skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>To counter the Washington Pizza Index, I propose that the United States establish a Strategic Pizza Reserve.

Sir please don't even JOKE about the strategic pizza reserve, some knowledge was meant to stay esoteric.

I still remember at Derbycon when they thanked us hackers for spending more money than the Kentucky Derby despite the event being one day fewer in length.

I've quit drinking since then, and also come out as like... queer or whatever.

What will really blow your brain is the same staffers who used to always order an extra large cheese pizza because it clouds how many they are dining with and for how long (because it's freezable) would go on to do things like lobby for information that would have previously been considered CPNI (that's "customer protected network information") to be able to be sold to third-party marketing firms without first securing the affirmative consent of the customers of the pizza shop.

You haven't truly lived until some absolute moron figures out you tend to freeze a pizza when you suspect the nukes are gonna fly, then again I also had a period where every time I tried to go into the local park to smoke weed, folks would show up and start shooting softcore pornography -- I nearly gave them the same "just because it's legal to strip down nude in the portland airport doesn't mean you should" speech that I gave one of Ron Wyden's staffers before he uh... definitely didn't get fired from the ACLU.

(I'm being a little passive aggressive in this comment, but the last time I called the IRS they made some smartass comment about if I was taking notes for "my" senator. I felt like going, hey, you dumb bitch, I know how to crash the internet and we used to joke the high school looks like an airport and it's also got a rapist out front -- they're all my senator, since the running joke has always been I'm not a cultural fit for the FBI because they don't want to let me anywhere near firearms.

Anyways, that was the last time I tried to deal with anything related to federal taxes -- I will not be abused on the phone by some fed. Their model is to fear interaction, mine is to show up five goddamn years later in the samn damn "Bernie 2016" shirt, red eyed, openly amused many of my enemies have shot themselves with their own weapons, and feel guilty I'm gonna throw out some of the pizza I didn't freeze because I fear it's sat in the fridge too long.

(Did every Catholic elementary school hold you in for recess if you didn't eat all your food, or was that a hyperlocal thing? Either way, pizza day was fun. Peace out!!)
I enjoyed this a lot. Operatic acting has gotten a lot better in the last 50 years. Audiences don't like cliche gestures anymore.

> giving chorus members individual personalities with their own miniature dramas

I was in the chorus for six operas (community theater, never got paid). We in the chorus might make up our own stories about the characters and even tell them to each other. The director never has time to tell you anything about your own character.

(Of course, in big-time professional opera, it might be different. I kinda doubt it, though.)

>the children’s chorus in “La Bohème.” He gives “La Bohème” modern sets and costumes rather than picturesque 19th-century ones.

Funny. I was in "La Bohème." The little kids were a PITA. Good riddance to them.

My costume, though, was the only one I ever had that I'd be happy to wear out on the street.

> the fact that some emotional states are directly antithetical to effective singing—think of throat-closing sadness, or the shallow breathing of terror—is a problem he simply wasn’t interested in addressing.

Um, yeah. Singing does put some demands on your body.

Last story: I was in "Tosca" and my parents were in the front row for one show. Although you usually can't see the audience with the lights in your face, you can see the front rows. It was an effort to ignore them.

My dad noticed that in one romantic scene, "she had her hand on his penis." I guess they were after verisimilitude :)
Boiling human rights violations down to "politics" is quite a stance.
The Pi 400 is actually a completely unique PCB [1: scroll down a bit] so there's no "board" to jack from it.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/raspberry-pi-400-tear...
I don’t condone child labor but it made me think: What if I were a 13 year old with good grades and I consented with parents and got a proper work permit. If the money I made went into good investments, that would be a whole lot of compounded money for later in life. I would do it!
You mean a trackball? I use a Kensington on my desktop. You should be able to order one online.
Awakenings (1990) was an interesting movie and I believe based on a true story. Sounds like the Ambien effects some folks are mentioning.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077
To what end do news organizations want to influence the population?
I am very surprised by this given how extremely traumatic solitary confinement is for prisoners, even for just a few days.
I’ll happily call bullshit. It’s not money - money in news organizations is drying up and everyone knows it. It’s the CYA mentality that comes before the product these days. With so little money to go around, no one wants to be the one to have screwed up in their organization for management to blame their money woes on.
for profit organization's mission is primarily make money.
If I tell a spooky story, will I be stricken with bad karma?
> It's therefor also fine if you're writing in a monospace/fixed-width font.

This is the standard explanation I see everywhere, but I don't get it.

