skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s confusing causes and effects.

This paper is making the case that if a person makes it to college, they won’t be discriminated against while there. The question of whether they make it to college is a far different one.

Whether someone makes it to college and the different factors involved there are beyond the scope of this study.
They were made optional in C11, while Google paid for the development effort to clean the Linux kernel of them, because they are only yet another source of possible CVEs.
That's odd, I mean my apartment has a "vent hood" but it just feeds into a sponge into a wall with no ventilation leading outside. These are the types of hoods I've only seen in my life, only in professional kitchens have I seen true ventilation and even then some kitchens are moving to induction sense it's a much safer work environment and speeds up cooking but even then you still need ventilation.
We Interviewed the Engineer Google Fired for Saying Its AI Had Come to Life
I’m not sure. The most successful, enduring ‘royal family’ in the world appears to be the one that has been the most careful to conserve all the ostentation.
I like this new meme of stating:

"I am in perfect health and have no intent of commiting suicide."

after one talks about a subject like this, lol.
In the case of documentation provided by the creators of the software, there's a more substantial vexation:
Use of such words comes off as vacuous, self-praising bullshit.
There's a reason the current format came about; lots of prima donna behavior from the world champions at the time.
When I saw the reference to conic sections right from the start I felt a familiar cloud settling over my mind. Without telling me how orbiting bodies (or the Solar System as an example) are like a cone, I find even the mention of conic sections to be tangential at best (perhaps distracting at worst?).

I got off the rails a bit staring at the diagram. A circle is of course a very specific case of an ellipse — seems off-topic to even include that specificity except for the fact that everyone does include it in a conic section diagram.

A parabola looks like another very-much edge case where the slice has to be exactly parallel to a line running the length of the cone. Not as steep and it is instead a very long ellipse. Steeper and it stays within the cone all the way down to infinity — a hyperbola, I guess. Or is it only a hyperbola when the slice is exactly vertical? (The diagram has no response.)

It looks like if I read the text some of these are explained. Maybe I'm a picture-book kind of guy.

But then there are all the edge cases one can imagine if the slice goes through the very vertex of the cone. Leaving those possibilities on the table without explanation also leaves my mind wandering, probably derailed from the original intent of the discussion....

Maybe I'm overthinking it, ha ha.
> Set a national number and stick with it (allowing states to add to that number to account for their own higher cost of living).

Why do you even need to set a national number? Let states or even counties decide for themselves. (Make transfers to poor counties, if necessary. But don't tell them how to use the money.)
Is there no way of recovering deleted photos from IOS? Granted I've only recovered data from camera SD cards but it was pretty painless.
In the 80s there was a show called Cheers centered around the same people being at a bar every day. I don't think it is a new phenomenon and it has actually been going the other way - it used to be typical to hit the bar after work every day (and still is in a lot of places) and was generally more about winding down/socializing than consuming alcohol.
I disagree that he did it in the least destructive way possible. He revealed far more secrets than were necessary to blow the whistle.

Just take a look at the list of secrets he revealed. Most of them are not about domestic spying at all:

https://www.lawfareblog.com/snowden-revelations

If he wanted to blow the whistle on domestic spying, he could have shared documents with journalists about domestic spying.
I legitimately cannot comprehend that anyone believes that the guy committed suicide.

The closest I can come is believing staff were paid off to let him do so, but I can only imagine the sorts of heads that would have rolled on his open and honest testimony. Yeah.
South of France, high proportion of SUV, many Teslas too, there are some small cars that probably don't even exist in USA, but still a large proportion of oversized vehicles, and 1 bicycle every 100 cars (roughly, when I'm bored and start counting on my bike or walking)

many SUVs: https://www.best-selling-cars.com/france/2022-full-year-fran...
Yeah, but maybe they can reflect enough back into the sky to be a net win. Ultimately you need something simple with the highest possible net energy rejection, whether by radiation or reflection or both.
What’s he supposed to do? Deny it and be ejected, potentially to a country that will extradite him?

He already released the documents; it’s up to the American people to do something about it, and we (well, the government) haven’t. Whether he’s in Russia or federal prison changes nothing about the fact that he already did his “part”.
I missed the answer to: How is this different than MSYS2?

After digging through some of the sublinks:

- You can run gcc in the Command Prompt without using a special shell (MSYS2 has its own shell launcher)

- Maybe MSYS2’s gcc handles exceptions (SEH, etc.) differently

- Lacks a package manager like MSYS2’s pacman (which comes from Arch Linux). But winlibs plans to have something in the future

What did I miss? Would love to see a comparison directly on the home page.
> a guard would look into the cell every 30 minutes. These procedures were not followed on the night he died.

Were these procedure followed at every other time?
I think it’s both.

In my field for instance, if you are a woman, you get to skip the review line for publishing case reports.

