skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn't just on black Americans, even for LAC (let alone the countless other experiments carried out on civilians). This paper [1] has a lot more details. Just quoting it:

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"Other test locations were selected to simulate other Soviet cities (such as San Francisco, CA and Panama City, FL), forests (such as Chippewa National Forest, MN), flatlands (such as Fort Wayne, IN, and Corpus Christi, TX), deserts, and unpopulated areas (Dugway Proving Ground, UT)."

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The paper includes extensive details on the other reasons the areas that were chosen was chosen. It has nothing to do with who lived there, let alone voting trends. For things like this, the government simply comes up with a cover story, and most people simply believe what they're told. In this case, they told people that they were testing a harmless aerosol clouding system to protect areas from the Soviets bombers. And people simply unquestioningly believed them.

As for the projects, they were built in a similar way to Soviet apartment buildings because they had the exact same goal - reliable and comfortable housing made as affordably as possible. Wiki has a great picture of the projects that were experimented with here. [2] The city tore down some old deteriorating slums and created that complex under designs from the same guy who designed with World Trade Center.

[1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233494/

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruitt%E2%80%93Igoe#/media/Fil...
> I was taught it was shameful to be angry, and my main religious experience was with Buddhism, which says anger is always purely bad.

I don't know who your teacher was, and I'm sure their motivation was coming from a good place, but I have to say that I think they were wrong about that. Was it a Theravada tradition perhaps?

Anger itself is not bad, but reacting out of anger unskillfully is. Yes, the Buddha many times all over the Pali cannon says to abandon anger, that it is a poison, but that doesn't mean that we should generate aversion for it. How can we abandon aversion if we don't look at our anger directly?

At the beginning we might have to put it aside, but we'll always have to come back to it and deal with it at some point. One of my teachers told a story that sort of relates to this in one of his talks, just to emphasize that we need to look at these emotions and deal with them directly. In case people are interested, it starts after the opening meditation at about the 20 minute mark: https://phuntsok.org/media/Meditation-NYC/080417_Healingthet...
Thank you for sharing. I feel you. There are many ways that teachings are passed onto us that can be harmful. I did not know how to deal with anger, no guidance whatsoever. So I just kept harming myself and others. The remedy was to accept that I was in a cycle where love and empathy were not reaching me, I was actively blocking them myself. Therapy helped immensely.
I believe it just uses your systems rootstore. So adding the signer cert in there should probably be enough.
"

Now that I’m fairly old, I can look back on a wide range of visions of the 21st century, many of which now seem obsolete. Here are just a few examples:

I recall the 1960s as being a period of techno-optimism. There were visions of a 21st century filled with space travel, supersonic airliners and flying cars.

The mood became more pessimistic during the 1970s. The famous Club of Rome report warned of overpopulation and resource depletion.

In the early 1990s, there was optimism that “The End of History” would usher in an age of peaceful democratic capitalism.

Late in the 1990s, worry increased that the 21st century would see dramatically rising global temperatures.

In the early 2000s, “The Clash of Civilizations” view became trendy, with a special focus on the clash between the West and the Muslim world.

Around 2010, there was an increasing view that this would be the Chinese Century.

A few years later, there were increasing fears of secular stagnation.

Today, people worry about the rise of nationalism, falling birthrates, and fear of unaligned AI.

What do all of these visions have in common? The only unifying thread that I can see is that they all reflect what was going on at the moment.

[...]

I won’t try to predict the future course of the 21st century, but I will try to predict the future course of 21st century predictions. Ten years from now, I expect the consensus forecast for remainder of the century will largely reflect the headline news stories of the 2030s. I predict that in the 2040s, forecasts for the remainder of the century will largely reflect the headline news stories of that decade. Ditto for the 2050s. What will those news stories be? I have no idea. But I strongly believe that predictions of the future will continue to reflect current events, and will mostly not reflect the actual future that plays out over time.

In other words, expect the unexpected. And then expect people to assume that the unexpected will become the new norm, until it is superseded by some other unexpected event.

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I think it's unreasonable for you to have been downvoted, and I've given you an upvote to do what I can to balance that. Expressing confusion over something like this is perfectly reasonable.
Are PHP Developers Functophobic?
My Movement gym, in Columbia, Md. is festooned with various progressive symbols -- branded with the corporate brand. The employee badges have their pronouns. A sign out front declares that "science is real" and "no person is illegal".

