skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a bit of a biased take. The military uses a purely authoritarian system of management which is entirely different from anything in a civilian occupation. There really is no free choice in an authoritarian system and failure to follow lawful orders results in strict penalties. Having bad leaders in an authoritarian system (there are many in the military) effectively amplifies the problem they create which is likely where this bias comes into play.

Leadership in the military works different than in other institutions. It is one of the only systems that I know of where authority is bound with responsibility. As a leader you are held to account for your actions and the actions of your subordinates because of your authority over them(IMO police should be held to at least this standard if not higher as they are granted permission to assault, detain or use lethal force against anyone as they see fit). It is common for NCOs to be reprimanded for the failings of the subordinates because it is often characterized that the leader failed them because they did not train or oversee them properly. There is some fault tolerance built in (with leaders spot checking leaders below them by checking their subordinates) but the system will break down if you have multiple levels of failed leaders within the chain of command.

The truth in the military though, is that this authority is mostly an illusion. There are many terrible leaders that do not understand this. They believe once you attain a position you are entitled to give whatever orders you like and that people cannot refuse them. This is true in civilian life as well as military. However, a good leader knows that their subordinates grant them authority over them. Understanding that, this is where much of the military leadership philosophy comes into play: lead by example, taking care of your team, morale, etc. These things are of much more critical importance in military roles because of the levels of risk, tension, and stress are often very high.
Remember Machiavelli's "The Prince"?

“I conclude therefore that, fortune being changeful and mankind steadfast in their ways, so long as the two are in agreement men are successful, but unsuccessful when they fall out. For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself to be mastered by the adventurous rather than by those who go to work more coldly. She is, therefore, always, woman-like, a lover of young men, because they are less cautious, more violent, and with more audacity command her.”
All of Apple's documentation is terrible. All of their developer ecosystem is terrible. They do care about you writing software for their devices if you are not an Apple employee.

Time is better spent writing apps for the web, android, Linux, and Windows. You'll at least be productive and have access to resources and tools that work.
> Neither Infinitesimus nor soulofmischief seemed to consider applying the principle "You can opt not to engage" to their own choices and replies

The key difference is that I don't have a problem engaging, whereas you stated you have a problem engaging, and so I offered a second opinion.

It sounds like you didn't want people to engage your comment at all. I frequently opt not to engage when I feel like it, but I'm not restricted to only engaging with comments of which you approve. If you don't want replies, the best option might be just not to post.
There are Sail models for ARM, RISC-V, x86 and MIPS. I think ARM has its own executable spec too.
Ask HN: Were successful novelists without word processors more capable somehow?
In particular, if two authors wrote novels of similar quality but one of them used a word processor, should the other one be considered a better author?
Some would say Math is a language. And I agree-- teach a 2nd language to kids before they reach 12. But I would also want to teach my own children advanced math during that time, if possible.

From what I've read in passing, it seems some former soviet countries of Eastern Europe & Russia teach advanced math to students a few years earlier than the US does.

It seems that private South Asian-majority schools in certain cities-- such as Houston-- also teach advanced math earlier than public schools.
Well, no, most debate topics are not "is political take X good?" Policy questions could be affirmed by leftist positions and argued against from other leftist positions. I think the judge's stance is boring, but everyone seems to be missing that high school policy debate is not meant to make an actual policy decision. It's meant to teach students how to argue within a frame - which is how lots of arguments necessarily happen! You just don't like this judge's particular frame.
> I don't have time to play a game a long time try to get good at it. So I rarely play any game except quick forms of solitaire. Of course, any game I run on my computer must not include nonfree software.

> If the game runs on a server, [...] it should allow connection via Tor. Evidently it must not be a game which you win by fast reaction.

Some things never change, do they? We ought to rope him into a game of Quake with Carmack and Romero while they're all still around.
You seem to know more than me. I host a fringe e2ee messaging system in the UK that I run under under an LTD. Am I affected?
It would be interesting to see the number of animals killed by power source per unit of energy.
I'm not seeing good evidence that journals or conferences do any better of a job at this than pre-print servers do. They do have a slight edge, but that is not that great. The edge is because the default position is to reject and so identifying just a small percentage of good papers does affect this outcome, but that's not a meaningful signal. Have an extremely high false positive reject rate and a high false positive accept rate doesn't make the signal meaningful, it just means it is very noisy.