Luckily for me I don’t give a shit about case reports, but if I was academically oriented? Maybe I would.
With TouchID I always like to imagine some drug lord telling his minions that they need to cut off the protagonist's thumb to unlock his phone and get the secrets within. The minions respond, "couldn't we just hold the phone up to his thumb?". And the boss says, "maybe, but I'd rather cut if off anyway".
Deputy Secretary of State. Almost as noteworthy, but still
The adjective form of nouns that refer to animals is usually singular when acting as adjectives (goose liver, dog food, rat race). So, it would be two horse asses. The preference for singular is likely to avoid confusion with the possessive form, which in this case would be missing an apostrophe or of for possession: two horses' asses or the asses of [those (specific / in context)] two horses.
Fundamentally because it is as ubiquitous as copper and zinc in the earth crust and even more so in sea water.
I'd say a more accurate metaphor would be "I'm in debt and decided to ignore my biggest high interest loan in order to fully pay off my smallest low interest loan so I feel good about something"

Sure it's good you have less debt but while you were resolving the small loan you were racking up massive interest on the big one
Terra Classic hopefuls mull revival of failed stablecoin
> buggy as the market will bear

is a great phrase, and I'll use it.
Do you have examples of people who have been enriched by so-called whistleblowing?
Blocklist for me is a list of blocks, like the one you gather with badblocks(8) and then pass to fsck(8).
They understand that the contempt is merited. It only makes them more angry.
I'm surprised nobody has pointed out yet that "Mailers are another way to render a view" has lost information that was present in "Mailers are really just another way to render a view.".

The author of this post appears to want to adopt the most infuriating traits of the MSDN documentation: namely, converting all documentation into a list of facts ("Mailers are another way to render a view", "a common use of mailers is…"). This is bad because if you are presented with a bare list of facts, you can't judge their relative importance, or how they relate to each other. The original Rails example was bad, but rather than fix it, they have rewritten it to make the badness more obvious.

The original was bad not because it uses the words "just" and "simply", but because it's verbose while still being hard to read. I still don't understand what the sentence starting "Due to this" is trying to say, and it's very unclear where they transition from giving general technical facts to walking through the specifics of the example. (It is certainly wrong to call something "painfully simple" - I can imagine maybe one or two places where it's ever appropriate - but it's not the main thing that is wrong with those docs.)

But the first two sentences of the original docs were easier to understand than the rewritten version. Compare:

> Mailers are really just another way to render a view. Instead of rendering a view and sending it over the HTTP protocol, they are just sending it out through the email protocols instead.

> Mailers are another way to render a view. Instead of rendering a view and sending it over the HTTP protocol, they send it out through email protocols instead.

I mean, is it rendering a view or isn't it?! The second version explicitly contradicts itself much more baldly than the first version, where the words "just" performed an important function by indicating that the sentence is about what is different between mailers and other renderers.

In the rewritten version, two of the three sentences of the first paragraph explicitly contradict each other, and the third is totally unrelated to what came before. This was a structural deficiency of the original docs, but removing the narrative elements of the text has amplified the problem to the point of absurdity.
Constitutional monarchies are good for stability, at the expense of political freedom. They make sense for Spain and the UK since they are internally unstable, but not so much for Norway and similar countries that are on "cruise control".
Would this be considered a derivation of catfishing? Will the potential date feel betrayed when they discover the person they were chatting with was a bot?
When the bourgeoisie is in the drivers seat of your government, their interests come first.
It gets a bit complicated with the whole 5-eyes mutual back scratching thing though.
> Looks at tax revenue vs GDP. No matter the tax rates, the percentage stays the same (fluctuations within a couple points) regardless of official tax rates.

That might perhaps be true over time, but it's not true between countries.

Eg Singapore has a much lower ratio of tax take to GDP than Germany.

> Universal sales tax is better. If the rich buy more stuff they pay more. There’s no loopholes to be found. You can also provide tax breaks to the poor by reducing or eliminating sales tax on consumer goods which greatly affects the poor, but only marginally affects the rich.

No need for a dual system, that just adds more loopholes. Just give pool people money, if necessary.

If you want an even simpler system, tax land value. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

You can't hide land, and it's in fixed supply.
Goodlist and ungoodlist.
> It implies Epstein was meeting with the CIA chief, when the actual revelation was that he was meeting with the Secretary of State (which is probably equally noteworthy)

No, this isn't right. Burns was the Deputy Secretary of State. At the time, John Kerry was Secretary of State.

FWIW, when I first read the headline, I interpreted it to mean the current CIA director, as news headlines usually refer to former officials as "former" or "ex-".
Well I'm glad everyone involved will be brought to justice and the whole system isn't just a sham devised to keep the masses under control.
I develop mobile games as a hobby, but have little time as a family with 3 small kids.

