jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Gangs at least here tend to keep it low profile and to themselves. General public only knows there is a gang activity going on from newspapers. Only real problem is that they recruit new people in schools and that is a huge problem for parents, but that does not seem to bother the police.
This whole thing is self-inflicted as government created this huge unregulated and untaxed market and it is attractive especially for young people - in their mind this is their only chance at achieving some wealth.
If police really bothered about the issue, they would look why gangs exist at all and why politicians created such environment for them to thrive and may be look into all corruption that is going on.
Tackling gangs as it is currently done is a fool's errand.
Agreed. Anything more than an hour or two and it's definitely nicer to have a dark mode.

I used dark mode in IDEA for YEARS and I can't believe I didn't push harder to have a dark mode in Polar earlier.

This is why it's good to listen to your users!
Funny. I thought that's how bright on dark text looked for everyone. Couldn't see the shadow until I tilted the screen.

Do I have diplopia or do people with diplopia see more of the effect?
If you’re curious about the value of sand there is an awesome book named “The World in a Grain” which covers the use, history, and scarcity of sand.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/537681/the-world-in...
> Apparently the HN crowd is all-in on "the drugs I already enjoy/want to enjoy have scientific backing" even if they're being presented as a cure-all that should warrant skepticism.

I wonder if it's a side effect of wishing for their legality? I mean, I am skeptical of psychedelics as a cure all. But I'll happily blow smoke up anyone's ass if it'll get it off the idiotic scheduling so I can enjoy them without risk.
The comparison that I made is not between 1980 and the present, it is between 1930 and 1980. This is a very different time period and saw very different trends than have happened since.
That would be a deal-breaker for me in choosing HP servers then, as that just seems like begging for trouble.
Badwolf is my personal favorite dark theme: a nice black with orange and red.
Um, the drug cartels were the first to buy big mainframes for data mining to optimize their operations and to find their traitors. That was 1994.

http://cocaine.org/cokecrime/

I suspect that the cartels have already analyzed the cost. I'd bet that an autonomous sub is much more cost effective.
You're probably hitting an issue with the way that closures work in javascript (and many other languages).

for(var i = 0; i < elevators.length; ++i) {
elevator[i].on("floor_button_pressed",
function(floorNum){ elevator[i].goToFloor(floornum)});
}

Doesn't do what one might expect. When the anonymous function is invoked, it looks up the value of the 'i' identifier, which will have changed it's value to elevators.length by the end of the loop. To get the behavior you want, I've seen people do

for(var i = 0; i < elevators.length; ++i) {
(function(i){
elevator[i].on("floor_button_pressed",
function(floorNum){ elevator[i].goToFloor(floornum)});
})(i);
}

This creates a new scope, which ensures that 'i' has the value that was passed in. I'm afraid I'm a little too tired to look up the parts of the spec that make the semantics clear.
For this to work as a dead man switch, it will have to trigger the lock the instant there's two of that signal. Otherwise one simply has to sniff bluetooth then copy your signal.
For places like Somalia, South Sudan, Libya, trust is so incontrovertibly broken that there is no clear path back to central government and rule of law. Government has to start where it has always started, with circles of trust.

This system isn't a hack or 'route around' these circles of trust, it simply makes them verifiable, persistent and mobile. Eventually, once they get large enough, then they can lead to stable, centralised government.

It's not very different from the way circles of trust for lending eventually became large, national banks.
Cool stuff, lots of really good automation tricks that I haven't seen. I have a similar routine of doing a clean wipe every once in a while and wrote a bunch of scripts to make the process less painful.

One of the more useful ones is a small shell wrapper around homebrew cask that batches installation packages based on category, and one that automates symbolically linking dotfiles using a configuration file.

https://gist.github.com/jjangsangy/c226a9d199fdd9ecba1f

https://gist.github.com/jjangsangy/2951a63fe45d2010bd8d
10 gig still isn't even commonly available on server motherboards, because of power / space / cost. There also aren't many copper 10 gig top-of-rack switches, just the Cisco Nexus 3064T and Arista 7050T come to mind. Juniper doesn't even have one.

