skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We need a solution that actually stops a majority of people wanting to fly so much

Perhaps we could remove all comfort from airplanes and airports. Aluminum seats. No windows. No flight attendants. And a poster on the back of every seat saying "flying hurts the planet" (similar to the graphic warning labels on cigarettes in many countries).
Nice one
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How often should you change your sheets?
If you can meet once physically, there is nothing better than that to exchange your public keys. That's why hackers meetings are "public keys signing parties".
You can blame traffic apps, but in reality it's just a democratization of knowledge. Locals already knew the best way to evade a traffic, now outsiders know it too.
Ice is the battery. Freeze the ice using solar when the sun is beaming.
Manjaro is strictly worse when it comes to the quality of software.

I wouldn't agree that installing Arch is that big of a hassle - yes, you don't a nice menu based installer, but really, after setting up all of your partitions, installing the root filesystem, adding a user, and installing some packages, and installing hte bootloader, what else is there to do? To be fair, the install process has become easier over the years, as things like timezones and locales are becoming easier to configure due to systemd. But I must concede, if you've never partitioned a drive manually, or added a user, you'll want to take your time. And I always read the wiki's install instructions anyway. And whilst this does mean that there's a bit more complexity associated with setting up Arch, if you're using installing a non-standard OS on your hardware, the knowledge you gain will by doing so will almost always turn out to be useful in some way.
As far as tinkering with it, I've never had to explicitly tinker with exotic configs to get my hardware to work as good or better than it would on Ubuntu, and to get my exotic config requirements to work is far easier on Arch than it is on Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora. Manjaro is so broken that I can't even boot the gnome installer on a VM. Besides, it's far easier to manage my machine if there's no auto-updater grabbing a lock on my package manager on for the first 15 minutes of a boot, every boot (looking at you Fedora), or having an update process that may leave you with a severely outdated kernel even though you jumped through the hoops to get a recent kernel (Looking at you Ubuntu 16.04 LTS).
To think of surveillance as a solution against violent crime is fantasy anyway. It wasn't a requirement at least for all other countries getting it to manageable levels.

Sure, you might catch some guys but as you yourself reported, it may not even matter if there is evidence.

But the incentive to abuse surveillance is certainly something western nations have readily helped with their active approval that couldn't even net results besides more civil resistance.

So I am not pointing the finger on South Africa here.
http://files.libertyfund.org/econtalk/y2009/Grahaminnovation...
A while ago a friend who I hadn't seen since 2011 messaged me on Facebook asking if I could take a look at his account on a guitar forum we both used to frequent, because he thought his account was stolen, but couldn't check it for activity without making a new one(and probably also having enough posts to be considered "in").

So I asked who sold him that Music Man Petrucci 7-string in 2009(or so) and after he answered correctly, I followed through with his request.

My point being: it helps to have such a question prepared for everyone - or alternatively - a question concerning some fact about you that only people who know you could answer.
Texas Shooting:Gunman goes on shooting spree just after being fired from his Job
I poured a glass of syrah with my lunch just now and thought of Homer's watered wine. The referenced post suggests via original sources that unmixed was barbaric and for drunks. Other explanations say that it's more about improving the taste of water.

A mix as low as 20:1 is mentioned. Hesiod's 3:1 seemed like a good proportion to try. It's not anywhere near as bad as expected; refreshing; could be iced; could be honeyed.
Fossil colour studies are changing our idea of how dinosaurs looked
There's a ton of fragmentation on Windows. There are many more toolkits and paradigm's on that platform.

And regarding fragmentation, GTK+ vs. Qt has never been the main issue. It's been different distributions and the fact that app creators cannot ship apps easily to all distro's themselves.

But, I believe, the main issue behind Linux Desktop has always been lack of corporate interest. There was some in early 2000's but never anything serious.

Windows and Mac "are" ecosystems due to financial motivations.
As far as I understand, the parent's doubt is about the _definition_ of "open source":

> I could swear that this has not always been the exact definition

> I believe this because I also believe there used to be two terms open source, and free, that these were distinct, and that all things that were open source were not necessarily free or vice versa.

In this perspective, the history, as reported, matches: originally, there was a "free software" concept and movement (the formal definition was given in 1986), then, in 1998, the "open source" term was coined.

Based on Stallman's critic to the Open Source ideas (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....):

> For example, “Open Watcom” is nonfree because its license does not allow making a modified version and using it privately.

The parent's doubt has verified grounds.

However, there's confusion, because it seems that the "Open Source Definition" is _now_ closer to "Free software" than it was when Stallman expressed his opinion: by that time, Open Watcom qualified as "Open source", but nowadays, based on the "Open Source Definition", it wouldn't.
Works here. Works on your dns.google.com URL too.

$ nslookup nic.xyz 8.8.8.8
Server: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: nic.xyz
Address: 54.183.18.58
Name: nic.xyz
Address: 54.183.101.119
Why? The use case of plugging a solar panel directly into a device is pretty niche, IMO. It's much more common and practical to put solar panels on your house so they can power everything, but you can still draw from the grid at night.
Securing IoT Apps
Pizza sauce (or possibly tomato paste), and pasta sauce, respectively.

