skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wished for this myself. We replaced a refrigerator, and I thought "what a waste - 95% of the mass of that thing was non-moving parts that could've lasted centuries".

> There is still R&D to be done to update for modern manufacturing techniques, but an upstart that simply built old classic designs and added a 30-year warranty would do well. Bonus points for standardized dimensions (for easy replacement years from now).

Extra bonus points for publishing manuals and 3D printing plans for replacement parts and ensuring they remain available long term - eg, creating a web site and funding a foundation to keep it running + seeding torrents with the info.
Can I play Persona 5 without playing earlier games?
The font was made via adjustments to an existing font https://github.com/impallari/Libre-Franklin so I doubt this was one designer's dream project.
Usenet is the answer to the distributed discussion forum problem. We need to breathe life back into it.
> Death is nothingness, not peace, and pretending like it's preferable is basically acquiescing that infinite nothingness is preferable to nothingness, which is definitionally false.

This seems to be in the realm of philosophy, meta-science and religion. I don't really want to bring the discussion there, but I simply need to point out that many, many religions (and atheists) have different opinions on this matter. For example, a dignified death may bring you closer to the creator (emphasis on "dignified", because suicide doesn't count for some religions).

And I don't believe there's any way to properly gather evidence about what happens to someone after they die. And without establishing our religious ideals as ground rules, I don't think we can really have a good discussion on the matter.
It's about 0.5%.
I’ve been maintaining a simple text file with project ideas for the last 3+ years. It’s accessible from all devices I use. Each idea has a headline and three bullet points describing what it is.
They actually brag [0] in their youtube video on how they can censor the video feed to improve control over 'behaviour', 'clothing', and 'messaging'. wow. that is just crazy.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/embed/NUIQIDDXN_o
If we ban the flow of physical goods to uphold IP laws, then would you also support banning the flow of digital goods to uphold IP laws? Imagine if we couldn't buy any electronic media that wasn't created in the US because it might break an IP law.
I happen to prefer the browser's default styles. I only ever need to tamper with them if the browser's default styles are not used.
> I propose that in the course of professional contact we should strive to avoid use of google as a verb.

Stopped using "google" as a verb a long, long time ago, in favor of just saying "search". I don't think that's ever confused anyone.
There are awesome videos of ranks of metronomes syncing up.

I wonder how synchronization "interacts" with Relativistic non-simultaneity?
PayPal is not a bank in the US. Venmo is not a bank either.
Which ones are touting crypto-friendliness (aside from Cash already having integrated crypto into their own app)?
Is using free essays a good idea?
Would be performance and SLA for this API be built into contracts with other companies? In my experience they might be contractually obligated to maintain the API but idk if that's applicable to something like this.
> Any thoughts on the environmental impact on floss vs using and disposing these brushes once a week?

I'm guessing that to a first approximation it's probably a wash, or very close to it — and the brushes might even be better than floss in terms of total weight and volume of plastic per week. (I haven't tried measuring either quantity.)
US Gov’t Design System
Looks great even without CSS. The only exception is a very wide viewport.

1024x768: https://i.imgur.com/NEAenbY.png

320x568: https://i.imgur.com/TdVjnKR.png

3480x1600: https://i.imgur.com/MfhxmRD.png
Yep, it's the eponymous Amsterdam museum: https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/search/collection. I saw it on here a couple months ago and really enjoyed flipping through the collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17499152
>Canada ISPs have frequently given subscriber contact information to copyright holders to issue warnings based on bittorrent usage without being legally required to.

This is false. ISPs do not disclose your personal information for copyright complaints.

Industry, Science and Economic Development Canada explicitly states that subscriber information is only disclosed "if ordered to do so by a court ... as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit." [1]

Copyright infringement suits are known to have happened, but they are rare because the limit for non-commercial infringement is $5,000, which is generally not worth pursuing through the courts.

[1] http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/oca-bc.nsf/eng/ca02920.html
As the contrast keeps getting lower that page keeps getting harder to read. We don't all have super bright macbooks turned to full brightness.
On a related note, appearing in front of a judge by video is becomming more common. Personally I think this is a violation of the 6th amendment.
What Happens When Iterating Filters?
I've enjoyed Radius Silk Floss (https://madebyradius.com/collections/all/products/natural-bi...) but I haven't tried Tom's so I can't really compare.
The choice was never between Comic Sans or New Government Font.

There are a plethora of established sans serif typefaces available under various licenses, as seen on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sans_serif_typefaces

These have existed well before someone said "let's create Public Sans!". It would be nice to know what the reasoning was. The Github page only goes into the details of how Public Sans is different from Libre Franklin.
Thanks, that makes sense, and I totally agree. You can see this in (American) society with the politics of race, free speech, and many other domains.
I've moved from games to web development basically by winging it.