It's easier for a lot of places to use twinax with 10 gig SFP+ switches rather than going copper 10 gig. That is definitely not going to trickle down to the consumer level.

It will probably be another 1-2 years before 10 gig is ubiquitous at the server level, and another 2-3 years after that before it is commonly on consumer equipment. Or maybe it never will be, and things will go in another direction.
Whose evidence?

According to this list[1] with data from the World Bank, Netherlands is 35th has 45.05 small businesses per 1000 people. Do you have a stationary shop on your corner or in your neighborhood? I certainly had access to many small businesses in Rotterdam, that would have folded 25 years again the States, replaced by mega corps and big box retailers.

The United States on the other hand is 69th on the list with 19.98 small businesses per 1000 people

[1] http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/Micro...
That salvages the argument, but deflates it as an argument against talking about the known solutions: discussing them is part of the solution to such a meta-problem, directly, by leading people to employing them; and indirectly, by leading to insight on why people aren't employing them yet.

The former is hazardous (and verylittlemeat spoke against it): people fight for their views on the internet, and it degrades discussion more than it reaches people. The latter has leverage and is potentially highly impactful (i.e. the kind of discussion I come here hoping to find).
Well then, DaemonMode.jl
as a hack to run scripts as fast as in REPL by leaving a julia Daemon running and just sending work to it

https://github.com/dmolina/DaemonMode.jl
I had my first jab yesterday in London, I am (just) under 30 so I was surprised to be offered it, but I went along anyway and it was very well organised. In an out in 5 mins, the vaccines were being given by army and navy medics (all in uniform, which was cool but also a bit apocalypse-y). They said they were giving over 100 an hour in there alone, and there can't have been more than 15 bays for vaccines.

I was very impressed. I am looking forward to seeing how it continues. If there is a way to improve supply I have no doubt they could go even faster.

As a side note; The side effects to the Oxford jab was less than ideal. Bad chills (on an already very cold day) and a cracking headache. Feel much better now but I wasn't expecting it to be so bad! I had had COVID before, although it was mild, and I've heard this can make the reaction a bit worse than normal. So maybe that was why.
> Double doses, 5x what was needed in monkeys

I'm not a molecular biologist or medical experimental. But that sounds a bit bad medical testing. To just increase the dosage like this with out proper longitudinal studies. Anyone with that area of expertise care of pitch in here?
We normally operate our thermostat at 67 during the winter but have put it down to 60 given the power crisis. If people are crying about going way down to 68 I have no sympathy.
The main lab leak hypothesis posits a gain-of-function research origin rather than a zoonotic origin. (Meaning, taking a coronavirus found in the wild, then manipulating its structure to study the effects and potentially devise remedies.)

Here's an article mentioning this hypothesis: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/05/coronavir...

SARS-CoV-2 has not yet been found in bats or any other animal. Relatives have been found, but relatives with key differences. It certainly could be found, and if it's correct then it'll still probably be very difficult to find due to being a needle in a haystack, but so far it hasn't been found.

I'm certainly not arguing it's true and the zoonotic origin is false (and I have no clue where to allocate the confidence values, myself), but your repeated insistence that it's "100% zoonotic" is puzzling because that hasn't even been claimed by any experts yet. The jury is still out.

Sure, the ultimate origin of the virus - tracing its full lineage - will have been from an animal no matter what. But if it were substantially modified by deliberate RNA manipulation in the lab after being collected from an animal, potentially increasing its lethality or contagiousness in the process and resulting in the pathogen we now call SARS-CoV-2, that would mean this particular virus isn't zoonotic. If true, it would totally change the discussion into one about the safety of such gain-of-function research and this particular lab.

