skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, this is another example of the "splinternet" phenomenon where the Internet is, in some ways, moving to become less of a universal resource and more regional in nature.

It's a shame, as a lot of benefit has been derived from having globally available information exchange, but it seems the trend is for regions or nation states to want more control over Internet based resources, as they become more important to the operation of those countries.
Not the op, but this is a schism in attitude that I frequently face:

- I believe that "understanding your enemy" ("Empathy") is absolutely positively crucial in successfully fighting your enemy

- This frequently gets interpreted as "Sympathizing with your enemy", being too soft, making excuses,etc; by those who want simple action.

So for example, I think we need to understand what makes a terrorist, how they come to their beliefs and motivations, and what we can do to prevent that. Others interpret that as being 'soft on terrorism', and we just need to 'bomb them into oblivion'; whereas I fear that while actual physical fighting is definitely a critical part of the overall campaign, there's a tremendous danger it'll just create more terrorists because we haven't eradicated the actual root source.

To me, striving to understanding an enemy doesn't prevent direct, firm action, if that is then convincingly found to be the most effective and efficient way of fighting them. In turn, I feel understanding your enemy prevents random, ineffective, emotionally-satisfying but results-lacking action. Others, of course, will disagree.

So - to the point of the article and discussion: I agree with op, if that is their intention, that you have to look at incentives; I've worked in corporate world for decades and I fully agree that you can have whatever value pledges, official goals, mission statements, and even official rules you darn well want to; and they're completely irrelevant if actual incentives, when summed out, reward a different behaviour. External and internal rules, and power, and statements, and goals, are all factors in incentives; as are the more subtle, emergent incentives. Going for a blunt approach may shift those incentives insufficiently far, or in an incorrect direction.

...My 2.4 Canadian Pennies :-D
The Americans sucking the straw of Fox news propaganda and genuinely believing that the USA is the freest bestest country in the world aren't on this forum man. We get it.

I gotta push back on this "China is more free" thing. China is definitely a very free place when you roll in as a white foreigner flush with a high value currency. I've been there, I remember thinking it's crazy what you can get away with there.

But this is like arguing you're more free there because you don't have to wear a seatbelt. Sure. Not having the government force you to wear a seatbelt means you are more free, by some definitions of free.

But it also means that when I'm driving around I'm not free to relax as much as I am on an American freeway because I have to watch out for shit falling off uninspected, falling to pieces construction vehicles. It means crossing the road is a game of frogger. It means I have to worry about whether my food will put me out for a week.

And if I'm native Chinese, I don't get nearly the freedoms in China that white dudes teaching English do. Putting aside the cultural restrictions (your family not letting you study art and shit like that) you actually DO have to worry about what you put on social media, because unlike a visiting white tourist, the PRC will have no problems with whisking you off to a reeducation camp.
What if the dev just publishes an update that removes the flashlight functionality? It isn't malware, it just doesn't work. I don't think you could sue the dev and win.
People can't survive in Siberia either. Should we "do" something about that too? Stop shilling on behalf of carbon credit scam artists or whatever dirty money NGO monstrosity is hiding behind that link. I won't be clicking it because I don't want brain cancer.
[PicoLisp](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/picolisp/picolisp/dev/READ...). No open issues, everything is working.
If it's only about being able to move your files anywhere, all clients have the ability to do that and continue seeding from where you want it.

If what you want is to be able to send a very specific file to someone, then single-file torrents exist for this purpose already. There might be some manual work indeed, but that's only because no one really had the need before.
Has this actually been confirmed via observation though? Are there polls/surveys that see this effect?

I mean I think if I was living right next to a dam or a chemical plant or whatever I would be more worried about an accident.

Although I suppose in real data you could get selection bias - those people who are terrified by nuclear power are unlikely to continue living next to a plant for long, leaving behind only those who are not bothered by it.
> If you are in the US, then go to a lawyer immediately

They say they need money. This advice means they A. Won't work for another average company ever again B. Need money for a lawyer.
Base load power. Solar and wind do not provide this. Storing the power from these solutions is not possible in our current scientific state.

We have people who claim there are storage solutions just around the corner, but the corner has been stated since the beginning of renewables. Nuclear can be used in conjunction with the renewables for no carbon solutions.
Never did, thank you!

I'll try to contact them!
We, the undersigned. (How political petitions can make a difference)
I plan on keeping my large house long after the kids leave. I need my space.
You still need to keep the thermophotovoltaic cells cool, it doesn't violate thermodynamics (energy can only be extracted from a temperature differential).
1) Same applies for npm (granted, this was only fixed after the left-pad incident, and npm was not the only language's registry to have that issue).

