skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they could have an arsenal that’s functional as a deterrent in months, if not weeks

Japan is what's called a threshold/latent nuclear power. These are countries with the ability to build nuclear weapons immediately, but haven't turned the switch yet.

Taiwan, Iran, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, and South Korea are other threshold powers, and Saudi and the UAE are pressing for plutonium enrichment capabilities in the next few years as well.

Generally speaking, a country with a space program and a civilian fuel enrichment program can be safely assumed to be a latent nuclear power.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_latency
> Is this discomfort with the state of the world?

There are two separate critiques going on:

1. There is a lot of bias in the news coverage.

2. There is a lot more to a radio station than covering the state of the world (news, social issues, etc). There's stuff like entertainment, humor, etc.

A lot of people are arguing about 2 above.

There's always malnutrition somewhere in the world (and yes, in the US). But we don't criticize the existence of movie theaters.
I got my first copy about that time. I'd just recently gotten a KayPro 4 (a CP/M-80 computer), and had been playing with Basic and couple of other languages that came with it; and then I saw an ad for Turbo Pascal in Profiles, the KayPro magazine. I'd used UCSD Pascal a lot at that time, and the screen shot looked—well, not the same, but reminiscent. The cost was $49.95 (IIRC) for a real Pascal compiler, at a time when compilers were usually hundreds of dollars. I ordered a copy immediately (that is, in the next five minutes), and when it showed up in my mail box it felt like Christmas.
I think the 'debate' only makes sense in a sufficiently low-level language, at which point you're already taking safety into your own hands.

In a higher-level language, it's as silly as asking if you should avoid explicit malloc/free when writing SQL.

How would the Rust compiler deal with goto? You could dodge ownership and start operating on data before/after it's created/deleted.

A try-with-resources/using in Java/C# would no longer offer its guarantees.

How about async blocks in general? Do you just wander into another thread's code (but keep your own stack frame?)

Lambdas? Closures?

People probably

> regurgitate the age old argument against the use of goto

because there's no new arguments for it.
I am running my personal web crawler since September of 2022. I gather internet domains and assign them meta information. There are various sources of my data. I assign "personal" tag to any personal website. I assign "self-host" tag to any self-host program I find.

I have less than 3k of personal websites.

Data are in the repository.

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

I still rely on google for many things, or kagi. It is interesting to me, what my crawler finds next. It is always a surprise to see new blog, or forgotten forum of sorts.

This is how I discover real new content on the Internet. Certainly not by google which can find only BBC, or techcrunch.
Let me guess, the solution is ban guns and pay higher taxes. That is the solution to literally every single problem in human history according to western sociology.

Then you get some guy like Nayib Bukele who cuts the Gordian Knot of societal disfunction going from the highest murder rate in the world to the lowest in the western hemisphere in 3 years short years by putting all the gangsters in prison. All the "surplus elite" NGO people who spent their entire career ineffectually addressing "the root causes of crime" are all now out of a job and/or very upset.
The Atlantic ran an interesting piece about the details of how that op-ed came together.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/tom-cotton...
Also not medical but I experienced similar and it sounds like psychosis to me. Personally I had manic episode triggered by taking several doses of acid spread over a week or so preceded by shroom doses spread over prior weeks. This culminated in several nights of insomnia, paranoia and then psychosis - the religious stuff is relatable. I had intense apocalyptic beliefs and “visions” - sort of closed eye waking dream more so then an open eye hallucination. The black and white thing also highly relatable and I think it is splitting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)) - again not an expert.

Her suicide is very sad but I can relate. Rest in peace.

Personally it took me at least a month to feel functional again and then probably a year to start feeling better. Prior to that I struggled immensely with depression most of my life and abusing substances was my attempt to pull out of it, so to bottom out intensely like that feels extremely hopeless.

Once again giant disclaimer that I’m not authority, but I learned more about how psychedelics work from neuroscientists who research them and it was very illuminating. They are extremely potent in regards to neuroplasticity which seems like why they can be heaven or hell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoplastogen). My best take away from the scientists was to space trips out by several months similar to what you should do for MDMA. Frequently redosing keeps your brain activity from stabilizing. That’s not their advice or strong statements (they were avoiding advice-giving entirely), of course, just what I took away.

Years later and I have done a lot introspection and learning and I have taken psychedelics again. I can identify my own anxiety, paranoia, or bad patterned thoughts creeping up and talk myself back. I don’t attribute that traumatic experience or drug use in general to improving my circumstance and I sure as hell don’t recommend it but it does seem like my life going to total shit was a step I needed to take to get it back together. Therapy would’ve been easier.
Great meta-comment: The attention economy has changed a lot over the last 2 decades.
I remember watching some channels that just broadcast random MSTK3K episodes, and I think I discovered them by clicking around the Winamp UI. Thanks for bringing back some good memories
I remember reading somewhere that people, on average, understand integer ratios better than they understand percentages. As in you you write 283 out of 10,000 vs. 2.83% and then ask comprehension questions the former shows much better comprehension.

