skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
websites were already extremely aggressive about forcing you to consent before GDPR (and they still are) the difference is that some of what they are doing is a little bit more visible now.

Benefit for me is; knowledge is power.
When I know a website is intent on ravaging me, I can just keep moving.
Friendly historian nitpick: you mean to be discussing secession, seceding, and that the South seceded, not succession or succeeding. Had the South succeeded, we’d be having a wholly different conversation about the Civil War.
Why would they buy you out to be laid off? Wouldn't they have wanted to keep that kind of talent?
Bad or good companies are subjective. My family > your ideals. Sorry man, I'm not going to take a pay cut because of your list of companies that are subjectively bad.
I am an academic, with about 25 scholarly publications, depending on how you count them (see http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/pubs/ for a list and for links to download them). I am here to tell you that we DO NOT GET PAID for writing papers (which, much more than books, are the primary medium of research in the sciences). Of the 25 listed papers, I got paid something for one of them, which was not really research but activism -- and I was paid by the acdvocacy group, not by a publisher. For some of the papers on the list, _I_ paid the _publisher_: this is not unusual.

There is literally no downside for an academic author to have his or or her work made freely available to the world: only the considerable upside of greatly increased visibility and influence -- which is the true currency of academia.
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Infographics
The article’s subtitle might lead you to believe reading the article might help you get a little more info.

> MORE THAN JUST THE MAGNUS EFFECT —
It’s not that locked: https://www.windowslatest.com/2017/08/05/install-android-on-...

The problem is device drivers: traditionally, Linux doesn’t have them.
The discussion of the title effect for The Thing (painted glass, burning garbage bag, fishtank full of smoke) reminded me that the well-known Windows 10 default wallpaper[1] is, surprisingly, a practical effect. It's a pane of glass etched with the Windows logo suspended in front of a black background, with a bright light shining in from the side and a fog machine going.

[1] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/windo...
Cycling 23.000 Km from Alaska to Ushuaïa in 97 Days New World Record
Probably the closest thing in the US would be a Congressional subpoena. In contrast to the UK Parliament's shakier justification, both Congressional rules and the Supreme Court case Wilkinson v. United States have affirmed that committees can subpoena witnesses.
A part of me feels like this can't possibly be a good thing.

But who knows, maybe this will work out and be a net positive for society at the cost of the few people that will fall through the cracks and be evaluated unfairly. It seems like this is going to happen one way or another, so here's hoping for the best.
I call BS on the pouring rain and snow: wet, frozen leaves are not blowing anywhere.

You would get more hours raking and thus more income if you were not using leaf blowers: you are externalizing costs to the detriment of both your own income and the rest of us.
I have a serious question to ask you.

Do blind software engineers work exclusively on systems-type applications or does there exist technology for blind developers to create UIs?
In the actual words he seems to say notwithstanding the loss of life from war:

>Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

Freedom only decreased if you saw black slaves as non-human. They were a majority of the population in many southern states.

"Southern states saw" in the headline is probably ignoring the black population, but I'm not sure. It was only many years later that there were large migrations, after the reconstruction promises passed them over, "vagrancy" was heavily outlawed, and they effectively lost the vote.
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, written and narrated by Carlo Rovelli
Makes me feel more sympathetic to Gates. Noise pollution drives me insane: cars, aeroplanes, people with big mouths on the streets on summer nights.
Who knows? I think it’s pretty obviously a dystopian nightmare.
Every resident, or just those who don't bribe the right people to improve their ranking, or those who aren't high enough in the political pecking order?

It almost goes without saying that such a system is ripe for abuse and puts in to the hands of the powerful a new tool for control over the powerless.

The average citizen will now have to jump even higher when their masters tell them to jump, while those at the top of the political hierarchy are very likely to be exempt.
Their search results are horrendous.

In the past year, I've almost bought:

- a USB-A cable instead of a USB-C cable
- a Pixel 2 XL case instead of a Pixel 2 case
- a sink strainer instead of a sink stopper

All because searching for the latter also includes results for the former.
This is how similar site Lobste.rs works. From the “About Lobste.rs” page (https://lobste.rs/about)

> ## Downvote Explanations

> Often on other sites, a user would have his or her comment downvoted without explanation and then edit their comment to ask why they were downvoted. On this site, voters must choose a reason before downvoting comments and those votes are tallied and shown to the original commenter.

> For submitted stories, downvoting is done through flagging (also requiring a valid reason) and these flag summaries are shown to all users.

