skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
CONFIDENTIAL: WikiLeaks Document PROVES U.S. Knew NATO Expansion Would Cause Russia/Ukraine War:
https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html

https://libertarianinstitute.org/dont-tread-on-anyone/nyet-n...

The USA provoked a War with Russia via Ukraine. The USA sees it in their strategic interests to "Knock down" Russia's "strength" back to what it was in the 1990s i.e. on their knees. Provoking a War via a proxy such as Ukraine was seen as the best way to do this.
Mearsheimer argues that Russia is not an existential threat to American Hegemony so therefore expanding NATO into Ukraine to provoke a War is an unnecessary goal. He sees China as the real existential threat.

The USA is not 'defending" Ukraine because it cares about Ukraine. The situation in Gaza proves that the USA does not "care" about people at all, only what it sees as its strategic interests. The USA is using Israel as a proxy against Iran and Iranian backed "terrorists". The USA regards Israel as having similar strategic interests. And it can use Israel to do the "dirty work" while pretending that they "care" about human rites.
The 85% Rule for Happiness
I mean obviously

wartime economies are like railing a tableful of coke. it'll be super productive for a few years, but the comedown is hard.
I think Spanish is a much better example for write how you speak and still being correct, than German.
The point is it’s easier to just tax wealth a bit more and let everyone get on the bloody train… It’s mostly people just going to work/school, makes sense to be free
This also breaks naive/literal search. For an example, copy and paste the "After" text into VSCode and try to search for "taking", "coladas", or "Exhibits". It won't match because of the ligatures.

Browser search can typically parse Unicode ligatures, so it's not a huge usability problem. But saving, copying, or scraping the output and using tools that don't process ligatures into their component letters will fail.

This also (very slightly, but still notably) abuses empty contentless <span>s to inject space through CSS margins.

Also, the attempt to brute-force small caps by applying a font subset via a span doesn't work at all for me, in either Chrome or Firefox.

It's a good effort, but I also can't think of a use case where the result is worth what this does to the markup.
The food pyramid makes economic sense.

Grains are cheap and energy dense, if your goal is to feed a large population it makes a lot of sense to put them at the base of the pyramid, that's what will keep you alive, as in, not starving. Higher up are fruits and vegetables, also cheap, they will provide with nutrients that you need to stay healthy on top of the calories that will keep you alive. Higher up are animal products, expensive but rich in proteins and a few other nutrients that are a bit lacking in the base layers, they help you get stronger and more performant in addition to healthy and alive. On top are pleasure foods, not really necessary for your body, but enjoyable.

I take it like a mirror of the "hierarchy of needs" pyramid rather than nutritional advice for people with effectively unlimited resources.
Shanghai cracks down on Halloween costumes
> a lot of money pumps in one end of Amazon retail and out the other, but there is very little margin

Citation needed

I thought they had fabulous margins

Am I wrong
Another library released which lies about what it is to circumvent anti-bot security.

Let's just not act surprised when tighter attestation comes in effect.
> There was a 17% reduction in cardiovascular events in people who had reduced SFA compared with those on higher SFA

they have table with breakdown of events by type, and in both rows with significant reduction it says that quality of evidence is "very low".
Ah! That “well” is exactly what I couldn’t understand from ion thrusters, where they shed electrons as they expulsé ionized gas.
All I could find was “to keep the same charge”, but since there is no absolute ground, what’s the problem?

You just explained it :)
Sqlite isn't necessarily easier to backup than a filesystem. I've got a fairly large (~60GB) sqlite that I'm somewhat eager to get off of. If I'd stuck with pure filesystem then backing up only the changeset would be trivial, but with sqlite I have to store a new copy of the database.

I've tried various solutions like litestream and even xdelta3 (which generates patches in excess of the actual changeset size), but I haven't found a solution I'm confident in other than backing up complete snapshots.
I hate python's syntax, it might be less cluttered but it's a pain to refactor or play around, because a lot of times you have to re-indent everything before it will work again. And then I also tend to find it harder to find the end of blocks. I think the success of C-style bracket syntax in most other languages apart from Python is the proof of how superior it is.
It's not that there's no concept of the absence of sheep, it's that there's no concept that that can be represented as some number of sheep.
Nah, it's common in German too. For example, the first parts of "Widerspruch" and "wiedersehen" are said/heard the same, so you just have to learn the spelling. Many, many other examples... Although on the scale of languages German is indeed closer to phonetic spelling than some others.
This Jupyter notebook-like system you're describing here is basically Runme. It do not yet have an IntelliJ/Jetbrains plugin; however, the Kernel Architecture outside of the headless CLI allows for integration into any IDE or UI.

