skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>other than that one random, implausibly-well-informed anonymous person told Hersh

There is no reason to believe that Hersh is working off a single source. If he were, it would be extremely stupid, and certainly unbefitting a journalist with his level of experience, to admit it, since it would make it far easier to determine who the leaker was — it narrows the list of candidates dramatically. It seems like the whole justification for the "single source" smear is coming from a few times when Hersh said "my source" in the essay, which may simply be good practice in ensuring he doesn't accidentally reveal which claims came from one source and which came from multiple, since that could also (unlikely, but not impossible) help the intelligence services find one of the leakers.

>remote underwater detonation is a routine operation performed in the civilian oil and gas industry.

Remote underwater detonation with an unidentifiable signal is not. Using a normal sonar detonator would probably increase the chance of detection.
>60% of my take-home pay to state taxes

What? Don’t be absurd.
To me unsafe generally means “memory safety or type safety is disabled”. It doesn’t mean the code can’t run in production. Maybe some just implemented fast inverse square root and tested it manually.

danger_force_electrify_fence() is a whole different story.
They seem to make a comeback of sorts. I know a few podcasts at least that have gathered their community in "old school" web forums. Some of them literally use the old phpBB, but some use much more modern and mature software, that is a pleasure to use.

They all however still adhere to the linear (non-tree) thread model. You can answer to individual posts and they are then linked together, but all posts still appear in chronological order under the thread.

It really works, and feels much more like a community, like it did in the old days. There are also some really long-lived threads, things don't age out quickly as they do on reddit and HN. Threads are ranked by recent activity, not by upvotes.

I don't know why they make a comeback. Maybe a combination of the realization that the old forums just worked better for community building, and Facebook (which I think was indeed a large driver of the "forum death" of the 2010s) fading.
Still applicable today, equally so to broader layers of (cloud) infrastructure.
Timely news.

https://www.wmbfnews.com/2023/02/15/bill-banning-carolina-sq...
"On February 21 the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, which deals with allegations that Google violated the Anti-Terrorism Act when YouTube’s recommendations promoted ISIS content. It’s the first time the court will consider a legal provision called Section 230."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230
Sen. John Fetterman Is Hospitalized for Depression
in the US I have actually gotten police to respond the homeless issues when calling as a business. not 100%, but they often send someone out. have not paid them off yet.

as a resident? if I call the non-emergency line they just laugh and tell me to move.
There are still some quality 90s-style automotive forums around, and many take donations. A steel guitar forum I'm on charges a nominal $5/year. Reddit may have breadth of scale, but these have depth and expertise that makes it worth keeping them going.
I agree. People seem to be quick to propose regulations to monitor and control every inch of airspace. No sense of cost/benefit, one of the costs being to curiosity, learning, and fun.
Problem is you were hired to code, they will review your performance a large part on code, and if you want another engineering job they will want examples of when you coded X and test you on concepts in latest frameworks.

The role you are describing might be different to an engineer.

Sure a good engineer avoids unnecessary coding but having done that they have to be seen to do some necessary coding (or
necessary work like architecture, security, devops etc.)

Most small companies think in job titles and roles as an anchor but you may wear other hats sure.
Dang it. No more soda for me then.
> Updated to include information given my Seymour Hersh in interviews in the days following his original post.

This was in bold font underneath the picture under the headline. Presumably it should be "Updated to include information given by Seymour Hersh in interviews in the days following his original post."

If Oliver is relying on details to blow holes in the Hersh story, the prognosis isn't that great for Oliver's story, at the moment.
He is self-funding Mars via making businesses like SpaceX which sell products like any other company. If you think there shouldn't be tax incentives for things like electrification, co2 reduction, or whatever other subsidy the government offers then your problem is with your governments management, not the businesses using government programs.
An even better design is to have the command write out essentially a script file for what it is about to do, then the —-force flag would execute that script rather than start from scratch. That way you avoid having things come up between when you do a dry run and the real deal. This isn’t always applicable but sometimes can be a really nice pattern.
I wonder if you could slightly limit your exposure here by noting that you were legally carrying a gun, but for self protection. So there was less of an implied threat, but still maybe enough to spark a bit of police support?
>If you have heard about or used Sandpack, you probably know what it’s all about: running any JavaScript application directly in the browser.

I've been a full time JS full stack dev for maybe 8 years, and this sentence doesn't make any sense to me.
I like that! A “friendly, patient forum poster” is a great analogy.
There’s a difference between:

1. Convincing an editor to run your ideas under their masthead

2. Paying someone to edit your work, and running your ideas under your own masthead

A newspaper is more than a brand. They put their reputation on the line when they publish.

