skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say anything about insurance companies, and I'm not referring to cases where a person sues their insurance company for failing to cover expenses, but rather when they sue a store or manufacturer directly for negligence.

It's unfortunate that personal injury law firms make so much money by encouraging people to be "sue-happy" over dubious claims brought against companies that have little choice but to settle - not because they're doing anything seriously negligent (unless you subscribe to the bubble-wrap mentality), but because it costs less to settle and pay the plaintiff's fees than to properly defend the case in court.

I have no problem with the constitutional rights that allow these things to happen (that's not the unfortunate part). The truly unfortunate part is that the success of these types of legal threats has gone beyond just protecting the innocent; it has quite literally changed the public's mindset from one of seeking justice to one of seeking gain at the opportunity provided by an accident.
It took me a while to work out what this is (reselling the domains underneath the million dollar homepage that have expired).

This was mainly because most of my (laptop) screen was taken up by the million pixels, the list below was very squashed and the fixed layout meant I couldn't scroll to see more of it which was very frustrating.

Great idea though, love it!
Uber for Grandparents
Yes! I actually got into an argument with our IT team about this.

The only thing it prevents is the continuation of a password-based breach.
Just buy a sailboat.
Banks are probably still running on the old mainframe (old as in upgraded in 1998 when y2k forced it), with password storage that was state of the art in 1960 (plain text, but the file is actually protected well so hackers can't get it). That isn't to say better password cannot be used, just that they have never enabled it.
Does it matter if people drive 10000km over a year for business meetings or if people go to a conference once a year by plane?
Connie Barlow is an eloquent speaker on Evolution. I have seen her presentations several times. Highly recommended.

http://www.thegreatstory.org/CB-writings.html
While UA is getting more and more complicated, your product makes a lot of sense. How does it fare against uBlock, AdBlock, and the likes?
The domain that often represents artificial intelligence is run very manually by one human.
I've been thinking about putting together something like a "global warming for devops" or a "climate capacity planning" talk for velocity where the final slide is: cancel velocity.

That is, of course, over-simplifying, but O'reilly's conferences line of business is an interesting example of a non-energy company who's business model is existentially threatened by a meaningful response to climate change.

Internet debate artists will endlessly get caught up in the false-binary of banning international flights or not, but functionally, from O'reilly's perspective, there's no meaningful difference between an outright ban and an order-of-magnitude price increase. Either way the conference business craters.

Can they "pivot to video"?

Do they feel ethically obligated to try?
I don't think these even are NATO straps - they don't fold back on themselves like the issue ones do, and these have an extra fabric flap that issued ones don't.

This is a genuine 'NATO' issue strap:

https://www.cwcwatch.com/collections/m-o-d-spec/products/cwc...
> Such policy often comes with substantial lag times, as it is implemented via legislation. Monetary policy may be implemented more rapidly.

And because of this we should drop this whole democracy thing ? Parliaments have shown plenty that if the need is high enough, action can be very quick indeed.
I’m sure I saw this thread a few days ago with the same comments. Glitch?
The AI gig economy is coming for you
Also that story about what happens when you claim an abandoned WWII platform, call it a sovereign country, attempt to web host some sketchy material, and fend off the British Navy.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050602082455/http://www.havenco...

https://www.worldcrunch.com/culture-society/the-curious-case...

https://www.sealandgov.org/
Chocolatey Automatic Package Updater Module
> Unfortunately a lot of the pagan and related spiritual movements are being coopted by white supremecists. I find this stuff fairly attractive as someone with Scandinavian heritage, but it seems like I've been overtaken in the space by racists and fascists.

I don't get it, you let the people you detest tell you what (not) to do?

Prominent Nazi party leadership was very fond of dogs, gardens, ice cream, roads, and a lot of the other nice things about being alive after the industrial revolution; you're just going to let them have all that stuff?

Chances are that for 99% of the things you like, there exists a contingent of racists who like it just as much.
One thing that comprehensively confuses people using UK railway train reservations: The 'A' suffix on your seat number doesn't matter. When you have a reservation for 44A that doesn't actually mean there is a seat 44A distinct from seat 44, it's because somebody thought it's important to bake in metadata about how seats are arranged in trains, the A apparently stands for "airline" style for some reason.

If you hate reservations or are too disorganised to book one for a busy train, but also dislike being disturbed by someone who does have a reservation and wants you to move, most train operators have some rule about which parts of their trains aren't reserved, you can find that out and then travel in the unreservable part of the train. Finding a seat there won't be any easier, but you won't be asked to move later.

