skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the primary functions of the government is to provide consensus. There are flaws: dictatorships impose consensus, corruption skews consensus, not everyone participates. Doesn't matter. At the end of the day, almost all people on Earth recognize the rule of at least their own government. Therefore, it is easily the most universally recognized consensus.

And, in democratic nations, the laws often do follow society's agreed upon moral imperatives. This is why child abuse and animal abuse are illegal.

The sticky situations come in where there is not a strong consensus. In the US: Abortion, vaccines, climate change, gun control. There's an ebb and flow to it, but a lot of people will be generally unhappy no matter what does or doesn't happen.

Let's go back to my comment:

>If it was agreed upon then it would be illegal.

I think this is necessarily true. If society has a strong agreement that something is morally wrong, the laws almost certainly would follow, as they tend to.

I am not saying this is a perfectly accurate measure, and I'm also not saying the reverse is true. But I am absolutely saying that I believe one of the main reasons people go about imposing moral beliefs on others by threatening service providers and forming harassment mobs is because some group of people has a strong moral imperative that other people may not have or may actually disagree with.

I don't believe in absolute free speech, but I believe that people should be able to express themselves in ways that are legally protected. I also think it's okay for people to express their dislike of things, but I don't think it's OK to engage in coordinated harassment. Internet mobs are not the force I want policing the internet.

If you have a strong moral imperative against something that's legal, why do you think it's legal if everyone agrees with you?
I'm not talking about stealing. I'm talking about the commenter's perspective I quoted.
Many people who earn more than minimum wage and do pay taxes also find life unaffordable.
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The summary of it is "So that you have something you are not allowed to do, which will give you a better idea of what it is like to be black." I'm not convinced this is the best reason.
I still use IRC. I run my own email server (and haven't had problems so far). There are more protocols than just SMTP and HTTPS. (I even sometimes make up new ones, although sometimes the existing ones will do, even the ones that aren't so common.)

And, yes I agree, it would make the internet great again.
Great,

I've been searching for a tool like this for ages, bookmarked!
„Now Amazon isn't known to succumb to external pressure as far as I know.” Actually it is known to succumb: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-webs...
The bike analogy seems more applicable, yeah.
Is "y2k38" a common way to reference this issue? That doesn't save any characters over "y2038".
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> I don’t care that much about Patreon censoring the right, because there are many alternatives to take payments online. There are none however to visa/mastercard.

This is where you're wrong. If a payment processor doesn't like someone, they'll just threaten a platform after platform wherever you pop up. Block whoever we don't like or you won't be able to process payments.

Case in point: Sargon of Akkad. I'm not going to take any stand in this controversy because I don't know the backstory, however as soon as he switched from Patreon to SubscribeStar, PayPal went after SubscribeStar. I'm assuming they've said no when asked to block Sargon, because you can no longer cash out via PayPal. It wasn't Patreon that was after him, it was PayPal.
It would be fair to say so. The core layout is the same with a bit more polished overlap removal and animation.
Huh, I think I'll draw myself up a deed for the unregistered cricket field next to St. John's College in Cambridge. Nice area, you know.
maybe this has something to do with abandoning carbon fibre / heat resistant tiles with stainless steel?
You misunderstand jjeaff. He suggests making the MX of yourdomain.tld point to Gmail's MTAs. This is what he means by "forwarding email". This is the best-practice way to do it and works perfectly well.
This is exactly what frustrates me the most and what most of my logic checks. I'm writing tests for each of these semantic cases, but it seems silly to me that a standard leaves something so ambiguous.
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Hello!

I'm Sameer, currently a 3rd year student in New Delhi.

I have a product idea that I was thinking about since the past few months now.

It is about increasing conversions by showing customized call to action messages to your visitors. I call it WebTraff.

I've wrote about it here --> https://webtraff.netlify.com

[Development status - 50% backend is completed and currently paused: Started building out of excitement, later realized that developing the product before asking experienced people about their views is a risky bet]

Please let me know your honest feedback about it - Positive/Negative (Whatever, but truth). And also if I'm missing something, do let me know :)

Thanks a ton!
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I have an older Synology. It is already ready for the masses.

Why: You only need one one for a family and most of the time there's already a person in the family who does "PC stuff". And even if there isn't there's always someone who'll learn it if a friend has one.

The rest of this post is not targeted at you but rather on a whole attitude here at HN:

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Anyone who can operate a web browser, has any education in IT and knows enough English to read instructions in the box should be able to set up one.

In fact I think just being able to read the quick start instructions should be enough to install one with basic features.

Setting up websites in the 90ies - early 2000s were a lot harder. Same goes for using older PCs with DOS.

A major problem today seems to be learned helplessnes. In our well meant and to some degree profitable[0] effort to make sure anyone can use anything we have are creating a situation were people are more helpless .