2) As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, npm supports namespaced packages, but they are not mandatory. There are other major languages' registries in same situation.

3) Can you back up 'nobody'. I would suspect a lot of companies don't use a proxy. Some JS teams also use an internal proxy for npm, but it is obviously additional infrastructure to setup/maintain which has a cost.

4) Never heard anyone raise this as a problem before.

> Not directly related to the incident of the original post, but I was mindblown when I realized that you can unpublish npm packages

You can't, with the exception of a 72 hour window, to allow for accidental publishing [1].

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/policies/unpublish
It was a different time, the world moved on to web enabled / multi-user applications. Hypercard and MS Access where decidedly built around single users with the latter having multi-user capabilities but not great support for it. They where both designed in a time where a constant network connection was a luxury and not a commodity. They where awesome for their time, but it was also a simpler time, as of yet no one has come up with a stupid simple app builder for present day computing realities as complexity has exploded, its a interesting problem and if a person could make creating simple apps for web/mobile/multi-user as easy as Hypercard was, they would certainly be rolling in fortunes.
Oh, yeah - forgot about Crimea/Russia shooting down MH17 airliner.
Trump just needs a war to be in by election time...
Does your industry still use Windows XP/Vista, or PHP4, or Ruby 1.8.7, or Apache 1.x, or MySQL 4.1 or RHEL 5? Those are roughly equivalent era.
An AI expert took on his toughest project ever: writing code to save his son
The amount of harassment that citizens of any state that the US claims to hate at any given time endure on a daily basis is disgusting. Exiled iranians living outside of Iran for 20 years have got their bank accounts closed solely for being Iranian. I can't help but think that these internet services will be going that way in the future.

The fact that the "free software" community is not putting their foot down for this is disgusting. Especially when there's so much back-patting when it comes to "the value of the community". Where's the community for crimean or iranian developers?
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Does this mean that the news of Moore's law demise are greatly exaggerated?
Downvoted.

Github was subject to US law before MS took it over; gitlab is not MS-owned but had to do the same (not sure about bitbucket but I imagine it's similar).

Whether the #1 place to host open-source projects should be owned by a company that makes a closed-source OS is a good debate question but it's completely orthogonal to whether they have to comply with US law.

I'm not saying I agree either with the sanctions or with Microsoft running github, but I'm saying you can't blame Microsoft for the current administration's sanctions on Iran.
> some exceptions for pasta, bread etc - use whole grain

Why should we use whole grain? They have more nutrients, but if your nutrient needs are met from other ingredients, what are the benefits of whole grain?
Tangential question: Do you know of a method to render PDFs to HTML canvas other than PDF.js?

PDF.js seems too slow for my purposes, though I haven't tested very thoroughly yet. I'm hoping with wasm Skia now available, there might be some other options coming.
I don't see how self-checkout does not come under "all the other expenses involved in running a store". Also, I dont' see how it comes under the 1-2%, which I assume is the profit that the store makes.

I still don't see how all this says that "the cost savings have been passed on to the customer", as per your previous comment.
The ozone hole and nuclear warfare/proliferation were fixed by new regulations based on the fear though.

Perhaps if we'd never worried so much about the ozone hole, it'd be a lot bigger now. (it's still there by the way, just smaller)
at least we can get rid of the bloated web apps once everyone begins to do so...but would it be possible if libaries are written in a way that it's easy to just integrate just a portion into existing code?
After ethnically cleansing, who is left / moves in? The perpetrators. I'm sure you will figure it out if you think about it a little more.
pff, ridiculous comment. a region doesn't have the right to attach itself to another state.

think about it. a bunch of russians move to somewhere near grand canion, do a referendum and then proclaim it russian territory.
> Then complain to the companies you license software from for continuing to build on a soft-deprecated platform.

You think we haven't been doing this? We had a representative from one of these vendors come in to discuss their roadmap, they told us straight up that "We still intend to keep using Python 2".

> Don't complain to developers for ignoring a platform whose deprecation was announced over a decade ago.

Yes, because web dev is the hot tech stuff now, nobody wants to work in a boring sector, so they are not willing to change anything, cycle continues.

> And certainly don't badmouth people who are using the not-deprecated tool as being ok with unstable infra.

I read this sentence twice and I still don't understand what you're trying to say, clarify?
It is, sorting could be done for cheap by humans like immigrants, elderly and disabled, it was done by chinese in the past.

