skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And yet, it is not journalists that are privy to classified material, it is lawmakers, military staff, intelligence staff, and their contractors and consultants.

What makes a journalist a better place to whistle to than an elected politician on the intelligence committee or any one of a number of other options.

My basic position on this is that secret holders never have the full picture, but at least they have the trust of the state they serve. A journalist is not always just a journalist.

Now, before you disregard my opinion completely please add to your consideration the following facts:

- I dated and lived with a nationally renowned journalist and editor, so I know a bit about journalists.

- I worked for CSIS and currently work for the CIA as an NOC Agent. AKA a spy.

- I have been in situations where I deeply felt the right thing to do was not to list to the people above my command. What I did in one particular situation was contact a politician I deeply trust who has high level clearance and left a vague message for that politician.

- I think some good has come out of the Snowden leaks, even though I don't think he did it the right way. It's a nuanced discussion and the public doesn't know everything. This work is tough.
Any reasonable review shouldn’t leave out the minor detail that Epstein had attempted suicide a month prior. Not saying that that should eliminate all suspicion, but it’s certainly a pretty huge piece of context to leave out.
Gas is not charged by solely by consumption, so connecting an electric stovetop doesn’t solve the costs, or solve the safety of having a gas connection, or solve the space lost to the gas stove. Why have all that extra hassle for something that is probably more harmful to the environment and your own health?
Some pretty big differences:

- The president is elected on his or her own merit.

- The president is treated like royalty for 4 years, then it ends.

- The president is subject to impeachment and prosecution for crimes.

- The president receives a very low salary and doesn’t get an ownership interest in any state resources.
REBL wanted to be your REPL but Morse uses the REPL that it's hosted in or remotely connected to.
Both these books are on my book shelf and are very good. Bate et. al. especially since it is a Dover book and very affordable.

The book that is always on my DESK is "Fundamentals of Astrodynamics and Applications" by Vallado. There is also a website with code from the book for Hohmann and Lambert transfers among other things. <self-promotion>This has been indispensable in creating my Unity Asset "Gravity Engine".</self-promotion>
They also have control of a swath of the gaming sector and that is one of the biggest and fastest growing industries in the world. You are totally right I just think that should be considered.
I'm sure we could come up with a dozen more tragic ironies about our society, if we tried.
Environmental destruction doesn’t have a single exclusive cause.

There is the horseshoe theory that says that either extremes have more in common with each other then they have with the center [1].

If I we’re to connect neoliberalism with Soviet communism, I’d say that both ideologies are examples of high modernism, which is the idea that leaders can optimize on a metric and ignore all other factors that contribute to their countries success. This never has positive outcomes for the people living in those countries.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
Classics is an extremely impractical format for ratings, because the games are so long so players can't play many games.

It's like Heisenberg Uncertainty.
To put a little meat on the bone here in terms of what you're asking, this is the same prison that held El Chapo through his trial. If it was a sloppily run facility it seems unlikely it would have been chosen for that purpose. I don't have the exact numbers at hand but I believe successful suicide attempts at the MCC were also very rare, as in, Epstein's was the first in 20 years or something like that.
Thank you for proving my point.

The contempt is real, not perceived.
Singleton is orthogonal to namespaces. One is about data creation and the other about naming stuff.

If I want to create new pieces of data, I have to make an allocation with a constructor. Reusing methods provided by modules is effectively the same as classes (the two being mathematically equivalent, but closures not having all the footguns).

This is true no matter if your code is OOP, imperative, or functional.
Yes, I ride my electric bike with the power off. Here’s why
That’s ironic because gas stoves are actually only the majority in California and places around New York, ie literally the coastal elite.
I'm about 3/4 through the page and it's all related to spying to me.. are you specifically referring to something?
“Select All” – A feature I use quite a lot is missing from Safari on iOS. Why?
I think it’s more common that you think. Very rarely does someone check in right at 9 and out right at 5. Add onto that a commute which might be anywhere from 30-60 minutes each way, and you are pretty close to that window.
That’s a failure of the courts to apply standing.

You can’t sue because you have no standing, because you can’t prove you were spied on, and proving it would be illegal so… checkmate. :)

PRISM is a clear violation of the 4th, and if we had supremes that were worth a damn all bulk collection programs would be prohibited.
However, incompetence can be allowed to go unpunished if it helps the people with malicious intent. If it happened every day, then it's still a failure of the system and to my mind is indicative of a widespread problem of getting rid of inconvenient people.
I've been looking for a course like this! Especially great given how much of the recent progress in training large models is made possible with the aid of flash attention and fused kernels
I never said it’s all people care about. But buy-in to policy will be tougher if it looks like you always take on neutral policies only when it helps certain groups.
I'm not defending the events, I'm trying to establish whether or not they are anomalous.
At the same time, foreign allies had a formal proof they were being spied as well. Domestically, it was a win; internationally, it was a catastrophe.
You did very well stating upfront your experience (which _is_ valuable, even if you didn’t enjoyed your past 4 years, you did learn stuff, believe me. Your skills do transfer onto different jobs.