It's all open source. Please get involved! We'd be happy to have you.
Show HN: Fitter – uniq no-code parser with a lot of features
I am a professional writer (in the sense that I have published short stories that were paid for, even though it is a hobby). Recently, my wife was participating in an event where she had to portray an historical figure and she had a fact sheet and a couple of articles about the person (she wasn’t super famous). I used Perplexity with ChatGPT-4o and prompted it with all the materials we had and asked it to generate a 5 minute monologue in first person for the event. First draft was excellent, I touched up a few lines and printed it out. Done.
Fritz Kreisler faked some old composers'---e.g. Vivaldi's---work, claiming to have discovered some unpublished manuscripts, but later revealed that they were his own compositions all along.

It was mostly a prank on the music industry, but nonetheless, mimicry of style was involved, and was enough to fool many people for years.
One of the ways to load balance the visual information is to scan around the car and briefly look at other things.

Checking mirrors often, looking outside your side window, etc.

Whenever I do those things it helps refresh me quite a bit.
OK ... And society shouldn't allow such massive pay offs to incompetent executives who get celebrated for buying the competition, cooking the books, and lining their pockets and those of their friends.
I think he is hinting to when I said: "For most people, most life situations which require clear thinking have nothing to do with writing."

I meant: since most life situation where we need clear thinking do not involve writing, then we are obviously well equipped to think clearly.

And if thinking clearly is not that problematic for most people, then the author can't say we can't write because thinking clearly is hard/or we can't think clearly.

Got it ?
It's a lot more fun to picture the cia as people wearing disguises to infiltrate foreign governments
We also came around to dumping files into SQLite instead of dealing with the filesystem (and git) for the lix change control system. This article touches on problems we encountered: https://opral.substack.com/i/150054233/breaking-git-compatib....

- File locking, concurrency, etc., are problems that SQLite solves

- Using SQLite allows drumroll querying files with SQL instead of platform-dependent fs APIs

- Using SQL queries is typesafe with Kysely https://kysely.dev/ (without the need for an ORM)
Goodhart's law is often misunderstood and the author here seems to agree and disagree. Goodhart's law is about alignment. That every measure is a proxy for the thing you are actually after and that it doesn't perfectly align.

Here's the thing, there's no fixing Goodhart's Law. You just can't measure anything directly, even measuring with a ruler is a proxy for a meter without infinite precision. This gets much harder as the environment changes under you and metrics' utility changes with time.

That said, much of the advice is good: making it hard to hack and giving people flexibility. It's a bit obvious that flexibility is needed if you're interpreting Goodhart's as "every measure is a proxy", "no measure is perfectly aligned", or "every measure can be hacked"
Ah, the other Runme... that explains why I couldn't find it.
> why not ejecting very high velocity electrons ?

This works, initially. Now, you have to balance the charge on your space craft, or else you won’t be able to eject any more electrons.

If you balance this charge by ejecting protons, you have a hydrogen thruster.

If you balance this charge by ejecting positrons, you have a photon thruster (in the far field).

The former is still “tank” limited. The latter requires high energy to get any useful impulse.
I mean to say that my current method mostly omits hand writing. I can use a keyboard or phone to write and I can recognize characters fine. But on top of just learning a language, is Heisig so effective that I will be able to also memorize handwriting each character? Or do people measure how useful it is by being able to memorize the strokes for many characters, yet fail to become fluent in the language otherwise?
Given the title and the first few sentences from a description I assumed that it's some heuristic-based tool to try and grab whatever there is on the page, which would be useful if there's no tool which implemented the support for this site (which in most cases just means "yt-dlp doesn't support it"). But apparently it's also extractor-based with a separate extractor for each somewhat-popular source. So, basically it's just less sophisticated clone of yt-dlp?
The health of saturated fat is not "against all evidence". See e.g. https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/5-studies-on-saturated-....

It's common for posts here to lack date markings that they should have. It doesn't change the conclusion of the research, except that "60 years ago" would be more accurate now.

It also seems to be common (enough that I've noticed the pattern within a couple of months) that there are suddenly two articles on related topics out of nowhere. A lot of the time, this seems to happen because someone reads the first link, browses around and find something else interesting.
Ride-sharing robo-pods are the future of cities
I went with a more clinical approach and used models that were available a half year ago but I also was interested in using LLMs to write unit tests. You can learn the details of that experiment at https://www.infoq.com/articles/llm-productivity-experiment/ but the net of what I found was that LLMs improve developer productivity in the form of unit test creation but only marginally. Perhaps I find myself a bit skeptical on the claims from that Assembled blog on significant improvement.
I recently gave building a file encryption tool a shot myself ( https://github.com/voodooEntity/go-tachicrypt ) tho i didnt implement my own crypto to be fair.

I think its always good to dive into topics if you are actually interested and lets face it, the beginning of most of the big things nowadays started somewhere in a basement or a garage.
They say I'm bipolar. They say I'm moody. They say that my moods are unpredictable and irregular. But I say "look at a calendar".

