skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just turn off JavaScript when using a browser. It does break a lot of things, but you can whitelist domains where you feel the JavaScript provides additional value (e.g., your banking website may require JS for login).

It makes the first week or so of web browsing a little mechanical, having to manually whitelist. But it's worth it. The Web is so performant with JavaScript disabled.
I agree, there is no reason for such tools to be closed source, but this looks mostly historic.

Developers coming from Windows background were historically less open source friendly, or simply didn't even consider such idea, even if they intended for their tools to be used and distributed without restrictions.

Another such known example are Windows Sysinternals tools by Mark Russinovich.
How about a separate bin for reuseables, with a once-a-month pickup?

It should be clear, so scavengers could easily see if anything of interest was inside.
Naturalness is the criteria by which people criticize fine-tuned theories. I agree that the comment would be better with a fuller explanation.
This is what the original post author is looking for: MoviesAnywhere

https://moviesanywhere.com/welcome

You can add your Amazon Prime, iTunes, and other accounts and access all the movies you bought. I use this to stream my iTunes movies on Roku
Increased stock flow not tied to the CEO’s utility of wealth and possibly opening opportunities for other people to buy stocks at a lower value but likely to rebound? Sounds like a boon for the market and smaller traders.
Meat is very calorie dense due to the fat content -- if you don't eat it, you need to substitute a plant food that is also relatively calorie dense (like beans, lentils, or potatoes) but also, probably just eat more of it. I found that I needed to eat more when I became a vegan, and even more now that I'm trying to put on muscle mass.

Also, beans are a good substitute because they tend to dampen blood sugar swings, due to the way they feed our gut flora. And a sudden drop in blood sugar is a big reason for feeling hungry. This property of beans is known as the "second meal effect".

Note that just because you are slim and not having health issues, does not mean that meat is not gradually harming your health. There is rather overwhelming evidence that the cholesterol and saturated fat in meat is harmful to our circulatory health, and also that meat protein intake is linked to cancer growth by triggering the body to create IGF-1 (Insulin-like Growth Gactor 1).

Many people feel like (or are told) that they are craving protein, when in reality what they are craving is just more calories. Consider that most of us have had a lifetime to figure out what works for us with a meat-based diet, and were taught by our parents -- switching to a different diet isn't trivial. There are lots of good resources out there, but unfortunately, also lots of misinformation.
The ping feature does not require JavaScript.
> will most often write vanilla React.js apps when: the codebase is small

This one never ceases to amaze me. Any codebase is small, until it gets big. And once it's big, the effort to rewrite is hard to justify.

You don't build a house and add the foundation later.
It's because real life http2 makes encryption mandatory, so that middle boxes can't fiddle with the stream. Thanks to that everything arrives as it was intended on the server
No, you are not the bad guy but it's good to be concerned. I focus on companies when I shop. If there are two similar choices of big 2.5 gallons of water, I don't choose arrowhead. I think that's what they are trying to get at.
They will leave the country immediately.
I’m not endorsing the idea, but just thinking about how it would play out...

I suspect that for the reasons you just gave, you’d see a quick transition in the marketplace where companies stopped paying high-end roles largely via stock, and founders like Bezos greatly reduced their personal holdings.

If they’re trying to target only the top 0.1% it would probably have some floor like the first $1M per year that is exempt.

But yeah this would seem like it would very much punish concentrated ownership of large companies.

In reality though it would probably ha e some stupid loophole like it only applies to individuals so then people could avoid it by transferring their stock to intermediate LLCs or something.
The rich surely contribute more in absolute terms, but that is not the only way to look at things.

For instance, you could look at contribution as a percentage of discretionary income. In those terms, you might find that the middle class contributes the "most".
Car make/year that doesn't collect/share reams of data
tldr; what's the "dumb phone" of modern cars?

I'd like to purchase a (relatively) inexpensive car with the following properties:

1. none of car's OSes send data to third-parties. Exception for physically hooking the car up to a diagnostic machine at the service place, assuming they aren't also forwarding what they slurp up to a third-party.

2. car's entertainment system is physically separated from any non-entertainment-system OSes.

Was there a particular year car companies "became sentient" and switched from just producing vehicles to to producing data collection machines with wheels?
In any discussion of taxes I think it's important to consider the significant asymmetry between state and federal taxes.

The incentives created by the policy change in the article are difficult to anticipate, with reasonable arguments for and against.

It would be significantly better if most of the important tax policy decisions were made at the state level, so that the consequences could be better understood.

I live in a high tax state, and hear people complain about the high state taxes. But my state taxes are a tiny fraction of the massive burden caused by Federal taxes.

Most of the Federal budget is due to pentagon spending that is not auditable by design.

Since I have lived in several states I feel completely comfortable evaluating the ROI of my state tax dollars, but have very little confidence that the lion's share of my tax dollars (Federal) are being spent wisely or judiciously.

