skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Naming things is hard. Naming people is harder. Many (most?) expecting parents spend hours researching names online or in "1000 baby name ideas"-books. My parents love my name. I hate it.

There are too many of us for names to be a unique identifier. First names are too generic to say anything about us, and they're usually assigned at birth, before any of our traits are known.

Family names are even worse; here's your father's last name glued on to yours, for no apparent reason. Or maybe your mother's. Or, if you want, in Belgium, a hyphenated version of both parents', but excluding any hyphenated part of theirs. This somehow implies that family is important, but only a small part of your family? I don't get that in a modern context.

Iain M Banks had an interesting take on multi-part names in The Culture, with the naming scheme at least featuring a chosen name. But sadly also including things you have no control over, like place of birth and parentage.

Letting everyone pick their own name would be nice. That's apparently already possible in some parts of the world, but not everywhere. And often you can only change it if your name is truly ridiculous or if you share a name with a serial killer or some such.
The Evolution of Software Delivery
From a UK perspective, Kevin is not a very popular name either, and has a bunch of negative associations.

"Kev" has been slang for someone from a low socioeconomic background, possibly violent, often paired with "Sharon" or "Tracy" as a female equivalent.

So as an aspirational western name I'm not sure it works! At least for the English...
So this new phone I bought (oppo reno) has the front camera which needs to slide up to use. Although makes face identification unlock slightly slow(i don't use that), but I guess addresses your concern.
Bill Gates Flew with Jeffrey Epstein on the Lolita Express in 2013
Very interesting, thanks!

I suppose that some of the big benefits of home ownership (mortgage interest/local tax deduction, capital gains exemption) are not available with Arrived?

These benefits are not available with REITs, and REITs have to pay out most of their earnings as dividends.

Is Arrived classified as a REIT?
If a baby fall in another room and you only hear them crying half an hour later, it doesn't mean the baby just got hurt. Both you and the baby still agree when it happened, you just learned about it later.

The same is true regarding the black hole flare. Except that we are not only learning about it now due to negligence, but because we, with all current knowledge in physics we have and also our technology, we don't have a way to see what's happening right now. But say an astronomer finds a wormhole and points their telescope to it. They could know about things that will only be visible by everyone else in 26,000. Time to invest in those black hole futures.
> Unless it's a monopoly or companies colluding, which is prevented by enforcement of regulation, not any goodness on behalf of corporations.

The other way to prevent that is greed on the part of other corporations, who want to come in and get a piece of that pie by undercutting the monopolist.

> In practice we now have fewer consumer OS than in the 90s

We have fewer consumer OS because Android and other free software ate them by being more of what consumers wanted. Creating a new OS has never been easier -- you can fork Android -- but first you have to find something to change about it that people actually want but it doesn't already have.

> the return of walled gardens, and people who avoid them don't affect anything, the walled gardens care less about what people want, than what the walled gardens want.

The walled gardens are propped up by laws that e.g. prevent third party clients from interoperating with the Play Store without Google's permission.

> So why are their any laws, at all, protecting minorities, why are things like access to disabled regulated, why is not legal to just lynch a person "most people don't like", and so on?

Because the majority of people want laws protecting minorities etc. The problem with democracy isn't that the majority can't be right, it's that it can be wrong without recourse. As was the case in the past when there were overt laws oppressing minorities and allowing anyone to lynch a person "most people don't like" with no legal repercussions etc. All of that happened in a democracy.

> How long has Comcast been the worst thing since soaked bread, how is that possible, how have they not either changed or gone the way of the dodo?

Because there are laws that make competing with them difficult and expensive. You may want to start a small ISP which is only serves your neighbors on your street, but the law requires you to serve the whole city. And if you try to do that, expect the incumbents to sink you with lawsuits.

> And why does Facebook keep regressing its UI even though anyone who cares hates it, "as long as most people don't mind"? How's YouTube shitting all over creators working out?

