skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might be interested to learn about Washington, DC, a region which is literally disenfranchised despite having more residents than two states. Residents can vote for president but have no voting representation in the House or Senate.
I have an older DVD copy that retains it, but only in the full screen edition. The widescreen edition on the same disc cut it.
Yeah we can tell
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/blm-terrorist-rosenberg/

> In the absence of a single, universally-agreed definition of "terrorism," it is a matter of subjective determination as to whether the actions for which Rosenberg was convicted and imprisoned — possession of weapons and hundreds of pounds of explosives — should be described as acts of "domestic terrorism."

Seems pretty political to me. Everyone here agrees that showing up with hundreds of pounds of explosives is terrorism.
https://archive.is/1PqVd
How do you escort a slow moving autonomous balloon? And why?
> For example, a well-meaning website performing intensive computation only when the page is visible.

if the user wants the computation to continue, despite being not visible, the site should not be able to override it. It would be anti-user otherwise.

often, i would see video sites _not_ prebuffering when the page is not visible. Or, deliberately switch over to a low resolution version of the video when the visibility changes - twitch does that. Even if i have the video overlay playing outside the browser window (so technically, it is visible, just not according to the API).

Essentially, if the user has the know how to switch this preference (and it would be per site, or even per session, like mic or camera), they would know the consequences.

> require user permissions.

It's not a permission per se, but a toggle, so the user might turn it on or off depending on their circumstances. They don't need to understand it - they can just leave it on default as what the browser currently does if they don't understand, or don't have any problems with the site's behaviour.
I'd go with the worst ones being one of the straight up commercials like the self driving cars one
nice! is this in reference to composer javad maroofy?!
Ok, you win, have a favorite.
NPD being being a German far-right political party:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Democratic_Party_of_Germ...
The scene doesn’t really make sense without it.
100% agree it doesn't change the biology. Ethics just determines the acceptable collateral damage from our policy solution.

How many beneficial guardianships are an acceptable trade for one abusive guardianship?

Maybe the answer is absolutely 0 and this should be off limits for policy.
"When Love is Gone" was not in the version of the movie shown in theaters, it was ONLY on home releases (one or two of them only had it available as special features, the original VHS release had it in the right place in the movie). It was never lost at all, they always knew where the footage was. Brian Henson says that Jeffrey Katzenberg (Chairman of Walt Disney Studios) strongly suggested but did not order him to cut the song- saying that it was too much adult emotion that children did not understand, and caused children to start to fidget and get bored.

This came up in my family because I had only seen the movie in theaters and my wife had seen the VHS copy many times, so when we watched it on our blu-ray back in December I blithely selected "widescreen theatrical release" and got what I remembered and she was wondering where that song went, if we'd selected 'Full-screen VHS release' we would have gotten this song that I didn't remember at all.
> vkou: "poor urban planning, poor transit, horrific traffic, high costs of all services, and insane rents for shitty apartments"

> also vkou: You mean "totally different stuff"

No. The first things, not the second set of things. Do you feel a need to be this way?

> The goalposts sure have shifted over the past decade

Yeah, that stuff was charming when that's all it was. It was old and crowded and expensive because nothing was modern or planned to be upgraded. How quaint.

> The reality is that [Chesa] wasn't the cause

Yeah, like I already said. But he doubled down on it long after it was clearly stupid and killing people, and he did it ideologically which meant he'd never see facts even if his nose was rubbed in them, and that ideology was based on missing his parents as a child because they were in prison for murdering police and security in an armored car heist. It combines to make him the spokesman for toxic progressivism.

> tons of petty crime (Most metrics of which peaked in the 2016-2019 period, by the way

Everyone in SF knows that's because they don't take reports of petty crime now. They literally don't even log calls - the same way poop on the street became.
> also apparently NYT and CNN are fucking leftist lmfao

I can't tell if this is part of the sarcasm or not. Do people genuinely believe that CNN is not a leftist organization? According to Pewresearch, 50% of CNN viewers consider themselves democrats as opposed to 40% of viewers of Fox considering themselves republican[0].