Almost any engineered pathogen of any kind (protozoon, bacterium, virus) in any scenario will likely ultimately have been derived from something already living. But once the pathogen is experimentally modified to add, remove, or alter its functioning, it's no longer accurate to describe the modified pathogen as being zoonotic. By that logic, even engineered bioweapons would be considered zoonotic (and no one is claiming in this case it's a bioweapon; the lab leak hypothesis posits benign gain-of-function research and an accidental escape). Frankenstein's monster is no longer just some guy.

It's like saying the origin of the domestic dog is 100% natural because, look, you find its close ancestor the wolf everywhere in the wild. It omits the hypothesis that some wolves were taken and deliberately shaped and molded by humans to produce something new.
> I can download a jar that was produced by someone who disappeared 20 years ago, and have a reasonable level of confidence that it will work unmodified on my machine today.

You can still do that without a JRE; in fact, it is easier because there is no central notion of a single "Java version."

> a lot of the time they're simply not up to providing security updates for the whole transitive closure of their dependencies on a timely schedule.

Right, but the JRE didn't do that, either. A well-updated runtime with an ill-maintained application and dependencies is no better than an ill-maintained application, dependencies and runtime, especially if the runtime is has a lower attack surface area.
I was looking for the mention of Dwarf Fortress - it appears to implement much of what he's describing in the story simulations of Worldgen.
There's a limited supply. Sure, Europe could have negotiated better, or could have chosen to pay more and get more vaccine doses faster. But that just means other countries get less doses. As long as production isn't ramped up enormously, we're dealing with a zero sum game. I think we can look at countries that manage to get a sufficient supply with admiration. Envy, yes.

I agree that in Belgium things are not as well organized as they should, as usual. They should for months they were preparing and plans would be ready and working by the beginning of January. But it turned out nothing was ready, debates about who to give the vaccine first were only starting instead of being started many months before. But at this point none of that really matters: it's simply not the bottleneck. Vaccination centers are ready for thousands of people per day, but only get 100 doses.

By the way I've read and heard about calls for volunteers for hospitals and vaccination centers. Vaccination centers don't really need many people now though because of the low supply.
It is worth adding that the Israeli government is very aggressively pushing vaccination. So aggressively that there is a notable movement of people who oppose to get vaccinated because of the blatant violations to basic human rights in a democratic country.

At the very beginning of vaccination in Israel the demand was very high, since all those waiting for the vaccine rushed and went to get it asap. Now that most of the elderly are already vaccinated and the government is placing sanctions against people who are not vaccinated (can't go shopping for clothes, can't go to sport events, can't go to the gym, can't go to cultural events, etc...) the younger generation is much less anxious to get vaccinated. This is causing the vaccine centers stand mostly idle for the recent month.

The government and media in Israel have also started mentioning that they are anxiously waiting for Phizer to test the vaccines on children 12+yo and are preparing to vaccine children as soon as possible. Some speak out about vaccinating children even before the trials are complete.

At the same time, there is a little known "cure" that was developed in a Tel Aviv hospital that has been tried on 30 people who were in a severe condition due to covid. 29 of them went home after two days. All it took is a little bit of ventilation several times a day.
From casual reading alone, easily an order of magnitude, or two or three such orders, more sophisticated than the development and resources seemingly applied by SolarWinds.
> I recall reading that techies are disproportionately night owls

A "night owl" is someone who enjoys being awake and active at night more than the average person, but most people who describe themselves as "night owls" still spend most of their waking hours during the day, especially when they are working, especially if they work in software development at a normal 9-5 job.
Thanks. I'll take a look. Would you please tell me what web browser are you using? eg. Chrome, IE, or firefox ?
1999 was 16 years ago. The last release of Elm (the mail client) was 10 years ago. I started using the Internet back when AOL was still charging an hourly (rather than monthly) fee, and if I've ever heard of Elm (the mail client), it wasn't enough to be able to remember it today.

