skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure if using nukes would get NATO directly involved. First, it would be counterproductive wrt Putin’s goal above. Second, it could provoke strikes against NATO - Russia stands no chance militarily, but they can still kill civilians. Third, I don’t think isn’t even necessary - looking at experiences so far, Ukraine is more than capable of wiping the floor with Russian army, provided they get the hardware necessary. So far NATO has been very (way too much imho) careful to only provide Ukraine with defensive weapons; they didn’t give them cruise missiles or fighter jets, for example. Likewise Ukraine so far avoided striking anything that’s not strictly a military target. Nuclear strike would probably change that.
In government contracting, $625k is more like one whitepaper.
Well you are not alone: https://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/hot-property/la-...
> you can barely get around without being fed jamon,

> my understanding is that this is to [...] annoy muslims.

Not. We have a culture also, and pork is a big part of the European culture since the glaciation. Culture that we share with most European and Asian people, from China to Portugal. Europeans ate pork much before Islam. Other cultures have food taboos around pork. We, don't. We toke many useful things of the Muslim culture, but keep the things that worked in European cultures also.

But nobody will force you to eat Jamon in Spain if you explain your diet restrictions in advance.

(And not all things that look like jamon are necessarily made of pork).
Correct. The responses around this are absolutely pathetic, and many of them believe that he is unable to think for himself because he is buying Parler. So what if he is buying it. I'd say good for him, he can rebrand it if he wants to.

Did the self-proclaimed HN doctors question his decision to collaborate with Adidas, Nike, etc by becoming a fashion designer with his Yezzy label which made him a billionaire? They didn't care in the first place; but because of Parler now they care?

> 1. He has been systematically marginalized and labeled as "crazy" every time he presents an alternative viewpoint. This has been going on for years.

> 2. He overcorrects when placed in a box. The more people try to control him, the more he tries to break out of that box by being purposefully provocative.

Well the same people who are calling him "crazy", "insane", "sick" are the same who believe everything that is said by the media. You go against the media narrative and they will punish you. Criticising and exposing some of the media's lies and the cancelling will happen and Ye knows that.

This also explains the unexplained downvotes because it is all true.
To get “Existential security” we'd have to remove the financial incentive from having the lack there of. Along the same lines, we'd need more information transparency and (political + media) honesty than we have now.

Finally, the status quo does serve some well, quite well. We need to admit it's not dark days and dark clouds for everyone. That is, if we're expecting the system - that's doing quite well for itself- to change itself, then we're far too naive.
Protocols to exchange free speech already exist. The hard part is doing something most people consider useful with them without turning yourself into a platform.
No. I'm talking about 4chan.
Or just stop doing business in {STATE}.

Edit: I previously referred to Texas (re: the comment about laws being passed there, which I think refer to those to restrict de-platforming). What I meant with this comment was more like "if a state passes a law like Texas, it might be easier not to do business there than to comply," which obviously wouldn't work if section 230 was defanged or repealed. I don't think that would ever happen, but who knows.
Holidays, basically. The branch is closed and nobody really cares if your card cannot be processed for whatever obscure reason. No chat or phone support, obviously, you have to go to your own personal banker, who is on holiday.

Happened at least once with a major country-wide bank in EU this year with some of my friends, and I doubt it's either the first or the last occurrence.
Volume of work required really depends on where money is spent. Many retailers not only scan all faces, but if another method of identifying the customer is not available will use third-party services or government partnerships to identity the customers and tie them to a cash transactions. Few retailers even scan large bills real-time at the point of sale.
This is generally going to be outdated advice for computers and phones that have SSDs leveraging built-in full disk encryption and cryptographic erasure.

Since OP brought up Apple products, that will include anyone using FileVault, and it even includes people not turning on FileVault on all Macs leveraging the T2 chip or Apple Silicon – Apple is forcing full-disk encryption even if you're not enabling FileVault.

For iOS devices this automatic full-disk encryption has been happening for many years now, implemented much earlier than Intel Mac systems gained the capability. I think the iPhone 4 was the first iPhone to get full-disk encryption, which on iOS has always been on by default and cannot be disabled.

If your Mac system is on this list or newer then it's already protecting your storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_T2#Products_that_include...
You may be right about customer support, but I don't think they consider their drivers employees.

> Uber considers its drivers to be independent contractors

https://www.lawyers.com/legal-info/labor-employment-law/wage...
If it is, then why would he be so desperate for us to use it?
How could an average outside observer distinguish between another's mental illness and a guy who's just a real out of the box thinker who might be wrong about many ideas but might also add value to the world by perceiving reality in an atypical way?

A lot of posters are claiming Kanye is mentally ill and unable to manage his own affairs. What is the direct evidence of this? And I don't simply mean "provide examples of opinions he's said that I don't understand or care for".

