skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>To be clear, I acknowledge that we’re talking about an extreme, broadly unpopular position, but it is one running through certain segments of leftish twitter and academia. (No, I don’t keep a file of such utterances, so I can’t produce a list offhand.)

That's as may be, but lots of people say lots of stupid/ridiculous/untrue things all the time.

Who, in a position of power or influence (or reasonably adjacent to such power/influence), advocates such a view?

I can say all sorts of things, ranging from the mundane ("I like coffee.") to the ridiculous ("There is an underground advance alien invasion base under Biscayne Bay."). And while that does mean I will make coffee for myself tomorrow morning, it most certainly doesn't mean that the Army Corps of Engineers will be planting nukes in Biscayne Bay to destroy those evil aliens.

And it doesn't matter how many times I say it or to whom I say it, the Army Corps of Engineers aren't going to nuke Biscayne Bay. And no one should pay any attention to such ramblings.

And so I have to ask, why are you giving credence to (as you readily state) what some unbalanced rando thinks about prosecuting crime. And not just giving such credence, you also claimed that such views were those of "progressives."

You're now walking that back, but you (and that's what I responded to) implied that "excusing" criminal acts was somehow a "progressive" position.

It is not, and never has been.

There are those who claim that certain government officials routinely abduct babies and small children in order to murder them and extract some hormone to make them live longer.

Overwhelmingly, at least in the US, the folks who make (and/or believe -- not the same thing) such claims almost exclusively supported one political party over another.

Does that mean that everyone who supports that political party (or even a a tiny fraction) also believes such things?

By your logic, the answer should be "yes." Is that correct?

I could give a host of other examples of other ridiculous tropes from the extremes. None of which have support from anyone with or near any real power.

The upshot is that I took issue with you (specifically you, dionidium) smearing a broad group of folks (progressives) with a broad brush, claiming that an extreme stance by folks who may or may not consider themselves part of that group is the default belief of a group.

That's a clear example of "othering"[0], in which you are attempting to besmirch folks with beliefs they do not hold.

If you'd instead said something like "some extremist positions claim that people shouldn't be prosecuted for crimes if they had a bad childhood," I would have heartily agreed.

But "othering" has no place in reasoned discourse. Don't like progressives? I'm sure you can find stuff that's actually true to beat up on them. But just making shit up is low effort and doesn't add to the discussion.

[0] https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-othering-5084425

Edit: Added the missing link.
Excited to see where these go, especially if they can minimize the need for bespoke JS. Still, not sure how they'll scale or get adopted.
Maybe their hearts are in the right place—I certainly don't like unhealthy fumes. But making the ability to heat food contingent on the seamless function of international semiconductor supply chains could have unintended consequences.
There are many, many, many tech companies who have way way way way too many people who want to be managers but not any who want to stay technical. Find one of them.
Ha, you should check out some of Palmer Luckey's talks.
Yeah I second the scout handbook. You can also volunteer with your local Troop as a leader if you want. All of the classes offered by my local REI are in the $600-$1200 per weekend range. Scouts got me outdoors 12 weekends a year for about $250 in dues annually (plus a bunch of hours fundraising).
Not in any practical sense. There's enough water in the universe to have a whole private solar system made entirely out of water for every single human.
If it points to local storage then it's not shareable.

If it points to a cloud database then you need a cloud database to do what a url could do.
./compile works around c cross compilation issues, where different platforms have different files with the same names.

Fixing that within Make would require it to be platform aware. Not just “is this Linux” but “which flavor of Linux is this and what version of that flavor”. It’s also highly specific to C.

Perhaps your other complaints here are valid, but they’re issues I’ve never run into myself, in my 20 odd years with it.

EDIT: Would you blame Just for not handling C cross compilation capability built in? Would you blame Just if someone automates the creation of Just command files to work around a particularly nasty workflow?
Don't they have to get in the air first?

