skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Photographs here: https://www.computermuseum.org.uk/fixed_pages/meiko_computin...
As a usual twitter user, I've been dreading watching any videos there and I'm used to find them on youtube because of this. I thought it was because I was using linux, but now that I've moved to a macbook m1 with the power of a supercomputer 10 years ago, the quality of the videos is too ridiculous to take twitter videos seriously.
I think most policemen are "good" (it's complicated) but I still perk up when I see one in my rearview mirror. I used to feel bad about it, thinking that I was paranoid, until I read a tweet that a policeman can kill you without much consequence, and so you have every right to be unsettled.

I say this as someone who's sister was killed by a policeman who ran a red light, but was revived by the paramedics. She had severe brain hemorrhages, lacerated organs, broke her spine in a dozen places, and her pelvis in another dozen, and lost the use of 1/3rd of her brain tissue from blunt trauma. And while she was in a coma, the policeman tried to illegally access her phone, obtain blood and urine samples without a warrant, and more, all in an attempt to frame her. And to top it all off, on the one year anniversary of her surviving, she was served papers in the driveway on our way to dinner for "emotional trauma" and his sprained wrist from the incident. The judge sided with the policeman, despite the tire marks, forensics, and eye witnesses that demonstrated he ran that red light. She was fined her net worth, which included her entire college savings.

She is alive and well, but will never be the same.

This isn't a statement on police or police reform as much as it is an example of systems put in place to protect us (courts, FBI, the internet and its attempt at security) but can with one false swipe destroy everything we've ever worked for or loved. It sounds dramatic, but there are a dozen stories on this thread that demonstrate that.

I'm not sure exactly what I'm trying to say, but it's insane how our social immune system isn't free from autoimmune diseases, where the mechanisms put in place to protect can instantly be flipped by a single bad actor.

The template is like this:

1) Someone plants evidence on your device
2) Investigators are tipped off or find it
3) You get fired, registered as a sex offender, thrown in prison, flee the country, and your reputation is in shambles.
4) the media, rumormill, or even public statements from government, your former employer, university, etc. are distributed like wildfire.
5) it's proven that it wasn't actually you, you were just framed
6) society bears no responsibility in repairing anything it damaged in the process. You're not guaranteed anything, and not only that, scary news travels faster and further than "redaction-based news".
7) you might as well have committed the crime because you faced all the consequences of doing it in the first place.

Did I get that right?
I agree that he was clueless. He was also a sociopath and nominally in charge, though not by his own choice. A patsy set up to fail.

And I 100% agree on Cersei.
can confirm, 0+ and unhappy recipient of their attention way above most people around me... it can get pretty dangerous in places with malaria, dengue, yellow fever etc.
The people unwilling to work from home, and thus require extra costs for the company like rent for the office
Yeah. Nah.

https://www.iphronline.org/turkmenistan-continued-repression...

Human rights track record bad? No problem! We're all having fun right?

Participate in TV show that mocks things? Ooh, no, we're the gate keeper of moral choices now.
In a large company, it should be a per-team selection, not something set at the CEO level. Many high performers don’t feel the way you do.
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In operating systems, we call that cooperative multitasking (everything up to DOS+Windows 3.11, where software is allowed to hog the CPU until it explicitly yields) versus preemptive multitasking (Windows 95 onwards, where software is regularly interrupted by the OS). There's a reason preemptive multitasking has “won” and nobody wants to go back to cooperative. A lot of software just isn't cooperative (i.e. doesn't yield enough).
Imagine what we could accomplish closing coal and other non-renewable if we didn't shut down nuclear plants, napkin maths says we'd likely saving thousands of lives.
Fair enough, I may not have used the correct word, but it is still a typical “told you” situation, both during development, after go’s initial appearance and ever since until it finally was decided that it should be indeed implemented.
> depends on our recollection of the past, which is imperfect

We do have pretty good records to help us sort it out, especially for recent history.

> the circumstances of the present are different than the circumstances of the past

Surely some circumstances, such as human nature and social biology, have not changed. I'm not sure that "the state of society" is the primary differentiating factor in the effectiveness of laws, particularly laws relating to fundamental human behaviours like violence or reproduction.
What I've heard is "something that sounds like music" not actual music. Music of any genre has a purpose, a direction, a meaning. Otherwise what's the point?
Get physically active. You would need a LOT of energy to be around your son. I wish I was fitter when I became a father. That would have really helped.