So it's disappointing that they wouldn't support the best tool for ensuring that its own staff is treated fairly. It's a lot easier to put up slogans than to actually pay for stuff.
This isn’t e-ink, it’s a transflective LCD so that’s not true here
Every time I’ve tried it it’s sent me to completely the wrong ball park and after a while whacking it’s solution I end up completely dumping it and doing it myself.
As much as I dislike overbearing telemetry in the context of an M4 or even an N95 the computer should be more than capable of logging a few kb of telemetry about inputs per second without even a notice on the performance statistics. The problem remains that every single thing in the app is just implemented god awful slow and would still be regardless if it's also recording telemetry on the input data or not.
Given the level of excitement around this, and the community expertise, if I were you I'd open up as much of the info as you legally can and let the community help. I think there's a decent chance that if you set up the framework, you may not have to do much to get it done. I would:

1. Create a github page where you include as much of the hardware info as you can

2. Include any custom kernel patches that you have for the hardware (I'm pretty sure this is legally required anyway because of GPL on the kernel, so this could double as fulfillment of publishing/distribution)

3. Let people go at it! Early on I expect a community leader (usually a top contributor) will emerge that you can work with to get it done. I suspect you wouldn't have to do a whole lot (beyond information sharing) to get stuff mainlined and even prebuilt distros assembled for the device!

Even if it doesn't work, it's not a big investment and it gives you a massive amount of credibility with the community.
If the universe is infinite like we think it is, then there is life somewhere, in fact, there is an infinite number of copies the earth exactly like or own, with a copy of you and me on it. We are just "blinded" by the limits of the observable universe.

So, we are almost 100% sure that there is extraterrestrial life somewhere in the universe, but if there is no possible causal relationship between us, what's the point? It is also the same reason why "the universe" is often shorthand for "the observable universe". There is probably something beyond it, but we have no way to know what it is, so it might as well not exist.
In my experience it never actually fixes the problem. It either gives you a random change back, or gives you the same solution.
Rabbit Gaslit Me, So I Dug Deeper [video]
I'm too late, apparently, I'm only in batch 3 which is arriving in some four months or so. Sigh.

I did buy in though. I have a reMarkable 2 and it's a great device, but the software is super subpar. I'm cautiously optimistic about this device running Android, because that means I can run anything on it.
Oops I meant to link to here. This is the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40459851
Ireland's Tax Haven Economy Isn't Delivering for Its People
I think it’s very easy to explain. The US are some of the worlds greatest sellers of intellectual property which makes for better business, since you only need to invent something once and then you can sell it over and over. The US would prefer to spend it’s time doing more lucrative work.

I don’t even think it’s very clear that recent US efforts to onshore manufacturing, both broadly and within green energy specifically, are even helping it. The US is paying close to a million in extra costs for every job it’s on-shoring, although there is the benefit of improving the US negotiating position and military readiness beyond bolstering employment.
Surely we can agree that researchers should be required to obtain informed consent from test subjects before dusting them with known radioactive toxins?
You may want to check this out. It's a monitor using reflective LCD (RLCD)

https://www.sunvisiondisplay.com/rE-Monitor

Have not tried myself and have no affiliation. If anyone here used it, lmk how it works
Ask HN: What tools do you use for researching new fields?
When you are exploring a new academic area, what tools do you use for researching the topic in which you are interested?

I'm starting to read more papers and my current setup is checking Arxiv's daily list in fields I'm interested in manually. I inevitably lose track of papers.

I have found one or two journals of interest, too. I'm curious if there are already tools out there to aggegate open access research by your own criteria (i.e. from specific sources only, prioritise by keyword)?
How long do you want vaccine development to take?
Internet Taxes to Bail Out Media Won't Solve Fundamental Media Business Problems
It's funny this is mentioned. Misconceptions about .NET are unfortunate but unsurprising.

There is no such thing as IL finalizers. There are object finalizers which are highly discouraged to be used on their own.

Their most frequent application is a safety measure for objects implementing IDisposable where not calling Dispose could lead to memory leak or other form of resource starvation that must be prevented.

For example, a file handle is IDisposable, so it is naturally disposed through using statement but should a user make a mistake in a scenario where that handle has non-trivial lifecycle, once the object is no longer referenced, its finalizer will be called upon one of the Gen2 GCs by a finalizer thread, preventing the file handle leakage even if its freeing is now non-deterministic:

// Disposed upon exiting the scope
using var okay = File.OpenHandle("file1");

// IDEs will complain if you do this, but if you insist,
// the implementation will prevent you from shooting your
// foot off even if it'll hurt until next Gen2 GC
var leaked = File.OpenHandle("file2");
The problem with centralizing power in one person for too long, they get strange ideas about what's in their nation's interest.
I recognise the chronic anger just looking for places to manifest. And while I could justify it as a source of ventilation at work, I’d be more combative at home after work.

