skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, Tesla lovers do seem to believe that recalling a saved seat position from several layers deep in the center screen menu is more convenient that pressing a button on the door, but I will just respectfully disagree here. I suppose there must be some car, somewhere, that is thought out worse (for UX, obviously) than a Tesla, but I haven't seen one.
The vast majority of activities do not have any such risks, not everything involves lifting heavy weights.

For example, if you do pushups every day but don't go 100% down to the ground on every rep, you're not risking anything at all. It's just not a meaningful count for comparison to other people's pushup numbers for competitive purposes. Since it's not a competition, who cares, do it however you find is most pleasant and most likely to continue happening daily.
A surprising CS connection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potrzebie#System_of_measuremen...
(author of Badger here) Thanks for sharing the link! Really excited about this release. It contains a bunch of features directly needed to run multi-node, synchronous replicas of Dgraph. In particular, the StreamWriter API was written to stream a snapshot of the DB incredibly fast (can write at 1.6 Gbps).

Hope you guys like and use these features! Thanks to Francesc for putting together the blog and the team for all the work that has gone into Badger.
Hi HN,

I've been developing some open source projects on my Twitch.tv channel for the past few months. I just got this project feature-complete enough for a first beta release.

Why?

When someone either accrues a large social media following, or become the target of someone else with a large following, it can become very draining to have the same conversation and debate the same tired arguments with hundreds or thousands of different people with varying degrees of intellectual honesty and good faith.

What is FAQ-Off?

FAQ Off allows users to create a gamebook-styled Q&A, which can be linked to when someone responds to a social media post with the same dumb question or tired arguments.

At the bottom of the page, you can link to more Q&A posts that contain further responses to the same, tired arguments.

In essence, it allows you to tell trolls, "FAQ off, dude!"

(For maximum impact, users are heavily encouraged to thoroughly cite their FAQ Off entries with a diverse range of reliable third party sources.)

What problems does FAQ Off solve?

If you find yourself being dragged into the same exhausting discussions over and over again, especially from Twitter trolls, you can save yourself a lot of time by pre-writing a branching FAQ adventure that answers users' questions, and their follow-up questions, etc. to render their tired line of questioning obsolete.

Does it cost money?

No! You can self-host your own instance. I've tried to make it easy to setup. All you need is:

* PHP 7.3 or newer, with ext/sodium

* PostgreSQL 9.6 or newer

* Apache or nginx with LetsEncrypt (for HTTPS)

If you want access to the instance I'm running at https://faq.dhol.es, I'm only giving invite codes out to close friends and Patreon supporters. Invited users are free to invite any of their friends.

Why the borderline-profane project name?

The project exists to tell boring Internet trolls, "Fuck off", in a way that obviates their entire strategy. I feel that the name captures the spirit of my intentions well. Also, I like puns.

What motivated its development?

I'm very active in the furry fandom. We're frequent targets of thinly-veiled homophobia. I wanted to arm my fellow furs with tools to better mitigate mob harassment (e.g. the kind of behavior we see after tweets from toxic YouTube personalities like https://twitter.com/keemstar/status/1100493020523347973).
Winforms has some gems:

DataGridViewColumnDividerDoubleClickEventArgs

ListViewVirtualItemsSelectionRangeChangedEventHandler
Given all the me too's. How about this one, same basic problem in the mid 2000's with linux. We were running a few servers with a normal desktop distro. I got the bright idea that since no one was actually on the console we could save some ram/CPU by changing the default runlevel and not starting X/etc. Took about 2 days before someone complained we were running about 20% slower than normal.

I think in the end the solution was to just fire off a X/xdm pair as I wasted a few days looking at scheduling/numa/shared interrupts/etc trying to get a good solid solution that didn't require starting X. We ran it like that for a couple years until eventually someone tried it again (after a bunch of software/hardware upgrades) and the perf didn't fall off.
I use SMS Backup+ because Google doesn't have a native way to do this. Now they take it away? Very lame of Google.
Are there lawns that still live up to the tradition of "mix" of grasses?
The game strongly encourages the player to print the PDF of the data sheets, so there's nothing stopping the player from simply viewing or printing the English-language PDF. My Chinese is awful, but that actually sounds pretty fun.
The 1st one? (It wasn't the zeroth language, which is probably why it couldn't use 0-based indexing)
Reminds me of the cartoon guides to xxx series by Larry Gonick. Strangely fun, even for non cartoony topics like calculus and genetics…
I also wish everybody would install adblock on all their devices etc.

It's one of those problems that are solved only at the individual level but because of that are not going to be solved at all.
This is subjective, of course, but I think SpaceChem is actually ranks at best middle-tier compared to other Zachtronics titles.

