skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can you verify whether an account belongs to a US citizen without possessing a single bit of data about it?

>if the company receiving the wiretap order has any reason to believe that an account belongs to a US citizen or a non-US citizen living in the US, they challenge the order

Correction: the company can challenge the order. In case you've been living under a rock / off the grid and haven't seen the Twitter files recently, private companies not only aren't fighting back against government spying, censorship, etc - they're openly cooperating, going so far as to set up task forces to facilitate open cooperation. Why do you think Microsoft was feeding PRISM 5 years earlier than Apple? It's not like one organization had vastly more technical capability than the other - some private organizations are just openly complicit with the government regardless of the morality. IBM produced many of the systems used by the Germans to facilitate the holocaust - something being legal and profitable doesn't inherently make it morally acceptable.

>by all accounts, including Snowden's documents, that procedure is followed.

It is followed in the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law, by a court that rubber stamps 99.97% of requests. Besides, as I've argued above, immoral actions should not be tolerated simply because they are allowed by law. See also: slavery, usury, civil asset forfeiture, murder of unarmed civilian by cop ft. qualified immunity, drone bombing weddings overseas, overthrowing democratically elected leaders in other countries, plotting fake terror attacks against US citizens to justify foreign wars (operation Northwoods).

Evil is evil regardless of whether or not it's been "made legal" by a corrupt government with an extensive track record of violating international sovereignty, human rights, the geneva convention, and arms control charters, not to mention the only country to ever commit genocide of civilians with an atomic weapon. The US has zero moral authority.
Ah true, I should have mentioned that. But both do exist in common parlance (obviously the papercut one is the derivative) but I figured papercuts was more apt.
What I'm after is that much of the ethics by which our legal system operates, e.g. a BAC limit for legal driving, is divorced from moral questions such as: "Is drinking beer a sinful act?"
With underground pipes carrying warm water and returning colder water to the plant [0]. This is agnostic to the heat source, small leaks are not polluting or dangerous, and large leaks don’t explode.

IMO the real problems with district heating are a lack of large-scale standardization (you can’t go to your local HVAC installer and ask for an off-the-shelf heater to pair with a district heating system) and that heat pumps are good enough and cheap enough that they erase some of the benefit.

That being said, a district heating system can inexpensively store heat for later use, whereas electric systems cannot easily do this. (Gas can be stored inexpensively on a large scale, too, which I think is really the major remaining current benefit of natural gas over electricity.)

I can imagine a modern system for a cold-but-mostly-sunny climate: a big PV (and optionally wind) installation produces electricity. When electricity is cheap (sunny / windy conditions), heat pumps heat a thermal reservoir sized to hold a few weeks of heat (this could be a large container of water or even just a bunch of earth insulated on the sides). During cold conditions with less power, heat from the reservoir is used for district heat.

I don’t know whether this would be economical compared to batteries, pumped hydro, gas peaking plants, etc.

[0] District heating with steam is a thing, but it requires higher temperatures, which is not so great if the heat source is a heat pump or waste heat from a lowish-temperature process. It’s not even great if the source is a dedicated boiler, since more energy is available from the same amount of fuel if the flue gas can be cooled below its condensation temperature. (Old systems did not do that, since the materials they were made of would be rapidly corroded by condensate.)
Believe me, I am all for people having thicker skins and less entitlement overall. I believe offense is generally taken rather than given, and social media's culture of constant outrage over some thing or another is a form of intellectual and moral decay.

HOWEVER. Writing is its own craft, and requires a totally separate set of skills than your typical engineer-turned-technical-writer is generally equipped with. They tend towards considering only what they want the reader to do or think, not necessarily who the reader might be or what _they_ want to get out of the writing.

The main problems with the "just simply" writing are twofold:

1. The "just simply" words are completely unnecessary filler. Good writing is stripped of superfluous filler words. Writing with lots of filler words is harder to read because scanning, parsing, and then discarding them is additional cognitive overhead. This technology shit is hard enough as it is, save the flowery prose for your poetry.

2. As others have mentioned, the tone of the "just simply" writing comes off as condescending because it implies the author is considerably more knowledgeable than the reader, that the reader doesn't know anything about the topic at hand, and that the reader will somehow reach enlightenment once they are on the same level as the author.

It's not that I am personally offended by "just simply," it's just bad writing, and I won't read that kind of stuff unless I really have to.
It's unfortunate that this is the top comment, because the "after" samples are clear improvements.

This is good old-fashioned writing advice, no different from Strunk and White's "Omit needless words" -- just tailored to developer documentation where a handful of specific needless words flourish.

The main reason to remove these words is that they are fluffy, superfluous marketing speak.