It’s fine to have learned to get angry when witnessing injustice. Sometimes it is the best solution to be loud and noisy. And sometimes scaring a person is the only solution I know.

In a gestalt session at an anger management therapist, I told myself that there is always better solutions, I just don’t always know them yet.
For some reason part participles are particularly hard for me too (native English speaker who speaks no other languages fluently). (they must just be a mess in English? I can't imagine how non-native speakers ever get any of them)

I'm going to go with swutcheted
realize it's a consumer product, and a very cool one. would like to get security information about it so that IT depts can approve it for use by employees.

it's a great personal device, but every lawyer and analyst who wants to use one for company data will be blocked by IT until they get some specs. Android is not allowed in a lot of environments because it's so fragmented and impossible to lock down.
Interesting, but a pity that these 1000 words were not explained by a single picture, for example a chart of the m/f labour split over the years.
As with most things in life, there's an appropriate balance somewhere. People tend to say anger = bad because we have mostly experienced inappropriate anger on one extreme and have found that it isn't healthy for you.
Ask HN: Alternatives to HashiCorp Packer?
with the impending merger between IBM and Hashicorp, both OpenTofu and OpenBao exist as alternatives. Has an alternative to Packer been developed or proposed as part of the evacuation process from Hashicorp?
Ah, that's right, Chrom* based things look at the system store by default and it's the Firefox based things that don't (without configuration at least). Thanks.

Edit: and that reminds me I should probably run this test on new Teams, where it now uses the built in WebView2
The lack of cooling water would be a concern. Then, in addition, every nuclear reactor being a military target. How would you pay for that insurance?
The main reason why scrum is broken is because companies completely fail to adopt the foundation over which is built, that is the Agile manifesto (and they claim to be agile!): https://agilemanifesto.org/

The first line states: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

But whenever scrum is involved, process is given priority.

Anyway, design your process for your needs.
Trying to solve a communication problem with more code and infra is often a mistake. This is something many engineers don't realize they're essentially doing. Some communication problems can be somewhat alleviated by processes and technology enforcing those processes, but you must always consider the cost, and weigh it against alternatives that don't require engineering overhead. In almost every case like this, increasing the amount of code and infrastructure is the wrong option.
We trust scientists working at private companies to develop vaccines and we trust the private US healthcare providers to administer them and we get to live long.
While this is true (and RWin+7..0 is sometimes a better combo for the right hand), it's only limited to the apps on the taskbar.

I don't need eg IrfanView or VLC in my taskbar all the time, so they are pinned in the Start Menu instead.
IRS announces extension of Free File program through 2029
French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
>When a company is liquidated, I doubt enough of its assets are reinvested to make of the event an overall positive for the economy.

Where do you think they money goes? it is almost always reinvested. If it wasnt reinvested but spent, it wealth couldnt transfer upward.

The rich would lose 5% of of their value of any cash assets to inflation every year. Instead, the money has to be invested in something.
I love love love it. Ultima Underworld comes to mind.
That's the theory. In practice it became a way to cargo cult those things with bureaucratic rituals.

This was completely the fault of scrum for being highly proscriptive about the process. It's like teaching somebody to program with rote learning or something. It just fundamentally doesn't work because the core of the process requires human ingenuity, creativity and freedom to work and by having a rote process those things are inhibited.
Protectionism is expending resources to direct production to areas where you have weaker comparative advantage — it is, in other words consuming value to force your people to create less value.

There may be very specific cases where very carefully tailored uses of it are good for certain long-term interests or risk mitigation, but mostly it is waste — and extremely subject to corruption from those invested in inefficient industries.
I think the root cause of this is feminism being hyper-focused for decades on getting women enfranchised in a male-dominated society which naturally overvalues traditionally-male archetypes, roles, and values like ‘the high achiever’, etc, and undervalues traditionally-female archetypes, roles, and values. So you have both women AND men all striving for masculine success.

What if feminism, from the start, had been about getting feminine archetypes, roles, and values raised to an equal level of esteem in society to male archetypes, roles, and values? So something like a great maternal figure would be valued like a great high-achieving male. Two different kinds of excellence. What a different world that would be.

Instead feminism actually perpetuated and added to the devaluation of the feminine (not of women, but the feminine) by getting all of the women to try to become like men on male terms.
If we need to grow our own food, gasoline is a problem for most American ideas of remote homesteading.
Yeah, so it presents a real conundrum. If you read the article, then he still presents arguments in favor of microservices.

