skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NewPipe: a YouTube client, as mentioned in the thread, that allows you to play videos in the background, in a small popout over something else, adjust the playback speed, and also download videos for later. Great for lectures.

AdAway: it makes the ads go away by adjusting your hosts file (may require root) so it works both for in-app ads and web ads. I first installed it out of spite when Google failed my LineageOS on SafetyNet and blocked Android Pay even though it wasn't rooted but it made using the system so much more enjoyable I would now root it regardless.

FBReader: a pretty decent ebook reader although the complexity makes it feel like a 2006 Linux app.
Hush. Please leave everybody on git so that I can have a competitive advantage over them.
Would you link the portage bag youre refering to?
Ill do you one better mandatory genetic testing as a kid illegal to pass on the disease. Penalty is a permanent tax of up to 10% of your income for life.

No more disease in one generation.
I don’t have any opinion on the validity of that information, I’m just suspicious of "evidence" exclusively presented as YouTube videos. Thanks for the sources.
The idea is interesting and there's definitely people who want to improve their social skills, but asking for a paid subscription from a user who doesn't know what to expect is a tough sell. Maybe you could make the first few calls free and then ask for a subscription?

Also, what happens if there's an odd number of users? Can't set up pairs at the exact same time with an odd number.
There's nothing wrong with skepticism. Unless you let it stop you from learning. So I'd say be skeptical, but also be willing to explore.

Personally, I think there's a fair bit of reason to believe that both Zen training and hospice experience are useful to facing one's own death. Cultivating awareness of impermanence is central to Buddhist thought. Zen includes such traditions as composing one's own death poem [1] and specific meditations on death [2].

I also found spending time in a hospice to be useful. Anything unknown is hard to think about and possibly scary. Being in the presence of death made it more real for me. And I'm not alone in this; a hospice program founder has an excellent talk [3] and book [4] on what people can learn from hospice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_poem

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mara%E1%B9%87asati

[3] http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/apr/10/what-dying-teach-li...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Five-Invitations-Discovering-Death-Li...
What exactly did happen in the field of law? Split into lawyers / paralegals?
Port Authority: A port scanner app there. That's kind of cool.
I'd like to say OpenStreetMaps...but unfortunately..well. Everyone knows.
> Where are you living that children are allowed to make medical decisions for their dying parent?

Given the prevalence of mental deterioration and incapacitation in many end of life scenarios, it is very common for children or a spouse to have power of attorney and decision making ability for someone who is near death.

In fact, many people take care of filing a durable power of attorney for medical decisions before it gets that far. I know I’d prefer my children have the ability to end my life if I were suffering.
Um, be glad your company uses source control.
Org-mode can publish as tidy single-file HTML pages. I should get a neocities account and keep a non-blog.
Based on this article alone anything other than preferred stock isn’t viable. Unless executive have skin in the game - say no executive can make money off a sale of the company or a funding round unless all the employees who have been paid in stock have been given first rights to convert their stock before any member of the executive or founder team. This seems reasonable, as it prevents the founders or executive board from doing what happened here: theft.
As Trump Pushes Space Force, Support Quietly Builds for 'Space Guard'
In the book he is referring to the generation before your parents. I believe because they did not have access to anything that was produced by a chemical plant
The user onboarding funnel
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. If you want to raise a lot of money, you really want a VAT or GST, probably in the 15-20% level. These are excellent at raising revenue because they hit everyone, rich and poor alike, and they're extremely difficult to dodge.

Then you spend this money on health care (ideally), or (failing that) health insurance (the point of insurance is the spread risk, but the government is already a big enough risk pool, so anything other than self-insuring is a blatant waste of money), with a strong focus on just letting the market work. Do you wish that everyone had access to treatment A? Then just pay people to provide it. It's amazing how well that works!

(One of the ironies of this debate is that the US tends to be shockingly socialist in how it provisions care. Land of the free, home of the brave, right up until it involves medicine, and then it's the last redoubt of five year plans, price setting, and socialist planning, which works just as well as it did under Khrushchev. Northern European countries have eye watering taxes, but the saving grace is that they spend the money efficiently.)

This is the sort of thing that basically all other first world countries have done, and it works pretty well. It's not cheap (anywhere), and it would be especially not cheap in the US due to their very, very long history of making poor choices that drive up the cost of health care, but it's a viable option.

(Example: Most first world countries build hospitals in order to provide a lot of high quality care efficiently. This means things like large open wards, because that allows a smaller number of nurses to monitor a larger number of patients, and nurses are expensive, and it's not like having a private room is going to make your broken leg heal faster. In the US, hospitals are build without open wards, because patents prefer private rooms, and who cares if that makes things horrifically expensive, because the guiding principle of US health care is "I don't care what it costs, I'm not the one picking up the tab!". Unfortunately, those hospitals have been built, and they're not readily retrofitable to more sensible designs, and we'll be paying off the bonds used to finance them for decades. Which means everything in the US will be needlessly expensive regardless of how you pay for it, but it's too late to fix it now.)