(You can make a good argument that many newspapers have trashed their own reputations, but that doesn’t negate the argument. When you self publish, you have no one vouching for you. Furthermore if you don’t like an editor or fact checker you can fire them)
If bursty, uneven sources of energy like wind and solar can be used to produced hydrogen via electrolysis, it could still be a win for reducing carbon emissions even though more energy was used to separate the water than can be achieved by burning the resulting hydrogen. It is a way to store the energy, admittedly at a loss, from wind and solar.
this is patently not true. maybe titanium is gummy enough to give one trouble? but any steel that isn't brittle enough to shatter when you look at it is going to be trivial to cut with an abrasive disk and a battery powered grinder. if the chain is 1/2" instead of 1/4", it will take an extra minute maybe.
Glimpse beneath iconic glacier reveals how it’s adding to sea-level rise
They apply to a court to get a civil penalty. You can be arrested by a court for flouting a court order like “don’t leave the country pal”, once it has established jurisdiction through the service process. Detaining people to enforce court orders is one of the core powers of the judiciary. Bringing an action and serving him while he was inside the jurisdiction of the court would have been good.
grammar as we know it was devised for the Latin language and linguists spend most of the time attempting to fit other languages into neat boxes that the Latin grammar wasn't designed for. This of course leads to absurdity. Chomsky attempted to solve this problem with his universal grammar, but that too stops working quickly once you get outside of European languages. That is, ignoring linguistic tools is one of the reasons GPT is successful.
The CEO of IBM says A.I. is going to replace ‘clerical white-collar work’
Yep. Every line of code in your codebase increases the cost of things like refactors and bug investigations. If developers can write code 10x as fast but only refactor or understand it 2x as fast... well then we have an interesting problem.
I'm in China, and I just see people learning about this the very hard way. There were many unusual unrests and crackdowns recently.

SMS is definitely a weak spot without a second thought. The state actor can easily analyse and reroute then pull off a massive list of names straight to gulag.
Sure Elon. Pull the other leg.
I don’t know if it will, but maybe CashierGPT will ultimately uncover the folly in the tendency for humans to act more robot like.
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The RAND corporation published a book filled with just random digits.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418.html
They not only invested in FTX, they promoted SBF with a glowing 10,000 word article[0], allowed him to take a huge amount of secondaries, and even made him an LP in Sequoia.

https://web.archive.org/web/20221027181005/https://www.sequo...
> And it wasn't a mistake here or there, it was the accumulation of a decade of issues.

Nodding my head to this. I feel like this is why it’s so hard to convince certain coworkers to take a hard line on code quality. “The class is already 2000 lines of code long, adding one more method isn’t the end of the world.”

No one sets out to turn a 100-LoC class into a God class in one PR. It’s always a “death of a thousand cuts” situation. That’s why we need rules which strike some people as arbitrary or draconian, but which I see as a useful tool to fight backsliding, like these [1]. You have to draw the line somewhere.

1. https://thoughtbot.com/blog/sandi-metz-rules-for-developers
distributed parasitic unregulated and lawless faux paradisal casino of fictional worthless tokens being recklessly circulated towards victims after being made out of thin air.
this works well for things that are shell scripts, and we certainly had at least one " check the output and then pipe it into sh". But for the most part that falls away when you have a lot of objects and abstractions and stuff.
I think many Americans see consumer debt as a sign that households aren’t building wealth. It really depends on the type of debt and how it’s distributed amongst consumers.
If you'd rather spend some of your time than your money on this, you can use the built-in fs_usage terminal command and filter its output (e.g. with grep). Works even with SIP enabled, but will then obviously only return information that SIP doesn't cover.

More info:

man fs_usage

Example showing pathname-only events but otherwise unfiltered:

sudo fs_usage -ew -f pathname
Youre right lol i sound dumb there, i meant "just eating less" wont get him there, improving the quality of food and overall physical activity is necessary.

Hehe shit i sound dumb sometimes.
“Whoever could possibly try to "penalize" Russia for contract violation, is currently already pretty much engaged in a hot war with it”

So they’re at war with their only potential customers. Sounds like the pipeline has zero commercially value to Russia since it’s unlikely anyone would buy the gas.

So there’s no monetary concern to stop Russia doing whatever with it.
Founder of AlphaSheets here -- we built this back in 2015 and developed it for 3 years. We built Python, R, SQL and full excel formula/hotkey/format/conditional formatting/ribbon compatibility. It was a long slog!