And what advanced systems are present in the F-35 which can't be retrofitted into the F16s and F15s.
I will also suggest Yoga or Rock Climbing to increase Hand strength
> I never ever want to have to think about the interactions between named spells in a fight.

Alas, that's not how games work. Someone casts "Insanity", can it be removed with Dispel Magic? What about Antimagic Field? What happens if you kill the person, then resurrect them, do they come back with the insanity effect?

The story must go on. You either decide that you want it ill specified (ie: whoever improvs the best gets the decision), or you have a rulebook that carefully lays out the interactions.

You don't have to know the interactions. Simply knowledge that millions of other players have come across this game, and have likely already come across this situation and have analyzed the rules + made a decision is enough.

No person wants to memorize rulebooks. But we dungeon masters do so to ensure fairness in our decisions. If someone doesn't like the ruling, i can always point out the rulebook (or if not the rules, then an online discussion of a similar situation) that will settle the debate.

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Because if you know a thing about players, they will try everything to "Just for flavor, have that +5 Magic Sword on their Gorilla because its awesome" (when they really just want to roll more damage than everyone else in the party).

If I let the Druid effectively have twice the magic items of everyone and letting his pet-gorilla play a Fighter, then everyone else loses (because there's no way they can keep up with the damage output of a Gorilla using weapons locked to martial class). Martial weapons are locked to martial classes for a reason: those classes lose spellcasting but gain more damage to gain another role (the damage-dealing role) to play in this game.

In effect: the 1d8 fists of a Gorilla are there and balanced against the needs of everyone else. The Druid + Pet-Gorilla already play with two turns per... turn. They're already considered quite strong in the game, I as the dungeon master, need to know where "too much damage" starts to seep in and where "Improv rulebreaking" can start making the Druid stupidly overpowered.

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I've played with lots of "Improv" people. Even with their best interests at heart, the game innately becomes a "Lemme bullshit my own powers to be better than everyone else's, so that I'm the star of this show".

Maybe you don't do it, but *someone* in the group always tries to do this. You need to cut them down and restrict them so that their power level remains roughly on the same level as everyone else in the party. Knowing the limitations of spells, as well as the limitations of weapons, is a good starting point to ensuring fairness at the table.

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Going back to the top. Insanity is 7th level and is explicitly stated that only 7th level spells and above (like Limited Wish) can remove it. Trying to bullshit a 3rd level spell (Dispel Magic) into removing Insanity means that the Wizards / Sorcerers become overpowered, relative to the abilities of everyone else. You have to make them spend a 7th level slot to heal this particular curse.
It isn't anything revolutionary, just helpful. I think of it like a lightweight framework for writing shell scripts.
Has that worked in the past? While they could obviously create their own fork, they can’t force people to actually use it.
My understanding is that NATO members are required to maintain a certain type of jet, and the only one of the required type currently for sale in the western countries is the F-35. Even the Europeans are buying it.

So you literally have to, by NATO contract.
Seems like we hear about a new microbe or "system" that converts plastics into fuel every other year or so. Yet none of them has set the world on fire.
So do you think Canada is trying to send a message or do you think 19B CAD is just a round number?
A tool that I created in the same category:

RUN : A Task runner that helps you easily manage and invoke small scripts and wrappers

* https://github.com/TekWizely/run

Do you find yourself using tools like make to manage non-build-related scripts?

Build tools are great, but they are not optimized for general script management.

Run aims to be better at managing small scripts and wrappers, while incorporating a familiar make-like syntax.

Some features:

* Auto generates command list

* Auto generates help for commands

* Supports defining command-line arguments, which are presented in help text

* Can be composed via includes

* Each command can define its own shell (or even python, etc)

If you're interested in task runners, I hope you'll take a look!
Here’s a better breakdown of the related stats on US National Park deaths:

https://www.psbr.law/nevada/deaths-in-us-national-parks/
Hmm, need to spend taxpayer funds somehow under the pretext of security.

