skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost all your points are about immigration. Yes, they have certainly moved to the right on immigration. Even the centre-left social democrates have moved right in this regard. But that still doesn't make the conservatives a right-wing party.

Compared to the past they have also moved left on other topics: e.g. by not touching pensions.

"restricts skilled immigration": Funny, since they have also been criticized for allowing more immigration. Ironically from left-leaning people.

"reduce social support systems": Well, they mostly retargeted social support. All polls showed that a large majority of the people supported these changes. People thought the old system enforced the wrong incentives.

Also let's not forget that they reduced taxes on salaries specifically for working-class families substantially.

"lowers corporate tax rates": IIRC they have only lowered one tax slightly for a single sector (tourism) so far. Hardly anything dramatic.

Still, all these points are not too surprising for conservatives in general. If this is enough for you to call them right-wing, that's certainly fine for me.

Just to add: I've talked to people that directly called the Austrian conservatives an extreme right party ;) I know you didn't go as far, but they were also pretty serious about that. Maybe we can agree that at least "extrem right" is ridiculous. I personally don't get where this overly-dramatic phrasing comes from. Are some people so upset that for once the chancellor is not a social-democrat?
We have to blame the clickbaity headline for this, but you too misunderstood that this isn't about de-anonymizing users' profiles for the general public. Nicknames are still allowed, but the forum operator has to verify your ID at registration. Just like Blizzard knows your real name from your subscription details.
On the reddit discussion of this [0], someone mentioned using a type of

fn parse(&self, input: &mut &str) -> Option<Output>

instead of the article's

fn parse(&self, input: &'a str) ->
Result<(&'a str, Output), &'a str>

for composability. I found the article fascinating and plan on going back to see what an xml parsing implementation based on the former would act like.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/bepi63/learning_parse...
I like the idea of mandatory body cams, but obviously they need to be able to turn it off or remove it for things like restroom breaks.

Instead, there should be extremely strong disincentives (such as being fired, barred from working in law enforcement, jail time, etc) for an officer to turn off their body cam when interacting with the public.

Citizens should also be able to know whether the camera is on (blinking red light etc) and be able to report instances where it was not.
HTTP over SARCASM RFC 443
Why? There's no point. If the results come back indicating multiple authors, great. If the results come back indicating a single author, you could just make the argument that it is the result of the book having a single translator.

Academic pursuits should have more meaning than trying to dunk on other people's belief systems when those belief systems are fairly harmless.
My high school physics teacher (~2006) told us once when discussing career prospects that if you could build/discover a material that was a superconductor at room temperature, you'd probably end up the richest person in the world.

I've never forgotten that, and it sounds like the challenge still stands.
Used Appear.in at my current employer for a while. IIRC it was P2P, like Skype used to be, with really easy onboarding though a single URL. (No sign up required.)

But it didn't scale to more that 3 users. That may have changed since.
That's pretty odd. Why would Google use a 3rd party to front their own service?
All of these beneficial refinements are meaningless if increasing performance optimization in the runtime isn't made more of a priority.
The C64 has three audio channels, the NES has four. Native C64 games were designed with that in mind, but this port has to double up the NES' triangle and noise channels on one C64 voice, so sometimes a sound effect gets overwritten. The article discusses it.
Telegram already authenticates by the phone number, which setup was successfully used by Russian forces to hijack accounts of opposition.

Amazing how people are completely blind to this gaping misfeature despite infosec experts complaining about it the entire time.
New drug mimics benefits of ketamine for depression
Harry Shearer has been pointing out the problem for years on his podcast "Le Show", the movie "The Big Uneasy", and other sites. He calls out the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for incompetence, making past and future disasters inevitable:

"Those bad floodwalls, of course, are the ones that failed so catastrophically in 2005. The Corps’ plan calls for keeping rainfall outflow in those canals at a set level, above which, the agency believes, the walls might fail. Again. The Corps should know. It designed and supervised the construction of those floodwalls."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ill-consider-it-criminal_b_17...
I'm guessing you only got one or two downvotes. That's enough to gray out a comment on HN. The threshold should be higher imo.
>Close coupled cisterns have been around for over a century //

That's interesting, high cisterns (with a chain!) were still common, when I was younger (80s) these were replaced by low cisterns with a pipe between. In the last 2 decades in the UK these have been replaced by close-coupled systems IME.