I pay more in Federal taxes now than I earned in an entire year just a few years ago, and I'm not wealthy at all, barely middle or perhaps upper middle class in a major US metropolitan area.

It puzzles me that so many people defend high Federal taxes. I don't know how high or how progressive taxes should be to be "correct", but I do know that Federal programs and appropriations are orders of magnitude less transparent than state and local spending.

I would happily invert the two so that the state got most of the money to do things like fixing the highways that cause hours of gridlock almost every day, or removing the lead and chemicals from the drinking water.

Capital gains tax debates try to make people adopt class warfare stances on what is fair, when the ones getting the best deal are the firms who steal billions via Pentagon spending.
I recently tried to go full vegan for a month and found it surprisingly easy. You can make a lot of variations of beans/lentils and rice (with various other veggies and spicing) that are cheaper than meat-based meals, taste amazing, contain plenty of protein and can keep for days. Doesn't have to take more than 30 minutes to put together such a meal.
That's the cost of drm...
No one cares enough to bother with the 0.0001% of people who would do this.
In the 17th century Bolivia was considered the richest country in the Americas because of the Potosi silver mine while the eastern seaboard of America was basically a poverty stricken nowhere.

Now Bolivia is the poorest country in the Americas and the US is the richest. This is basically why.

The answer is - it works fine until the resource price drops or you run out of it.

Kuwait may be fat and content now but it has a dark future ahead of it once they stop being able to live off foreign cash.
The author doesn't have a comment form on the blog, but since the username looks like he was the one who submitted here, I wanted to reply and offer that there may be a solution-

The companies that offer digital movies came together last year in order to try to solve this problem.

If you go to moviesanywhere.com you can link your accounts, it will make those movies available across all of the different platforms, including YouTube which is available everywhere.

It only works with movies, not TV shows or audiobooks or music, so there are still a lot of places we need to get better. But I think the specific problem that you are having may be solved.
> Because it wanted to get rid of nuclear first and as fast as possible.

And this killed a few thousand persons and rejected MegaTons of CO2 in the atmosphere that could have been avoided.

> The next two decades will bring the end of coal-based electricity.

This is 30 years later than could have been, and gas instead of coal is not the solution either. Will Germany have 100% renewable in 20 years?

> When do you stop going to vacations via airplanes? Stop eating meat? Stop driving a car?

I changed my way of living already. I could still do more yes, but the most efficient way would be to convince policy makers to close coals/gas before nuclear.

> No, nuclear and renewable are not compatible. Nuclear is centralized monopolistic, mostly state-owned form of energy.
I sucks up huge amounts of investments and corrupts everything around it.

Again, the drawbacks of nuclear power are nothing compared to the drawback of climate change, and gas corrupts too.
The rich can afford to give up a much higher percent of their wealth or income in taxes than can the not-rich.

Living expenses do not simply increase as a linear function of income or wealth. They increase, sure, but there's an effective upper bound. Jeff Bezos does not need to buy 10,000 times more food (or food 10,000 times more expensive) than someone making minimum wage.

Thus, the statement that "in a flat system, the rich contribute more," while trivially true, serves only to obscure the horribly damaging nature of flat tax schemes—or, indeed, even schemes that are only as progressive as the one we have now, which has allowed the very wealthy to accumulate the vast majority of all gains in the economy for decades.

That's...not a good thing. It's something we need to be working against, and increasing the progressiveness of our tax scheme (however "aggressive" some may feel that makes it) is one good way of doing so.
The repeated self-comparisons with the Dutch, were, as the Dutch themselves apparently used to say, droll. I did a bike trip along the northern coast of the Netherlands recently. If you want to appreciate the level of concerted, society-wide effort needed to address flooding and storm surge, look no further than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oosterscheldekering. (Which is itself part of the even larger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works.)

I had no idea whatsoever that this thing existed or what it was for until it simply hove into view one day while biking from town to town. It is a truly spectacular sight and worthy of the title of "8th Engineering Wonder of the World".

Compare the $billions and $billions and centuries, literally centuries, that the Dutch have invested in tackling this problem with, as the TFA puts it, some pumps the size of a large airedale. It drives home the point of how utterly fucked Miami, and the rest of the coastal world that is not the Netherlands, really is.
He might get his wish, given that apple currently seem to be trying to get their content services everywhere

The streaming wars are probably going to make for a lot of strange partnerships and conflicts going forward though. I wouldn't have expected Apple to get close with Amazon (supporting Apple Music and Apple TV on amazon devices), and I never would have expected Netflix to start firing shots at apple (disabling Airplay 2 support).
Athanor 2: A new adventure game coming to the Atari ST and Amiga
I can access all the movies I bought in iTunes inside my Prime account. Works in the browser and works in the Prime app.

I don’t know if it works the other way around; I never bought a movie in Prime.