Seriously: if app stores and walled gardens had been introduced first the web and email had been considered to complicated now. I can imagine HN: """You mean my siblings, parents and grandparents are going to install this "e-mail" thing? Even if they were able to configure "smtp" and whatnot they'd forget the "email address" or even how to start it before tomorrow."""

[0:]: if anyone doesn't catch my drift, your brightest customers might not be the ones who pays most ;-)

Edits: a number of them :-)
The NXP Kinetis micro-controllers have a sane RTC that counts seconds as a 32 bit number and fractional 32khz ticks. Bonus survives a hardware reset.

STMicro's RTC's are the usual POS everyone loathes. All the RTC IC's are also just like that.
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>nobody is saying it has to be the only solution.

As long as the alternatives aren’t wind, or hydro, or geothermal, or nuclear. Because all of those are supposedly bad for the environment in one way or another. The original commenter outright said that solar was “more than enough” to meet energy demands, as a way of dismissing consideration for nuclear (a solution which actually can).

Environmentalists do a terrible job of marketing their message, to a public that is already largely apathetic. The original commenter would rather you not consider realistic solutions, because you can achieve the same outcome with a massive capital outlay, and a major lifestyle adjustment. How out of touch do you have to be to expect that this is a solution that would be acceptable to the average consumer? And you can’t say that ‘nobody is saying’ that, because that’s exactly what the parent comment said.
Indeed, the resistance losses in an electric motor increase as the square of the current, torque increases linearly with current, so running higher current to produce more acceleration or deceleration is less efficient.

But, I^2 resistance is not a large effect compared to the losses from air resistance at high speeds. That is, slowing down from 75 to 65 will have more effect on range than how quickly you accelerate to 75.
Regardless of proof that these particular doctors are being influenced by the money, the offer of the money creates a perverse incentive. If a doctor likes a particular drug they can proselytize it on their own time and dime.
There have been pretty strong Cannabis planted in big scale farms for many decades in South America. There are those not so strong too, but there are tons of good stuff in big operations. Paraguay, for example, have skilled big plantation farmers.
I don't know. As a hobby composer this sounds so wrong. All compositions are restricted more or less. What's missing from Beethoven's 5th? Corny? outdated? What's missing from Vivaldi's pure childlike harmony? Chopin's nocturnes? Bach's complex counterpoint in the Art of Fugue?! Different eras are just... different, but like different flowers, or a glass of water to beer, not one above all else. This might sound corny.

They say Schoenberg pushed tonality to its limits, but to me there's so much ground to be explored harmonically and rhythmically way past Debussy and others, and way past tonality in general. How's abstract not musical? Think of extending Bach's complex counterpoint with AI; think of moving away from discreteness; think of adding technical extensions to every instrument of the orchestra in order to create new possibilities of sound; think of going past the 12 notes. Looking at it this way, Debussy is also very restricted in terms of depth and in terms of notes on and between the lines.
During last Christmas _every single commercial break_ on _every TV station_ had Huawei commercial, some for phones, some for phone+plan bundle from one of the providers. It was bizarre.
I used to work for an ecommerce site that sold the Numi toilet (gen 1), and it's amazing how many people shell out $8000 for a creepy automated toilet. I agree it's silly, but there is apparently a market.
Screening generally doesn't affect the fetus and can help make a decision about whether or not to do a more invasive test in the absence of other risk factors. Most screening is also before the timeframe that you're able to perform something like amniocentesis. Thinking PGD (for IVF), NIPT, NT ultrasound, serum screening, other such things...

I don't know a lot of people that refuse the noninvasive prenatal screening offered by California... even if you don't act on the information you receive.
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I didn't look into frequency. Is there a version of jaccard similarity that accounts for frequencies?
They're still supporting this device for now, so no complaints yet.

But when I buy a piece of hardware I absolutely expect it to work for at least ten years. When did that become unreasonable?

The base scenario is that it works standalone and it'll keep working for many years. If you choose to involve a server, then you have a responsibility to keep the server up for an extended period. If it's a legacy product then the number of users will continually drop and the cost to keep a couple servers up will be minuscule.
Yea, people who know of property rights can get pretty disgusted at people who don't.
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This is great, and works flawlessly!
Thank you! I'm so happy you like it.
It would look pretty cool, but jesus fuck what an insane amount of waste to send that material up into orbit. MAYBE if we were mining off the moon already where launching shit into orbit is relatively cheap, but that is assuming we already had the base, the workers, the infrastructure and transports that can be done safely already in place.
It’s simple and just works, don’t stop making great things.
Damn. So I know what it's like to have ~no freedom of expression. We used to distribute stuff that was printed at night on fucking mimeograph machines! You had to burn the stencils at the end of a run. Which is one reason why I ended up in the US. That, and the drugs. But whatever.