So I wrote a mobile app that lets me rapidly prototype games from my phone, so I don’t need to be in front of a computer to code.
Europe is a diverse place. It's hard to call both Greece and Estonia a 'European style model'.
You’re so close to figuring it out
How does this verify that you actually live there? How does this prevent sybil attacks against a landlord?

(Whenever I architect this stuff, I ask these standard questions)
> How do New Yorkers feel about unelected parties writing their laws?

I'm all for right to repair laws, but I would hate to see a law concerning even slightly technical topics written only by elected parties. It would be a disaster.

The legislators approved the editing of the laws and voted for the text as written. They are responsible and should be held accountable.
The very first suggestion on mastodon was that and it’s wrong — supposedly that combination is for emergency calling
Agile the Good, the Hype and the Ugly
See also: Jimmy Saville.

It was not so much a conspiracy theory, but lots of people knew about him but were told to keep quiet.
matrix glitches
What kinds of legal reasons?
> the Air Force would never accept Airbus-based tankers or AWACS platforms should Boeing go under.

Really? Because the Airbus A330 MRTT originally won the KC-X competition (before Boeing filed a challenge):

> The USAF issued the KC-X request for proposal in January 2007,[2] then selected the Northrop Grumman/EADS team and their Airbus A330 MRTT-based tankers in February 2008.[3]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC-X
> Email is owned by gmail at this point

I mean, that is completely false at every level (technical and operational).

Sure, gmail is a big player but there are many others. Most importantly, there are thousands of smaller players. All of which interoperate.

I can't tell if you say that sarcastically or from a position on being uninformed about how email works. If the latter, do take some time to understand email infrastructure at a high level because it is a case study in beautiful interoperability of open standards. Something we must all keep in mind for the future of the Internet.

Email has been resilient and an open communication mechanism from everyone since the 70s precisely because it cannot be owned by anyone, it is an open interoperable standard.

There will never be anything equally long-lived and feature rich from a single corporation. Corporate interest don't align with that. Proprietary solutions will always be about locking you in and limiting interoperability.
Doesn't one also have to admit that everyone has to be somewhere and for most people it costs money. What does it matter where one's housing money goes? The only concern is that one is satisfied with the housing they are paying for.
Did you open source yours? I started something like this here: https://github.com/gravypod/gitfs
They are quite common in libraries for gaming industry and enterprise components.
My interpretation is that police aren’t all abusive to the population, and many are acting as if all cops are. As such, the poster was happy that someone felt most cops weren’t horrible people.

Logically, it cannot be that all police are horrible as there are boat loads of police in the USA, and were all of them horrible, every single person would likely have a tale of abuse at the hands of law enforcement to tell. As that isn’t the case, one can assume most cops are just normal people.
Hitchen's Razor?
https://xkcd.com/1356/
It's not bad. But in older browsers that don't support those new CSS features it always defaults to the single column "small" version even with a large browser window. That's not optimal. The current www.vox.com site displays perfectly fine in older browsers.

Sometimes change for the sake of using the latest bleeding edge thing isn't really worth it.
I think you need do-notation for true simplicity. This is because handling results, optionals etc without this is really hard to read, maybe more so than the imperative code equivalent. I hope TypeScript gets this but not holding my breath!
Do you know how many people they did have working on this, or what people specifically were lacking to catch these? Do you have insight into what major problems they caught before release that they public never saw?
> For example, the same people who tend to support helping all poor people for certain things (like college admissions) tend to oppose it for other things (like welfare or basic income). The defining line across all of these things tends to be race and which group benefits the most.

Not a westerner. Why is this a bad thing at all? Giving college admission is like giving opportunity to improve someone's condition (teaching to fish), whereas welfare schemes are like giving a fish.

My country also suffers greatly due to many welfare schemes, all of that money could have gone to infrastructure and public education.

Disclosure: I also come from a poor background and have benefitted from both merit-based education and welfare schemes. But I think welfare is overblown. If the same money was put on education, my parents would have been educated one generation ago.
Is a fingerprint that much better? I certainly prefer it over FaceID, since my kid can't just hold the phone up to my face, but in a situation like this they could just put your finger on the sensor too...
Alex Jones really just sells a whole lot of brain pills! Whether Icke or Jones are real examples of the phenomenon, I believe it has actually been documented e.g. with the "Mirage Men" revelations that this "flooding the zone with bullshit" tactic has been used from time to time.

One day around 2015 or 2016, I remember seeing a ton of "FLAT EARTH!" graffiti that appeared out of nowhere all over Emeryville. That's another one that's always struck me as weird and maybe astroturfed.
Really? On my phone, according to the settings in the Emergency SOS settings screen, holding down a volume button + power will call emergency services.