In the past few years, I've sharpened my focus on the calendars and cycles which directly affect my life. 24 years ago, I rejoined the Catholic Church, and I began attending Mass nearly daily. Once a person gets caught up in that liturgical cycle, it can be truly life-changing. Because the liturgical cycle is definitely bipolar or, more precisely, quite moody, and encompasses joy, pain, sorrow, suffering, happiness, peace, exultation, and everything in-between.

At this point, if something unusual happens during the week, I can invariably turn back to the Mass of that day, and figure out exactly why. Of course, I can't predict anything in particular, but I can definitely anticipate how I'll be feeling in a particular season!

Now the days of the week are named a certain way in English, and a different way in Romance languages. We've got significant contact with Spanish-speaking cultures here, so those names definitely matter! They're named after pagan gods, who are simply mythical and fictitious to Christians, yet their patronage is felt profoundly to this day. Day-of-week matters very much, even in the secular world. Ask any working man or student in school, what's the difference between a Sunday afternoon, a Wednesday morning, a Friday evening?

Being able to interpret and anticipate my cycles has helped me make tremendous strides in "managing my symptoms". If I'm going to be wound up as Lent climaxes in Holy Week, perhaps I should dial back my activity and save my energy for Easter. Sometimes I become so agitated, that I know it's a good idea to stay home and not expose the general public to my moods.

I believe that it's rather ridiculous to expect people to have fewer moods, or less powerful emotions, as long as they are handled well. After all, every woman of childbearing age is "bipolar" if you consider her menstrual cycles. Do we blame her or medicate her for that? Hopefully not! It's part of being human, and it's part of being alive.
Not every blog post written in the author’s free time needs to be manuscript-worthy. Informal benchmarks can be often really helpful in solving real world problems where it’s not worthwhile to try to squeeze out every last nanosecond of performance.
That's too bad, it made me think if there were easy to switch user perferences then it would be truly decentralized..

Is there a way to clone the app and make this easy to find as a button to switch?

(unfamiliar with the licensing and the app in general, some things I have seen make me excited that it's possible to be uncensored and decentralized, then things like this come up and I wonder if I should put time into it or something else to promote)
I have to believe the deadlines are serious. It helps too if the task is interesting
In general people are more interested in real gdp growth (ie the year-on-year change) than the number itself as it gives a sense for whether the economy is expanding or contracting either on an absolute basis or relative to population if you're looking at per capita numbers. Both are useful for different things.
This could be kind of interesting if the software was together, but it looks power hungry, and the software (Gnome, OMG) is way too bloaty.

I'm still interested in the Inkplate. I don't understand why the Remarkable gets so much attention around here and the Inkplate doesn't.

Also the 10.3" screen is too small for an e-reader imho. I want to read ArXiv pdf's which are always A4 or letter size, about 14" diagonal. My sister just got a 13" Ipad Air and it is very nice and light. I wouldn't want anything smaller than that.
I have ten apples sitting right next to zero apples.
I'm not sure what associated metadata is in this context but www/path/to/filename.jpg and www/path/to/filename.jpg.json would work and be very file-y. I take their/your point in it not being directly integrated though.
It's funny now divisive Lang Lang is with classical people. The Reddit classical threads are full of people outraged that they had him play this and declare him the worst possible person in the world to debut a Chopin piece.
> Tone matters.

Very true. This fact has been deeply exploited by con men across social media in the past decade. When someone knows they’re coming from an unfounded, misleading, or deliberately wrong position they make up for it by heaping on friendly tone. They present in a warm, welcoming, and empathetic tone that appears inviting and friendly, unlike the cold academic discussions where facts reign supreme and tone is an afterthought.

It’s a real problem right now. There are countless influencers and podcasters pushing bad science who get a free pass because they are all smiles, super nice, and present themselves as helping you (while pitching you products and trying to get you to buy their book)
This library/program solves problems that people have with pages like youtube... too many ads, no way to download videos for offline use (or archive for when they get removed), and better performance with a native player.

If I was forced to watch all the ads on youtube, i wouldn't watch videos there at all.
Here are some news then,

https://www.cisa.gov/cybersecurity-performance-goals

https://cybersecurity-centre.europa.eu/news/cisa-and-enisa-e...

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/cisa-and-fbi-release-p...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/03/27/rea...
You might like the new sqlite3_rsync command https://www.sqlite.org/rsync.html
Full Text of "Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 – Fascism "
Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds
> Also who wants to sit in a jet seat that someone else has sat in. Gross.

It's a finite world and we all share it. You're going to be drinking water someone else drank and breathing air someone else breathed. Cleaning is cheaper than making something unique to everyone of the eight billion people in the planet.

If everyone lived like spoiled billionaires the world would be a hell scape within a month, just based on air quality.
Perhaps because one is accustomed to the NewPipe experience and would prefer consistency across devices?

