skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It is surely a great critique of the western system that China giving us stuff for free made us poorer.

I mean... is it? I can think of a few times that something previously expensive is suddenly made very cheap, and there's always a class of people that really don't do that well.

The closest situation I can think of is when the west was dumping food in africa [0][1]. Which made it harder for local farmers to make a living and made the food problems worse.

Unless you're talking about switching to an autocratic system where the elites can turn down cheap things in exchange for the long term benefits of local production. And, in theory, China might be able to, in theory, do that. I don't know their elite culture well enough to say otherwise. But modern Western elites definitely seem too short sighted to give that sort of power, so the critique seems like it falls flat.

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/world/americas/14iht-food...

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2006/10/13/6256274/u-s-european-subsidie...
Not ready, so not a good reason to use it yet.
If you're going to restrict "conservatives" to the intellectuals, then yes, I'll concede that intellectual conservatives as a rule understand liberals better than the average liberal does conservatives.

However, if you control for intellectualism, either by restricting both pools to intellectuals or expanding both pools to include everyone who identifies as left/right of center, that difference disappears. Neither wing understands the other very well at all, both sides as a rule choose to engage with strawmen versions of their opposition, and each side claims that its strawman is a more truthful model than the other's.
Tvix developer here; correctness is still not guaranteed, there's nothing to use here except if you already understand well Nix concepts to pick parts and build stuff on the top of it and accept the inherent instability :).
> One important thing to know is that the venues/artists often get a kickback of part of the Ticketmaster fees

Ya, sure, but you also have to remember that Live Nation often owns the venues, and manages the artists.

So what you're kind of saying is "venues(Live Nation)/artists(also Live Nation) get a kickback of part of the Ticketmaster (also Live Nation) fees".
> the signal is the fundamental shape (such as a font glyph or a triangle mesh or whatever)

No. The signal components being aliased are frequencies e.g. repeating patterns.

"aliasing is the overlapping of frequency components resulting from a sample rate below the Nyquist rate."

That is why the example is a brick wall and the result is moire banding. Nothing like your shapes and jaggies.

What you've mistaken for aliasing is simply pixellation.
Sometimes the only resolution for a conflict is murder. Even in non stand your ground states.

I do not think you understand conflict resolution and should probably study it a bit before speaking so authoritatively. The basic gist of it is to identify the root cause of contention and identify the best practical solution. Most people bad at managing conflict fail to correctly identify the cause and empathize with the opposing view. Keep in mind - you do not need to agree with a perspective to understand it and failure to understand the other party is a responsibility shared jointly regardless of righteousness.
What does "embarrassment" mean in the context of a state?

Sure, individuals can fear for their careers and reputations (but most
of them are old or near retirement, and probably don't stand to lose
homes, marriages or savings - unless Bates succeeds in private
prosecutions). Fujitsu is a big enough international company to
weather this. Some skulduggery is almost expected as part of an
archaeological drama.

Something weightier and more subtle is at stake.

When the young boy called out that the Emperor had no clothes, it was
not the Emperor himself who was "embarrassed", since head been standing
there naked all along. It was the peoples' belief in his clothes.

Two sacred things are on trial here;

1) The law itself. In particular the clinically insane conceit that
"by default computer programs are assumed to be correct in British
law". This goes against everything in computer science and software
engineering and is mercilessly mocked by all experts. The onus needs
reversing (especially with more use of "AI") [0,1,2] to make the
default assumption be error unless it's possible to bring formal
proofs (designs, logs) to court.

2) Public faith in technology. Other big cases are on the horizon
(sorry) - such as UK pensions and immigration databases. When these
blow up I see a cascade of #metoo cases, because people are getting
their lives screwed by technology, and suffering awful injustices in
many ways now.

Both of these things are not "embarrassment of the state" as such. They
are colossal challenges to extant power structures and markets.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00168-8

[1] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=24

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40052611
Funnily, the walled garden often gives people the impression that it is not walled but in fact infinite. I‘m always shocked at how many people don‘t realize how little information is accessible on the internet anymore. Yes, as soon as you need something that isn‘t faddish/of the immediate current moment (especially if you‘re not trying to buy something), the internet fails. There is so much useful info that is extremely difficult to find online these days.
If you don't have access to COPY if the postgres instance is managed, I've had a lot of luck with encoding a batch of rows as a JSON string, sending the string as a single query parameter, and using `json_to_recordset` to turn the JSON back into a list of rows in the db.

I haven't compared how this performs compared to using a low-level sql library but it outperforms everything else I've tried in sqlalchemy.
It makes me pretty mad and sad that people think static languages solve this problem pretty much at all. If you do, I have a version of liblzma for you to install. If you do, do you release versions of your libraries without version numbers because the compiler will catch any mistakes?
In all honestly it really didn't. You're probably just significantly more liberal then you thought you were.
If the similar practices are many, perhaps you could share with us a selection of them? Celebrity endorsements isn't really exclusive to cults.

