skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew before seeing the source that it was BBC. They've had some strange fixation with dystopian Japan and perceived issues in contemporary Japanese culture for years now. Very rarely reporting about similar classes of stories from other foreign countries like that.

The same stories get recycled again and again.

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-47033704?intlink_from_url=&...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01knsnp

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04rxggk

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-39981997

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9IRmUEsz6g

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-12347219

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03fh0bg

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23182523

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr5y1iP9TfU

(This one is ironic: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b064ww32?ns_mchannel=social...)
I just found out that the Archer C7 now has support for both Qualcomm SFE and hardware decryption. No official builds yet (all official builds for the C7 are based on kernel 4.9 while SFE requires 4.14), but I found this: https://github.com/gwlim/openwrt-sfe-flowoffload

For me the speedup with SFE is almost x2, haven't tried hardware encryption yet.

With this, I would say the C7 is an excellent router for OpenWRT.
Scheme like Shamir's Secret Sharing [1] allow you to split a secret between multiple people, and also set how many people are needed to reconstruct the secret. For instance, you could share it with 5 people, and only require 3 to reconstruct the secret.

[1] http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/
I came here to say the same thing. We’ve already seen it play out in the US with college tuition costs where loans are effectively guaranteed so college tuition has risen to a new equilibrium point to reflect that.
Been testing captchas inadvertently quite a bit in fresh installs across multiple VMs, from what I can tell it has nothing to do with whether you have cookies or privacy configurations, it comes down to whether you use Chromium or use a shared IP. If you use Firefox even without privacy configs, expect to spend 3x the time as Chrome, that's not even including the fact that those fading images load 5x slower on Firefox. If you use a shared IP (in my case a $6/mo vpn) + Firefox, it's not even worth trying imo as it can take 3+ mins to complete captchas on most sites and it's much quicker to just open Brave to complete it in 10 seconds, the amount of tries you have to do also has nothing to do with getting all the pictures correct.
For me the atmosphere at CCC was much nicer.
CCC: Bunch of crazy hackers and makers
FOSDEM: Your average software nerds
There is a much much stronger historical precedent of businesses competing rather than colluding. Price fixing isn’t a Nash Equilibrium, and therefore, isn’t a stable state. The market will ruthlessly push prices on goods to their lowest profitable price by means of the marginal consumer.

While price fixing obviously happens, it usually only happens in markets with a small number of producers. And even then, it will inevitably collapse.

Look around, goods are very competitive nowadays. Computers are competitively priced, all goods on Amazon, nyc $1 pizza, food, gasoline, cars, clothes, etc.

Very few businesses have the fat margins you claim are the norm. And the businesses that do are usually not producing goods, but renting services: telecoms, advertising, etc.
'Delicious food' is very much a modern human invention. The vast majority of human history is full of foods that sustain life, but rarely 'delicious'.
The process is the punishment.
I find belief in god, prayer, and spirituality to be incomprehensible activities indicative of mental illness (usually completely harmless, sometimes not). Are you saying that a lack of socialization due to religion is healthy, while being a "shut-in" and playing video games is a problem? I think they're both potentially problematic, but the former isn't better or healthier, and the latter isn't worse.
There's no reason there couldn't be separate per-user folders within the game's installation path for that.
> you actually can't completely replace the macronutrient profile with vegetables. You can get close, but you lose out on things, and this is especially the case for parts of nutrition that we're still continuing to learn more about.

Do we have a history of eating so much meat, corn and diary? Humans in history have had very varied diets depending on location as far as I understand and the existence of vegan + vegetarian athletes is very convincing to me we don't need meat.

> I'm a little curious as to why you didn't address my other points.

Which ones? I probably tried to implicitly.

> We need huge reductions to corporate emissions to avoid dangerous climate change. I think it's a bit of an anthropomorphic fallacy to believe that our consumption habits have a larger impact on the climate than demonstrably larger corporate contributors.

Given these figures, do you still think believe this?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
"The new analysis shows that while meat and dairy provide just 18% of calories and 37% of protein, it uses the vast majority – 83% – of farmland and produces 60% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions."

> If we really want to battle climate change, it requires coordinates, global pressure to the top.

Yes, but consumers definitely have an influence too. There's certainly been more demand for meat-free products in the last decade which companies are acting to profit from for example.
Verison is the product of Bell Atlantic which also acquired GTE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTE
Any Js framework will work, also vanilla js will work.

Just pick a framework that you want to learn and do this project on this framework. Also if you want to learn vanilla js, pick vanilla js.

And for the backend side, same story, pick whatever framework and language you prefer. Superior framework at the scale of a side project doesn't exist. And personally I would pick vanilla js with Django because that is the stack I know the best
I don't know C but I am interested in learning.

What would be a good place to learn the steps of making an OS?