Re weight, firing is costly, you can improve the shape to reduce the mass of clay which reduces firing costs considerably. I've taken out 50 yr old toilets and fitted new ones.

All the recent commercial fittings (ie in businesses, or in domestic settings done by plumbers) I've seen have been soft close & removeable. There's still a bug IMO, they need some sort of arrangement to make them lift quickly but lower slowly, or soft close only at the extremes of travel (soft close drawers have it, so I guess it'll come; probably a price issue).

The toilet cistern ball cock has changed twice AFAIK, once to accommodate the dual flush (central column), and again to alter the hinging to improve the pressure applied at the valve and reduce leaks.

What were we talking about again ...
Many people are able to be interested in more than one thing.
This actually respects the license. The person who provided you the binary (the phone vendor, not KaiOS) must provide you the source that corresponds to your program (not the git history). KaiOS must provide the source to the phone vendor on request off course.

That being said, this is the minimalist interpretation of the license, and not what is commonly understood as open source (where the repo is available somewhere, at the very least).
The idea is it being in an enclosed livable area.

Outside with propulsion would be actually quite dangerous in comparison.
But on the other hand, iCloud is shit. The rules for what photos sync where, and which ones are safe to delete from my phone are puzzling, to say the least. Music syncing rarely goes smoothly because some tracks, for some unknown reason, can't be copied due to DRM. Podcast management is a nightmare, partially because the app is so badly designed, but that is compounded by podcasts not being on the device you want them to be on. (I have gotten into situations where I can't download a podcast because the app thinks it shouldn't or doesn't need to or who the hell knows.) Family sharing is a joke. Very difficult to know who can see what, (which has led to mild embarrassment at times).
Google's GOOG shares shareholders do not have the right to vote, it is being traded at $1,236 per share, while GOOGL shares have the right to vote, it is being traded at $1,241 per share, that 0.5% difference is the market pricing of the right to vote.
I remain baffled some people just take whatever Apple shoves down their throat. It's a design _atrocity_. Just like Apple Pencil V1, iPhone 4 antenna issues, iPhone 6 bending screens, butterfly insanity on the MacBooks. I don't buy this 'you're holding it wrong'-attitude anymore.

And it's also completely different from removing a headphone jack – you could actually see that as a form of progress. But charging a mouse without being able to use it – try and convince me that is progress.
They're actually really easy to remove without breaking, in my experience. You just have to use a very thin piece of flexible plastic to get under them from the top.
Learning from the clojure.spec success story, what might make/break Sorbet is its runtime capabilities, aka reification.

* Can I emit typed REST API docs out of sorbet types?

* Can I coerce HTTP params out of sorbet types?

* Can I emit ActiveRecord columns? ActiveModel validations?

* Can I emit generative tests?

You can do all of those (and whatever else you imagine) with clojure.spec in a DRY manner, i.e. types are defined once, and reused in a variety of contexts.

As a Rails dev, I would greatly value all of those, particularly because they're practical things directly related to my webdev activity. Ensuring the type safety of the codebase is great, but also implicitly exercised by an adequate test suite.
Magplug charging is magical! Easily the best contribution to computer design from Apple, ever.

And then it gets dropped...