Because people don't actually care. It takes five minutes to switch from Facebook to anything else, and you can use two social networks at once until Facebook dies. But the fact is that most people just don't care -- and the people who do care already don't use it, and alternatives to it exist. Which is the thing that governments don't allow.

And it's the same with YouTube. If the creators stopped using it, it would be a ghost town. And some of them have, and the rest of them don't care. There is no law forcing you to use YouTube instead of one of their competitors or self-hosting your own videos.

> For companies, "If the majority does that with you then the corporation changes" is apparently good enough, with governments you claim anyone but the majority gets outright ignored, when that's not even the case.

If you don't like Facebook, Twitter exists, and Reddit and Signal and email and Mastodon. Even if 90% of people use Facebook, you have the option to not. You don't have the option to opt out of a law.
X-Rays can pass through thick chunks of metal several times the thickness of a laptop. You just need a powerful enough source. I doubt however that such a source can be used safely in an enclosure as open as the securiry check machines.
I really wanted to actually read the article but I just had to go back to the comments. The page was unusable, I got some subscription/popup endless loop, had to close a popup every 5 seconds. I assume it's because of some limitations of the built-in Chrome browser in materialistic app, but still, come on wired.
This was an amazing article.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9359156
A good companion to this story is that of the Tang, which benefited from more reliable torpedoes later in the war and racked up an extremely impressive kill record.

Unfortunately, while the improved torpedoes were great at exploding, they still had some guidance-system issues:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tang_(SS-306)

Nine survivors, including (Capt.) O'Kane,
were picked up the next morning by
Japanese frigate CD-34. Survivors
of Tang's previous sinkings were on board,
and they beat the men from Tang. O'Kane
stated, "When we realized that our clubbing
and kickings were being administered by
the burned, mutilated survivors of our
handiwork, we found we could take it
with less prejudice."
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5211036

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7929284
Just move to San Francisco. ;)
I think the GP is pointing out that Chromium had G services, period.
Hello @V8engine, thanks for this bugs feedback!
I tried Achen, DE and it's working fine for me, maybe you can try to relaunch the app?
About the India issue, I just check and it's definitely true! Thank you for this, I definitely will check this issue why All of India cities are not founded... I checked and my weather API find them so it should be something wrong with my timezone code for India (normally "IN").
Looks like the Dell XPS 13 uses a single rectangular battery, though it still requires unscrewing the whole case, disconnecting a battery cable, and then unscrewing the battery, so it's not something you can do on the fly.

The 2018 MacBook Air battery isn't quite so neat and rectangular: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/HvCgVPqVQtVI5K5X.h...

And you can see here how it fits into all of the available space in the computer: https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/QUm4KjJyARQaSorr.h...

Switching this computer to using a simple battery like the Dell XPS 13 is using means sacrificing a significant amount of battery capacity.
Stupidity or clumsiness. Apparently it can't be tracked to any specific origin, the name just went completely out of fashion and the association seems to have emerged around 2000.

Here's a German article about it: https://www.welt.de/kultur/article163980590/Der-Herbst-des-H...
Sure, The Producers is a great comedy but it doesn’t take place in the actual camps themselves, that’s what I was trying to suggest that it is now taboo, i.e. that doing almost slap-stick comedy having the Holocaust camps as a background has become culturally out of reach.
Too great for cars but plenty fine for solar demands.
You're looking for something like JustEat[0], but that's really only for takeaway/fast-food.

[0]https://www.just-eat.co.uk/
Hm. This is going to be a dumb question but why wouldn't you borrow a billion dollars, spend your 5 million immediately, then pay the rest back in instalments?
>Being able to say fuck it, I'd rather be uncomfortable and save $100 is empowerment, not a burden.