I don't give this very low signal any meaning because the truth is that good works filter to the top regardless of the journals. They rise because peers share them, not because they got the stamp mark from a journal.
> which actually is somewhat easier in the military because much of the career progression is study/competency based

This is an interesting point. Being an ex-submariner, I do miss the unambiguous nature of knowing precisely what I needed to do next in terms of career progression. We had manuals for everything (big thick ones on the nuclear side), and anyone that was ahead of you had already learned what you were studying, so in (most) cases, you could ask questions and get reasonable answers. Everything was laid out in qualifications and each qualification had a static set of requirements that were well documented.
I would think having an amount of weight that could easily crush a car behind you traveling at highway speeds would create lots of incentive for the driver to play by the rules - it's actually one of the more dangerous jobs out there for that reason. Companies can buy more trucks and drivers though.
I don't think the tree has much to do with it. While shade is important and should be even more so going forward, the general scale of new neighbourhoods compared to old ones is dramatically different.

It's like homes used to be so much closer to the sidewalk, it was just a couple of steps to reach the sidewalk and get going, but now it's these giant football field widths separating homes from the sidewalk, and then massive 4 lane sized roads separating sidewalks on either side. I'm exaggerating of course but the point is still there, the scale is just so different planting trees won't solve it.

This difference in scale creates such a different atmosphere, where sidewalks are just for dog walkers and bored baby sitters, not for regular commute. It's like if you want to talk to your neighbour from the sidewalk you have to bring a megaphone.
Applause for the cyberdeck that looks like a TI99/4A.. saved
I'm pretty sure that when customers ask a model how to kill a child process in Linux, they don't want to hear a lecture about how killing processes is wrong and they should seek non-violent means of getting what they want.
I would venture the reasoning for this is that the system that handles inventory was never designed with external customers in mind. Most inventory tracking is done at the register/PoS when the purchase is made. The inventory is automatically tallied all day long as items are purchased and returned. At the end of the day a manifest is built and sent out for the next delivery truck. These systems, at least when I dealt with them, were mostly managed by IBM AS/400's which weren't built with the Internet in mind. The physical inventory is a financial/accounting compliance item to reconcile what the system thinks it has and what is in the store, related to insurance coverage.

Costco tends to order items at wholesale while the price is advantageous in order to pass on the savings which means items aren't going to be located in the same area thus no real need for a map. I would venture since freezers and bakeries are permanent fixtures along with the long-term regular items they purchase it gives the "illusion" that things are kept in specific locations. I don't know how much stock I would put in the idea of the "Ikea" method for Costco as they have returns, membership, pharmacy, eye glasses, and the food court all relatively towards the front which are areas that people come to Costco frequently for. If it was the "Ikea method" they would all be in the back of the store.
Joins are cheap. Wide tables are often a sign that a data-model is a bit too CRUDdy. Foreign key relationships often do a much better job modeling optionality/cardinality in relational systems.

In this case, a `user_uris` table with non-nullable columns and a unique constraint on `user_id` is the first option that comes to mind.
Eh, I can see that type of cat not liking grid connected solar but be fine with the rest. They tend towards governmental distrust. People have interests but there are limits - see also some of the people opposed to cape wind; they should support it but they have interests.
Yeah, this is like "pints of mild" in 1980s old man pubs in the North. I am skeptical such beers exist now in any mainstream pub or bar.
The TVOC module is only for the PRO indoor kits. The BASIC kit does not have space for the TVOC module.

The PRO comes with a nice plastic enclosure, has a larger display and due to its larger size measures temperature and humidity more accurately (since there is more space, the temperature sensor has more distance to active components that heat up).
How to Overclock a Raspberry Pi 4 for Improved Performance
Even Japan is changing. Non contact payment is becoming popular.
When the "crimes" in question are e.g. drug use or abortion, yes, moderating these topics is very much related to morality.
I'm idly curious how much of a speedup you achieved.
The central problem with the UK is that they've never fully embraced, or taken the time to understand, an inherent, universal, unconditional right to freedom of speech by all of their citizens.

Kings respected it... when it was convenient.

And so the democracy they begat also only respects it... when it is convenient.

But freedom of speech when another permits it is no freedom at all, because the right's value increases precisely with its ability to stand up to other, more powerful interests' disagreement with speech.
You can find a ton of much worse examples than the US, but the US is just vastly far behind Europe (i.e. Spain, to which OP was comparing the US to).

Plus, it's worth mentioning that while Tokyo has a lot of mixed-traffic streets, the streets are small, have very low speed limits, and have strong restrictions on the size and type of car that can actually be within the city. It's less like you're walking in traffic and more like the car is intruding on a pedestrian space.
> I don't know what niche you're referring to. Apple Silicon are the sole occupants of a "niche," delivering high performance with excellent processing per Watt.