So yes, Elm (the mail client) is particularly old.
Reading this strengthened my belief in the limited government
haha. asked and answered.
There have been some intermittent Windows issues: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/issues/1005

Not Microsofts problem.
> almost like I could see the scan lines

I noticed this too, I think that the streaming version must have been prepared from a source that was first interlaced for broadcast, then deinterlaced poorly for internet distribution. There are a variety of algorithms for deinterlacing that can eliminate artifacts like that with varying effectiveness: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinterlacing#Deinterlacing_met...

It's too bad because the 4:3 and fuzzy quality was definitely a distraction, especially in the beginning when the show is slow to get into. I think many people probably drop off early. I'm excited to watch the show through again in HD.
Does anyone have reason to believe that iOS will ever enable notifications from PWA’s?
Here's the most prominent one that's happening now: http://www.incapsula.com/blog/semalt-botnet-spam.html

Basically referrer spam.
anyone know which country Miss is used for a child?
One example is AutoCAD, where GUI actions get translated to commands and inserted in the command line:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZoCJ-mUffs&t=4s

Edit: others have mentioned AutoCAD too in this discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26748281

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26748700
Because Prince Charles is heir to the throne (and has been portrayed more negatively in the news media than any other living person), some in the HN community may be surprised to know that he wrote a book on philosophy.

https://www.amazon.com/Harmony-New-Way-Looking-World/dp/0061...

I found the book to be astonishingly good. It takes a design approach to Platonism and western esotericism. It goes deep into "sacred geometry" but steers clear of woo or religion. He adopts a Pythagorean perennialism and advocates for an ecological "spirituality" that is integrated with science. It contains examples from his own urban design projects. I was reeeeally surprised to find this kind of thinking coming from the Prince of Wales.
We do manage a few tools for MacOS with Nix as well, but it’s only a select few things, not our full stack.
But they are selling >10x the amount of phones, which are largely supporting a more important supply chain.
Yeah. It rode on the "free SMS" wave for way too long and people still use it because of that... nevermind that SMS-es are free in most of the world nowadays. :D Or the fact that literally every messenger is free and most have no ads (unlike Viber which does have ads).

The very continued existence of Viber is a living testament of the glacial pace with which the non-tech folk pick up on what's wrong with some of the popular tech.
Not the unit definitions in a spreadsheet; I'd like a spreadsheet where each cell has not just a number, but a number with its unit. Formulas would be evaluated the way `units` does it. B1=3m; B2=4s; B3="=B1/B2" would give as value of B3 "0.75 m/s".
It's not the speed or the reach.

It's the virality and the engagement algorithms that boost reactionary content.

They've weaponized dopamine.
> As a reminder encrypted messages aren't easily searchable

That's false. Encrypted messages aren't searchable by third-parties. End-to-end encrypted messages are searchable by only the communicating parties regardless of where they're stored.

There's also the issue of mirroring by third-parties, but then we're talking about data in transit versus at rest, your backup methods, and so forth. (And I don't have time to get into that this morning.)
I heard a former Chief of Homeland Security of Obama's on the radio and she had an interesting take. She was surprisingly forgiving of the actions of the security staff.

The argument being that they do training exercises all the time, but there is no playbook for what to do if the president incites violence against his own Capitol. Split-second decisions made in a state of confusion and chaos which make sense from a security point of view could have enormous long term political implications. Up to a point, the risk of acting outweighs the potential reward.
Oh, good. This is the perfect excuse for me to finally uninstall whatsapp. My friends and family can SMS me if they need me.

So long whatsapp. I never needed you. :bird emoji:
> Viber, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Threema and Discord are all built on the same paradigm: accounts tied to a single service and thus the inertia of network effect makes vendor lock-in a real problem when acquisitions happen or Terms of Service change

From a purely technical perspective. However, how organization is structured and who is in it matters:

https://signalfoundation.org/

I am in the camp that there are alot of things we try to solve (and sacrifice things like usability) at a technical level that we should be solving at a social level.
We had that, it was called IRC. Then it was XMPP.

