means you're hopefully thorough enough in the logging that you're reporting what you care about and the things you see are the the things you can manually fix or ignore, and fit a frequency level you can live with.

Until the stuff you're managing becomes too large for that to make sense anymore, because that only scales so far (but surprisingly far for diligent admins). Then you need to move to something more complex, which is a big job and requires an entirely different way of reviewing (like Prometheus). You're probably better doing that from the beginning, but it's time and effort but everyone can take, or may not have existed at that time.
The statement that he is the first employee at a US venture-backed software company to sit on the board is comically wrong. Venture-backed companies have had employee board members as regular practice for at least as long as the 20+ years I have been in the industry. While not necessarily the norm, it is certainly not uncommon for an employee other than the CEO to have a seat (often a co-founder). The seat is usually designated as elected by the holders of Common Stock (which usually is the founders and employees with stock). The only thing I see unique here is that he was elected by the employees with one vote per employee, rather by common shareholders with one vote per share.
It's a fact that the guy is very publicly suffering from mental illness. Let's please not insinuate that he's being smeared for "disagreeing with the status quo" or not conforming to mainstream ideas, or some other common right wing victimhood nonsense.

When you say crazy things, it is correct to call them crazy.
If I think jews control the world and I calmly discuss it, present circumstantial evidence, etc would that be acceptable?

Sure I'm using offense terms but that's not as bad as claiming they control the world.

Or if I thought slavery should be brought back but I don't use the n word. Is that really the issue?
gambling, crypto comes to mind
There's a lot invested already in just getting the main mass up there and the core development of the system so building and installing small improvements can keep the investment useful for lower cost than replacing it.

Documentation on the spy satellite connection is sketchy but it seems to be designed similarly to an NRO satellite KH11 iirc but I think it was modified a lot and the more modern spy satellites might not be as readily convertible to deep space observation. So you have that work and the cost to loft it vs the cost to install some upgrades to and existing satellite.
Less than 20 transactions per second. Mindbogglingly slow.
Good point! No recovery means one less attack vector. And I’m ok with that for this specific account purpose as well.
When the pool gets deep into the 9 figure territory, a group of us from work (and a few alumni) pool some money and buy tickets to the "one in a million" level of odds (around $600 for the pool).

That doesn't change that the primary value is in the bonding and fantasy; we're not doing it because it's a rational/+EV investment.
like most things on this site, this is a critique of the American education system
This happens because the real insulators are better approximations of ideal insulators, than real conductors are approximations of ideal conductors.

In electrical circuits made with normal conductors and insulators, e.g. copper wires and organic polymer insulators, it is possible to ignore the currents that branch from the wires and close through the insulators, because they are extremely small (e.g. in the femtoampere range), but frequently it is not possible to ignore the voltage drops along the copper wires, which are caused by the resistances of the wires, and which may be in the millivolt range.
The police call the machine in question a robot, the army calls it a robot, even the manufacturer calls the machine in question a robot.
Thank you--in spite of my stats background, I assumed the author was conveying their distaste for proof-of-work.
Or just Ctrl-Alt-Fn to the nth console (enabled in /etc/ttys).

Unless you’re coming in through com0, that is.
We have bots scraping some of our pages at work. We've attempted to reach out but haven't received a response. We don't mind the bots so much themselves, but we want them to be well behaved. Currently they are making calls over and over again that return a 4xx response and are a significant portion of our traffic. We want to request that they stop making bad requests and slow down (we do have throttling in place, but this just gave them more errors to ignore and retry.).

I'd love for an open third-party like this one. It'd even help with prioritizing features that we're missing in our first-party products.
I was guessing that you were in Oregon or Washington because something similar happened here: a local chain (Haggen) tried to take over a bunch of stores and ended up in bankruptcy.