With two spaces, the gap after a period is longer than a gap after a comma. Why is that "obviously fine" in fixed-width but not in variable-width?
yeah but it's your money, as opposed to defense contractors money
Tangential, but I was surprised at how clean the project structure is, considering that the last time I used JUCE, it imposed a messy and annoying (IMO) project structure based on its own build tool. Turns out I missed the news from a couple of years ago, and you can now use CMake and include JUCE in a project as a "library" rather than an all-encompassing "framework": https://forum.juce.com/t/native-built-in-cmake-support-in-ju...

With that said, my Pure Data is very rusty but this seems like a great excuse to get back into it.
> It's therefor also fine if you're writing in a monospace/fixed-width font.

It seems like it is actually correct if you're using a fixed-width font by that rationale.

> HTML will also ignore extra spaces, accordingly. Word processors will either highlight consecutive spaces as a typo or even auto-correct as you type.

This seems like the best solution and just make technology eat the extra space one way or another so it never matters.

So in summary: always double space after a period and let the presentation layer determine the layout.

Glad that is finally sorted.
You’d better rethink what you’re willing to say on the internet before you raise a single hand to type ever again.

You can go “just discussing labor laws” somewhere else.
Sharpening the Axe: The Primacy of Toolmaking [video]
Some hosts will require that you also install an SMTP plugin and use a 3rd party service like Sendgrid or Mailgun to authenticate and send the messages. If you have a professional web developer to help, this is usually fine, but if you don't, then this step will often times stop people in their tracks.
Bubka is Ukrainian, and I believe he set the records under the Ukrainian flag.

Not sure what and how they paid him (if anything), but it wouldn’t have been a Soviet thing.
I stop looking at any screen and suddenly i have all the time in the world.
I specifically liked the discussion on how tool making is often discouraged @ 20:37 - end.
Nice Polite Republicans is hardly left wing. At best they’re right of center.

It’s hard for me to take seriously anyone who suggests any major news media operation in the US is “left-wing”. This country doesn’t have a big or strong enough “left” to matter.
It depends on the emotional/financial burden you put on your family so you can experiment with introversion. In my case, I couldn't do it, I've learned that feeling useful is an important component of my happiness.
> With two spaces, the gap after a period is longer than a gap after a comma.

As it should be. A period is a full stop, not a continuation.
"One would have to be out of their mind to hire someone who is untrained and high out of their mind to build a house (or anything else for that matter)."

Tell me you've never worked in the trades without telling me you never worked in the trades.

"That said, if you pick the right set of filters to look through, anyone can look helpless in a way that is unfathomable to someone else, so to judge anyone on such a basis is at the least misinformed."

Postmodernist navel-gazing aside it isn't unreasonable to expect grown-ass adults to be able to handle maintenance and repairs on their home.

1. Unless you're screwing around with systems work (plumbing, electrical, hvac) there's nothing particularly complicated about the work and honestly even plumbing and electrical work are dead fucking simple compared to wrangling a codebase.

2. The majority of folks were able to clear this low-ass bar 20 years ago.

3. The US is missing two full generations of skilled trades, the odds of being able to attract a talented craftsman to your project are slim and the majority of folks can't afford one when the find them. The aphorism "If you want it done right do it yourself." has never been more true than it is now.
> When people say things such as "Libertarians don't account for externalities" and use a caricature of a "libertarian utopia" to attack libertarianism at large, it pigeonholes libertarians as extremists, and does not paint a realistic picture of how libertarianism actually influences politics every day.

Is it your contention that people are misrepresenting libertarianism as extremist out of ignorance or malice?

Do you think that is unreasonable to view libertarianism as extreme because people who are 'real' libertarians are forced to run as Republicans, and because in the future the libertarian party is going to become more moderate and reasonable?

I am trying to understand why you expect people to have a nuanced view of a political group that does not present itself as such, because you feel that it should or will be something else.
> This is a complete fabrication.

it isn't fabrication, when fingerprint authentication was (may be still) the ONLY option provided by Jio. I went to buy Jio sim and decided to not buy only because there wasn't other option like submitting copy of document which all other telecom companies provide.
I'm not sure that's accurate. Whether or not I like their reporting has no bearing on whether their reporting is true or accurate, which is what I need.
> France has mothballed their entire fast reactor effort, not even building another prototype.

Yes due to public pressure/antinuclear lobby.

> Fast breeders have grave safety issues inherent in their physics.

Yet there has been a dozen of fast breeders reactors, and somes are still operating today.

I trust way more the IPCC forecast on the subjects, than yours. The fully renewable path was rated "very uncertain, very risky" for the exact point I told you.