If you can code in C++, then becoming competent in JS/PHP/Python/Ruby is a matter of learning their syntax quirks and basics of the standard library. You don't have to worry about the framework-of-the-month churn. These things get popular because they're easy to pick up and well-documented.

Companies recognize that general programming knowledge is the hard part, and happily hire for it. Just avoid recruiters, as they're usually clueless keyword-matchers.
LIGO was able to detect gravitational waves, which I'm pretty sure must require non-zero transfer of energy in one form or another. (I'm hedging a little only because I know LIGO was measuring relative changes in metric distance, which might possibly not require absorbing energy... but just intuitively it's hard for me to fathom any transfer of information without a transfer of energy: it simply shouldn't be possible.) But 1) it's a remarkably small loss of energy, since the gravitational coupling to matter is so weak, and 2) LIGO is very specifically reacting to gravitational waves rather than to static (or quasi-static) gravitational fields, and the absorptive properties there will certainly be different (just as they are for electromagnetism).
You can use 3-digit hex colors in CSS too.

#eee = #eeeeee
#abc = #aabbcc

It's not very precise, but can be convenient short hand.
But how many of them are not garbage results from garbage sites?

Sites like keyword-suggestions and such? I can't think of anymore off the top of my head, but they exist and they suck.
While certainly a larger initial investment, if disposable waste if your concern you should try a waterpik.

https://www.amazon.com/Waterpik-Accepted-WP-660-Aquarius-Flo...

They work great, it's roughly as good as flossing (depending on who you ask it's worse or better), and it's easy with nothing to throw away. There are cheaper models as well, that's just the one I have and it works great.
True. By looking great nearly everywhere, I mean the layout of the elements on most devices. What device do you have that is 375px wide?

w.r.t line-length, there's another suggestion ITT that said to relax the padding a bit to get a bit more line-length, which I will probably be doing.
I find it interesting that this snippet is used:

::selection {
background-color: #ff0;
}

Because when f.lux raises the color temperature for the evening it makes it so I can barely see if anything is selected while the normal color works perfectly no matter the temperature I set. At first, I thought it was one of those JS scripts that prevent selection.
Soon they can replace the visitors with a terrible AI and we can go the full distance to dehumanizing these people.
> Even sunscreen is better in Europe due to the FDA.

I've looked into this. The sunscreens available in Europe are not necessarily better than the ones available in the US. For some people (like me), many of them are strictly worse - it depends on your skin type.

But as for FDA approval, the relevant part of this thread, it's not clear that those should be approved in the US. A number of them have been found to be excreted in breast milk, which the FDA has specifically cited as an issue for approving them, and that is indeed a real problem.
+1, I forgot about Monoskop, a truly fascinating resource.

Another interesting one is Aaaaarg (according to Monoskop's wiki, originally with one less "a", acronym of Artists, Architects, and Activists Reading Group):

https://aaaaarg.fail/

https://monoskop.org/Aaaaarg

Basically it's a collaborative environment for reading, annotating and discussing texts. The content is submitted by users and (thus) of high quality.

I think you need an invite to access the community. Also, the domain used to be aaaaarg.org, but I think they faced copyright issues of some kind and had to find an alternative domain. (Not sure about this; excellent new suffix, though!)

EDIT: More precise description:

https://www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/28/aaaaarg-org...
I see a dropdown on a search results page that says "Any Time". On clicking it, you get the options "Past Day", "Past Week", "Past Month".
The only effective way, that I know of, to prevent someone to build a profile on you is by throwing a lot of useless data to confuse them. Blocking their access is not effective because they have multiple ways to get to you, especially when you're just part of a bigger target market. These conventional methods like VPN are simply too easy for them with million of other people also using it.

If you're constantly throwing useless data at them, adding irrelevant URLs or browsing patterns to the data stream then their system will be confused and unable to paint an accurate picture of your profile.

This is borrowed from a similar strategy used by professionals who have gone off-grid and wanted to avoid being tracked. They would pay multiple other people to use their credit/debit cards at various different locations around the world so the system tracking them would be confused and could not pin point their exact current location.
And when bakers hire an assistants, those assistants are no longer perusing their own interest but instead the interest of the bakers.

The scale is different, but generally scale alone does not change the ethical or moral designation of an action.
When you buy a share, you are not contributing to the company. Their shares were sold at IPO and they've already collected all the proceeds from them. You are just gambling.
Microsoft Releases First Preview Builds of Chromium-Based Edge Browser
To the surprise of no one, its basically chrome. Even my google account came in logged in automatically, same recent sites etc. I wonder if the roadmap will include things like dark mode, I never used the annotations feature so can't vouch much for it. I'm yet to try to make a MS Teams call but looking good so far.