It is interesting how trains are offering better services even as planes suck more over time. Ten years ago knowing where to find power sockets in the Standard class 444 series (next to the cab at the far end from First class) made the difference between charging devices and going without, now almost every train has power sockets and/or USB, free WiFi (not _good_ WiFi, you won't be streaming video - but it'll let you check email and read Hacker News) and air conditioning.
How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again
And in the US the CHF (and Gold) was popular for the same purpose at times.
I don't get it? You want free insurance?
Not rare if you are an english speaker living in Europe..
Good description. I get a good sense of what/who this is for and how to use it, the problem you're solving, etc. One question I have is if it can be self-hosted, even if that means just the initial Javascript payload.
And once again people fail to mention that digital transactions are taxed. Taxed more, relatively speaking, if you're poor.
Is remote overtime that bad? I guess I'll consent to put work at 10 hours a day (1 hour break included), in exchange of 1 hour commute time.

I wanna try remote working, wonder how it'll goes through.
I read: "Seasteading is building floating societies with significant political autonomy".

So when they go outside the jurisdiction (and protection) of a nation-state and their law enforcement, the first question that comes to my mind is: what about piracy?

And as a matter of fact, they have a youtube channel "tough questions" talking about that (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PLUZ9bzUGY) - tldr: it's gonna be private security firms, so it's not gonna be cheap ... and they claim only 2% of world's oceans are even considered piracy waters, but I think that's going to change as soon as there are wealthy communities floating in unprotected waters ...
I'm not convinced by offsetting. It's better to not cause the emissions in the first place, rather than pay someone else to reduce their emissions in exchange later. You can't know that they won't have reduced their emissions anyway.

Certainly taking the train to a conference is better than flying, if that's the choice you have. Concentrating on conferences local to you is a good idea. Attending remotely sort of works, but it's really not the same as being there. It's better if you are with other people at your end, watching together.
Well thank God that there are no practicing racists or ethnosupremicists using Islam or Judaism!
Twitter acquires Fabula AI to strengthen its machine learning expertise
You're romanticizing it. Very few primitive people had it easy. Life was hard and just staying alive was often complex. Especially when an epidemic came through, or your village was caught in the middle of a war.
MacOS security protections can easily be bypassed with ‘synthetic’ clicks
Makes me think of Paul Graham's essay on submarine articles: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html.
Doomsday Argument
MS has always been a really developer-friendly company (which is not the same as an open source friendly company).

Small tweaks to that model, coupled by really solid products that everyone can use since they're free and open source (like TypeScript and VS Code), make it easy to bring that developer-friendliness to the masses.

And the substantive move of making .NET open source with the apache license (and .NET core)x really opened up yet another solid technology to the masses that didn't want to run Windows.

Kudos to them.

Update: before people pounce on me, I mean they're developer friendly to developers in their ecosystem. .NET has had the best docs and tutorials and improvements for many years.
My viewpoint is different: religion is a way for a group of people to make themselves feel different and special ("we're the chosen ones!"), and a natural consequence of that is racism/supremacism.

As for "most people" practicing their faiths with peace and respect toward others (meaning those not following the same faith), I'd say that most of history contradicts that claim.
There were a lot of "Gen X" stories around 10-20 years ago. Controversy, in this case pitting one tribe against another, creates cash.
Dumping in the ocean, I strongly suspect.
Since Taper Tantrum in 2012, it's been non-stop.

I wonder if this is how economic reporting has always been. I wonder if it's just click-bait feeding off of fear in readers' lizard brains.

From the outside, /most/ of the worries really do seem legit this time. I'm young, so I don't know what other times were like. But at the least -- the worries aren't fake news.

Taper tantrum seemed real. The European Banking Crisis -- I'm still not sure how nothing happened there, especially with Italy. China has really been the backbone for global growth since 2008, and Kyle Bass is making a pretty convincing argument that at least some of that has been an illusion.

I know I hear over and over again that this is "the most reluctant bull market in history". I'm sure every time is different. But I'm wondering if one of the things that really is different is how much uncertainty has been at the core of this market. There are very few people this time that believe everything is rosey.
I grew up without phones, and for the most part without computers (early years). There were many times I was bored as a kid but most of the time I found activities to fill that time. Being bored a is okay and should not be seen as time needed to be filled. Kids require boredom to enable creativity. It takes imagination to go from bored to doing something. It’s actually part of the developmental process and should not be disrupted by screen time.

My guess is you don’t have kids. This certainly feels like an opinion of a younger person and I can’t blame you for thinking that way. We were all once ignorant and if you ask a person yet older, we never stop.

Think about how long it took for humans to involve to get to where we were before instant entertainment. Now think about how long it’s been since we advanced from first mobile entertainment to now. Do you think hay sudden change is good for you as a natural evolving being?
They said it best:

> "The open-source world would’ve rightly looked at us at the time as the antichrist..."

Heavy PR campaign changed some minds, but the underlying issues remain.

Win32 persists but the thinking that brought it here is gone? .Net? All the lawsuits and bad blood aren't on the minds of Microsoft's sponsored CS programs. Not on the Mindcraft players radar at all.