The fully nuclear path for France was also uncertain and risky, but for another reason, they are uncertain we can build nuclear plant fast enough, which is understandable because they recommand a 2x increase in electricity production.
I sorta wish I could buy a subscription to one publication that was the news sections of both NYT and WSJ but neither of their opinion sections.
I went through this for literally the last 4 years before I finally got fed up and quit and went to a startup for good. The issue is entirely your management.

If your management doesn't respect and value you specially they will send signals to everyone else that you can be ignored. Like it or not, your peers entirely look to your management for who to respect and listen to and ignore.

If your VP etc are not telling them: "This guy is the shit! So valuable" they will ignore you. Nothing you can say or do will fix it. No heroic acts or genius insights will work.

Your peers are just drones that do what they are told. They will obey the signals being sent to them. If your management does not respect you and listen to you, no one is going to respect and listen to you.

I had 10+ years of experience in a particular domain at a leading FAANG-like company. In fact, I was a leading expert. The VP of that group felt threatened by me and sent signals to stomp and ignore me. So guess what? That's what my peers did.

I am sorry but nothing you can do will fix the above situation other than working for management who respect you. I left that situation and report directly to the CEO of my current company, who loves me.

Furthermore:

If you want to work with competent people, I have learned my lesson. Big companies are a complete waste of time. Everyone sucks, just does what they are told, there is no creativity and the talent level is low (as well as motivation level) even at the very top companies.

What snapped me out of it was reading an article by a recruiter who flat said: "Big companies don't actually want talented people, because they just argue with management. They want people in the middle of the pack who generally obey orders."

Will never go back to a large multi-thousand person company for the sake of my soul and sanity.

Finally:

All the signs you just outlined are signs of a company with way too many people who aren't being productive. That means arbitrary lay offs are coming.
That you’re self aware of your selfishness then that is half of the battle towards recognising that you can be better.

When I was younger I always thought I was something special. High school sorted that issue out in a certain sense. In a way that everyone is humbled.

Treasure the time you can spend with your parents, for me COVID had allowed me to spend so much time with my parents, to be able to see them as peers. And I found that as something special.
I think we should just compromise and use 1.5-spacing.
I don't see that that matters. In either case, continuing operations means writing stuff your funders want to see. Piss them off, even if what you're saying is truthful, well written, etc., and your publication isn't long for the world.
> It's so crazy to me how many people

So shaming consumers will solve the problem? Is that what people who've worked for news orgs think?

The things I pay for and point my friends toward don't treat people that way.

> news industry has been dying a painfully slow death ever since the internet arrived

Well I go to Substack and Rumble, among others. The news industry is dying because it can't handle competition. R.I.P., "The News." Now let's imagine a world a little more informative than three television networks telling us all the same stories the same ways . . .
I see ads from Boeing regularly on my twitter feed.
It's good but not as good as theKeyboardio Model 100. The arrow keys of the kinesis are weird. And the overall quality not worth the price.
Making Multiplayer More Reliable
Same as for any other embedded database, though I'm afraid my risk tolerance isn't high enough to use one anywhere close to this new for anything I care about. I do think it would benefit significantly from embedded SQL syntax, though (maybe with a procedural macro?).
A quick search brings up quite a few academic articles supporting it, e.g.:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12122-016-9229-0

https://academic.oup.com/aler/article-abstract/19/2/391/3066...

Like many things, there's substantial evidence on both sides of the argument. The devil is usually in the details, and this is a case where success or failure seems to be greatly affected by the quality of the programs themselves and the people who administer them.
> The Rec Room staff independently selected all of the stuff featured in this story.

From how large a selection?
I don't think it's the fact that money comes in from ads per se--it's the simple fact that news corps are businesses too and that they need money to survive, so they need to serve the interests of whomever the money is coming from.

If people wanted news to be as objective as news could be, then they better be prepared to apportion their taxes to news orgs (should news orgs be privately or publicly owned is a longer discussion but the latter is implied), to read news that are as boring and as declarative as an encyclopedia article, or to avoid news altogether and to be physically present in the places where news happen to see events for themselves, but people are not willing to do any of those nor are those always feasible. So up to what extent is the expectation of objectiveness from journalism realistic?

I mean, I never thought for the life of me that news are supposed to be 100% objective, precisely because events are being reported from the understanding of someone else. This is why you consume information from more than one source. What if the people consuming news are part of the problem?
CodeQL is exactly the query side of this - it builds a database of facts about your code, which you can query in their language which compiles to datalog, in order to write lints (sometimes in a language-agnostic manner). It doesn't have anything for refactoring, however.
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“It’s possible that Scott and his friends… are Losers”

I don’t know if the term is even applicable to people who don’t work in large organizations. Scott’s a psychiatrist. A lot of doctors work in small partnerships where these dynamics might not play out.
> Text editors use monospaced fonts!