Never heard of Freetube, but it looks pretty snazzy.
It's impressive. But to be fair, a totally novel item should be expected to have pent up demand that smooths out over time. The F-150 was introduced 49 years ago so demand has smoothed already.
Ah yes all those billionaires trying to jump the turnstiles. Between that and trying to sleep under bridges they're a menace.
Where do you mention Unix™ is the original source code, and not UNIX™ as defined by OpenGroup, the owners of UNIX™?

> Bell Labs did the same with Unix, but Unix was still not open source. This is why we run GNU/Linux today, not Unix™.

I know pretty well how NeXTSTEP used to be, my graduation project was to port a visualization framework from NeXTSTEP/Objective-C to Windows/C++.
Communism? So the road system in the USA is Communist?

Would public housing have to be "a vast majority of the market"? It wasn't before. Also, as others have pointed out it works fairly well in Vienna, Austria.

You are correct about government incentives. Local governments have an incentive to keep property prices high so they can extract more property tax.
"Fascism is government by the few and for the few.
The objective is seizure and control of the economic,
political, social, and cultural life of the state. Why?
The democratic way of life interferes with their meth-
ods and desires for: (1) conducting business; (2)
living with their fellow-men; (3) having the final say
in matters concerning others, as well as themselves.
The basic principles of democracy stand in the way
of their desires; hence — democracy must go! Anyone
who is not a member of their inner gang has to do
what he's told. They permit no civil liberties, no
equality before the law. They make their own rules
and change them when they choose. If you don't
like it, it's "T.S."

They maintain themselves in power by use of force

[1]

combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas
of "blood" and "race," by skillful manipulation of
fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The
propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and
"realistic" to be pitiless and violent.
Might make more sense if they loaded in a sensible order to begin with.
A future in which YouTube will refuse to stream you data because you didn't pass client attestation is definitely coming and I wish we could stop it.

It is a dark future where some of us will accept it, and rest of us will be constantly taking part in a cat-mouse chase in which we glitch out attestation tokens from vulnerable devices to get by.
Rights groups urge IMF to address corruption in Covid-19 emergency funding
A group of civil society organisations from across the world called on the International Monetary Fund to include anti-corruption measures in all its COVID-19 related emergency funding.

The 99 organisations added that the IMF must take tangible actions to help protect and empower civil society groups to monitor these funds. Among the organisations to sign the letter are Human Rights Watch, Oxfam, Freedom House, and Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ).

The IMF has approved nearly $18 billion in emergency financing to more than 65 countries and is considering requests from several others to help governments whose economies are suffering from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Of the total amount so far, more than half of the emergency financing has been approved for 24 African countries to help governments. Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya are among the biggest recipients of the funding.

Citizens across Africa greeted the news of the approval of millions of dollars in emergency funding to their countries with derision and skepticism as they have very little faith that the funds will be used for their intended purposes.

Corruption hinders Africa’s economic and social growth, keeping millions of people in poverty and frightening off investors. Though it is not a unique phenomenon to the continent, it is admittedly a huge problem.

The organizations said that while there was urgency to provide funding to assist governments in their response, there was a greater need to ensure that the funds were channeled to their desired functions and were not misused.

“As organizations that closely monitor corruption and its impacts, we also know that transparency and accountability are key to making sure the money the IMF is disbursing actually goes to protecting lives and livelihoods,” the letter said in part.

The organizations also raised concerns that most IMF loan agreements include few or no government commitments to reduce the risk of corruption and instead appeared to rely on the good faith of governments and vigilance of independent monitoring groups.

While citing Gabon as an example of a nation that committed to addressing transparency and anti-corruption measures, the organizations urged the IMF to apply robust measures consistently to all emergency funding.

Some of the measures include receiving all emergency funds in a single account with the Treasury, publishing a procurement plan and agreeing to an independent audit within six months of receiving the funds.

The IMF was also cautioned that it would be unwise for it to rely on civil society groups to monitor such funds without addressing issues that affect their operations and effectiveness.

“Many of our groups work in countries where government spending is opaque, auditors do not exist or are not independent, and authorities do not tolerate criticism. Even where they can operate safely, many groups lack the technical capacity and resources to effectively monitor the billions of dollars in funding that the IMF is disbursing,” the letter said.
> The presence of that phrase alone is enough to instantly downvote and flag any and every post on sight, even those that are otherwise neutral or even positive

I feel you're severely overreacting. If everyone would act that way, this community would definitely be much a worse place. Kant's Imperative and all that.
The fact that the discussion tends to lead this way is a good reason to treat phrases like "You see this often here in the HN comment section" with suspicion.
Related topic: Is there any way to save a laptop with horrible plastic off gassing smell? I can't even be around it (Pentium 2 ThinkPad) for 10 mins without feeling nauseous