As a side note, I have personally encountered large number of adults who are unable to restate a percentage as a fraction, and even the idea that a percentage represents a fractional value is foreign to them.
Is there a way to read this that doesn't require a rather expensive subscription?
I was a bit sceptical to start with about correlation versus causation. Causes are what we are looking for here. If we see someone get shot, does that mean we decide not to go to university[1]?

I watched the video, and the semantic meaning of pink people kept changing, and I couldn't follow the story because too many moving parts.

There's a study looking at people from a "bad" neighbourhood, that used data on immigrants to and emmigrants from the neighbourhood to try and track causation.

If I was feeling obnoxious I would grab the data, and massage it until the conclusion is that we should blind children so they don't see someone get shot so that they go to university.

[1] actually I can think of plenty of friends where that would be plausible (disclaimer: gun violence isn't so common in New Zealand). I'm trying to pick an example where causation and correlation are more disjoint but I think I've failed here.
I had no idea this existed. Me likey. Now if I can just get this as an RSS feed....
This was in 2012 and the article explains the revenue generation mechanisms. Freemium, winamp.com ads and some browser toolbar thing partnered with google.
What's missing here -- and in most of social sciences -- is the realization that adverse events is itself a product of genetics, and bad social outcomes are only weakly mediated through those events. Genetics is most of the story here and, although it's a depressing narrative, I'm sick of seeing people push a narrative that is not based on facts.
You have to learn a new alphabet for Russian. This is also one of the reasons for the high difficulty classification of the Asian languages that have their own scripts.
I suspect that part of the pain is the requirement to teach English grammar (cases, etc.) before teaching German grammar.
Absolutely understandable, yet it also leads to a somewhat odd and undesirable reality. The problems you're talking about are ones that we inflicted upon ourselves, owing largely due to poor systems (and societies) enabling the turds of society rise to the top.

So what will the systems and societies of tomorrow look like? Every child born tomorrow is basically just a lottery roll against all people having children today. And today you have vast numbers of intelligent, educated, conscientious, and far thinking individuals are simply removing themselves from the gene pool; that lottery roll for the children of tomorrow is looking less and less pleasant.

There's this irony that the sort of mindset that might consciously make the decision to not have children is the exact sort that should be raising a family 1800s style, if we want a better world. Maybe there's just something about successful urbanization that ultimately causes societies to reboot. The Roman Empire also faced a major fertility crisis in its final years.
The only relevant monopoly for a Taylor Swift concert is Taylor Swift. Fans would use any platform to buy to tickets for any venue in any city.
Kitty is fine, but there is a big issue with tmux and the dev seems to think it is about tiling and not about using remote machines.[0] Sure, I tile because it is there and I don't have control of the terminal I'll use on the other end, but the main draw is I gotta work on machines I'm connecting to with ssh. I think there's a lot of us still needing tools like this (and mosh) but little support. Looks like people were trying to help the dev but there was communication breakdown. I'm all for making sure things are done right and not just accepting hacky solutions, but there has to end up being a solution.

I'd honestly just love to have a minimal terminal like foot[1], but that's wayland only and wayland support is still very mixed. And who knows when ghostty will come out[2]. But I also need linux + mac support and I think a lot of people do (and no wayland to mac port?). Too many terminals are far too bloated. And boy... do I not need this bullshit[3]

[0] https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/issues/391

[1] https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot

[2] https://mitchellh.com/ghostty

[3] https://github.com/warpdotdev/Warp/issues/900
That’s not the formula for a rolling average though
A few days ago, a colleague saw a port/service scan:

> User-Agent: Expanse, a Palo Alto Networks company, searches across the global IPv4 space multiple times per day to identify customers' presences on the Internet. If you would like to be excluded from our scans, please send IP addresses/domains to: scaninfo@paloaltonetworks.com

I could maybe see that for license enforcement, or for aggressively alerting users to the vulnerability even in absence of active service contracts.

Could also be someone other than PAN, looking for vulnerable PAN boxes.
> if the internet truly was wilder, like 4chan