Additionally, 30% of viewers of CNN consider themselves liberal, and 30% consider themselves moderate. As opposed to 60% of viewers of Fox considering themselves conservatives. I don't know of anybody that tries to argue that Fox isn't right wing, but it always baffles me when people claim CNN isn't left wing...

I completely missed the NYT on there too. But in the same panel it shows that 44% of readers are Democrat and 36% consider themselves liberal. Whereas only 13% of the readers are republican and 22% are conservative. Take of that what you will.

[0]: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2012/09/27/section-4-de...
This was covered by Krebs last August: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/08/paypal-phishing-scam-use...

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32511086
Right but aflatoxin comes from feed.

So presumably EU and US food has similarly low levels for things like milk, even though the max cutoffs for milk are different.
I can't make sense of this.
What would China do if a USA surveillance balloon appeared in their skies? Exactly. You watching Taiwan?
>I’m thinking The Atlantic, Financial Times, The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Wall Street Journal, etc.

At a certain level of sophistication one comes to realize the publications you listed are just as "garbage" as the pre-graduate level productions the parent avoids.
It's not pure mental illness. To many, this site is a pox on our society.

Here's a past explanation foone's position: https://twitter.com/foone/status/1440697266059153439

And in a way you've even proven foone right. You're insinuating that they are mentally ill. I don't know why you feel that it's okay to treat other humans like that, but I hope you get the help you deserve.
> You can add quite a few until you get to 15 bytes. This length is a hard limit on current x86-compatible CPUs. Any instruction longer than 15 bytes is considered invalid and will generate an exception.

There's a few valid 16 byte instructions though.. Sandpile lists a few examples: https://www.sandpile.org/x86/opc_enc.htm

36 67 8F EA 78 10 84 24 disp32 imm32 = bextr eax,[ss:esp*1+disp32],imm32
64 67 8F EA F8 10 84 18 disp32 imm32 = bextr rax,[fs:eax+ebx+disp32],imm32
Is that just the reductive cumulative value of the raw materials?
Moved Iran and Afghanistan back a hundred years or more. Watches ballon and earns reputation as "restrained".
"It's not like the old days..." Is an important part of GPs post. Snopes has become (or has become perceived as) more political with time as they've changed role from "urban legend debunking site" to "fact checking of contemporary goings on site."
> Can anyone chime in as to what the fiduciary responsibility is if you have a liability but no responsibility to pay it?

A liability is a responsibility to pay. If you have no responsibility to pay, you have no liability.
There's a pretty good Well There's Your Problem episode about it (dirtbag-left podcast-with-slides about industrial disasters).

Goes into detail day by day about the events, including celebrating some of the heroes of the story who probably saved countless lives.

https://youtu.be/34rdxDgpaaA
I was brought up in a academically competitive environment, both in school and at home. I also have a natrual affinity towards mathematics and puzzles, but none of that makes a difference. This kind of arithmetic math inutition is nothing more than practice. You might be a little removed from the last time you had to do this level of math, so it's not fresh. I have tutored high school math for the last 10 years, so I built that intution over time checking students' work. But that only makes a difference in speed.

The reason the blog post and I made the assumption about perfect squares up to 12 is because it's a consequence of just knowing multiplication tables up to 12x12. The squares are 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 100, 121, 144. The most basic approximation of a square root would be rounding to the nearest perfect square. The author didn't pick g=6 because they had some hidden intuition that 6 would be close, they picked 36 instead of 25 and knew that'll be 6. If I wanted to know the square root of 72, that's between 64 and 81. You'd know it's closer to 64 because the difference between 64 and 72 is smaller than 81 and 72. The actual numerical differences aren't that useful, you just need an understanding of what it's close to.