I think it's pretty dangerous to be labeling people involved in the national dialogue as mentally ill without a diagnosis, or at least some substantial and direct evidence. This label could be weaponized by an authoritarian political movement in a very dangerous way if that's the precedent we're using.
Except you can never trust Facebook to care for user's metadata in a privacy-preserving way, which, to me at least, seems like a security risk. While the actual messages are encrypted, everything else (i.e the metadata such as your contacts, your connections, etc.) is not and is probably used/mined by Facebook. Why anyone would trust that company to do the right thing at this point is beyond me.
> There was a time period when the left was for free speech and the right was wanting to constrain it.

When was this - and can you give examples of left and right acting the way you described in the past?
Yukon is a territory. Here, the "territory" is just a pretty name for a colony. You can't vote, US constitution doesn't quite apply, you're getting peanuts from federal aid, and when there's a humanitarian catastrophe you're left for a month without electricity - but you are very welcomed in armed forces, because you're competent and when you die it doesn't matter to decision makers, because you can't vote. In short - you pay the price, but you don't get the benefits. How's that different from a colony?

And yeah, becoming a US state would be better than independence, but it won't happen, because - you guessed it, you can't vote. By becoming an independent country you could get major powers to compete to do business with you - I'm pretty sure China would invest billions into your infrastructure, you could literally become America's Taiwan.
All of this either doesn't matter or barely matters.
It's not that the people of Puerto Ricans are lesser americans. It's that Puerto Rico itself as an institution has less rights. If a Puerto Rican moves to Alabama, they get the same rights and privileges, like voting, as anybody else.
Do you know when a trans joke from a comedian is not transphobic? When it's actually funny.

I didn't laugh once, it felt uninspired and click-baity which made it appear as though he was trying to exclude trans people from being in on the joke that is about them, regardless of whether that was his intention.
I think there's a logical contradiction in the conclusion:

> "We don’t need Americans to be better at algebra, per se. We need future generations that can build and repair infrastructure, overhaul energy and agriculture, develop robotics and AI."

If the issue is how algebra is taught (dissociated from physical objects), well, perhaps there's a curriculum problem. The fundamental concepts of algebra - such as commutation, association, and distribution, do indeed have nice visual and physical representations:

https://www.mathsisfun.com/associative-commutative-distribut...

Everything else in algebra, trigonometry, even into calculus and more abstract math relies on understanding how those rules can be used to manipulate equations, and then you can put the equation on a computer and build models of bridges, robots, power grids, etc. You can also grasp compound interest and so not be screwed over by shady mortgage brokers pushing adjustable rate loans... (although one wonders if such widespread financial literacy is really something the oligarchs who control both political parties really want to encourage).

Perhaps the real problem is the failure of the America system to place the appropriate value on education and hence invest resources in educational programs, and that's the real reason for the poor performance of American children on math relative to all other industrialized countries?
> pointing out that the math taught there was nothing like the math people use in their jobs

This ignores that much of the fundamentals (like Math) are less about teaching you the basics but teaching you the skills you need to learn as an adult. At least this is how I have come to view my time in school as an adult.

Now obviously there are exceptions of this (I mean you did have to be taught to learn and to read) but with this basic fundamentals when you are presented with a problem later in life you have those skills to pull from. Even of the algebra is not exactly what you did, The idea of "solving for x" should be so ingrained in your head that when you need to solve a simple problem that is basically exactly that, you do it without even realizing that is actually what you are doing.

Even as a software engineer, most of what I learned in school I am not actually truly using on a day to day basis. Except when I am working on learning something new.

Maybe we could get rid of "algebra" but what exactly would it be replaced with? Something that is algebra in all but the name?

Also my system had different levels of classes, I know some kids were taking pre-cal in high school while some only finished algebra 1 (2?, I don't remember)
my daughter is in advanced algebra II as a freshman. She is not naturally good at algebra. What this means is that she simply needs to work harder. The school estimates 3-4 hours/work a week for advanced algebra. My daughter does 10-15 hours a week and still only has around an 85.

What she has learned is that things that can seem impossible can sometimes be broken apart into small pieces and conquered with hard work. The author probably had certain subjects come easy to her. When it got hard she probably didnt know how to do the repetitions required to become good. Instead of becoming good, she is trying to tell us in STEM disciplines that the subject simply isnt necessary.

Algebra is fundamental to all other math I dont see how you can do statistics (as the author mentions) without algebra. In fact probability is much harder than algebra and probability problems often times require algebra. Further the work habits you learn to master algebra are used for other abstract subjects.