Opus Magnum > TIS-100 > Exapunks > SpaceChem > Infinifactory > Shenzen I/O
Yes. A mouse trap reacts to being “attacked”.
> According to your analogy, YouTube is no different from a news paper. All they do is collect content and publish it.

The alternative is that all websites do, in fact, become exactly like newspapers. Every bit of content would have to be submitted behind the scenes to editors who, in turn, would decide exactly what to publish, ensure nothing is libelous or copyrighted elsewhere, and edit the content appropriately.

Obviously, the Internet already existed as a place where content was posted immediately, openly, and moderated. So in order to continue to enjoy doing exactly what we were already doing here, then such an exception has to be made. That's it. It's not rocket science. It's not about free speech or freedom of expression. It's just about making the Internet possible.

> The law is currently having the opposite of its intended effect at the time of legislation. It has simply allowed a very small number of companies to exert editorial control over most of the worlds internet traffic, without having to accept any of the liability that should have come attached to that.

The point of the law is to not require editorial control. Some editorial control is always necessary. It would be impossible to run any website on the Internet without some editorial control just as it would be almost as impossible to run anything other than a newspaper on the Internet if editorial control was mandatory.

The fact that we are here having this conversion is proof that the law is having the exact intended effect it was supposed to have. You are the one trying to give it far more meaning and scope. And the more you expand the scope the more it goes into ridiculous territory that you have no good answer for.
Cryptocurrency Analytics Tools That Helped Me Weather Crypto Winter
I have a virtual desktop per customer/project, one for me. Hotkeys to jump to those desktops. One Firefox window per desktop plus one for WhatsApp web. This naturally limits the number of tabs per window. Recent Firefox versions have a menu listing the tabs of a window. It's easier to jump to one even if it's off screen and doesn't require an addon.
> I'm so torn on this issue. I dislike the idea of the government interfering with private business very much, and I can see how easily it can get scary.

When corporations were first created, they used to have to show how what they were doing was for the benefit of the community. The protections against risk afforded to companies was once granted only in exchange for the ability of a company to add real value to the people and the state. This made sense because very few people would primarily profit, so it made sense to get a guarantee or promise that the company would invest into the community. Companies had a responsibility to ensure that happened.

None of that is true anymore, but that's not because it's immoral to require companies to invest in and have a responsibility for improving and supporting the community. Those corporations only exist by the leave of the state, and in a western republic, that means the leave of the people.

Food companies are responsible for producing healthy food.
Automobile companies are responsible for producing safe vehicles.
Social media services should be responsible for creating environments and discussions that benefit the people.
Doesn't the camera already have skin smoothing? Or you mean for facetime?
Also in Firefox, on Android.
Some food for thought: Imagine how crazy it would be if we would have these tracking devices on real life physical mails, you'd get a letter in the mailbox and you open it and read it. Without you knowing the sender has put a tiny device in there to track whether you opened it or not.

When framed like this, I can't help but feel we are all kind of crazy on the web!
Holy smokes that's a huge amount of institutional memory to just trash, particularly without even allowing archiving.
As others mentioned, discoverability is an issue, as well as monetization. I doubt the frozen channel makes a lot of money but even if it's 100 bucks per week or month, it still helps. If he hosted the videos on his own site, he'll most likely make zero.
"May now have been politicized"? Anti-trust has been politicized for a long time. It just seems like it's politicized now, because it's our companies which are being targeted. When the Obama-era Justice Department prevented the T-Mobile/Sprint merger, that was considered to be a just and fair application of anti-trust law, but somehow when the same scrutiny is applied to Google and Facebook, that's considered "politicization".

To be clear, I'm don't disagree with the Obama Justice Department's blocking of the Sprint/T-Mobile merger. Such a merger would certainly have reduced the competition in wireless markets, and would probably have led to higher prices and poorer service. But it's hard to characterize the decision to pursue telecom companies (while ignoring big tech) or the reverse (pursuing big tech while ignoring telecoms) as anything but political.
600k people have evacuated from a Japanese city due to heavy rainfalls
Spy vs. Spy will never die.
That is brilliant! Thank you!
I have no evidence for this but my gut is very, very confident it was done to get people off older versions of Windows.
People like you keep buying from them.
That's an extraordinarily long-winded "no".
This is the shittiest handkerchief math ever. Your only considering fatalities- which comprise a small subset of the total number of accidents.

Secondly, you didn't actually provide a comparison. You simply remarked "Oh the chances of dying in a car accident is comparable to the chances of dying due to lightening therefor cars are safe" (whilst ignoring the 2 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE difference between them, people struck by lightening != people killed by lightening and the fact that cars are not safe, as anyone who has ever driven will tell you).
You are ignoring all the videos on the platform which aren't that
As a society , we deem specific groups as protected classes and I don't think it's good to mix concepts about protected classes with just being an asshole.