I like the limited cardinality of Lobsters downvote options because it reminds me of acceptable reasons of downvoting, because “I disagree but don’t want to write a comment” isn’t a choice.
Hell yeah. This is other people's pleasure causing me pain. Their right to swing their aural fist stops at my ears.
This reminds me of an interesting piece on what paths the wisemen would have taken if they followed a star continuously: https://what-if.xkcd.com/25/
Well then this is just false: “Ultimately your payment is determined in step 3 and has nothing to do with interest rates or home prices.”

You can’t have it both ways.
Indeed. Tariffs (primarily affecting manufactured goods) was a huge point of contention, rivaled only by the slavery issue.

During the Civil War there was "Cotton diplomacy" [1] where the South tried to pull Britain and France onto its side, under the presumption that their need for cotton would win out. Despite the cotton famine [2] they managed to stay neutral.

Anyway...economics (then and now) are king.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire_Cotton_Famine
It's been known for quite some time that overexpression of DeltaFosB [1] is a key component of addiction, and in my view this is essential to understand. But for some reason, these types of articles seldom refer to it.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11572966
Thank you so much for the thoughtful feedback! You make a lot of solid points...I'm now re-thinking what would be actually valuable as next steps.
They used the fan 4 times before hand. The anomaly happened on the 5th.

Physical systems are not deterministic. The very act of running a test changes the conditions of the test
thanks for the detailed answer!
A pro athlete has an idea of where he wants to sign when he becomes a free agent. He visits various teams, lets them wine and dine him, lets them engage in bidding for his contract.

Is he behaving immorally?
> Everyone gets sicker and medical issues start to crop up as they get older.

I disagree. I’m old enough to have been around before we had so many health problems.

It is one of the main drivers of our quickly increasing health costs.

When I was growing up we had smoking and that’s pretty much it.

> It seems you've managed to miss the point entirely.

Most people will change their lifestyle to help their immediate family when they wouldn’t change to help taxpayers as a whole.

> I hope your family never gets ill

It’s far too late for that - I’m an old man and I’ve seen lots of people I love pass away.
> it's always struck me as odd that people will spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars to make it so everyday tasks require minimal physical effort, and then spend even more money on home fitness equipment and gym memberships in order to artificially replace all the physical activity they were ostensibly trying to avoid in the first place.

A few days ago as I was doing some basic yard work when a friend stopped by and suggested I hire someone to do it instead. I told him exactly that, “If I pay someone to do this, I’ve got to pay for a gym memebership too.”

It’s also a nice change of pace to do something that not only doesn’t involve a computer, it doesn’t have any moving parts or machines at all. Very relaxing.
Autoplaying audio on websites at night is so stupid that they must have a good reason for doing this. It seems the perfect design to chase off people, get rid of the people that hangs on, and "optimize" the ratio between number of visits and resources needed
Thanks for your work Dan. After my 5 trials, I ended up buying the yearly one yesterday. Really really wanted to buy the lifetime sub like last year. Wish I knew about you guys then!
Yeah, sexist comments are what female empowerment is all about!
Majority of the rules, not all.

Remove set backs, get rid of minimum yard requirements, loosen height restrictions.

The rest of the world has houses right next to each other, as do America's most prosperous cities.

Manhattan, the dense parts of SF, Boston, Chicago, etc.

The regulations about minimum grass and 4 foot of set back and no more than 1 or 2 stories, have nothing to do with fire regs and everything to do with long disproven ideas about suburban design that hark back to 1950s ideals.

Visit a modern dense city, Tokyo and London don't have massive fire outbreaks (sprinklers and modern fire codes still work even at density), but they do have an insane about of economic activity in the dense neighborhoods.

Want to solve the housing crisis and get people off the streets? Dump 50% more houses on to the market, heck have cities subsidize their construction if need be, and watch housing prices plummet. Watch mass transit become the life blood of a city, and watch entire new types of jobs become available. (People in NYC may be annoyed at bike messengers, but it is a job created by density!)
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (2015)
A direct link to the font: https://www.dyslexiefont.com/

It’s not unusual for someone to post a list of ‘previously discussed’ HN links, but wow, there are a lot of them this time! https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dyslexie&sort=byPopularity&pre...
Ellipsoid distance on Earth
I will add to your burden of sadness: in some places with snow they pepper the beautiful snowy winter streets with grit so that the delicate automobiles are facilitated in their mad career. In the spring when it all melts they need to clean all this grit up... some of it is sweepable from the asphalt, but much has been displaced onto the margins and roadside lawns, so they need to rake it out. But what is this done with? Why, with nothing other than a horrible modified strimmer with four rubber blades which scrapes the debris into a pile. Like one of these: https://www.ebay.com/bhp/power-sweeper