Also, it's funny that much of what's now "politically correct" was totally unmentionable and censored in the 50s. If those who were "politically correct" then had done a better job at censorship, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
I found the documentarian to be more interesting than her subject which was an old white man listening to talk radio that appeals to old white men and agreeing with it. Her old man is just very agreeable having gone from the left to the right to the center seemingly just parroting the news source he's listening to at the time.

The documentarian on the other hand appears to have never listened to Rush Limbaugh before setting out to do this documentary since she knows so little that's non-controversial about the man. Such as his quirk of saying ditto. She seems ro have just decided who he was by osmosis by reading left wing news articles about him. Rather than try to genuinely understand the appeal of right wing radio she just dismisses it as naziesque brainwashing. The way she belittles her father while not appreciating the narrow range of political thought she has exposed herself to is just so incredibly smug and oblivious.

This documentary in a nutshell is what is wrong with political discourse.
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I think you have to give it to everybody equally. Othereise it might be more beneficial for some to stay in a lower bracket.

I know some will think this is silly but I have seen it fist hand geoing up. This can happen when the cut off for support is a hard cliff. Working one extra job for $100 can bring you over the limit resulting in more than double the support. Essentially meaning you are paying $100 to make $100.
Caring for someone else is not weakness.
You might enjoy this, which I wrote a few years ago. The project is dead now. https://robigalia.org/blog_drafts/2016/12/23/what-time-is-it...
if two adjacent rooms playing chromecast or dlna client, is there any synchronization of played sound, so you don't hear delay of music between of the two rooms
Presumably the owner with the actual deed will object.
A ton. I have a 1980s Pioneer receiver with a CC Audio hooked up to it and it's incredible [1]. I love the silverface/wood look and the knobs/switches feel great, so much better than modern receivers. I'm thinking of getting another CCA for my mom's 70's Sansui system.

[1] https://i.redd.it/eahkkdt33xf11.jpg
In Denmark 36usd will get you unlimited calls, texting, 40gb of data and worldwide roaming.. seems like the same is priced at 80usd at google fi?

The US is a wierd place..

https://www.3.dk/abonnementer/mobil/40-gb-mobilabonnement-in...
CA's screening program is not free. It costs $220 to participate, although insurance may cover that cost so it is free to the patient. Any followup care for people with fetuses at high risk of a birth defect is covered by the state though.

Back from when I was pregnant, I also recall that my insurer (Kaiser) would cover the cost of NIPT for anyone 35+ or in certain high-risk cases without having to go through the state. They also covered the cost of carrier testing.

edit: I thought maybe you might be thinking of newborn screening which is also very much a Thing in CA, but it turns out that is also not free - $130, also covered by most insurance. Good to have though!
Exactly. Although I do see that you can buy a female HDMI to VGA converter with 3.5mm audio out for $4; hopefully that would work. I'm assuming the VGA end isn't detecting whether something is connected or not.

Edit: meh, no, these things are Energy Star compliant so they shut down if no VGA is connected. And they don't support HDCP.
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There is no precedent and it’s not disturbing- sounds clickbait to me
I can see why an email is the better option, seems much cleaner and less awkward. I have seen people go to meetings and while they are in the layoff meeting all there access is cut off - so its purely done to lure the poor employee away to avoid any odd mails afterwards. Pretty lame and distrusting honestly.

Space X seems to still trust everyone fully, most companies dont.
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I am a devleoper who don't know to design. I struggle with CSS and XML too. Instead of designing from scratch, I was wondering if there's any tool that can help me use existing UI templates to develop apps faster. Sketch, Figma, etc needs the user to have know how to design.
It's an opinion piece in the opinion section. The author thinks the particulars are without precedent and finds them disturbing.
In general LoRa (and LoRaWan) are designed to be very resilient against interference, but targeted jamming seems possible: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.02141.pdf

On the other hand, jamming is possible for most radio protocols. I'm pretty sure it's illegal though, even in the license free band.

And LoRaWan in standard mode is inherently unreliable (unconfirmed packages by default). Using it for "passive" logging is fine, using it for critical "active" remote control maybe less so.
Similarly, at the time when the Soviets constructed the supersonic P-700 Granit missile, the US did not have defense technology sufficient to defend against it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-700_Granit
I'm getting the same error on Firefox Quantum.
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This is a really useful tool. It works so smoothly on my mobile.
REST API for my city's traffic lights (and associated detectors): http://trafficlights.tampere.fi

Realtime map someone made with that: http://jouni.kapsi.fi/trevalot/
Aww, thank you!

> don’t stop making great things.

Not going to ever stop! I have sooo many ideas - I wish I could be more efficient :).
I work for GM (for now). 15% layoffs were announced before Christmas... No one knows when the ax will drop. Rumor is Monday or Tuesday.