Once you get more energy, things will fall into place. So keep that as your first priority.
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The company’s boneheaded decision to hire people in incompatible time zones doesn’t create some kind of moral obligation for employees.
We still need water, and living on the river is still the most sustainable source of it, plus the incredible amounts of transportation you can do inland with rivers out matches roads by a thousand times.

I would never not live on a river. The ocean is cool and all, but it's full of salt and you can't drink that.
Sorry about this. Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and I can dig in?
> There is no way to reach a person for support

If you're signed up to Google One[0], you get proper (human) support. Luckily I never had to reach out.

[0] https://one.google.com/about/support
Hm. Where exactly does it report the found issues? I used it on my web app and I see a lot of selectors&properties but nothing else.
No, you're thinking of 1/Penelope.
Did they get the idea from Saab? https://www.saabplanet.com/frontal-collision-of-saab-and-moo...

> In order to reduce the number of injuries caused by passenger cars colliding with moose – Saab engineers have designed a Moose Test – Unique in Industry. This research and subsequent changes in Saab cars design – have saved many lives on the roads

I was told the Saab 900s were designed to handle moose collisions.
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Absolutely, but if that's what you want then why have you allowed yourself to take a leadership role? That's completely antithetical to not wanting late night meetings and even structured 9-5 days.
As a horror writer, I can’t help but wonder what sorts of stories this leads to, and what you might get wrong while writing about it…

By conscious, do they mean “aware”, or do they also mean “actively thinking about what they are experiencing” ? How often do they come out of it? Do they have clear memories of it?
Same thing I do every weekend. Try to take over the world.
An academic institution shouldn't only be about picking truly talented candidates; that's the exact opposite of holistic.

My take is that part of the function of an academic institution is to help individuals discover and develop talents.

A good teacher isn't one that helps A students get A's but one that can develop any student into an A student.

To merely select and propel those who already have the talent rather than select for the capacity to grow and develop talent is precisely why score based systems are biased in the first place.
> Only to discover that the class didn't exist in the source at all, but was dynamically generated by Spring at runtime!

With all due respect, that’s like numero 0 thing to know about Spring’s AOP which is like the second most important part of Spring after dependency injection.
Thank you, that's a relief indeed :)
Thats not exactly how pendulums swing.

Think about how far we have swung in one direction. Its going the same distance in the other. May god help us.
Since types give me guarantees that pieces still fit together, I usually only need a handful of unit tests for my non-trivial algorithms, plus some integration tests. Never for functions which hand things around. After fixing all compile errors caused by a massive code change it almost always still just works.
The original counter strike supported this. I was certainly guilty of using pornographic sprays back in college in the early 2000s.
What's the alternative? A lottery? Sliding scale based on income? Sounds like more logistics for the purpose of intentionally losing money.

Maybe people should give up on seeing extremely popular bands and check out more local music instead.
While I prefer my leftover pizza cold, I don't see how reheating pizza in the oven ruins it.
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Yeah… I’m not actually sure what the right numbers would be.

I have to imagine that dragging 1500lbs across rough terrain and up out of a ditch might have a peak load greater than 1500lbs?
I grew up in Odessa and had exactly the same experience as you. But I don't remember a single occasion when a kid would disappear. Later in life I moved to New York. I lived there for 10 years. AMBER alerts were a "normal" thing.

I'm not one of those paranoid parents, but there is a line when my gut feeling tells me: "no man, this is not safe".
I appreciate this comment for what may not be an obvious reason

A gripe I've had with this discourse, WFH or not, was obviously inspired by the pandemic. The concept has been going on forever.

It's something I've noticed because I've had at least three conversations at work where I've had to defend my status... "I was WFH before the pandemic, I'm not coming in just because it's 'over'"

There's an angle to this whole thing where it seems the powers that be are trying to renege, and I'm not here for it
Author here. Thanks to lioeters for posting this.
Why wouldn’t the USA retaliate with its own nuclear strike on North Korea? They would have to.

North Korea wants nukes to avoid getting regime changed like Iraq. Not to start an offensive nuclear war that they’d lose.
This is what it was for me as well. Which was tough to diagnose, since I would hit "download" in a random gdrive folder, and just literally nothing would happen. It would just sit there. No message, no error, etc. So frustrating. Once I figured out you had to turn 3rd party cookies on, it worked fine. I quickly moved all my work stuff to box.com and personal stuff to protondrive and just stopped using gdrive altogether.
If ADA ramps are mandatory for all businesses, which in theory they ought to be due to non-discrimination being a universal need — then the property is unfit for renting if it doesn’t have an ADA-accessible ramp, and penalizing the tenant allows the landlord to re-lease it over and over as each tenant gets shut down.