If you think a leaf-blower is irritating you have never heard one of these f*s.
durable-queue was one of my favorite pieces of Clojure kit.
Worst thing for the web ever
And to head off an inevitable comment: No, I’m not trying to say that it’s inappropriate to repost. In fact, I think it’s awesome that people are working to keep this front-of-mind, and that enough people agree to get it front-page.
That thread says: "BerryLan works great on the Model 3 but not the ZeroW" Anyone know if that is still the case?
Is this a demo? Without more explanation nobody can understand what is going on. Do you have some docs?
Correct, it works fine with Stretch Lite.
This is Sovereign power in action, being the power that each country has to escalate when people or companies do not behave according to their norms. We generally don’t see it a lot but when it happens results can be severe.

It serves as a good warning that when doing business in any country you need to abide by the written and unwritten codes of conduct for that country. Two other less pleasant examples are Assange and Khashoggi.
I knew, of course, that slaves were integral to the economy of the south, and to the wealth of elites. But I had not known, though it is obvious in retrospect, how intertwined the trade was in the banking sector (like the real-estate market). All the more perverse.
I've recently been looking for a house cleaner and decorator as I have a hard time keeping up due to working
busy hours at my job (and I really hate cleaning & decorating).

I was chatting with a friend of mine who needs a web application for something he volunteers for. We came up with the bright idea that he would clean my place then do the interior design. At the same time he's working on that, I work on his app.

We sort of organically discovered a business contract and so far it has been working great. He enjoys cleaning and design and I like programming and both of us either hate or can't do the other. In addition, it gets us both off our asses as we're generally working on these things at times that we would normally be watching TV or doing other useless things. So far it feels win-win-win and it gets to the heart of what you were talking about - how to fill in that community between hired help and your close family. The alternative was that both of us spent our own money for these services and probably end up not as happy with what we got.
I suppose one relatively easy scenario for me to imagine would be these massive databases of information on billions of individuals being either hacked, leaked, or taken by groups with idealogies which could use such data to discriminate or worse.

A slower moving but potentially more insiduous effect on society might be the slow cracking down of any semblance of privacy and the use of all this data to discriminate whether intentional or not.

And indeed there have already been studies showing that a lot of these AI programs trained over large data sets are discriminating against minorities and the poor. I doubt it's intentionally built into the system but it appears to be a side effect of some systems.
It has nothing to do with trauma.

Is that true? I mean, what's the evidence for saying it has nothing to do with trauma?
Yes. Touch (create) an empty file called "ssh" in /boot, and wifi details in wpa_supplicant.conf as mentioned elsewhere in the thread. Very handy!
Cryptocurrency Startups Every Marketing Team Should Know About
"demonstrably"?

Please define your terms. I have seen the people wielding these monstrosties piss around for hours chasing one or two leaves or meaninglessly form pile of leaves that have no function other than to appear large so that the other inefficient human can stop only once to load them onto their gasoline chariot.

Most of this work could easily be either: 1) solved by refusing the scorched earth, anal standard of lawn care ; 2) good old fashioned, quiet wheel barrows and rakes operated by people paid a fair wage for manual labor instead of externalizing costs onto the rest of us.
How much do you value your time? Gardens tend to be pretty expensive when you add up the hours for a decade or two!
I kinda wanted to respond to all the comments generally here. I agree with most of what you all say. Landscaping, at least the way I spent a lot of time doing it is ridiculous. I have no idea why customers request the things they do, I honestly have no idea why people spend so much money making the outside space of their property into a sterile tidy space. It's never really sat well with me.

My keaat favourite part of landscaping was never the work or dealing with lousy people, it was the fact that people were paying so much money to have what was not only pointless work done much of the time but work that was actually detrimental to them having nice productive gardens and greenspaces that didn't require chemicals and constant work.

My background is in ecology and ecosystems management and restoration do s lot of the work i did as a landscapre really was at odds with a lot of the things I was trained to do professionally and a lot of the things I belief in morally.

I have to admit not all the work I did was like that, I spent a bit of time working for a company that specialized in making natural gardens, we didn't use power tools or spend much time rakinf and tidying, and honestly the work was far more rewarding, but I do really appreciate the need to use powertools and do these unpleasant things if that's what customers want.

It sucks. The traditional English garden or the idea of a proper landscaped exterior is really a terrible idea in a lot of says. I've never really liked the way a perfectly pruned and immaculate yard looks, even if i'm fairly good at making it look that way.

