skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Wisconsin, when the legislature wanted to target Milwaukee for things, without actually naming them, they would say things like "This law applies to metro areas/counties with > xxx,000 people". Things like "the state takes over some of the mental health operations because they bungled it so bad", etc.

In the next Census, Madison, WI (and/or Dane County) is expected to hit some of those same limits. All sorts of things that were never intended will start applying.
This comes right after Intel got flack from Linus...
This is the point I always try to hammer home.

The inclusivity of paper voting is amazing. It doesn't matter if you are young or old, black or white, highly educated or illiterate, rich or poor, just about everyone can count ballots.

And if you think someone is trying to fuck you over, you too can go count along or watch that ballot box all day to ensure nobody is tampering with it.

Get a few hundred people in the same room that all don't trust one another and all count along. That's how you run an election.
You're not misunderstanding anything, the problem is there's really nothing true about the anti-Amazon media propaganda. It's important to separate the media fantasy from the facts in the real world.

In the media fantasy:

1. Amazon workers are so desperate for jobs they have no choice but to work for Amazon under prison-like conditions.

2. Amazon warehouse jobs are targeted at "left behind" workers who have no other options.

3. Amazon doesn't pay a living wage. Bezos' luxurious lifestyle is subsidized by taxpayer dollars.

In the real world:

1. US unemployment is so low right now that even employers of unskilled labor are looking at severe shortages. See the severe labor shortage in retail but also the real wage pressure across the board.

2. Amazon warehouse jobs are highly sought after. Amazon is unusually generous towards its warehouse associates offering them full benefits including healthcare, retirement, and even equity. Many investors really, really want Amazon to offer benefits comparable to their warehouse competitors (ie no benefits) but Bezos refuses to cut benefits for his unskilled employees every year.

3. America's minimum wage is criminally low but even still Amazon pays well above the minimum wage.

All of this obvious to anybody who does even a tiny bit of research [1] but it's not obvious to people who want to be deceived and so they buy into this baseless narrative.

Again, this is not about Amazon, or even about workers, this is about a media-political complex in which there is zero accountability. Like most things, from Iraq to China to basic scientific theories like climate change, you'll have to learn to separate the American media-political narrative (which is a fantasy that exists only to justify extreme inequality and the mass-murder of foreign brown people) from the actual facts in the real world.

[1] https://www.digitalcommerce360.com/2017/08/08/amazon-benefit...
The problem there is when the personalization interferes with what you're searching for. It's easy to create a more precise search term to clarify things when you get a large set of data, but at times it's not so easy to escape the confines of a bubble that a site locks you into based on an opaque profiling of you.

YouTube is a good example of this. I find the experience of visiting YouTube when not in incognito mode to be just obnoxious. A huge chunk of all recommendations are basically other things I've watched, when more often I just want things related to what I'm currently watching.
The technology does reflect the politics [of this group of people], but the government does not.

You're just not acknowledging the existence of people with political views different to your own.
Or eat some tuna. Coal has doubled the amount of mercury in the ocean.
lol. It's not voluntary now.
> Considering that the US is a federation

> fed·er·a·tion

> a group of states with a central government but independence in internal affairs.

Your conclusion from "Federation" seems off; importantly, this upcoming election is solely for internal affairs (Governor, SOS).

Beyond that, it's important to note that each state can have their own way to assign electoral votes for presidential elections, some are winner take all, a few split on percentages.
This looks great and will hopefully help IPFS grow!

I do wonder if there are any limits which CF are going to impose on these files? A few years ago there was an image hosting site [1] who was told by CF that they were using too much bandwidth on the free plan. With this gateway, can't anyone start doing exactly the same and not even have to be a CF customer?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825719
Keystone Agent is running by launchd on macOS, usually modifying defaults can stop it from running:

defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0

However, this won't remove the agent from the system, and I think there's no way to be sure Google won't change this configuration key in an update (or even overriding its value).
I don't think it is fair to say that 0 died from Fukushima.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
you still can follow public FB pages with RSS. It needs some HTML parsing but it's doable.
To make it easier i've added the feature to aktu.io and i'm following a few FB pages of websites that don't have RSS...
> No one forced anyone else to read it, but people are obviously searching in a similar fashion and these answers are getting read

The problem is that it is seriously blurring the line between advertising and unbiased(or less biased that an ad from the company) advice/comparison of search engines.
New Mexico sues Google, Twitter for illegally collecting data on children
I use DuckDuckGo regularly now and Google only when the results aren't up to par (often with technical stuff). I do this in protest of Google becoming the opposite of their motto.