As you get into the sciences and advanced statistics, you might need calculus. As you get into engineering you surely need calculus. There are often times versions of the subjects that allow you to memorize the equations and the author probably doesnt realize the difference between memorizing the statistical equations to be able to execute them and deeply understanding how they were derived. It is the difference between an electrician and an electrical engineer.

As a biology student you might not need much math, but as a scientist in general you do need physics and chemistry. Without algebra, how can you do even basic newtonian physics?

I have an electrical engineering and a microbiology degree. The biological sciences require little to no abstract problem solving, they are essentially all memorization. It is easy to get by without having to do a certain kind of thinking that exists within algebra. That kind of thinking though exists in virtually every engineering class, physics, and even a little bit in chemistry.

The author is essentially implying that animal sciences is stem and animal sciences dont need math, therefore STEM doesnt really need math.
Sort of, but not really. It is a very nuanced probabalistic attack. The problem is fundamentally that you need others to use your outputs as decoys in order to have plausible deniability.
I dunno, I think regression tests are inherently boolean. Either it passed or it didn't. The code path that the system takes to get to a green light or not is arbitrary. If you start using an enum to return the result of the test, folk tend to add more and more enums over time until it's overly complicated. Processes return an 8 bit integer, but 99% of the time all anyone checks is whether it was 0.

There's certainly practical benefit to being able to quickly triage a test failure. Tests that only output booleans are annoying. When there is a failure, it's helpful to have some out-of-band information about why it failed. That's typically provided via console output, but you can make whatever complex logging system you want.
HR may be the only direct beneficiary, but if you don't receive something out of the deal, why would you do it? You, of course, wouldn't.

The indirect benefits aren't always obvious, of course. Perhaps someone in HR is your friend and they being happy from having a less complicated job allows for you to gain a stronger friendship, and so you don't mind helping them out to your ultimate benefit.

Who knows what is specifically motiving people, but we do know that not even the greatest saint can successfully push himself to do something that is completely free of benefit.
He created facebook and is responsible for the purchase of Instagram.
That makes him a product visionary in my book.
"true free speech" is not something that is free of problems.

Child Porn, Revenge Porn, National Defense secrets leaking, instructions for Chlorine Gas masquerading as instructions for making Play-Doh, libel and slander, weaponized disinformation, doxxing, harassment, threats of violence.

I get there are advantages to avoiding censure, in many extremely important situations.

But don't pretend like it doesn't also hurt people.
I’ve lamented here before, but the number of technical people who absolutely freeze up at the sight of an error message is daunting. Being able to interpret errors correctly is a huge step up in this industry; to me it feels like table stakes, but clearly isn’t.
Six Thinking Hats, by Edward DeBono. The concept is very simple, but this idea of looking at something from different defined perspectives is a useful tool that many seem to lack.

Getting to Yes. Still one of the best books on negotiating. Again, the simple concept of seeing the world from the other side of the negotiating table, IE: thinking like the competition.

The Little Blue Book. A must read for people working in progressive politics. Will help you to think like the other side so you can formulate messaging they will understand.

A computer science degree (and thus any materials on CS), if done well, can be an exercise in thinking / problem solving skill that can serve well beyond traditional STEM careers.
Gitee (gitee.com) is also a free hosting service that can be used for OSS, afaik.
Which is sad because natives were massively victimized by the Canadian government. It's not exactly a prize or reward, more like a few peanuts being thrown at them by the government to shut up and bugger off.
Have you read the other answers here? It's absurd the levels you have to go through to repair a Mac these days. You can't even remove the drive, so you have to thoroughly wipe the disk? What if some aspect of repair is centered on the disk itself? Ugh yeah GP has it right. Start with a laptop you can _actually repair_ if you wanna repair a laptop.
There are reasons not to return a bare array (eg they're executable JavaScript), but this one isn’t as strong IMO. It’s a tiny bit more work, one time, for clients to parse Link headers, but once done they’re an excellent way to convey pagination (and a whole lot of other neat metadata about related resources!). See, for example, GitHub’s API[1].

1: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/guides/traversing-with-pagin...
Absent a union it’s really hard to enforce those rules
Is it 2010 again? Already?
I'm just thinking about a Liam Neeson movie in a 787 with on flight tank refill and the reboot after 2^32 milliseconds because the plane could crash and it is the president pilot in the middle of something bad like a WW3..

Edit: patent pending
Wow. Almost like listening to sophomore physics students arguing over whether electrons are waves or particles.
Software Sales, Security, DevOps / SRE.
What's the CA legal definition of a robot?

