skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that we're all adults here I don't think these subjects hold much value outside of electorate manipulation. I mean what even is "the left"? I don't think its a meaningful term. Its no accident that certain elements of the press love to run these stories and we should try our best not to fall into the same trap.

Given how important _actual_ policy is, and given how there is a significant difference in policy between the two major parties in the US at the moment, I think its important for us to try to focus on policy. Perhaps it is worth trying to take subjects like these and find means to transform them back to relevant outcomes such as inequality, police brutality, fiscal policy, climate change and foreign policy.
Every receiver (perhaps the exception is a spark-gap receiver) has an amplifier. The article is trying to say that you can't improve the S/N ratio of a signal with an amplifier. You can always make it worse though. The aim is to make it less worse.
At least it didn't prevent the Industrial Revolution, which is contrary to "MBA Adam Smith" conventional wisdom.
From what I've seen these senior people with no reports at the moment (or those with org sizes too small) were hardest hit in the layoffs, simply because of the misfortune of bad timing.
I see banning things is useless in the long run, but at least some people will think about why it might be banned.

I was thinking about throwing a wrench to the machine while saying "ban it" to make it stutter, like breaking the chain of obedience in Milgram Experiment, or like the woman who walks up to Zimbardo and stops The Prison Experiment (see his TED talk).

Because, as a hacker and programmer, I believe that we have ethical obligations, and this "We're doing something amazing, we need no permission" stance in these communities genuinely worry me.

Technology is not only technology, it affects people's lives. Anything which can damage it beyond a certain point by exploiting human nature is in the same category for me.
That’s just polarization for you. The Right with its Roy vs. Wade abortion law overturn displays similar shortcomings in their performance to attract the voters in the middle.
> we're moving to a post-truth society

This is far too dramatic. What's actually happening is that we simply no longer give _unattributed_ audio and video the benefit of the doubt. Data pedigree and attribution will become more important, but we're already in a place where real media is routinely misrepresented by bad actors (as a lot of purported Ukraine war footage has shown), and this will simply make us more skeptical still.

> Could crypto unironically be the way out of this mess

I did pitch a PhD study area on this[0] before deciding I didn't want to do a PhD or get into crypto. But I do think signing media and signed attribution chains will become more important ... but I don't see much need for it to be distributed. I (along with a huge number of other people) already sign documents digitally using a 3rd party service

0: https://github.com/pjlsergeant/multimedia-trust-and-certific...
> Messy and intrusive litigation will follow as creditors seize assets and obstruct access to capital markets. Spain’s creditworthiness will be downgraded and challenge any notion of Spain as a reliable destination for investment — echoing an historical pattern of confiscation that harkens back to Charles III(opens a new window).

So, for the Financial Times if Spain does put the needs of investors above the ones of the citizens it would collapse.

Except that Spain is expected to outgrow most of the rest of European countries in 2023 and 2024. Reality does not seem to fit this articles proposals. *

It seems that the Financial Times opinion is based in willful thinking. To think that maximizing foreign investors profits over taking care of the local economy is better for a country is naive or malice. Spain is a Democracy with a strong rule of law. If the Financial Times thinks that Spain and Venezuela are in the same situation they should flag their content as propaganda instead of news.

* https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-surveillance-e...
"Just let people enjoy things" is about not criticizing the people for enjoying them, not about not criticizing the things if there are legitimate criticisms to be had.

You may not think Gruber's criticisms are legitimate, but I, and many others, do, and he's not criticizing the people who enjoy the Android apps.
Yeah I mean in so far that Go is basically Java-like (GC-ed, statically typed, has interfaces, simple language) it could be used there too. Go targets very much the same kind of problem as Java. C# too.

I only have a passing knowledge of Go so I can't comment on it's advantages or disadvantages much, although one of the great strengths of Go (tooling) is also very much a strength of Java (at least in large companies where there will be dev env teams that set up the Java environment for you.)
I like Shelly devices a lot.
A managed population is wild. You can do a lot without having to keep an animal captive in a zoo.
We already have congestion pricing - people pay in their time. Rich people have more time. So we are already fleecing low-income people.
Totally agreed. All the other protected statuses work both ways, as in, you can't discriminate against people who are pregnant/parents, but you also can't discriminate against those who are not (i.e. by expecting them to shoulder greater responsibilities, or targeting them for layoffs first).
You see you have a different goal of education.
I for example value more regional history as it is something I can connect to. Also high school is superficial and global topics are superficial as well.
That's an excellent response. Thank you. I didn't think of the foresight bias and now that I do, it makes a lot of sense.