“As our world grows darker, with Russia’s illegal and unjustifiable invasion of Ukraine and China’s increasingly assertive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific, this project has taken on heightened significance, especially given the importance of interoperability with our allies,” Anand said.

Anand needs to be aware that Canada will never be threatened by China or Russia because they are not as capable as they pretend.
As long as elegance is not solely length using certain combinatory representations like SKI: (S(K(SI))(S(KK)I)) :: λxy.yx
A few years ago crypto often had large jumps from deals like these, not so much because of the immediate affect but more because it implied much larger growth was on the horizon. That seemed reasonable at the time, and the reverse seems reasonable now.

If large financial institutions don't want to touch crypto, that severly limits the foreseeable upside for the industry.
Bulk brewing, less sensitive to grind size.
Well, French laws are heavily in favour of tenants so actually contrarily to the OP, it's not that easy to rent an apartment. I'm guessing the OP has a CDI (permanent contract), has a French family name and doesn't look Arab or Black. In those cases, yeah you can get a mortgage relatively easily, you can easily rent too.

But, 24.8% of people who are employed have those permanent contract. People who do not have that, have it much tougher. To get back to the example of renting, landlords in France are scared of renting to tenants who don't pay because it's hard to evict tenants, so they often use something called a "Garantie Loyer Impayé" which is an insurance backed by the government that will pay back any unpaid rent to the landlord. But if you don't have a permanent contract, it's hard to qualify for this. When I was searching for an apartment 7 years ago, 80% of apartments rejected me because I was working as a contractor (and what's worse my income was from another country since I was working remotely). They used that insurance and that means that I couldn't qualify.

So, yes, if you have a permanent contract in France, things are relatively easy but, even then, I have a friend who is black and worked as an electronic engineer with a permanent contract but still had a hard time securing a mortgage because, for some unknown strange reason, he got rejected a lot more than his white friends.

Credit systems with clear rules like the US may be gameable but they have the advantage of actually protecting against racism, of enabling people with non-standard profiles access to credit and of actually being relatively easy to follow.
Yep, this. I live downtown, and I don't have a car. The UPS location I would have to pick things up is a 15 minute drive away, outside of downtown, or like an hour+ with transit. It's just not viable for me. I have the same problem with Purolator, their physical location is way too inaccessible for me.

Thankfully though I have a Canada Post location literally next door to my apartment, so when I need to do returns, it's usually pretty easy as long as it's done via Canada Post.

Intelcom (gig-economy delivery used by Amazon from their fulfillment centers) was pretty bad when they first got started a few years ago, but it's smoothed out significantly since. The only problems I've seen is when they deliver to rural areas and the drivers aren't familiar with the dirt roads, they tend to give up trying to deliver pretty quickly. But their support via email has been okay.
But then you have the data-rate limitation of USB... is it equal to or better than that of the camera interface on the Pi?

I have a Pi 4, but don't remember if it's USB 2 or 3.
problem is that at step 2, the super-human performance frequently turns out to have massive holes in it. Playing games with fixed rules is one exception, but most other things that "AI cannot do but now does" always come with a shift in our expectations. I would say that the very best "AI doing amazing shit" tends to be things never discussed in Ye Olde Literature. Google Maps is a premier example.
> Blanking the screen? The only use I can imagine is as a boss key

You've never wanted to stop people wanting to read messages over your shoulder?

This is so common that most mobile/table operating systems have entire configuration systems about which parts of which messages to show on lock screens.
2C here: my wife has a small business selling exotic plants and the reverse path was always seamless with UPS. She did use a middleman (e-shipper), but 24h pickups at our (remote) home were mostly seamless. Most of the issues were internal to e-shipper messing up pickups.
But the people who make money using the current ogl provide lots of value to d&d consumers that wotc simply isn't filling. At the end of the day it's a foot gun.
Make is acceptable for running arbitrary bunches of commands. For anything grander, I just write shell scripts that call shell scripts. Once you know shell well, it's very easy to throw together a simple build system. For a complex build system I'd go find a complex build tool.
UPS is much better in my area of the US. The Amazon drivers are terrible and on par with laser ship. I would say about 20% or more of my Amazon packages come from UPS and about 40% or more from USPS. I’m not sure if I’ve had any laser ship packages from Amazon lately.