Trying to take over 5X times as many stores as you were running before is a huge operational challenge. Haggen also alleged bad information from Albertson's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggen
My massive problem with tech like this is it violates the basic principle of: "you only kill when your life is in danger". If a cop is chasing a suspect and the suspect pulls out a gun and starts shooting a the cop, the cop would be right to shoot back and kill the suspect. But you can't apply that standard to something that isn't living, if a cop is directing a robot to chase a suspect and the suspect start shooting at the robot, the same standard just does not apply.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Amazing how many people miss this.
Thank you.

Whatever is going on in this individual case, Bipolar disorder is terrible. It can look like someone is "fine" for a long time, but then they aren't fine and people look for what changed, and what changed is progression of the disease.

It's really hard to talk about without adding stigmatization.
Most narcissists thrive on social validation. Virtue signaling is almost always a narcissistic trait. Just observing people or having a conversation with them that involves solving a problem, but not necessarily their way, straight up outs narcissists and their tendencies.
One of the most common pop analyses of Kanye West is that the death of his mother in 2007 affected him deeply, and that he (essentially) goes on a mental health bender every year around the time she passed. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's not the most implausible explanation and does comport with his most recent behavior (since the anniversary of her death is a few weeks away).
Yes, you are thinking down the correct thread. It gets scarier the further you go. Not because what it implies people are willing to do, but what people can be made to become.
There is a pretty huge distinction between an RC car with a camera and an attachment that can load a single shell into it and the "shotgun-toting robot" that your article conjures.

Doesn't the chief of police have to personally authorize the use of one of these robots? Do you find these scary even when used appropriately? Or is your fear that this is a slippery slope that ends in an autonomous robot sticking a shotgun in your face and demanding your ID?
You don't become a multi-billionaire being the one that's played.
This actually an interesting question.

I would counter that the narcissists also have the same reasons as "true" victims. They seek to personally benefit from the compassion of others.

What sets them apart is not the motive or reason, but the execution. Narcissists are more apt to use deception to cultivate compassion.
Working with beginning programming students, "Yay, now we have an error message that makes sense" has become my catchphrase.
While I have not really played SE (past initial launch, it was too daunting to build the ship in space, etc) I have run into these kind of "issues" in Factorio. While they can have disastrous effects, I often really enjoy finding the core problem and finding a solution to make it "fail-safe".

Sometimes I wish I could go back and wipe all my Factorio knowledge and start from scratch again, most importantly refusing to use blueprints from the internet except for basic things like balancers. Finding early/mid/late game malls/blueprints sort of ruined the game for me. Min/maxing is fine by myself but once I'm "competing" against the internet or feel obligated to find the most efficient/best green/red/blue circuit factory, or science packs, etc it really ruins the game for me and makes it feel more like a job.

I got a good thousand or two hours out of the game before I hit that point and someday I want to try playing it again with self-enforced limits on what I'm "allowed" to get from the internet and what I need to just figure out on my own. The first game I played was pure bliss (and I played with Bob's mods and a number of others, yes that was stupid for my first playthrough but damn it was fun), I'd love to recapture that.
Well, I’m a citizen in the US so that’s not a problem and where I will be spending the vast majority of my time. I’m scheduled to be in Mexico at most 35 days and probably won’t be working at all in Canada for the 10 days I will be there.

I’m on a lot of calls and travel within the US for work occasionally. While my company will fly me from anywhere and to anywhere in the continental US, I can’t ask them to fly me internationally

Travel outside of the US is mostly vacations and work just enough days so I don’t burn through my vacation days
Many flight attendants don't have a regular schedule. Instead, they can browse upcoming flight itineraries and choose ones they are interested in. For example, a sample itinerary might be Chicago to Cleveland to Boston to New York to Chicago over a 2 day period.

All of these features are available in the internal applications provided by the airlines, but they're not always that easy to use or flexible. Obviously, as a flight attendant, being able to get notified of new itineraries, book quickly, and perform complex searches is a big advantage to getting better flights, so there is a small but very motivated market for custom apps like these.

Of course, these apps aren't supported by the airlines, so they operate in a grey area and use techniques like credential passing and screen scraping to get access to sensitive internal data.