skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree - it's not crisis-worthy, but it is at least technically interesting, which makes it alright to be here, IMHO. I've seen a lot of posts on the front page the last few days that seem to be losing technical relevance, or, straight-up just don't even pique my curiosity.

I should find another aggregator and try to submit some quality technical stuff the next couple days. :) No point in complaining about something you can help fix.
Your original submission got one upvote. Which means that one person who happened to be looking at the "New" page when it was submitted thought the title was interesting enough to look at the article and then upvote it. Maybe it because it was a low-traffic time of day, or people were focused on other things, or ... who knows?

If, instead of one person, it happened to be be two or three, it would have made it to the front page and you would've received all the karma from further upvotes.

The thing that makes the difference between one upvote vs 2-3 is a whole lot of unknowable factors that is reasonable to put down to "randomness".

That's how HackerNews has worked for all of the 10+ years I've been using it.

What alternative explanation do you propose?

Like I said, it sucks when you miss out on the karma, but if you strongly believe it's a solid article you can resubmit it or email the mods and ask them to put it in the second-chance pool, which they're always happy to do if it's good content.
These definitions are rigid. Anyone can do something they are not supposed to once in a while but 'vegan' and 'vegetarian' do mean that you refuse to eat animal products or meat, not that you don't eat much of them.
https://www.just-eat.co.uk/takeaway/nearme/english

Shepherds Pie
Bangers & Mash
Fish & Chips
Steak & Kidney Pie
Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding
Cornish Pasty

F&C obvs popular enough to get its own category.
I seriously can't see any dialog working while one of the sides has a strong vested economical interest in keeping the status quo.

Even with all JS and cookies disabled, servers can still collect your IP and infer if it is indeed you visiting by analysing your usual visit times -- and likely a lot more other metrics.

Unless the browsers use Tor-like visitor source obfuscation, I don't see anything changing in favour of privacy.
They're creating a sequence of digits and then truncating. If you want to replicate that precisely, you could use an accumulator and a loop to do the same thing. At least then you could break early.
Yes go there but be aware of a slight subtlety.

Although the National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is inside Bletchely park. It is a different organisation.

TNMOC has all the interesting computers and the Bletchely park trust has the land and buildings.

There is still a political battle going on between the two (which is sad). They put fences around TNMOC as though to keep people from wandering in there.

- I am a TNMOC member
Why not have optimized versions that use native instructions when available, and then fall back to the portable version when they are not?
Did you read the whole article? It did talk about that. It gave a whole explanation.
> The estate tax exemption is $5.49 million and affects less than 1% of all estates

Well, perhaps pedantic, but the exemption effects 100% of estates. Less than 1% face any tax after the exemption.

Less pedantically, the exemption is actually $11.4 million for 2019:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2018/11/15/irs-an...
> For each browser, we had to add support in our standalone plugin, that was (and still is) required to install for audio/video calls.

Is this true? What kind of plugin are we talking about? I believe both Chrome and Firefox deprecated NPAPI, with only Firefox still supporting the Flash NPAPI plugin for a year or so? Is this a pepper plugin?
Have vegans given up their cars yet? Veganism is a nice gesture, but really vegans need to step it up and ditch the cars if they care about the Earth.
The big bang might as well be the almighty space chicken laying an egg for all we care before the moment space-time became a concept worth talking about
This is also what I use. Others mention insomnia, but it does not support testing responses (validating them) with a script.
With the Http Client in IntelliJ you can do that, as well as with Postman.
But with Postman you need to import/export everything and put it into you projects, so you can check it in with your source code.
Using IntelliJ you don't need to do that anymore too.

Having used Postman, Insomnia and the IntelliJ Http Client, the last one is the best out of them all.
Are there any rules against having more than one "doorbell"? Do the rules say where the "doorbells" must be located or if they must be accessible by visitors?

(Also, if there wasn't a rule against your cameras when you put them up, then you should talk to a lawyer.)
When someone films you, they are implicitly consenting to use their image sensor to receive any photons you may emit.
Should you choose to emit a few extra photons, say with a 5 watt laser pointer, it is their problem if said image sensor becomes less responsive to photons in the future.
You can get older (and many incremental) builds from https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/tags. Hope this helps! There is desire within the team for reproducible builds, and I'll see to it that these coals are stoked. Our intent is to be as open, transparent, and accountable as we can be. Brave's mentality is "Can't be evil", as opposed to "Don't be evil." Thank you for the feedback!
Here is their getting started page (https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started)
> disavow the ones they lost track of

