skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It needs to be said; the list of Iranian terrorist attacks against America is very short. The list of Iranian terrorist attacks in America is even shorter. Most of the antagonism against Iran in America is motivated by Iran's relationship with other countries (Israel), not things they've done to America. I can't say that I feel any personal animosity towards Iran, I wish America would let Israelis handle Israeli affairs and stop getting into grudge matches with other countries on their behalf.
DEF Con Radio – Music for Hacking
> The post quality has deteriorated, and it feels like I'm reading the same posts over and over again.

Paywall, authors are indistinguishable to casual readers, not different enough from Blogspot.
I was in from beta until about 2004. Lots of fond memories! Closest I've come to feeling the same way I felt playing AC in recent memory is actually Valheim. Can't quite put a finger on why, but there are very few games that hold such an important place in my heart. I was a high schooler when it came out. Some days I regret not going into game design, especially with the current wave of VR games. Some days I'm tempted to quit my major tech company job and try to create that magic myself in a VR MMO.

But that would be something only a crazy person would do.
>Japan does not doubt that the USA has strong national financial controls.

US citizens have the opposite problem, FATCA, that makes overseas institutions allergic to doing business with them. I lived in Japan for four years and had absolutely zero problems with banking (including overseas fund transfers both inbound and outbound; getting credit cards; leasing a car), but I have a UK passport.
Yes. It never feels like the authors primary purpose is the article or self expression.
Investing in Snapser
Really? It's all over the press. I didn't happen to notice the balloon floating in the sky. We don't all have one collective eye. The press and politicians platformed the story.
A Perpetual Purpose Trust for Intellectual Property
This is a cat and mouse game that we've been playing for decades. USA has surveillance aircraft in the air at all times, especially near ADIZ. It also has at least one of two national command and control aircraft in the air at all times. The USA has been probed more times than can be counted, and we've probed other countries just as much. What's new is ignoring a threat while over territorial waters or sparsely populated areas and letting it glide across the country before deciding to shoot it down.
Why did you think it would be publicized if we had?
Captain Zilog, anyone?
https://www.zilog.com/captain_zilog/
Rinse and repeat I imagine for many.
Old Reddit is significantly faster than new Reddit and I found it far nicer to use, but people in general didn’t like the “old, clunky” UI. Old Reddit was much maligned for how how it looked compared to modern sites.
To the extent it's about money laundering, if you lose the money and don't withdraw it, you're not laundering it.
I mostly see a paywall when I visit it. It's funny they've done all that effort to get me there, then once every day or so I see their paywall and leave.

I'm only talking from my perspective, but I'm bounced away from it most of the time.

I don't feel like I get that with Substack? I usually just click "no thanks" on the newsletter box, and go back and sign up if I like it. I very occasionally subscribe and pay for a substack feed I particularly like.
literally everything he wrote is wrong
> How this can be true, I have no clue.

Careful re-analysis of old radar data, perhaps.
I'm not directly touching this debate with a 20-foot pole. Wikipedia has issues with its insular editor pool for sure, but this minefield isn't the best vehicle for a public discussion of the issue.
SRE and DevOps people are already struggling to automate build and run for products and infrastructure they don't know shit about. Now you also want them to work 24/7 to support it when it flops?
In the US (a nation of 320,000,000 people), around 5 people per year die from this[0]. On the list of causes of death that need attention, this one is considerably lower than lightning strikes (which kill ~20 per year)[1].

Is it a problem? Sure. Is it an argument for reorganizing our economy? Hardly.

[0] https://rightcarealliance.org/activities/insulin/
[1] https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-lightnin....
Ah ah ah, did you hear about the hacker who tried to post a news article on Hacker News, but couldn't get past the captcha? Ah ah ah!