Moral is low and the office has been pretty damn quiet. Meanwhile we just raises earnings forecast today...
So why do they use pulsed light? What’s the benefit of time-of-flight over the continuou method? Can signal to noise of time of flight ever approach the correlation methods?
Happy to hear :)!
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can't help with not going a bit on this rant, because it really hurts, so Brazil, please just do like the smart African countries do, let the Chinese bring thousands of workers and then they will go back to spend the Chinese New Year with their families and let a railroad built there, that will work for longer than the lifetime of these workers, and they probably will live longer than what you expect. Come on, there is no point in protecting your workforce if you let your workforce collecting empty cans all day for a dollar to buy the bread of today Anyway!!! You are not protecting anything or any workers, much the contrary, and you still don't get a single working train...It's like Einstein said, there are no limits for Stupidity, indeed...
What is dehumanizing? Either way is awful, but companies have to make tough decisions and communicating those is not easy. Many people prefer an email over awkward semi-genuine HR discussions. Coworkers and manager will reach out afterwards in private and in person if they really cared about the connection.
When it comes to the kernel, "We don't break userspace" is explanation enough. Feel free to add swearwords in English or Finnish depending on how you think 68-year-old Linus will feel about the matter.
That simulation made me sick to my stomach in two minutes flat. Of course, everyone has their own tolerance for this kind of stuff, so don’t try this if you’re new to VR.

Still a cool experience nevertheless.
This is a very upper class problem. You are vastly over estimating the ratio of smart to dumb devices.
The other incomparable feature is wifi casting vs bluetooth streaming. You can pick a playlist/album from your phone, hit cast, and ship your phone off to Alpha Centauri without the music disconnecting. Much less battery drain than Bluetooth, and higher quality audio regardless of if you're taking advantage of the optical output to a high-end DAC.

My only gripe is that sometimes you can keep your phone in your pocket and use the volume buttons to adjust the casted volume, and sometimes it doesn't work. Might be an iOS thing though.
Yes, screening is non-invasive (and also is not definitive), but is optional and some people refuse even non-invasive screening because nothing will change their mind about continuing the pregnancy "for as long as god intends it".
How else would you resign then writing an email? Are you writing a piece of paper? Written seems much more professional then just verbal, leaves no doubts. Sure, you can tell before in person but email seems the best way.
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> this way of doing it is just unnecessarily cruel

The right way to lay off varies culture to culture.

I worked on a trading desk. 1:1 personal lay-offs followed by security cleaning out your desk seemed unnecessarily cruel. An e-mail out of hours—and an offer to schedule a phone call—seemed far more gentle. In other cultures, the human touch matters. Given SpaceX’s results-oriented culture, their approach seems appropriate. The goal was to prevent those not getting laid off from seeking new jobs while keeping those being laid off from panicking those staying. Letting everyone go home, finish their after-work schenanigans, and then—before recruiters have a chance to nip—deliver the news is a good balance for the relevant parameters.
As someone who also enjoys music in this vein, I'd recommend trying Ravel, Mompou, Janáček, Satie, Delius, Busoni, Milhaud, Fauré, Schubert, Liszt, Domeniconi, Sibelius, Ligeti, Messiaen, Xenakis, Martinů, and Scriabin among others I'm forgetting (in roughly decreasing order of likeness). Like you I don't get much out of most earlier classical music, with the major exception of Bach, or out of totally atonal stuff either.
I think the article is talking about streaming a game like a movies from netflix. Instead buying and downloading the game you can just play the games while you have a subscription.

Just more rent seeking software as service bullshit if you ask me.
Yes, a father learning to love his daughter for who she is, rather than live in a mire of regret over what could've been is a perpetuation of the 'noble savage' myth.

It sounds like you really don't understand the 'why' of the article if that's what you came out of it with.
Well, it also contains usable ordered lists. Which is not a small addition to rdf (it defines interop with rdf’s version of ordered lists, but the one in json-ld is array based with random access patterns and a .length while the pure rdf version is purely linked list based without any guarantees about having only one link)
Huh. US tax isn’t Low?!? And I think in Singapore you’re forced to pay tax. They ask you if you’re a US citizen here and treat your income tax differently. I could be wrong tho. I’m not American so I don’t need to worry about double tax.
No, your link doesn't talk about an iot scenario. Selling and purchasing houses has absolutely nothing to do with iot.

And using semantic web for that is just as bad. A basic json API would be much more stable than parsing a document with navigation and similar just to get that data.
"The Index Polygons dataset can’t be mapped publicly – I’ve written before about this data and the legal challenges involved in doing anything with it. But I think there is no IP problem with showing the holes in the map."

Wow, a figurative AND literal loophole!
For comparison, DoD is reducing its medical workforce for 13%, 17,000 jobs. Makes total sense to me. I only work 12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week, so really, less than half-time.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/01/10/more-17000-un...