So as an individual, I have to trust the originator to keep the whereabouts of my kilobar private?... This is most probably a very bad idea.
It's PC!
My Fairphone 2 recently broke down and I was disappointed there was no Fairphone 3, or better yet, an upgraded core module for my Fairphone 2. This launch comes just a bit too late for me, because I ended up getting a OnePlus 7.
How is this not directly fraud?
Researchers spontaneously produce hydrogen peroxide from microdroplet H2O
I use a very similar setup to yours, here's my Dotfiles repo: https://github.com/2kabhishek/Dotfiles if you have any feedback I will be happy to know about it. I use konsole as my terminal emulator. I use kde on my laptop (Mostly for KDE Connect) and i3 on my desktop.
I would prefer we help transition those people to new careers than continue to destroy the environment with beef production.
> The trains run on time

Amtrak has abysmal reliability, even on the Northeast Corridor (which is Amtrak-owned and doesn't share traffic with freight lines). On-time performance on the northeast corridor is just 75% https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/07/10/the-s.... Many scheduled flights along that route (e.g. DCA to JFK or LGA) have 90% on-time performance. And of course, trains aren't supposed to have airline-like delays. One of the key selling points of trains is that they don't have to deal with airport congestion, late arriving equipment, etc., and so relatively short intercity trips are predictable and hassle-free. (Unlike Amtrak.) My wife and I rode Amtrak twice a day for two years between DC and Delaware. It was a nightmare. Routinely delayed trains, cancelled trains at least once a month, etc. No private business would survive operating like that.

It's also odd that you'd cite TSA as a bad thing. TSA is, of course, what happened when the government nationalized airport security, taking it away from the private security forces airlines previously used.
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority [1]

[1] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Indeed! And this was a fundamental pillar of Edward Teller's quest for socially-acceptable forms of nuclear energy. Nuclear legend Alvin Weinberg towards the end of his career favored the PIUS passively-safe BWR, undergrounded [1].

I think the biggest practical concern is that underground construction is more expensive that above-ground construction, and nuclear's active constraint today is cost.

There may be opportunities for step changes if people make fully autonomous, maintenance-free, factory fab reactors that can slide into easily-constructed holes. Unfortunately, all of this is hard, and so far economies of scale have dwarfed gains from economies of mass production. The small reactors of the past have all been crazy expensive. The truck-mounted ML-1 military reactor, for example, was 10x too expensive for the Army back in the early 1960s.

As for floating, this is my single favorite idea ever, as expressed elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20817497

[1] https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6332659-process-inherent-ultimat...
As Labor Day Turns 125, Union Approval Near 50-Year High
Isn't Ring owned by Amazon, not Google?
This is the problem with this new wave of devices that only work when connected to the manufacturer's cloud service. There needs to be more focus on devices and software that allow you to run completely independently of the manufacturer's servers. The Home Assistant project has been a blessing in this area, but many devices either lack support or must have custom firmware to work in an "offline" mode.
It's worrying that Hacker News isn't mature enough to admit to the Dayton Ohio shooter's politics and affiliations. I don't think HN, as a population, are on the side of democracy, liberalism, or freedom.
The bulk of the linked page talks about aspects of Windows 10 other than telemetry.

If Windows 11 boots up with a progress bar that says "uploading data to MS for mindcrime verification", and requires me to play games and watch ads to pay for it, I will reconsider my OS choice. For now, I'm enjoying the OS and have dialed down the telemetry to a level that I am comfortable with.
In every example the public option is considered the lesser one.

People ship UPS/Fedex unless the object is heavy and fits in a flat rate box.

Private security is not known for doing ethically questionable things to maximize revenue and excessive force like public police are. The only time people want "real cops" is when the extra violence can work to your advantage (which is why many large events where alcohol is served tend to use police for security).

People who can afford it often opt to send their kids to private school, particularly if local schools are not "good".

People who can afford it generally take a taxi (uber/lyft in this day and age) instead of public transit.

Heck, it's worth getting an AAA membership just so you don't have to go to the DMV for certain transactions.

While it's essential to have a government provided backstop for all these services I wouldn't say the public is "well" served by any of them.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-image/ I installed this to work around it.
I grew up and lived in a rural area (southern appalachians in the US) and it was not easy. Small town restaurants often have zero options, living near a taco bell was about the best you can hope for.

Not even morningstar farms veggie burgers in grocery stores. But that was 10 years ago, things are different now.

Whenever I go home for Christmas I'm amazed at what's available.
> Ring said it would not provide user video footage in response to a subpoena, but would comply if company officials were presented with a search warrant or felt they had a legal obligation to produce the content. [Emphasis mine]
Well obviously the approach round() takes is slower than the naive approach. The whole point of doing it the way round() does it is that it gives the correct answer in cases where the naive approach fails.
Last time I used Jitsi about 4 months ago it brought my FX-9370 w/64GB RAM to a crawl.