We make specific laws to protect people from racial or religious discrimination. We don't, however, make the same considerations if you're just an asshole.

Would your argument have the same effect if there was a community of fed up business owners who all refused to sell to a big jerk?
Then the title would not make sense anymore. Adding a simple css rule would also be futureproof, because i’m quite sure this is not going to be the last time an absurdly long title word appears.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19454469
Did the same, but for me the transition was from Linux (various flavours) to Mac OS. Feel even dirtier :(
That's what I took from it yep.
How many times do individuals have to keep getting

Content removed

Free Speech labeled as "hate speech"

Truth censored

Exposing Mainstream system

Exposing corporations

for people to FINALLY be willing to use actual free speech platforms for content
Shameless plug: you know what doesn’t rely on faulty style sheets? Native apps! Give Octal for iOS a shot.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal/id1308885491
It's important to remember that flying was ridiculously unsafe when it first appeared. Now they're the safest form of travel.

Not to say that self-driving cars will be ridiculously unsafe when the first commercial service appears, but they share one thing with planes: increased safety is an engineering problem.

Every incident that occurs with these vehicles will have tons of data and people looking over that data to fix the issue. Human brains can't be fixed, sensors and computer software can.
A pity it does not support at least once or exactly once delivery for the Vector sink.

Also, the documentation seems to miss information about which sinks support TLS?

We're currently looking for a distributed-over-the-internet logging setup and are interested in evaluating Rsyslog/RELP alternatives.
Pretty doubtful about that tbh. Yes, the hacking type can likely solve "host video" for people to watch, maybe even "make it streamable without ruining my resources" but they usually aren't as apt w.r.t. user experience, SEO, and a multitude of other aspects that capture an audience. Shameful as I might find it, independent sites also don't offer nearly the reach a platform like YouTube does these days.

Add to that the fact that we're talking about a niche topic here, it's unlikely to affect youtube in any non-philosophical manner.
So what happens if, by chance, a woman in your family marries someone of the same surname? Does the 表姐 label then not apply where it otherwise would?
It’s too bad that they never transitioned into newer forms of media to capture their demographic as the internet took hold.

I remember them as a teen in the 90’s and they still had a captive audience in my peers and I. After the mobile computing revolution had taken hold I don’t think teens even were aware they existed.
This post title has caused it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341855
The surprising thing is that it was still going.
Gday Platforms that censor speech List :-

* Facebook

* Twitter

* Google & Youtube

* TUMBLR

* Pateron

* Stripe

* Paypal

* Twitch

* Spotify

* Apple

* Sony

* pin interest

* LinkedIn

* Mailchimp

* Wordpress

* mastodon

* azure

* Mastercard

* Godaddy

* MEDIUM

* Shopify

* Cloudflare

* pusher

* WIKI

* Reddit

* teespring

* Slack

* coinbase

* GOFUNDME

* VISA

* Square

* Bitpay

* ROKU

* Netflix

* Indiegogo

* Disqus

* VIMEO

* Ravelry

Regards,
Charliebrowau
There is such a thing as sunset provisions, though they are not applied as regularly as one might hope. Laws are not of necessity eternal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_provision

Though yes, that is a legitimate issue.
Smalltalk arrays and strings are 1-based.
There's nothing I want more out of my computing environment than being able to run OpenBSD with ZFS.
Disc brakes were also banned for pretty long.
Cassini Ran Rings Around Saturn and What It Helped Us Learn
> I can have chickens but I can't eat them.

How could they check that you don't eat your own chicken ?

Didn't they mean that you can't sell the meat ?
Also gave Donald Knuth his first big break:

> At age 19, Dr. Knuth published his first technical paper, “The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures,” in Mad magazine.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-comp...

I shudder to think where computer science would be today were it not for the sage foresight and mature discrimination of Mad magazine.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20351568
> When the Obama-era Justice Department prevented the T-Mobile/Sprint merger

Wasn't it the ATT/T-Mobile merger? Which is a bit different from T-Mobile/Sprint in various aspects.
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20351524
That doesn't make sense to me. If an "irrational" strategy, applied by an individual, can beat the market, that strategy is in fact rational. What you may be referring to is Brad De Long's "The Economic Consequences of Noise Traders" [1], which seeks to create a model to explain why "the market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent". Note, though, even in De Long's paper, it's never a single "irrational" investor driving rational investors out of business. Instead, there are large number of noise traders, whose random trading patterns cause markets to fluctuate wildly, depleting the capital stocks of the rational investors, and driving them from the market. The result is entirely dependent on the rational investors having less capital than the noise traders, which certainly wouldn't be the case in a market full of rational investors, with one noise trader.

