skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly doubt that a secret in the caliber of “let’s
kill the President” can be kept by so many people for
such a long time.

Agree.

However, what if that wasn't the conspiracy?

What if the conspiracy was, "let's avoid war with the USSR"?

If the US Government knew of or suspected USSR involvement in JFK's assassination: their choices were essentially "war with the USSR", "look like fools who bowed down to the USSR", or "pretend that Oswald was a lone, crazy guy."

In other words: not a conspiracy per se where the government was en masse covering up some specific thing they knew to be true. I agree with you that feels implausible. Especially since presumably a significant portion of the government would have been opposed to the assassination or the cover-up.

But it might have been more of a concerted effort to look the other way. Like, "If we investigate Oswald and the investigation too closely, the trail might lead to Russia or one of its satellite states, and therefore war, and therefore nuclear war. So therefore let's all agree that Oswald was a lone gunman because it sure beats war with the USSR."

That does not seem impractical to me.

Remember, the country was still reeling from the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the chilling possibility of having narrowly avoided nuclear war.
This amazing course by Avdi Grimm on make and rake for the same purpose has completely changed my understanding of rake and I recommend anyone checking it out:

https://graceful.dev/courses/acapa/
> very few things more despicable than cheating in sport.

Why though? It's practically a victimless crime. Sport is, by definition, recreation and entertainment. If the perpetrators of sport make better entertainment via corruption of the rules or laws, then who does it hurt, really? Certainly not the spectators or the bottom line of ticket sales.

I can honestly think of a lot of crimes and sins more despicable than this. I mean truly, if you need help listing or recognizing them as heinous, I don't know what to say for you.
Organizations keep secrets all the time. A huge amount of American history is learned after the fact when documents are declassified.
Many ages ago, at my first software engineering job, I was tasked with building a new replacement system for an aging platform. I decided to write this in the new-thing at the time, C# and .Net.

I managed to put together the overall framework, architect a SQL database for it, and after a bit of time had a working replacement for the most important parts of what it was replacing. While discussing the next steps, the owner of the company mentions he just sold one already to one of the largest clients using the old system. I found that rather surprising, as he made no mention of announcing it let alone starting to sell it, and it wasn't ready to be sold, but here we were.

We go to meet with this company to discuss specifics, and one of the questions they ask is "exactly how much bandwidth is utilized when we do X? We have Y employees and want to know exactly how much it uses if they were to be using it at the same time".

Now, I wrote this thing to be as performant as I could, but at no point up to now did I have time to run specific performance metrics on it such as how much bandwidth was being used by every specific piece of functionality. It wasn't even an announced product, as far as I knew.

My boss turns and just stares at me. So I answered honestly, said I didn't have the exact numbers, and I can get back to them, but I felt that their current setup should be more than sufficient.

Meeting ends, we get back to the car, and he is suddenly irate.

"Don't ever, ever tell a client you don't know something! How could you do that? That made us look like we don't even understand our own product! You know what you do in that situation? Make up a number that works! You never say you don't know! Unbelievable!"

I'm not in sales. I got dragged into this meeting out of nowhere only to get chewed out for not properly fielding a question, about a product that I didn't know we were selling, that I couldn't possibly have expected to answer at that point.
You don't need arbitrary code transforms, just correctness-preserving code transforms.
Women have always worked on farms.

A solo man couldn’t create a self-sustaining farm either, yet somehow they weren’t the ones being bought and sold “for their own benefit.”
> Even compilers are not that good at building old software.

Even old compilers can be boostrapped the same way.

Sandboxed prefx-install package manager like spack and Nix also allow you to do that without too much pain currently. They also give you the possibility to generate full featured Linux images if necessary for QEMU for instance.

That said: It is true they do not do it by default, it requires configuration (probably due to a too small userbase I guess).

I wonder if the userbase on that dedicated to old games/old app/old tools would be enough to dedicate a project on that entirely
> agriculture needed to feed the amount of people doesn't seem like it will survive and be efficient if this keeps on going

The earth is getting greener, rapidly. The maximum human carrying capacity is probably higher than ever and populations are shrinking at the same time.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
Bringing lunches to work used to be a much more common meme in the US. (But maybe it still is among blue collar workers.) Does seem to have faded out a lot though.
> stereotypically German engineering: optimised for efficiency and cost, at the expense of longevity

I thought German engineering had the exact opposite image worldwide?
Kenton (cloudflare) has a LAN-party-optimized house https://kentonshouse.com/
If only there were a way to make consistent structure in an online document (such as hypertext) and separate the styling into distinct files. Even better, what if we could make separate styling for mobile, desktop, and printing, all with the same content?