I don't think they were referring to moderation in itself. 4chan isn't a decentralized platform like the Fediverse (AFAIK), so, if it was theoretically large enough (like, TikTok-sized), it would be just as big a problem.
I disagree. For all the criticism color-blindness gets now, there was a lot of progress from the 70s through the early 2000s that seems to have been forgotten in favor of divisive reporting and social media outrage posts. Just because the post-civil rights color-blind era wasn't perfect doesn't meant there wasn't legitimate progress, and that seems under threat now. Some of it is foreign actors, and some of it's coming from both the extreme right and left. They have amplifiers in social media and have managed to get prominent places of power, so they can forment their social revolutions. I count NPR as one of those now, which is a shame because it used to have good and entertaining reporting.
I'm replaying it, but haven't in years, the original Command and Conquer
Earth must be moving towards Voyager. Later in the year it will be moving away from Voyager and then the distance will be increasing again. It must be increasing constantly relative to the Sun since Voyager reached solar escape velocity.
You are building shelters meant for protection against collateral from your neighbors getting hit and wide area, city-destroying, Samson-option style air-burst attacks, not bunker-busting precision strike surface detonations designed specifically to crack your underground command centers and silos. It also guarantees you a longer time window between first detonation and you being targeted, meaning less dense shelter network and easier evacuation logistics.
japanese!
Author here. We mentioned in the piece that we can't rule out that ChatGPT is racist and that it's possible with a larger sample size. A caveat is that these tests might show evidence of bias if the sample size were increased to, say, 10,000 rather than 1,000. That is, with a larger sample size, the p-value might show that ChatGPT is indeed more biased than random chance. The thing is, we just don’t know from their analysis, and it certainly rules out extreme bias.
I don't listen anymore but still like to use text.npr.org for news, its pretty easy to scan the headlines and mentally filter out most of the social justice pieces (and there are a lot of them).

TBF I don't think NPR is really much different then most other mainstream lefty sources. I think axios is way worse than NPR (a lot of their "articles" are just vibes with really poor evidence, at least NPR still tries to do some traditional reporting).
This was my experience too. I haven't taken German in 20 years but I can still understand some things tourists say. I studied French 5 years ago with the help of my wife (fluent in French, professional translator) and even doing hours of listening practice daily for months I never got the hang of more than extremely simple phrases. So much is a near-homophone to my American ears.

Oddly, French people understood my French much easier than Germans understood my German. My guess was that I nailed the French grammar but struggled more with the German grammar.
Never underestimate the willingness of people to have others suffer for their ideals.
> but a 80% reduction in the odds of getting severe dengue the next time around. Which is nice, but not a game-changer.

As far as I know if you get Dengue twice, and in the "wrong" order of serotypes, you are very likely to die. That should make the vaccine a game changer if it works like you describe.
I still listen to my local NPR station (WNYC) despite its failure to pander to fragile white people.
You ought to adjust your expectations because they don't line up with reality. There is nothing particularly surprising or noteworthy about this vulnerability.
Right. I also didn't find anything to corroborate this sentence with anything, so it could also be a case of a layperson referring to everything as "the algorithm".
nowadays on my Linux terminal if I paste anything containing a newline (which in the past would cause the commands to execute) I get a pop up asking me to confirm

Really saves you from the websites putting paragraphs of malicious code into seemingly a single simple line
This is the kind of service that should be cited as "AI misapplication" and "AI ruining things for everyone"

Instead of quick-to-skim text, or even better, pricing table, there is a long video you have to watch in full to find out important things.. And unlike video recorded by real humans, there are no interesting technical or emotional details that might accidentally get recorded.
> I remember there was a Gnome option, wonder if it is alive. Can't remember the name though.

Are you talking about Rhythmbox? If so, yes it is still alive! And pretty good. Not as great as things used to be back in the glory days of Amarok, but still pretty good. The important thing is that it hasn't regressed. It is mostly bug free, and still has that really badass power-user shell/scripting API that you can use. It has a lot of features now that cater to self-hosters but still enable social (such as Scrobbling). I use it quite a bit to play FLACs I bought/buy on Bandcamp.

Strawberry is another one that some people really love, but felt a little heavy to me.

I think Navidrome is my future honestly. I have it set up but most of my music collection is disorganized so I usually return to youtube music. If more bands would sell their stuff on Bandcamp or anywhere DRM-free (besides Amazon, who I used to buy music from until one day they decided to make it really difficult to download. Now I don't trust them), I suspect I'd be all self-hosted before long.
If you recover heat to the cold supply then you need less hot supply to get to the same outlet temperature. If you have an updated fixture with a thermostatic mixing valve then I think this would track pretty much seamlessly, but I've not ever had the opportunity to use a shower equipped this way.
Quick search...
$3 for pack of 8 hamburger buns

$4 for 2lb ground beef

$3 for 10lb russett potatoes

$4 for four apples

$4 for a 52oz jug of OJ

$18 total for ~8 "Happy Meal equivalents", or $2.25 per meal, so less than the actual Happy Meal, but you need 1. $20 cash to buy the supplies and 2. the time/equipment/knowledge to prepare the meals.

Yes, the headlines are rage-bait, but fast food is still ridiculously inexpensive. Yes, you ca reproduce the fast food at home, or live on rice+beans, for less. But add some quality protein and a pile of fresh veg and the price goes up.
>All of these things just seem to be proxies for "your parents are rich".