It’s a chemistry advance you need to pray for.
The machines will run the financial world
> And another thing people should learn from that, never underestimate secretaries, accountants etc.

It is difficult for the modern developer to think of users as anything other than dumb cattle, because doing so would raise ethical concerns about their high-engagement eyeball-farming products.
> Are you implying a significant enough fraction of people that it bears discussing tries to commit suicide but doesn't really want to die

Yes. This is why some countries use "accidental death with undetermined intent" as part of their definition of suicide.

Some people self harm frequently and severely. When we talk to them we find out that they do not want to die; that they fear death. But their self harm is so severe and extensive that they are at risk of death. For example, we see people trying to engage with mental health services, trying to get treatment for their self harm, but continuing to self harm and then accidentally dying by overdose.

> I don't understand why you are suddenly making this about one specific set of people.

Suicide kills significant numbers of people. It's important that advice is evidence based. "Have company" is not evidence based. When we give incorrect advice it increases risk; people die.
You can define all the operators explicitly if you wish. However, the common case is made easier, define only __eq__ and one of the others (__gt__ or __le__ usually) and @functools.total_ordering will derive all of the others for you.
We adopted some dogs that have been abandoned; those you don't pick for any traits besides them not being completely crazy/vicious. We had (and have) ones that no-one wants because they are too smart; they are escape artists and very good thieves. They know how to trick you. They are absolutely not obedient, even after training (they seem to train easy, but they are just doing what gives them the quickest treat; if that ends they immediately stop again). I like them more than the obedient ones really.
> Then how many more years

Could almost really say “how many decades” at this point.
I didn't say it would replace the need for a changing network.

I do say that in Summer you could get an average of 50 kilometres per day from solar in the Lightyear One (if you live somewhere sunny). That would cover the daily commute of many people. You could go months without plugging in.
I use Toggl. It can sit as a small overlay on my screen, with a box and timer that asks, "What are you working on?" It has helped a lot. I love it.
So about 100 tonnes per flight.
Crimea is guilty of being weak I guess?
I bet this guy produces at least twice as much CO2 as I do.

All Al Gorean hypocrites, please leave us alone.
We need to look at things in a moderate and reasonable way instead of going from an extreme to the opposite extreme. It used to be that plastic was fantastic. Now we arguably use too much of it so some people go to the other extreme of wanting to get rid of it altogether.

The reality is that plastics are great materials that are very useful, the flip side being that they need to be properly disposed of.

Yes, they are probably over-used in some cases, e.g. packaging, but that does not mean we should treat plastics "like asbestos".

For example, you mention glass bottles: They require a lot of energy to be manufactured, they are heavy (more energy needed to transport them), they require energy, water, and chemicals to be washed. Is that necessarily more environmentally friendly that plastic efficiently recycled?

You also mention wax paper, which (as far as I know) is not very recyclable because it's waxed. Probably better to use cardboard or a type of plastic that recycles well (and is actually recycled!)
> can be really powerful.

It can also be invalidating and harmful. I've met far more people for whom it's harmful than I have who were helped by it.

It's also causing harm to those other people: a relative who attempts suicide will increase your own risk of suicide.

I've spoken to a lot of people who had a relative who died by suicide. Many of them had carer roles for their loved ones. Every single one of them who had this carer role spoke about the huge amount of guilt they now feel, and about their own significant increase in risk of death by suicide.
Its all a slippery slope. If you had shown this outcome to the execs prior to starting down the path they took, none of them would have chosen said path. Execs think they are being "good managers" when they push for more from less, because they force the worker bees to be innovative. Yeah, sometimes that happens, but many times the restriction is just arbitrary and causes corners to be cut. What seems to have happened in my mind is that the managers pushed people down a path, and there was a knowledge gap combined with a lack of oversight that caused people to die. To walk back what I said above slightly, I think that the execs really screwed up here, and there is some house cleaning in order at minimum and possible criminal liability. I think this really stresses the importance of thorough if not downright adversarial oversight by the FAA.
Musical Chemistry
What is the Waffle House Index? (2018)
Revisiting the rendering tier part 2: migrating AMP
VFR into JFK
Every transistor has a unique quantum fingerprint
I know this is just nitpicking, but US Sanctions apply to sanctioned state nationals; regardless of location.
Your American-English word 'dating' is inaccurate. Here, and elsewhere. When you are 'seeing someone' (cringe-worthy term as well) and this is on regular terms we call that a relationship. You don't have to live together to be in a relationship, not everyone has to know it, you might still feel insecure; that's all OK in a young relationship. It is a rather old fashioned way of thinking that such is A-OK. It just isn't always feasible or practical. This article is about this phenomenon. That being said I'd like to see the data as 'more older couples' raises questions. For me, the following: more than when? how much more? which areas in the world? The title is intentionally vague and I refuse to read an article to figure that out.
Where do you live that a house is $1m 50 miles from everything? The valley? You don't have to go overseas for affordable housing. Most of the Midwest is extremely cheap. Heck, I live about 20 miles from downtown Austin and 30 miles from the main tech area and my house is under $250k, and Austin has a booming tech sector. Houston and Dallas are some of the largest cities in the US, have a lot of tech, and are similarly affordable.
In my more paranoid moments I wonder- Despite the appearance of ineptitude and racist undertones, is the US government's push to build a Wall actually part of a long-term strategy put in place by the true strategists in the US government, intelligent people who accept the science and understand the tremendous challenge of climate change. Have they already evaluated the projections and concluded that the only way for the US itself to survive is to create a barrier?
don't bother, they re pro russian trolls. a lot of comments here seem to accept russian annexation
Great! Think I will add another copy to the world. :-D
> Hard to trust the article after such a trivially false statement in the title.