> It doesn't matter what editor you use. Vim, Emacs, TextMate, Sublime Text, Eclipse, Gedit, Notepad++? All of them use monospaced fonts.

Most modern editors support proportional fonts. The obvious exceptions are those that run in a terminal, like Vim.

In 2012 when the article was written I was using Visual Studio, various JetBrains IDEs, and Araxis Merge, and they all supported proportional fonts at the time. I've been writing all my code in proportional fonts for at least 10-15 years.

Other editors that support proportional fonts today include VS Code and the editor in the Meld diff tool.
YouTube can afford good lawyers, so they get to play by different rules. What, you thought the playing field was level?
All because it's out of reach of being bought by Facebook and can't be controlled via conventional means. TikTok is no more a threat to Americans than any other webpage is.
That seems like a complicated topic, and it's not 100% clear to me that it would have the effect they wanted if they weren't very careful about how they did it.

See: https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-colla...
> The greatest source of admissions inequity is childhood socioeconomic status

Agreed, and good public schools can be of great help. Only when public schools fail do tutoring and socioeconomic status matter. No, I'm not talking about frills like one ipad per kid or low kid-to-teacher ratio or amazing extra-curriculums. I'm talking about teachers who can really explain concepts and deliver inspiring homework. I'm talking about an incentive system that students are motivated to learn instead of mocking those who try as "teacher's pets". I'm talking about an incentive system that ordinary students like me are pushed to achieve excellence even when they do not feel like studying. Really, it really does not require much to learn high school curriculum. It just requires a lot of dedication from teachers and students. Take a look at Asian countries. The have millions of students who went through daily hardship, yet they had a national system that drives students and teachers to focus on learning what matters, even though they can't necessarily afford what kids in the US can enjoy.
PBS/NPR has skewed left in last 5 years. It used to be amazing and not partisan.
Still on my list.
No.

https://cocateaexpress.com/chewing-coca-leaves-the-good-the-...
> Noone has to make a plea deal

Yes, that’s right, most accused do not “make a plea deal”. The prosecution offers the deal to avoid a labor intensive trial.

Also, prosecution is allowed to deceive (lie) to trick the accused to accept plea deals. There is no evidence burden once the accused pleas guilty. For example, the prosecutor can legally claim they have a mountain of evidence, and once the accused pleas, there’s no requirement for the “evidence” to be provided.
https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

Yea, they can refuse the offer. For an accused that cannot afford bail, they may have 2 options: take the plea deal and start serving the sentence right away, or refuse the deal and be incarcerated for an undetermined amount of time awaiting trial.

Either case, many accused faces incarceration whether they accept the deal or not.
As others have said it's not the concept of DWDM that's new here. That has been around for a while. What is interesting here is that they have managed to integrate a DWDM transceiver onto a single silicon-photonic chip.
As someone who has worked in similar silicon-photonic research, the challenge is to create the required filters, modulators, and demodulators that are stable enough over environmental conditions and manufacturing process variation for commercial production. Most silicon photonic structures are quite sensitive to temperature in particular.
My secret fear is that anaesthesia doesn't make you lose consciousness, it just makes you forget.
> I see ads from Boeing regularly on my twitter feed.

Me too, but Twitter leans heavily toward people who are anti-war. It doesn't really support the parent comments' claims of journalistic conflicts.
Bandwidth warning: opening this site downloads 87.9 MB in resources.

Nice work though! I'd suggest moving to screenshots that toggle to an iframe once they're clicked.
It’s funny. I actually worry about the opposite.
Given that I pointed out Poincaré in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33285644 I clearly have heard of him.

The double pendulum actually goes back further. It was studied in the 1700s. But what could be done with them was limited until computer simulations were available - in the 1960s. The same time that chaos as a subject became a thing.

And your claim that chaos was something that anyone with a high-school grasp of mathematics would have known about in the 1940s is supported on nothing more than your say-so. And directly contradicts multiple reports of working scientists in the 1960s. For example from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202497/ you find:

Lorenz considered, as did many mathematicians of his time, that a small variation at the start of a calculation would Induce a small difference In the result, of the order of magnitude of the initial variation. This was obviously not the case, and all scientists are now familiar with this fact.

In other words people with PhD in directly relevant fields in the 1960s actually were ignorant of basic facts about chaos theory that are now known to every high school student. Even the phrase we all have heard to capture it, namely "the butterfly effect", dates from the 1970s.

And with that, I'm done. You're providing assertions that run counter to my citations, and are refusing to accept information that I cited about what was and was not general knowledge. There is no point in continuing.