skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Killing Mary Queen of Scots was politically expedient, killing Mary was followed in due course by her son's ascendency to the fused thrones of England and Scotland. (James the VIth and 1st who was in turn the father of Charles I).

I would argue the evidence of the lack of divine retribution for Mary's beheading laid the seeds for what happened to Charles I. Clearly, the divine right of Queens (and Kings) had limits. Calvinists didn't appear to believe in it.

Charles I was captured by the Scots and handed over to Cromwells forces. The same (protestant) Scots having been behind religious disputes, which led to (Catholic) Mary being first imprisoned, and then beheaded out of political expediency by a protestant English monarch and government. And in due course, a nonconformist protestant english government did away with Charles I.

If Charles hadn't stuffed around with the Scots over Presbyterianism, he might have lived. Thus, a martyr in every sense because politically, he was naieve. Their decision was weighted by religion, he'd undermined their religious liberty.
JSON extra uses orjson instead of ujson (2019)
Ran into this PR today. Thought Samuel Colvin's response to the migration request was prescient, especially considering what we later saw with the XZ Utils backdoor.

I've no clue if there actually were/are any problems with orjson, but I admire this kind of dedication to security, especially years ago.
I think most of the advice here is great, but it's not the advice I needed at 21. Here's what worked in my life:

- Think about liabilities vs investments. Early on, I would invest in yourself. Gain new skills, education. Keep your teeth pristine. Spend money on well-fitting clothes and other things that will help your confidence. Things like cars, toys, etc are liabilities. They cost money, and don't generate any.

- Develop frugal taste. Don't spend on name brands and luxury unless it's really important. Sometimes it is, though.

- Buy nice stuff: when you buy stuff you think you will own a long time, buy nice stuff. Tools are a good example. I have a socket set I bought 25 years ago. (Related: take care of your stuff!)

- If they suit you, find hobbies that can earn you money. The big winner in this category for me was poker, but I've also made some money at photography, programming, and pool, all of which were hobbies originally.

- Just make a plan. If you don't make a plan, you don't know where the money goes. Your plan will be fine. Don't listen to any one of these comments too closely. Decide for yourself. You are the only expert on your own life.
> What is ultimately going to be undefeated is training your own model.

From scratch?
I think Linux Desktop users have become blinded to how much easier it is for the average person (not developer, command-line enthusiasts) to use Mac or Windows than Linux.

I have Mac, Windows, and Linux machines that I use for different purposes. None of them has been perfect, but the amount of time I’ve lost fighting driver issues, weird upgrade quirks, software incompatibility problems, and other little loose ends over the users has been a magnitude worse on the Linux machines than anything else. In the moment it doesn’t really feel like much because it’s similar to daily work with Linux servers, but looking back it’s just so much more predictable to have basic things working on Mac or Windows than on Linux.
The point in contention "I find the histrionics a form of performative trolling."

- others have pointed out that the histrionics is your perspective. You noted statements like "the site will be down all the time", others have corrected that they have seen statements like "greater downtime" - and the data does back that up.

- therefore, what are you talking about exactly? This is why I'm saying you have the burden of proof to show exactly what you are talking about, with quotes, links, citations, data. Otherwise it seems that you're making a mountain of a mole-hill from cherry-picked data that likely fit your own confirmation bias. Which is not really a useful insight when someone is just saying: "see, gee, that one person over there - they exaggerated!" Is it really a large number of people that were making incorrect statements, enough that you're not just cherry-picking data? Hopefully you got the point, that nobody's word is really just taken at face value here, and those that are - are opinions and are not worth much (which goes for my opinions too, and anyone else's here.)
Don't wait for someone to post the link, just go to archive.is and paste the NYT link there yourself.

Or you could use a browser extension to open these links on archive.is automatically.

But, is it against the rules to directly post archive.is links of pay walled articles on HN?
He's objectively ruined some incredible businesses as well
Yes; also see: https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-go/blob/12269c2761734...
Not everyone sees a candy crush ad or some basic telemetry if you're not willing to pony up the $150 for the "Pro" edition as a complete moral outrage.

For those that don't the downsides of using Windows are generally less than the downsides of using Linux. For many people, the idea that their computer will be making a full recording of literally everything they do on their computer might be enough to tip the scales.

(Yes, there's always been telemetry, but we're talking the difference between some guy that sits outside your neighbourhood and writes down what time of day cars come and leave versus some guy with a video camera that follows you between your bedroom and bathroom and records while you sleep, shower and shit, but totally promises to not show anyone the recording. This is pretty obviously different.)