Usually, the article and the title are written by different people, so the accuracy of the latter shouldn't be viewed as an indication of that of the former.
It could go as something like this - since we know how much safety was omitted in chase of profit, we see the most common problems. But airplanes are massively complex, and compromises could have been done on thousands of other places. Those could start failing after 10+ years of service for example, or in some rather unusual corner cases.

Faith is a funny thing - once lost, it needs to be massively overcompensated to come to similar levels as before, and even after that things are just not the same...
Can you name some of this software?
News: Bitmarket CEO turns up dead, Bitfinex yeah-buts NYAG, more Tron weirdness
There's one more obstacle in the way of adopting any such system - the private torrent DRM garbage. Torrent creators stupidly mark their torrents private or not, changing that flag changes the infohash and you might not be able to access the files with the new hash, it's incredibly hypocritical.
Code Reviews at Google are lightweight and fast
Fibers. They are good for your digestive system, and make you feel full for longer. So less craving for snacking.
Not only did it not reduce fuel consumption, the money was also used to fix holes in our social security system and almost nothing was done for the environment. Turned out people are dependent on cars. And they really are, to a degree that cannot be satisfied by public transport.

People in Germany advocating an additional tax have either never worked, payed bills, are stupendously rich, just insane or don't have responsibilities towards others.

Sorry, there is a limit on how much you can use taxes and that limit is staunchly in the red because of naive promises made in the past.

I think the current little pupil rebellion is something very worth supporting. But their demands are naive.

Your proposition would be a more efficient mechanism.

Currently there is a discussion about giving people a fixed amount of money for the additional costs this tax would cause.

What a waste of time...
Very unlikely in my opinion - if the Iranian Revolutionary Guard did want to attack something, I doubt they would do it from an IP address in their own country. I'm sure they have a decent botnet or two somewhere else, that's like opsec 101.

Similarly, although Crimea specifically is now IP-banned, the rest of the Russian Federation is not.

This is exactly what it looks like: a political sanction.
"is the interaction with your users. In BT there's none"

This is by design, but I agree: it would be nice to have at least a way to point users at a place where a common standard and open protocol would allow communications related to the torrent. An IRC channel named after the file hash maybe?
In the old days of Napster and later the OpenNap network (anyone here used the Lopster client?) I discovered a lot about unknown rock bands just by looking at files shared by other people and asking them for more information. Those were the early days of multiuser downloads, when downloading a not so famous movie could take like two months (it happened to me) so pestering the poor user on the other side with continuous downloads wasn't an option.
Being able to chat also gave the users the opportunity to help each other to solve networking problems or other technical issues. Having some way of communicating without altering the protocol (that is, external server) with the torrent containing just a field in a structure identifying a channel, could be an interesting improvement.
Then embargo Russia not Crimea, right? I mean, they are just the invaded population.
Ignorant here; how has the US illegally occupied territories in the middle east? Illegal under which jurisdiction? For an invading force, there would be only potential jurisdictions, no? International and/or their own. If it were International, the US would face sanctions. If it were illegal under US law, how could it persist?
There is RxPY: https://rxpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
A potential "solution" is to price in the externality and tax the use of plastic in manufacturing. Then the market can decide whether it's "worth" using plastic for disposable water bottles or food wrapping.
So things like Soylent and Beyond Meats are also quite processed.

They’re probably not as problematic as foods high on sugars, salt, fats and diverse fillers.