You clearly do know what niche I'm referring to, since you just described it. Like you say: Apple's laptops are the sole occupants of their niche, so what would you even compare against? I'm sure there are other ARM chips out there with comparable or better "performance" per Watt, but Apple Silicon's pretty unique right now in maximizing the "performance" half of that equation instead of minimizing the "per Watt" half.

> When shopping for a laptop, there's nothing unfair about comparing ones with different processor architectures when they all can run the software needed.

I never said it was "unfair". I said it was meaningless - because it is. There are myriad metrics by which one could evaluate "performance" (per Watt or otherwise), and Apple Silicon doesn't necessarily win at all of them.

When other manufacturers start putting out ARM laptops targeting the same (or at least remotely similar) performance metrics as a Macbook targets, then there'd be a worthwhile discussion to be had.
I was really impressed at Number Blocks, which my daughter and friends were all watching from Nursery age on BBC iplayer at home. By age 4 she already had an idea about square numbers and infinity.
I honestly wish Number Blocks went all the way up to university level.
We (the Mastodon non-profit) do not offer support contracts at the moment, but this is a good idea, thanks :)

But we indeed have sponsorships open, and they really have impact. Having full-time people working on the project is very impactful, but at the moment we only have 1 full-time developer in addition to Eugen (the founder) and a DevOps person on the technical side.
If I use any of the electronic payment methods I shouldn't need to.
I'm really glad people are iterating on the abstraction for these systems. This is exactly the place where creativity is really useful
It's a _mall_ chain restaurant that's hours away from where I grew up. I have no idea what the nostalgia would be about.
If you run the numbers, getting hit by any car while riding a bike carries with it a fair probability of death or lifelong injury. The forces involved do not lie, and your feelings of getting hit by a compact car and surviving are foolish at best.

Bikes simply are not safe when occupying the same space as a vehicle. The solution is not 'make vehicles that can't kill cyclists', the solution is to prevent these two modes of transportation from operating in the same space.
Banning bikes from roadways for the safety of cyclists is entirely logical. Building cycle paths separate from roadways is entirely logical. Anything outside of that is an experiment we already have data for, and it means more dead cyclists regardless of how you go about it which to any reasonable person is not an acceptable outcome.
Then he says "If you have found this article worthwhile, please share it on your favorite social media. You will find sharing links at the top of the page."

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Yes. It’s mind boggling, but it’s what they have, so it’s what they use
Few companies have showers on site, and "fitness" is frequently associated with sweating.

The last thing I would want to do is show up at an office for an 8 hour shift soaked in sweat. Where I live, it is humid enough during the summer that there's really only at most 4 months of the year where "pleasant" can be described to use the weather for biking.

In fact, the weather forecast for today is 85% humidity, and is going to hit 93% twice this week.
Ah, so consumption is entirely decoupled downstream payment? That's interesting. Thanks for telling me.
Complaint filed against Hurricane Electric for blocking site
The FSF's answer to that is to use AGPLv3, which trips copyleft on network access.

The technicalities of actually using AGPLv3 is... well, if your only goal is to keep large businesses from touching your code, sure. But you can also do that with the weird funky postmodern licenses that technically confer no rights and could easily be used to set up copyleft trolling. If you just want rules that are fair and easy to comply with, this license has... problems. To make a long story short, AGPLv3 only makes sense for web development in interpreted languages that make it easy to list out the code of the site. In literally any other context[0] you're creating traps to sue people with.

MongoDB wanted to extend AGPLv3 even further with a requirement to release all supporting software - e.g. management UIs and things like that. OSI wouldn't put their blessing on it. Amazon just reimplemented the MongoDB API rather than complying with SSPL.

No, I don't think we should be entertaining the notion of API copyright. Hell, FOSS Patents thought Oracle was in the right purely because "oh it'd let Oracle assert GPL", even though it would completely pull the foundation out of the commons.

If you want to be even stricter, there's also the OpenWatcom license, which trips the copyleft whenever you use the software. So no private forking. This is actually less of a compliance headache than AGPLv3 - you don't need to allow source code download over the network, you just have to publish your modifications somewhere. The FSF refuses to touch it because they consider private forking to be a human right.

The problem with stopping "the bourgeoise" from hoovering up all the innovation from the commons is that doing so takes the software out of the commons. Its worse than AGPLv3, SSPL, or OpenWatcom. Anyone who is trying to do this is not trying to protect the commons, they're trying to join the bourgeoise. Because saying that you're not allowed to host the software for others, period, is the language of the proprietary world. Proprietary software licensing is so lucrative specifically because of usage restrictions - it lets you look into each user's wallet and extract the maximum amount of money from it.

[0] Hector Martin found AGPLV3 on the source code for an Ethernet PHY - how the hell do you put a "view source" link on an Ethernet packet?

