skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Iraq and Afghanistan war logs revealed significant crimes. In my view, the worst was the significant misrepresentation of civilian casualties, the level of involvement of Iran in the conflict, torture and abuse tolerated by the US. In general, the war logs revealed that the US Government had classified information specifically because releasing it would have likely led to Americans opposing the war. There was no justification for classifying most of the information other than that the truth getting out would have turned public opinion against the war.

At the time, the US Government was prohibited by law (Smith-Mundt Act of 1948) from propagandizing the American people. This was repealed by the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012 which allows US Citizens to be exposed to propaganda.

Notably, one US Government strategy for propagandizing is to disseminate/test the stories in the British press and wait for them to be picked up by the US press. This strategy is still used even though the Smith-Mundt modernization act makes it less necessary for legal compliance.

Wikileaks revealed that the US Government withheld and classified information solely for propaganda purposes. In other words, a small group of people deceived the public so that a very expensive and consequential war they wanted to have would not be interrupted by common sense insights that the public would have had.
Eu citizen here: where in Europe are you talking about?
> You'll want to start "stacked" commits that are based on the pieces that are atomic but not merged. That sucks, because the tooling isn't yet great at handling that

The tooling for that is called a branch with multiple commits and it works fine. The unit for something that makes sense as a single commit and what makes sense to review together is not the same and forcing the latter to be as small as the former will only lead to merging dead ends that are fine on their own but don't actually lead to the optimal goal.
I have a ton of projects and a huge amount of utilities and such, that all use CJS.

You cannot just use 'import' if you also use CJS. To use 'import', it must be an ESM module and the you cannot use require() to access CJS utilities.

In CJS code, one can use import() to bring in ESM modules but, import() is asynchronous. The problem is that I have a lot of code that is not asynchronous. To add an asynchronous function requires substantial rewriting that I am rarely willing to do.

If, in addition to the asynchronous import(), there was a synchronous importSync(), I could use ESM modules any time I want. That would allow me to...

1) Use and support new utilities that are ESM.

2) Write new utilities that are ESM. Presently, I always target CJS because that's what I have to use.

I have read that there is a new version of NodeJS that supports using require() for ESM modules. That will be a huge, huge, huge improvement although I would prefer importSync() so that it was clear when I was using an ESM module. Even so, I will take it.
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An incredible achievement and in to my eyes a thing of beauty. This is not the first time I've seen computational geometry (played with it myself) but this output seems something else.
Bryan Lunduke is really interesting. A Microsoft alumni from the 90’s and early 2000’s moving on to become a champion for open source and Linux. He had a decent following with interesting insights and then just blew that all away.

It’s not often someone can stick to their “convictions” but he has the wealth he never needed to build a following to have a career. He could have retired young, tinkered with computers and raised his family.

His “heel turn” as is was was shocking at first but to double down on being anti-vax, sympathetic to January 6th protesters, and complaining about the existence of LGBT people (who have been around in Computer Science from the beginning) is just disappointing.

I loved his take on how GNU/Hurd should work. The idea of releasing a piece of software and only doing security updates after getting it to boot on common hardware is an interesting idea. Nothing he’s had to say in the past 4 years has been insightful or interesting. There are more than enough voices in the Linux community that can champion the cause these days without supporting the kind of tired, identity politics and culture war driven nonsense that he focuses on now.
"Flash went away faster than a replacement emerged."

Not really how it looks to me: https://haxe.org/
Instead of capturing traces all of the time which has a CPU, memory and storage overhead that can be quite brutal, we "backtrace" errors. Think of it as following an exception bubbling-up a program execution stack... but through the network. That is then correlated to the services impacted all the way to your public API's.

We are working on the PoC's for async processes too! (queues, pubsubs, fanouts, streams); and session/user-level impact metrics, coming out real soon! :)

By the way... this will also be used to build better context in our discovery / knowledge application, because.... well... why wait until something goes wrong to understand the impact of what you are doing? :)
cool will look into it!
The Iraq and Afghanistan war logs were a highly significant piece of journalism that revealed significand (and in my opinion treasonous) misconduct by US Government officials. See my description in another thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800817
> Can you spot the constituencies that have outsized voting impact?

I suppose people who has to eat and stay warm. I get what you mean, but it still is a good blow-softener in my opinion. Even if farmers get some benefits for no reason.

> Broad based carbon taxes are the correct solution, but they're also the reason Trudeau is going to lose the next election.