Once in your new job, don’t be so much scared than enthusiastic: open your ears, eyes, state what surprises you and offer to help, within your role, with what you know already and what you are willing to learn. This will impress positively your team.

As to get ready, best is to ask your future coworkers or hiring manager these questions, they’ll have the best context to push to you (and in my opinion should also reassure you to wait until you’re there).
So it’s just some unfounded handwaving? You can just dismiss one of the greatest minds in computing science by just blathering in a comment, because then it’s ‘unfair to assume rigor’?

If it is all so clear and all the armchair experts here have ample experience in the field like they pretend, why is it so hard to run a few benchmarks?
Regulatory capture is not a problem that can be solved by executing examples, because the captured officials usually don't even think of themselves as captured. The solution is to align incentives, for example by closing the revolving door
I've never heard of anyone quitting because they objected to being told something which they find complicated is "simple," so this seems like a straw man.

I think a lot of people think about how best to teach complicated ideas. Maybe like me, they really aren't that smart, or even just feel like they aren't that smart, and when they read from an expert or an instructor or a professor that a thing is simple, that voice inside their head that is constantly telling them they're dumb or worthless gets louder, and they wonder if that vouce is right, and that the idea they are trying to understand is simple for people who aren't impostors and they should probably give up and shoot themselves.

Your professor used the word "trivially" in a stupid way. Similarly, technical writers and instructors use "simple" in a stupid way. Objecting to stupid language from teachers and technical writers that makes them less effective at their jobs doesn't make me a baby any more than celebrating it makes you an adult.

I don't think people who use words like this intend for their audience to feel stupid. But I don't see how they are helpful.
You’re mass-constrained on the Moon. A big parabolic mirror could (slowly) fuse an unlimited amount of regolith.
Sometimes you live in Russia if you have no other options.
"Epstein's Private Jet's Flight Manifests" - https://epsteinsblackbook.com/flights
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There is nothing of news interest here except the WSJ doing the story.

The story itself is the only real story.

Who got this story done? What is the goal? Who is being thrown under the bus and who isn't? Is it anticipatory misdirection because something else is about to come out and can't be controlled?

etc etc
I think voters deserve the government they elect.

At times, it feels like we're cruising for a bruising but natural selection seems to be the only solution we can agree on.
In my opinion Tor is as good a privacy-preserving technology as VPNs and should be treated very similarly. I use Tor sometimes and I'm annoyed as you are with all the CAPTCHAs and outright blocks when I just want to read an article on a website.

However, the sad fact is that Tor is abused for a LOT of malicious traffic, much more so than any VPN provider, let alone normal ISPs using CGNAT. The anonymity combined with its free nature make it very attractive for bad people to use Tor for bad things without any reasonable fear of getting caught.

An outright block for Tor traffic is definitely out of the question, but adding CAPTCHAs to sensitive things (like account signups, expensive queries, etc.) is sadly a requirement these days.

Blocking exit nodes does nothing to protect your website's security, but it sure as hell cleans up the logs and false positives in your security logs. It's not just Tor, though, there are also some home ISP networks that don't seem to care about the botnets operating inside their network.
> people shouldn't be such babies.

Every time I've heard this sentiment in the corporate setting, it sets the ball rolling to create a culture that's hyper masculine and aggressive where people asking for help are seen as weak, unable, and shouldn't be "there". Okay, maybe not fully explicitly, but it influences discussions, how people communicate, and how reviews are laid out over time.

I'd argue that people claiming "people shouldn't be such babies" as the ones needing to be quarantined and separated out from making decisions that impact larger groups of people. It's clear that they can't put themselves in the shoes of others and know how to pull the best out of people.
This conflict appears to be a single manager who told people not to complain about new people being hired at higher rates or to discuss wages, in conflict with Tesla's own policies on the matter. I would probably expect them just to fire that manager and move on, though it's possible a few individual employees would have some sort of claim.
Fair point, enduring wasn’t the best word. But point is, the British one is a standout successful one, and also a standout ostentatious one. Every time there’s some big royal thing going on, people talk about how it’s too ostentatious and it will never survive like that, but revealed preferences seem to show that is its greatest strength.
Simple opinionated answer: .io and .so

A decade ago .io meant you were trendy and in tech, now it means you’re in tech.