Working landscaping though is kind of like a lot of service work. You provide a service a lot of people want, you get treated like, shit for doing it and in the end the work you do is at best pointless at worse actively detrimental in a lot of ways.

The problem, like with a lot of thibgs, is people have this made up ideal of how their things and life should be, and they're willing to spend lots of money to make sure it's exactly how they want. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but the ideals of what people think is the 'thing to have' is definitely skewed towards a lot of pointless, expensive, polluting work that really doesn't need to be paid for.or done on such a scale as it is.
Ownership is a legal concept, and thus it's up to the legal system to decide if "the person who figures out the hash collision is the owner", or if in certain cases it's not.

Yes, it may be hard to enforce a judgement, especially if the other party can't be identified or located. However, if the other party is reachable, then the courts can certainly force that person to, for example, reverse the transactions, or compensate the rightful owner (as determined by courts, not the algorithms), or have their stuff and liberty taken away by angry armed men.

The process was designed so that the person who figures out the hash collision has full de-facto control, but the designers of a cryptocurrency have no say in what the rules for legal ownership are, that's up to the legislators - and just as for many existing (including physical things) having full control does not imply ownership, i.e. the right to freely act with that thing without it being forcibly taken away, and the right to have your property protected by the state if someone (including someone who has the key) takes your property.
It's possible to run a command in another tmux pane; I forget the specific syntax but I've tested this in the past and it works. The only thing the editor needs is a task runner (this is a planned feature for Amp); the task that's run is prefixed with the tmux command that triggers it in another pane.

The only thing that's bespoke to tmux is knowing which pane to target; you'd need to collect that from the user on the first run, or allow the value to be configured.
Where is the panic about Climate Destruction?

There really is no hope.

I will be crying when it all falls apart, but I really hope many of you die in agony.
Reality Distortion Field: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field
I hate to godwin this thread, but wasn't half the issue people claimed to have with ex nazis was that they never stood up and stopped following orders?

Obviously Googlers are not Nazis. I guess the subjective part ends up being where you draw the line.
I'm saying this one,

> Or are you saying that Bitcoin went up because they printed money and is now falling again as people get used to the increased monetary supply

It's pretty amazing, but it's true. The Fed can alter the countable Dollars in existence ("money supply"). They have a gov granted monopoly on 'em.
> No one wants to "ban free speech". There just need to be limitations.

The USA already has a narrow list of exceptions (true threats, defamation, etc.) and several of the examples you cite are utterly reprehensible, yet legally protected speech, so you're providing contradictory evidence here.

Granted, you may be in Germany where the situation is different? Of course, if so, you would seem to be 'influencing US elections' by calling for this speech to be removed, so I'm not sure where that gets us.

> And yes, people get riled up by these "memes" so hard they'll even burn down mosques or bomb them.

I'm not aware of any country that won't jail people for threatening to do such things, and so they should.
You’re conflating a lot in this post.

People, internationally, including Westerners, violate copyright law on a regular basis to download information they previously did not have access to. Some of them, not all of them, feel justified in doing so because in some way their tax dollars probably helped pay for some of it.

What Westerners, Americans mostly, but not just them, have taken issue with regarding Chinese theft of IP is threefold: State-sponsored espionage, bootlegging, and relaxed IP laws relative to Western countries that are also enforced in a relaxed manner. Personally of those, the only item on that list I would personally take issue with is the espionage, not because I think IP laws are worthless, but because we have bad, arguably unjust IP laws as the norm.

I won’t address your pointed jabs at the United States. This is neither the topic nor the forum.
AOL, an industry behemoth with 14 million subscribers, will
acquire Netscape's Navigator and Communicator software, its
e-commerce software, and its Netcenter Internet "portal"
site, one of the 10 most-visited sites on the Internet.

The portal was supposed to be the real cash cow, here. Buying eyeballs in the early era of internet ads.

Q: What's a portal?

A: Yes, exactly.
There are some echo blowers which top out at about 64db—much less than the rest which are about 70db. Nicer sound than corded ones. I almost plunked down for one. Might just use a power washer instead to pull double duty. Really intrigued me why other mfgs don’t try to lower the noise and type ov noise.
Ha! See if you can work in something like:

So he’s got no remorse

git push origin —force
Okay, so you mention what the Fed buys, but what does it sell? The same stuff, right? Assets. Assets become less scarce (Fed sells), prices go down. At the same time, Dollars become more scarce as the Fed sells their assets.
Even if the system applies equally to everyone, the biggest problem will be that civil disobedience is now completely banned. The government is now able to do whatever they want with impunity, and the citizens can't do anything about it.