1. You have good parents (attentive/loving/encouraging/supportive/available).
2. You have access to a good education.

Those seem to be the big differentiators in my experience. Rich people typically have #2, so that's 1 of 2 right out of the gate.
Villainy as a service
I’ve found French accents and speaking styles to play a large role in how well I can understand spoken French. African and Levantine French speakers are often easier for me to understand than, say, Parisians.

I do find Spanish to have been much easier to develop an ear for than French (I’ve put in far less effort, but can differentiate words about as well) and also for whatever reason I found gaining a sense for noun gender to be extremely easy for Spanish but nearly impossible for French. I can guess and be right the vast majority of the time in Spanish, while in French it often feels like I’m doing worse than 50/50. It doesn’t help that it can be challenging to practice it in isolation, due to how articles work in French. Only way to drill gender effectively is in context, hard to quickly build, say, an Anki deck for it.
Makes me want it even more.
I'm still uing Winamp, works the best for my use case. Easy to find my music and easy to control the player with global hotkeys so never have to leave the game/editor/wasd-position just to change song :-)
There's plenty of great fascinating wild Internet out there. The problem is finding it, since it typically struggles to be heard in a sea of well funded SEO-optimized garbage. It's a discovery problem, above all.
Pydantic: Simplifying Data Validation in Python – Real Python
I see it differently. I see inauthentic users boosting these stories so people lose trust in the press.
WinAMP looked like nothing else on the very utilitarian Windows OS, and I think that was a big part of the appeal.

To me the design seemed like a copy of the earlier MOD players that were popular on the Amiga platform.
If you haven't already look up John Rawls he's probably the most famous person who has argued for helping the worst off.

Of course reading his books would be the best source but for now here's a link: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rawls/#JusFaiJusWitLibSoc
its not about attention. it would take me 2 or 3 hours to read this. and frankly, it doesnt have that much content to it.

Edit: its about 42,000 characters, the size of a small book.
this is all well and good but i know from personal experience that all the secondary marketplaces (stubhub, seatgeek) are pushing to do this (literally lobbying the government actively) because it helps them more easily do their secondary market selling. ticketmaster is a grotesque monopoly, but the secondary marketplaces are worried that ticketmaster will consolidate too much industry control through their vertical integration and make it harder for them to play a role in the industry as well.

the biggest problem in the industry is not necessarily ticketmaster; it's ticketmaster combined with the gigantic, largely-hidden world of ticket brokers who have an entire ecosystem of tools and tactics (as well as relationships with promoters) that allow them to buy tickets to high demand events with greater rates of success than real customers and then jack up the prices astronomically with literally no oversight. breaking up ticketmaster will do little to stop the insanity of the ever-increasing prices of tickets, nor will it make it any easier to get tickets to an event you want to go to. it will just change the balance of who is likely to screw you.

all the secondary marketplaces basically sell the same inventory and mask that fact by pretending they don't. tons of the inventory that exists on them is just arbitrage (or zone) inventory designed to trap you into paying way more than face value for a seat you can't even choose. there's an entire cottage industry (enabled by a little-known player called ticketnetwork) of websites that walk a fine line of pretending to be the official box offices for venues trying to confuse and trap consumers into paying over face value for tickets. the pricing models on the secondary markets (and this includes ticketmaster) are basically designed to obfuscate the fact that they're all selling the same inventory and either boost the upfront cost and reduce fees or show you a cut-rate price for the ticket and then make it up with fees.

i totally agree that it is a Net Good that ticketmaster does not control the venue, the promoter, and the primary sale of the ticket. making it easier for venues to shop around for ticket providers is a Good Thing. but without broader market regulation, the fundamental problem won't get any better.

edit: just to explain this a little further, the fact that the secondary marketplaces aren't the sellers is really the thing that makes everything so complex. the people who control the prices of the tickets on the secondary marketplace aren't the big players (stubhub, seatgeek, etc.) but the brokers who then broadcast their inventory at prices _they_ set to all the marketplaces simultaneously. there's not really an opportunity for competition in this space - brokers actively collude (there's a big paid forum called shows on sale where they all talk about upcoming ticket onsales and trade presale codes and intel for getting tickets.) because of this, "enabling more competition" won't change prices past the time that the primaries sell through their inventory, and the brokers will always have an edge when it comes to gobbling that up.
Author here. This is a good point. We'll soften our language
Our Instagram account got hacked and no one at Meta will help, what to do?
Our instagram account at the SAT - Société des Arts Technologiques, https://sat.qc.ca/en - got hacked 4 weeks ago. We spent two days every week to try to get it back, and spoke to countless Meta persons, bots, etc. to no avail, it's like talking to a wall ; we had 30k-ish followers, which is critical for a tech / art-oriented venue.

https://www.instagram.com/sat_montreal

Posting here in case any Meta employee could have a way to unlock this as we are out of options on our side.