You imply harm is being done. Who is harmed, and how?
If Orange Man wins your children won't see the US with the number of friends and influence it used to have.

And this isn't a patronizing statement - it's literal. The US has allies and friendly nations who are aligned with the US because they want to, not because they are forced to, or compelled by treaties.

In my country, an old dictator used to say: Orgulhosamente sós.
Yes, imagine if we had said the same about Nginx. Now let's imagine now that we're saying those things in 2024, during the first major land war in Europe since WWII, in a context where state actors, if they are not already Jianing Tan, have enormous motivation to do so.

Now, let's put the risk at the root of the build system, and leave the lead devs in a country known to coerce, threaten, torture, poison and kill its dissidents.

That's a no from me, dawg. Look outside, it's not 2015 anymore.
There could be random groupings of a few hundred dust specks all the way up to 150km, doesn’t have to be a literal cloud.
Tvix developer here; we do have Windows in mind. Rust makes a bunch of things easier regarding this, but _not everything_. It's not a priority.

The location of the store is not really the main blocker in those sorts of situations, IMHO.
Why did Air America have so many issues?
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I'm libertarian with blue tribe sympathies. Whenever I try listening to NPR, I literally fall asleep. It's just something about the combination of cadence, intonation, and premium mediocre presentation of ideas that just paralyzes me. I'm powerless to stop it. Meanwhile I can listen to reactionary [0] talk radio just fine, and sometimes do just for cringe entertainment value. The bellowing of indignant righteousness is stimulating regardless of whether one agrees with the ideas. I don't know that this explains the overall popularity per se, but take it as one data point.

[0] it's a grave mistake to refer to the current Republican party as conservatives. If anything, actual conservatism these days means supporting the Democratic party - respect for American institutions, the rule of law, strong foreign policy, gradual change, etc. The Democrats are even checking the box of fiscal conservatism compared with the past two decades of ZIRP.
While I agree with you that the Internet is not in such a dark place as some people think, I will play devil's advocate and make a couple points in regard to what you said:

- If the industry gets its way, adblockers will become illegal or practically unusable.

- I get the impression you don't shy away from pirating. For those that don't engage in it, for one reason or another, it's a lot harder to e.g., watch any movie they want. What service is it? How much? Is it available in your country? Is something you saw was on there last week still there? Etc. This also generally applies to most other forms of media (games, music, etc)

- Screensharing for movie nights and such is slowly becoming more difficult, as more services implement DRM which disables capturing video (or even screenshots?!) from a stream

Again, I don't agree that the Internet is dying, or it's become a "monoculture," or anything like that - but we do have to be wary of the direction some groups would love to take it.
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> no different than extracting your ssh private key.

Which is a thing I regularly do, e.g. every time I switch computers...?
“Civil War, the new Alex Garland movie” is not actually about the US Civil War. FYI.

And how exactly do you think everyone would have been ok with the US splitting into multiple countries?
Why is the US the only one being argued to have abandoned its ally despite being the single biggest provider of aid?

Why do most of the European allies literally next door to Ukraine need to have their hand twisted or given additional American guarantees to provide aid to a mutual ally despite already having the nuclear umbrella and NATO's mutual defense guarantees? Are they not siding with autocratic war criminals? Don't they also believe in the "rules based world order"?

As it stands the US already has its energy focused on helping their other ally slaughter children, and Trump seems just as keen to keep that going. It's clearly a more important task to the ruling class.
These were what I was thinking of. I believe they asked liberals to answer a political question about their own beliefs, and then again to answer for a 'stereotypical' liberal and conservative. The liberals were not accurate for anyone. The conservatives were able to better match the 'average' for those groups. In other words, the study claims that this means they are better able to put themselves in the shoes of the 'other' side
> At the end of the day, look... my mother taught in inner-city public schools. I know the problems these kids have.

> I feel these policies end up failing because the policy makers are from whole families (And are likely extremely socially conservative in their own life) and can't imagine anything so debased.

I feel like you don't know any better than these policy makers you are dismissing.
Glad to see that the windows executables are working again (downloadable and not flagged as malware).

I had tried a little while ago to test things out on my windows machine after seeing the NimForUE project (https://github.com/jmgomez/NimForUE) and was sad to see that my computer would auto-mark any nim binaries as malware and delete them. I wasn't too invested so I just shrugged rather than looking for too many workarounds.
Firefox and uBlock Origin on Android are amazing.