Well we are not living in a perfect world. I am not familiar with Canada and Trudeau's political opponents, but still. If a "solution" triggers a kneejerk reaction, cutting its own life short; and causing nutjob demagogues to rise, which leads to much greater harm than it prevented in the first place, how is it the correct solution?
I swear all these shitty startups need is that clean look from Teenage Engineering to sell worthless garbage.
It's always interesting to watch how so many people oppose increasing the minimum wage (which stagnates since decades) while at the same time opposing increasing the taxation of corporations and billionaires (which goes down since decades). It's like, the society was created for corporations, not for regular people... and no, billionaires are in reality not taxed like regular people so let's not even try this theoretical argument.
> Coal is using in chemical processes for smelting, producing steel and other metals, creating concrete and other chemical compounds.

Canada has lots of steel/metal production, and yet Ontario and Quebec (two largest local production centres), have managed to either not have coal in the first place or get rid of it.

Ontario gave a timeline to retire coal, and there's no reason why Germany could not have done the same:

* https://www.ontario.ca/page/end-coal

This would have reduced emissions and improve air quality.
Yes, that's my point... It's cheaper to eat poorly. It's (significantly) more expensive to eat well. As I said before I'm spending more than twice as much cooking from scratch. And (as I'm coeliac and intolerant of milk) I wasn't eating the cheapest food before by any means. I reckon here in Dublin, the cheapest (and extremely unhealthy) diet of oven chips, pasta, bread etc - could be had for well under 20 euro per person per week. Whereas my partner and I are currently spending around 150 on veg and meet between us.
The second line of the article: "The engine with 5 kN (500 kg / 1124 lbf) of thrust, generated the expected 20,000 horsepower"
Besides installing dictators or at least manipulating political movements beyond latin america...

It looks like china is trying the same thing the west did after WW2: debt trap diplomacy. [0]

The linked article focuses alot on china in a negative way but the origin of debt trap diplomacy began with the bretton wood institutions (IMF, WHO, world bank) in 1944 and resulted in the debt crises of 1980s [1,2] and the globalized developing countries. These institutions where handing out massive loans meant for development but bound to sometimes very harsh economic reforms [3,4]. The effect was not the promised growth but the debt crises and the (imo intentional) economic opening of resource rich but otherwise poor countries to the well developed economies of the west.

Afaik the US did not directly acted as an expoitative power but hindered developing countries as a proxy for multinational corporations. Like for chiquita banana in latin america or for shell in nigeria [5,6].

This story is decades old, explains well the current corrupt-but-useful leaders all over the southern world and i dont even have to go into the petrodollar and its meaning for small oil exporting countries. The US/the west is imo very responsible for the global state of affairs and the gain of power/wealth is the only explaination for the development we took. This is my bridge to exploitation but propably not the smoking gun you where looking for. This topic is so vast to just focus on a single country.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt-trap_diplomacy

[1] https://idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/bitstream/handle/10625...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_debt_crisis

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_adjustment

[4]
https://web.archive.org/web/20100226180656/http://www.africa...

[5] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2010/12/10/how-shell-infil...

[6] https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/99/1/155/854916
When you say "fiscal conservative", what would you say that you favour more: (a) balanced budgets or (b) budget surplus? My point: When you look across the Pond (the Atlantic) to continental Europe, "fiscal centrists" (not really a term), they are mostly aiming for balanced budgets or a very small budget surplus (that can be spent in bad years). And, fiscal conservatives are regularly aiming for large (2-3% per year) budget surpluses to pay down any and all debt. (Their dream is "schwarze Null" -- zero debt.)
Network effect. Especially for open source. The thinking is basically that GitHub is where developers find your project so if you don’t use GitHub you won’t find developers.
> you are allowed a pass

A pass to write an article about a topic and mention a book you've written about said topic? (That is what we are talking about right?)

Absolutely!
> I like how the presumably straight sibling comments don't seem to know what the "alternative lifestyles" dog whistle means in context here. There is a long history of saying being lgbt is a lifestyle choice.

I'm pretty sure we all knew that. It's just funnier to get them to say it themselves. Also I aint straight.
I didn't downvote you, but it seems like a pretty nitpicky question to ask at the "we demonstrated that the thing worked and didn't melt" stage.

It shouldn't have to compete - yet. Your question doesn't get at the more interesting one, which is, "will it eventually?"
It would allow the worker to quit and search for new work, which can be difficult to do while holding down many jobs (strict absence policies, etc.)
yeah we went through a few pivots actually - Rubbrband was initially a mobile app for musicians. It would listen to your practice sessions and give feedback. We pivoted out of this primarily because of issues with the technology and market.
But here we do understand more than with the typical SaaS product provided by a single supplier:

The 3.5% get split among issuer (how much they get is public information), network, and acquirer. We also know how much issuers roughly pay out to cardholders as cashback/rewards.

