skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the majority of military is not in the upper echelons of the power hierarchy. And the majority of leaders in the military do not fall in this category of exceptionalism.

You're making a correlation that the best leaders are at the top, but that's not the case. Furthermore, you don't need to be an exceptional leader to know that you need to care for your subordinates.

Yes, there are terrible leaders in the military. There are leaders who go through courses specifically geared for command positions, learn tools on good leadership, and then actively use techniques counter to the learned approach. However, there are terrible leaders everywhere, at all levels of command.

Very rarely are civilian leaders given dedicated time and instruction within their profession on how to manage their subordinates effectively, outside of say academia (e.g.: business school). The military has professional military education (PME) built into all levels of leadership from first line supervisors up to executive leadership (general officers)---The differences between military and civilian leadership is very apparent. Military veterans are often the most preferred candidates, all things being equal, in recruiting pools because of their leadership and performance.
That doesn’t make sense, they can’t assume the lock is freed after the timeout. They have to retry to get the lock again, because another process might have taken the lock. Also, redis is single threaded so access to redis is by definition serialized.
And that risk is mitigated by traffic rules, separation of pedestrian v. vehicular traffic, etc. That goes out the window when you have a category of vehicles that routinely ignores those mitigations.
That sounds like a list topics that he hasn’t covered, or that he hasn’t provided updates on, rather viewpoints on a topic that he hasn’t covered. Unless he’s recently written on those topics and I’m missing some context.
I used to really like Pandora's a lot. So much so that I once emailed them commending them on this and they sent me a t-shirt. If memory serves the difference was that Pandora's associations were human curated.
The text "Mastering The Art of War" (Liu Ji & Zhuge Liang, Thomas Cleary translation) has some interesting advice for determining if someone is suitable for a leadership position:

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"Hard though it be to know people, there are ways.

First is to question them concerning right and wrong, to observe their ideas.

Second is to exhaust all their arguments, to see how they change.

Third is to consult with them about strategy, to see how perceptive they are.

Fourth is to announce that there is trouble, to see how brave they are.

Fifth is to get them drunk, to observe their nature.

Sixth is to present them with the prospect of gain, to see how modest they are.

Seventh is to give them a task to do within a specific time, to see how trustworthy they are."
There's a rundown of the incident made by Mystery Files a month ago. I found it entertaining.

https://youtu.be/iZd1aQ7TY9c
Yeah, I'm not sure that the evidence stacks up for talc (J&J) and glyphosate (Roundup/Monsanto) being very problematic, but I also suspect these companies are guilty of all kinds of other harms, so they aren't all that sympathetic.
Phase-Shift Keying
That isn't why it's a bad idea at all; people don't walk and instead drive because walking "feels" unsafe. Legislate changes to make walking "feel" safer and people will walk instead of drive, and then will be safer because the changes will be things like separated walkways from cars, more guarded pedestrian crossings, road design which slows traffic, and more people walking will mean fewer cars on the road.
Can you imagine? Someone implying that someone supports certain speech, when they merely allow it?
This is a hilarious idea, I love it. Internet Protocol over Voice over Internet Protocol.

Call it IPOVOIP.
I'm not especially a fan of Yong's COVID reporting (Zeynep Tufekci was my most reliable source), but this isn't a good criticism. COVID's origins are of less importance to The Atlantic's readership than the other COVID topics he wrote about, and the science is much less settled than the typical topic Yong writes about.
Yes this is by design. The company is being reimbursed through insurance or given a tax write-off[1] for documented stolen items. As long as they are showing that they put reasonable efforts in to deter theft. This could be a loss prevention department, the electronic sensors, locked cabinets, storing items at the very top of shelving units. The risk of law suits, employee injury or death, bad PR, etc is much more costly than documenting some stolen items.

The big push of retailers closing stores due to theft is an exaggeration when in mosts cases its just reduced in-store traffic and online ordering which doesn't require the stores to be as big for holding as much inventory.[2][3]

Most of the major retailers stats are old and if the numbers were really of concern I'm sure they would release the data but my assumption is their complaint doesn't seem as reactionary when you compare it to their profits. I cite this generic article as an example[4]. It appears to want you to think that theft is such a major part of the retailers problem but no specifics provided with phrasing like "has historically been" or $400 million in theft when the company has made $109 billion with 3% growth[5].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p584b.pdf

[2] https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/04/target-to-close-store...

[3] https://blog.gitnux.com/walmart-theft-statistics/

[4] https://www.wsaz.com/2022/12/09/walmart-may-close-stores-inc...