Do some people also find them condescending? Maybe -- I don't, but this is a side point.
I have an electric stove and can assure you it's entirely possible to stir fry and have a good sear on a steak. I do it pretty often.
The effect of high-top and low-top shoes on ankle inversion kinematics
Why hasn't he been pardoned by either party?
Show HN: Ichido Metaverse Search, a search engine for WebVR pages
Hello HN, wanted to share an experimental search engine I've been working on. In my spare time I build search engines as part of a larger search engine project named Ichido[0]. The Ichido Metaverse Search Engine indexes WebVR pages that are built using the Aframe WebXR library[0]. Aframe makes it easy for developers to create 3D scenes in the browser by using simple HTML markup tags. These WebVR scenes can be accessed on mobile, desktop, and with a VR headset (but know that the functionality is limited on mobile).

To type queries into the search engine, use the onscreen keyboard and press the return key to submit the query. You can also modify the querystring in the URL bar if the keyboard is not accessible. There is also a `random` query that will return random WebVR pages from the search engine.

[0] https://aframe.io/

[1] https://ichi.do/
Likely an extension of American reverence for fame. There’s not too much difference between American examples of fame for fame’s sake and those born into the monarchy? Just a guess from someone as perplexed and uninterested as you.
Unless I’m mistaken, that refers to farmland and not developed housing. The opening words describe harvesting keep, fish, and animal husbandry. It seems to be decrying the fact that rent can be charged for a field of wheat, where nature did the work.

If there’s housing on that property, then that is something that was developed by the (current or previous) landlord for direct use by the tenant.

However, I’m unfamiliar with this work, so if a different conclusion is drawn elsewhere it would be interesting to read.
What is your prediction of the efficiency of helping the poor that giving the poor money achieves? I assume from your comment you think it's a positive number?

We know that there is a set of people that can't manage money in a sustainable way for themselves. Surely, giving this set of people money produces zero to negative help. But I don't know the make up of all of the "poor" or why they're poor in the first place.
That's not what they said.
I don't share the author's POV describing this sort of thing as "infuriating" or anything else that dramatic, but the before-and-after documentation example was definitely more readable and clear (I've never worked with rails [ruby?]).

So I support the overall premise here. It's nice to read documentation that is at least verbose enough to give you additional keywords to search with if you need more help, and I do feel a little bit more respected as a user when it feels like someone took time and care to write the docs with juniors in mind.

I think that a lot of the tutorials available on Digital Ocean are actually good examples of this; though they're not "docs" per se.
Martin Armstrong was beat unconscious there.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/10/12/the-secret-cyc...

"At one point, a fellow-inmate beat him in his cell. (Armstrong suspects that it may have been an assassination attempt.)"

Martin recently wrote an interesting book about banker and politician meddling in Russia.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/russia...
Isn't Adam Smith referring to feudal lords who fed/clothed their subjects and led them into war with their neighboring lords? That's not at all similar to landlords today.
> Did these guards sleep more than guards at other prisons?

No idea.

It just seems a poor defence of the events of that particular night by also stating that it's a common problem.
There is a saying goes like this,

"85% of people on earth are followers, 10% are leaders or creators, or manipulators and 5% are observers. The followers need something to follow or believe so the creators capitalize on that and take advantage of their desire to be lead. The observers see everything that's going on and can ruin everything for the 10% but, the 85% label the 5% crazy or plan to get rid of them because the 10% have control."
It sounds like you’re describing pizzagate, which alleged not nearly the same thing as what Epstein did. Nor did the pizzagate allegations involve the same people or groups.

The one doesn’t prove the other.
Turned out China was right on this one - ground first, ask questions later.

That approach has historically been the FAA strategy.
Maybe they should stick to what works?

Especially given the airframe was so new and they also knew it had really stretched what should be allowable under the same type rating the caution was definitely warranted.

The better question still remains as to how it got to keep the type rating despite the huge changes in the flight handling characteristics without a software system that didn't need to be sold in a redundant configuration and additionally without any additional training being mandated for pilots in the case of that system malfunctioning.

Sure Boeing failed here but they are a company, companies especially of that size are absent of morals and driven only by profit.

The FAA is meant to be the backstop, the voice of reason that prevents rampant capitalism from accidentally destroying itself. Airline travel only is what it is because of perceived safety, it's best all the stakeholders start remembering that.
They also met for lunch when he was a well-connected financier. He didn't exactly go to his island
Japan has been hosting Hatsune Miku "concerts" for years, so there would be a demand, I suppose.
Are people confusing lithium with cobalt? Where 70% of it comes from the Congo.
> 3. A lot of programmers have a sense of elitism, and using text-based tools looks retro and more intimidating to those not familiar with it. In so doing, this validates the view of oneself as a member of a priestly class of text-slinging wizards.

That's usually what I hear from people finding out I like/use Vim. It's like they can't come to peace with the fact that I like it for its bindings and plugins, no, it has to be because I want to be a snob about it. And those judgements only start once they find out I am using vim, before that I am just a regular guy but as soon as they see me type `vi`, blam, I am an elitist asshole. Fuck that.