He's also pointed out that if you just link to a Git repo as your compliance, that's not good enough, because you need to have the specific source code currently executing be accessible. You can't point to a commit inside of itself[1] The original idea was that AGPLv3 source would have quines in them that listed all the source code, and then AGPLv3 would prohibit removing the quines, but you really can only do that in interpreted languages (e.g. PHP, Python, or Ruby).

[1] Cryptographic hash algorithms would be no good if you could do this
I spent 2nd and 3rd grade in a grade 1-6 environment (public school). Every student got the same series of math tests and instruction began at the level they failed a test. Kids could retest whenever they wanted. Older kids were assigned younger kids to broadly mentor.

This was the early 1970s. It was by every measure a success. I haven't seen it's like since.
I finally made an account just to respond to this, I hope you don't find that too aggressive a move.

Null is a perfectly valid value for data, and should be treated as such. A default value (e.g. -1 for a Boolean or an empty for a string) can make your system appear to work where NULL would introduce a runtime error, but that doesn't mean your system is performing as expected, it just makes it quieter.

I know it's tempting to brush NULL under the rug, but nothing is just as valid a state for data as something, and systems should be written generally to accommodate this.
I've had much better success having fax calls work over VoIP then I have getting data modem calls to work. My best guess as to why is that fax calls have much less back and forth, and as a result, they are less latency-sensitive. Fax calls also usually negotiate at 14.4kbps, whereas data modem calls often try to train at faster rates.
I don’t really agree with the article. It basically could be summarized as “if he did nothing with it (I guess) we’d say why isn’t he doing anything, but if he does things that are objectively bad (e.g. rate limiting tweet views for real users), we chastise him for it, what gives!?” The article is missing the obvious scenario where he truly improves the site, increases views, avoids chaotic controversy, improves earnings, etc. He has done a lot and it doesn’t seem (from the outside) to be working, thus the negative press.
>As a pedestrian in NYC I feel far more endangered by bikes than I do by automobiles.

This is why legislating by "feelings" is a bad idea. Automobiles are a far larger and more lethal risk.
I don't play multiplayer games, but I can totally see how push-to-talk would be essential for them. In an intense game with lots of keyboard work, people would be liable to accidentally leave the mic open, distracting teammates with keyboard sounds or whatever.

Push to talk also frees up your brain cycles from having to keep track of which mode you're in.
I don’t understand how this is security. Wouldn’t an adversary just listen on all channels and pick up the rest of the communication on the newly detected frequency?
You’re correct of course. Even so it’s worth noting that you could also call it the global asset based monetary system. Credits and debits are just two sides of the ledger.

In my mind, and definitely informed by my attraction to medieval Catholic philosophy, the problem isn’t really debt but rather usury.
Milton Keynes tried separating pedestrians and cyclists, it is mostly considered a failure.

Reasons include- they built the place so well for cars that everybody owns a car- poorly lit underpasses- confusing layout- crime and the feeling of being alone if somebody were to attack, due to no cars passing by and no shop windows.

https://www.cycling-embassy.org.uk/blog/2012/04/27/they-buil...

https://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?t=46081

"You have to cycle quite a long way to get anywhere useful - Signage is appalling. If I hadn’t had the map I would have got quite lost. [the cycle paths don't follow the grid system]"

Tunnels are quite dangerous, having cars at high speed for long distances is extra dangerous. Having them leave the tunnel is either a highway junction or a stroad. There is one in Boston though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5pPKfzzL54
I'm surprised that vim segfaults! I had it slow to open huge files, but I always assumed it could handle anything, through some magic buffering mechanisms. I could be wrong!

That being said, from the point that one has to edit the dump to restore data... something is very wrong in the restore process (the knowledge of which isn't helpful when you're actually faced with the situation, of course)
I don't (and didn't) think creativity was simple, but the task was super simple (alternate uses task). The fact that people couldn't agree on how creative the answers were to such a simple task was the insight, although maybe it was only an insight because I was naive.
Full text of tweet:

> Today we filed an official complaint against @henet (Hurricane Electric) with the @AGOWA (Attorney General of Washington State) over their censorship of legal and protected speech. We have also reached out to the @EFF who has previously shown support in protecting the foundation of free speech on the internet.

> Free speech is for everyone, even those you disagree with. Dropping routes to a subnet in the middle of the night with no notice and with no prior complaints or concerns expressed is not a way to do business. Under Washington State House Bill 2282, ISPs may not "Block lawful content"

The speech concerned is the hosting of the website Kiwi Farms. Their statement:

https://kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiy...
I appreciate when things come up again. Obviously enough people either haven't heard of it or want to talk about it again for it to be upgoated to the front page.