The reason why I assumed most people would know even powers of 2 is because of CS. It's just comes up so often, for example looking at algorithm complexity in relation to simplying with respect to log base 2 or binary representation of integers. The numbers also come up when thinking about primitives conversion such char to integer or how floating points work. As well as understanding amortized memory allocating algorithms, like how much bigger to make a dynamic array when it's filled. Even if you don't explicitly know why, numbers like 4, 16, 64, 256, 1024, 4096 are familiar, which are 2^2, 4^2, 8^2, 16^2, 32^2, 64^2. They are all also powers of 2 and you could write them as 2^2, 2^4, 2^6, 2^8, 2^10, and 2^12. I felt like it's a fair assumption on HN.

When I mentioned visualizing the graph, I just meant the non linear mapping between numbers and their squares. That is more raw intution, but it's not numerical in any way, it's knowing how the graph looks. And that comes from remembering the relationship between algorithm complexities, like log(x) vs sqrt(x) vs x vs x^2 vs 2^x.

An an educator, I strongly disagree with the idea of anyone being numerically "blind". If you struggle with rapidly finding that option, my only advice is brush up on some multiplication tables, and to give yourself time to speed up. Math anxiety is a problem for some, but that's a problem related to fear of failure and not cognitive ability.
Probably just change the colon to a horizontal bar?
The scam isn't trying to get you to pay the invoice, it's trying to get you to call the number. My dad nearly fell for this scam last August, and when he called the number someone posing as PayPal customer support told him he had a virus and they needed remote access to his computer to clean it. He wised up and told them no, but presumably they would have installed spyware or ransomware once given access.
But if you take today's societies as an example, those that do encourage being openly gay are those that have much less incidents of judgement towards gay. Societies where it's culturally fine to be naked in various situations, you forget about it, it doesn't become a thing to notice anymore. If you're at a nude beach, or at a sauna, people don't suddenly rape each other because they see them naked. It becomes normal very quickly.

I understand what you're saying but my point is if we didn't try to protect X, it would eventually be normalized, become part of daily life and not noticeable as a thing that needs to be protected AND that it seems that when putting protections for X, that protection implicitly includes the assumption that X is bad. A naked body isn't inherently an invitation for rape, unless you implant that idea into someone's mind through the ban of public nakedness, and being gay isn't a thing to judge, unless you make it a taboo and discourage its public expression.

I'm not convinced, the real life evidence in actual tolerant societies seem to suggest that the more open we are, the less secrets we keep and the more transparent we are, life improves.
They wouldn't make it to the ozone layer, if released in sunlight.
It's missing a bayesian comparison, i.e. how many humans think "fat people are inactive" is a hateful sentence? Even humans vary a lot across cultures.
Elephants in Ancient Indian Warfare: https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1241/elephants-in-ancie...

Ancient Indian Books on Elephants: https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/essay/elephantology-and-i...

Gajasastram — an ancient elephant treatise of India: https://nanjappavikram.medium.com/gajasastram-an-ancient-ele...

See also The Elephant Lore of the Hindus (Matangalila of Nilakantha) translated by Franklin Edgerton - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matanga_Lila
I think they would eagerly have followed a better course of action that didn't lead to getting fired and then prosecuted
Everyone does this including you.
AliExpress delivery drone. I'm expecting my $2 ESP32 boards any time now.
Ok this is epic... Do Napoleon: A Life next.
Yikes, a portable therac-25.
Mentioned in the article
I remember being so enjoyed by the inability to walk into buildings and shoot from there that I tried to build a whole map full of office buildings. Don’t think I ever got further than a single building and a parking garage though.

It’d be nice to see that again now…
> One is that instruments are actually designed to sound different from one another, and it's up to the player to decide what they want.