Tomato Sauce and Ketchup aren't quite the same thing here - ketchup is probably stronger and thicker, but they are used the same way.
Share your goals–but be careful whom you tell
Why aren’t the *BSD operating systems more popular in the server and workstation spaces?
Maybe this will finally tip the political consensus towards a more redistributive taxation policy. The main thing stopping this from happening seems to be older people who are doing "just fine thank you".

The worlds looming financial woes are entirely of our own making. We're not running out low on resources. We're just distributing them very inefficiently.
Please stop cargo culting all the loader tunables and sysctls you've seen :) You need approximately zero i915 related ones because they're enabled by default just like on Linux. You especially don't need both drm.i915 and compat.linuxkpi copies. (The former is for older drivers, the latter is for new ones)

Also moused is not a great way to use a touchpad. At least on 12-stable (idk if it made it into a 12.x-release) EVDEV_SUPPORT is enabled out of the box, so you can just set kern.evdev.rcpt_mask=12 and get proper evdev events, separately for the trackpoint and touchpad, with full gesture support on the touchpad.

And since you like i3, might want to try Sway – HiDPI is much better supported on Wayland ;)
> Sell them on a “credit basis”!

In cultures where cash is king, broke people don't go to the store. They're not used to the store offering them credit.
> Are regular people/journalists not aware of how pressing buttons on a phone works anymore?

Not sure if they ever were, but they surely aren't now. Even in terms of basic knowledge about DTMF.

When it comes to the details, I'm not sure how pressing buttons on a phone works nowadays. I think there's at least 3 different ways it can work with SIP. I would expect mobile phones to be just as bad.
I agree that the core of a "good life" is not about consuming specific things (e.g. meat, mcmansions, etc.).

Instead, I see a "good life" as one where each individual is able to choose their overall lifestyle by balancing the factors that make it up: career, family, day to day culture (e.g. deep south vs. midwest, big city vs. rural), and passion (e.g. hobbies, art, athletics, writing, etc.)

People start to become unhappy when these aspects of their life become mutually exclusive. For example:

- A gay person has to live in the deep south in order to see their family.

- A worker has to build their sense of purpose/identity around their work because they can't pursue their own passions outside of work.

The problem that I see is that, at least in America, things are so spread out geographically that balancing these aspects often requires travel. Your family may live in another city so you travel a couple times a year to see them on holidays. In order to advance your career you travel to attend a conference. In order to pursue your passion you travel to learn from an experienced instructor or to participate in a competition. Etc.

The only way that I could see Americans being able to keep the parts of their life in balance while cutting down on flights is if we instead had the infrastructure and vacation days to travel via public transportation. However, I don't see a way for that to realistically happen.
How is what you’re proposing different than split-phase, which is already how houses are wired, and how inverters connect? This is why inverters generate 240VAC and why your electrical load panel had alternating circuits across the split phase.
> Were people not happy before we took flights so often and ate meat for every meal?

They were happy, but when they got the opportunity they caught it, and they became happier.

The problem with too many environmentalists is that they consider it feasible for a large number of people to voluntarily give up their modern comfort to go back to a lifestyle their grandparents escaped from as soon as they could.
I agree.

I'm at less than a third of the typical US footprint. I offset the rest.

That involves, in its totality, not jetting around, not driving an ICE, and not eating meat. My country uses primarily renewables.

A whole bunch of the rest of that is related to industrial processes and transport of food/materials that can be addressed. It would not impact me severely if my fruits came from different places or I had to eat different fruits.

I don't think my life is "worse" at all than the typical American lifestyle. People talk about quality of life, but what they actually mean is that they've chosen some arbitrary metric to maximise (e.g. overseas holidays particularly to very far flung places or whatever) and if they don't have that then QoL would be lower.

To me that sounds like a boring life, not a quality life.

Before someone trots out the 'but EVs are expensive'; 'but solar will take time' stuff; sure, it's not trivial for people to do this stuff in isolation, the point is that reducing carbon doesn't mean living in a cave. It means some small mindful adjustments, that's it.

When I look at what I'm using honestly it could be way lower making more substitutions; it'd just be the companies that provide services to me substituting instead of me, e.g. regulation.
I'm not worried that much about the technical side though, it is the data hoarding tendencies most sites have that i'm worried about.
> I cannot fathom how one can convince oneself that this indicates the opposite.

Honestly I can't fathom how saying the US was founded on slavery is a controversial point.

The context of this thread is a discussion of the design of the British pound, and whether Obama being on the dollar would be seen as being notable by future generations because he's black given the deep history of slavery in the US.

I think you're trying to defend a strawman when purely discussing the US's slavery practice in the context of the Americas. If we're only doing that we'd focus on countries like Haiti and Brazil instead, but we're not. Furthermore it's a given that it's not notable that a black person's on Haiti's money given their demographics.

