skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here’s probably the most important thing to read, because it directly disproves you

It's not the snippets you're quoting that are wrong. You're just reading them wrong, and drawing plainly broken inferences from them.

For example, the statement "Army X was a manifestation of the Y regime's Z" does not imply the statement "Army X is simply a subset of Y" or even "Everyone in Army X basically agreed with Y". Of course it doesn't. Any more than being a member of the Red Army meant that one was communist, simply because it happens to be true that "The Red Army was the army of Soviet Russia".

Similarly, this idea that people taking an oath to anyone or their platitudes means, in all cases, they actually believe that oath, and that what the oath says describes what they believe. In the context of the huge fact that not everyone who joined the various fighting units did so voluntarily -- in fact a large majority were outright drafted (or shoehorned from civilian law enforcement roles, including many regular policemen).

Does that excuse them of culpability in what they may have done -- obviously not. But to think they simply believed everything they were asked to believe at face value goes against everything we know about human nature, and the basic social reality of was going on in Germany and Europe at the time. And about the fundamental psychological and operational mechanics by which the Final Solution worked.

And then there's this:

That army was the army of Nazi Germany. That army was Nazi Germany‘s army.

As if simply calling Germany "Nazi Germany" adds some weight to the point you're trying to make. Of course it doesn't. As a simple, direct proof of this -- let's just drop the unnecessary instances of your favorite word in that sentence:

That army was the army of Germany. That army was Germany‘s army.

And ask ourselves how much sense it makes.
captchas are broken, forever. There is no way to prevent bots without also preventing a bottom tier of human users (visually impaired people, old people, or just impatient people). Like this xkcd [1] comic suggests, we need to just focus on rewarding and punishing specific behavior, regardless of whether the agent is human or not

[1] https://xkcd.com/810/
That’s like spending a few hours, learning to take the lid off your septic tank.
Or Keepa extension. I also use Tweakers.net pricewatch.
Based on my experience growing up in the UK, then having long visits to the US and moving to Germany… the UK overall is fairly open minded to new tech and social change.

Well, so long as the monarchy and the castles remain.
The Fruits of Misunderstanding
yes, we're creating websites that are gated by IQ tests. This isn't the way
Let's find a list of electric cars without some form of network connection!
Following the links to the captcha solving service you can read profiles of the humans doing the work where its pitched as more ethical than them working in hazardous factories!
Would you care to actually list those things?
Which war are you referring to? Some wars are popular, others not. During the 2020 US presidential election campaign, Joe Biden promised to end the war in Afghanistan and after he took office he did it. In a democracy, voters absolutely do influence these policies.
No, it's not.

Fast advances often mean that the defender pulled back their forces, not that the defender got destroyed.
The part about bad Keras<->Tensorflow.js interop is classic Tensorflow. Using TF always felt like using a bunch of vaguely related tools put under the same umbrella rather than an integrated, streamlined product.

Actually, I'll extend that to saying every open source Google library/tool feels like that.
Jesus looking at both example captchas... as a human... i have no fucking clue the answer lol
Has Sequoia Capital outgrown its business model?
Oh yeah. I have a friend who was working on researching fusion-safe steels. Solving it fully is going to be a real engineering challenge.

Apparently, even a small natural niobium contamination would make it a low-grade waste.
Is that `--host` listening on non-local addresses? Might be good to default to local-only.
As AGILE as it gets
Even more: in the old days, any buyer slurping up production by the MWh would have noticeably tipped the balance of supply and demand.
>The larger issue is that most car companies in the US are reselling your data on newish vehicles (2016+) anyway.

A fun read related to this: "Privacy Nightmare on Wheels: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla - Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota - Flunks Privacy Test"

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-...

Small excerpt:

>The very worst offender is Nissan. The Japanese car manufacturer admits in their privacy policy to collecting a wide range of information, including sexual activity, health diagnosis data, and genetic data — but doesn’t specify how. They say they can share and sell consumers’ “preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” to data brokers, law enforcement, and other third parties.
In my workplace people also set the machines to forget the redirects from time to time¹. So that it's not a given that the http:// will lead to anything.

1 - How? I have no idea. They are more expert than the author.
Pfft, look at this one that _buys_ their food instead of growing/hunting/foraging it. Just another mindless sheep suckling at the teet of profit seeking corporations! And I’m sure you built whatever computer you typed your comment on from pure raw materials, and then programmed the OS yourself?

These kinds of purity tests have absurd logical conclusions. Why not view people with a little compassion and grace?

Look, I’m all on board with reducing consumerism but AFAICT you have plenty of ego and hubris of your own. (Hint: if you’re trying to control others, you have ego.)
The act of distribution is what is illegal.

You could feel morally good about it, but it would still be illegal.

While probably also not legal, what might be easier is to rip the bluray locally instead of downloading it.
There is also

https://learnxinyminutes.com/

It gives small language syntax/feature tours.