Same code, name name, same culture. Counterclaims are pure PR.
> beware the Valley / Startup Siren - she is a monster who wants to devour you

Could you elaborate a bit? I'm a european married to an american and we are planning on going back there
> Feelings of failure and shame are common among hikikomori of all ages.

It sounds to me like Japan's hyper-competitive business culture has chewed these people up and spit them back out (even though for some this happened while still in school), and now an entire population segment has paralyzing depression. Maybe that aspect of the country's culture will be forced to change for the sake of the economy.
Consider a sleeper service!
tl;dr: no information whatsoever on what was measured, nor what the result was.
Wow thank you. I've been fiddling around with Stylus for the pages I use regularly but this is a simpler solution for them all.
Only thing that would make sense to me is that he mounted his TV where the thermostat would be. I could see how a Nest would be useful here because you could use their temperature sensors that you can place anywhere in the house to basically ignore the sensor in the nest unit. If that's not the case I would think he may be spending a bit more on AC and power than necessary.
I got one better: the guy who installed a wireless modem inside a faraday cage inside our mechanical room, seeing as he worked for the telco.
Apparently I have none, artificial or otherwise. Thanks!
> The human eyes and brain prefer dark-on-light, and reversing that forces them to work harder to read text, parse controls, and comprehend what you’re seeing.

If you've ever had an eye injury or been visually impaired and had to use a computer screen, you'll know the author is just plain wrong here. Absolutely amazing the author cites zero studies dealing with visual impairment.

My anecdote: injured my epithilium in both eyes, almost went blind; looking at a computer screen produced unbearable pain that was only marginally tolerable in dark mode. Developed new empathy for visually impaired people.
Reminds me of the movie Waterworld.
It's like someone took Icelandic and English and threw them into a blender. I dig it.
I personally haven’t experienced any of these issues with remote work, but then I had many years of experience before my first remote position, as senior and often lead. I was the type to seldom seek help, but was often the one sought out for help. My theory is the more one is accostomed to working on their own, even in an office, the easier it is to work fully remote successfully. Has anyone else experienced this?
wget http://www.ioccc.org/2012/endoh1/endoh1_color.c
cc -DG=1 -DP=4 -DV=8 endoh1_color.c -lm # Parameters — factors of gravity, pressure & viscosity
./a.out < endoh1_color.c
This is one of those concepts that seems to come out of thinking of the law as similar to software. It's not, because software is run by computers while law is run by humans.

If you find a straightforward loophole in software, the computer running it will e.g. happily hand you information you're not supposed to have[1]. If you find that kind of loophole in the law, then the humans running it will usually just tell you to go home. They know that you know what they meant.

Laws can still have loopholes, but they are generally more subtle and complicated. Fixing them often has obvious unintended consequences. They're more like speculative execution bugs[2] than buffer overruns.

[1]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed

[2]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...
I’m here in the US via ESTA (sixth time in ten years maybe? More?). Three month road trip. I have active social accounts (not without a political slant) and didn’t list them. Didn’t seem to be a factor when I came through (with wife and kids), nor previous trips.

Colleague with minimal social profile but travelling by himself copped a three hour pressure-grilling last year. They were most concerned with the idea that he’d try to work and overstay.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/06/pre-monsoon-heat-hits...
Maybe I just don't get this article, but I really dislike the singular interpretation of adventure as some kind of Male self delusional escapism of responsibility - adventure and exploration are the one thing making life worth living for many people, and something worth risking dying for.

Adventure is it's own feeling, it does not need to be explained away as a pseudo emotion or psychoanalysed as dysfunction in disguise. Sure Armstrong had demons, intensely suppressed emotions of family, but i refuse to believe these clinical description of his actual adventure as some kind of symptom, someone doesn't go to the moon purely for escapism, there are far easier ways of doing that.

It's possible the author has never experienced the genuine emotion of adventure, and therefor is blind to this aspect.
Depends on how long the trip to/from the airport is. Railway stations tend to be in city centers.

Edit: also, you can get stuff done on your notebook in the train, but often times not on a plane b/c of the excessive check-in, gating, boarding, security, customs ceremony
It probably is. I’ve found it impossible to play for more than half an hour now when I could easily play for 10 hours straight when I was a teenager. But I don’t know why. I just get bored.
They still didn't give up exFAT patents, there are still many things that hostile to FOSS world.
Still not impressed.

We can talk when they open source Windows and port their APIs to Linux.
>Prominent Nazi party leadership was very fond of dogs, gardens, ice cream, roads, and a lot of the other nice things about being alive after the industrial revolution; you're just going to let them have all that stuff?

Actually, I'd be happy to let them have the dogs. Dogs smell bad and are just a big pain in the ass if you live in an urban environment. They just aren't good indoor pets, and I have no idea why every single woman these days has to have one.