I’m not sure how that connection was made... but the Roku Amazon app ought to do the same.

Note: per comment elsewhere, this is due to https://moviesanywhere.com/
and what if those impediments are actually the result of political capture, tent seeking, and regulatory capture, by the ultra-rich? What if the super rich form an anticompetitive cartel? what if their very existence will inevitably mean that who you know will matter more than your skills, your hard work, and good ideas?
I wonder if Netflix will end up buying Roku, since Netflix's competitors have TV boxes. I suspect that might make things even more fragmented.
A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System [pdf]
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is to prevent scrappers from going around, dumping the trash out into a pile, removing anything of value (metals etc) and leaving the trash pile there to sit or worse, blow around the neighborhood
Some people have great coding skills, but are right assholes or otherwise seriously toxic. You definitely need to look for more than just "great coding skills" if you want to hire great employees.
Ah yes, I know of this problem. For whatever reason Netflix subtitles for a few Asian languages are images instead of text. Maybe because of font support? I'm not sure. But you basically have to run OCR on the downloaded subtitles for these languages.
Sounds like what Dale Bredesen is saying.

https://www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/dale-bredesen
You need to check out the movies anywhere service. It seems your entire library across multiple library’s.
My understanding is that Disney another’s force this on the vendors and exchange for 4K media rights.

It really is one of the best things to come out of technology in quite a while, And it’s remarkable how few people actually know about it.
Do you think it’s that uncommon?

I’ve immersed myself in literature, music, and technology since a young age—initially went to school for English and left my coursework to work. I’ve spent my entire career working in fields that interested me when I was young. My favourite part has been working to blend my interests.

Though you’re probably onto something about the pressure put on kids to fit an existing need rather than exploring possibilities. My personal experience would have me think so at least.
This is so misleading. Almost all SDKs do this and this also happens on iOS too. If you have an SDK on iOS, there is nothing the OS can do to stop tracking of the users.

Also, the author literally says that Google tracks even more apps vs. FB but still chooses to use FB in their headline. Sigh.
Yeah, this is it. And you can thank Disney for it. You can also buy $5 digital copies of movies you own on DVD.
For an individual probably just about anything. I’m guessing the benefit of the OPs idea is it punishes savings this has a stimulus effect. But, personally, I’m not a big fan of punishing savings.
I don’t think the analogy of “VHS vs Beta” works here. It is click-baity.

The author has chosen to purchase various “formats” and then expecting it work across systems. Just the way you can’t play an Xbox game on PlayStation - the physical format being the same.

VHS and Beta, Blu-ray and HDDVD, etc were battles about the Universal standards. It’s a shame your car has a DVD player, if it had a HDMI port, you damn can play anything you want.

What a useless rant!
Prop 13 caused lots of problems and also provided structural social benefits, allowing people to stay in their homes.

Removing prop 13 from commercial buildings (nobody lives there) and removing the socially corrosive ability to give it to your kids tax free would fix most of the financial and social problems and preserve the best part.
Not true. Motorway exits are normally a roundabout, with busiest exit slip roads traffic light controlled. Sometimes the roundabout is broken up with more extensive lights. A defining characteristic of motorways is the absence of junctions on the actual motorway.

Dual carriageways sometimes adopt a motorway approach, with traffic light controlled slips, but are mainly roundabouts for junctions. It's been a while, but even on the A1, outside the A1M bits.
> Destabilizing the base of some critical food chain to get 10% better crop yields seems like a bad idea for us to do.

Easy to say when you only spend 10% of your income on food. Try to convince the people who have to spend between 30% and 50%.
30Hz refresh rate is brutal for some apps/people
Was the point to test if people realized the windows were sealed shut, or to test that they would persevere anyway?
I follow a plant based diet, although I eat only a small subset of the foods on the list I think I can answer some of your questions.

> how do you not feel hungry?

Lots of starch. Carbs and eating more volume vs. when I ate meat is what fills me up. It's a bit of an adjustment but you get used to it. After doing this for three years I don't feel a need to eat meat/cheese/eggs etc.

> What of those who work by the hour? most don't want to spend 2 hours cooking regularly.

Being plant based really limits your eating out options and options for convenient processed foods. Granted cooking your own food takes significant time. I work full time and I'm taking masters classes. I make it work because eating healthful meals is important to me. I find efficiencies in batch processing. I cook my whole weeks worth of food in a few hours on the weekend. I'm faster than I was when I started, probably because I have built up muscle memory and also because I select foods that I know I can make quickly.

> Maybe it just doesn't work for everyone?

One of my friends wants to go plant based, but she has a small stomach. So eating more volume is a problem for her. Different people are going to experience plant based diets differently. For me the first month was the hardest to transition because I was so used to the SAD diet before. For me the second month was easier.
4 of the most popular language creators here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csL8DLXGNlU agree that type systems are useful.