[5] https://corporate.target.com/annual-reports/2022/financials/...
I don't think that's true. The press is notoriously wrong, biased, and late. Most people I know have caught on to this.
Imagine cleaning out the case of a Kaypro II [0], replacing the internals with a RPI or something more capable; the display with an LCD of the same size; and a large battery pack. After leaving a dedicated space for a flask of whiskey, you'd still have a lot of space to put in modules for extra capabilities.

[0] https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=550
Asiatic just means "from asia". It's used for all kinds of things Asian, including animal, plants, artifacts, geography, climate, and peoples.

It's gone out of favor in the US (because people like to change every term with newer versions) but it's still a word just meaning "being from asia".
Certainly the online activities that the bill is meant to address will still continue. Criminals don’t care about following the law unfortunately.
In academia, it's better to cling to obviously false justifications to dismiss criticism and keep a paper accepted than to admit fault and potentially be forced to retract.

Publish or perish
That doesn't really make sense. The shows aren't only on streaming because the rights are cheap, because what's the point of buying them at that point when you can spend that money on your own IP? Streaming buys licenses because they are valuable, this value is only transferring between the service and the network.

Further, I don't think they're really against the real numbers being shown so they can more accurately get a sense of what's happening. Keeping numbers a secret here only benefits two groups: networks and streaming services.

Even the music industry is more transparent.
OK, deal with this:

I keep my seashell in a Farraday bag when I'm not using it. When I am, I put on a Farraday Helmet (tm) so the shell is inside it.

Beat that!
Parental controls several of our apple devices (all running the latest updates) turned themselves off for no reason, without notice, last week. With some actually pretty bad outcomes as a result. Until reading this, I thought either I had screwed up the configuration (or the kids had guessed my passcode) ...
I’ve noticed a trend on commenters making these sorts of demands. I can’t tell if it’s a new (particularly dumb) rhetorical ploy or if they’re just looking for free labor.
Public schooling has socializing built in - home schooling has focused 1:1 attention built in. (In their ideal state, respectively.)

Home schooling takes extra work to add socializing, public schooling takes extra work to add one on one instruction. Generally. There are exceptions out there, and there are opportunities to hybridize the practices. But again - that takes work.

Public school also functions as a means to take the work of watching and educating a child during the day off of parents’ plates, so they can remain at least partially employed, or even just have a small slice of their life back.

Homeschooling is a luxury most can’t afford.
> Many areas, particularly those good for homeschooling, have tons of social and extracurricular activities available specifically for homeschoolers

During the five years I homeschooled my daughter, I found that this was true but with one enormous caveat. We’re a secular family and homeschooling in many areas of the U.S. means that these groups are often organized around non-secular activities and principles. To each, their own. But I’m not going to sign a “statement of faith” to participate in a homeschool group. As a consequence, it really did feel that we were going it alone. Larger metropolitan areas are probably more inclusive; but otherwise secular homeschoolers have struggles in finding the right fit.
> The only reason to even have a military is to have the ability to fight and win wars. If your military can't do that, it's not worth having at all.

While it is one use case, it is not all use cases.

> Is this based on personal experience? If so, how recent? My experience in the military is several decades old, but the above is not a good description of what I experienced then.

It is based on multitudes of studies in psychology, neuroscience, sociology, evolutionary anthropology, and the like. At its very core, the purpose is to reduce individuality and to reprogram a person's brain and body to fit the characteristics of military use cases; to make replicable bodies fit for military use. There's tons of declassified docs that describe this process, at least since WWI. And then if you study history then you'll know this has been a topic of investigation for thousands of years.

This is why there is an "adjustment period" and persons are strongly suggested to under go deprogramming before returning to civilian life. You've tricked the brain into believing a specific version of reality that is not objective reality, and there's so much PTSD/cognitive dissonance that the human brain and body is now forced to endure post-service. It's quite taxing physically, mentally and emotionally. You know, like a cult... Because it's a cult.

This is not a new phenomenon by any stretch.
I get 0 cents of residual for continuing use of the software I built for hire. I think the discussion needs to shift to lifetime pay per hour worked than random residual checks. Maybe they have good reasons to be upset, but the residual amounts isn't the right piece of evidence.
> "Previous laws relating to policing and investigatory powers have been widely criticised by civil rights groups for their overreach and lack of effective oversight and safeguards. We now know that some of those laws have in fact been abused in ways the critics predicted."

What are you referring to here?
I haven't seen any recent comparisons but the most recent benchmark I saw was that gcc/clang were close. I'm sure the speeds vary quite a bit depending on project size, options, available RAM, etc. IIRC using LTO makes linking significantly more resource intensive and I would assume this is where most of the disparities in performance are.
>mexican isn't an ethnicity. it's a nationality

It's both, but as an ethnicity it's subdivided in several cases based on their origin (e.g. "white mexican").

