skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This local news source actually embedded the complaint [0].

I don't have time to go into it in detail right now, but it looks like the other comment [1] is correct that the modified headline on HN is very wrong: the $2 billion dollar contract went to the ARL and not Penn State proper. The complaint says that the ARL is "physically, logically, and operationally separated from the Penn
State campus". The CIO of the ARL is alleging that Penn State proper lied on its documents, but the $2 billion contract is not involved in the allegations.

[0] https://www.wtaj.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-penn-state-bein...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37545601
They make sense if you assume one thing: gun owners are never going to rise up and throw out the bad guys in government. If that is never going to happen, all those guns are really only used to kill a bunch of innocent people, rather than the bad guys in government.

If you think gun owners are really somehow going to save us from fascists at the top, when is that gonna start, exactly? What would actually get them to start fighting? I frankly don’t see it ever happening.

I know our national myth of the American revolution is that freedom loving patriots are going to rise up and throw off the oppressors, but that is a pipe dream. The answers are in the ballot box, not the cartridge box.
They’re not crosswords. But they are logic puzzles. Regarding your skill cap comment, even children’s jigsaw puzzles that have 4 pieces are still considered puzzles lol.

Wikipedia says NP-complete under “Nonograms in computing”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram
When people say "more training" they're referring to De-escalation and crisis management training. Not a paramilitary training facility for teach cops tactical assault, and breach and raid techniques.
Making a real-time game in Google Sheets
I think that link is referring to going for a workout with just the monitor itself to record your heart rate - no other devices present. You can use/build your own mobile or desktop apps without needing their software if that's what you're wondering.

I made a custom iOS app for my wife and I to monitor our workouts using their SDK and I really happy with it
Argon is more dense and inert.
I think ChatGPT uses it a lot because it was trained on articles that use it, just because it's a common phrase, no?. It's actually something I started saying while recording screencasts, so it just became a phrase I use often.

I think you're right, it does sound "artificial", I should avoid using it.

In the comments of my original post someone also mentioned: "These days, I personally find articles with minor grammatical errors more interesting than AI assisted/enhanced/corrected content, because AI generated content often comes off bland and loses the rawness of author's intentions.".

I agree with your points, it's amusing though that we need to adjust the way we naturally speak and keep some errors, to not appear as AI.
But setting your thermostat to 67 degrees vs. 70 degrees is a noticeable difference, which is where F becomes a better measure.
Interesting, I suppose the problem of creating the puzzle gives the tangible outcome of knowing that you made something for others to enjoy - which relates to the sibling comment to this and my reply.
You are correct. The full complaint can be found embedded in this local news article, and it clarifies this:

https://www.wtaj.com/news/local-news/lawsuit-penn-state-bein...
$10mm each. $30mm backing and you could get a pretty solid tech base to build a game on. Especially since there are some great new libs out there for things like physics. The Horizon Zero Dawn lead programmer has an OSS MIT engine that is very advanced and less bloated than PhysX.
Directionality is a tendency to move in direction (presumably rather than meander).

Direction is ... a direction.

A person may "have a direction" but lack directionality, and thus fail to move in that direction. Somebody else may lack a direction, but should one become established, their directionality may ensure that they move along it.

But ... it's all gobbledygook speech and mostly meaningless. A person does not have momentum either, other than as a metaphor or in the uninteresting case of simply being physically in motion, which I doubt Stanford cares about.
In traveller communities it is quite common to just say them in a different language - then you have a beautiful language mix where people stilm mostly understand each other. It just gets akward, when you interact with ordinary people again ..
Understand the context first instead of believing the simplistic memes pushed by climate change denialists. For example, in India the reason is that there was a shortage of natural gas which became scarce and super expensive because of world events, so they had to build more coal power plants to not have blackouts. Solar is still growing fast, 82% of new capacity in 2022 was solar, and there's a lot more in the pipeline.

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/06/29/solar-82-of-power-capac...

37% of new car sales in China are either full electric or plugin hybrid. 25% are full electric BEVs. The west is far behind.
I mean Copilot, not the "the language model behind Copilot".