As for roads, we'd be better off with fewer roads and more railroads and trains. But Hitler was famous for getting the trains running on time...
How the Linux Kernel Detects PCI Devices and Pairs Them with Their Drivers
And good for the Christian god means anything that benefits that god. Murdering children at the passover. Murdering people at the flood. Ad nauseam...
It's all digital from what I've seen. It seems like some clear epoxy would work well. Maybe some mineral oil after it cures, just to help fill little gaps (since epoxy tends to be pretty viscous).

EDIT: Although epoxy makes it a bit difficult to change the battery, depending on how you go about it. Maybe some conformal coating on the PCB + mineral oil.
Seasteading is not motivated by environmental concerns , but mainly by libertarian concerns to escape regulations and governments. How would they evade taxes in international territory where there are no taxes?

[edit since i m blocked from replying]:

- US is unique in taxing worldwide income. I would assume the colonists would renounce any other citizenship anyway, and the colony does not have taxes.

- They could not move any financial assets or to the colony unless it is somehow recognized internationally. There is no way to evade taxes.

- The only possible way to tranfer assets is to convert them to cryptocurrency , which presumably would only be useful in the colony. And there 's probably not going to be a way to move large sums of money out of the colony, unless international banks agree to cooperate with it.

[and a tangent]

It's "interesting" to contrast the reactions of HN 2019 compared to 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=194028
If you want languages with more interesting shaping, you have to start compositing glyphs; but good shapers are out there. HarfBuzz is amazing, I'm always amazed how well random bits of Farsi and Mongolian typeset on my systems.

Not sure about Unity, but it helps to be able to submit the geometry, the shader, and the uniforms, then asynchronously (or if you're lucky, in another thread) submit the SDF after you're done computing it.
CloudCopy – Stealing Hashes from Domain Controllers in the Cloud
"On January 13, 2017 we signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with French Polynesia [...] agreeing to cooperate on developing legislation for The Floating Island Project by the end of 2017"

Is there any more news on this?
> the post was intended for his followers only, who would have understood this.

Ive noticed this seems to be a theme for tons of Tweets that go viral unintentionally and their originators then have to explain a whole ton of stuff that all their followers understand.

Its like the Internet is peeking in on intimate discussions and grabbing bits and pieces to create drama out of.
It really depends. In high cost of labor countries, the long supply chain likely is cheaper due to many small compounding reasons.

In low cost of labor countries, I've seen the exact opposite. It's probably not very profitable in the US to setup a vegetable stand for 12 hours a day along a highway for $10/hr of sales. In many countries it is - you have a market garden and put one of the grandparents/children/cousins/etc. manning the retail operation. A single western tourist can make your entire day profitable (including opportunity costs) assuming no other sales.

In my experience you pay a huge premium in the US for locally grown (e.g. weekend farmers markets) - but in other countries it's the opposite - supermarkets are pretty expensive, and the "local farmer" markets are a quarter of the price.
Here's a stylized example which may help:

Monday: credit card does a transaction at a particular business.

Thursday: user calls bank to report card stolen as of previous Sunday. This kicks off a TC40 on all transactions on or after Sunday.

Friday: bank staff and/or user walk through the transactions which were post-theft, figure out which ones were still authorized (e.g. the recurring Netflix bill), and file disputes on all the other ones.

Since there is no way to send the TC40 back in time to Monday, it can't influence the fraud scoring run at the time of the transaction. But there is, in this stylized example, a window between the TC40 and the dispute for the business to proactively investigate and possibly refund.
Sure, but there's a lot of unhealthy-ness other places as well.

If you're not seeing a lot of peace, patience, kindness, or self-control, stay away.

But this comment, and its siblings, need to be careful about painting with too broad a brush. Religious communities are diverse. Again, there are billions of folks that are into church or weekly worship of some sort... there are too many of them for the entire category of activity to be inherently weird.
How has DevOps changed how we work?
Zynga to Sell SF HQ for $600M
Riverdale Friends TV show t-shirt
During recessions there's higher rates of suicides, divorces, depressions.

People don't have to die for their lives to be miserable.

(And people on HN don't have to be so literal or pedantic, especially when analogies are used...)
I was trying to think how iocaine powder would help in this scenario when I clicked in. Shows how our vernacular was shaped a bit though.
Even then, if it's an OS password (drive encryption n/inc) and they have physical access to the disks containing assets then it's already game over.
Drag the tab away from the title bar and to a different screen, it should just birth a new window and live in that. You can also drag tabs from one window to another, or drag a window with only one tab to merge it with another window
>The religion itself presents God as doing good

Does it? I seem to remember a part in the Old Testament where the Abrahamic god orders his followers to commit genocide against some other tribe. How is that "doing good"?
I'm seeing the beginnings of standup routine that literally everyone in California will find offensive. I'm having trouble fleshing out the details though.