So true

> And there's no practical way for an individual musician to conduct a blind test

Also true. You can try to approximate. When my kid was younger, I was with them at a violin lesson and the student before had three different instruments they were auditioning for their first 4/4-size violin. So being a full-size violin, this one was to be their instrument for the next few years. The shop had let them take 3 instruments in their price range on loan for a week to audition. The teacher had the student turn their back and labeled the instruments A, B, and C, and proceeded to let the student listen to how each instrument sounded as the teacher played with a couple of different bows. We all kept notes on our favorite, but didn't tell the student yet. The student's mom took all our ballots to consult later after the student was closing in on their own choice.

Over the week the student picked an instrument and had it at their next lesson. The first thing that the student played as a warm up was a 3-octave G-major scale. I said: "Ah, you picked the Dunov, that was my favorite, too." The mom looked at my like I had grown a second head, but to me the instrument's sound was very distinct from the other two. Instruments do vary a lot. They all have their own personality and it is fun to find it -- two things I miss most about kid having grown up and move out are a) listening to practice every day, and b) violin shopping.
I forget if War and Peace was the first book of a semester or whether it was over spring break, but long novels were typically scheduled so that you had some free time away to read them.

The books me and my friends found to be ass-kickers were the dense philosophy books with many seminars back-to-back, like how there were seven? on Critique of Pure Reason and six? on Phenomenology of the Spirit. Important books, to be sure, but there's a limit to endurance.
Eight Pro-Social Platforms That Didn't Work
15 points over two decades is an entire standard deviation improvement for the whole population. One-on-one tutoring has been shown to make a two standard deviation difference. That's the difference between median intelligence and genius. If that isn't large, what is? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem

Your study is about the effect of an extra year of badly done education on people who drop out of school, which is worth 1 IQ point. That same study shows that the value of mediocre education on people who don't drop out of school is 5 IQ points.
Probably the mods will need to be reverse-engineered and reimplemented - I haven't looked at how all of this weeks, but there's a reverse-engineered Half-Life engine so I imagine that there is a reverse-engineered Counter-Strike client.dll and mp.dll there as well (compiled down to Javascript or WASM or however it's running).
Valid meaning "valid according to spec" or "actually executable by processors in practice"?
This process avoids producing chlorine, and doesn’t require purification of the input either.

It seems quite promising.
I wouldn't say 2.9% is nominal. Remember this is real GDP so it accounts for inflation.
Not with this process, that’s the breakthrough.
Would love to know more about how you produced the embeddings!
This is the article I had read: https://www.vulture.com/2022/12/muppet-christmas-carol-song-...

In it they say Disney cut it - I had read elsewhere it wasn’t an order but they definitely seemed to have pushed it despite what he wanted.

That article says they then lost it after.

>” While the scene was cut from the theatrical release, Henson very much wanted it to be included. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in November, Henson explained that Jeffrey Katzenberg (yes, the Quibi one, who was then in charge of Disney) was the one who had the scene cut. “He’s like, ‘It’s just a little too adult-emotional for little kids to stay connected,’” Henson recalled Katzenberg saying, adding that the film “certainly plays well without the song, but I obviously preferred having the song in. I think it’s good for kids to be pulled into deeply emotional moments, even if they feel slightly awkward about it when they’re in a movie theater.” According to Henson, Disney lost the original footage soon after, but efforts have been made to recover it. “For years and years, I’d call them every six months and see how they were doing. And they actually even put together a team and a little budget to try to find it, and they still couldn’t,” he told EW. “It’s very frustrating.””

Also at the end of the movie the last song is a throw back “when love is found” which loses some meaning with the other song cut.
There are definitely some bug fixes (I've forgotten the main ones).
Chevy needs to get their battery fire issues under control. They've had so many recalls and disasters I doubt anyone is going to rush to buy a Chevy ev
It wasn’t a crowd-winner, but I particularly enjoyed that episode of The Twilight Zone
Right. If a "weak" thing like this ends up in a place where somebody is near it constantly - like a workplace desk, or in somebody's home? It may take months but they will accumulate a lethal dose.
Because one stochiastic parrot had some reasonable not terrible input to parrot back. And for the other, it had terrible awful & subhuman vulgarness- mountains of inchoate rage, having nothing to do with the candidate- it realized it could never parrot back.
PayPal has dramatically improved this email since this scam started making the rounds a few months ago. Most of the safety notices weren't there originally, and they at the time allowed the seller to identify themselves as "PayPal", which made the email look a lot more legit.
Why can it not just be hyperbole, a stylistic choice? This is all just internet discussion, with some speculation and exaggeration for color. Why do we need to equivocate in a discussion on events from three generations?