Like... something that you can use as an vim/vscode/IntelliJ plugin.
Teaching Rust in 5 Days
Although that's also part of the job. And something that's difficult to practice in a classroom.
Sure, 55 may be considered high for someone with a medical condition, but saying “it depends on the person” is a strange way to phrase that. For most people it’s not high.
Interesting!
I'm ignorant on the topic, but the other day I was thinking of something similar due to my obsession with tagging. So a simple thought is "we program with files and classes and need to figure out single name for things, but then we want to use things in many places, what if we had group of tags attached to things and features were made using group of tags to find the things needed to make the feature ".
No idea how it would end up, probably a mess. The main thing was realizing we are bound to a bunch of things that really could be drastically limiting us.
The Meta team introduced Server Components: https://legacy.reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-wit...
I could not stand oatmeal while being a child. Now it is my favorite breakfast dish, alongside eggs. Plain or milk based - no matter. I don't know how it happened, but it is a blessing approaching my 50.
The Leak trait could be interesting when it comes to C code that calls rust code that calls C code that might longjmp() over the rust code in the middle.

Right now longjmp()ing over rust code is not a great idea for a couple reasons, but because leaks are currently always allowed in rust, it arguably follows the rules at least in some cases (doing so could cause problems, of course).

If the Leak trait were introduced, then skipping destructors would be clearly the wrong thing to do if there are types on the stack that don't implement Leak. That would clearly require some way to either prevent longjmp() from ever jumping over rust code (e.g. always catch it in C code and turn it into a special return code), or find some way to catch the longjmp and turn it into an unwind in rust (e.g. a panic?) and then turn it back into a longjmp to go back into C.
>> “If Russia invades — that means tanks or troops crossing the border of Ukraine — then there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.”

But of course this is a totally different thing, amirite?
The damage is only criminal when the wrong side causes it.

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/30/774788611/police-owe-nothing-...
This throws out the possibility of high quality content.
Spatial planning of urban communities via deep reinforcement learning
Ctrl+f "woke" no results in the given URL, for anyone else wondering what the point of those non sequitur is.
Sorry if dumb question but how would that compare to using the iron for energy storage in an Edison battery?
I agree that violent action and criminal damage are unacceptable.

Some of the people perpetrating these actions say that they do so because our collective treatment of the environment is arguably all three: violent, criminally damaging, and as problematic as literal arson.

Society is easily able to identify these harms when perpetrated against man-made structures. Much of society is desensitized or uninterested in acknowledging the same level of harm against the environment itself that is continuous and ongoing.

I think these forms of protest are deeply misguided and counterproductive, and I do not condone them. They also highlight the difference in attitudes towards various forms of ongoing harm.
send tim an email.

how many people actually use their space? really use it. not just use a quarter of it and keep the rest in reserve.

my phone has 256gb right now. 150gb are free. (cloud storage doing its part.) that’s two large games and 40gb+ to spare. so as much as a larger capacity would allow for more, this is still… fine.
The Birth of Windows Gaming
How are views not first class query objects?
I vehemently disagree with this premise.

The corruption in western nations is more sophisticated, and is better at hiding in plain sight. The type in the east is more furtive, probably out of an effort to "save face".

They differ in style, but not degree.

Over here we call it special euphemisms like "lobbying" and "regulatory capture" instead of "bribery" and "kickbacks". It makes people regard it differently, giving it an air of respectability.

Given the size of the corruption industry in the US, this was inevitable, as it would need a surface level of legitimacy to be able to attract and employ the sheer numbers of people who operate the machinery of the flows of bribery money from industry to servile lawmakers.

Why do you think there are so few major retailers in the US? Media companies? ISPs? Insurance companies? Hospitals? Health care networks? Pharmacies? Pharmaceutical companies? Grocery stores? Food manufacturers? Banks?

It's not lack of supply or lack of demand. Many people wish to manufacture cheap insulin or build better ISPs or more cheap surgery clinics or better grocery stores.

Soon it will be the same with social networks. They already achieved it with app stores, which is the only meaningful publishing today, apps having killed the web.

Anything that has broad social appeal or need which subsequently results in large recurring cash flows will get regulated upon so that the cash doesn't flow to anyone the existing power structure doesn't want to enrich. (I have a separate theory that the current anti-Musk backlash is engineered because of an accidental failure of the system implementing this longstanding policy, due to the double whammy of unexpected breakout success of both Tesla stock and SpaceX operational scaling simultaneously. He sure is lucky he has a US passport whilst trying to do what he's doing.)

People like to ascribe this to "late stage capitalism" but for every dysfunctional industry lacking real competition or consumer choice, I can point to a bad set of laws or regulations paid for by that industry. It's a failure of the state to do its job to protect end users and opportunity and liberty.

When copyright was about to expire, Disney went to the legislature with checkbook in hand. Laws are for sale in the USA.

Why does the illusion of consumer choice become more and more farcical every year?

The US regulatory machine is totally corrupt in almost everything it touches. We just reclassified it so it seems less shady than it is, but the story of Comcast and the FCC stands clear as just one of many illustrations.