I wonder if the poor hardware has to do with increasingly outsourced R&D. I mean, everyone at Apple is rich, why should they bother with all the hard details ...
" I've only gotten a handful of viruses or malware "

This is a variation of the bad toupee fallacy. You won't notice viruses and malware, almost by definition.
The 'Cuddle Hormone' Might Help America Take on the Obesity Epidemic
Jim Simons doesn't understand open source and open access, because the source of his $15Billion net worth
(proprietary hedge fund strategy) depends on him not understanding it. And also perhaps because he doesn't understand software very well. He could have made Magma free for everyone, but instead he bought a license only for his chosen elites to use.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10175563
The data driven way to build a technical organization
> it's my understanding that during the Cold War a team of US ethicists determined that the most ethical direction to point nuclear weapons was at major population centers (not military targets)

This was never US policy and not how our weapons were targeted.
In your scenario, why wouldn't people take revenge on each other by making false accusations and getting their enemies thrown in jail?

It's not like putting people in prison is a peaceful thing. It's a very violent ordeal, it's just violence that the state perpetrates on your behalf. We have to be sure that it's worth while.
I think you’d be surprised as to how many people just use the mouse for that.
> A fairly reasonable exception which is then randomly extended to also cover prostitution and porn. Oh well.

Where does it say this?
My thought too. Interesting what the definition of "static" will turn out to be in the context of something so inherently dynamic as Ruby.
Check https://www.hot.at/aktivierung/index.html for details for HoT users.
It's almost like semantic versioning exists for some reason
How the Columbine Shooting Changed American Teenhood
Everyday walking to work I see scooters knocked over and in disrepair. I live in the midwest and we're leaving winter and going into the rain season here and most of these scooters are pretty beat up by now.
It's a university. Work for UW is supposed to be generating valuable research and education, which is what Sage and Cocalc do.
Well, the old ideas still work: revolt or submit.
MIT team is reinventing building by looking at the ancient world
Corollary is that lock in based only on inertia does not last top long. You have to be at least good enough for your core.

As in, nothing vastly better has to be present.
> How are you supposed to read code like this example with all these parentheses.

Once you get to the end, the examples are quite readable. The initial implementation was left in to demonstrate an iterative approach.

If you look Pom, which is an actual crate that uses these sort of parser combinators, the code is quite readable also.

[0]: https://github.com/J-F-Liu/pom/blob/master/src/parser.rs

[1]: https://github.com/J-F-Liu/pom/blob/master/examples/json.rs
So he's saying that every middle-sized site should keep a database of citizens' phone numbers or have a remote access to such a database.
It says something about the industry when "only" a $30.9M annual burn rate sounds small.
I can't say I'm impressed by Akamai, but then again, Zoom came out of nowhere and is likely to clean house in the B2B video conferencing space.

Maybe Fastly will give legacy players a run for their money.
“Specs” are a very minor piece of what most people, including nerds, care about in a laptop.

“Why would anyone ever buy a BMW, when you can get a Dodge Challenger with more horsepower for cheaper?”
I heard China was the world leader on superconductors ten years ago, not sure if it still holds now
It’s important to note that this is on an earnings basis. Looking at their cash flows presents a slightly better view of operations, with an outflow of 16M, though some would argue their stock based comp of 4M should be included. But it also shows a huge capex expense of almost 20M. This is clearly not just a software business and must be considered like a business that requires real PP&E.
The term "landlord" has to go away. We are not in mid-evil times anymore:

1. It should be made financially speaking prohibitively expensive to be a residential landlord. I.e. buy a house and charge others rent to live in it. Tax it at 100%. Done!

2. Change zoning/building codes to allow modern and more efficient construction, allow people to get easy financing to build more HIGH QUALITY and affordable housing.

3. Change mortgage laws to make it possible for more financially responsible families to build and own homes.
Did Hacker News pioneer hiding upvotes, or was there prior art?
I've worked with a few police departments in a previous life. For the last few years I worked with the bigger dept they all wore cameras for their entire shift. They still let people go for small amounts of weed, or odd drinking violations (open intox usually) even though it's still illegal here.

They only review the videos if there's an incident or complaint. So it's not like there's someone watching 40 x 8 hour videos every day.