Sometimes I'll randomly open something with Chrome by mistake and just seeing 70% of the article filled with pop-up ads makes my brain just shuts down thinking about regular people.
> Almost every piece of reporting is now some kind of soft-outrage human-interest pseudo news.

God yes I hate it! I can listen for 20 minute and not walk away with a single fact or learn anything new.
Tvix developer here; Tvix is quite different from Nix and is a clean restart, in my humble opinion, it would be quite hard to integrate some features of Tvix in the current Nix because you have two targets: (a) getting the feature in the existing architecture of Nix (b) evaluating a good architecture for the feature itself in the ideal architecture.
SVP is NP-hard for approximation factors much smaller than this algorithm reaches. This algorithm solves approximation factors of at best O(n^4.5), but NP-hardness is only shown for approximation factors well below n^(1/2). See Figure 1 in page 2 of [1] for a breakdown of the hardness of various approximation factors.

[1] https://cims.nyu.edu/~regev/papers/cvpconp.pdf
>The questions that remain are, how many people's lives could we improve and by how much? And, critically, how much are we willing to collectively sacrifice to move that percentage of people in a positive direction?

What exactly would we be "collectively sacrificing"?

Something like, 1% higher taxes?

Same taxes, but the use of some of the public money currently massively wasted in all kinds of endless sinks?
These and other “Looney” candidates have been a fixtures of UK politics for decades. I am just wondering how many other counties have something similar - generally harmless but positive about democracy
For example, being held up at gunpoint.
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I was a long time listener and donor to KUOW. My intention was to support local radio, hopefully get some more community pieces, and so on ... and that matched the donation drive pitches.

When they decided to use their cash to empire build and buy a Jazz station for $8M, I completely gave up and could no longer even stomach listening. I like Jazz, but it hardly needs the help. It seemed like an utter betrayal.
Well in my experience as someone who's been very conservative for my entire life, most Trump conservatives are ex-democrats who lean left, but find themselves alienated by a corporate / country-club democratic party, and so have joined the Republicans for some reason... I mean... kind of like Trump himself.
Internet archive?
> because it's "like" all the other games that I play even though it clearly is not

That part is at least true - there are no other games like Outer Wilds.
There are common statistical techniques to better get at causality in this situation. E.g. given how relatively unlikely and random "seeing someone getting shot while still a child" is, it should be fairly easy to match this up with other variables to tease out causality, e.g. just looking at someone in the same socioeconomic situation, same parental situation (i.e. married/single), and then comparing gunshot witnesses vs. others.
For basmati rice, the pasta method works the best:

- Soak the rice for 10-40 minutes (more tends to be better; skip for parboiled sella rice)

- In a pot, cover the rice in plenty of water (no need to measure with knuckles) and bring to a boil.

- After about 4 minutes (depends on brand; sella takes longer; should be al dente but not crispy when you bite into it), drain and put back in pot.

- Let rest on very low heat for five-ten minutes with a towel on top to absorb steam.

This gives perfectly fluffy basmati every time.
Looks like the dev team mosly speaks Russian? (Russian is native for me, but I've lived most of my life stateside.)

In Russian, "tvix" is pronounced, roughly, "tweaks" (but with a German - hard "v" - W sound), which to a Russian probably sounds super clever, given what Tvix is (Nix, tweaked).

In English though, how is it pronounced? I'd like to propose "t-f-icks", because it at least sounds like a candy we think the Lebowski nihilists might well have been ordering at a diner.
I'm not at all convinced that 'intellectual' liberals understand 'intellectual' conservatives, speaking as someone educated in the American higher education system.
>In the adult world, you'd just call the police.

Good luck with that.
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Reality is a mess in a lot of ways.
Unfortunately in this case, it's a bit late.

Wouldn't it be nice if Elgoog, OpenAI, or Character.ai published this dataset, considering they definitely have it, and also they caused this issue.

I'm not holding my breath.
(Tvix developer here) 2 years after, Flakes are still what they are, IMHO, a pile of layering violations.

I do not see a path forward for them in Tvix before we get to fix them layer by layer, which Nix is trying to do (slowly?).

At some point, once we stabilize a bunch of things, I have some plans to do what I call the right design of Flakes, but it does not involve modifying completely the core of the interpreter to leak this implementation detail everywhere, but more make this a library concept.
> In the adult world, you'd just call the police.

We deal with a lot more conflict than you're accounting for.

Someone can be shouting at a waiter at a restaurant and people around will try to deascalate and help or consolate the waiter.

Af short fight breaks ? People close enough to the participants will act, and bystanders might stay as witnesses to not make it a "he said she said" situation etc.

In general people aren't playing heroes but will do a ton of small and cumulative effort to make tensed situations not expand further into chaos.
How would you attempt “conflict resolution” with primary school bullies?