Of course, politically, none of this is going to happen; instead Congress will just keep passing laws to mandate More Good Stuff and Less Bad Stuff, and then feeling very aggrieved when it doesn't work out. The history of US health care since WWII has basically been one long string of poorly thought out reforms that have driven prices up. Why stop now? But just because the US won't do it doesn't mean it wouldn't be easy if they wanted to.
I hope we're not 'entering' this era, but exiting. It feels like we've been 'in' the destruction phase since 2001.

Terrorism, Recession, Trump is icing on the cake, and it just feels like the rise of fascism in America is the end-game, hopefully it doesn't lead to world war 3 (with us as the axis powers). I'm curious when you think we'll enter the next turning? I'm anxious to be there now, but I don't think it'll happen till we get more FDR style leaders in washington, and root out corruption.

I think if we can move automation through faster (end more jobs quicker), and force government to find a solution to exponential unemployment then we have a chance.

Then we can enter the next phase of capitalism (a more regulated, but still free-market system, that allows people to exist without being tied to a job, because people aren't needed to work for the most part, machines do most menial tasks, and some people can go on and fill the few vacancies that robots cannot yet fill.

Nick Hanauer has some good talks on the subject of late-stage capitalism, and his views as a 1% who's trying to change things from the other side of the line.
Goddammit, I was going “that doesn’t look even remotely right”, but my brain was fighting me the entire way. One sec while I edit the dumbass spelling away and pretended it never happened

:D
Taking HN into ideological flamewar like this will get you banned on HN. Please don't do it again.
Even with elaborate CSS in play, I think the web has deep characteristics that you can either lean into or struggle against. For example, there's the simple fact of scrolling; does your web page embrace that default behavior, or override it with fancy scroll effects, or replace it entirely with, say, some kind of horizontal page-flipping simulation?

I think often of Frank Chimero's visual essay about this, titled "The Web's Grain": https://frankchimero.com/writing/the-webs-grain/
> but they are much less likely to contain/be malware or spyware

Is there any base for this claim? Play store has at least a system like Play Protect. Likely it's not ideal, but at least does some filtering. Does fdroid provide anything better, or is it just that it's not as popular so spyware authors are not interested?
In some ways, this story sheds light on the philosophical differences between private equity firms like KKR [1] and venture capital. At least when it comes to the fat parts of the Bell curve (and ignoring outliers), private equity investments tend to be premised on gaining control of the companies accepting investment and seek return on each investment. The fat part of the venture capital investment Bell curve (and ignoring outliers) is looking for fantastic returns from a few companies and tends not to seek control of the companies it invests in.

To put it another way, founder friendly private equity is not really a thing and venture capital is a philosophy that is rare outside Silicon Valley (though it has become more common in the last decade or so). Venture capital is playing long odds based on possible future value, private equity seeks to buy current assets at a discount. This sort of outcome would be a hit to a venture capital firm's reputation. It's not an unexpected outcome when private equity invests.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlberg_Kravis_Roberts
To me timeless UI was achieved with Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) and has been eroded with time.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fi/7/75/Mac_OS_X_10.4...
Never heard this before, and a quick Google around doesn't turn up anything - what's the origin of this? I dig it.
https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015 mentions that 400mg/day is the upper bound for moderate caffeine consumption but provides no citation.

I cannot find where the number originates, but there is at least one study @ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869151... which explicitly claims "vidence supported consumption of ≤400 mg/day in adults is not associated with overt, adverse effects."
display: flex;
align-items: center;
As someone who came from "native" gui development and has only really been doing web stuff seriously for a few years, it's pretty easy now, particularly if you don't need to support IE, and even IE11 isn't _too_ much of a pain. I've never used a normalize.css for example.
That is not support, that is denial of service and isnt an option for most webpages.
Out of curiosity, why do you need HDMI on a speaker? Especially considering that you don’t know how much latency the TV’s signal processing is introducing into the chain.

I just run an optical cable from my TV to my Sonos soundbar. It’s simple, it works, and I know that the audio will be in sync. And as a bonus, the cable’s thinner.

(I do wish they supported more audio formats though, with DTS and Atmos notably absent.)
> compiler engineers have good reason

Sure they have reasons. And for them, these reasons are "good". The problem is that what is good for the compiler engineers has ceased to align with what is good for most compiler users.

The reasons for this are complex, but one huge one is that we all generally don't pay for compilers any longer, at least not directly. If you have paying customers, you don't pull stunts like that.