/this is a smaller rural area in the midwest US, so ymmv but these officers do use discretion and the higher ups don't care if it's nothing big. In the Chief's words, "we were all young and stupid at some point."
I am somewhat locked in to "the ecosystem", having an iPhone and an MBP. But the badly designed apps, the disaster that is iCloud, and the new MBP keyboard (the broken butterfly keys, the moronic touchbar) have motivated me to escape.

It's not entirely feasible, even with my minimal exposure. So I've compromised. My daily driver is a Darter by System76. The hardware is good enough, the battery life is good enough, the keyboard is fantastic, and Pop OS is beautiful. I still have my failing MBP, but it is demoted to a station for syncing my iPhone. I rarely touch it. When it dies I will replace it with a Mac Mini. I don't want to move to the Google ecosystem because of privacy issues.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/955570...

Economic prosperity and co-dependence is absolutely not a barrier to war. This line of thinking was an extremely popular explanation of why something like World War I couldn't happen.

And then it did,
>sexual abuse, livestreamed sexual exploitation, kidnapping, or human trafficking.

It doesn't take much effort to make the porn and prostitution peg fit into that hole.
The Netherlands - being situated in a delta- once had a disproportionately long natural coastline. One of the strategies employed is to shorten that coastline dramatically by strategic placement of walls. Of course, in a country like the USA, not even all of the coast requires additional protection; only parts of it.

I do agree with you that certain cities (like Miami) might be difficult-to-impossible to protect with current technology. Other cities (like New Orleans) have well-known challenges with well known solutions, and there is absolutely no reason why people couldn't protect them.

What is needed is for people to put together the political will, attitude and organization required to survive and thrive in those kinds of conditions (with a strong push towards prevention rather than recovery).

That too has already been done many times over the centuries; and there's no reason to believe that Americans (or Louisianans) are in any way inferior to other peoples.

Which is not to say I agree or disagree with you completely:

See also perhaps something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ6tbIJAuYk ( How cities can prevent flood disasters | A Dutch water expert weighs in )
Start a “counterculture network” of onion-routed hidden services (not necessarily Tor, but something akin). Some element of steganography would likely be required to prevent government-controlled ISPs from simply dropping encrypted traffic, most likely.

It would be hard and would likely attract only technically-minded individuals to use.
> Putting 2 innocent people through systems designed to assume they are guilty is worse...

This is not about being guilty, it's about being accountable for your actions, just like you are everywhere else.

In Austria and Germany, people riding bicycles are considered the rudest on the streets. Everybody is anonymous to other participants until an accident happens, but only bicycles have no number plates, so they usually run every red light because they won't be held accountable unless the police see it and give chase. I don't think it's fair, though some people clearly consider this an important part of their personal freedom, at the expense of everyone else.
Hi :)

First of all, these were my tweaks, which I shared with ghacks.net. Martin Brinkmann from ghacks.net published the first draft (the commentators at ghacks inspired me to clean it up etc). It has always been my settings and pushed as a template. Over the next few years it got updated with changes as Firefox changed, and as the information was refined, and things added, removed, changed. Some changes came from suggestions by commentators.

THEN, I moved it to GitHub (over two years ago) where it has essentially been me and earthlng driving the whole thing.

It has never been anything about Mozilla's direction or guardianship etc. It is solely focused on providing information on privacy, security, anti-tracking, anti-fingerprinting etc. It's just that because it is so comprehensive, that it is used by what I can only call "nutcases" that scream malware, spying, and other BS, to promote their causes and scream LOOK: telemetry etc. I am not one of those guys.