Each file is legitimate syntax for the language it documents.
When the daily microdose isn't so micro
Same creator.
There is a bluesky doomscroll waiting for you in the new echo chamber.
You can't be complaining like this about a /WW2 German soldier/.
The same rules we already have: follow the license of whatever you use. If something doesn't have a license, don't use it. And if someone says "but we can't build AI that way!", too bad, go fix it for everyone first.
we're still commenting here, are we not? Despite it with almost 100% certainty being used to train AI. We're still here

?!?!
Comparing and equating commenting to creative works. ?!?!

These comments are NOT equivalent to the 17 full time months it took me to write a nonfiction book.

Or an 8 year art project.

When I give away my work I decide to whom and how.
I just had this conversation with my grandmother today. She was describing her own grandmothers house- and how huge it was. The large bedrooms, a whole room dedicated to the telephone even! The way she described it, it was a straight up mansion.

I was curious what this house looked like, so I asked the address. Looked it up on Redfin. It was less than 2400sq ft. The house she was standing in and comparing to was twice that size.
Double-entry: each row of your DB stores {debit account, credit account, amount}.

Single-entry: each row of your DB stores {account, delta}.

With double-entry you are guaranteed via your schema that sum(debit delta) = sum(credit delta), that's it. Money is "conserved".

It's easy to denormalize the double-entry into a single-entry view.

That kleppman article talking about movements as edges of a DAG is the only place this is ever talked about clearly.
Yeah, whenever i need to write a quick script and have no time to suffer "$library needs python 3.x, where x must be > $value and <= $value2, and not a prime except when that ends in a 3, except on leap days"

2 is stable and does not change from under you. Which is what you want in a programming langiuage
"see live dashboard" button on main page just... goes to the top of the page lol
ETH vs. BTC Interactive Price Comparison
He's a real "inferior races must be exterminated" Nazi. I searched for his works when this story first came out, and yeah, he's bad.
> https://mynoise.net, which does kind of the same thing

As it should since they're both from Mr Pigeon.

(If you donate to mynoise, you also get a free pro calmyleon account.)
Yotta or its customers don’t have relationship with the bank though .

This case is like FDIC be involved because say Robinhood or stripe or Shopify or any other saas app went bankrupt and their customers are mad they lost money
It's funny reading this nearly 10 year old post in 2024 and noticing that many of these tactics are now universal and some of the people mentioned (Ian Cheong) are still being called Nazis, but by people on the other side of the political divide.
If it wasn't clear, my belief is that it would end up doing more harm than good, and that the status quo is the least-harm scenario between the two.
If we really want to be technical, in common law systems anything is legal as long as the highest court to challenge it decides it's legal.

I guess I should have used the phrase "common sense stealing in any other context" to be more precise?
Yep. I use unnecessary cats when I’m using the shell interactively, and especially when I’m building up some complex pipeline of commands by figuring out how to do each step before moving onto the next.

Once I have the final command, if I’m moving it into a shell script, then _maybe_ I’ll switch to file redirection.
What's the difference in the end?
gee, I didn't disagree with any of that - I said that if people did not accept the draft they would be prosecuted and often received the death penalty, although also they could just be sent to a camp and worked to death.

I also said that towards the end of the war Germany used underage soldiers - meaning as young as 16, I did not directly ask but implied that perhaps you did not think that underage soldiers were as culpable of being Nazis as the adults, but I see now by your strong commitment to your moral stature that I was wrong.

I finally asked just what makes you think you would have been good and able to resist the pressure to go in the army, which you didn't answer. You have done an admirable job in opposing every response to you with copy pasted Wikipedia content it's true, but I'm afraid I wanted some more hard-nosed and non-online behaviors to confirm the ability to stand against evil.
The infrastructure projects that China "gives" generally result in unsustainable debt burdens for the host countries that negatively impact their economies.

https://bankruptcyroundtable.law.harvard.edu/2024/09/24/a-ta...
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106866
https://clsbluesky.law.columbia.edu/2024/06/14/chinas-debt-f...
This was the case with my dad and he isn't even 55. His house wasn't even worth all that much relatively speaking, but he had too much debt, not enough income, and too many expenses (more kids).

It's fairly likely we won't see any inheritance from him. The 2 of us who can realistically work for a living might make more, but it's not looking likely either of us will ever be able to retire. On the other hand, if I chose the same life, it's plausible I could buy a house eventually, but buying a house in my home town isn't worth the trade of living in my home town.
This makes sense. Since googling something now counts as “using a genai tool” everybody uses and cares about AI
I suspect that something has changed in the way square footage is calculated. Perhaps there are more finished basements or something. I was very involved in several moves my family undertook when I was younger. I feel like I got a good sense for home sizes. Many of the ones listed for 3000 sq ft. today look more like the 2000 sq ft. houses from yesteryear.

