skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a difference from banning a book in public libraries (or even Amazon) vs a school board saying it’s not appropriate in school libraries.

The former I agree has the reaction of the Streisand effect (like Dr Seuss-gate)

However if a kid can get the book from online store with relative ease, or lookup why it’s banned and find it’s benign, I don’t think it’ll have nearly the effect this article predicts.

In a school setting, I’m not against the library within the school being more restricted - it should be on the parents to provide, or withhold, books from kids when they deem appropriate.

And if a board elects to have a book removed, then the process worked. Let the PTA or others voice concerns, or better yet, just get the book for your kid.

I’d rather have the school library too strict than too relaxed with selection.

Let the parents parent. If they want to take their kid to a public library, or get the books themselves, let that happen. This isn’t some mass societal book burning
I don't think penis is the best translation, prick or weenie would be better.
Have anybody seen any trains with 6-axle configuration anywhere? Seems like uncommon and easy to notice thing.
I think the data on viewership implies they're wrong

https://www.statista.com/statistics/741790/the-handmaids-tal...

assuming that viewership leads to people buying the book.

on edit:
https://www.pluggedin.com/book-reviews/handmaids-tale/#:~:te....

The Handmaid’s Tale is written for adults but appears on high school reading lists, often in a student’s junior year.

which I guess is why this whole conversation is happening.
Yes, extreme ideologies (left and right wing) and authoritarian views are on the rise because of three factors playing out at the same time:

1. Globalisation showing its cracks and becoming increasingly clear to be the reason for the skyrocketing of inequality and the widening of the wealth gap between the rich and the poor

2. People waking up to the fact that the West and the East are equally bad with a constant stream of bad leaders who make bad decisions for their own riches and for the huge hypocrisy as well as the apparent propaganda to which we are all (West and East) are subjected by our own governments and mainstream media outlets

3. Internet and social media making 1. and 2. extremely visible to everyone in every corner of the world

As a result the world is becoming a lot more cynic on a much wider scale than ever before, people are becoming increasingly more selfish because they see that this is how the world operates as a whole without any shame and people are therefore increasingly more inclined to give their vote to people who "offer" radically different views to the status quo.
You don't need zk-SNARKS for that. It's possible through some schemes, such as blind signatures, which have been successfully implemented many times but their usage for currency has (iirc) proved legally problematic.
The intersection between non-absurd[0] conspiracy theories, culture wars and journalism never ceases to amaze me.

The article you linked thoroughly debunks the claim that "Zelenskyy sold 17 million hectares of farmland to U.S. corporations". Fine, except I imagine it's not really what anyone repeating it was interested in.

The "Zelensky", "sold", and "17 million" bits are minor details that don't change the thrust of the claim, which is that US interests control huge amounts of farmland in the Ukraine. This presumably happened just before the war and means that the US... something something, blah blah - I'm not interested in pursuing this further, as I doubt there's anything insightful to discover there. But my point is, the article focused on debunking the details and called the claim false, even though it actually proved the core of the claim true.

"Zelensky sold 17 million hectares" may not be precisely equivalent to "western corporations took control of at least 3 million hectares", but it still barks up the same tree. But instead of exploring the more accurate version of the claim to see if it leads anywhere interesting, we just have one group sharing the spiced up pop version, the other debunking the irrelevant details of it, and both being smug about how superior they are to the idiots on the other side.

Smh.

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[0] - I.e. ones not involving aliens, the Illuminati, reptilians, etc.
To me the only open source license that seems to make sense without imposing on other developers, is the MPL without copyleft exception:

"Do what the fsck you want with your code; as long as my code and any modifications to it are available under the MPL, I don't give a sheet what you do with the rest of your code."

Also, when another license is incompatible with the GPL, I see it more as the GPL being at fault, because it's literally only compatible with itself unless you explicitly add exceptions. It doesn't matter if another license grants the exact same freedoms as the GPL, it will be incompatible with the GPL because it has a different name.
> I guess you just have to ask why people have these motivations and why they hide them.

> It feels like people would act dishonestly first to seek survival (job security), but then also to seek power (promotion/influence).

The first place I go to is to see that people aren't always doing good strategical thinking, then they get hung up on mistaken goals, or ineffective ways of achieving them, and aren't very good at communicating what they are doing or hoping to achieve, and this often leads to what looks like subconscious (or sometimes very conscious) obfuscation.

