skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) I support prison abolition, yes.

2) What is or isn't de facto slavery is worth discussing but we should certainly move towards removing de jure slavery.

3) I don't know the intention of framers of the constitution in choosing the word slavery, but it is the word they chose. So unless you mean "reactionary" very very literally, using it to describe advocates for a progressive cause interpreting a word well within its historically normative meaning is at best slick rhetorical judo. At worst an indication of bad faith.
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Also Montaignes Essays also makes a large book with his musings on his life including his vast reading.
Regarding the speed: I read somewhere that hypersonics create a "wall" of plasma in front of them. The plasma neither transmits nor reflects radio, so the missile becomes invisible to radar, at least from the front. I have no idea whether that's true.
> My belief is that retribution is the immune system of civilization.

Have you engaged with any justice system that isn't based on retribution? Have you seen the results they achieve? Norway is the classic example. They give more lenient punishment for crimes, their prisons are vastly more comfortable, and actively try to educate their prison population. All things Americans (as a general point) would scoff at.

The result? Norway has a vastly lower recidivism rate. 20% vs 75+% in the US. Norway is a uniquely good example, but similar results play out across Northern Europe.
hey would love to hear more! I built a bunch of projects in real estate and happy to collaborate
I think doing a small amount of aerosol injection right now is an appropriate way to confirm that we understand how they work/what the effects will be. I hope that the work this company is doing is being adequately studied.
> That’s not something I’m able to do yet.

I'm not able to perform that prompt any tricks needed?
> have the on site engineer drop it down enough to crack the lid open

Took me four reads to find an alternative way to read it other than "we asked some guy that doesn't even work for us to throw it on the ground repeatedly until the cover cracks open", like that Zoolander scene.
I just wasted a lot of time debugging database triggers. I wish the ergonomics around some PostgreSQL features were better, but I do love the idea that it supports so much at the database level.
Designing for scalability and expectation of success are two different things to plan for.
Anything by Charles Bukowski, or the beatniks, whose names I can't recall at the moment.

Edit: ah, Jack Kerouac was at least one of them (although On the Road was already mentioned). Electric Kool Aid Acid Test is a wild ride, as well as pretty much anything by Hunter S. Thompson.
> Runs on your OpenWrt box

Where are you seeing that? The only reference to OpenWRT I see is in the "Projects that use AdGuard Home" section which links to a different project.

Otherwise that's a misleading title - this is a PiHole alternative.
Has anyone made “I am Postgrenough” merch yet?
Yes, and that’s been the line of thinking taught in schools and every discussion I’ve read on this topic for at least 20 years. Yet, there never seems to be any concrete proof that heating is being caused by excess energy being trapped inside the atmosphere because “emissions”. Again, it’s all very hand wavy.

I’m not saying that’s NOT the method of action, it totally could be, but I would think there would be more evidence nowadays compared to 20 years ago but there doesn’t seem to be. Everyone just parrots everyone else.

I’m just thinking of Occam’s razor. Perhaps the planet is getting hotter because were just producing a fuckload of heat. It doesn’t need to be anywhere near the energy the planet captures from the sun. But day after day, over decades, surely the minuscule amount of heat being generated by activity on the surface has SOME cumulative effect. Or maybe not, i dont know.
1. A minimal Smalltalk image with MIT license and without GUI/IDE that would

2. have a good packaging system to build APIs, Web Applications and easily deploy them in production

3. A superb TUI that can be the IDE of that Smalltalk

4. An alternative remote native IDE of that Smalltalk
Have you considered adding a 3-months-every-year option? I wonder if automating the second type of customer would provide you a lift in revenue.
Just tell them you're not interested and they stop calling. Small price to pay for something that's free.
There's a bunch of reasons. To throw one onto the pile: because carbon emissions are an externality that the Invisible Hand seems to be having a real hard time suppressing, it sure seems like - and this is how it's gone so far, and there's a kind of cultural consensus around this - that the only way out of this could be be pretty heavy-handed government intervention.

For, similarly, a bunch of reasons (see "The Californian Ideology" for a start) there's a strong inclination in tech circles towards anti-regulation, anti-government, neoliberalism and/or libertarianism. So those two things are colliding head-on: when their ideology encounters a problem it can't solve, people often care more about their ideology than solving the problem. It's easier to deny the problem exists than to restructure their views.
I believe all practicing attorneys carry malpractice insurance as well as E&O (errors and omissions) insurance. I think one of those would "cover" the attorney in your example, but obviously insurance doesn't prevent poor Google reviews, nor would it protect the attorney from anything done in bad-faith (ethical violations), or anything else that could land an attorney before the state bar association for a disciplinary hearing.
Yup, exactly for this. There is a lot of NSFW stuff on Bluesky…
I watch a fair bit of video and have no great desire for some heavy mask thing on my face. The laptop works fine for casual viewing.
Depends whether they have an email-centric or SAML-account-centric auth model.
The Privacy ICAO Address Program. You get a temporary ICAO addresses to broadcast which are not associated with the Civil Aircraft Registry and a third-party callsign. Only works in US airspace is my understanding though.

The Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed (LADD) program from the FAA only filters what gets shown in data feeds from the FAA. Something like ADS-B which gets the actual live data from the aircraft is unfiltered.

https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/privacy
Those in power are counting on the cost having to be paid by future generations. I assume they either don't have children/grand-children, don't like their children/grand-children, or are so narcissistic that it never occurs to them to think about their children/grand-children.
Yes - I flagged myself as an Optery founder on my first comment, but the comment was subsequently flagged and hidden from view (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39276106). It is also made clear here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=beyondd
I suspect we will end up resorting to large-scale geoengineering, certainly once people in wealthy countries start dying in high enough numbers, and I don't oppose it. But once we go down that road I am highly skeptical that humanity will ever wean ourselves off it.

As per the website: "Just one gram of our clouds offsets the warming effect of one ton of CO₂ for a year."

I would wager that politicians and business leaders who read such a statement would be relieved to hear that they no longer have to worry about a cure because the symptoms are treatable.
Speaking as someone who has been stubbornly offering paid-for-access Mastodon/Lemmy/Matrix (and now Funkwhale) accounts at communick.com for 5+ years, I learned already that very few individuals are willing to put their money where their mouth is. Everyone loves to complain about the exploits of the tech companies, but no one really cares about paying for a service unless it gives some sense of exclusivity.

What is going to make or break the alternative social media networks is the institutions. If/When newspapers (not journalists) start setting up their own instances, if companies put up support accounts on their own domain, if influencers start mirroring their social accounts on their own sites to try to their push their own brand... then I'll start believing that we have a chance.
1) And just like that, you’ve never been a victim of a violent assault. I don’t wish anything on anyone, but your worldview completely changes when it happens to you.

2) Isn’t being forced to literally be in a cage for years de jure slavery by itself?
I think the Mitsubishi Outlander looks like a pretty compelling PHEV. I wouldn’t really call it a competitor to the Prius though, since it’s got a significantly different body style.
Skepticism: Taking a look at the available evidence and following it to the result.

Denial: Taking a look at the available evidence and then arguing against the it ad nauseam because you don't like what you see.

If you've never heard anything about global warming before (no idea how that should have happened, but let's give you the benefit of the doubt here) you can be skeptical. Then you look at the available evidence and well, that's that. The conclusion is clear. From then on it's denial to run around "sorry, I haven't reached the conclusion yet, please convince me".
You don't think the fact that the prison's economically depend on slave labor to function has any side effects on how the justice system works for those slaves?
No snowflake is single-handedly responsible for the avalanche, plus rich people pollute the most anyway, especially those who live in the west.
Didn't eu/uk do exactly this by blocking an acquisition of an us company by another us company and the company listened?
It gives you an easy, high-level way to use high performance data-structures and algorithms. You don't need to explicitly write or rewrite code to maintain hash maps or b-trees or whatever and to use the right structures for fast lookups from one set of data to another. You just say "CREATE INDEX name ON table USING HASH(column)", and from then on, your hash map will maintain itself, and any lookups that would benefit from that hash map will automatically use it. No need to rewrite any of your code that needs to work with that column. In some cases, it will also automatically do things like make temporary hashmaps or bitmaps for just the life of a query to speed it up.

You mention further down a "mystery box of performance", but if you understand what data structures it's using and how it uses them, then it's generally pretty straightforward. Mostly you can reason about what indices are available and how trees work (and e.g. whether it can walk two trees side-by-side to join data) to know what query plan it should make, and you can ask it to tell you what plan it makes and which indices it used. Likewise, if you have a query plan you want it to run (loop over this table, then use this column to look up in this table, etc.), you'll know what indices are needed to support that plan.

If people struggle with using a database correctly, they're really going to struggle with using something like a b-tree in a way where you don't corrupt your data in the event of a power loss or crash, or in a way where multiple threads don't clobber each other's updates or create weird in-between states (or you just use a global lock, but then you lose performance).
How is this different from tmux popups though? I think I have the exact same workflow in tmux
Y'all let the public in before finishing your wait-list. I joined the list on 2023-03-02.

Y'all didn't email me that signups were going to be public.

Y'all didn't email me when signups actually went public. I found out about it here.

...And, let's see.. Yep, my handle is taken.
There is strong democratic support so long as someone else pays for it.