I also think about Louis Rossmann's quest to find a NYC storefront for his repair business a few years ago. He brought a laser measure with him, to document how the actual space squared with advertisements. I don't know that he ever found a place that wasn't lying. Yes, New York and, yes, commercial, but I wouldn't be surprised to see similar tactics in place for residential, across the country.
How is K8S better for simple workloads? ECS works fine and has way fewer knobs to turn.
Yeah, these are all fine to do, but a libc can really only do the middle one. And then, at some cost.

If you're already using an event loop library, I think it's reasonable for that to manage flushing outputs while waiting for reads, but I don't think any of the utilities in this example do; maybe tcpdump does, but I don't know why grep would.
Weak pointers in Go: why they matter now
No, we're protected by Hanlon's razor.
Sorry. But I have to ask.

What the actual fuck?! Why would you have cameras inside your house to begin with, let alone ones that upload to “the cloud” and let alone ones that upload to users you don’t control?

I’m totally shocked by this.
It depends what the consumer is doing with the data as it exits the buffer. If it’s a terminal program printing every character, then it’s going to be slow. Or more generally if it’s any program that doesn’t have its own buffering, then it will become the bottleneck so the slowdown will depend on how it processes input.

Ultimately even “no buffer” still has a buffer, which is the number of bits it reads at a time. Maybe that’s 1, or 64, but it still needs some boundary between iterations.
Yes, that's how every other industry that redistributes content works.

You have to license content you want to use, you cant just use it for free because it's on the internet.

Netflix doesn't just start hosting shows and hope they don't get a copyright suit...
Electric cars are essentially black boxes. When you take it apart, you have largely no idea what any of the chips do, even if you chase down what they're connected to. Is this the infotainment system or is it the infotainment system and a data gathering system that sends all my data off seas? There's no way to know. Old cars don't have that problem. Here's an engine, here's a gearbox, add a radio if you'd like, but by and large it's possible to grok what's in your car. With newer vehicles in general, and electric cars especially, it's near impossible to tell.
We could, but you're just repeating what everyone from a previous generation said about the next generations preferred entertainment medium.

Also Socrates wasn't the one complaining, he was the one killed by those doing the complaining. A simple mistake to make when one is looking for reasons to do the same.
Have you been to a server room before that? :)
That’s a fair point, but what percentage of the population of Africa does that encompass? Where I’m from, the people have been under the boot of empires for 2,000 years. I’m sure there are plenty of individual Asians who are libertarians. But any system that allowed free immigration from Asia would import a population where 99% are going to be statists.

To juxtapose my experience with yours: I don’t hang out in libertarian organizations. But I am Asian and know lots of Asians, and I know a fair number of Africans and middle easterners because of my dad’s social circle in international development. I know zero libertarians who aren’t of European or African American descent.
I can’t believe this is true. How can you have so little care over the privacy of your family? They have microphones too.
Sabotage tactics is the modus operandi of Russian foreing intelligence so it does not make much sense to talk about this being a retaliation. Much like election interference and the incitement of conflicts in other countries, these actions are integral to Russia's hybrid warfare strategy, specifically designed to destabilize nations that are economically more advanced than Russia itself.
By February 1945 the war was going poor enough for Germany that it's unlikely all such graves had full procedures followed.
Yes, niobium is the other problem. I think steel makers are used to adding alloying elements, but not set up for excluding them to ppm levels. I saw someone bemoaning that the steel alone for DEMO would cost 3 billion euros (or dollars?), and I've wondered if this is the reason.

https://scipub.euro-fusion.org/wp-content/uploads/eurofusion...

"[...] in the first
layer, nearest the plasma, the rate of production of 94Nb – via neutron capture (n,γ)
reactions on the stable 93Nb of niobium – is so high that Eurofer in this region is
predicted to exceed the France-LLW limit within the first year of operation, and
consequently would not be disposable as LLW under French regulations for more than
1000 years."

It's not just the steel. Beryllium typically contains about 100 ppm U, and an estimate of the cost of purifying it enough to avoid excessive fission products was another billion.
Meanwhile this is coming as a standard feature on many new cars, and all your data goes straight to LexisNexis.
To some extent that's probably true, sodium ion is going to change the market. I'm guessing it will be a lot more than 25% price difference once it catches up on energy density.