But can also be seen as the future/aspiring all-encompassing Mexican ethnicity through the inter-mixing (cultural and genetical) going on for centuries...

(It's not like "Spanish" in Spain are some pure ethnicity that always existed either, it's one that emerged by combination of several ethnicities).
What exactly am I reading here?
Requests and flask are both 100% python libraries. Do you take pleasure in trolling people?
Complete nonsense, the current carrying capacity of a wire is directly proportional to the surface area of the cross section of the wire. If it were the skin it would be proportional to the circumference and it clearly is not. I have no idea where you came into this idea but it is just completely wrong. You can test it for yourself with $50 worth of gear.
I'm struggling to see the benefit of your product. Apart from the outdoor element. You can buy a 4 in 1 air monitor from Amazon for half the price (Co2, PM, Temp and Humidity) i.e. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Indoor-Air-Quality-Monitor-Multifun...

There are others with 6 in 1 with app control for less.

Aren't there other sensors that would be more useful providing better insights on pollutants and health you could provide at a premium that these cheaper monitors can't.
How well does the USB-C cable (and the rest of the PCB!) hold up outdoors? Especially in areas with salt, like near a coast or a place where salt is used on the roads in winter? From what I understood the sensor isn't sealed?
What medium post? Did you forget to link it?
The lock is explicitly release by the redis server itself after the ttl. It's not that the Client will assume that the lock is released.
Was drive-thru the only late night food option in that bit of Czechia? That felt like the pertinent part, not being able to get any in some places.

(Here in Berlin I have to plan around Sunday trading rules in a way I didn't back in the UK, but we have Spätis, so there are options).
> As for combative, I am beyond tired of the games played by crypto folks when it comes to answering basic questions they should already have the answers for.

I did answer your questions.
BRB, grabbing milkweed to plant in my yard
You earned this upvote :)

> Break the pattern.

Well said!
Ask HN: What is the best tool to analyse open source stack?
Searching for “The One”: Mate Selection in This Modern World (2016)
Driving in Amsterdam sucks, parking costs you your leg per five minutes, bikes are very agressive, pedestrians fill the roads because there is more tourism than the city was designed for.

Its one of the worst places in NL I've been, from a driving perspective.
> 6 Users with symbols in their usernames couldn’t log in. This turned out to be due to a mistake I’d made in the recovery script, and was very easily fixed.

UTF-8 strikes again.
I home schooled for 2 years in middle school I wasn’t a social butterfly (and still am not). We were part of a home school co-op where we went once or twice per week and the parents taught various classes.

The kids there were wildly brilliant… 6th grader getting a perfect SAT and ACT score, and almost all were very socially awkward. But I really doubt that regular school would have changed anything and may have made things worse.

The social issue is a chicken vs egg problem. Are the kids socially awkward bc they’re homeschooled, or are they homeschooled bc they’re brilliant and very awkward?
Twitter, the company, owned it. He was just using it while they didn't want it.
Come on, think about it harder. Do you really think this would even have a chance of becoming a PEP if python code was affected? If you thought even a little bit about it, then you would have come to the very simple conclusion "no" but here we are.
There are two types of people, those who have principles and those for whom ends justify the means. First most likely can't achieve their goals because they can't use every trick against opponents. While second acquire taste for means so to achieve ends would end their excuses for the means. To not get trapped by either of those is hard and in many cases impossible.
The issues of "psychology" (/ "sociology") are ubiquitous with human beings (and many other animals, arguably). Partly borne of "heuristics" and other hacks / optimizations that make for a species quick and efficient enough to survive, they permeate everything human, no matter how much our minds might tell us they don't, in general. It took me years to learn, through repeated demonstrations, just how many illusions and delusions permeate my own every day existence.

In fact, this is really why it can be so incredibly helpful to know people you can talk to and trust who have different points of view and can help nudge thinking back towards a certain level of, say, "goodness". And, it's a major factor in the very dark side of "social media", as has been well-documented - including by Facebook itself, mostly internally.

The "tribe heuristic" can easily supplant years or decades worth of training on, essentially, "critical thinking" and "how to test / discover / 'know' things", such that you end up with absolutely jarring inconsistencies in people. I.e., the doctor (MD or DO or etc.) who has an entirely separate "Mr. Hyde" persona peddling a kind of witchcraft that is apparently grounded in philosophies entirely at odds with the "doctor compartment" in their lives.