Penalizing the landlord is the only way to ensure that the lawsuit leads to curative action to the property rather than a tenant change without action.
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> If you don't fall within the dozen or so conditions/treatments they are familiar with they throw their hands up.

Absolutely true in my experience. They just throw various treatments at the wall and hope one sticks (though I find this more true for psychiatry than perhaps other fields of medicine).

I seriously think more people would benefit from a more holistic approach to medicine. I do not mean holistic in like woo-woo essential oils, but rather trying to treat all aliments as piece of a greater puzzle than each disease needing a different doctor per disease which never communicates with one another.
I'm no expert, but your description of problems makes me think of ADHD inattentive type presentation.
I read through this a few times to see what it does. It helps find inconsistencies in your webpage design. It does that by reporting the frequency of properties and the frequency of property values in your CSS. You then evaluate that report for potential problems. For instance, shades of blue that are meant to be the same but slightly off. Or font-sizes that are 14px somewhere and 16px somewhere else.
While I don’t think UBI will work, I like some of the other things he’s advocating for in the forward party like open primaries and ranked choice voting. Those may disincentivize extremism on both ends of the spectrum.
I’m a 40% in-office worker and don’t see this all-or nothing view at all.

I enjoy white boarding with in-person colleagues, but am fine with remote. I’ve always worked with people in different cities and countries, so I can’t imagine a company where everyone has to be in the same building. It didn’t work that way pre-pandemic, so why now?
> maintain focus on suspension of player disbelief

Something that really struck me when I when I first played Half-Life 2 was how much it all felt like a movie set, where everything was designed to look fantastic along this one narrow path that you're quickly ushered along, but there was absolutely nothing beyond that path. It's all just lovingly detailed facades.

That's the story with all linear AAA games. I think for most players the illusion works great, but I can't help but see the artifice.
I feel like the remote work folks might be unintentionally throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Yes, I believe people should do what they want but I also believe decisions can have unintended consequences.

Tons of people make friends at work. I'm pretty confident, if we stop going to work we, collectively, won't make many friends via work. I go to work 3 days a week as requested by my company but others don't so about 1-2 of 6 days I show up and no one else on my team is there.

There is arguably an issue with people having less friends than ever

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/well/live/adult-friendshi...

https://nypost.com/2021/07/27/americans-have-fewer-friends-t...

People will reply they don't want friends from work but that doesn't change the fact that lots of people make friends at work, people have less friends than ever, and working from home will only lower that number even more.

This was posted yesterday: https://ncase.me/trust/

It was basically saying society doesn't function without a majority of people having trusting relationships. Well, less gathering because WFH arguably means less friends made in aggregate means less trusting relationships, means downward spiral for society.

WFH isn't the reason we got to this low friendship point but it will pretty obviously add to the problem.

I'll go even further, do the WFH arguments apply just was well to Learn From Home (LFH). Why should students have to commute to a school or collage, they can just do it all remote. It feels like all the same arguments apply.

Similarly, people can claim why should they be forced to be with fellow students the same way WFH advocates say they don't want friends from work, why would that be different for friends from school?

And yet, people form lasting relationships from school friends, both high school and college. In fact most people arguably find most of their close life long friends in those years. But applying the same logic as WFH advocates we should allow LFH and I think if we did we'd end up with the same unintended consequences.
From my experience, there are broadly speaking two types of people. They are often grouped into introverts and extroverts, but one aspect of this grouping is their differing response to external stimuli. In this context I'm suggesting that there are people who require external stimuli to maintain concentration/creativity; and people who require serenity.

Personally, I require being around a lot of external stimuli to maintain focus and work/study; and am therefore better suited to working in the office; however, I have developed strategies for becoming productive when working from home.

I have found that when working from home my best work happens when I am in a room with flashing disco lights and driving metal/house music, where the lyrics are in a language I don't understand. I need this stimuli inorder to be creative, and If I don't have this I become very lethargic and unproductive.
Just a heads up: this is a tool for complex CSS code-bases. If you keep your CSS minimal and terse you don't really need this.
it would be closer to say this is legacy code lock-in.

the system is legacy dependent for early boot configurations then changes mode to runtime with recently versioned modules and libraries
It is not much different from Europe with many local languages. People in those countries study in their own native languages. Starting with Hindi in India would be a good start to give local languages more prominence.
Sum types, records, type inference, so far very primitive pattern matching, but it has a very clear and great goal ahead.