I just want a bird's eye view right now, just to understand the moving parts. This will also help me in the future as a manager.
My two cents (as someone a bit more familiar with this stuff):

I don't think there is a single universal skill at play. Much like reading code, I think it depends on your familiarity with the specific 'programming language' in which the code/argument is written: show, say, Lisp to a Javascript-only programmer, and they would likely get stuck as well.

In this particular case, I happen to be familiar with this particular dialect of mathematical physics (and its style of argumentation), so I was able to follow along. But show me, say, some crazy algebraic number theory stuff, and I would be totally lost.

Going back to your question, then, I suggest getting familiar with the particular mathematical 'dialect' (and, I cannot emphasize more, style of argumentation) you are interested in.

For example, in this particular case, I would read up on --and, ideally, develop some 'muscle memory' for-- (some) differential equations and multivariate differential calculus using, say, Khan Academy.

(A bit of familiarity with the somewhat non-constructive style of argument of 'modern' classical mechanics wouldn't hurt either.)
Not a good take. In the supermarket example you do free work to save a company money on labor. You don’t save a corporate entity anything when you drive instead of take an Uber or wash dishes instead of hiring a cleaner.
Yep. I've worked in on a multi-tenant product in which I've seen senior engineers write APIs that would have allowed one tenant (enterprise customer) to access the data of another tenant!! Insane.
As far as your backend design goes it really depends on your scaling needs and how much of a purist you want to be about keeping your dependencies open source. If I was just trying to scratch a personal itch I would write it as a Typescript w/ Apollo GraphQL hooked up to a managed Postgres and running on a serverless platform like AWS Lambda. I’d probably write the frontend in React with some kind of state management library.
For zsh, just enable vi input mode? (bindkey -v in .zshrc) It starts in insert mode, hit esc to get to normal mode where your typical vi binds work. So instead of ^a to go to the beginning of the line it's <Esc>0
Maybe it is a little bit cooler on large fields too: a significant fraction of incoming radiation is drained away as electrival power.
> consider raising peak commute throughput instead of devising ways to suppress peak demand

Getting rid of most of the cars and putting people on trains does wonders for peak throughput.
React Native gets you the most platforms for the least effort (web, mobile, windows, macos). React PWA if you don't care about being on the app store.
There is value in having just one editor.

Some developers perform fairly complex edits when preparing commit messages.
> forever

Google doesn’t have the best track record in the forever department :)
The fade-in fade-out captchas are especially infuriating. Captchas are already bad for UX but those which purposely slow down how fast you can solve them are on a whole different level.
https://wiki.osdev.org
Totally agree, it was all about persistence way more than actual coding. And if you know where to look it's way easier than it sounds.
That also made me think of Spaceward Ho! I know it may be too simple a game for a “serious” 4x game conversation, but I still in joy its style of gameplay. Sometimes a game like Civ can be too deep, or demand too much time for a satisfying play through, where Spaceward Ho! is fun, quick, but still hits some of those 4x notes.

Are there any modern 4x “lite” type games like this?
I actually think that is the best long-term approach for all of the parties involved:

In the past OpenJDK was missing critical features so that companies often used the commercial closed-source Oracle JDK. At the same time even then Oracle JDK was somewhat of a trap when it comes to licensing, as it included features not covered by the free licence that might be accidentally used by developers.

With Java 11 there is finally feature parity: Oracle contributed missing features to OpenJDK. Features that couldn't be contributed (due to licensing issues) were removed from the commercial Oracle JDK. So starting with Java 11 those two versions of the JDK are pretty much equal.

With Java 11 there's no reason to use the commercial Oracle JDK. Most of the companies that used the Oracle JDK before are better served by using one of the open-source OpenJDK builds: Either Oracle's OpenJDK build (which is only going to provide support for 6 months after each release), or one of the third-party builds that most likely are also going to track LTS releases such as Azul's Zulu or AdoptOpenJDK.

Oracle is very upfront about those changes: When you try to download Java 11+ from Oracle's website there's a huge yellow box with a warning about the license changes. In addition, that box also links to the GPL-licensed OpenJDK version.

As a Java developer I'm very happy about that new approach: With the feature parity between OpenJDK and the commercial release it's finally possible to develop and run Java applications on a 100% open-source stack, which is something that was much harder to do with earlier OpenJDK releases.
That doesn’t work if you have kids. You miss seeing them in either the morning or evening, and the schools don’t time shift to match your schedule.
> Don't know much about pricing and IP since I've only been doing open source/hobby projects... But I've heard this complain[t] a lot.

That would be because they don't have any pricing information on their website, so you need to plan for it costing ℵ_{0}.
Robot automation will 'take 800M jobs by 2030' (2017)
It's always amazing to me how confident random people on the internet are that they know precisely what the average user wants.
>For an initial experiment this is actually fine. You first want to check that the effect on the individual is beneficial and people don't just stop contributing to society.