^ I asked for a joke about HN in the same style as OP
> I still contend that it's important to distinguish between someone who takes calculated risks based on thorough research and industry knowledge vs. someone who does the Wall Street equivalent of "playing a hot tip at the race track"

I don't know, is it important to make that distinction? What's so special about this? Is this some sort of protected guild? How do you distinguish between someone who went to college, majored in CS, writes protocol-level code professionally and holds 10 patents vs someone who went to a bootcamp, copy-pastes code from the internet while working in a web shop writing PHP extensions for wordpress?

> I wouldn't base your opinion of who is or isn't an investor on what the IRS says. This is the same organization which said that buying a clarinet for your child is a medical expense, after an orthodontist argued that playing it helped correct their kid's overbite.

I don't see the problem with that. Another instance of something similar is the health benefits from playing the Didgeridoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo.
That analog for a $50 Estes rocket can blow a family apart into little pieces. The discipline is sound - protect your citizens from external threats, no matter the cost. That's the purpose of government and by extension, its military.
Sounds like you’ve just supported the point about fan noise being a good approximation for battery efficiency.
This type of knowledge is far more valuable than many people realize. When you see people who get things done, get more raises, or seem to do great work without working so hard... then they know things about how to operate in the organization.
Short quips on HN are usually relevant beyond the headline of the article. I assumed they were responding to some point the article was trying to make and went looking for it.
Wall of Green Lasers Blankets Sky in Hawai'I, Likely from Chinese Satellite
I doubt that. There are no reports or sightings and there are no leaks. Someone would have leaked that if it occurred.
Can you get bird flu (H5N1)?
My professional Elm experience is as follows:

* 2017 - 2019

* 2021 - 2023

* 2023 - ?? (I'm starting a new job next month with Elm)

In my experience Elm isn't dead. But it is good enough. The lack of rapid changes, updates, etc are a feature, not a bug. I hated working in React TypeScript and what felt like constant updates to major libraries, including React and TS themselves.
What are you trying to see? If they are not using Google you'll not see it in these data.
The comics are part of their developer outreach effort.
A service that gets 100kqps average can expect to get 200kqps at peak due to human diurnal cycle. Services also need regional and global failover capacity and generally would not be run right at the redline all the time, so you can figure in more slop factors. Now you are closer to 320k than to 100k.

Also, the main factor in your analysis, 10%, was just completely made up by you.
The Manga Guide to Databases really is a solid first introduction to the concept.
Write a book or become an e-celeb and go on tour. 90% of blog/newsletter content (which are basically the same thing) is just self-promotion anyway.
'hybrid vigor' is when you take two inbred genetic lines and cross them together to pick up some of the genes you accidentally deleted while selecting for something else.

For instance the modern Irish Wolfhound was created by an nobleman who, worried about the breed dying out (there hadn't been a wolf in GB in over a hundred years), bought every wolfhound he could get his hands on, and crossbred them with mastiffs and Danes to build up a healthier population (while maintaining stature). Then he selected back to phenotype and went from there.

One of the groups trying to save the American Chestnut is doing the same thing, though I think their methods are recklessly optimistic. They've crossed residual chestnut populations with Asian chestnuts and then back breeding those to try to get just the blight genes and nothing else.

I say reckless because the smartest thing to do would be to identify the resistant genes and test each tree to see if it's carrying the gene. Instead they are infecting every tree and culling the ones that are susceptible. Effectively making a petri dish in which the blight can learn to infect resistant trees over time.

In some ways I think the GMO people may be the less insane of the two, and I'm very much not a fan of the transgenic surface area for pathogen adaptation across species.
Why did Mozilla remove XUL add-ons? (2020)
Well that’s probably the response that’s most swayed my opinion of a service ever. Good luck with it, I really hope you can turn it around.
So either they have info about an imminent alien arrival, or will have to admit that this is happening since several years ago, in at least three waves (probably), and that they knew about it.
It’s possible to do something for moral reasons and have some measure of hypocrisy in how consistently we apply those moral principles. That doesn’t mean the effort in doing so was a waste, or that it would be better to not have tried! Let’s not let perfect be the enemy of good.
"I wish I could play my games console in my house against my friends playing on their game console in their house"

The internet just made sense to me.
There's meant to be a third part but all the links to it are dead…
Oh very, very much yes. I've been using QGIS for about five years now as the first step in doing any sort of visualization work around GIS data. Better to trust a GIS application than my own bad d3 code :). It's also been absolutely fantastic for changing projections, changing resolutions, merging GIS files, things like that.