In the technology area, I've worked with many coders, through to product people, sales, marketing, directors, etc., who get hung up on particular technical ideas - and claim these are strategic product or architecural decisions, and the same happens with people getting hung up on ineffective project management - especially when it's an approach that worked in another situation much better than it's working in the current situation.
Nobody would be that insulting, that would be a "Let them eat cake" moment

Yet that's what they did.
I really don't follow autonomous cars all that closely, is Zoox still the only one that is designed to not have a driver in terms of the actual car?

I remember seeing it like maybe 3-4 years ago and noticing that it had 4 wheel steering and being pretty impressed in terms of how it could behave in tight spaces. Of course AFAIK actual autonomous driving is nowhere near solved so this is probably still some years away.
I was at an event run by one of our suppliers, a health tech firm. Discussing one of their products, their consultant told me they were 'learning as we go along'.

Didn't have the heart to tell him his firm is supposed to bring expertise from day one.
The chemical from the train got burned which turned it into a different chemical. Are they only testing for purely what was in the train or the byproducts of the chemical being burned?
Apparently it struck too close to home.

Unleashing tax officials on an organization painting a negative picture (well, not, Modi and accoplice paint it, the BBC only presents it) is a failed attempt of masquerading an authoritarian government overstepping their limits of governance. If they were honest and not coward they would simply tell: 'Shouldn't uncover our dirty laundry, get out of here or will get hurt!'

They only highlight not cover this way what we already suspect of India being an elective dictatorship (similar to Hungary).
This is a high school library, not censorship from the government. You can still buy the book, or find the book in a town’s public library.

I agree say no to censorship, but schools need to fit a common denominator, and let the parents decide when and how to expand that when parenting.
Flint was only one example sadly, there's a surprising number of communities in the US who are, or recently have been, unable to get drinkable water from their tap. Often for reasons like crumbling infrastructure, lead, or other contaminants. Seriously, search whatever state you like and you'll probably find there is, or recently was, large numbers of Americans there under orders to avoid drinking their water or only using it after boiling it.

I have yet to see a national map of every area where the water isn't safe to drink, but I'd recommend checking cities in your area often and checking any place you plan on visiting because it rarely gets a lot of attention. I expect things to get even worse once we get federally enforced standards and rules for PFAS contamination.

Here are some recent examples:

https://www.25newsnow.com/2022/11/21/boil-order-large-portio...

https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2022/07/calif...

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/water-boil-order-issued-...

https://www.newsweek.com/florida-city-issues-boil-water-warn...

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/20...

https://people.com/human-interest/boil-water-notice-lifted-i...

https://cdphe.colorado.gov/press-release/town-of-superior-is...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/21/lead-contami...

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/environment/ct-illinois-...

https://www.mynbc5.com/article/new-hampshire-town-forced-to-...
Would inertial charging like an automatic watch be a possiblity for a vr headset? I'd love that actually!
Bias is not binary. The establishment bias of the BBC (which I think does exist) doesn't carry over to coverage of a pogrom in Gujarat, because there's no establishment skin in that particular game.
Imagine there’s an FBI raid on, or congressional investigation into, whatever American news outlet attacks your political beliefs, and I think you’ll find yourself believing not that the government must be scared of the truth, but that these guys didn’t deserve their tongues.

It’s easy to stand outside a regime’s borders and say it can’t change your reality, and comforting to believe that the truth always comes out in the end, but I think reality is more harsh: “History is written by the winners.”
Ukraine. I can't leave, another country invaded mine unprovoked and they are killing my people so I kinda have to stay. I am looking forward to your argument why this makes me a bad person.
The BBC documentary itself is rather benign and brings nothing new to the table other than elevating a UK viewpoint over what many locals have done in the 2 decades in between. If anything, it only displays the BBC’s colonial biases.

The response to this run of the mill documentary which likely no one would have watched and/or heard about has been chilling. The Modi government has absolutely embarrassed itself and has basically gone out of its way to prove that whatever the documentary says is correct, whether it is or isn’t. And the doubling down will hurt not just the governments but also the country’s image.
Linked lists are a very simple data structure, and pretty much everyone can get them right. There haven't been any big memory safety CVEs to my knowledge around linked list manipulation. The same for binary trees.

These pointer-based data structures are used a lot when you are manipulating large structs in C and C++, as they let you "move" then between data structures without copying a ton of memory.
This is just "stated preferences" vs "revealed preferences", and teams understanding what managers actually care about from experienced with those revealed preferences.
> Think what you want. Nobody else was confused by my meaning.

you are very confused and don't even understand what you wrote my dear friend.