If only it were possible using existing standard web technology. Sadly it was never designed with such goals in mind.

/s
> nothing blings like diamond.

fair enough if part of the bling is being dazzled by the price or prestige, but optically moissanite has a more brilliant refractive index than diamond
Ah yes you’re right. That’s a much better practice /s
I wonder if this inspired "Men in Black" or having him in the movie.
Climate change deniers tell each other we are coming out of The Little Ice Age that started in 1200AD. Which is technically correct.

What they don’t tell each other is that “Little” is an understatement and we shot way past the prior “Medieval Warm Period” long ago and are only accelerating.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age#/media/File%3...
Seems that the Made for iPhone (MFi) program negates benefits of switching to USB-C and makes it another Apple accessory cash-cow. Apple is 'evil'--in the sense they're brilliant capitalists.

> [...] Leaker ShrimpApplePro has said that iPhone 15 models will only officially support USB-C accessories certified by the Apple Made for iPhone (MFi) program.
Ah man Norton Ghost spun up memories of Norton Utilities, which had one of the few disk sensor apps (package in a nice enough widget to have a place on our desktops). The competition we had over HD speeds!

That's a part of LANParties that seems to be forgotten, and even here as I read all the replies. Sure, it was about games and file-sharing, but it was as much about "hey you see what this dude did to skin his Windows?" or "wait was this transfer really that fast?" or "did you hear what this guy just did?" little legends that developed in the time we had together and made us ache to come back better and have the cool stuff everyone would be talking about next time.

Before Google had all the answers, before all the hardware was centralized into a dozen corporations, before there was an index of tools and their purpose... we had each other, and that was pretty cool.
Training and aligning LLMs with RLHF and RLHF alternatives
That was quicker than expected.
Right but you when you can put all the industry and money into not producing that much CO2 in the first place I'd wager that's far more effective way to having less CO2 in atmosphere than trying to capture it post-factum.

Or just slapping the same CO2 sequestering method at the end of industrial chain that creates CO2 rather than trying to catch it later.
He's remodeled it many times and put on additions (I think).
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36352347
Wow. This is really interesting.
That is irrelevant to the quote you cited.
I dunno, but someone like Karpathy could build a better Siri, with the help of a bunch of engineers.
I have a Mac and a Linux box for work. I have been using my Macbook for some AI work I'm doing, but my workflow has been a mess. I had 4 desktops going, 2 projects opened w/debugging, many browser tabs opened to various docs, MS Teams, Outlook, etc. I don't even run Apple music anymore because it makes my laptop too hot.

On my mac the desktops constantly change position for unknown reasons. Managing windows is a huge pain on each desktop because it's very easy to obscure them... there is also a ton of wasted space with so much gui noise. CMD tabbing through apps is tedious and inflexible.

I posted some screenshots of my Linux setup in a different comment. My Linux workflow is night and day. All of my projects are streamlined on their own workspace, I can jump between tasks with no mental effort, everything is at my fingertips, I make less mistakes (working in the wrong terminal or editor), everything is done with vi bindings, etc. I have custom shortcuts set for things I need and I have multiple browsers that I can overlay on any workspace if I need to.

I can't quantify my productivity increase, but I know it's there. I also know I'm much happier when I'm working now because I'm much more organized and focused. I'm also not dealing with a Laptop (Macbook) that sounds like a rocket about to take off. My Linux box operates under 1% CPU load all the time. My point is not to say my setup is better (I'm not an evangelist on these things), but that I found a huge productivity boost for my needs with a minimal setup. I was very skeptical when I started out and it was a combination of being out of my comfort zone and being incredulous to a radically different way of using a computer.
Very true, though there's a lot that are foreign and invasive too. Stuff that people brought over from Europe for their herb gardens 300 years ago that have since spread everywhere.
Except there was plenty of trying and a whole lot of nothing.
Well, Casey’s is not actually smallish, it’s a fortune 500 company publicly traded on NASDAQ (CASY) and has a market cap of over 9 billion.
This April Fools joke got me back in 2013, and my family have never let me forget it! I should have checked the article date...
Thankfully our microwave started working again once it cooled off and all that was hurt was my pride.
Well that’s exactly James’ point. We’re both sitting 150 years downstream of his major philosophical breakthroughs so it’s a bit hard to ask “what’s all the fuss.”