My only complaint about it is that it can be a little bit slow sometimes. It has to redraw everything if you zoom in. That's especially annoying if you're working with data that has millions of multilines or points. But, as a prototyping engine, that's kind of expected and still better than paying for ArcGIS.
Right. I don't care about profit, and therefore also not about incentives. I care about the idea of -- hey could there exist something like "Medium" as a non-profit, especially given that pretty much everything that has tried this for profit ends up going the way of (as mentioned below) "enshittification?"
I was just thinking the other day of writing a QGIS plugin for handle GNSS data from ROS. Like rviz but more aligned for out application. Very cool!
There's no harshness there at all, I'm just being clear about what I don't understand and how it superficially looks and asking what am I missing.

I barely use git in any meaningful way so these questions are coming purely from outsider curiosity.
Farmer here, the above is absolutely correct. The notion that a farmer would "take a chance" on spraying an non-GMO planted crop with Roundup/Liberty is a pure fiction.
Good point, seeing medium.com in a URL has this response with me now. For sure.
Most US missiles can shoot above the operational height of their planes.
The tic tac looks exactly like any number of inflight videos of other inflight objects. The apparent speed is a function of the unusual perspectives created when two objects fly at different altitudes. Watch tactical footage from fighters on a regular basis and it won't even look odd.
German call for English to be second official language amid labour shortage
Forking a compiler is a gigantic pain. None but the most hardcore would bother. It's far easier to give up pushing the boulder and go use something else, which I hazard to say many have done. Or, they see the difficulty in using ports for stuff and never even start using the language.
Pardon the excessive length of this response but I think about Elm all day every day and love the chance to talk about it on HN! Currently and for a couple months I've spent several hours per day working on my side project in Elm. Over the two years before that my usage was lighter, probably averaging out to a dozen hours per month. I consider myself experienced in Elm and my history with it goes back to basically the launch of 0.19, the last major version (which is four years old now, I believe).

Elm the language:

Generally rock solid for my purposes as a single dev making "home cooked" apps and games. There are very occasionally things where I'm held back by its inflexibility, but these are more than made up for by the positives. What elm has going for it is that it's totally type safe (not just mostly type safe like typescript) and that Evan and the community did a really good job designing primitive libraries for getting stuff done that have all the virtues you could wish for in other languages. Like great error messages, trying to make sure there's only one way to do something, etc.

Elm the community:

Extremely welcoming and helpful if like me you stick to Slack help and discussion channels. In Github comments threads and on forums like HN things can get spicy though. Elm is generally not as welcoming to folks looking to blaze their own path and build empires of their own as most of the JS ecosystem is. It's not that it never happens or can't happen; people do build their own large empires within Elm (I'm using Lamdera at the moment which is a fork of Elm making it work on the backend as well as frontend and it's definitely built by someone who had a vision related to Elm but which required drastic changes). It's just that that's less common and harder to do here than in other languages. I think there are a lot of folks like me though who are content to paint their masterpieces "within the lines" so to speak and even find comfort in the limitations. It's way easier if you are like me and find yourself doing like I said "home cooked" apps that you can cut scope on if you have to because of the language.