I wish you good luck and all the best. It's a tough field but a big market. And I still think the potential is there.
I don’t have trypophobia, but the logo reminds me of some sort of hideous alien slug
Vite is so lightweight it feels more like http server than a build system.

The reason why it’s needed at all is it adapts npm packages that are not es modules. It gives you access to all of npm while requiring very little in return.

You can even turn off any transpilation/minification if you want to it to be more 1:1.
DRAWER, it's a drawer.
You don't seem to understand what I'm talking about. Imagine a HOA that has a say as what you wear, what you cook and what colour your curtains are, except it doesn't exist except in your mind through how you were brought up. A mere thought of your neighbor greeting you in a slightly abnormal manner because you are wearing bright green sneakers is enough for you not to buy them.
7.99 in the App Store.

Microsoft even have PowerToys for free to improve your already good experience.
Remember back in the day when writers predicted that as computers and machines replaced humans it would lead to more leisure time for everyone, a 3-day or less workweek, and all that jazz? Why hasn't that happened? Why do the benefits of automation only accrue upwards and not across society?
I've been wondering about the nerd/engineer mindset when it comes to rules and regulations. I've always leaned toward curiosity, freedom, experimentation, and logical reasonableness and thought this was common among the nerd set. Unfortunately, it seems there are a lot of people who bring their desire to control objects into the regulatory realm and lean toward engineering society - favoring manipulation, control, and centralized planning at the expense of reasonableness, the free market, and social benefit.
The trouble with spawn_blocking is that it runs on the tokio thread pool...
By default the size of that thread pool is gigantic because it is meant to run blocking IO.
For computation, you would want to have a number close to the number of threads of the CPU.

... And you can't have both.
You know what would sell like hotcakes? A large, inflatable party balloon shaped like the Chinese spy balloon. It would have an inflatable piece on the bottom shaped like the solar array.

Someone needs to make this happen.
There’s no such thing as a 2u blade, blade servers are a different thing than #u “pizza boxes”. Generally speaking they’re chassis mounted servers with shared power and I/O through mezzanine cards/backplanes(yes there are blades without shared power and/or I/O, but they’re the exception).

https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ss...
> This is way too flat to be a 2000s era forum.

I guess that makes it "2000s-inspired". I think it's fine if the visual style of the 2000s eras isn't retained, as long as the character is the same (e.g. linear threads, and threads that are ranked by last reply instead of upvotes).
Well then, why don't we stop digging for lithium for the batteries, rare earth minerals for all electronics, metals etc.

Where do you think the resources for renewable energy come from? Windmills and solar panels don't come out of thin air.

"No more digging stuff" shows such a disconnected view from reality. Everything is "limited" in some sense. The puritan attitude as if you can somehow avoid using resources, is just wrong. And oil is hardly the most scarce resource that's at the biggest risk of running out right now.
Thank you for this, I'm so bloody sick of seeing people claim that the media is intentionally ignoring this story in favour of something else (the worst is people crapping on about the Epstien book list thing and saying these other stories were distractions from that). All the outlets have been covering this, and just because it doesn't match someone's specific expectations doesn't mean it's a conspiracy to cover things up.
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Read well written code. I recommend Django.
Does Fluid[1] work as a solution for you?

I’m on an older OS with an older version but I love it for creating single-site apps.

[1] https://fluidapp.com/
I’m sure it will be as exciting as that time Colin Powell held up the little vial of fake anthrax there.
Nice. Stackblitz did this first and this is a killer feature all fiddles now need
https://archive.ph/tfHkV
I suspect this also has to do with the presence of a native first-party GUI toolkit and app framework that deeply integrates with the rest of the system.

There are plenty of developers who also take pride in developing native applications on Linux that run well and look good, but from what little I know about GUI app dev, it's harder to do that in a way that runs well and looks good on the wide range of Linux-based systems that exist out there.
“If you aren’t willing to read the source of the function to learn what it does, we don’t want you anywhere near it. No summary short of the function itself can accurately communicate how much of a fragile hairball of edge-cases this function is, and how many things you have to know about to correctly call it.”
Well...when you're spending that much money of course you're not going to feel remorse XD
> a lot of the people who'd normally have gone to wall street, suddenly were interested in "tech"

Is there more to it than that? I think you summed it up well. I'll add that other "fancy" professions have structural limitations that seem to cause a glut of money-seeking software engineers (beyond the hyped up non-tech founder). Once upon a time, if you were smart and technical you became a doctor, but med schools haven't expanded capacity and its a long tough process compared to an undergrad CS degree. Lawyers experienced a massive growth a generation ago, and they haven't retired yet, depressing salaries and causing lawyers to work longer. SDEs are still a great career though, considering its still growing in salary and accessibility.
The Atomic MPC forums were amazing when I was growing up. I miss them, Facebook effectively killed it sadly.
>When was the last time your senior manager said: "I don't know the answer, but I'll research and get back to you"

That would be a bad manager. The right answer is "you go research it and present me the options by tomorrow".