> The fact that some ill-informed right-wing radicals in France rioted doesn't mean there is no popular support for having a habitable planet in twenty years.

and alarmism does not help the cause.
That was tried in Ontario (cap and trade), but there was enough misinformation going around that the general populace thought it was just a standard tax on individuals.
It isn’t a political problem, it’s a messaging problem. The fact we allow a large group of folks to outright lie about the problem on public airwaves results in the “division”. I’m all for freedom of speech, but when public figures are knowingly telling lies, whoever is broadcasting it should be FORCED to follow it up with the facts of the situation.

In other words, at least in the US, the fairness doctrine needs to be re-instated. The number of things this country has killed off “because it worked so well we don’t need it any more” is mind numbing.
> it's just frustrating that there isn't a standardized pattern for this.

Be the change you want to see, I suppose. No doubt convergence will come, but it is still early days. Six months ago, most developers didn't even know what a vector database is, let alone consider it something to add to their stack.

It took SQL well into the 1990s to fully solidify itself as "the standard" for relational querying. Even PostgreSQL itself was started under the name POSTGRES and was designed to use QUEL, only moving over to SQL much later in life when it was clear that was the way things were going. These things can take time.
Smart people tend to always think they are correct even on things they know literally nothing about.

Climate change is one of those things. You will hear the "just asking questions" or "skeptical" but climate change is finished science though tech bros tend to think it is not because of the TV they watch.
This comment makes me incredibly sad.

It’s hard to put into words how destructive your line of reasoning is, and the confidence with which you express it frightens me that others might even share it with you.

I would argue that the private prison system is in fact designed to do exactly this, namely to put people in prison and keep them there for profit.

You could argue that my claim that their intent is nefarious is speculation and I’ll grant you that, because I am unfamiliar with any private prison owners or the people who came up with the idea, but by that token you’d have to grant your opinion about the intent behind private prisons is also purely speculative, and I would add more damaging than my speculation.

> The charges outlined in the information[23] described actions between 2000 and 2007 by both judges to assist in the construction and population of private juvenile facilities operated by the two Pennsylvania Child Care companies, acting in an official capacity in favor of the private facilities over the facility operated by Luzerne County.

Your attempt at logic somehow leads you to tell the victims over a 7 year period ~“look, you won, now stop bringing attention to this issue, the system is designed to do something else, who cares that it is capable of being exploited in this manner”.

If everyone had your perspective those prisons would still be doing this, but thankfully in that 7 year period of “the system working as designed” activists speculated that something nefarious was happening and brought attention to how it actually works.

> It shows the opposite.

This is incredibly naive. When has one entity getting caught ever been a legitimate excuse for everyone else similarly situated to be free from scrutiny?

What is “the opposite” in this context anyway? Do you believe private prisons exist to empty themselves and “give cash to kids”? How does a private prison sustain itself with a population of 0?
> Since we already have the users' legal documents available to us as a result of our core business, we are perfectly positioned to build supplementary AI chat features related to legal documents.

Uhh... What are the privacy implications here?!
I believe it is both. The CO2 helps to trap more of what the earth receives from the sun (primarily what is talked about with global warming), but our energy use is also staggering. I can't recall off the top of my head but we currently consume something equivalent to ~0.1% of the total solar radiation incident on the earth (through all means - oil, gas, solar etc). At that scale, the energy use alone is on the scale of other warming effects, wild!
I think what this article describes is normal & probably "smart" from Bytedance's perspective.

> Social media success is a delicate balance

No it isn't. It's three things:

1. Luck / Startup x-factor: what makes these novel formats flourish to begin with, but it's short-lived: it won't sustain a platform long-term.

2. Money: what Meta have done with Instagram - pushed through by cannibalising instead of innovating by sheer power of investment

3. Inertia: why Twitter has defied all doomsayers' reports of its demise.

TikTok's current trajectory looks more like trying to ape Meta's strategy & ultimately avoid what happened to Snapchat, by abandoning the innovation that got them to where they are & instead take advantage of the power, money & inertia they currently have to sustain themselves in other ways & broaden their audience (beyond the more fickle TikTok-early-adopter-influencers).

> its ad revenue growth is slowing down

Translation: its ad revenue is growing. This is an industry that was being reported as being generally in decline across the board only a year ago - some competitors like Meta have only recently started to show growth again after losses.
There is an official mobile app for iOS and Android, on iOS there are also a few third party ones, not sure about Android.
If Apple can put fake eyes on the outside of a VR headset, they can probably put a magically rotating apple logo on the lid.
Can someone who knows the history tell me as to how and why Cisco came to own this?
historically these kinds of things are submitted to the RFC editor but I suppose the team had a good reason for doing it this way.
Why baby steps vs radical technological innovation?