(Or Bell in Canada, or DTAG in Germany. It works the same everywhere.)
It's a great post. Thank you for writing it!
For that to happen, someone inside Google has to care.
at some point this distinction will lose its meaning
Structured Field Values for HTTP
This is the quote from Stoltenberg's speech. It is not misleading. Stoltenberg says it clearly:

"So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders"

"The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn't sign that.

The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.

So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders. He has got the exact opposite"
Idiot cops opening fire on mass and hitting another cop in the crossfire as has happened many times before.
Oh well. There are alternatives out there. This is what we get for basing your game on someone else’s business.
I work in machine learning, and I also have interests in programming languages, operating systems, and databases.
Unlikely things happen all the time :)
I dont see how that materially affects my post, which is correct aside from the unimportant branding.
> The amount of sugar in basically all breakfast foods is just insane, then people actually pour even more sugar on top. I don't understand how people can eat this type of food to begin with, but especially first thing in the morning.

Did you try adding more sugar ? That usually does the trick if the food is too bland. Rule of thumb when I was a kid was that the spoon should stand upward on its own once you have finished. /s
Editions still have to interoperate with each other, they're not a free license to change anything and everything. In fact the post goes into detail on how they might or might not work for these specific changes!
No. I'm sorry, but your understanding of this topic is fundamentally wrong, and it's so far off the rails that I don't know how to go about fixing it over the Internet.

Sovereign immunity, and the qualified immunity for agents of the sovereign which arises as a corollary, is a fundamental principle of Anglo-American law. It has nothing to do with whatever patchwork of the U.S. code you seem to be implying.
Still talking about default config here
10 watts idle, really? That seems extremely high. Do you have C-states disabled?
But ARM tailors their contracts exactly to avoid competition with their own products, I think they've stated that in this lawsuit.

Either way, it's bad when the ISA owner is limiting what you can develop to suit its own profits. This is the problem RISC-V solves.
I think this aspect of it is common, but overall the "negative" effects are very minor and shouldn't stop anyone from trying to learn a language.
As long as they “get it” that makes a lot of sense. At the end of the day it’s also just about bringing up good people who can contribute to this world. Not master of the universe types.

I also find this fascinating because of my own confusing dual-national upbringing. Every society has slightly different elites with unique ideals driving how kids are selected in admissions processes. What’s silly in one echelon, can be important in another. In my European country people would laugh at this idea that somehow having a simple job helps with anything.
This is a common consumer product, "gas fill" multi-pane windows. Argon is used in this application because it's not very thermally conductive (it's also used to fill dry suits for the same reason). I found a pretty good "sciencey layman" explanation of "why Argon" for dry suits here, which matches the reasoning for windows: https://www.decompression.org/maiken/Why_Argon.htm .

I'm not sure how much this carries through to sound transmission and I couldn't find a lot of good literature about it. I'd have loved to see if they did any quantitive testing. It makes sense that Argon would reduce sound transmission some, but I would expect that the properties of the glass sheet itself and the interface between the panes and the frame would be more of an issue than the void between the panes.
I’m 53 and when I was in high school I was highly aware of global warming and wondering why the @#%! Greens were so opposed to nuclear power (apart from the obvious, that they were useful idiots manipulated by the Soviet Union).
I do. Stop talking about how disappointed you are in particular commenters on the thread, and confine your expression to disappointment in particular comments. If you don't even have to be as performatively "polite" as you've tried to be; you can just come out and directly say what you don't like about the arguments you're responding to.
As someone with Dyslexia, who struggles a lot with written communication, and frequently finds myself fighting with spellcheckers, trying to get them to provide the correct correction. I’m very excited for these types of autocomplete systems. They’re like spellcheckers, except they also use context to produce better results, and frequently remove the need to play “guess the right misspelling” to get a normal spellcheck to provide good suggestions.

I’ll accept the risk of blandness, if it means that written communication finally becomes “easy” for me to participate in.
But wouldn't density make things worse? Helium can be used for noise attenuation like this because it's light, so you get worse acoustic impedance matching between the panels and the gas. Argon is denser than air.
Referring to thelastparadise saying "It really is a different world for the well-connected."

It is, but plenty of us at these programs went to average High Schools but had great grades, extracurriculars, and an actual goal we wanted to achieve.
I don’t understand their setup:

- Standard stage/audienxe inclination is 4%, so you’d think they’d set it up at 4% or above… Nope, they incline the windows towards the ground! To wit, they had to transform the ceiling into glass panels, which shows they did have the problem of audience seeing from atop, which adds weight which they later say was one of their major problem. Talk about solving a problem by adding another problem.