> Undertaking a Quiz (Retrieval practice) can enhance test scores significantly, including web-based quizzes

The way I understand it, retrieval practice increases test scores where you test information retrieval (quizzes, multiple choice, etc.). Which makes sense because you're practicing a skill that the test evaluates.

The follow-up question: does retrieval practice increase scores when you evaluate understanding of a subject, such as open tests or essays?
> Kubernetes has done a good job of replacing OTP.

I feel like this statement alone demonstrates a wild misunderstanding of what OTP does and is. Kubernetes is at best a replacement for VM-level scheduling, but without a slew of additional functionality and application-level interaction with the kubernetes runtime, individual servers are basically running blind in a container, totally unable to do anything that OTP provides to gen_servers for free.
I think you yourself are a little mixed up - these attitudes and opinions arent limited to small failing towns, its entire states when you get off the coasts.

There isnt really a default culture across america the way you are insisting. The place is fucking huge.
DMARC identifier alignment: Relax, don't do it, when you want to go to it
Funny to claim that when in most European countries the centrist parties are objectively more right-wing than the self-proclaimed right-wing parties used to be twenty years ago. Like, this is not an opinion, look at anything from immigration policies to education, pensions, culture, health care, and other social safety nets, and what the party programs used to be and what they are now.

LBGTQ rights are about the only thing that haven't regressed. Yet. I'm glad that since 2014 my Dutch trans friends no longer are forced by law to sterilize themselves if they decide to come out and desire a medical transition, for example.
You just want to have your cake (privilege) and eat it too. Perhaps you want even a congratulation for eating it? Grow up and grow some balls, stop being a crybaby about it.
The insane part is that those police officers and neighbours likely grew up in a community where they were able to have the freedom to go outside unsupervised. They all survived to adulthood and are now trying to snatch away those freedoms from the young. Disgraceful.
Windows users are afraid to upgrade because Microsoft generally tends to change things. When Apple actually makes breaking changes to their OS (see: Catalina, Big Sur, et. al) people are deathly afraid of upgrading their Mac. At least I've learned to fear it, after installing Catalina and watching half my apps break upon reboot.
Two-party system with generally benevolent parties is decently good. Two-party system with corruption in the center of both parties is not a real democracy.
We were on Hasura Cloud and really did not have a problem with it. But we moved away to self-hosted Hasura for more control over deployment and cost as we have 10s of same-schema MSSQL databases that we were orchestrating and the management and synchronization of metadata was becoming a bit of a pain.

They just announced dynamic connection routing[1] which is a feature we have sorely needed as it would allow us to run a single instance. Fantastic stuff.

It is marked as "cloud / enterprise" only feature. Fine. Just yesterday we began to explore moving back to the hosted cloud service to prepare ourselves for availability of the feature.

And then today they announce this pricing change that 10x's the amount we would pay! On top of that the max for dynamic connection routing for the Pro plan is listed at 1! What's even the point???

Our opinion of Hasura has always been high and we've been quick to recommend it. But with the strategy and pricing in flux it's hard to justify picking it for future API needs. They seem to pushing aggressively towards Enterprise or bust deals which is a shame because the features they are gating off behind the Enterprise wall are fundamental to many application architectures.

[1] https://github.com/rakeshkky/graphql-engine/blob/dynamic-con...
a Rust hyper/tower load shedding service based on Little’s Law
You're just speculating and making this all up though. The vast, vast majority of people affected by the layoff didn't know anything was coming. Could be 100% of them.
> This makes my blood boil. It's obvious that Killingly cops are just bored assholes on complete power trips.

Without talking to them, I'm not sure that's a fair conclusion.

Regardless, IMHO the real culprit is vagueness / ambiguity in the applicable laws. Which means the legislators are at fault. And in a democracy, ultimately the voters.
> For example, I can get by with something like mRemoteNG for tabbed SSH sessions: https://mremoteng.org/

> It's kind of quirky but works. Someone else might appreciate something like the excellent MobaXTerm more, which adds multi-execution capabilities, a GUI for port forwarding and much more: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/

...