The single engine world domination plan takes one step further today.
If you're just looking for a font for your microsft word or other office document software, you're most likely not going to bother downloading new fonts when Word has plenty of fonts available easily.

I would imagine tech geeks and artists are generally the people who are downloading new fonts, and those poeple are probably spending most of their time using sans serif fonts or monospace.
Isn't this what most modern movies are, only the remixing isn't automated?

That was part of George Orwell's point.

I wonder what a script for an action movie would look like if it was just based off of statistics of all the previous action movies. Probably watchable.

We could probably get some great comedy out of it!
The big lie we’re told about climate change is that it’s our own fault
Elementary is Ubuntu trying to be OSX. Deepin and tails are Debian. A Tetris is Arch.

Void is it’s own thing and xbps was really good when I used it. But since the thing where the one guy with sole control over their resources disappeared, and then losing their domain, and not having a distinct legal entity/org behind it last I checked... I dunno about longevity here despite the project being 10 years old already.
If the originally indexed copy no longer exists, Google shouldn't down-rank a reposted version!
I've been in a similar situation(never a cavity) and started getting some warnings from my dentist about sore gums and decay years ago, which led to some self-studies. They have gone something like this:

* Reducing the source of decay is #1, especially acidity. Swap out coffee, tea and soda for water more frequently and you get a huge boost immediately.

* If #1 fails you can still aim to reduce acidity over time with e.g. having more milk or immediately brushing with toothpaste. Milk's proported function in "building healthy teeth" is probably more attributable to this rinsing property than any of the nutritional aspects.

* I experimented with primarily flossing over brushing. Even though the crevices were clean, gum soreness went up overall. The opposite way around, primarily brushing with occasional flossing, the plaque can build up somewhat, but it does not result in pain.

* Yes, supplementation can do something here. I went in cycles on and off Vitamin D3, and pain went up off it and down once on it again.

Anyway, I have managed to quit the beverages, and occasional brushing with less occasional flossing seems to be doing the trick.
> If you want the local price to change, change the intellectual property law that inflates their price in the first place, dont repeal bans that circumvent the intellectual property laws.

The ban doesn't circumvent "intellectual property" laws; the ban is what allows enables those laws to be effective at raising prices (which is the entire goal) in the first place.

Reimporting prescription drugs from other OECD countries would be the closest thing we have to a silver bullet for prescription drug pricing problems in the US. (That's not the only problem, but it's a massive one).
If we abolish nations and go for absolute globalism, who should extract the oil ?

Who should decide who gets to extract the oil ?

If there's a system to solve those two questions, why is that system better(as you imply it would be) than the current system ?
Why is every dollar from a customer worth $5 from an investor, as opposed to $2 or $10. I understand the idea behind revenue dollars being more valuable than investment dollars, but I question how the ratio is constant across startups rather than heavily dependent on other factors like industry, stage, round, etc.
To the maintainers: what are the top 3-5 (or so) requested features, and do you plan to implement them?

Any thoughts on how Bleve compares with Xapian or Trinity (C++ libraries for full-text indexing)?

https://xapian.org/

https://github.com/phaistos-networks/Trinity
Does anyone know what it's like working for the USDS? Curious what it's like to work for the Government but under the leadership of presumably a bunch of ex-Googlers.
Has anyone who has been at one of these meetings where humming occurred comment on the social aspects of it?

It sounds like a less wordy, more vague version (as you can't visibly tell who exactly is humming) of the "aye"/"nay" voice voting.
This is a wonderful tutorial. I wish back worked though.
The horror /s

It’s more healthy than the alternative.
Having seen a lot of these types of services there is always a question about scale. In other words, these are great for quick prototyping, but at a certain level you have to move off a service like this onto a more robust infrastructure.

That being said, how hard is it to move the data off this platform and migrate it to another once you've reached scale?
> What is sharp, small and visible depends on the device and the way it is used

How can you use this vague definition to do anything useful?

I would imagine they simply mean 'it's a pixel, or something as physically large as pixels used to be until we got retina screens' but they can't say that as it doesn't sound technical enough!
Edge's EPUB and PDF tools were available as a separate app call "Reader" in Windows 8 (mostly just for choice of workflow it seemed, but also maybe because it wasn't certain that Edge was going to "own" them), which was discontinued in Windows 10 when Edge took full ownership. I very much hope that if the Edge team can't/doesn't re-embed the PDF and EPUB views into Chromium-based Edge, at the very least they could give us a new version of "Reader", because it is so handy to have an inbox EPUB and PDF application in Windows.
Perhaps you are right. My post was meant to be tongue in cheek but sounded mean spirited. My apologies to mark_l_watson.
Imagine the implications if technology like realtime deepfakes becomes possible. You could basically fake a relatives or a prisoner and act on their behalf to extract information or cover up that something happened to them.