Also you can decide to hang out at the mall until prices go down.
Around 50 cents / kWh
been eyeing up workstations for a gaming rig. Second-hand, 6-12 months' warranty, a ton of CPUs, a ton of memory, Nvidia Quadro cards aren't directly equivalent to the same generation of GTX but your game will run just fine ...
Regression test: “torpedo explodes when it hits stuff” feels like the constructor test that everyone writes and never expects to fail.
Windows Defender and common sense is enough on Windows based systems IMO. And on mac you don't need one.
No content on Google is posted there by 3rd parties. Google does select what is displayed and, in the case of snippets, they go out of their traditional way to promote that content.
No worries! Your kind words are very much appreciated :) Hope you can get something out of it.
ABC Australia science unit promotes a study into 'aha' moments
In Canada I had per KWh (same as in most of Europe I think), so yes, I found this completely useless. Maybe they just wanted to say it's over 9000 because of the meme.
I was reading the 1993 bio Hard Drive about Bill Gates recently (great to go back and read old books centered on tech, really makes you remember why people hated Bill/Microsoft...and he’d barely gotten started!) and it mentions several times that Gates would watch these lectures in what he considered his “down time”
Same in the Netherlands. There are a lot of names that will instantly identify you as someone born from parents hailing from the lower socio-economic classes.

If you meet a boy named Jayden (the present day Dutch Kevin I guess?), you can be pretty sure his parents didn't go to college. This information should be irrelevant, but in reality it is used by whoever they meet, consciously or unconsciously.

The problem with these imported and new names is that it places a long lasting, nigh indelible stigma on their bearer. A label that everyone can see — yet you'll never know if it affects someone's opinion of you. All you might know is that the net effect of your name is negative until society changes its perception of it (i.e., gets used to it).
We did have four state legislators (both Calderon brothers, Yee, and Wright) convicted of crimes and ousted in one term.
This feels like "guilt by association" Epstein courted rich powerful and smart people as attractors for his socialised moneymaking. Bill also attends Davos so by implication is everyone in Davos a sexual predator?

Seriously. His little black book is not evidence of malfeasance any more than six degrees of Kevin bacon.

I'm a long term Microsoft hater btw but Bill, unlike modern dotcom billionaires has made substantive contributions to world health which will outlive ms-dos.
I don't find his arguments about things like the double colon at all convincing. They just seem like arbitrary subjective points that you could take almost any position on and claim it's a principle. It seems like a weird kind of bikeshedding for a language designer (as opposed to an overly opinionated user) to have such strong, yet clearly arbitrary, positions on.

Besides, this is a language that likes to surround special identifiers with double underscores, which is almost objectively ugly.
snippets are just a reflection of that. how is google faring better in that respect?
Key considerations, crossroads, and predictions for online marketplaces
In some french-speaking countries, script-kiddies are sometime called Kévin. I'm not sure if is a reference to the famous Kevin Mitnick or to Kevin from the movie Home Alone or some kind of Kevinism.

These last years, I also hear people using "Jean-Kévin" instead.
I was a major fan of the Amiga. It was a great community of users too. I remember meeting at a local user group that met twice a month at at library. Fred Fish disks exchanged, art projects shown, music played.

But the overall feeling was that Commodore was pretty much ignoring their fans, and not promoting the computer at all. Even at an Amiga World show in Chicago, Commodore was a no-show. WTF?
That's still not an exception though. Neutrinos escape first by virtue of the fact that they don't interact with matter and don't bounce around, while light does. They aren't travelling faster than light, just travelling a shorter distance.
Living as a (expat) Kevin in The Netherlands for many years and I've never heard this. Might be that my friends are just polite. Interested to know if this is well-known to those who grew up in The Netherlands.
The wheels are too narrow. When it landed, it almost tipped over to the side. A little bit of cross-wind and it’s lying on its side.
"Three men soliciting sex were ordered to wear chicken suits holding signs that read "No Chicken Ranch in Painesville"."

Not concerning to anyone? Publically feathering people for sexual deviancy?