I have never had UPS want me to pick up a package from a hub. The only times it happened is when I requested it.
... eventually I will probably end up building something that works in the browser by using KaTeX + CSS Paged Media + js-citeproc, where js-citeproc has a copy left license and some shortcomings (narrative citations do not work) so I'm currently implementing something similar my self.
How to Focus Like It’s 1990
Nearly. You need register and to also pass them into (potentially no-op) inline asm. `register int v("eax")` iirc, but it's been years since I did this.

The 'register' is indeed largely ignored, but it has the additional somewhat documented meaning of 'when this variable goes into inline asm, it needs to be in that register'. In between asm blocks it can be elsewhere - stack or whatever - but it still gives the regalloc a really clear guide to work from.
Isn't storing state in urls and then using a url shortener just a key/value store with extra steps?
It's lazy writing, and the people who take these detectors at face value are the very same people who are easily fooled by AI text generators.

I like ChatGPT and spend quite a few hours a week working with it; it's a lot more interesting than just a text generator. That said, people using it to do schoolwork for them are short-changing themselves, because they're opting out of developing core cognitive skills.
https://archive.md/XdF0A
I'm actually saying that I don't think having a debate about the nature of the Russian government on the internet would be a productive use of my time.
For LSM trees to estimate effectiveness of a compaction
To me Amazon delivery people are a menace. I have seen them take out garbage cans and mailboxes in feats of horrible driving. They will park on dangerous blind curves. They will block small but important local roads. They hop out of their driver’s side of their vans right into traffic.

I live in a small rural town and the Amazon delivery model endangers residents and our roads. Every town in my State (NJ) is on high alert that an Amazon warehouse is going to sneak into our neighborhood.

I hope government wakes up to how screwed up and dangerous Amazon’s model really is.
Also, if you need to get into another lane, that in the immediate moment it is safe to merge into it.

Plus, it helps give more leeway to avoid stop and go, which is the cause of phantom traffic jams.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/24/steven-soderber...

Soderbergh's 'recut' as a silent black and white movie with a Trent Reznor soundtrack gave me an appreciation for the cinematography and how much of the story is told visually, with no need for dialogue. Some of the tracks reappeared in HBO's Watchmen (also excellent).
They got paid for 2 months while not working, and now they're getting one month of severance. Calling this "paltry" is really ridiculous.
Similarly, AT&T and Comcast are almost everywhere in California with at least 1 Gbps service for $70. Places with fiber laid by Sonic have 10 Gbps at $40/month. I checked a random address in Redwood City, where Xcelerate was from, and found that Comcast offers 6 Gbps service there too for the same price you get it, as well as AT&T fiber.
I used to work at Amazon on transportation long time ago.. but that data matrix is not too complicated. From the last package I got, I see that the parcel got routed from BOI2 -> WA5 from the first QR code and from WA5 -> RNT9. I would guess the parcel originated from a warehouse in Boise, Idaho and moved to sort center WA5 (somewhere in washington.. I would guess Federal Way). Then it went from there to last mile delivery station RNT9 - I would guess Renton here and from there got delivered at my house.

The QR codes are not the magic. The real magic are the systems that select routes (Why was WA5 was selected from BOI2) and how Amazon fills it truck for optimal utilization. There are so many processes you need to plan and execute flawlessly with a very temporary workforce. Replicating this needs a lot of cash, a lot of talent in system and process design, good local leadership, and insane focus on operational efficiency.
They are doing it to obfuscate the capabilities and usage of their app.