We waste our time with virtual signalling nonsense, that hurt the least affluent here, whilst China/India/Africa are going to be outputting vastly more CO2 to make any of our efforts net-irrelevant to climate change.

We need to fix it for the world. That'll require big-impact innovation.
Early Apple Vision Pro adopters alarmed to learn VR porn doesn't work
HN users are just like most people: smart in their area of expertise and wildly optimistic about how smart they are outside of it.
And yet every single proposed policy to fix climate change is deeply unpopular.

People support "fixing climate change", but when they are asked to deal with a rising gas tax, or traveling less, etc, suddenly climate change isn't worth fixing.
Huh, my 4 year old Lenovo Legion gaming laptop is currently selling for $500-700 on eBay (based on "Sold" items, not list price). I paid $1030 for it.
I really wonder why autorouters are so bad/slow still, I at least understand the high level concept of what it should be able to do, and I would think that with enough input parameters, this shouldn't be that hard of a problem to solve, especially with how easy it is to deploy tasks across lots of powerful machines for (relatively) cheap these days.
On the Debate Between Jezos and Leahy
We can learn from failures if we really want.

For example, see https://www.failory.com
Point taken. It's a difficult issue indeed.

A few more:

- If both US political parties agree on it, it's probably a bad idea.

- Any time we are told that a foreign leader is insane or unstable, it's propaganda intended to dehumanize and discredit democratic forces in that country (even if the country is not a strict democracy).

- Logically, asymmetric conflict is going to necessitate different tactics. Don't fall for the idea that smart bombs are civilized but stones thrown are barbaric.

- Don't assume the US or its allies are the good guy. Countries make mistakes and rarely course-correct.

- The humanitarian justifications for war/conflict/killing are rarely the real story. Often there is a national interest-driven motivation, but but making it about a hard-to-disagree-with moral cause the debate about what is actually the national interest is suppressed.

- If someone tells you that it is disrespectful to question your own country or political leaders' competence or motivations, subtract several points. Democracy is a consensus mechanism, not a guarantee of consensus. Dissent is part of the recipe.

Please add more!
Sounds like the trajectory of the Internet in general.
Nice project, I really like the idea. Is it possible to create multiple log streams at once?
I think the difference is that moderation is easier on the fediverse (as well as on Bluesky). If you want that vile content you kind of have to either be in that circle your self, or you have to explicitly look for it. On Bluesky there are popular mute and blocklists, hateful accounts get mass blocked, and engagements around hateful content is diminished (not proliferated like on Twitter). The Fediverse is even more so, where whole servers are mass blocked by because hateful content is allowed to fester.
I was initially partial to this explanation, but I no longer think that ‘in the absence of interference’ people would vote for the price increases needed.
I had the same experience with mine. To make matters worse the vertical resolution was lower than a typical 4k display, so it felt like more work for less information density.

I went to a lg ultra wide "5k2k" and it was so much better. The newer curved version is fantastic as well, it feels like my endgame work display.
Segmentation isn't fragmentation. "Segmentation" is when you have a machine with 16 bit machine words, which would usually mean you can only address up to 2^16 = 65536 bytes of memory, but you want to support up to 1 MiB of RAM so you add a segment register and read all memory reads as relative to (segment register << 4) so that you support up to 20 bit memory addresses. (The details differ of course, but this is how Intel did it.)

This results in a split between "near pointers" and "far pointers". "Near pointers" are pointers which are 16 bit and assumed to be relative to the "current segment", and can thus be dereferenced directly with any memory load instruction. "Far pointers" are 32 bit and carry a segment part and a relative part, and to dereference it, you must first write the segment part to the segment register, then do the memory load instruction with the relative part, and then you probably wanna clean up after yourself by restoring the segment register to its old state.

There were multiple segment registers too, one used for data ("heap") memory operations, one for stack memory operations, one for reading machine code, and some extra segments for convenience. You had to remember which of the segment registers your near pointer was supposed to be relative to.

If this all sounds very tedious... well, it was, and that's why, yes, segmentation is still viewed as terrible :)

(I wasn't around back when this was common, but I did write some 16-bit real mode code for a bootloader for an OS course once, and I have designed and implemented some toy 8 bit CPUs which used segmentation to have more than 256 bytes of RAM, so I do have some experience with it)
As expensive as “not staying in our homes for two weeks turned out to be”. Mind you, I was in the camp demanding just that at the beginning of the pandemic.

Which is to say that the technocratic powers that be should tone it down a little when it comes to imposing their top-down decisions, after all they’re just a minority compared to us, the common people, we (the common people) can always bring to power some of our leaders in order to fight (ideologically and not only) said technocrats.