[1]: https://www.nber.org/papers/w2395
Why not use this on Earth to build more robust humans, might be an athletic training hack. Wouldn't you get the opposite of bone loss and muscle loss? So, increased bone and muscle density. Must be good for something. Might be tough on the cardiovascular system though.

Oh, and "artificial gravity"? Please already.
Amen. Sometimes it takes what it takes to be precise.
Vista, I think it was Vista, "fixed" that by adding an estimation pass first, that often took longer than the copy itself, and was almost as bad at estimating. It sometimes took much longer. The fix was far worse than the problem, yet it survived unchanged.

It was so bad I ended up discovering Teracopy which was decent at estimation, and far faster at copying. Was a must-have until I migrated away from Windows.
> your enthusiasm for Elm

As I said, I'm not an Elm fanboy. I don't actually like it that much.

> JS is an EXTREMELY flexible languange. Open and malleble to both experts and newbies alike. Open to all styles and paradgims of programming including object and functional

Sure. So what? So is LISP. I'm talking about "business value", meaning: if you don't care about how shiny and flexible and open your programmers' languages are, you care about the hard $$$ cost of development and maintainence per unit of webapp functionality delivered, then Elm makes a heck of a lot more sense than JS+etc.

The compiler and the fact that you get zero front-end errors just blows away the typical JS dev cycle with a buggy front-end. I can't quantify it because you can't quantify the hypothetical lost business due to hypothetical bugs that don't happen because you're not using JS.

To me it seems clear that it is much cheaper to develop and maintain Elm apps.

> what makes it possible to be the worlds most compiled to languange

Nah. That's because it's the only language in the browser and people would rather use something else.

> Elm, started in 2012 is even older than react, and would've took of long ago if it had any business value.

You're begging the question I think, my whole puzzlement is that the business value seems very clear yet Elm hasn't taken off.

To date, the only serious objection I've heard here and elsewhere is that they removed older docs when they bumped a minor version number. That sucks.
Nitpick, but it's:

Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
My point is that this is manufactured outrage from people who don't actually care. They're just caring because it is today's flavor of the day. There are real steps people can take to support user privacy but they don't do them. People happily and voluntarily engage in objectively worse conduct for privacy day-to-day. This includes myself too -- my employer had me add not one but two separate tracking scripts on my company's homepage. I "care" about privacy yet here I am participating in stripping it away from people.

> using the exact same technology as these read receipts

What technology people use doesn't matter, what matters is how they use it. If I were to implement a system that tracked actions users do in a way that was ethical and completely not personally identifiable, then it doesn't matter - there is no problem, regardless of what technology is used to do it.

> Fixing personal email tracking has a pleasant side effect of also fixing the tracking that happens in both phishing and corporate emails as well

I don't think so. At all. This is like banning plastic straws to save the planet.

It is mutating what is basically a porch security camera into a discussion on oppressive government surveillance. The two are not the same. Personal email read receipts have almost no bearing on privacy at all. This is perhaps the point that is being missed by most people.
They could have used Pinyin. Even people who don’t speak Chinese and have to look it up would have an easier time understanding it than trying to parse this identifier.
Url changed from https://comicbook.com/dc/2019/07/04/mad-magazine-to-cease-pu..., which points to this.
Well, there was Mad TV.
Where does the air for your electric dryer come from though. Surely it's the same as the air from your balcony?
Its a different world. Comedy will belong to those who have the bravery to make fun of today's sacred cows not yesterday's.

Mad was built on parodying a Middle American mindset that largely doesn't exist anymore. Thanks in small part to counterculture such as it self. In a way its a victim of its own success. It tore down the enemy too well and the counterculture is 'the Man' now. You can see the same thing happening with the Simpsons. Its lost its purpose.

On another note, I'm not going to pretend that simply being left leaning doomed Mad but there are already a gajillion places simply making fun of Drumpf and Republicans. Gotta stand out somehow.
It's finally happened.

Satire can no longer compete with reality.
This seems like a very circular argument.

The argument in this thread seems to suggest we should be slow at adopting av technology because it could kill some innocent people.

Now I accept that point as a fact. There is no doubt people will die in av cars just like people die in cars today.

Yet, on the other we have human drivers killing innocent people today, which is acceptable collateral damage, even though introducing av technology would help to greatly reduce that number.
The C3 Aircross we have rented last year was okay besides the 1.2L 85 HP engine being absolute crap. Economic yes, but with the acceleration pedal bottomed the car was struggling to overtake a truck or climb a hill. I don't have this problem with my Suzuki which has a weaker 65 HP engine.
It’s kind of nice seeing the homepage with a fixed row height per story! I guess it will not last bit that was a nice thing that came of this. Thanks, OP :)
In before "genetically modified microbes induce auto immune disease in cancer patients".