For this cycle of tech walled gardens are de rigueur. Maybe next decade it'll all revert to interoperability again. I'm not holding my breath though.
Is there some software library that turns websites into text, that these screen readers all use, or do they implement their own?
Buy more RAM.

360 megs is a rounding error on anything made in the last 7 years.
Because comedy provides a veneer of safety around an issue. The hahaha part of human nature is largely about reacting to being uncomfortable. People avoid things that just make them seriously uncomfortable, and comedy provides a safer, lighter way to deal with it. It also makes it harder for opponents to attack. It's really complex. It's nothing to do with vulgarity, vulgarity is just common in comedy because it's another thing that makes people uncomfortable.
Your correct, this would only be usefull with scripting languages such as Python or other. Or code in which you had the source.
Cognitive dissonance puts viewers in tension. Laughter resolves that tension.
Current discussion on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8925019
Found it: "They Live" by John Carpenter.

The idea is a bit different though. "Nada discovers the sunglasses are special. After putting on a pair, he sees the world in black and white and discovers it is not what it seems. Media and advertising hide constant subliminal totalitarian commands to obey and conform." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live)

Here you can see how the "sunglasses" work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI8AMRbqY6w

[Added additional information]
AWS charges are monthly so it won't help much (also they don't immediately pull the plug, they send you the email warning first). One just needs to setup the alarms and pay attention when deploying a new code. It sounds far more scary than it really is.
I agree about Olivetti's designs. I could tell they were something special even as a child, and wrote a bit about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860920
Because in the vast majority of the cases those that want these docs after getting a generic one start asking questions/want interaction while having the attitude that "Why should it matter if I only spend $100?" thus expending way more company resources than their account is worth.
The Harvard endowment recently made major investments in water under and around the vineyards in Paso Robles, California. If nothing else, it's interesting to see the team whose responsibility seems to be not just maintaining the endowment — but actually growing it (pun intended) — at work.
Exactly. Existing ICE companies didn’t have the vision to completely reimagine what an EV shins be. Rethink everything from the ground up, don’t just slap batteries in existing platforms.
You can use GSM Arena's Phone Finder tool to search for phones with specific feature sets. In this case released 2019 or newer, 3.5 mm jack, and wireless charging[0]. As of now there are 26 phones that match those criteria and 10 of them are from LG. Three are from Huawei which means they are basically useless outside of China. Looking at high end devices you are left with the 3 year old Samsung S10[+], the Motorola Edge+ from last year, and Sony's Xperia 1 II. Sony has an announcement on the 14th where they will likely announce the Xperia 1 III[1]. I would look forward to that to see if it retains the headphone jack.

[0] https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2019&chk35mm=...

[1] https://www.techradar.com/news/sony-xperia-1-iii-gets-possib...
They did not say that APIs were copyrightable, they said that if "we assume, for argument's sake, that [APIs are] copyrightable, [...] the copying here at issue nonetheless constituted a fair use".

From page 1 of the opinion, i.e. the actual ruling, which follows the "syllabus" in the pdf. The syllabus is basically just a summary. It's page 5 of the pdf.
You can only learn idiomatic code by working with idiomatic code. Pick a popular project on GitHub in that language (popular ones are more likely to be led by language connoisseurs) and contribute to it in some small way, or just play around with your local fork.
AFAIK most airlines don't charge passengers by weight, so there are probably significant variances between flights anyway.

Ideally the planes would be weighed after being loaded to calculate how much fuel they should need, but that might take too long.
Interesting. Isn't it usually considered a bad idea to be making lots of public statements like this during a pending lawsuit?
I'm curious what the backend of this (and sites like Hipmunk) uses.
The precursor to hangouts (talk) had the best kind of cross platform support: it was an open standard (xmpp) so you didn't need the official Google app to use it.

The major im apps are all built on xmpp base anyway so what's missing is support for any extensions they create and open access for third party clients using standard xmpp protocols