We have occasional blackouts, and I use mine when setting up booths at events not directly near an outlet. Not sure I've ever used it camping though, anything I would need or want I can just charge from a Ryobi battery with the power source adapter thingy.
Nice. Thought this was going to be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085089
Nitrogen is a big neutron absorber in gas-cooled reactors. It's actually used as a secondary shutdown mechanism in the UK's AGR reactors. So if it was to leak out (lose pressure) you'd see an increase in power at the same time as a loss of cooling... Not a great idea!
How much money should governments spend to keep a patient alive one more month? If you've actually thought this through then you should be able to reply with a specific number. Resources are limited so anything spent on caring for those patients can't be spent on other priorities. And don't try to weasel out of the question by claiming that we need to raise taxes or cut military spending or whatever; no matter what we do with other budget line items the answer always has to come down to a specific number.
US, GA here. My mom was big on tanning and warned of us this (lemons are also bad). I believe she said something about it being used on purpose for tanning, but that you had to be careful or you would badly burn. She probably did that around the late 80s or early 90s.
ChatGPT has eliminated this class of problem for me. In fact it’s pretty much all I use it for. Whether it’s ffmpeg, tcpdump, imagemagick, SSH tunnels, Pandas, numpy, or some other esoteric program with its own DSL… ChatGPT can construct the arguments I need. And if it gets it wrong, it’s usually one prompt away from fixing it.
In TXR Lisp, on 64 bit targets, NaN boxing is used. Specifically, that variant whereby pointers represent themselves and a delta operation is needed to recover double precision float values. Is that the same as "NuN tagging"?

I like the "tagging" terminology better than "boxing". "NaN Boxing" specifically enables unboxed floats, so the name is stupid. Everyone seems to be using it though.
Charge your phone just by moving your body
None, sorry to disappoint your request for “source????.” It’s just common sense, finding someone who exits a PIP successfully is like finding a needle in a haystack.
I'm sure this isn't a valid legal interpretation, but when I see:

> No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.

Then I say to myself, if I can bypass the technological measure, it doesn't effectively control access to the work, so it's fine. Especially when they later say

> Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title.

Time shifting, format shifting, and space shifting are all established as fair use in case law; so I don't feel bad about circumventing ineffective controls to a protected work to enable my fair use of the work.

IMHO, electronic distribution without authorization is a clear no, and obtaining a copy through unauthorized distribution is also a clear no. But I'm flexible if the original media is defective. And I'll pretend I didn't see it for things like the Despecialized Editions of Star Wars.
Some are better than others at bookkeeping, however FDIC only insures against risks of the bank they regulate. They don’t regulate the risks at the fintech co and they don’t insure it .

There is always residual risk between the bank and you with the fintech company. That’s what got Yotta in trouble ,they basically outsourced the heavy lifting of managing ledgers to synapse which you as customer have no control over.

For most people that risk is not worth losing their already modest savings over , that is why banks are regulated and FDIC exists after all.
Lights of emergency vehicles may cause automated driving systems to fail
feels like OSS early adopter folks have been trying to leave for years, legal + media people moved to bsky this month and are starting to close their twitter accounts, younger VC / founder type people are trying to stick it out

some of the oss + scifi author crowd has been making it work on mastodon but may come to bsky. (think like charlie stross)

celeb + sports accounts are joining bsky now post-election, and in theory a bunch of users that will jump with them; insta/threads may still win this slice though

rn on bsky there's an early twitter dynamic of like mark hammill following tech journalists
We just bought a place in a dense area of The Hague, and I run a table saw + shop vac frequently as we renovate. No complaints yet, just keep my hours between 10-6. Lots of other neighbors doing similar stuff too.

There are lots of benefits to density. Our grocery store and day care are less than ten minutes away on foot, because there's a ton of people so we can support these kinds of businesses (also weed, hair salons, bars, cafes, boutiques, secondhand stores, restaurants, play cafes, etc etc.)
I think there may be something in this point. Lots of generational wealth in my area. Property investment is nearly a sport. The entry bar for which is lower if you already have wealthy parents providing you property (or equivalent buying power) for yourself, so the eye turns to property for investment. I know people in their early 20s, decently well off, already thinking property investment is the correct option for them. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Can you please give regional pricing to SEA? It really helps with providing access to a larger audience!
Documented? A foreign nation won't really give us the docs buddy.

Deliberate? If it was not they would say so.

China and Russia are allies against the west.

I am fine here in my bubble of truth. And I get it, I really do. You saw some Oliver Stone films that lists all the bad things the EU and USA has done and saw Michel Moore go to Cuba for cancer treatment.

But now, Russia especially is worse. The Cold War never ended. The west knows best, not in EVERYTHING, free healthcare, university, and access to abortion is good, but we have all that in Sweden an EU country. There is no need to go full commie my dude.
> Other pebble beds: The pebble bed technology and design has previously been used in prototype reactors in China and Germany, but not a larger-scale plant like Shidaowan.

That's wrong, Hamm-Uentrop was a full scale commercial reactor. It did run in total for a week or so between 1985 and 1989 and was then shut down. The fundamental problem is, that the pebbles grind against each other, and being of the same material as pebbles they can grind each other down. (Now if you wonder why this wasn't discovered at the experimental reactor in Juellich, those guys just never mentioned that they lost fuel.)