GPL is not based on "asking those who are already giving to give more" but on collaboration. Which I understand is not a thing for you, so you better stay away from it, but that's not a GPL's fault, that's exactly the purpose: keeping away the free riders like you!

besides "nobody else" is a very poor defense, only kids use that. It doesn't make your statements less false.

> LMAO you guys are fucking lunatics. Have a nice night.

Who are you talking to now?

I am one.

Reminder: the World is vast, USA is just a small percentage of it, not even one of the most interesting by any metric, it's lunch time here.

Sleep on it, if tomorrow you still see the invisible "guys" you mentioned, call a doctor.
You sure you're ok?
So, like Erlang?

What’s an example of a language that does this by default?
I have several daughters.
There is a huge inverse relationship between teens happiness and social media.

Our oldest Teen would be happy, respectful involved in the family. Be allowed back on social media within a few days. She was rude, disrespectful depressed, and just sat in bed all day. We would take it away within a couple of days she was back to her old happy self.

Repeat this for several years.
The entire time she insisted, I did not affect her.

As an adult now she stays off of it, and strongly discourages her sisters from using social media and regrets being on it.
I think 30k 71m request per second http attack is pretty unique? Could certainly be wrong though!
That's not going to happen. There's just too much friction to reach consensus on how to move the language in that kind of direction. It's like trying to get a centipede to walk to the food when none of the legs can agree on the best path to take. Before that happens, it's much more likely that some other language that interoperates well with C++ will reach a useful state (with regards to IDE support and other tools) and will be embraced by the community. By "community" I don't just mean hobbyists, but the major members of the C++ committee: Microsoft, Google, Nvidia, Intel, etc. That language might be Rust or it might be some other language that's yet to appear. It might not even be a single language, but several. I personally think Rust is not a suitable successor to C++.
All of Tati's films have to be viewed multiple times to be fully appreciated as he pays exquisite attention to details, many of which are small and seemingly insignificant and often missed at first viewing. PlayTime is a visual masterpiece especially for this reason.

In many ways Tati was a silent filmmaker in an era of sound; he neverthelsss embraces sound in a remarkably intuitive way that makes him one of its great film interpreters.

For instance, the buzz of the neon light transformer in PlayTime — an annoying sound we've all experienced. It's a seemingly trivial inclusion in an otherwise complex and 'active' scene. But it's not really trivial, for often when one's experiencing or recalling some real life drama it's often the trivial that one remembers—the main event cannot be recalled without the 'trivial' coming to mind as it's contextually important memory.

Another excellent example is from Mon Oncle, the scene where Monsieur Hulot's 'competence' is being questioned, but one cannot forget the seemingly trivial sound of the secretary's short click-clack high-heel steps† as she briefly enters and leaves the scene—yet her presence is only incidental to the scene's transpiring events. Not only was Tati a master at using sound this way he was also a genius at observing human nature in action.

The other ingredient that makes Tati's films so delightfully memorable is their simple humanity. Decades ago, I first saw Mon Oncle as a kid of about ten—about the same age as Gérard (Hulot's nephew). That was well before I'd learned any French and the version I saw had no English subtitles yet I enjoyed the film enormously and understood what was going on without language—and I still do, I never tire of seeing it. That's part of Tati's genius, he has the remarkable ability to appeal to all ages and new generations.

_

† Edit: this is not the scene I described above (that occurs about 1h 31m in the film) but it's the same secretary walking and sounding the same: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YdCSijdyI6E.
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Doubly linked lists break one of the fundamental promises you make to the borrow checker: single ownership. I doubt they're going to get much easier.
Perhaps we can say, "Find a job that you don't hate".
You'd be surprised by just how many Modi (and right-wing) supporters exist among influential Indians in the Silicon Valley. They're not even subtle about it on Twitter.
Had: https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-agriculture-farmland-economy...
From working with a bunch of ex management consultants, this is their special sauce. They’re often good at first principles thinking, learning a domain rapidly, and they don’t have any emotional connection to things in the business (people, processes, etc).

This is a pretty good combination that is actually hard for many people to do, especially when you’re in the business trying to keep the lights on.

Not all management consultants are good of course, there is an awful lot of bullshit, but I’d hire from the pool for full time employees focused on improving processes or solving hard business problems.
people get emotional attachments to games, no one cares about infrastructure
They are also very unreliable
What content do you expect asking that question not from Turkey IP? I suppose that no user-gen video from that area will be in English.
I thought Modi is proud of his role in the riots and his followers know all this anyway?
Germany's steel and chemistry sector require large amounts of natural gas.
In general, natural gas (currently LNG) was also to smooth a transition towards green hydrogen, the plan being to build infrastructure that can burn/store/use both, as explicitly stated by Federal ministries/agencies.