- Their entire setup has big white beams everywhere, there’s no angle where the audience can see clearly. Why not having seams?

- My house has larger glass panels than that, and they are soundproof for the highway.

Surely it was possible to ship bigger glass panels, simpler design, oriented towards the top so that the roof can be plain.
both suggestions here are for books that cover java 8. how is it possible that java 8 is modern relative to java 21?
As a rough distinction, I'd not call it a battery unless you can recharge it in-place, and the fact the a very hot reaction creates the energy further sways that opinion.

There are companies making gasoline from atmospheric CO2 too. Does that make gas a battery?
Googler here. You are correct. Internally google groups are the easiest way to create adhoc project groups and support / announce lists. We have everything from music related lists, to stuff like vim/emacs user groups
Usually this is followed by some cool stories.....
> climate activists get a very bad rap because of their tactics.

If the tactics is effevtive, we call them disruptive terrorists. If the tactic is ineffective, like organising the 30th climate change conference. we ignore them or laugh at them.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
> if one were to choose to learn/renew a language that encourages better thinking, which ones are best?

Honestly it probably doesn't matter all that much. European languages are all pretty connected, in the scheme of things, and have much more in common with each other than you'd expect at first or second glance.

That said, Spanish seems a safe bet, as per tfa. Coupled with the fact that so many people speak it, you could certainly do worse.

I'm currently learning it, with the help of some lion's mane, and it does feel like a worthy pursuit.

If I had to guess at a real answer to your interesting question though, I'd have to guess Russian. They've had a ridiculous amount of high-quality thought and literature, relative to their resources and population size.
I hate to be that guy, but this is super common for stripe
NOAA reports climate stats, with monthly updates. Entry point at page for North+South temperature excursions: https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/CDB/Extratropics/fige...
I always thought of technologies like these as potential solutions to the grid-storage problem: excess solar and wind energy can be put into electrolysis, and then the metals can be burned to provide base load power — while keeping lithium for portable use-cases
Argon gas does not conduct heat as well as air, so it's an excellent insulator. <--- why it's used for double glazing in housing, to insulate heat transfer.

Which is interesting because the density of argon is greater than air, it does not block or insulate against sound other than the general deadening effect you'd get from multiple layers (energy loss in kinetic transfer from gas to glass to gas to glass to gas again).

Vacuum, He or H would've been better imo
There's a nuance here. When Germany and Canada trade, they settle that balance in USD. This means if another country just prints a bunch of money, they're actually going to suffer for it. By contrast, when the US prints a bunch of money, it means countries whose currencies strengthen against it stand to risk pricing themselves out of the biggest consumer market in the world. It tends to drive other countries to also weaken their currency. This is one of the ways that the US exports its inflation - "exporting inflation" being a term you could find a lot more hits on if this topic interests you.

If you look at countries by debt to GDP, the US is peers with economies like Laos, Sudan, Italy, Venezuela, and so on. [1] The unique position of the dollar alongside being the largest consumer economy gives the government immense room to absorb economic blunders. At least until the house of cards collapses, which will make 1929 look like the good ole days. This is one of the many reasons people are interested in currencies that cannot be manipulated outside of normal market forces.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...
which works specially?

profit vs non profit also makes a difference
It sounds like the typical thing of these companies having no customer support unless you are a big fish.
It's inert, it's abundant and it's the gas of choice in windows so it's probably simply the cheapest choice.
Poll: Rewriting popular programs in Rust is a good practice
Just wanted to see what the community generally thinks about Rust.
Somewhat agree
Somewhat disagree
Strongly disagree
No. Qualified immunity is about immunity from lawsuits for damages; it has nothing to do with criminal prosecution.
Not necessarily. The main BTC software has already changed a few times over the years, and nothing prevents it from changing again. If the BTC maintainers and major miners would agree, they could very well push this change. The same way they decided to stop expanding the block size, for example.

The forks were the result of a split in the community. Not every change actually results in a fork.
That's true of UAPs, but it's also true in the exact same way of Stargates; we'll never dig one up if we don't look for them systematically.

I know that's neither here nor there; it's a critique of a particular argument, but obviously doesn't settle the underlying question.
Buried on page 4 now.

93. Whistleblower CISO says PennState lied about IT security to win $2B from US gov (centredaily.com) 54 points by jollofricepeas 2 hours ago | flag | hide | 38 comments
Russia isn't about to take anything over.
Have people forgotten that sugar is literally a nutrient?
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