I personally have no issues with telemetry, I trust Firefox, and as long as it allows me to continue to tweak and be help me be more private, anonymous, etc, then I'm a happy camper. Do I care about things like Mr Robot or Cliqz, or other eseentially inconsequential things - no. Every company makes mistakes, as long as they learn from them. I don't care if they rearrange the about:config page as they strip out the last of the XUL. I don't care unless it's to do with our primary goals. I even ban github accounts from my repo who start spouting this sort of carry on. And I actively have to ASK to get myself removed from utter rubbish like Librefox, which took all our hard work (it's free, no issue with that) and bastardized it into an absolute mess. I had to get my name removed from that, and post at ghacks.net that I was not involved with it. It still proudly refers to MY repo.

It IS just about anti-fingerprinting, privacy, anti-tracking, security and anonymity.

And it was created out of me (and earthlng), not ghacks. On a side note: I basically stopped doing anything at ghacks.net over a year ago: the negative commentators and anti-firefox brigade just made me shun the place. I'm sure they're just a super tiny minority, but man, did they find a place to congregate. I'm not ones of those guys!
I too had to go back to an older MBP, but not because the keyboard was cramped. My complaints:

1. Not enough tactile feedback from keys. I have to carefully calibrate the amount of muscle power I use to hit the keys, which paradoxically increases the pain in the joints of my fingers.

2. Lack of a physical ESC key. I touch type, and this makes writing code rather difficult.

3. Lack of USB port. Lack of HDMI port. Lack of magnetic charging port (which is very convenient)

4. Oversized touchpad. Increases accidental touches.

My old MBP is now in its third year, and I'm really hoping a newer, more usable version will come out before it dies.
UW as an institution cares mainly about getting all that Silicon Valley they saw Stanford get from Google and followers, so they can find administrators and build fancy buildings, not about research and education. Non-commercial research and teaching has been on a long decline, sustained only by previously tenured professors.
I think I would invest in Cloudflare before this, but that'd be based on name recognition.
How is win or linux support for those these days?
Which threat are we defending against, here?
This exactly my list (except with different software for 4)). Have been running Windows since Win3.1, and haven't 'caught' anything bad yet; worst was adware that somehow escaped detection inside installer for an old version of Delphi.

Despite the fear-mongering, a lot of it comes down to common sense; don't click on links in dodgy emails, use adblockers for torrent sites etc. Most people get trapped by fairly basic stuff that more experienced computer / Windows users sidestep effortlessly, IMO and IME.
At this point in my career, I'd fork the Python library anyhow, if it were for any non-trivial professional usage. Monkeypatching is a maintenance nightmare.

Of course, if it's a true one-off script or some personal hackery, go for it. But I wouldn't consider it a professional option.

(I find myself thinking more and more lately about how to program professionally in the long term, rather than simply solving the problem at hand.)
These are nice answers, but I just want my phone to work.

My OG pixel is a clear upgrade.
Yeah it will be expensive to fix out of warranty. Apple has extended the warranty to 4 years for the affected machines, but it seems like after that we’ll be screwed. The resale value of these things will suffer because it will cost $600 to get them fixed at that point.

They’ll be fine for use with external keyboards, but I wouldn’t recommend anyone buy a used one for use as a regular laptop.
The reason half of them are foreign owned is because all of them are Chinese whom are later in their tech development cycle. Almost all those companies in the US have already went public.
I do feel less confident trusting by data to one person hacking on one file system compared to a tried and tested file system that was built by Sun’s best engineers. CoW support in Linux is good but lack of snapshots still makes this an inferior choice to zfs.
I wish the GPL zealots wouldn’t bark that loud every time someone mentions ZFS on Linux. Ubuntu is shipping next release with ZFS on root. It will be awesome.
0. We worked together at a previous company, Heyzap

1. Mercury is the Roman god of commerce is the etymology. Jason came up with the name, so I’m not sure of his exact thought process, though

2. The logo is inspired by Roman mosaics
Marketing?

EDIT: Specs are everything. Not just HP. Specs are how many USB ports the vehicle has. The colors of buttons. The comfort.

Also, I wasnt sure if you thought a BMW was actually better. They are lower rated, but BMW has a huge marketing presence in the US.