Terrible idea all around.
It is simply a modern version of "afterlife", expressed in modern terms, but nevertheless the same idea.
Men spend 25% more time gaming than women: https://www.limelight.com/resources/white-paper/state-of-onl...

I think your comment on perceptions of gamers misses the point that "gamers" are people who spend lots of time playing video games. The research on the wikipedia page isn't about "gamers". It's about people who play video games at some level of frequency, which is a much broader category. This is why our intuitions about "gamers" turn out to be accurate, even though they are not consistent with the data about the much larger category of "people who play video games".
which is Russian

That's a bit like moving from Phoenix to Pyongyang to escape the unconscionable oppression of your local HOA.
Maybe. Personally, I try to replace caps, when possible, but oftent times I find that real failure is corrosion of the board, I can do nothing about.
I'm sure. For that reason (ignoring nesting), I think rem is easier to use correctly. I think what you're getting at is that simple sites have little nesting, therefore em, but I'm thinking about in terms of em being great for say, css framework developers.
blackhat is as a blackhat does, its no difference how or why you screw users in someway by failing to be forthright and of candor. if you do it constituatively thats blackhat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

> In the United States, Food & Drug Agency pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey M.D. withstood pressure from the Richardson-Merrell Pharmaceuticals Co. and refused [FDA] approval to market thalidomide, saying further studies were needed.

and

> Although thalidomide was never approved for sale in the United States at the time, over 2.5 million tablets had been distributed to over 1,000 physicians during a clinical testing program.

The Fine Article is talking about drug prices. The Thalidomide scandal in the USA was about a large clinical trial. The two are related, but different.
My dentist is adamant that waterpik is not a substitute for flossing, rather a solid bonus.
Interesting. Very much like the milk boards and other agricultural councils that promote specific largely-fungible products.
Yeah, I can multiply correctly, thanks mate.

> the default font size for most browsers is 16px

I mean fonts are usually not 16 pixels in size - 16 pixels is a couple of a mm on most screens these days.
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Show HN: A “hacky” multiplayer version of the AI experiment “Quick, Draw ”
A lot of KPIs are still pointing up, but over the last several decades more and more are pointing down. (Since you mention slavery, we have to admit that there are more slaves in e.g. Libya than there were a decade ago.) When does the frog jump out of the pot? The answer might be subjective, but it probably relates to wealth.
Watch Game of Thrones Season 8 from Anywhere with a VPN

http://www.gotfinal.com/
>Really, what is the mobile industry thinking?

The obvious. All the pros you are listed are cons when you are concerned about profitability uber alles.
source: https://github.com/zhirzh/quickdraw-withfriends
I play it polyphonically in a piano like manner all the times.

It requires more technique adjustment, but you can use pitch rounding (quantization) and other features to make it feasible, and in some ways it’s great that it is different because some piano-like things are actually easier (while others are obviously more difficult)
I fly just about once a week and have for 18 years or so. Never had a problem with it until 5 years ago when we had our first kid, and that's when anxiety started. I would have a recurring dream about my plane rolling over and pancaking into the ground. Sometimes I would have that dream while I was sleeping in a plane, which was fun. Panic attacks - the kind that start to feel like a heart attack - were common.

It lasted for almost a year. I saw a doctor to make sure there was no underlying physical condition I should be worried about. (Being able to tell yourself that it's probably not a heart attack when it feels like a heart attack is really helpful.) He recommended talking to a therapist, which I should have done but didn't. I did self medicate with alcohol more than I should have, and I don't recommend that.

Ultimately I found that a stress free airport routine (plenty of time, pre check, and hanging in the club lounge) helped as did breathing exercises while on board. Generally in life it was get more exercise, put the phone away, reduce work stress, and so on. Just regular life stuff. But I never stopped flying, and eventually the anxiety stopped.

This 737MAX nonsense is certainly bothersome, but to me no more so than all the other ways the whole thing can go south in any given aircraft in any given day.

Bottom line, I would suggest talking to someone who can help you identify the possible underlying issues. Hope you can work it out.
You should read the interview. It's candid and interesting and addresses your comment: http://fortune.com/2019/01/17/mitchell-green-lead-edge-capit...
There's nothing you can do other than participating in the civic process. Vote, run for elections, campaign for good people, etc.