Michael Stonebraker talked about a very similar phenomenon in database systems and research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJFKl_5JTnA

The observation I found particularly interesting is that the few commercial companies that still interact with research, and I think the same goes for compiler/optimizer engineering, are the "whales", companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook. Their needs are very different from most everyone else who doesn't run datacenter where a 0.1% performance increase can mean millions of dollars of cost savings and therefore be worth quite a bit of pain. Particularly when it is pain for others.

> C values performance over safety

No. Well, yes, because it doesn't value safety much at all. Certainly not when I started, which was with K&R C, so no type-checking at all for function calls, for example. What C values is DWITYTD, "Do What I Tell You To Do". C makes it possible for programmers to write code that performs well, it doesn't try to make code perform well. That's a crucial difference.
Well, one obvious reason is that it's the loss of everything. Friends, family, loved ones. Future experience, memory, agency. Everything.

If you thought you'd never wake up again, how comfortably would you go to sleep?
Agreed - while the idea has potential, it should be easier to use. Let the cognitive load of using the site be about the arguments themselves, not figuring out the flow of the app.
Fingerprinting :(

https://browserleaks.com/webgl
A friend of mine, a chemistry teacher, taught in an Indian school for a number of years. He said a huge problem was buying milk for the students that wasn't cut with bad water and/or other chemicals. They tried paying above market price, equivalent to the price of pure milk, and it worked for a while, but he kept testing the milk and found the vendor eventually started diluting the milk. I guess the temptation was great.

This startup looks like it may solve that problem!
"you don't need more teachers when there are less students"

You don't need fewer, do you? You can't fire a teacher because their class now has 27 people instead of 30 - those 27 people still have to be educated.

Do you think teachers are not essential to schools in the way that minimum wage employees are to restaurants? How does that work?

I'm not debating whether simplistic supply and demand analysis applies to the restaurant workers - clearly we have empirical results that say it does not.

I think that to understand something, you have to have data, but you also need to have a theory that is consistent and leads to further insight.
This breaks the HN guideline against insinuating astroturfing or shillage without evidence. People having opposing views isn't evidence of that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
As the writer of the headline, you get a pity upvote from me.
Looking at the code, lit-html should be more efficient at rendering, much more efficient at updating, and safer.

Lit-html parses each JS template only once, before interpolation, then caches the resulting HTML template. It clones that template for each new instance, then critically, finds the dynamic parts and directly updates the instance DOM on re-renders.

This library looks like even though it uses HTML templates, it creates a new one for each render and update. Not only will that be slower (from parsing, DOM manipulation, layout and paint) because it recreates all the DOM nodes it won't play nice with anything stateful like forms, or many custom elements. It also looks like it might have XSS vulnerabilities from interpolating data before parsing.

I'm happy to see more libraries use tagged template literals though. They're purpose-built for embedding DSLs like HTML, their cachability means you can get amazing performance from them, and they're not non-standard syntax extensions like JSX, so don't require a custom compiler.
You could move to Louisiana where you would have been ineligible as an enrolled student for your food subsidy unless you worked at least 20 hours a week or earned $600 a month. Go fish.
I just checked and you can get a flight with a 2 hour layover for $500. I'm not sure why anyone would pay 3x the price unless their company is covering the cost.
Good to know. Gluu was built upon and dependent on ForgeRock products last I was working with it. I guess they're having a pretty bad time if ForgeRock pulled the sources.
I feel that editor extensions for git are the future for 99% of git interactions. Git+[fugitive/etc] still may not be as slick a UX as Mercurial+[mercenary/etc] (I've not actually used any editor extension for mercurial) but it really comes close to closing the gap. To the extent the UX advantages of Mercurial really seem very marginal to me.

But when it comes to Fossil, nothing I've seen comes close. It's built on sqlite which I think turns off a lot of people who have prejudices against SQL, but sqlite is the furthest thing from a big 'enterprisey' RDBMS that give most users the shivers. It's a really tight piece of software, and in fact Fossil is created by the creators of sqlite and the sqlite project is managed with Fossil. So fossil's vanguard project (sqlite) has more deployments than even git's vanguard project (linux)! Mercurial has Firefox and Python, nothing to sneeze at; clearly it's a capable VCS, but I guess my point here is that Fossil doesn't get the attention it deserves whenever people talk about a FOSS alternative to git.
Don't feel guilty about this, or as if you and your brothers should have done something differently. It wasn't your choice to make-- it was hers and your parents'. They may have understood her condition and wishes differently, and had conversations you weren't a part of. In the moment, you guys didn't challenge the hard decisions your parents were making, and instead showed support. Which is doing something in its own right. Moreover, morphine can give a pleasant high, and combined with patient's own adrenaline surge around the times they're the sickest-- can make very sick people look much better. Consciousness/lucidity waxes and wanes a lot in sick people.
Is this as heavy on Mac specific terms as the video suggests? The person I would like to recommend it to would get confused.
Formal logic can help to reveal unstated assumptions in reasoning. But disputes about these unstated assumptions, which often involve abstract ethical or metaphysical claims, can themselves be even more intractable.
Race trolling will get you banned here. Please don't do this again.
> The difference is that in a proof assistant, you cannot gloss over a detail. So many of the lines establishes well-known facts which a mathematician has internalized in their brain.