The rest are just screaming "I'm a troublemaker" - sure, if that's your thing.
I’ve never worked at MS but have gone in and out of their ecosystem as a dev over the years.

With Azure and those kinds of moves, a lot of MS tech clearly became more about getting the tech right rather than protecting some random other MS product. At least the .NET stuff did for sure as you saw more and more open source stuff flourish, pragmatic decisions getting made, elegant APIs, etc.

Google seems to be hopeless right now but as the author states, they need their own Nadella. Sundar Pichai seems to be one hell of a dud, clearly a Ballmer-like figure.
I still learn and teach (informally) from books. You can find everything online, but there’s something specifically useful about the long form survey or completion of ideas that comes from a well written book as well as the physical reference. I don’t think books are a till I’ll ever take out of my bag.

Presently working on getting my feet wet with machine learning and primarily with a book. Of course it’s out of date the second it’s printed with a fast moving topic but it has still been incredibly useful as a survey and basics.
These are really solid concerns. This shift from "creator" to "supervisor" is happening in lots of AI areas - look even at how self-driving cars are currently expecting their human drivers to act as supervisors, which they're bad at.

Also, on this point:

> We can make proofreading easier with better tooling. Unit tests are a means of “proofreading”: we can catch AI errors automatically with tests.

The unit tests will definitely be written with AI as well. If that AI and the coding AI are wrong in the same way, we will have very subtle and hard to catch errors.
Hypothetically, what if with every bike purchase, the government were to provide for free a high-quality bike lock (either of a fixed value, or proportionate to the price of the bike)? That would likely reduce bike theft to professional thieves targeting high-value bikes (the likes of which are probably insured, or the owners can easily afford to replace).

I agree that theft discourages cycling, but there are so many things that discourage cycling more (most around driver behaviour and road design). A stolen bike is annoying, but it's not going to kill you. Focus enforcement on reducing things that might kill you, and you'll encourage cycling a lot more.
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`export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTOUPDATE=1; brew install whatever`

maybe even just create an aliased sh function that just prepends that instead of typing it out each time.

I've been doing that forever. It really is incredibly annoying how it just keeps endlessly running without doing some gymnastics (yeah sure I could add that env var set to 1 in my zshrc but I mean its just a silly default behavior)
I’ve been using it to draft internal project proposals to use more AI. It’s super exciting.
Because (as the old Latin proverb has it) the strong do what they want; the weak suffer what they must.
Constant-time instructions and processor optimizations
> I expect killing their relationships with every game company in the world will make their VR headset efforts rather painful.

That VR headset is going to be a lot more like an iPhone or iPad than a Mac and there's no shortage of games on iOS; they'll be just fine.
Yeah DOD has a long, long track record of lying to everybody's face, then pretending it didn't harm what was left of their reputation. Remember the incubator babies, the yellow cake, etc? LOL
Simple Modern JavaScript Using JavaScript Modules and Import Maps
Funny, as a Pole my 1st reaction was "damn our spooks finally did a good job". I was (and still am) very surprised nobody was even considering Poland as a perpetrator.
It is interesting, when I (definitely not a bot) read the headline I thought the grammar was wrong. took me a while to that "an" was not an indefinite article here. In the article headline the first alphabets of each word is capitalised and somehow it was easier for me to understand what the "An" meant here.
That will teach you to do infrastructure as code!
Probably referring to the spam accounts that Marques Brownlee called out many months ago[0] tl;dw It's the fake accounts that impersonate the content creator and request users to privately message them.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y
You’re right. Clairvoyance is the only way one could possibly infer anything. My bad.
Do an improv exercise with a friend. Construct a story about a sentient apple one word at a time. I guarantee you that at one point one of you will set up the other with an “an” in your story. This is how I believe this works.
It's also good for parallelising test running.
This is just so stupid, EVERYBODY knows crypto is a giant scam. Why would they prosecute people for grifting a pigeon? Absolute waste of resources.