The EU took that information and acted on it by outright capping the issuer portion (i.e. the interchange).

One half of the US approach for debit was similar – Durbin capped debit interchange to an extremely low percentage – but the proposals from this (now rejected) settlement look different and more market-based in that they'd allow merchants to effectively collect back the cardholder cashback in surcharges.

Durbin also has a less-known component of trying to create competition between networks by mandating debit cards to have two independent networks. Extending this to credit cards could possibly help drive down actual network fees, but this has arguably not even worked that well for debit. Also, as many people have mentioned before, the interchange slice of the swipe fee cake is by far the largest and would probably make more sense to tackle first.
> given a constant population of cows

in a frictionless vacuum...

perhaps some kind of financial incentive to curb and eventually reverse the artificially inflated population of cows whose emissions, while part of the closed carbon cycle, increase the greenhouse gas effect of our atmosphere during their half lives, would be a simple and effective step we could take towards increasing the odds we survive the next few centuries that is not at all at odds with also tackling our reliance on fossil fuels?
> This is not a description of human behavior, but of inanimate objects in Newtonian physics. I'm sure we could find a way to make a description of stellar evolution sound applicable here too, but that doesn't make it so.

It was always easier for me, and all friends I know, to change jobs and upgrade while you're already in the workforce. After university, layoffs, sabaticals, even long vacations, it's kinda hard to get back "into it".

> Have you met anyone who works? Shit's exhausting. Almost everyone I know would be likely to seek a more fulfilling/satisfying/enjoyable job if they could quit their current job and survive with unemployment as a stopgap.

Yea but question was couch potato vs underpaid worker, not a temporarily unemployed person. Definition of couch potato in popular culture is a lazy person that watches TV, not concerned with much. I know more people who lived on CC between jobs, but still moved to new positions, than couch potatoes who got an actual job after that.
I agree. The blame belongs to the NodeJS steering committee. It's their failure and it's a big one.

The only excuse is that ESM happened during the big Deno Node wars when the community was split, everyone was mad and, apparently making dumb decisions.

I read that a new version of NodeJS has revised require() to bring in ESM modules. That's good enough. (I would prefer importSync() for clarity.)
You really need to understand the concept of the peace dividend.
It's difficult to describe, but to me it boils down to "low budget methods of avoiding giving developers and users what they need".

On the developers' side it's all kinds of perks like e.g. arcade machines in the office when what's really needed is a better budget for devices and tooling. Also gamifying everything to the point of it becoming tedious.

On the users' side it's tonedeaf humour when the user is experiencing real issues put there instead of actual support.

It spills over to fields outside of software with cases like Tesla drivers in the UK being given grabbing tools instead of RHD.

I'm far from being a person who has a stick up their ass, but it got to a point where I immediately assume these practices were put there to avoid accountability.
No you will figure it out sooner or later :)

As a hint, three of the base checkpoints you are featuring are not for use in generation services...
I would assume the reason is money, barring some counter evidence. Some videos must lead to longer sessions with higher engagement on average. Even for a single view session some videos will have more ads and/or more profitable ads in them.
We still need to make the electricity.
It's why we need the full context before believing everything these "serial entrepreneurs" say whenever they cry "wah-wah #BIG_CORP killed my product", so we can be the judges if indeed big corp killed it, or if it was just a DOA product coasting on the pandemic IT spending boom fueled by zero interest rates, like the other thousands of unprofitable startups of the time that are now under.

Since the OP refused to provide any further details or answer any questions people sent towards him, I tend to believe it's the latter.
You _can_, but pasture chicken and pigs aren’t cheap and aren’t really done at a commercial scale. Whereas many conventional beef farmers still raise cows on pasture.

Overall, pasture chicken requires a lot of land and has soil loading issues (too many and the soil gets burned out when the balance of minerals goes off kilter). It’s much harder to overload cows on pasture - it’s obvious when a field is overgrazed.

Pasture pigs are labour intensive, too.
For a while in the early 2000s and 90s they weren't free to read. It was outrageous: companies collecting data on us that can impact our lives but we need to pay THEM to see what they know about us.
What sort of things do you think work?
I didn’t read but the first sentence because you clearly don’t know that an OS must have both 32 bit libraries and 64 bit libraries to run both. Apple chose to leave 32 bit behind to stop maintaining it.
Maybe they're using the usage to train?

Maybe the humans have been trained by AI to give AI a job?

Maybe the pivot was "gotta build something"

Imagine the controls on one line of code and how long is that line?
Thanks a lot!