Do we think because of the choice he also keeps the alternative fair? We all know the alternative will be worse right? Because he has to push his punishment. Or perhaps he's a by the book judge?
Yeah three really strong covalent bonds takes a lot of energy to break. And strong enough you can't use carbon alone to reduce it. Basically it's bottled electricity.
Human in the middle?
...some parts of the world desperately need the modern equivalent of "regional empires", it's clear that lots of small nation states have a tendency to degenerate into these kinds of dystopias. Some Central Asian Federation could sort out lots of issues and drastically increase the quality of life and freedoms of such people.

The ironic things is that we seem to recognize it and try and do this exactly in the places where it's not really needed: take the "European Federation" ideal, it probably wouldn't be a net plus since almost all European nations produce basically functional states and provide OK levels of individual freedom. Otoh something like a Middle-Eastern Federation and a Central Asian Federation could solve a ton issues and really be useful. A bunch of mega-states would surely improve lives of people in most of Africa too.

Dunno why we're so taboo ridden and afraid to be open-minded when it comes to geo-politics on a planetary scale, we're stuck with these two horrible ideas of (1) independent nation-states and (2) general-globalism, that are neither any good, and we're totally afraid to think outside the box...
Reddit, with wigs and ink
There are no significant historical accounts of Jesus.
The ability to run fast and smooth on a 7Mhz processor.
> There is an implicit contract

Then why can't publishers scrape google?
Sure - but if that changes down the road, the archive.li link will still show the proper content.
Wholesale prices are usually in local currency per MWh, but yes consumer prices are normally per kWh (and may use a smaller unit of currency if there is one) so that is confusing if like most people you don't normally look at wholesale prices.

For example headlines in the UK green press mentioned a £45 per MWh strike price for new wind turbine. Strike prices are basically a guaranteed wholesale price. But consumer pricing would normally be presented as pence per kWh.
It depends on the jurisdiction. In the Netherlands changing your given name(s) is possible if you can convince a judge of its negative impact on you. Gender transitioning is an obvious rationale, but a well-worded explanation of why your current name doesn't match who you are or damages you (e.g., past traumatic experiences, abuse, but also a name simply not suiting you) tends to suffice.

It's not something you can get done at a whim or frequently of course. The judge will weigh the needs of society (i.e., to be able to consistently refer to citizens by a constant name in various types of records) against your personal motivation for changing names.
Sounds a lot like Kyle in English speaking countries.
I love the discussion on this topic. Classic HN. A bunch of pretty smart people throwing out claims and arguing assertions with no evidence or even an inkling of how they could justify their claims.

Perhaps this topic is especially suited to these types of arguments as economics and financial instruments _seem_ to follow some sort of intuition. The problem is that you can have lots of ideas about what causes something but unless you can build a model that seems to reflect the world properly and then introduce your change and see if it results in the outcome you expected, you have no idea if it is even close to possibly true.

Arguing off intuition is fun and could even give you some ideas but it is ultimately pointless if you don’t test your intuition and correct it if you are off.
Will There Be Justice? Science Fiction and the Law
'Human-Sized Penguin' Lived in New Zealand
Google cloud employees are encouraged to go on social media to get a feel for issues users are having and to make the product better.

The rest of Google has a policy of "Engineers will probably say the wrong thing if we let them talk in public"
Has AmericanPi been established?
AROS is even binary compatible - you can now download an emulator and put Motorola 68000 AROS on it, no need to hunt for old ROMs.
A shadow isn’t actually a thing. It’s an image, like a mouse pointer. If I had a sufficiently large screen, and I made the mouse pointer jump (by setting its position) to the other end of the screen, I could calculate its speed and make that number higher than the speed of light. But has anything actually moved? No it hasn’t, because a mouse pointer, like a shadow, is only an illusionary image of a thing, not an actual thing.
Yes, absolutely. This is very common strategy among folks whom are working with different languages. Also looking for confirmation in "reverse dictionaries" because Google mistranslates some words.
Do you mean that imagery can't be received for some technical reason (like being encrypted) or that it would be illegal to save it as it's copyrighted?
When i go to google news, there are no snippets, just titles linking to newspapers
Nah, no comments.