> that plan is out of the window

There hasn't been officially confirmed, soon there will be a report called "Power plant strategy 2026" that will give a better outlook as to what is gonna happen this decade.
most of this energy today comes from fossil fuels. i propose we replace it primarily with photovoltaic energy. i am not sure how this could have been unclear from my comments above. this transition is already happening and will be essentially complete within a decade

(supplemented where possible with wind, which is cheaper where it's abundant)

but it's irrelevant where the energy comes from today when we're talking about what pv production is dependent on. it's not dependent on fossil fuels. it's dependent on access to cheap energy, and it also provides that cheap energy; the energy payback time on pv production has been under two years for decades now

if your concern is that there will be no market for additional abundant cheap energy once current fossil-fuel generation has been displaced, you should probably stop worrying about that, because that has never been a problem so far in human history

oil extraction is indeed around its peak right now, but coal reserves would last another century or more at current extraction levels. the issue is that it would be bad to turn the planet into venus. currently the world is on a path to, as you say, compensate, but it's possible that a sufficiently large disaster could halt that process

cf. https://archive.is/KMsTT https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/02/13/w...
Generally, managers work on ensuring the business keeps surviving. That’s their main responsibility. Staffing, retention, alignment of sales/ development, etc.

Most good management does that well in harmony with the product. Bad management focuses on that at the expense of the product.
> After blocking certain countries IP ranges

Alright, can we just put this one to bed ?

When RIPE/APNIC/ARIN allocate a range of IPs, there is NOTHING in the terms and conditions that says "you can only use this in this geography". The legal range holder must be in the geography, but where they announce it is nobody's business.

The range is held by a range holder who are listed on the relevant database. But there is nothing stopping them using it outside their geography and there is nothing stopping them allocating it to a customer outside of their geography.

So when people talk about "blocking a country's IP ranges" they are talking about "blocking a random range of IP addresses that may or may not be used at all in a given country".

There is also no real control on the databases. Yes you are supposed to keep them truthful and up to date, but we've all been there looking for abuse contacts and, well ....

So if a Russian range-holder decides to "allocate" a sub-range to a "French" customer and records it as such on the RIPE database what are you going to do ? And if you're buying your "security" data from a third-party, what's your third-party database telling you ? is that sub-range French or Russian ?

Not forgetting of course that IP range != provider. I could foreseeably get an IP range from $bad_country X but announce it over BGP over $isp_from_friendly_country Y, maybe even using their ASN. So that would easily defeat your ASN blocking.
> pay for childcare
> wages are high

Pay for…. That’s your clue. Prices are expensive because the owning class is squeezing every dime they can get.

You know… bog standard capitalism…
Nope.
Even Modi himself was a target of sanction (prevented to visit US). After he became PM, all of sudden western world became his buddy again.
> looks like he does indeed enjoy it

What in that twitter thread makes you think he enjoys it? The fact that he does not share a certain political opinion? Is a political belief, or lack of it, enough to enjoy life in a country?
Hi! Sorry to post here, but I couldn't find any way to contact you. You wrote here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30301639 that you set up et and cloudflare tunnel. Can you tell me how? It doesn't work for me, et doesn't see an open port on the server.
This needs to be uploaded on Youtube, Facebook and other mediums where the govt will have to work harder to have it removed.
A lot of folks in companies hire consultants for confirmation bias. They need someone to agree to what they want to to do. Furthermore it's harder to get in trouble when you can claim that you followed what a professional consultant suggested.
Your lack of empathy in favor of blind group hatred is a pretty solid example of one of humanity's worst traits.

However, I'm not going to return the favor by ignoring your personal context.

Is the reason you're denouncing core-js's maintainer because you, yourself, have been subject to particularly awful circumstances owing to Russia's war? Are you projecting on him because you've been hurt? What's your situation?
I enjoy pranking and being pranked. For me, the enjoyment comes from secret knowledge of the true world vs the perceived world and then the quick feeling of reconciliation of my memory rewriting itself to use the new information of what actually happened vs what I thought happened.

I’ve never received a hard on, but it is mentally enjoyable.

I’d say within reason though as a prank stops being funny when there’s some actual change made to reality instead of just perception. It’s not a good prank if someone sells their car because of it, or does something they regret after the prank is revealed.
> And if a board elects to have a book removed, then the process worked.

Is this true for all decisions by the school board? When they decide to quietly shuffle off a child molester (example: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/11/23/berkeley-high-knew-a...) to a different district is that the process working?