Yes, this should set of big warning bells.
Hey remember when Google delivered kick ass fiber service all over their own back yard in Silicon Valley to show Comcast and Verizon how it should be done?
"Anand needs to be aware that Canada will never be threatened by China or Russia because they are not as capable as they pretend."

If this is true, why bother with any military at all...
I'm not familiar with this. Can you share a source that explains more?
I use Safari on Mac for a handful of financial websites where I log in with very complex passwords so that I can use the fingerprint reader. Every time I use it, I am disgusted with its klunky interface (for example, the vertical tab solution is hilariously broken). I can't believe that a $2t company is so careless with their apps.

Firefox is a huge PITA to set up right, but once you manage to get it set up with Sidebery, MUC, etc, it works well.
There is nothing wrong. Leave him alone.
It's crucial to talk about the F-35's issues but perspective is also crucial. Every modern fighter program has faced issues like this. The F-14A had "flat spin" issues as dramatized in Top Gun. The F-16 had tons of early headaches. Etc.

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a21587/197...
If you can't install anything, having a small MCU board that can mimic a USB keyboard could be good enough. You could load up a bunch of different keyboard macros based on number and duration of button presses. A more dedicated keypad would be a lot more functional but this thing fits inside a USB port so it would be good for on the go.
I did this. It's not quite true. I did stuff with the spare time, but as long as contracting pays the bills, it is still your primary focus. So free time ends up being spent in forms of marketing - writing books, blogging, certitications, networking.

Paradoxically, FT jobs are more liberating. You have less time, but you own that time. You can work on random things at 10 PM or 4 AM.
Contrary to popular belief, lightning is not especially risky on a sailboat.

It is very rare that a metal sailboat mast on a fiberglass boat will be struck by lightning.

The most common occurrence is an EMP that fries all of the electronics as the result of a nearby water strike.

In many, many years of sailing and through many thunderstorms that would melt your shorts just to see them approaching, with lightning all around and no perceptible delay between the flash and the thunder, none of the various sailboats I have been on was ever directly hit by lightning.
Working Programmatically: An Experiment for 2023
I have zero visibility into the 500 companies in the S&P?
on the surface this looks like a peer of https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

many years ago I would have eagerly given this a whirl, but either I'm too old to try new things, or the broader user ecosystem has convinced me that in order to gain significant mindshare, the syntax cannot stray too far from markdown. Scheme in markdown would be an interesting modification though.

Also, while it tickles the heart of a lisper, one uneasiness I have with systems like these is the lack of easy schema definitions, like the url structure in the skribilo examples.
How to feel old: When people start writing history, and you know it's wrong because you were there yourself.
I don't need to google to find fault, but I figured the make book might have something to say about portability and in better words than I can construct at 3am.

Look, I'm not taking your tools away, there is no need to be defensive.

Make isn't going anywhere, but it is a bad tool, the syntax is completely arcane and it's designed for things few people actually need these days.

The most common case I've seen of modern Make usage is `make docker` and for Golang, where it doesn't get an opportunity to stretch its legs as a dependency manager at all -- making it a glorified task runner.

The portability aspect is all I mentioned, because that was all that was in question.

But if you really want me to get into it, I can be quite cruel.

Just because you spent 20 years learning or using something does not mean it is a good tool, I'm glad it works for you, truly, but it is an abomination and people only continue to use it for a sense of sunk cost fallacy or by telling themselves that "most people have it installed already".
Smallpox has plagued humans since ancient Egyptian times, new evidence confirms
"Smallpox was once one of humanity's most devastating diseases, but its origin is shrouded in mystery. For years, scientific estimates of when the smallpox virus first emerged have been at odds with historical records. Now, a new study reveals that the virus dates back 2,000 years further than scientists have previously shown, verifying historical sources and confirming for the first time that the disease has plagued human societies since ancient times."