I would suggest definitely not using Vanilla JS. There are excellent type systems over JS, TypeScript, Scala.JS, BuckleScript to name a few each with their pros and cons (I don't know what cons BuckleScript has though, maybe relatively smaller lib-ecosystem)
If you don't want such kind of mess, demand DRM-free video. There is no valid reason for media execs to oppose it.
It turns out most people don't organize their lives around tax policy. And in the case of US persons (citizens and GC holders) leaving the country doesn't remove the obligation to file and pay taxes.
I really don’t want to come off as some sort of condescending euro-snob, but is the state of tap water in the US so bad so that you have to purchase plastic bottles of water?
Sometimes I feel my only purpose here is to repost xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/224/
Is anybody the "bad guy?" Is anybody not?

The Earth will fix itself, eventually, no matter what we do to it. It's seen worse. I mean it apparently went from a ball of lava pelted with meteorite-nukes to the only verdant garden we have ever known, and it has already been through at least a few cataclysms.

Even if the planet disappears overnight, the universe at large will still go on as if we never existed.

You choose the scale you want to care about, and some levels require some sacrifice on other levels.
Aside from fad diets like Atkins, you don't see health professionals recommending meat as the core of a healthy diet. My doctor tells me to eat a plant-based diet at every visit now. If there's a discrepancy here, it's not that you should be eating lots of meat.
CBO's implication being that FEMA is knowingly setting future losses in coastal areas too low.

And indeed, the reason FEMA is doing that is because Congress explicitly tells it to.

See this example of political football:

Biggert–Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 passed to properly set rates.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_Flood_Insurance_Af...

Leading to the Homeowner_Flood Insurance Affordability Act of 2013, essentially prohibiting rates from raising. Amazingly, the CBO scored this as neutral due to some offsetting surcharges elsewhere.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_Flood_Insurance_Af...

Suffice to say, Florida votes are absolutely being bought with artificially low rates through the NFIP.
I don't just feel cell phone radiation, it has a visible effect on my body. If I'm carrying a cell in my pocket or near my legs, some of the muscles (I believe it's the muscles) in my legs will begin to vibrate, as though they are having spasms. This happens very frequently when I have my mobile data turned on and the phone near my legs. When mobile data is off, it doesn't happen. I'd be happy to show anyone this effect any time. I guess I could make a video. The effect is very reproducible.
or change something about said chromebook :)
Come on, why you gotta be that guy ? You mean you can't render a `jpeg` but only `png` ?
I agree. From what I gather the current administration does not agree. They get their stuff rammed through. The most insane stuff, I am sorry to say.
On offering advice to aspiring scientists
I have 1x 43" 4K monitor (Dell P4317Q), and together with a tiling WM it's pretty awesome as you say. It's more expensive (I think $800), not sure if it's sufficiently better as to be worth it.
Looks cool, but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding scientific publication that explains the inner workings and which shows that this result is generally useful outside of gaming/entertainment.
When you say meats, do you mean all meats? I am genuinely asking. My diet is more based on poultry than red meats. I've always heard red meat is not good for you in long term. So, I wonder if these effects that you mentioned are more pronounced with a certain kind of meat. Seems like you've done a lot of research and I am curious.
As I was reading this I was concerned that the people in the 1/5 affected areas would think it does not apply to them. It does but perhaps at 4C irreversible. As presented it makes it seem like global warming is Asia's problem to fix.
Apple's hardly the only offender here, and if you don't want the iLife programs on a Mac, removing them is trivial. Drag to trash, empty, boom, gone. Apple doesn't do anything to impede removal, nor does it aggressively try to push them on you like so much of the bloatware preloaded on Windows machines.

(And if you had GarageBand in the late 1980s, then I definitely want to know who sold you your time machines...)
Doubtful. Maybe they’ll move somewhere else in the US. Ie dispersing throughout the rest of the US. They’d increase demand for goods/services elsewhere and maybe real estate becomes cheaper where they left.
To a degree, VHS vs Beta was about lock-in, which is exactly the issue we face with steaming services.
For me, this whole thing has had a positive experience on my life. I can't be bothered dealing with the different streaming services and incompatible devices, I decided a while back I wasn't going to pirate things any more, so I just end up not watching things.

I used to watch a lot of things. Even if it was just to have something on in the background. I haven't really done that for years now and my interest is pretty much gone now.

Reading people's experiences with these services and devices just sort reaffirms my decision to just not bother with movies and tv shows any more.
Good point. The one thing in the article I agreed with is that it's better to do a traditional humanities subject rather than a vocational one (like communications, operations management, business operations). The latter seem to narrow and subject to fashion.
It sucks that we got DRM-free music downloads a decade ago but it just stopped there. If you want to download a TV show and watch it on any device you want (which would solve this problem), your one option is piracy.