I say this as someone that's used Linux and BSD for over three decades... on servers. Ran Windows on my desktop (including Windows 10 for over half a decade). Every year or two I'd throw Linux on my computer and see how it did. A couple years back is when we finally got to the point where at least all the essential functionality I needed worked out of the box. The downsides of using Linux were less than that of Windows, and I immediately wiped the drive, installed Linux, and have used it exclusively since. This sort of stuff, if it couldn't be disabled, would have definitely tipped the scales in Linux's favour much sooner.
I knew I recognized him! He made a full blown CPU inside a video game called Terraria:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXPiqk0-zDY
This is actually the exact problem I want to solve. I hear the same thing from almost everyone I've met who makes schedules. Having an OR background, I always find it insane, their problems sound straightforward to model and solve with normal solvers and no fancy techniques - and they also always sound high value. I think the problem is that OR broadly just isn't accessible.

Most well supported solvers use a mathematical paradigm to define your problems, which "normal" people would look at and immediately get overwhelmed. There are nice off-the-shelf solutions for common scheduling problems, but unless you used it from the start, every business has some unique wrinkles which make fully adopting one of those solutions too hard. Either your wrinkle is not supported, or you cannot figure out how to wedge it into the tools provided. If you're really inclined to try to solve your scheduling problems better, the courses you'll find usually assume significant prior programming and/or mathematical knowledge.

I think it should be possible to lean on no-code paradigms to build a modelling environment for scheduling problems that is accessible for "normal" people who need more than Excel but can't hire an OR specialist.
> This feels accusatory but I'm unsure if you mean it that way

A little yes

You are complaining about "toxic masculinity" while also still practicing the parts that are truly toxic, like not having male friends or being open with your feelings to other men
I think pretty much everyone who's pissed off about this feature is because it defaults on.
Interesting point of view that could also be the other way around, Vulkan support being a hidden tax for the love of open source and free software rather than something really useful the market needed on top of others APIs / GPU architectures / platforms, pushed by a subset / minority of developers more ideological than practical grounded developers who accept that competition of private standards will bring out the best user experience, each platform having its customized architecture.

After all, scientists don’t write much CUDA oriented for game development anymore or custom maths shaders, they have their own CUDA libraries helping them in their own domains better than what a gamedev orienter Vulkan would do. Any percent shaved off developer time and running time is worth a lot of money.

The Apple Metal platform surely is customized to the needs of Apple, its devices and its users ultimate needs, in a way Vulkan will never be. Unified memory on recent Apple silicon M1 M2 M3 where RAM and VRAM are somehow merged.

Maybe the society of worldwide developers had better things to do than spend precious time on Vulkan.
Follow your interests, your curiosity, your frustrations.

In the meantime, build a strong technical foundation (e.g., CS, math, etc.).
> Unless you're a low level kernel developer, then it's both!

Or you're working in cryptography code and have to fight against compilers optimizing away sensitive stuff [1] - or adding junk back in [2].

[1] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/security-flaws-caused-compile...

[2] https://pqshield.com/pqshield-plugs-timing-leaks-in-kyber-ml...
The flow of mass would be the other way around. Lunar regolith has every element embedded in it and there’s little need to bring anything but bootstrapping -to- the moon. Return to earth from the moon wouldn’t be CO2 producing anywhere but the moon.
Note to idiots considering doing this sort of thing in the future. Just buy the company.
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>> Doesn't it strike you that there should be a moral dimension to this?

I'm not endorsing the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians if that's what you mean. At the same time, you can say that Israel has lost peoples' hearts, that it goes against international law, that it's unhinged etc etc but none of those things will stop the people in power in Israel, who btw are textbook fascists who spit "peace" like a dirty word, from doing whatever they like.

Historically speaking, the Holocaust did not end until the Allies invaded Germany (and even then, it continued until the last moment) and the massacre of Palestinians will not stop until a large international force invades Israel. This will not happen, so the massacre will continue until the last Palestinian dies or leaves and Israel extends from the river to the sea, just like the settlers want it.

That's the facts on the ground. In Lord of the Rings, the bad guys lose. In the real world, they often get their cake and eat it. You can call it unhinged, or realpolitik, you can insult me and attack me, but you're just shooting the messenger.
This seems like a bit of a hodgepodge; I'm not sure all these character sets were supported back in the DOS days and some of the character, like the runic ones, seem too big. It would be nice to know where these are all sourced from.

EDIT: without the extra letter spacing added in the character samples, you can see how some of the wider characters run into their neighbors:

javascript:document.styleSheets[0].insertRule('.character-list { letter-spacing: normal !important }')
How often can they ask you for a pay increase (the price discovery you approve of) without making you start thinking some other negative thing?
I wasn’t talking about long time Linux users like yourself. I was referring to people who have been using Windows for years and were looking for something to switch to.