I think that tool might be just any general framework that gives a better idea of what any small microscopic actions might lead to at a high-level. We definitely cannot qua(nt/l)ify how actions seep through given free-will and a general fringe-ness to us. We can still at least identify most probably scenarios without much difficulty. I believe behavioral economics or even epistemic studies do a good job of identifying general trajectories, by virtue of a fairly high sense of reducibility given human behavior and the benefit of hindsight respectively.

Indeed the human mind by itself isn't really trained to think beyond maybe one or two orders of implications that actions hold. Hindsight and somehow modelling agentic behavior by understanding incentives might do the trick.

Thanks again!
It's on the short side, but this isn't a cloud database or whatever. Nobody is using it in production because it doesn't plug into your apps. There are any number of alternatives you can switch to and there's little productivity lost. https://tuple.app/ is the most direct alternative (and excellent) but in the short term there's also VS Code live share, or screen sharing in whatever your main video chat app is.
> I suppose people who has to eat and stay warm.

No, it's pretty much a giveaway to Eastern Canada, which is the only part of Canada that uses heating fuel widely. Quebec uses electricity for heating, and the rest of Canada uses natural gas.

The fertilizer exemption is a protectionist measure. Fertilizer production produces massive amounts of carbon. If Canada taxed carbon on domestically produced fertilizer but not on foreign produced fertilizer it'd kill local fertilizer production for little benefit. The right solution is a carbon tariff at the border, but that's really hard to do unilaterally so we have the fertilizer exemption instead.
I haven't had a chance to sit down with this simulator, but having used both Decker and HyperCard before, Decker has a much steeper learning curve for a beginner.
Exactly, I think that situation should be better handled and would make the playfield much more level.
what do you mean by most rivers flowing down in the northern hemisphere?
If your Vision Pro is thermal-throttling, maybe your room's just too quiet
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One does not have to believe that the state is entirely corrupt to believe that Assange's treatment by the USG in the past decades has been highly inappropriate.

The upcoming 2024 elections in the US find both parties trying to court subsets of the population who mistrust the government, so surely freeing Assange was done for realpolitik reasons.

It is not too late for Mike Pompeo to end up serving time. Let's hope that he is brought to justice ASAP.
Just so you know, the links in the contact section appear to be broken.
It's called capitalism, not laborism. What's weird is you'd think that labor would vote a bit differently.
in the supermarket aisle?
Well, frankly, I think your diagnosis is woefully incorrect. Google made 2 very straightforward conscious decisions regarding hiring that are responsible for their current problems:

1. They quite obviously put the bean counters in control. Google famously originally said "they were a different kind of company", and early on, they were. But it was a leadership decision to forever squeeze each additional penny out of their ads systems. I think some people may put the "turning point" as to when Ruth Porat joined, but I think it's colossally unfair to blame her - after all, she did a phenomenal job raising the stock price, which is basically the job of the CFO. But setting the vision and goals for the company comes from the very top.

2. Regarding their lack of ideological diversity, that was also a very conscious decision. I went to a Google hiring event about 8 or 9 years ago, and the hiring manager was very clear that her number one goal was increasing diversity by raising levels of underrepresented groups, and it was stated as a source of pride. Not technical excellence, not innovation, etc. If anything I think that mindset was inculcated at some of the elite tech companies before society at large.
Sure, but if the OctaneRender folk wanted to support AMD, then I highly doubt they'd be interested in a CUDA compatability layer either - they'd want to be using the lowest level API possible (Vulkan?) to get close to the metal and optimize performance.
It does, and it's usually free if you pay in full every month, just like in the US.

Given the interchange cap (0.3%) and current interest rates, this interestingly looks like a losing product at a first glance (the cost of capital for an average due date of 6 weeks after the purchase date is higher than 0.3%).
VW will invest up to $5B in Rivian as part of new EV joint venture
Those jobs are quickly getting commoditized - you can see it e.g. on TopTal where these types of jobs had $150/h last year and $60/h this year. But jobs like "create a framework for interpretable transformers based on some DeepMind research" are still at $250/h.
Tens of thousands of people die each year because compatible donors cannot be compensated for bone marrow or blood donations.
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Their #2 is my #1. What about you?
When someone is suggesting that a particular thing is causing or partly causing a particular outcome it is not a choose-your-own-correlate-adventure to look at how prevalence of that thing and that outcome have changed over time.

Things tend to be affected by their causes (!) so when the outcome is changing significantly and the purported cause is not then it suggests more evidence needs to be offered before we accept that the purported cause actually has a significant affect.