It is faster than google for some things. For example it is nice to be able to type xxxx !octo and auto search at octopart.
Totally agree. What do you think about most of the tech startups though? The ones that are selling a product online. Apps, SaaS, etc.
Dodge v. Ford is only precedent in Michigan. Even within Michigan, it's my understanding that the decision is outweighed by the business judgement rule[1], which contradicts any mandate of shareholder primacy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_judgment_rule
> Better yet they usually last far more than 2 years, you just don't necessarily have the latest OS, which I mean, seeing as these devices change so little now, who cares?

Security holes care.
> that usually results in dressing more seriously than their male colleagues.

Are yoga pants really more serious than khakis and a polo?
You basically don't want to watch AvE
Could a feature request be submitted that would allow tagging specific pieces of data for a cron job to secure wipe in the background along with a manifest that shows the data wiped with time-stamps? Is that even feasible?
>it is never proper for the legislature to target an individual or individual company. It's perfectly fine for enforcement agencies (OSHA, FDA, IRS, FAA, FTC, SEC, etc) to enforce policy/law on individuals/companies who have been found in violation, but to originally target individuals with the force of government lawmaking is a dramatic overreach of power, IMO.

I don't agree. It's been done before, many times, and to the benefit of the people. Look at what was done with JP Morgan, Standard Oil, Rockefeller as an individual person, multiple Railroad companies and trusts to start.
This is about a feature of the Datomic database called Ions, which appear to be analogous to stored procedures (e.g. running Clojure functions in the db). From reading https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/ions/ions.html, that's an oversimplification, but I didn't know what it was so figured I'd save someone a search.
I quite like pilot wave theory, myself. It's a pretty cool formulation.
The problem with this and the wat talk is that

* you don't actually see the case-space (value space) of all the comparisons that do work as expected, and

* you don't a sense of what is the likelihood that these sort of comparisons would happen in real world code

Some of them like the empty string are likely to happen from user input, but Typescript mitigates those by forcing you to e.g. use Number(inputField.value) to conver to number and complaining about the assignment otherwise.

Others pretty much never ever happen - instead of comparing 1 or -1 to true, you're more likely to use if (val) which casts to boolean, and the truthy table is different from the equality comparison table (it makes a bit more sense)

Most of the real world comparisons are to non-empty strings or numbers, and those are only equal to arrays in some cases - but its rare for an actual array to be produced by anything. Things you know are arrays already you don't compare using "==" to begin with.

So yeah, in practice the confusing rules of JS equality comparison don't really matter all that much.
Having to constantly counteract gravity is just a limitation of this form of aircraft. If it was able to glide, then it would only need to spend energy to maintain height. Some birds can stay in the air for days without landing and they aren't exactly flying batteries.
Nah, the modern silicone gaskets will hold waterproof to low pressure even with imperfect seal, and you can detect that with a cheap impedance sensor.

(Obviously telling the user that water proofing is compromised and that they need to retry attaching whatever they tried to attach or replace it.)
Kst – fast real-time large-dataset viewing and plotting tool
I think the book is worth reading. His inspiration for writing 4HWW was his experience running a supplement business, which he later sold - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Ferriss#Career

Prior to reading the book, I had a retire-early mindset. My idea was to work hard at high paying jobs and save a lot so I could retire early. After reading the book, I had the idea to create multiple streams of income in order to achieve the goal of retiring early.

Others have mentioned that it's not easy to find a lifestyle business that earns you enough income to live off of, and I've also had that problem. However, I've had partial success. I don't think I'd have ever pursued this path without reading 4HWW. It's not an instruction manual, though.
But, but, we can sell them lots of food and diet pills!
This pg quote has an r/LateStageCapitalism vibe to me: "They just arrived back from NYC, and when I asked them what was the most significant thing they'd observed, it was how many of their users actually needed to do these rentals to pay their rents."
In most of Scotland, I would agree, but in Edinburgh where the typical low in the dead of winter above freezing, the < 2 miles from Leith to Old Town isn't that bad.
A collection of awesome TypeScript resources
To Serve and Collect
>public fear from misinformation

Or just a different view on risks.

The risk is much lower, but the worst case is much worse. In my personal view it is far better to use alternatives whose worse case scenario is nowhere near as bad, such as solar, wind, and geothermal.
How to keep clean and organized code in the codebase? Part 1
Not a single person died in the US or Japan? Quite misinformed.
Is there any data for this claim?

It seems more likely that no corporation is willing to spend tens of billions building anything with a lifetime of 50+ years without getting someone to guarantee a return on the investment - see Hinkley Point C:

"The plant, which has a projected lifetime of sixty years, has an estimated construction cost of between £19.6 billion and £20.3 billion. The National Audit Office estimates the additional cost to consumers (above the estimated market price of electricity) [...] will be £50 billion" [1]

Locking in a pricing regime for decades which means consumers will pay £50bn above the market price for electricity? How far we've come in the last 64 years:

1954: "Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter..." [2]

2018: Here's your shiny new nuclear power plant, you'll be paying for it to the tune of £50bn more than the alternatives.