Turns out I use vscode (debugging so much nicer) AND vim (quick notes and configuring stuff so much faster) (and Kate).

Once, I was debugging a config file in a video meeting with a colleague. I was frustrated because I had difficulties making the config file works and was mumbling "goddamitthingofhelltheresalwasysomething" and that colleague jumps at me "ah ! you are frustrated because you are using vim and can't paste the buffer (or saving the file or something)."

/rant
Why North Korea?
No FaceID: cop grabs your hand, puts your finger on the sensor.

No fingerprint unlock: cop breaks phone, tells the court "It fell out of the person's hand.".

Seems like a no-win situation.
They're also banning propane devices.
Fantastic effort, I'm on holidays but I'm going to burn through a significant chunk of my mobile internet traffic allotment to test this... I seriously thought it'd take at least until summer for someone to make this happen (LLMs on mobile devices)

Edit: too bad, it crashes all the time without generating output.
Maybe you did not realize this, but I somewhat helped with this effort. In the kernel it may make (some) sense. The overall idea that VLA are always bad is incorrect.
> everybody owning a Ford F-850 and private jets are still cool (from an environmental perspective)?

Who is saying this? This seems like a straw man.

Faceless “politicians” are an easy scapegoat, but most politicians aren’t flying on private jets. And the few that do generally are not environmentalists, or if they claim to be, aren’t representative of the entire environmental movement.

Those that are banning gas in new construction are universally politicians at the state and local level, who generally earn fairly modest salaries, and at their highest are at the level of the professional class of society.
Why menstrual leave could be bad for women
You no longer need a powerful latest-gen GPU to run SOTA models, plus going through complicated setups. MLC-LLM makes it possible to use GPUs from any vendors, including AMD/Apple/NV/Intel, to run LLMs at reasonable speed, at any platform (win/linux/macos), even a steam deck :-)

The way we make this happen is via compiling to native graphics APIs, particularly Vulkan/Metal/CUDA, making it possible to run with good performance.
> Lamentable - the careers of the officers involved will be stained.

You would think so, but: https://apnews.com/article/jeffrey-epstein-prisons-new-jerse...
How does this work? There's plenty of books this is tested on: out of copyright works.

And there's indeed a great variety of quality available on those books. Great and very bad. Consumers don't suffer because of this, at least I don't, in fact I've recently discovered a bunch of out-of-print out-of-copyright mathematical works that are so much better.

Also I got pirated Anthony Horowitz books (I have the originals, but 30 year old book and all. Plus it's in the attic), that are much better than the originals at this point.

The thing is when it comes to actually making texts and culture available, libraries and librarians (and archive.org), and indeed piracy are generally the highest available quality. Why? Because there's no alternative. Once 2 or 3 years pass, copyright owners forget 99% of their stuff and just refuse to make it available. Expected profit is just too low (this goes 10x against publishers, who often take books out of print against the wishes of authors). So libraries are the only quality available, and I much prefer that over the black hole copyright owners present ...
Magnus plays WC for draws to eliminate risk, because he knows he is much better at rapid. He was still unbeatable.
And now they’re nationalizing it. Happy? Or will the goalposts move to some other totally out of proportion fake scandal?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/21/chile-lithium-reserves-...
As you can see on the linked page, it formats MySQL Insert queries so that they look like table.

I often have to write not few INSERT queries in one file, because my team manages data for unit test (and, sometimes, integrate test) as a form of MySQL Insert queries.
And this tool has actually helped me and the members a lot!

So I wanna share it, hope it helps someone:)
Hi! I've been very impressed by 99% invisible, a well produced and researched podcast about design in everyday things.

I think it's very important to be aware of ingenious design examples in other fields - kind of a "jack of all trades is better than a master of one" type of thing.
A specifically trained Llama
Just some friendly advice for the future, statements like this do much damage to your credibility.

> (much like their masters in the CCP).
I think you’re gravely misguided. BAC has nothing to do with sin, it’s connected to the morality and ethics of putting your fellow citizens at risk of your impaired driving.
Why would a sci-fi writers be the authoritative people to ask about science and engineering? They’re fiction authors.
The first Mac I had was released in 1993 and had an 80 megabyte hard drive
If you wanted to exclusively use the stack for all program memory (no heap, no `malloc`, etc.), is it possible to increase the programs stack size?
> If the two pieces of software offer same (or at least similar) features, one that has less "papercuts" will win, no?

Hum... I don't think people give-up or adopt software based on minor annoyances at all. I have never seen this happen on practice.
> climate change propaganda almost every day, but pro fossil propaganda

Most people would understand those two phrases to mean the same thing.