Maybe an intermediate DSL that would allow some "fallacies" or shortcuts would also render the proof more readable to more people. And the weakness in the reasoning could be easily spotable by special keywords.

> You could store that in a library (and many proof assistants do!) but then the proof would probably be harder to follow for a first time reader.

I'm not sure I agree with that. There is a middle ground to find between rewriting a sort function everytime it is needed, and encapsulating everything in a main() function. Creating an API/DSL/Vocabulary is not easy, but def required to attract more developers.
One of the best showcases of what can be done with Kialo in the public sphere is probably the gun legislation debate, with >2.4k unique claims and thousands of participants, mapping out the reasoning for all perspectives. Was created by user paulmoore about 9 months ago.

https://www.kialo.com/should-the-us-adopt-stricter-gun-contr...
Were the children at an age where they could make that distinction? If not, then it doesn't matter whether the robot could feel anything, since it's irrelevant to the actions of the children involved.
Well apparently there was enough cash to pay the current CEO 11 million. It seems that they could easily have afforded a few hundred thousand per employee, and still given an order of magnitude more money to the ceo than any of the employees.

This is theft in all but name.
Race trolling will also get you banned here. Please also don't do this again.
Most apps only require the minimum amount of permissions to work, that's a start.
A slower speed of light made me sick as well, but this did not. Possible factors:

* On this video I was watching on a tiny screen.
* On this video, I cannot control the direction of motion.
* The change in speed here is very slow and incremental
* This video is relatively^^^ha short
There is a lot of diseases that can't be cured and will not be cured; just like you can't separate two twins conjoined by the head there are many other things that can't be reversed; pretending every disease can be cured or will be cured is irrational and irresponsible, at least not with technology from this millennium.
4th Part of Basics of DevOps
Yes, the one thing missing that would be being able to start from a normal road, and land on something similar, which could allow pretty much door-to-door is too hard to make work for how many could afford it.
> The only thing holding me back from experimenting with org-mode is its tight coupling with emacs.

As a non-emacs user, my successful route to orgmode was with Spacemacs and evil for Vim keybindings. After several false starts, what worked for me was:

1) realizing I didn't need to go full emacs: I stick with Vim for plain text editing, Visual Studio for coding at work and PyCharm/Visual Studio Code for coding at home.

2) consciously learning one new org-mode feature at a time, and adding their shortcuts to my own cheat sheet.
You mean Medicaid, not Obamacare (a policy purchased on the exchange)
So you don’t you need to configure the Phoenix backend or whatnot? That’s even more awesome!
Still too small text to read on my screen and can't zoom
Perhaps I misunderstood. Since he/she mentioned "SES" I thought the "cloud providers" were SendGrid, etc.
7%... that’s a sad return. They could’ve done better with more traditional investing.
> The cost is that the justification for the steps might become opaque to humans.

If the machine can tell "this proof is correct". Does the proof really need to be reviewed by humans? As long the human can easily read the problem which is proved, if the machine says the proof is complete, it should be good enough.
> Based on this article alone anything other than preferred stock isn’t viable

Common stock pays when companies do well. It diverges from non-participating preferred when companies sell for less than their most-recent valuation. Investors get preferences, employees get cash salaries.

> say no executive can make money off a sale of the company or a funding round unless all the employees who have been paid in stock have been given first rights to convert their stock

Everyone could convert their stock. But the stock was worthless. Preferences are obligations, like debt. If a company with $400 million in debt due on acquisition sells for $300 million, should the owners get a pay-out?

> what happened here: theft

If KKR et al hadn't invested when they did, FanDuel would have closed down. This wasn't a tradeoff between employees making money and not. It was a tradeoff between employees (a) losing their jobs years ago and (b) keeping their salaries and having the chance, if the company did well, of making more off their options. They kept their jobs. But the company didn't do terrifically well. The lotto didn't pay out, but HR did.
Problem is that it was a terrible analogy. Glueing things together can range from easy to extremely hard, plumbing can range from easy to extremely hard, the comparison doesn't tell us anything.

The conclusions he draws are questionable, too. Do you need AI powered search? Well, what if it's an elasticsearch plugin, takes 30 minutes to install, and increases your conversion rate by 5%? Should your engineers be required to know SQL and learn Redis on the job? Well, yes, they should.