Today .so means you’re trendy and in tech.
Even if you're making your life revolve around body building you won't get as big as them if you don't take some questionable products.
State employees are financially incentivized not to disobey, while journalists are, ideally.
That's true. There are some that are pedantic (-Wpedantic, anyone?) and excessive, but I find it's easier to evaluate those on a case-by-case basis, or opt-out of the ones that are generally useless, than it is to ignore an entire class of warnings.

For instance, a lot of projects I've worked on prefer to be ready for the day if/when the code has to be compiled with a different compiler, so -Wpedantic is great.
I'm running this on my iPhone 13 Pro Max as part of the Test Flight beta, and it's interesting. I don't believe I've ever run anything that's ever pushed my phone this hard, and you can feel the heat. The text output performance is pretty inconsistent, it was very fast at first but slowed down considerably after a few answers. In terms of quality, it's prone to hallucinations, which is not unexpected based on the size and highly compressed nature of the model.

"The marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all."
This being the Guardian, it’s worth having a look at the survey itself and seeing what it actually says. The paper is not above misrepresentation when it is addressing one of its hobby horses.
Earth's crust: not quite the same as Cu/Zn but way more than I expected:

https://periodictable.com/Properties/A/CrustAbundance.an.htm...

Lithium: 0.0017%
Copper: 0.0068%
Zinc: 0.0078%

Seawater:
https://sciencenotes.org/abundance-of-elements-in-earths-oce...

Lithium: 0.18 mg/L
Please think about how long a semi truck is. If you are near the back, obviously it is safer to slow down. If you are near the front, it might well save your life to accelerate.

Edit: I’m sure a bit of calculus on the physics of it would reveal the location on the truck where acceleration was more likely to prevent a crash.
Escapee stories of unsafe coal mining. Or try Iran or Ukraine or USA.
Interesting but wow would it be nice to have lighter weight containers.
If you aren't saying it, I will. Most political discussions I see, especially in America seem to mostly care about optics.
“Conscience does make cowards of us all” - Shakespeare
if you’re using an older browser there’s a good chance you’re vulnerable to a bunch of security holes too, unfortunately we’re past the days of only updating every 2 years
It’s a similar deal in the UK, where not to long ago parliament voted down an attempt to require rented accommodation be fit for human habitation. Apparently that’s too high a demand from landlords.
NFL was non profit because it istrade association that serve the (for-profit) teams. It's not a nefarious scheme. They changed it because their customers are vocally stupid.
Doesn't he say that most regulation is good and is currently pushing for regulation of AI?
>I'd expect identical programs to be slower in nix-on-droid.

Probably. But modern phones are well beyond the power needed to run linux programs at useful speeds. Termux first came out over a decade ago, IIRC. Back then phones were much less powerful.
Vindman didn't flee to Russia, he also didn't get tricked by a foreign nation. He's a real whistleblower.
This sure is a highly offended response from someone complaining about people being babies. If they're simply words, why does it matter if people criticize them? You could just move on. This seems like a personal and sensitive subject to you.

>> "What happened to the expectation of people being adults?"

Adults discuss things like adults: with empathy, fair reading, and hopefully a little kindness. They don't call other adults babies for raising issues.
Yes. And I guess some people insist on the confusion on purpose. It doesn't matter how many times people point it out, the confusion keeps happening.
Chabuduo, Chinese principle for 'good enough' or 'close enough'.
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CSS must be fun to use nowadays, with tons of flexibility and great browser support. I remember the days when you couldn't even rely on CSS2 because IE6 didn't support it, apart from having serious rendering bugs.
Thank you. There is such an overwhelming number of these details it becomes very difficult to remember all of them.
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The person who wrote that sentence is here on HN and can probably answer for themselves. No need for you to come up with convoluted possible interpretations.
Someone refuted the point of the substack you posted above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35763622
That’s pretty cool!

Tabletop induction burners that use standard outlets are way more cost effective than induction ranges, too. That thing is $200, which didn’t even pay the electrician bill to put in the 240V 50A outlet and circuit for my range.
The fixes are cherries.
I might be missing something, but it seems the only reason that Russia has much of any leverage on him now is specifically because we are persecuting him in the first place?

https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-kgb-spy-the-russians-tric...

Like, to the extent to which an early plan to target him was a success, it involved a critical later step where the United States goes on a hunt for Snowden, allowing Russia the ability to later get him stuck there and under their control... delete that part and I am unsure what the plan would have been.

I'd claim the reality of the morality here is that we should not have to rely on the awkward motives of some enemy intelligence agency to target people and maneuver them into doing something good because, in our zeal to prevent something good, we do bad things that allow them to get an indirect benefit that results in something bad.
I’ll give you a real life example proving you 100% wrong.