Seinfeld effect going on here :)
I firmly believe that if we are to protect privacy by not selling or subpoenaing or misusing data about consumers, then that data must never be collected in the first place. If it is collected, then it will find a use, somehow, eventually. And it will be difficult to delete when the time comes.

Good luck not collecting this stuff.
Well, I have my reasons and you have yours!

For example,

A) Most importantly, I wanted to tinker and have fun!

B) I already use Bash at work and stuff, so it's easy for me.

C) I am generally averse to fast-changing dependencies, and giant dependency trees, so that rules out most scripting languages.

Besides, if you peruse the README, you will see that my code guarantee is "works on my machine". Your mileage will vary tremendously :)
Yep. We need massive new sources of green power generation, probably nuclear until fusion gets going. We need to build stable liquid hydrocarbons and inject them back into oil wells, and build new coal mountains to replace the ones we extracted.

It's a completely insane amount of energy and effort, and every fossil fuel we burn makes it harder.

I think it's possible and worthwhile. It isn't really any more cartoonish than the wastefulness of our current material culture.
Google Domains assets (existing domains) was sold to Squarespace which has been discussed on HN at the time of the announcement,

Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36346454)
(548 points | 86 days ago | 606 comments)

Also relevant,

About the Squarespace purchase of Google Domains registrations (https://support.google.com/domains/answer/13689670?hl=en)
Such a statement about the "magic bullet" leaves me with tremendous doubt. This idea that he put a pristine bullet that he found in the limousine, which later became the magic bullet, but somehow it got switched, just seems too far-fetched for me.

All these years he never told anyone? It is completely different from his written statement at the time. After all these years, I call BS.
Sure but all those problems come later and feel less certain than literally doubling every energy bill. Thus why it’s politically hard
Rust vs. Common C++ Bugs (2022)
End of last year I wrote this piece that evaluates how Rust stacks up against some common bugs that are easily introduced in C++...

This is not a C++ bashing article.
Aircraft can safely fly over snow, which has albedo if 90%, so it's probably ok.
The recollections of an 88 year old person about an event 60 years ago are simply not credible. He may truly remember picking up the bullet, but that doesn't mean it actually happened. Since he didn't mention it in his memos at the time, it probably didn't.
Managers measure only things that are easy to understand.
Mark Felt had more to lose, this guy might just be looking for a payday
As someone who has lived in South Texas my whole life and seen summers go from uncomfortably hot when I was a child to now dangerous to life, I have to say that my data leads me to believe that we're doomed. I do wish I could believe what you believe though; much like I wish there was a god in heaven who loves and protects me - it seems to really help people get through the day, but I seem to be incapable of believing it myself.
https://www.levels.fyi/companies/google/salaries/software-en...
Not sure what the "conspiracy" would be, but yeah, the sulfur reductions in ship emissions is definitely a factor.

Someone needs to figure out large scale injection of SO2 to the stratosphere. Don't wait for permission, just do it!
*At Home
Great example that systemic problems require systemic solutions.

AC is an individual solution to global warming, and actually making things worse. And deincentivizes us from fixing the actual problem.
Well, I implemented the main idea in a day or two. That being the pp preprocessor. The rest, I really can't remember, it was mainly grunt work to see what are the minimum things a web site is required to have. I still have some stuff to remove.
I remember not so long ago Google Domains was considered a safe long-term way to register domains.
Small changes in how a person talks could reveal Alzheimer’s earlier
The Google app on Android does a remarkably good job of image to pdf and text extraction.
Thermal radiation is just EM waves, which you can reflect.