Have they fixed their absolutely horrid web client?
Mojave 10.14.6 crashes while using video camera
Being a fool for $3K + $20 on top:

1. Buy $3K+ 15" MacBook Pro 2018/2019.
2. Try to do your regular video calls for work.
3. After a several minutes or later the MacBook hits kernel panic and restarts.

Solution:

Buy a $20 external USB web camera to avoid crashes.

#FML
There is a huge amount of Uber right now that needs paid for but is out of sight, though. Developers for the app and infrastructure, but also entire offices of engineers dedicated to R&D for driverless cars. Eats into that $3 quick.
You're correct. This is legal. That doesn't make it good. It's also legal for the police to have access to this. It doesn't make it good. It's also legal for everyone else in the neighborhood to send this footage willingly to the police anytime they see a "suspicious person" in the neighborhood. It doesn't make it good.

I believe this is a bad thing. I believe that citizens helping subsidize the creation of an Amazon surveillance product that they then sell to police forces is a bad thing, even if it's legal.
You're just a boring omnivore, like most of us.
> mono-language policies (or similar tight, top-down controlling of the language stack) are simply a matter of time. All companies enforce that as they mature.

Yea, that would be my cue to leave.
Just add this to your prefs.js/about:config

user_pref("general.useragent.override.web.skype.com", "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.77 Safari/537.36");
There’s really no such thing as “should not exist”, only “this challenges our assumptions”. Anything is possible, it might make the human mind uncomfortable but it’s true. Our ability to comprehend and measure things is so unfathomably finite that it’s almost laughable to think we can be sure of anything.
In all these situations there are forces and other forces that resist original force but under different ranges. It keeps the universe interesting!
I don't think you're recalling correctly: surveillance was a huge part of how people were controlled in 1984. It wasn't the only tool, but it certainly was a main one of them.
I agree, and would add on that anytime data is centralized under control of any one actor – public or private – this is would be the case.
Huh. Opposite experience here in Toronto, where I've seen 5-10 new, very popular vegan restaurants in this city pop up over the course of 4 years or so.

The statistics may present this to be takeaway only, but, for instance, the oddly named Hogtown Vegan has become one of the more popular and well-received places in the city.

May I ask what city you're from? I'm curious as to whether this is a regional thing.
threadreader: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1166451306183254016.html
Why would you melt marked gold to make jewlery and diminish its value? You can use regular gold for that.
Aura: Bootstrapping a SaaS Tool to $14,160/Month While Studying
How do you teach optimism in the way Stripe is looking for though?

As someone with a hefty amount of anxiety and depression weighing down on me most of the time, I often feel like I'm the only person in the room who can't get excited about things, but I don't want to be the weight bringing everyone else down. Is there not a danger of this value becoming a proxy for "people with depression and similar mental health problems aren't welcome at Stripe"?
That's one reason; familiarity is another.

Depending on when and how a person started out with computers, there may have been no GUI available. My university was just getting connected to the internet about a year or so before the the web came into being. I picked up a VT125 terminal and a 1200 baud modem from ham radio flea markets, and used that setup over dialup for a couple years. No GUI, all text; programming assignments, email, web in a text browser when that was a thing, NNTP.
>>You've contradicted yourself by displaying a pleasant alternative to Windows gaming - consoles.

But games aren't interchangable like some other media is. If a game that I want to play is only available on Windows, then I will put up with whatever bullshit Microsoft throws at me to play that game, I won't go "oh well, I'll just play something else on the PS4 instead".

And yes, Win10 is a disaster - but you can't use certain things like the latest GamePass subscription without it, or adjust your settings for the Xbox Elite controller without Windows 10.....sticking with Windows 7 forever is not the solution(as much as I would like it to be).

I'm both a consumer and a developer, and use windows for both - it's just the right choice for what I need at the moment. If those needs change then the operating system will change as well.
all in all a great (if not disgusting) business strategy, showing the power of leveraging the state to succeed in a so called "free market":

- get powerful, vocal .gov entity involved in your product as easily/thoroughly as possible while you perform typical statup "disruption" activities

- when any issues with regulation, rights violations etc. come up, immediately "shell out" to your .gov spokeperson who sings your praises and how we cannot touch this entity ("helped catch all these bad guys", "used in xx criminal cases that led to convictions", "would you really want to let someone in your home /without/ one of these?")

- repeat ad nauseum as frustrated citizens complain - "we would LOVE to comply, but... it's no longer just about us, you'd be hindering crime-fighting! so we can't do it"

- you now have impenetrable air cover as any random .gov entity with power will trump citizen outrage
Criteria for Choosing a Tech Stack for Your Startup
Because the black hole can't form from a star of 50 to 130 solar masses but it can, for example, start at 40 solar masses, collapse into a black hole, and then accumulate another 20 solar masses over its lifetime to become a black hole of 60 solar masses.