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

[2] Lewis Strauss, then chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Strauss#Electricity_%22t...
Maybe your keyboard is not actually inserting an ASCII "-"? Compare

https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=hacker%20ycombinator%20%CB%97n...

and

https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=hacker%20ycombinator%20%2Dnews
I've been reading on the philosophy of science for a while. According to Karl Popper, what distinguishes science from pseudo-science such as Astrology is that the former is able to produce falsifiable theories. Is economy science or pseudo-science? If it is, then its theories needs to be falsifiable.

But apparently you can't falsify the Law of Supply and Demand (LSD). When the world again and again doesn't work in accordance with what the LSD predicts, its adherents always comes with excuses as to why it didn't work in this particular case. But there are huge labor shortages across the whole US, but wages still doesn't increase! So you throw the theory into the garbage bin.
France is shutting down most of their plants in the coming decades, and Switzerland is shutting a few down too. Nuclear is genuinely facing a lot of opposition in Europe, particularly due to rising costs. In many cases popular sentiment is a driving force too though. That's probably the case in Switzerland (direct democracy) where there were a couple notable accidents right before a referendum. Bad timing and not really terribly newsworthy, but it really damaged public opinion.
I agree with Cameron here, people, for whatever reason, just don't use the repairmen. They're out there. They're everywhere, but the repair shops are nowhere even close to being as busy as the Apple store. (Or even the AT&T store for that matter.)

I think people have been successfully conditioned to view phones as disposable/replaceable. It would take an almost Sisyphean marketing and conditioning effort to change that thinking.

I'm not sure it's possible. But, hey, I suppose Apple's free to try. No harm there I suppose.
Umm... None of his complaints are about pay, which is what Stop BEZOS act's largest piece.

The article is a massive non-sequitor.
Other manufacturers tend to also have way bigger phones.
I have never tried, but presumably launchd won't run the Keystone agent (although using defaults command can archive the same, if we were to just disable it from running).

The issue is when we want to keep Chrome and maybe other Google apps installed, while _not_ have Keystone, and not letting any Google software reinstall Keystone. In that case, it involve uninstalling Keystone agent, creating GoogleSoftwareUpdate directory then chmod that directory to 000 both in ~/Library/Google and /Library/Google
That this result is likely to generalize from mice to other animals.
Vim vs. Emacs: the details
Does the 'Ensure that Apple products last as long as possible' assume wrapping new iPhone into one of those cases?

I don't know if I am alone here, but I find it counter intuitive that to protect my new shiny, I would have to cover it with more or less ugly case to avoid it breaking when I eventually drop it? And since I don't [use cases], maybe consequently, I seem to break them at about ~11 month intervals (although last one, iPhone SE, was lost by accidental submersion - with this at least the new Xs's promises to be slightly better).

TL;DR; I am rooting to be able to buy an iPhone someday that will tolerate my 'normal' use as purchased without any covers or other add-on protections.
I take issue with the idea that alternatives are measurably worse:

- Gmail -> FastMail: faster, more standards compliant, fewer limits (e.g. user aliases, connections, domains, etc), sub-domain aliasing, push email on iOS, app passwords with certain permissions (e.g. just SMTP, for usage on your server), mobile web interface that doesn't suck

- Chrome -> Firefox: better UI for power users, better extensions, better privacy (e.g. Facebook multi-account container), even after the WebExtensions API

- Android -> iOS: OK, this isn't for everybody, still you have AOSP distributions out there and to their credit Android is very customization still

- Gmaps -> OpenStreeMaps: in Easter/Central Europe where I live the maps in Gmaps are really poor and got me lost several times, OSM is miles ahead, for POIs too

- YouTube -> Vimeo: not for users, but for content creators Vimeo is superior because it lets you sell your movies and embed private videos on your own website; for users too I prefer seeing conference presentations on Vimeo because the mobile app lets me download them for offline viewing; YouTube indeed is unmatched in content, but I don't feel it's very relevant

> bangs seem like a great idea at first, until you realise that Google simply does not need them to return relevant results

That's just wrong. I've been using Google since aprox 2002 and no, their results are pretty shitty at times and are only getting worse. I was using "custom search engines" with _keywords_ (supported in both Firefox and Chrome) even when I was using Google. Also DuckDuckGo is pretty good at serving direct answers to various question types too.