Is it though? With the knowledge that it will be over in 2 years you get a different sort of behavior then if it actually functioned as a guaranteed support net.

I would have found it much more interesting, if it supported people 10 year from retirement for those 10 years. They could just stop everything and dont have to care for after the project ends.
SNOW news day!
Why not just use an editor without awful UX?
Your car dashboard is broken. Instead of fixing it, you write an app that provides a lousy workaround. Is this meant to be a bad example?
I'm actually more interested in what happens with lower amounts that aren't enough to live on. On the margin, this should still have some good effects, and is more likely to be implemented.
At its core, Google Keep is a relatively simple web app. Especially for a low traffic scenario, literally any web framework/library and combination will be good enough. You need storage, a backend, and a front end, either all from the same package or talking to each other.

I suggest you figure out what looks interesting to learn and go with it. You can also “outsource” parts e.g. getting storage and backend as a service from something like Firebase, so you can focus only on building the front end.
If you want people to keep their notes in it, it's going to have to advertise stability and longevity. Ruthlessly cut dependencies/requirements and avoid using features that may change under you as time goes on. Use a simple data-store built with common tech (json, sqlite, straight text files, etc) so people can get to their data even if your code disappears off the face of the Earth one day.

For the frontend, then, we're talking tables and forms. Really simple lowest-common-denominator stuff. Design the API before touching any of the code - that's the only place where "without pulling the entire DB at page load" can happen. Build the backend in something with a safe, stable standard lib or core ecosystem, python or common lisp or the like.

Of course, those are ultimately stretch goals. Like another commenter here said, use whatever you're most comfortable with. On the vast majority of software projects the biggest obstacle is the programmer. I can't really help there because I don't know what you're familiar with. Sorry. Good luck.
Recipients of foodstamps aren't government employees and their fraud is individuals committing crimes, it's not government corruption.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2018/04/04/the-f...

The takeaway is that food stamp fraud ballooned during
the four years through 2016 but that it still represents
a tiny percentage of the program.

A corrupt solution would be punishing the 99.1% of ethical recipients through more bureaucracy and restrictions for what the 0.9% did. That 0.9% should drive 100% of their fraud policies separately without impeding the overwhelmingly legitimate aid distribution.

When compared with those total figures, the fraud
identified in 2016 amounted to a mere 0.9% of the
total. That was up from 0.5% in 2012.
You can do most of these manual settings on a phone nowadays.
It's not a great analogy.

Would you drive an unwanted Yaris that came installed with your house, if there was no downside to using your Ferrari: no fuel economy, no damage risk? Of course not.

I don't worry that Vim is going to be scratched by a runaway shopping cart, or go through 80 dollars of gas in a week.

When it comes to cars, people would in fact drive the Yaris.
I’m skeptical about the conspiracy claims about how livestock were THE leading cause of GHG and looked up my own sources.

The EPA doesn’t place livestock as the leading cause of GHG.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...

Livestock are an important source (just not the most important). Documentaries with an obvious angle also purposely edit their footage to cast their villains in an unflattering light.

There’s also a good blog post by the Union of Concerned Scientists about this very claim.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/doug-boucher/cowspiracy-movie-review
I was mostly going for a morbid pun, but it's nice to hear that the FS does support this.

Surprising Explorer is so bad at it since they're good at getting EXIF data and ID3 tags into the Properties tab in Explorer.
Maybe contrib to :
https://github.com/paperwork/paperwork (JS + Docker)
https://github.com/Laverna/laverna (JS)
https://github.com/keybits/permanote (Python)
https://github.com/Azeirah/brainstorm (JS)
I want to see a AlphaGo/AlphaStar version playing Civ VI.
I followed this http://www.osdever.net/bkerndev/Docs/intro.htm with some pointers from osdev wiki
> Oracle has also demonstrated in court that the Java API is their intellectual property, and that they are willing to go after people for reimplementing them. OpenJDK might be blessed, but I'd still be afraid of having anything to do with their intellectual property. That's also one of the primary reasons I'm not very excited about ZFS.

If you use OpenJDK you get an implicit patent grant to run OpenJDK (as it's licensed under the GPL).

If you use any other non-OpenJDK runtime you might still violate some of Oracle's patents, but you don't get any patent grant.

So if you're concerned about patents then using OpenJDK (instead of not using it) would actually be the safer way to go.
I think they're saying you don't need to package your own jar, and that other libraries are available - I guess through a Maven/gradle setup.

But not sure! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Damn straight. Where does the system get off trying to tell me how I should organize my stuff? Keep system stuff in a folder for system stuff and the rest of the file hierarchy is mine, because it is my goddamned computer. The original Mac got this right and no one else has since.
Panel cleaning can be done by robots, no?
> basically every app should run in a docker container

Why does it have to be "Docker"? Any other container framework should do as well, no?