> I often feel like it is more difficult being heard when being nuanced. It seems like what gets discussed most are strong opinions.

I really resent this phenomenon. It traps us in poor local maxima because our systems optimize for engagement over actual development of complex, nuanced opinions. It feels like the dopamine-addled end up indirectly pulling the levers on how we talk even if they're less interested in the actual craft.
It would seem Little Bobby Tables¹ now has a cousin, Denny DeDOS.

I have worked with such filters at some point earlier in life and had completely forgotten about them. This article brought back weird memories. It seemed like a good idea at the time. I think.

1: xkcd://327
I absolutely love this and will try as many as possible very soon. I think "intelligent search" (asking LLM questions to search on the Web by communicating, preferably by voice) is one of the few solid use cases for LLM. I hate the idea of having this happen in the cloud with someone having my data, so doing this locally with my local LLM would be ideal.
Estonia Says Russia Removed Border Markers
You could do the reverse, timeboxing it. Goal being to avoid spending excessive time on the task.

Having a well defined amount of time for a research task makes sense, the business decides how much they want to spend.

I'm against estimating every task, but I definitely provide a ballpark idea when a project will be delivered. Keeping a research task in check is important for myself too, otherwise I can go on for weeks.
There has been plenty of replacement for nuclear. It's something that really never made it big due to costs. I would also highlight risks, given the current environment in Europe. If you build nuclear, you would have to allow for defending it too.
> One of the things I love about Tom Waits is that his interviews are just as entertaining as his songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMjA2FqRjs
What I mean, mostly, is that I shouldn't get doxxed for the crime of being queer on the internet the way some people I won't name like to do. There isn't really law surrounding this yet (in the US.)
The Beauty of LaTeX (2010)
> Maybe fear is the reason they seek control of that something though ...

Maybe sometimes, but it would be pretty rare.

At least for myself, and other people I know well.
The proof is in the pudding, if a replacement existed, they would use it.
Rarely used with a mac trackpad
> If you think the tech is hard, you have no idea how hard The Rest is.

If people/orgs really believed this, they'd keep headcount as minimal as possible.
It's just how things work. The League of Nations failed largely because it lacked the participation and support of major powers. The United States, despite being a principal architect of the League, never joined [1]. This lack of participation undermined the its legitimacy and effectiveness.

The veto power was established at the founding of the UN in 1945 as a reflection of the state of the world following World War II. The major powers were given veto power to get their buy-in and participation. Without this mechanism, these powers might not have joined or supported the UN, undermining its formation and initial effectiveness.

If the veto power were removed, the major powers might feel that their core interests and national security concerns could be overridden by the majority [2], leading to their withdrawal from the UN, and significantly weakening the organization's influence and capacity to act.

There's no real authority in any of these bodies, only the appearance and illusion of legitimacy which requires buy-in from its strongest members.

[1] https://history.state.gov/milestones/1914-1920/league

[2] From above:

> Motivated by Republican concerns that the League would commit the United States to an expensive organization that would reduce the United States’ ability to defend its own interests, Lodge led the opposition to joining the League. Where Wilson and the League’s supporters saw merit in an international body that would work for peace and collective security for its members, Lodge and his supporters feared the consequences of involvement in Europe’s tangled politics, now even more complex because of the 1919 peace settlement.
I'm talking more about permitted usage. In the US, public land is public, but you can't just use it however you'd like. Things like, can you camp overnight? Can you camp anywhere or just in specific locations? Can you use a horse or a bike or an ATV? Are you allowed to have a firearm? Can you fish? Can you hunt? Can you do professional photography? Do you need to stay on trails. Can you access the area by boat? Can you use radio-controlled model aircraft or cars? Drones?

In the US, the answers to all these questions are different depending on which piece of public land it is. Each is managed separately based on what is most important about the land and the people and wildlife around it.

It's just not clear that nearly as much thought is being put into the management handling these competing priorities in this case. There's almost an expectation that each landowner will be able to manage it themselves, without having any authority to really enforce any of their management decisions.
No idea. I moved on to other things when that started. :)
Bark Air - Dogs Can Fly
I might be a minority here, but I don't really consider the Android OS a feature I want. As a Remarkable 2 owner, I've come to really appreciate the long battery life and purpose built OS. There are no "app" distractions, and it has become an essential part of my daily work flow for note taking and e-book reading.

I wish Daylight success, but at their price, its not a compelling offer for me.
Past HN discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8615336 (2014 - 128 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1596499 (2010 - 45 comments)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1173226 (2010 - 102 comments)