I'm not a fan of DDG bangs though, because the browser is perfectly capable of handling custom search engines powered by keywords. That's not why I use DDG.
Using Middleware in ASP.NET Core to Log Requests and Responses
I don't think people are upset that Google could change settings or software, they're upset at the lack of technical controls that allowed Google to accidentally push out settings changes to user's devices, and the lack of security measures in the OS that allows that accidental settings change to be done without any sort of notification to the user. It'd be like your bank accidentally moving your money to another account; you know that they need the ability to transfer funds as part of their job, but they should have better internal processes that prevents them from accidentally doing it.
IPFS seems like torrents. The post doesn’t really address how abuse will be handled beyond blocking access to a specific hash from cloudflare’s gateway.

Illegal files can and will be uploaded to IPFS, why would anyone run a node knowing they might be hosting child porn or other illegal content that could land them in jail?
Issue Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates with the control panel
I want to love DDG - but for local search in the UK - it is terrible. I can be in a small town, searching for that small town, and it will give me a whole bunch of American results.

It is still my default search on my phone (plus I use Brave as the browser) - but I find myself popping back to google when I want a 'proper' search (and by that I mean the way that I've conditioned myself to thinking search should work with the last X years of googling - sure DDG will feel more natural one day)
Cloudflare is great. I love that they spend resources on projects like this. This would normally be a Moonshot or someone's side projects that would get limited/no release.
Hi Michi -- since the cloud and OT model is so similar to Google Drive, have you considered integration with that, as a Drive app, using Drive revisions?

I love the idea of Arc Studio, but I also keep everything in my Drive... that might make it harder for Drive and non-Drive users to collaborate, but I'm not sure.

But besides that, +1000! It's about time there was a cloud-based webapp for screenwriting.
I have a crazy first-time (not uncommon but unpronouncable when outside my country).

I lace sure to give my sons simple, common, international first names. And just one per kid (no second, third etc. first names)
There seems to be no direct link between DDG and Yandex besides these two links that lack any evidence. Yandex merely appears to be one of DDG's content sources.
Gap Junctions and Light Adaptation in Direction-Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells
Who cares if it's staged? Taking on a giant like Google requires some hassle and maneuvering.

As a business owner it's your responsibility to do whatever it takes to succeed. This harms no one.
That's fine if you're only going to look at Wikipedia. I use Google Scholar a lot, and !scholar is mighty useful.
For what it's worth, I replaced the battery in my 2013 Macbook Pro last week, and it was quite easy.

I used dental floss to saw through the adhesive and then adhesive remover to clean up afterwards. I didn't have to remove a single part from the laptop.

I recognize that a phone battery is more difficult, but firmly bonded batteries are really not an insurmountable hurdle.
Retail employees have to do the same procedure; they're instructed to pry the battery if the strip breaks. So I don't think this is a particularly difficult procedure.
Nuclear power is actually free of CO2 emissions. It's easy to see: one could use the electricity to make synthetic fuels from air and water. (Capture of CO2 sounds like a difficult problem, but ammonia and hydrazine would definitely work.) If the supply chain uses synfuels, nuclear power is emission free.

However, as long as a coal fired power plant is operating somewhere, you achieve a better result by using fossil fuels for the supply chain, feeding the electricity into the grid and saving more CO2 emissions elsewhere.

By the way, Sovacool's basic argument is that nuclear isn't CO2 free because the grid isn't nuclear enough. Something along the lines of "if we built more nuclear plants, we'd have to build more old enrichment plants and more coal plants to power them". In other words, he's too stupid or too crooked to correctly compute total derivatives.
Yes, You Can Name a Website “Fucknazis.us”
Paper voting is a waste of resources. And can be frauded the same way as electronic voting.
My guess is Amazon is working as fast as possible to automate the warehouses. Then people will complain they lost their jobs...
> People seem mad that it was a configuration change and not a change in the image that is installed on the device, but I don't see the difference.

Think of it this way: you need a backdoor to push remote config changes the way Google did.

Sure, Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. have the ability to run arbitrary code on your machine through updates, but they'd be abusing the trust placed in them to even install a backdoor, let alone use it.
Linux Kernel Adopts Contributor Covenant as a Code of Conduct
..and we verify that everyone actually voting is who they say they are.
It isn't the businesses fault that people don't have high margin skills. There effort should be on improving workforce skill and productive. Not villianising those who employ them.
Having worked at Yahoo, Nokia and now Amazon, I always am amazed at how much Machiavellian scheming is assigned to what is many times a bunch of techies making stuff up as they go along. Having made the sausage, I can't tell you how many times I've read some news and thought, "If they only knew."

The financial crisis made me realize that this is pretty much true for most areas except, I hope, for bridge-builders and rocket scientists.