Some guy/gal wonders what would have happened, another guy/gal gives a concise clear answer. It's all good.
The purported neutrality of technology is an old saw that people who are practitioners of technology ought to discard. The fact they haven't shows how terrible a job we're doing educating them.

Technology is not neutral and never will be because the nature of technology is to be a means to an end, and as such, to be inseparable from its end.

Technologies enable certain future outcomes.

That some of those outcomes are deemed "good" or "bad" just depends on whether they're compatible with the ends that were pursued initially and the worldview that supports them.

Some technologies have unexpected outcomes, but that doesn't make those outcomes independent of those technologies, either.
A way to reduce bots that is sustainable for Twitter is to make the API limited and paid.

Clearly it is working and the free-loader bots are now crying; and they should cry and just pay for it. Just like there are little to no bots on Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram, and Pinterest.

Bot problem solved and job done.
If you read about RAND and Air Force policy at the time in general, and LeMay’s beliefs specifically, it’s a very real likelihood. The dude wasn’t parodied in Dr. Strangelove for nothing.

This stuff is published now and terrifying.

LeMay was the architect of the firebombing of Japan and the North Korean population that killed as much as 20% of the population. Applying air power to kill until capitulation was the basis of strategy.

A common belief among the Air Force leadership was that nuclear weapons were a wasting asset that would be rendered moot once the Soviets were able to build out their arsenal. At the particular point in time, the US had an overwhelming superiority that was shrinking. There was a serious belief the preemptive war was critical while the window of superiority was open. That position was pushed strongly during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Pushback to President Eisenhower’s moves to control planning escalated to the point where Eisenhower demanded compliance or resignation from SAC leaders.

Was that all serious or just bluster to scare to Soviets? It could be - fear of an uncontrolled madman might discourage escalation. Fortunately, we didn’t find out.
Please do - all the betas have been archived but I don't think many (any?) of the alphas were conserved.
Much like Day of Defeat - only ones of the alphas seems to have survived to the present day.
Conceiving an alien intelligence is pretty impossible too.
You're generalizing the loudest of the fringe to those 140M people followed by generalizing personal anecdotes to the same 140M. This is the same as trying to say that all Democrats support antifa.
Not the whole of the American right, but certainly Trump's core support and then some. They are very anti-all of those things and vocally so.
If so, then why did China go to the trouble in the first place?
Oh. and why were they there in the first place? On some scientific research field study / invited by the Indian government?
And China has many satellites that are not in the news, but violating sovereign airspace Matters regardless of whether or not it materially matters.
Does anyone have a direct line to Randall Munroe?
Yes I would reconsider! However the city would have to be a reasonable sample
Microbes also started the oxygenation of the atmosphere. Some microbes were off-gassing oxygen.

There was a cartoon in one of my college textbooks where some microbes were decrying how their oxygen-producing neighbors were ruining the environment with their high levels of poisonous oxygen off-gassing.
You could memorize the map by walking through your high school though.
Oh gosh, I remember long LAN parties on fy_pool_day and the occasional attempt at changing up the go-weapon.
I never played much of the assassination game mode though.
Blame LG for that more than Chevy
I am enjoying Raga's Dance, which is nothing like what I was just listening to. Thank you for the recommendation ;)
Alphabet’s Profit Falls 34% (fourth consecutive drop) Amid Ads Slowdown
Yes, but you know what has even more strength? Sending up our own balloon in the shape of a giant ass and blocking its view.
Then you can get a raspberry Pi and host it in your closet.