You get the title which is a link to the submission, a picture and a link to the comments. I'm on Android so hitting either opens a webview (powered by Firefox) with an X in the top left which leads back to feedly. I also have scrolling past a submission set to mark it as read.

Admittedly something which handled unread comments and notifications for replies could be more engaging, but I feel like I get enough HN as it is and I want to remain somewhat productive.
I thought the social credit score thing coupled with facial recognition and ubiquitous online monitoring was fairly modern.
Ninja gave out his number to the internet, but it’s a silly marketing scheme
Interesting concept and business model. Would love a follow up article in a few months!
I mean, you just described mobile numbers. If someone calls my cell phone, the phone system has to figure out what tower I'm connected to and therefore how to reach me. That's roughly equivalent to figuring out what IP address the domain should resolve to right now.

In any case, I don't really understand what point you're trying to make. For the phone system we assume the phone company will route our call correctly. Sometimes they don't! Over the years I've seen a number of anecdotes where someone called a number and was connected to the completely wrong person, and when they tried a second time it worked. At least the DNS system allows critical sites like banks to use features like certificate pinning if they're afraid of hackers intercepting their domain and having a DV cert issued by a trusted root.
>That has four sets of contra-rotating props, so there's some redundancy

That is no redundancy. With only four booms, it only takes a single boom failure (electrical or mechanical) to crash. And with co-axial counter-rotating props, a prop failure will almost certainly cascade to its partner - so again, you really only have four props.

There is almost no survivable failure mode with that design.
It’s not a convincing argument to say a society shouldn’t fight unwanted behavior unless it can be completely eradicated. That’s akin to saying there’s no point advertising a product unless it results in 100% of the public buying it. If 80% of 8chan users “just go elsewhere” that could literally save a few lives.
The primary goal of the European “Federation” is not to create a “better” super-state, but to prevent war amongst the states by creating a common economic dependence and by aligning mutual interests.
I have an iterative unfriending algorithm, because doing big clean ups is a mental task. Whenever Facebook notifies me that somebody has a birthday, if I don't feel like telling them happy birthday, I'll unfriend them instead.
I like to give things like this benefit of the doubt (mainly because it makes internet more fun) but in this case I must agree.

And in the unlikely case this is genuine, what's with all the people telling the mother how to parent her kid.
..which they don't. Burden of proof doesn't lie with them. They also never made any other claim, like you suggest. My takeaway from this whole discussion thread is that the site is sketchy. It might not be, but that's my impression as someone who hasn't heard of the site before. As I don't care for the topic the site covers either, I won't bother researching this myself and will leave it at that.
Conjugate Priors
F-22 has datalinks, including the one datalink that appears to be ultimately the only one really used - Link-16.

F-35's MADL wasn't added to F-22 because Air Force deemed it "not ready to use" and cited maturity problems with the whole stack.

A lot of JSF sensors are to patch over its horrible pilot situational awareness, mostly a legacy of the STOVL variant (which is responsible for most issues) and which exists only because USMC needs it to fight against Imperial Japanese Army in Guadalcanal. Few other purchases of F-35B happened because building a proper carrier would result in political shitstorm (Japan) or because F-35B being supposed to let build carrier more cheaply and when its issues became known it was too late to refit the carrier with catapult (UK).

As for refitting a non-carrier aircraft to be a carrier aircaft - F-18 is the best known case, and its competitor was navalized F-16. As far as I know, there was carrier variant of F-22 in the works as well.
Do we need to worry about artificial stupidity?
> the Amiga did not have Lotus 123, MS Word, Multiplan, or Excel

I remember having MaxiPlan Plus.

Manual: https://archive.org/details/MaxiPlan_Plus_v1.9_1988-06_Oxxi