> Someone might laugh, but there's a project out there that attempts to commercially create a terminal replacement: https://www.warp.dev/

But here's the rub - all those people whining about how cheapskate developers are because they don't want to shell out $5/day for ChatGPT/IntelliJ/Whatever aren't deriding people who are not using these paid for replacements.

It's only ever the people using IDEA or Visual Studio or similar who develop superiority complexes over their choice of rentals.

I mean, $5/day to save my employer (not me) 5m/day is a good deal for my employer. I, however, don't get the value of that 5m[1].

[1] Which is why I pay for the IDEA IDE in my personal capacity even though I won't use it at work. Because if they save 5m/day, I get that time saved. Luckily my current (and last three or four) employers had no hesitation in purchasing software we wanted, so I never had to use it at work.
Greek vs Roman work environment. The Greeks expected the craftsman to show up with his compliment of tools, sharpened and maintained. The Romans provided the bench, tools, and ensured they were sharp each morning before arrival of the worker. Both cultures produced marvels of design and construction.
You should definitely change the channel, because the one you're listening to is the right-wing trying to infuriate you. And they're succeeding.

Natural gas: actual report says there could be problems, but almost all of the problems were caused by a small subset of gas ranges, so they might be defective or improperly installed or using a particularly bad technology. One politician says "we might want to regulate that for safety". Everything else is the right wing amplification and fear-mongering.
The economist: The phantom limb of a amputated globalized world flailing and wailing.
The problem is that dereferencing a null pointer does not actually have undefined semantics, it has system defined semantics. The compiler should compile source code in such a way as to produce machine code that does whatever that system does when a null pointer is dereferenced.

It should do this in part because very large volumes of code will be compiled that way due to the inability to detect in advance whether a pointer is null or not, and compiling it differently when it is known that a pointer is null makes for inconsistent behavior and vulnerabilities like this one.

This is the way relatively sane simple-minded compilers have worked for a long time, and no compiler should be allowed to pretend that certain constructs do not have reliable or at least consistent system defined behavior that will ensue if they are used.

Similarly if a compiler can tell that a signed addition will overflow in some cases it should be required to do whatever a signed addition overflow does on that architecture, and for the same reason. Issue the appropriate warnings about non-portable code, but do something reliable and reliably useful.
Does it seem at all realistic that someone at the median is paying 50% income tax in the US?
I spent ~$600 a few years back to buy a thoroughly tested TES device (https://www.platoscience.com/en-us/pages/product) and I only ended up using it a handful of times for novelty purposes.

My prescribed medication (little orange footballs) regularly helps me overcome executive function inhibition, and I was hoping this tech could work as an alternative or supplement.

There’s a lot of friction in setting up a session, because in order to have proper electrical conductivity, these devices typically require you to add some contact pads soaked in salt water.

It becomes noticeably unpleasant for me after only a minute or two - a very particular hybrid sensation between heat and… tingling? Pinching?

Combined with salt water dripping down my face, the initial appeal faded quickly.

I’d like to try it again, but it’s been sitting in a drawer for years, so I wonder if the battery hasn’t degraded. I don’t think I’d like to replace any components on such a device…
Simfeld: A Show about Nothing in a Game about Nothing:

The Sims 4 looks like the perfect home for Seinfeld and friends

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-sims-4-looks-like-the-perfect-ho...

Jerry Seinfeld's Apartment [No CC] // Speed Build - The Sims 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gu2k_e_4mA

The Sims 4 snuck in a little Seinfeld reference

https://www.reddit.com/r/seinfeld/comments/2r7u5i/the_sims_4...
Notable prior HN thread on topic:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720356

And link to new thread in case anyone interested in discussing it from a new perspective:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34626545
I interpreted this as basically equivalent to "Someone will develop it somewhere."
Most of the UB hate is that bugs that always existed only recently became exposed. "This code worked fine for years why is the compiler breaking it!" is always the rant, but it's misplaced. It should instead be "why didn't I get a sanitizer/linters/debug-whatever error first?"