It's a hazard for all - and, that bit, at least, can be of use to others. The "warning" inherent in seeing this sort of thing directly. But, well, personally, I try to stick to small inconsistencies that are unlikely to have major consequences, especially for other people.
Java isn't a scripting language. I don't get your point about junior devs either as FAANG companies such as Facebook can pick and choose from the highest caliber developers.
Why would it demonstrate the opposite? It's one union in a particular field. We have plenty of other unions out there, look at cops.
Or a horrifically fascinating take on religious belief in reincarnation.
Does it matter? The UK can't enforce anything outside its borders. Just putting another nail in the coffin of UK tech startups that aren't in Financial Services.
Biking is a means of transportation first and a leisure activity distant second.
And likewise, the defense department is losing money primarily on overpriced contracts, not DoD personnel wiring money to their own bank accounts.
You aren't anti-cycling, you are anti-uneducated assholes.
I definitely don’t prefer dubbing over subtitles. A part of acting is the voice.
How to Read Inference Rules
Yeah this is the way I feel about it. I’m not exactly clamoring for it but if someone (Apple) released a super well executed foldable phone with no major downsides I’d happily pay an extra few hundred for it at my next upgrade. Apple is probably happy to let competitors iron out all the kinks and then they’ll release an iPhone 21 Max Fold and sell a billion units.

My dental hygienist whipped out a foldable phone last week to show me a picture of her granddaughter. First time I’ve seen one in the wild. There was a very distinct thick dark line/crease down the middle of the picture… it was all I could look at.
Repackaging these sensors might be a better play than an OTS procurement model. Lots of people are making pretty packages for commodity sensors. Few are developing new sensor packages.
https://archive.is/Tl9DV
>had a much higher bandwidth which is why modems were able to reach 56kbps

That is actually completely false. The way that speed was achieved was by using multiple bits per symbol encoding (bitrate != baudrate), not by having some mysterious unused bandwidth available. This was the case for speeds above 4800bps up to 33kbps (V.34).

56kbps (V.90) was only possible with PCM (digital) modulation, while the actual symbol rate on the line was still only about 8000Bd - i.e. about 8kHz, which is about the maximum for a typical landline.

This is all due to how a typical phone line works and that there is a very strong attenuation of higher frequencies due to parasitic capacitance and inductance of the wiring.

I am not sure where do you live and what kind landline phones you had but modern digital cell phone codecs are light years ahead of the sound quality we had on land lines in 80s, esp. when calling long distance.
It matters if you're in the UK and you're a tech hobbyist.
>Of course nobody should get a free pass to wreck the Earth. That’s a cartoonishly absurd caricature of what’s going on.

>My point is there is extensive and persistent oversight, debate and opportunities for input and objection.

the point that other commentators have made, which has seemingly been ignored, is that being the person with the most wealth in the entire world allows one to ignore a lot of the checks and balances associated with any activity.

A lot of the 'extensive and persistent oversight' comes from 1) internal employees and 2) government officials that have been 'taken out to dinner' enough times that they don't want to lose the opportunity to schmooze with what amounts to be the most and influential people in the world.

this is essentially how all of American aerospace operates, and I speak from personal experience -- most groups don't have the luxury of being a cult of personality on top of the thick wallets, however.

You can call CO2 harmless all you want, but the reality is that we have a tenuous grasp, if any at all, on what spilling hundreds of tons in a minute will add up to [0], and that's only a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the environmental accumulative 'unknowns'.[1]

In effect Musk's pass to wreck the Earth was by no means free, he paid for it. The problem is that someone , anyone with money and pop interest, can do that.

I'm by no means anti-space, but this trend of pretending that there isn't a sacrifice made on Earth to fuel these mega-ventures is absolutely naive, and the tragedy is that the every-person is going to be the one paying the bill; it won't be Musk's redirected billions.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220713-how-to-make-rock...
[1]:https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/astrophysics/greenhouse-gas...
Newton has left the chat
In what world does fighting against the authoritarian make you an authoritarian?
Appreciate the feedback, this gives much needed insight into the situation. I just wish something even half as informative could have ended up in that issue a couple weeks ago.
I am not using luajit for various reasons but the problem with the regular Lua interpreter is that the lua ffi backport from luajit is not included by default and the third party ones are broken on ARM.
I mean they expect the world to fall over her grave, but can't tell us how she chose to quit? I have no sympathy for the rich and emotionally weak.
I don't think the executive pay matters all that much in this discussion, and is a marxist argument ultimately.

If they are well compensated and have proper work conditions, what the shareholders and bosses are making is irrelevant. Market forces should determine their pay; otherwise, why do we think that they should make more money than anyone else?
You are right, and I am hard pressed to think of anything scarier than a pack 10 year olds with the strength of a man. Society may have taken an interesting direction.
About 5 or 6 years ago I tried the Safari parental controls for my kid. they worked OK for most the net except for anything google. I don't know if they changed, but at the time any interaction with a google property (that my kid wanted to use, search, maps and especially earth) would create a unique URL that required a parental permission popup to be clicked. Basically a popup per click.
Made the whole thing completely unusable and had to disable it.