Pressing the power button 5 times while the device is locked disables Face ID. But there's a setting to make that call emergency services instead, so it could be different on other phones.
There can be differences between appeals to authority, and there's also a difference between an appeal to standards and an appeal to (the common, shared hacker value of) standardization.

But no such differences are captured by calling one appeal to authority 'an appeal to authority' in contradistinction to another.
It’s not just the rich and famous. They’re just the ones with lawyers.

Look at how the IRS treats the ultra wealthy. At some point it becomes very difficult to prosecute.
Yet, neither the person he replied to nor I took it that way.

Maybe fewer people would mistrust police if they didn’t make posts that sound threatening?
This comment is operating under two assumptions: that Mars colonization will occur within his lifetime; and that permanent settlement will be established without applying any legal framework to it. Even sci-fi writers would tell you both these things are highly unlikely.
Turns out buckets of money speak the loudest. It's wildly disenfranchising when things like the wife of a supreme court justice getting paid $10M by law firms who have cases in front of the court don't go severely punished.
You are overthinking it. Conic sections are critical to the math here, and the difference between elliptical and hyperbolic orbits is the difference between capture and slingshot.
The more common phrase is in fact "death by a thousand cuts", referring to an excruciating [sic] Chinese method of execution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi
Really slow (impossible) to train, if some understanding/training for realtive pitch is already present. Try with one single note, training session is over, because at that moment the brain switches to relative mode, and refuses to process absoltute information. A couple (max) of individual stimulations per day isn't sufficient to learn.
Any port in a storm, as the saying goes. It's a US enemy or a US prison.
That's really cool work you've done there !!

Indeed the key to efficient learning is to provide the user the ability to have some sort of parameters play around interaction to better understand the underlying complicated equations involved in the examples you posted.

Projects like Manim are cool, don't get me wrong, but I've observed that since 3B1B's skyrocketing popularity, similar channels are in a way misusing it to only create fancier videos without necessarily containing the respective high-quality material imperative to convey concepts.

Hopefully Emmy gains the traction it deserves which should be high even going by the preliminary demos you've shared.
Except wealth is used for lots of policy. For example, financial aid at schools attempts to use wealth. Which is why they take into account equity in your home.

And if you have ten million in a trust and no income — are you poor?
I'd say dating is mostly a process of projecting an image of yourself that exceeds reality (think of it like a job interview they always say), and so in that sense it's a trivial first betrayal in a line of many to come.
what exactly is the point, then?
>the elite and powerful were involved in pedophilia and raping small children

This isn't a useful generalization (I assume there is a reason you are generalizing this dramatically). E.g. Pizzagate seems more of the "I just hate my political/social enemies" variety, whereas "A wealthy guy has sex with minors" is very believable. The Epstein case is a particularly exaggerated/dramatic version of the latter, but still way more believable than the former.
Why Twitter Auto-Sharing Is Coming to an End
A Bionic Eye That Could Restore Vision (and Put Humans in the Matrix?)
With so much money being pedaled to politician via lobbyist etc, it's impossible not to have a "bourgeoisie" in there.
Eh. I guess I don't see how `cache.invalidate()` is a drastic improvement over `invalidate(cache)`. And my experience with ORMs has also not been pleasant, although it's been a few years since I've used one. They seem very convenient for 80-90% of use cases, and a nightmare for the rest. And you don't know at what point your query will pass that invisible line into the nightmare zone. You start with something simple and it's very convenient, then as things change and get more complicated, the generated queries become more and more unperformant and confusing.
I also constantly point this out on HN:

We should consider more collaboration on open source software, rather than competition. Meaning, creating a competitor platform that many people contribute to like ants. Also open protocols and standards like HTTP, SMTP, EVM, etc.

Wikipedia beat Britannica

The Web beat AOL, MSN, etc.

Linux and BSD beat proprietary platforms on many platforms (including Android)

Science beat alchemy

Often we think "more competition" is the only way, but collaboration and gift economies can over time beat closed silos that compete.
> Also, email is a critical service, something where I don't want to have to deal with downtime, especially if I'm away traveling or something like that.

I have to say that as the most critical service of all, that's one of the reasons I do host email myself!

I can't and won't take the risk of being locked out by the whims of some third party misconfiguration (we've all surely seen the endless stream of misfortunes by those getting locked out of gmail/etc).
A set of utilities for myself, especially the private notes for sending sensitive information that is e2e encrypted: https://utiliti.dev/
https://www.redox-os.org/

Redox is a Unix-like Operating System written in Rust, aiming to bring the innovations of Rust to a modern microkernel and full set of applications.
Seems like there’s some major suppressed regret there for not taking part…
Scientists, engineers, lawyers and construction workers get paid for providing a useful service to the government. The government is not contracting artists to make paintings, it’s paying them with no strings attached because nobody else will.
In a reply to me you posted proof that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions turned negative in 2015. Yet you still insist that nothing has changed.