> I can hop between Linux (KDE, Gnome, whatever)

If you’ve been using Linux long enough to be familiar with KDE and Gnome and even know the difference between them, you’re very firmly a Linux enthusiast user. It’s easy to forget that the average computer user isn’t really interested in the details of their window management. They want the OS to get out of the way and support them, not be something they’re actively invested in.
Pretty cool, I guess, but that puny Rotax under the engine cowling pales in comparison to the V-1650's that powered the real deal Mustangs which ran at almost 10x the horsepower and double the cruise speed, 50% better climb speed despite being 10x heavier, etc.

It's got comparable performance to a Cirrus SR22. Not much of a replica if you ask me.
Yeah, you could imagine all kinds of scenarios. We do have beyond reasonable doubt standard for punishment, so it's just that - fantasy; or rather, a gotcha that is simply an worthwhile tradeoff. The "absolute" values that do not recognize tradeoffs is what's, pretty much by definition, extremist.
What makes a great contribution to a codebase?
Apple's Latest Macs and iPads Have Hidden Smart Home Thread Radio
Op told a story about his dad, who was a cool guy. My dad was like him too. OP also said he's like his dad because nix goes over his head. That's where I disagree. I think op feels that way only because op doesn't know enough category theory.

I also feel my dad doesn't understand or value abstract things because his Romanian communist math education - as an engineer - fell short of category theory. If he knew categories, we could connect about many more things, but he does not, and this is a massive disconnect that makes my dad unable to apply abstract math to the real world

I was projecting that onto op and suggesting the best we can do is to not be short sighted like our fathers. I self-taught category Theory after dropping out from the math program two times. It changed my life, and let me enjoy math again after burnout and homelessness. And it opened my eyes to many applications of math I never knew about.

My suggestion is that if op learns category theory and the functorial semantics of programming languages, systems like nix will become usable, instead of imposing.

And I am not wrong
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Having done that, I can answer. I'll be a little vague on the topic to keep some anonymity.

Without a plan, per se, I nurtured a burgeoning personal research interest that was well outside my field. The initial hobby was very rudimentary but it gave me enough feedback and fuel that over a number of years I built more advanced software and hardware to investigate it more scientifically. Eventually, having reached the limits of the data I had access to, I reached out to a local university to start a collaboration.

If you already have an idea, I think, as long as you're sufficiently interested in actually doing research, you'll be able to find some professor that is as well. On the flip side, I know for a fact that most professors have more research ideas than students, so they can certainly provide you with things to investigate.

As a bonus, for the professor, since this is a side gig for you, there isn't an cost for them (or much less of one). Access to facilities and resources depend on the university. But I was certainly surprised by what I was given access to in the service of doing the research.
Recall isn't the argument, it's just the latest example for the same argument: you should be able to decide what your computer does, inspect it, modify and share.
Freedom house, which I think is a credible source here, says Israel is free and democratic, and Lebanon and Iraq are not. How does that not contradict your point? The claim was that Israel is the only free and democratic country in the middle east, do you have any credible source that disproves that?
Also note that it is the same for language. The meaning of these words are not in this text. The words are merely codes which point to things in the readers databank. And hopefully the word have similar enough associations to mine, such that the decoded message is close to what I attempted to encode...
It is not a conclusion about facts - the thesis is that the hypothesis should be looked into.

The title seems to reflect the paragraph in the study just before:

> Insight into the excess death rates in the years following the declaration of the pandemic by WHO is crucial for government leaders and policymakers to evaluate their health crisis policies
Eh they just say it split back into the usual cyberwarfare sections inside of each usual military branch, not like they actually ceased operations.
He wouldn't necessarily have to (but I also don't know whether he did or didn't). I already explained, assholes have a competitive advantage because they don't worry about consequences and externalities. It's the same reason many corporate regulations exist, to even the playing field among ethical and unethical actors.
The buns are usually dried out and the kitchens look perpetually understaffed and honestly chaotic. The stores look dirty. The fries are often cold. I honestly couldn't tell you what the patty tastes like in isolation from all that.
Constantly? My friends and I hardly ever talk about computers, and that's how it is for most people. What you are suggesting would be a very weird habit. Your friends have agency, are allowed to like or not care about Recall, and needn't be nannied the whole time. Reminder: being more tech-literate than the average person doesn't grant anyone the right to be annoying about such topics. Cherish the time with your friends instead.
Are those choices things that my tech-illiterate parents can use without me maintaining it for them?

No.
Everyone who likes space stuff should go watch it. They focus too much on marriage drama for my taste and they kinda jump the shark in the later seasons, but the first season is a love letter to a past that should have existed, and in a way I can't express with words.