One final note which I've said before and I'll say again: I don't think the language is dead but rather "done". It works great for making a frontend app, and can continue to exist in this state through the year 2100 as far as I care. The creator has promised security updates and perhaps some non-foundational improvements down the line, and that's good enough for me. I'm much happier with that arrangement than with, say, React land where for all you know next year they're gonna release Hooks 2: Electric Boogaloo and you have to learn a bunch of new stuff and all the old libraries will have to update.
>Due to this group’s zealous handiwork, Wikipedia’s articles on the Holocaust in Poland minimize Polish antisemitism, exaggerate the Poles’ role in saving Jews, insinuate that most Jews supported Communism and conspired with Communists to betray Poles

This is such a bizarre conspiracy theory, maybe it makes more sense with the specifics of how Poland teaches their history, but Poland got straight up invaded, decimated, and occupied by fascists. Like, how are they gonna even try to point fingers at the Jews and Communists as being responsible.....
Our project is not big enough to justify tools like ArcGIS. Previously I'd used Global Mapper, which is also commercial but is somewhat more reasonably priced.

But I recently gave QGIS a shot and am very happy with what it can do. And the price is right!
My out-there pet theory:

Russia made some weird looking (but non-threatening) drone and mimicked some Chinese flight path. Thus, hoping to stoke a bit more drama between the US and China after the balloon affair.
Yeah but not with cannons. We are talking about a cheap way to shoot it down, ie not with a missile.
Spiraled as in the world's two most advanced militaries having an all out fight in the busiest shipping lanes lol. Prob all business would instantly shut down overnight.
So should everyone shut up until they have hard evidence to present? That doesn't sound like a very interesting way to live. Even in court circumstantial evidence is a valid form of evidence and plausible scenarios can be presented to try and convince. What is wrong with that?
Because blowing shit up is awesome, and gets votes.
I feel like Online can do just about nothing with rasters or raster analysis, and that is fully half of GIS.
What's wrong with GitHub spaces?
In the literal sense, exponential spread _of Covid-19_ is clearly no longer a good description in the US (or many other countries). It may describe the spread of new variants, but the impact on most people of getting the latest variant of covid-19 is about like the impact of getting the latest variant of influenza (which can kill you, but normally does not). The number of people with covid-19 is not going exponentially up, as it once was, it is now coming in waves that are probably never going to reach the peak of the initial Omicron.

Now, literally speaking, every new variant of covid-19, influenza, or any cold virus is obviously going to be exponential (and half of the time, exponential decay). But the population is no longer "immunologically naive", in western countries.
Show HN: Jendeley – JSON-based document organizing software
I created jendeley to help organize documents for programmers.

- jendeley is JSON-based. You can see and edit your database quickly.

- jendeley works locally. Your important database is owned only by you. No cloud.

- jendeley is browser-based. You can run it anywhere node.js runs.

Repository: https://github.com/akawashiro/jendeley
His embrace of uniformitarianism was based on traveling across South America, a fantastic place to observe it. The catastrophists that Lyell was fighting made most of their observations in Europe and Scandanavia, where there was lots of evidence for (in geological terms) sudden changes. More importantly, the ideas of gradual, continual geological evolution that he observed so carefully made it possible for him to imagine the same processes happening in the evolution of living things.
A potential flaw in this plan: while everything you say may be true, it is not broadly known. If China (or whoever) was to keep floating these things our way and we kept shooting them down at a don't worry about it, we're pot committed rate of ~$400k per incident, maybe people's blind faith in the military and politicians might be replaced with some rare curiosity, and maybe even displeasure! (Though: it's not like they have an alternative to vote for, but that too is not immutable, it only seems that way.)

Keeping people immersed in a complex narrative is a lot easier than one would think, but it is also a very tricky balancing act that can get upset by the weirdest things.

Personally, I'm all for it - anything that has the potential to wake up the American/Western public from their dream state is a good thing in my books, plus it makes for good entertainment.
Pages*
If syntax matters, JSX/TSX will forever reign supreme to DSL's like Angular's templating syntax and Svelte. Angular didn't even start shipping intellisense until years after they invented their markup, and it wasn't all that good: it would crash and use an appreciable amount of system resources. Language and library authors need to learn to meet people where they're at if they want actual market share. Some amount of change is good, but too much is a non-starter, if your concepts can gracefully inter-op with other tooling developers already use.
The "bad place" is super key, and the details there are very significant. Don't get too distracted by the big-picture vibe of epic historical force-on-force. The details are where it gets weird and interesting.