Note that systemd can create cgroups and namespaces for processes it manages: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/security.html
When pharma has the patents etc in order, and has done their dance with the FDA.
Typical complacent American always living under fear
You could just pay double ($10 or so) for a VPN that logs, has less users, more IPs, and should be able to avoid these issues.
I wonder if she would have kept up the same good work if she had been paid for it. Not meaning it in a bad way, I mean the difference of doing it for fun and doing it for money.
It could also be that the marginal traffic or revenue generated by her over the next best quiz author is much less than $200k. If so, having her specifically may only be worth, say, $5k and not worth the hassle in the context of the overall program continuing to work.
Futter for Android/iOS and any JS stack for web

And use Firebase or Firestore as the database. It's super easy to build a simple MVP app with just Firebase SDKs
US fake university: India anger after students arrested
Is there a reason to refuse to explicitly label variables, especially in a pop-sciesque article like this?

I could more or less follow the math but because I havent memorized a dictionary of Greek variable meanings this becomes meaningless.

What's the point? You're alienating everyone but the people who already know exactly what you're talking about and you're left preaching to the choir.

It's unfortunate because this seems really interesting.
If you're speaking of AppImage, what do you mean by "where are they hiding"? AppImages are quite literally exactly where you put them and nowhere else.
How is it lousy? You seem jealous
Chicago is a good example. Nobody follows the speed limit, especially on the express ways (often 30+ over). Going with the flow of traffic is key.
I know about 100 people who made a moderate to serious attempt at passive income, and the hardest part is finding something people will pay for. I can categorize them all into a few buckets:

1. Got industry experience through freelancing, and used that to find something valuable

2. Worked on their "passive income" project fulltime for > 6 months

3. Both, or

4. Made less than minimum wage

Now, anecdotes aren't data, and most of these people aren't software engineers. But I would encourage you to try taking your product ideas, freelancing in that industry with small contracts, and using that to refine your sense of what the market wants.
I use Keep Notes on Android for shopping lists and while the UI is sleek and animated, the lag is intolerable. Thanks for reminding me that I can simply switch to another app.
I think it's more that during a downturn the powerful find ways to make some victims blame other victims but not the powerful who are doing quite well. Just look at the latest political developments. Workers think that immigrants are the source of their declining job prospects instead of questioning why the upper x percent take an increasing share of economic output for themselves and even give themselves tax cuts.
In a pretty distant way this reminds me of Game of Life. People spend real research effort (and brute force computing power) to discover structures with certain capabilities (e.g. glider guns). I think the key is that the new tech to research is not even known by the game creators in advance. Something similar can be seen in machine building games like Besieged.
Have side projects ever been a good way to generate passive income? For some people, sure. For most people, I'd argue it's a terrible financial decision. Most side projects fail and never generate any revenue. To stray from the software focus, how many people actually make money trying to sell Avon products (or Amway, etc.)? How many people lose money becoming a realtor to attempt a side job? Set up a booth at a flea market to hawk wares? Advertise their gutter cleaning service and never get customers?

The vast majority of non-mainstream money-making ventures fail. That doesn't mean they're a waste of time, especially if you enjoy the activity anyway. And there's something to be said for taking a chance. I applaud entrepreneurs on all levels. The idea that a side project in any field makes good financial sense is unfounded, though.
Sword of the Stars has a more or less fixed tech tree, but your scientists can completely fail to find techs at random, sometimes locking you out of important technologies. Turns out that making a core gameplay mechanic RNG based is kind of annoying.

I liked the one in the old Stars! game where you invest in broad categories (chemistry, biology, etc...) and tech would unlock at a combination of tech levels. A better laser might be electronics 4, metallurgy 2 for example.
Asterius – Haskell to WebAssembly Compiler
Paying tuition should in no way make earning your degree easier. In fact, basically just the opposite, since nobody respects your degree if it was just sailing through a piece of cake with the help of money. I just love practical jokes like this, and I'm not alone. In real life the struggles are much bigger so if you cannot handle the small ones like this your future is not looking bright.
Vue is just like that. Actually from 3.0 it might be better than React.

Styling is handled out-of-the-box. Reactiveness will be glitch free with proxies and it will have TS support.

(Disclaimer: I use React right now)
And I contradict that. Folks have talents, and interests, and learn some things easily and some evade them forever. There's a lot more going on, and its not just 'IQ greases the skids' for learning.
If the goal is to prevent people from commuting by car then we should just tear up or barricade all the roads. No need to invest in public transit, since that’s not part of the goal. From what I can tell, this is the actual policy the SF area has been implementing for the last decade.

I’d think a better goal is to minimize the average time and environmental impact of commutes, while maximizing the number of people that can use the transit system to commute (including cars, bikes, busses, trains, etc).