The proliferation of optimization passes outpaced decent debuggability, and that's really the problem. Rants against UB are nearly always irrelevant or even just outright wrong. And worse still, those crusaders are harmful. You can see this in Rust as a perfect example. Signed integer overflow is defined two's compliment, much rejoicing from the "UB always bad!" crowd. Except wait a minute, in a debug build of Rust it's defined to be a panic. Why? Because signed integer overflow is 99.999% of the time a bug, and defining how it overflows doesn't actually help anyone. So instead you're left with the worst of both worlds - you both can't rely on how signed ints behave in Rust as a programmer because they have 2 extremely incompatible defined behaviors, and the optimizer/runtime then can't take advantage of them being undefined behavior in practice in release builds to optimize better.
The broader argument, as I understand it, is:

1. The 2A happened

2. Substantial gun industry developed

3. Tech changed, people increasingly concerned

4. Gun industry now big enough to lobby against any changes to the 2A

Thus, #4 causes the lack of removal of the 2A.

Does it have democratic legitimacy? Probably, but no more so than the 18th had.

Does that contradict "(the preference of the USA is that it is) better having our children killed in school than allowing firearms producers to lose one dollar"? Not at all.
I say frown away!
We all know what this is used for and its tasteless at best. But I like to think in solutions, so in stead of trying to arms-race this tech into submission with ever cleverer deep-fake detectors (and thus be able to regulate), why not accept its existence and change ourselves. Not least of all because any digital tech is like a permanent mutation to the digital-dna of our global society.
We built a Rust-powered desktop app for previewing documentation
> I don't stay plugged in beyond reading the changelog whenever a new version comes out
...
> I've also noticed a distinct and crucial lack of long-term vision for Julia from the co-founders.

Don't you find those two statements contradictory? There's a pretty striking contrast between your claim to ignorance and your confidently sweeping generalization (sadly, those two often do come in pairs.)

> I've also read some dramatic (unverified) claims that I won't repeat here about one of them.

If this is what I think it is, the claims were not substantiated in any way (even though it would be easy), and seemed quite outlandish, frankly.

> I've been unfortunate enough to read some .jl code in '22, and it was dreadful. I truly don't understand how multiple dispatch makes anybody's life easier

It's really hard for me to understand this opinion, given that Julia code, to me, is far more appealing than all the most common alternatives. In particular, multiple dispatch is such an obviously natural paradigm, that it's just hard to fathom why everyone don't just 'get it' right away. I mean, not taking all input argument types into account now seems to me like a completely artificial, even perverse, restriction. Why?

I guess this is why people argue on in the internet.
I'd question if a two party system is ever good. Given the OP, this idea of "the left" is arguably a symptom of our simplistic electoral system bleeding into to our ability to rationalise about other people.
It’s up to the platform in the end.

I recall IBM’s AIX used to put a zeroed-out block at address zero, so this code was guaranteed to always return 0:

*(int *)NULL

The reason was that it allowed their optimizing compiler to speculatively dereference a pointer before executing a surrounding if condition.
I can guarantee you that if you hit up Paquis on a Saturday evening you will find absolutely everything, from spice to heroin.
They are a rehash of other people's content. It doesn't mean they don't provide value but they are not primary content makers just a platform for publishing/searching for content
Ideologues of all stripes hope to manifest a society that reflects their own values. The electoral process is one avenue for achieving this end, though it does generally require popular opinion to be on your side. The upside of these types of pressure campaigns is that it allows ideologues to achieve their ends without sacrificing the purity of their own conviction.
The left destroy language.

Meanwhile, the right destroy democracy.

And now PG has been drawn into the puppet show.

The real problem is the structure of American democracy. Extremism is rewarded. Centrist politicians can’t win primaries, even though they would usually win the general election.
Do you agree that most people wouldn't like to find a nude video of themselves online?

Now why does it make a difference if the video is real or not? It's still a video of a nude body with your face on it.

I find this whole deepfake-porn trend to be incredibly disgusting. And it just saddens me that heterosexual males apparently immediately have to exploit such things for their own hornyness. I guess this is also the reason why this topic is not being criticized as much, because the people who develop and consume these videos can't comprehend how disrespectful it all is towards the people (women) who are being deepfaked AND especially the results being shared online, in most cases publicly.
The Pirate Bay is also a useful platform that doesn’t produce any content.
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The portion of the chemical reaction that "thinks" of itself as having some kind of consciousness that's somehow non-physical rather than just reactions in a blob of salty tapioca.
"Because it's not like it used to be," is the excuse I hear. Meanwhile crime is lower than it was 30+ years ago, or whatever generation these cops grew up in.
I would love to use smart switches, but the house does not have a 3rd return neutral because of age.

I know There are some that might work on a small current (so they ‘on’ all the time) but most do not.

Just one thing to look out with in switch v bulbs debates.