Is there any other kind of propaganda?
What do you mean it's debatable? The govt was literally spying on the whole country without any disclosure. The actual people who live and were being spied on have at least an idea of their true circumstances now.
> During the mid 20th century there was a lot of that going on.

In the 1970s, students at Cal State LA called it Cal Concrete.
I don't see that claim in the wiki but maybe I need to look closer.
The chess engines don’t show up either, it seems the competition is fine with only mortals engaging in it.
Not if payments from that trust is classified as “income”.
A Towering, Terrifying Demon Horse Isn’t Even the Weirdest Part
Does this use GPT-4 or GPT-3.5-turbo?
Or maybe simple firefighter Palahniuk did not even know what internet was. Thus it was indeed a "surprise" when his book was suddenly accepted.

Anyways. The original short story was published in some shitty literary magazine, wherefrom the evil pirate copied it to Usenet.
In the final game, the commentators on the chess.com stream pointed out that Ian could have gone for a draw, but wanted to push on.
Whistleblowers act against power structures and that's the ultimate transgression as far as the power structure is concerned.

Transgressions in favor of the state are one thing, you'll get a slap on the wrist at most, even personal benefit and promotion in some cases, but transgressions against the state are what will provoke a real response. See, for example, the incredible vigor pursued against the people who released the collateral murder videos, and not the people in the video who violated the geneva conventions by murdering surrendering combatants. One transgressed in favor of the state, and one against. That's all that matters.

And of course the power structure has investigated itself and found no wrong-doing, something something "you can't surrender to a helicopter therefore we were fine to shoot them", or whatever. You can't get a hmmwv out to a site during a decade-long occupation to take them in, better shoot them I guess.

It is the same thing in corporations too: you can be incompetent or your project can fail, and that's fine as long as you don't rock the boat. It's actually probably worse to rock the boat and try to save a failing project, not only do you take it on yourself if it fails (which it likely will anyway, because they won't listen/the project is too far gone) but even if it succeeds you've stuck your head up and shown yourself to not be a yes-man. We want team players here, not someone who's going to kick up a fuss and argue with the boss or jump them on the ladder. Doesn’t matter if what you said was true or not, you don’t transgress the power structures.
Is there a part of the world you could point to that banned private schools altogether and saw better aggregate outcomes?

Because if we’re just guessing, I would guess elimination of private schools would result in rich people with children grouping up in very wealthy areas more than they do today. A public school in a very affluent and wealthy area would likely not have many “pools” attending (because the cost of living in the area is so high).

One other type of charter school to consider would be one’s specialized is students with various disadvantages such as charter schools specialized in blind, deaf, autistic or emotionally disturbed students.

This 2018 analysis by the NCSECS (national center for special education) found that there were 137 such specialized schools and many were primarily focused on students with 1 specific disability. These schools had high enrolling rates for such students and found they had lower rates of suspension and expulsion. The recommendation was additional funding for such schools.

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED604731.pdf
If you have the feature turned on. I don't remember which way it is by default.
I think stoves are close to a loss leader to get gas lines for gas furnaces.
It's an improvement because it cut out all the adverbs. The tone of the essay is an unmistakable virtue signal.

It tries to correlate the virtue signal with quality improvement, which is either cringe or disingenuous.
At this point, with so many features they are competing with the likes of Google Docs/Drive? tried them a while ago, they were a bit too bloated and expensive for my taste, but they seem to have doubled down on bloat and price?
I didn't leave Red Hat, Red Hat left me. My guess is that Red Hat's business plan was to be bought buy IBM for a long time, actually serving customers and making money has been besides the point for a long time.

Years ago I was a Fedora fanboy, but then I started finding more and more Fedora wouldn't install on my computer because it was too old or too new. Ubuntu "just worked". Time and time again I'd struggle for days to make something work w/ Red Hat but be able to look up a StackOverflow recipe to make it work in Ubuntu immediately.

It's nice to know that someday when IBM realizes it's "old fogie" reputation has finally become a problem for its survival it can change its name to "Red Hat" and go on to fool people for another decade.
I'm sorry. What's the lesson here? "People ate out in restaurants less during and immediately after a global pandemic"?

"It got darker after the sun set, and will therefore never be light again."
Having watched Karpov/Kasparov battles as a child, I don't think that the match format is ridiculous. I'd only change the tiebreaks rule to use the same time control as the main event.
Would someone mind explaining to this Arab immigrant (since I think I need to state my racial and ethnic background to get answers) why it's seen as acceptable to make broad generalizations based on race and sex in this way?

For what it's worth I'm sitting with two of my asian friends, who agreed with the quoted sentiment, so it's definitely not just "middle-to-upper-class white males" who hold these views.

I also know I'd think very little of someone who tried to dismiss a viewpoint of mine with something that amounted to "of course you'd think that, you're Arab*