Like with Ukraine, OK, even if you see "Russia get spanked," it's not really that clear cut and there's a lot that goes into that. It may even be hard to know where to start in describing how that happened after the fact.

So there may be some interesting follow-on effects. Including, from what I remember in reading about e.g. WW2: It's even possible you'll see some surprising things like protected facilities in strange places. "Don't bomb here on the map of China, USAF, it's too close to a Tesla resource" or perhaps "NO US MILITARY ALLOWED ON SITE BY ORDER OF US GOVT" by some nice Chinese residential properties, things like that.

In the big picture, Apple and Tesla will of course spin up contingency processes.

With that said, the companies are run by completely different personality dynamics at this point in time.

Musk gets generally excited about these kinds of events, because it makes him feel prophetic when he sees events start to change in a way that he can do something about, or benefit from, or influence technologically. He'll look for opportunities extended by other nations and new platforms. He'll attempt to deepen USG connections as just about every large business with a couple of brain cells should be doing right now.

Apple on the other hand is now led by a potentially broad-historical-timelines-level master of logistics. What Apple would likely attempt is to spin up new supply line efforts, and make that a huge team production of _exceptional_ quality. This is Tim Cook's birthright gift, so to speak. Musk as micro-manager doesn't generally have the patience for this kind of activity.
Nor would I. I was talking about load(): http://api.jquery.com/load/
YouTube has become pretty bad IMO.. All the ads and Google data mining.

Without a suite of adblockers and sponsorblock it's unusable now. I hate video content anyway so I wouldn't sign up for a subscription. But every time I get referred there I'm appalled how bad it's become.
This is just a cool-sounding wrapper on the much older concept of rent-seeking, which has a solid theoretical literature behind it. Doctorow seems to specialize in this.
"Nearly all modern crops are hybrid strains"
This is a "citation needed" situation here, the corn & Canola seed markets are certainly dominated by hybrids but very plentiful drops like wheat and rice are not to the best of my knowledge. If you have sources for this I am very interested to read up on it.
Ha yeah my developer manager used to lead them along with the lead business analyst. Went smooth and effective. Kanban board is useful, along with a short stand up.

Now we are in 2 different scrums with 2 scrum masters and it's legit the biggest waste of time ever. They don't even know what half the jiras mean, let alone the context.
I would agree that "tragedy of the commons" could work. But the basic feature of "prisoner's dilemma" that I was referring to is that we're all better off if we all avoid taking antivirals or antibiotics when we are not high-risk, but each individual is better off if they defect and everyone else does not.
DeepMind AdA: Human-Timescale Adaptation In An Open-Ended Task Space
I've been saying that you could hire an astute middle schooler (probably a well-organized girl) to be a scrum master and it would be the same.
I’d love to use that heuristic but I need 1-2 more data points.
Why was it faster this time?
Yeah but none of those things are cheap. A cannon is.
ASAT weapons already exist, so most countries could kill the ISS if they wanted.
Ask HN: Why doesn’t autocorrect handle off by one hand placement on keyboard?
This sort of issue happens a lot on touch screens and results in all the letters typed being wrong.
Part of me thinks they wanted to shoot down the first balloon, but the president was kind of incapacitated and unable to give the order. That's the only thing I can think of for why they didn't shoot the first one down when it was over Alaska, but they shoot this one down when it is
ReScript - super good, actively developed: https://rescript-lang.org/
Fvim – Cross platform Neovim front-end UI, built with F# + Avalonia
What can $10 get you in Turkey?
The iPad
Apps give them more access and more information than browsers do.