Edit: the mechanics of this are left as an exercise to the reader.
Great news! I hope fairphone will last to the day me and my company will be able to afford them to me and all my future staff :)
If Ring is being compensated by the government agencies - I'll happily participate too - providing Ring and/or law enforcement agency (let them decide between) will compensate me as well for supporting their business model every time i share my video.

Optionally i can decide to share on a good will basis of course - but this is going to be optional.
> On the k8s side, a containerized architecture gives developers peace of mind in their local environments

We're looking at moving away from containerized local development (using Docker for Mac on high-end MacBook Pros) because the performance is abysmal. The Linux VM eats 100% CPU at idle (i.e., with no containers running at all) and our handful of pretty simple containers bring the machines to their knees. It's unclear if we're hitting some pathological case (maybe volumes of 100s of MBs?) but there are many, many other issues filed against Docker for Mac about its high CPU usage. We've tried all of the usual things--blowing away the VM, tinkering with different resource allocations for the VM, etc, but we haven't had much luck (nor have the other users who have filed issues against Docker for Mac, judging by the comments).
Trademark name search is a software-supported service now. Buy a name research report before launching a brand.

Except don't use Corporation Service Company. They bought my company (NameProtect) and then fired almost everyone that built the software support, for no readily apparent reason.
Web browsers are basically the new higher-level operating system. They likely should be using more energy than anything else considering how much we run in them.
> take that away and you'll see user data aggregated on the back-end instead

OK, but at least then it's not polluting the user's experience and burning the user's CPU cycles. Still a strictly positive change IMO.
Having a public company be an "option" is tough. If you subsidize the public option, then you destroy the market because private companies can't compete on level ground with a subsidized competitor. And if you don't subsidize the public option then there really isn't a point.

For services that are really "essential,” I’d probably argue that the best course is to have markets that are properly regulated for antitrust issues, and then pay low-income people to purchase the services they need.
I gave the article three of my best guesses at which domains I should allow javascript for, and it failed to load anything but a blank page. Hope it was interesting.
The thing is though, this stuff is hard. Getting the law to punish stuff like this is not as easy as people think it is. Prosecutors are out trying to find creative ways to sanction these sorts of people and corporations, but it's just not this simple, quick thing you can do.

Also, keep in mind a lot of this is being done with an eye to the future. In a very real way, the Sacklers are only, what? Maybe 8 to 10% of the problem? The rest of the opioids came from other corporations. So you get a settlement with the little guy, all of a sudden you're in a better position to pressure the other guys.

Maybe it does suck. Maybe it is infuriating. But the alternative is that you potentially lose leverage and you never get any of the bad guys. I guess I'm just saying, this stuff is harder than people think it is.
"As someone who has never had a social media account, I have wondered if US customs would believe me if I traveled there and they asked me about it?"

In my case, I personally do not use social media, but rsync.net (a corporation in California) has, and uses, a Twitter and Github account, etc.

I am the owner of rsync.net so ... do I have social media accounts ?
One idea: try using adversarial training (i.e. train the classifier on examples with bounded perturbations which maximize error).
I thought it did talk about binary black hole merges as one source. Here's a quote from the article which seems to match what you describe:

> Inside a globular cluster, a 50-solar-mass black hole could merge with a 30-solar-mass one, for instance, and then the resulting giant could merge again. This second-generation merger is what LIGO/Virgo might have detected
It would be difficult to be an effective engineering manager if one was not technical. Otherwise any people manager could be an engineering manager. Engineering managers don't necessarily get their hands dirty, but they need to understand what's really going on with their teams and their progress in order to make informed decisions.
If you frequently go to places to eat, I think it’s entirely reasonable for a vegan friend to tell you what their dietary preferences are. Other than that, it looks like your problem is with a specific person.
How do headlights work?

Light leaves the bulb, reflects off some surface into your retina.

This doesn't reflect so you cant see it.
The problem in the title is that "Newton" just means "Classic Mechanics". Newton has a lot of results, like in gravity, light, mechanics, ... Replacing "Classic Mechanic" with "Newton" looks like the weird replacement tables in some xkcd comics. (Inside the article, the idea is clear, the problem is in the title.)
we designed www.abine.com's Blur to enable users to implement some of these "compartementalization" techniques in practice. web traffic, fingerprinting, and tracking is one layer, but stateful registration, login, and payment is a whole other layer. tldr: it is a tough problem to deliver a simple experience on.
So, what are the possible outcomes now? He does not have the bitcoin, so what can he do?

- Flee to another country?

- Admit he's not Satoshi?

- Claim the trust "malfunctioned"?

- Appeal?

Do these ultimately boil down to flee the country, or get jailed for contempt?
Improving Siri's Privacy Protection
I started experimenting with bio-digital lifeforms to see what behaviours will emerge. I am making videos with my results:
https://youtu.be/I6bHpJ2GV0Y