So just put the PV panels on top, and a reflective layer below.
I just transferred mine over to AWS. For some reason I never knew they even did domains, and always bothered with Namecheap and Google.
The point is that a stay at home parent has more value than a single profession because two "labour units", if we must think of things this way to make it clear, are made less effective by having to practice their profession as well as maintain their home and raise their children. The argument in favour of a stay at home parent is that two working parents are made so ineffective that they are <50% capable as they were before forming a household so instead of 2 you now have less than 1 and in order to fix this one of them takes on all of the work of maintaining a household and raising the children while the other focuses their energies on their profession outside the home. This results in at least 1 full unit of labour but it may actually be greater than the average since the individual working outside the home may now be performing at a higher level since they don't even have to maintain the homemaking that a single person does. On top of that they gain the benefits of being in a stable relationship with a spouse and children and on top of that their relationship to both may be even better than other couples where both work. The person managing the household may even have a small participation in the labour force as mentioned in the article so you can add that to the total.
That's why I beg UI designers to avoid that color combination. It's very difficult for me to read without getting eyestrain. Here's another example that you can try at full size with both eyes open:

https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/17000613533467980...

For me, the effect only seems to appear when I have both eyes open. I suppose that's not surprising:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromostereopsis#Binocular_nat...
I use Wren to take some personal responsibility, and I am looking for more ways to take action.
How can you tell? Do you have measurements? You are arguing against real, human-perceivable numbers here.

At 200ms interruptions happen more often and the flow of a conversation can't be maintained as well. But you might just chalk that up to "video chats are not very good anyway." Latency punishes the person you're talking to, who sees more interruptions, not necessarily
just yourself.

edit: I note you're in Australia. Perhaps your baseline latency is already fairly high. But that should make this issue even more important.
Eh, at this point with all of the myths and legends surrounding the JFK assassination, it would be novel if even something as banal as the friendly fire theory turned out to be true.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/accidental-assassin-jfk...
> Air conditioners [...] leak harmful planet-warming gases into the atmosphere.

Anyone has a reference about that? Last time I tried to research it, it seems like it was mostly fixed at least in Europe with the most harmful gases being banned for new sales.
Isn’t the joke on HN generally that no product lasts at Google unless it’s search?
You can get black cold coffee in larger containers in supermarkets but, yeah, in general the canned/bottled cold coffee you can buy is oversweetened and overmilked for my taste.
More or less modern humans existed for hundreds of thousands of years with very little change. The exponential growth of knowledge in the last several thousand years is just a blip on that timeline, and it mostly became possible due to certain breakthroughs like agriculture.

Sure, most animals have significantly less mental capacity than homo sapiens, but I'd argue that the human society is decoupled from the biological capabilities of a single individual to a large degree. It's a separate self-organizing system, and 99% of our perceived intelligence (a made up number) is purely social in nature.
Well those numbers do not look good across ethnicity and gender.
We were young and would never even consider illegal drugs - I remember before a LAN we'd send someone, extremely nervous they'd be "caught"(?), going into a pharmacy to buy a pack of caffeine pills!
Which is only your belief, you have no scientific proof whatsoever. It's just your faith and obedience to that faith. In my opinion, God was invented because people did not know what else to call it, and they had no proof, so they wrapped it in a religion.

No matter how much you might believe in God, never forget that man wrote the book.
If there are no software updates by manufacture, it should be apparent at time of sale, to accurately compare competing products.
Google Cloud Domain seems unaffected? Unsure it that is expected to change, never know with google these days.
Hint: The green stuff is food, for either humans or animals humans can eat.
Why have desktop UI’s gotten so bad lately?

My theory is that before we had UX experts, they had to hire, like, actual graphics designers.
Great-grandkids even
You have the question backwards - don't ask why diamonds don't have resale value... rather, ask why people think they are valuable in the first place?

I'd think at this point it is common knowledge that they are not rare, and it is all marketing and market manipulation that keeps people spending a lot on them.
Cache may not be that important (although I believe that nowadays clearing the cache also clears the local storage, so the same would apply) but there are sites that use long-lived cookies to deliver a personalized experience without needing to log in which you would irredeemably break by clearing the cookies.
You can remap cmd-L in settings globally or for each app, did you try that?
Why focus on CO2 per capita? Total emissions is the measure that affects the climate. The same emissions, spread among more people, would cause the same climate change.

And the US only accounts for about 15% of total emissions.
"Just do that simple thing, it will fix the problem" rarely works all that well for the complex system unless "this thing" is "stop doing something that makes it worse".

Like that one time China decided sparrows are a problem then discovered what they exactly eat aside from grain...