My BIL was waiting to turn left on a two-lane road with 55-65 MPH traffic. He looked in his mirror and saw a car coming at him and clearly not slowing down. He floored it, and got rear ended with a speed differential of probably 35MPH rather than 60MPH.

Edit: Here’s another I just remembered. My father was driving 70 on a divided highway. Looked in his mirror and saw somebody coming up fast, so he accelerated, trying to get out of the way. (There was no space to get over.) The driver behind continued coming apparently in a big hurry, and my dad realized too late that he wasn’t going to slow down. Even having accelerated he got rear ended, but the speed differential was not bad, and it meant my dad didn’t lose control in heavy, high speed traffic. (The other driver had fallen asleep.)

In neither case is there an example of putting yourself in danger. Just proper driving. In both cases pressing the accelerator was the single most important safety action taken.
I'm sorry, but you understand that if a tool necessitates a warrant to be used, it does not ensures that people can use the tool without a warrant?

"We've conducted an internal investigation proving no malfeaseance took place. We will not be releasing any data on our usage of the tool. Trust us."
Simply find the relevant thread in the mailing list. Or just watch one of the author's talks.
"it's debatable whether the USA as a whole got a positive outcome from his actions."

I could make the case that while what Snowden did was heroic, and praiseworthy in a just and educated nation, the US is ultimately neither a just nor educated nation, and too little changed as a result of his whistleblowing. Go ask 100 truly random people what they think of Snowden's revelations and you may find yourself quite disappointed. John Oliver did an episode on this and it was more than a little depressing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
Early demo of ChainForge, a data flow environment for prompt engineering
Ohwellian: When you know you are living in a dystopia but couldn't be bothered to change anything.
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> In my area, private schools routinely offer much better education at a fraction of the expenditure per child. Loads of money simply disappears into the corruption of the school system, but private schools know doing that means students will leave and they’ll go bankrupt.

As you've identified, it's not because of funding, but it's not because private schools care more either. It's because private schools can kick out bad students, the students who deliberately make trouble and hold all the rest back. Private schools all do this, while public schools generally cannot (or it is so difficult that it rarely happens.) Throwing money at schools makes little difference if all the students in that school are forced to endure assaults and disruptions dished out by malicious students who are deliberately sabotaging everybody else.
There are now many new tlds of which one might fit the subject domain of your project/saas/tool. Though specifically targeted at it/tech people, I created an informational site using .info and a colleague created one to help people with a difficult aspect using .help
A morale crisis after multiple Meta layoffs
https://archive.ph/hEWuQ
I mean clearly they failed to beat Apple in mobile markets for decades and could also do to have less new Macs purchased while not having much skin in the game with computer hardware. I'm not sure right to repair would be more challenging to any tech company's business model than Apple--seems like a straightforward strategy for Microsoft?
Are you disagreeing with me or just giving more detail? Because I think that's what I was saying. My opinion is that this is not fair to a company like MongoDB.
It's the softweave fabric, check my other comment in this thread.
That was the original comment’s implication. Hence my “even”.
I sued my land lord recently and it was an absolutely awful experience that took years and cost thousands of dollars. We won but havent been able to recover the money yet because our old land lord is a slippery scumbag. Now we need to put a lien on his property, which is a huge pain in the ass.

It almost wasn't worth it tbh. Posting a bad review is much easier and accessable
In the laptop world Apple is so far ahead it's unbelievable. My wife just bought an M1 MBA for like $900 and there's really nothing in the PC market that can beat that in terms of value.

If Apple released a cheap M1 laptop for like $500 it would be game over for laptop PCs and probably would make a huge dent in the Chromebook market.
> 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.

In my experience - and as a problem on top - writing seems to be one of these crafts in which experience accrues slowly and usually only with good readers.

For example, I've removed "just simply" from my usual documentation vocabulary by just simply following a few steps - sorry, that was too tempting to leave out :) But one realization that drove me away from "simply" was: Simply usually is an imprecise word and this lack of precision opens up doors for misunderstanding. Often when I used simple, I meant it as "simple process" vs "convoluted process". In those cases, I replaced it with "straight-forward" or similar words. This is intended for the reader to judge if they are getting into a process you can just do during a boring meeting, or if they are about to enter some escher-esque rabbit hole.

However, this realization was mostly driven by good readers who informed me about possible misinterpretations my choice of words offers to them. So, even if it sounds nit-picky, go ahead and point out such things and start looking for those. It'll make you a better writer, and other writers around you better.
Spying is what the NSA is supposed to do

Domestic spying is the controversial/illegal activity he was blowing the whistle on.

Dumping info on legal NSA activities (like foreign surveillance), while fascinating to read, is not whistleblowing.
I'm not arguing that he wasn't murdered.

I'm arguing that "two broken cameras" means nothing without context.
Yup. Glow looks pretty cool.