And these are only language level changes, the platform has expanded insanely significantly, but that also benefits clojure greatly (which is a good thing, it’s no competition)
From earlier this year "Wife Framed Husband By Planting Child Sexual Abuse Images On Phone: Police" (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/wife-framed-husband-by-...)
Pretty sure OP was being sarcastic
What does this have to do with being woke?

You said "countries that go to woke" then listed a bunch of horrible things.

The definition of woke is "alert to injustice in society, especially racism."
> GMail BCC (blind carbon copy) displays the BCC list to every recipient

Uhhhh... no it doesn't.
It does.

> to date patients with covert consciousness who recovered the ability to communicate and were interviewed later did not remember the experience of being covertly conscious. Mazurkevich, for instance, does not recall any aspect of her time in the intensive care unit when she appeared to be comatose
But it's not "just" that as many of the already known details have outlined.
Strong second on this. It will feel like the last thing you want to do, but start lifting heavy stuff and be consistent. You will feel better, I promise.
As of two years ago modern medicines reduced exacerbations but did nothing to slow the progress disease, as you claim. If there are new and opposite findings, I haven't seen them.

Fewer exacerbations means fewer lesions: While your disease might progress, it doesn't do it at the same rate as it did before medications - or heck, even when comparing to the first medications. For most folks, this is exactly the same as no disease progress. It definitely means that our outlook is better.

In chronic inflammatory diseases generally, treating yourself well often or usually has the paradoxical effect that your body now has more resources to attack you with, more viciously; whether re autoinflammation or autoimmune reactions. It cannot be assumed that being good to yourself will make you less miserable - although you will probably live longer.

From what I can tell, being active before you have damage generally means it it a little easier to get some function back. Right now, the general advice is to stay as generally healthy as you can, within reason.

Re other things that help, smoking has now been shown to help, but earlier studies before people who smoked were pushed outside to do that showed the reverse.

You are going to have to back this up: Everything I've read states that smoking - the act of inhaling smoke that has been lit - is detrimental and actually a risk factor. MJ helps some folks feel a bit better, but they recommend things like edibles or vaping over smoking a lit joint/cig.

but those who swear by modern medicines without deep-diving into the empirical research are amongst this group
I can swear by modern medicines because people smarter than I am have done the research, something I cannot say about a book written by someone not educated in medicine, nor about supplements that aren't studied.

he history of dollar driven MS research and treatment is decades long and a rolling tragedy, economically and otherwise.

And this can easily be seen with alternative medicines (diet, supplements, etc) and isn't special to any other major or common disease.

A recent study has shown beans help. (Perhaps because soluble fiber is necessary for choline absorption?) But whether that study will hold up I know not.
And if it pans out, health insurance companies and governments that run single-payer health plans would back up paying for nutritional education and possibly give folks beans, which are cheap. Taxpayers would demand things like this.
It's weird that (according to this document) you can epoll Unix domain sockets but not sockets created by socketpair(2). I thought socketpair created essentially two pre-connected Unix domain sockets.
Frame rate plays a role - especially when it drops down below targets and stutters, which does happen irl, but designing the experience to avoid motion sickness from the ground up is what makes the difference. Keeping something stable in the view that moves along with head pose like a HUD element while everything else around you is moving makes a huge difference. Seeing the world around you in motion from inside a car with the stable windscreen will be much easier than zooming around through freespace even at 120hz for most people until they get comfortable with the sensory mismatch. I have heard several interesting approaches to acclimatization and can recommend this [1] if you are affected & am told positioning a real fan blowing air on you while in the headset will orient your proprioception in a way that helps.

[1] https://medium.com/@ThisIsMeIn360VR/motion-sickness-and-the-...
It has through GraalVM. (Just a “fun fact”, there used to be gcj as well 20 years ago that could also produce native executables)
The major difference being home construction, remodeling, and repair are routinely performed by untrained laborers who are high out of their mind. Some folks weren't raised to work and are apparently very comfortable with a level of helplessness that I can't fathom. Good business for someone I guess.
What "immense amounts of fraud" are you talking about?