According to Merriam-Webster, a "robot" is:
> 1. a machine that resembles a living creature in being capable of moving independently (as by walking or rolling on wheels) and performing complex actions (such as grasping and moving objects)
> 2A. a device that automatically performs complicated, often repetitive tasks (as in an industrial assembly line)
> 2B. a mechanism guided by automatic controls
> 3. a person who resembles a machine in seeming to function automatically or in lacking normal feelings or emotions

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/robot

Maybe a remote control device could fit the definition of 2B, but it's a stretch, as that's so broad that an alarm clock could be a "robot".
I'm far more partial to the "deleted" table that simply removes the deleted entries from one table into another.

Slightly more hassle on the recovery side (in the rare event), way less risk on the read side, and covers the 90% use case where most of the time its more useful for things like debugging. Only rarely in my career have I seen soft deleted data get restored, but you don't lose that this way, you simply mitigate against accidentally showing it.

All in all, its a better compromise than soft deletes

EDIT: I'm pretty tempted to just convert this to dumping out to a SQLite 3 database for all soft deletes. I wonder if actual DB separation is better somehow for backup / compliance
Some military trucks are designed the opposite way on purpose - because they’d rather have no brakes and be able to move than be stuck on the battlefield.
When it comes to cryptocurrencies, a lot of people involved are so ignorant that "water is wet" statements come as a genuine revelation to them. Why? Bitcoin advocates have been deliberately targeting very ignorant and naive people because they're easy money.
I don't think being a product visionary would make his statements about messaging privacy more trustworthy. Or at least, they shouldn't. Peter Molyneux is a product visionary, but I'm still not playing the full release of Godus.
When the majority of the results you get on the first page are paid for, then it's an advertising platform masquerading as a search engine.
> Is it just me, or does every single AI innovation lately seem to be.. pointless?

... but, I think you have really missed the point! Maybe you think government is here to help rather than to govern minds too! And that what is shown in the news is a good faith attempt to relay reality!

If you are managing the world, companies, etc - perception is everything! If you are able to control what people perceive, and they receive everything via a screen, well, who cares about truth? The imagery, the ideas - that needs to convince... and that is pretty much all that you need to manage the masses.
Those names come from the existing seL4 project that these googlers are merely using/forking.

(CAmkES is a hot mess, and "unpleasantly too much C" if you ask me. https://docs.sel4.systems/projects/camkes/ & https://github.com/seL4/camkes-tool/blob/master/docs/index.m...)
Sounds a lot like Oracle's justification for owning the Java API ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_.... ) in which de minimis things like variable and structure declarations were used by Oracle to justify a copyright-maximal approach that would have utterly laid waste to open source development.

The code in question is not something that anyone needs to own. Rather, it's what anyone would write, faced with the same problem. It's stupid to make humans do a robot's job in the name of preserving meaningless "IP rights".
Yeah, that's exactly what I was getting at here.
For me, Google Search was always nothing more than a 'hook' device that feeds into their AD business. Is it useful? Yes. Has it gained enormous traction and even sneaked into the Oxford dictionary?[0] Yes. But it's clear the main ulterior motive was to feed into their ADs business.

And the main search engine is not the only data-point. Google is so entangled with the web that they have countless other data-points to gather data. They're even in your web-font libraries and monitoring you with Google Analytics, not to mention YouTube, and all the other endpoints they can use to feed their ADs business.

They're a parasite of the web.

[0] https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/englis...
>>This kind of old, hierarchical thinking from the 1950s needs to go away.

Yes, it does, but no, it won't.

Just as democracies must always be better armed and prepared than expansionist autocracies, or the autocracies will take over, people need to be better armed and prepared than those who want to exploit them, or they will get exploited.

Unfortunately, the exploiters often arrive better armed and prepared, and it is an uphill battle.

Often, the only winning move is to not play the game.
Ask HN: US and UK debt-to-GDP ratio
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gross-public-sector-debt-as-a-proportion-of-gdp?tab=chart&country=GBR~USA

Why has debt-to-GDP ratio tracked so closely for US and the UK over the last 30 years? Is this coincidental or being driven by other factors? This isn't the case when you add in other G7 countries.
here in the USA, Apple and Microsoft repeatedly lock out Linux|*nix from interoperability, marketing, transparency and more .. Linux Foundation appears to be a marketing club for Fortune 500.. where is this perspective ? You developers must include proprietary duopoly in any "open" effort but wait at the back door until I return and tell you what I want to ?
Power is different, people are using these movements to wield power, not necessarily to harm others.

Someone with power is going to harm others (for some definition of harm) because wielding power generally means giving someone something and that implies not giving it to someone else. But it's often inadvertent, what you're describing is someone who does it on purpose.

This is why it's important to differentiate, if I pay tuition for my children and it takes up slots such that other kids cannot go to that school, I'm wielding some form of monetary power, but my intent is not to harm the ones who end up not being able to go to that school.

Many of these people are after power itself rather than trying to harm others.