Sometimes the only resolution to violence is (threat of) superior violence. If you’re a child and a group of kids attacks you, that’s “adults resolving the situation”. Anything else is a failure of the schooling system.
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RadioLab did the same thing. Was science for the first ~10 yrs, then turned politics from a fairly left POV. I finally stopped listening after they passed the torch.

This American Life is also pretty far left. It's still on my podcast list but I only listen when I run out of others. And then, 2 out of 3 times the story a race/identity piece and fast forward to the next part.
Not sure if they have a thorough snapshot, but good idea for sure. IA is probably the only entity on earth who might share this dataset instead of hoarding it.
I feel like archive.org and The Pile have this covered, no?
You should scroll through more articles by the author of the linked post. His focus is on the media and ethics. He very regularly goes after NPR and member stations and airs dirty laundry. It isn't a reflexive thing. It's central to their culture and something they actively protect and fund.
This is once again so wrong it's incredible. History of Spain not including 1492, the year Columbus set sail? Really? The beginning of European colonialism of the Americas is ignored by "most of the histories" of Europe and Spain?

By the way, historians refer to 1400s as the 15th century, not the 14th century. FYI. That's how century counting works.

And there was no Al Andalus at that point, either; the last trace of Muslim rule, the Emirate of Granada, had lost nearly all of its territory before surrendering their final fragment in January of 1492.
Agreed. I was surprised to see a link in that article to a long, ranty Reddit post when they refer to what “the rumors on Reddit say.”
Anyone remember how awesome This American Life was? They used to be about just that — an American [in their life] with an amazing story to tell. So simple and elegant. Then they went massively down hill around the time Trump was elected. They seemed to be “on the campaign trail” more often than not, or about some kind of grievance or “injustice”. I stopped listening.
I only hide the main tab bar and sidebar header, both tweaks are copied verbatim from [0] (which is linked from the sidebery github readme) and the size of the window buttons block is corrected manually in a var.

Yes, tweaks going out of date was also my concern, but they're already a few years old and nothing broke so far. I reckon I could just adapt them if anything breaks, they're easy.

[0] https://mrotherguy.github.io/firefox-csshacks/
There's literally one verified fact to the whole story, Trump's idiot son took a meeting he shouldn't have taken and then nothing serious came from it.

The entire liberal media was in a tizzy for a year about "collusion" and pee tapes, pulitzer prizes got handed out over it, and then everybody just got really quiet and stopped talking about it.
We can debate policy and what-not until we're both blue in the face.

What facts there are clearly demonstrate the Trump Administration started the development and roll-out for mass vaccination. All of the shutdowns and other well-meaning-but-misguided "flatten the curve" plans became politically virtuous. In hindsight, almost all of these efforts were for not, and many caused more harm than good.

Within all that noise - China most likely did have a lab leak from a lab that the US Government already knew was severely lacking safety precautions. Trump saying that out loud caused a knee-jerk reaction from his opponents and suddenly China was made to look like a victim of racism, etc.

NPR and similar ran with that narrative and buried the most probable cause because it made Trump look like an incompetent racist moron - which is good for their agenda.

Today, here we are, debating NPR propaganda like it was reality. So, I'd say it worked quite well...
Who said I agreed with whatever I'm hearing from NPR? Not me. See the phrase "sometimes annoyingly so", the general lack of any particular praise.

NPR is... fine, more or less, both helped and hobbled by its efforts at journalistic triangulation while basically doing its job of touching on some points of currency and providing mental snack material. I roll my eyes and keep listening at some things, I make a note to check out others, I switch stations in boredom or anger in other cases.

My mention of it here or my tuning into it isn't an endorsement any more than my time listening to Christian radio networks in similar dial segments, or college radio, or freakin' Pacifica.

The point of my observation isn't an absolute assessment of its value. It's a relative one compared to "the old days" -- that it hasn't changed much at all. Arguably it should have changed more given extraordinary times and figures.

People are giving their vague experiences here, I'm sharing mine.

And this Berliner guy is apparently airing the reasons why he really needs an editorial board or shouldn't be with an organization that actually has the journalistic integrity he's posturing about. Why do I say this? His summary of the Mueller report alone in his op-ed is justification for the idea that the world would be better off in every last way with nothing of value lost if he'd never been involved with the field.
It is for cost and power density.
I think containers are completely optional and it can install and run everything directly.
Re: StarCraft 2, if you're a big fan of the game consider supporting GSL. I don't think they're doing that well financially and there were claims that this might be the last year the event would be running.

I think aside from GSL, the only major SC2 tournament still standing is ESL which got bought by the Saudis.

Personally, I watch ASL, the major Brood War tournament. But even though that has more Korean viewership than SC2, it's still declining in public interest and increasingly becoming unsustainable.