I work in the aerospace industry and just watching a depiction of it in a universe where people still just...gave a shit...especially about something other than money, brings about a whole spectrum of emotions.
Allosteric Modulators of Serotonin Receptors: A Medicinal Chemistry Survey
The serial number was confirmed to be one associated with Hunter Bidens iCloud account.
Yes, if you had a list of all 8,000,000,000 people in the world and went to visit 385 truly randomly selected from that list and didn't leave until you got an answer, yes the theory says that would be a reasonably trustworthy sample.

But that theory is useless in practice, when the efficacy of the survey is entirely determined by the sampling bias. Here we have a survey of a few thousand people who had internet access and were on whatever websites promoted this survey and chose to click through the survey and had their votes counted by whatever "spam filtering" logic was used, and multiplied by whatever "population correction factor" was selected, and they're trying to somehow pass it off as "85% of People".

Its bogus through and through.
Brilliant idea!! I just dug through your docs. You significantly undercut GitHub on runner pricing, using your customers’ infrastructure for both runners and their orchestration, which is managed by your software, some cloudformation, and amis that you maintain and license in return for a small slice of that savings. I love it, and if our cloudops org ever threatens to charge back CI to our budget I’ll be a customer.
They're also expelling Syrian refugees right now which is not getting a lot of coverage: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-69059929
> People keep assuming that AI companies want to pipe any old junk into their models, but I'm increasingly convinced that this isn't true.

meanwhile in dimension reality: Google's AI tells people to put glue on their pizza, the only source being a single reddit comment from user "fucksmith"
It's true, empathy is a thing worked on, so is ethics by the way.

> but I suppose these perfectly selfless people might exist

I don't suppose you read what I typed. Empathy is not the setting of self aside, but the experience of feeling what someone else would in a given scenario. It is deeply selfish.

I would also say it is a prerequisite for an organized system of ethics.
Blessed are the uncles who become possessed to sharing their knowledge and expertise in devising explosives.

I would take a 3 ft brick of 4x4 and drill out several big wells, side by side. Then bore a connecting hole through the wells from one end of the wood to the other.

Each well was then loaded with powders and filings and different materials, the goal to produce an entertaining fireworks display to wow the elden. Green cannon fuse spanned the wells and produced the start of the show, which was placed in the middle of the residential street. The last well was filled with magnesium filings for two years. The 2nd year's display cooked a blinding daylight bright burst that left a decent sized crater in the road and most adults snowblind for days after. Needless to say the 2nd show was the last one. Thank you, uncle Walter.
> […] like any audio hardware that ain’t totally mainstream is not good.

Funnily enough, it totally depends on the hardware. If your audio hardware is supported by Core Audio on Mac, chances are it will also work on Linux without problems. If your audio hardware is older, chances are it will not work on Windows due to the lack of modern drivers but will work on Linux without problems. This also applies to a lot of other older hardware like scanners/printers/... or even built-in peripherals in older laptops.

But if it's something strange (e.g., MOTU MIDI interfaces come to mind which use a non-standard USB protocol), you'll have to hack your own kernel driver which you probably don't want to do. Of course if you are adventurous and do hack your own kernel driver, even this will work, and you'll probably even find someone else's driver code on github.

What's also interesting about hardware support on Linux is that a lot of things which require extra drivers on Windows just work out of the box on Linux, especially if it's in any way relevant for servers like various network cards or if it's one of the many "standard" USB UART chips.
US government contracts account for 70%+ of SpaceX’s revenues through 2018. Can’t speculate about since. I like SpaceX but it’s just untrue that they weren’t highly dependent on US gov’t contracts for a long time (which itself is the product of space market liberalization by Obama in 2010).
Agree with you, but this particular article/discussion is focused on pay :)
Why is humane "under-punishment always preferable to over-punishment" top priority? You can construct a mathematically absurd example - e.g. if we under-punish a psychopathic attempted murderer and he gets an opportunity to actually murder, we've done strictly more harm than if we over-punish an execute him.

But even in regular case, why should we be humane to someone who refuses to be humane to others? I don't get this logic at all.
Sounds sorta fun IMO. With the slower rotation of the planet and the rotational winds being slower maybe there would be less lightning. IDK though, I'm talking out of my ass.
Why? Everything is a negotiation and you're not wasting their time.

It's no different than price shopping between mechanics. You can do that while being clear on your intentions and not making any promises you can't keep
On the other hand, a deep one on one discussion isn't what's happening in casual debates online about to what degree each of us has an inner monologue. And because we don't have so little in common, I would be resistant to concluding that my subjective experience is so different than everyone else's. To claim that I'm different requires me to have an accurate model of what other people are experiencing, not just an accurate report of what I'm experiencing.

Look up examples of this on reddit and you'll find a lot of larping. I would take most of it with a grain of salt as you should with any story-telling you encounter on social media.

If we're so reliable, there wouldn't be fake mental illness epidemics on TikTok regarding experiences far more concrete than fuzzy notions like inner monologue.