To say that a country is founded on something is to describe its overall character at the time. Almost a 100 years after the country's founding almost 1/5th of the population was enslaved[1]. More than half of the US's export earnings were from the products of slavery, dwarfing any other sector.

Comparing this to whaling would be comical if the subject matter wasn't so sad, and so is cherry-picking the early abolishment of slavery in a few northern states who didn't have a notable population of slaves to begin with. It would be like Nebraska having outlawed whaling while most of the US's population & economic output was supported by whaling.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1790_United_States_Census
Shenanigans With Hash Tables
Two things from this article that surprised me:

> The ESA operations team confirmed that this morning's manoeuvre took place approximately half an orbit before the potential pileup.

Half an orbit is mightily late. It's a last minute emergency correction in space terms. Given that both Aeolus and Starlink satellites are active missions, how come they didn't realize and correct this sooner?

And related:

> If plans to orbit thousands more satellites (to bring broadband to remote areas, or inflict it on air-travellers, for example) come to fruition, the ESA team reckons that things will need to be a lot more automated.

Maybe it's because I didn't get far enough in the space industry handbook I'm reading, but I was sure orbital tracking and detecting potential collisions was automated already. There should be continuously running simulations that are constantly fed fresh TLEs from tracking stations, that check whether or not anything is going to collide with anything else in the nearby future.
right, traverse a maze by always turning left
On ThinkPads specifically, brightness on FreeBSD works in the virtual console just fine. ThinkPads handle it via the EC I think.
> (Vienna, Austria) - a country that has long since decided to upgrade the standard of living of its people through smart economic policies designed to reduce dependence on petroleum.

As someone from a bordering country, that is a surprising statement. Could you expand on that point a bit?
I stopped when i felt the feathers in the balut i was trying...the rest of it was vaguely acceptable...haiz
Got an Old Blizzard PPC A1200 Running Again. First Test, Quake
Knowing it to be true is the most important step if you actually plan to hold your representatives accountable.

People are not surprised, they are angry at people responsible. And rightly so in my opinion.
Weired! Seems like a geographical outage since 5-6 hours! No way to communicate google!
https://imgur.com/a/osorSu0
Show HN: Filmtypes – Explore the world of analog film
"please don't support the reanimated corpse of Telltale Games. they laid off their entire staff, got snapped up by shady millionaires, and now they're hiring people back as freelancers without benefits. get your games elsewhere"

https://twitter.com/ryandroyd/status/1166767056273854465
When I first got into film photography, I had a hard time figuring out which film stocks I should shoot. The beauty of film is that each emulsion has its very own characteristics which make it stand apart from the others.

While scrolling through endless blog articles and example photos on tumblr (which took me ages) I decided to aggregate the most useful data, pick the six most fitting example photos by hand (yes by hand) and create a place for you to easily explore the beautiful variety of analog film.

The tech stack is a nuxt static generated site hosted on firebase.
On the same subject, an older article from The Atlantic : The Brain on Trial [0], which mentions some extreme cases. Worth reading if you have the time.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-bra...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=592515
Is the point that it’s secure, or that it cannot be blocked?
Show HN: Grammarly for Spanish
This video is part of the "Advanced Deep Learning & Reinforcement Learning" series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqYmG7hTraZDNJre23vqC...

> This course, taught originally at UCL and recorded for online access, has two interleaved parts that converge towards the end of the course. One part is on machine learning with deep neural networks, the other part is about prediction and control using reinforcement learning. The two strands come together when we discuss deep reinforcement learning, where deep neural networks are trained as function approximators in a reinforcement learning setting.

> The deep learning stream of the course will cover a short introduction to neural networks and supervised learning with TensorFlow, followed by lectures on convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, end-to-end and energy-based learning, optimization methods, unsupervised learning as well as attention and memory. Possible applications areas to be discussed include object recognition and natural language processing.
"The bonds of many other countries have actually gone negative, with lenders paying for the privilege of lending to governments for years."

Do people actually invest in these bonds? Why would they not put it in a safer, positive returning, investment like US bonds?
this is certainly true, but in the mean time there are still a lot of appliances in current operation, just rolled off the assembly line, and still coming off assembly lines that do not accept DC input.

a lot of the material effort that was put in to them would be wasted if we replace them before they break down

and if we keep using them, and keep opting for the single AC outlet inverter, we are wasting energy storage elements at volume of 0.01 Joule per Watt (think of the total PV energy production at least in residential solar [I would be uncomfortably surprised if commercial solar parks don't use this already, but then again that would require the grids to be split in an in-phase grid and out-of-phase grid, which would also be new knowledge for me...])

this also affects adoption, as less expensive storage-less inverters would decrease the time until the solar set-up pays itself back!
> These thousands of homeowners and renters have arguably been injured by Waze’s and Google’s successful privatization of formerly public streets.

That's a... very creative interpetation of what public and private mean.

If you don't want your side street to be driven on at 30 mph, then you can't drive on it at 30 mph either. Traffic calming measures are a thing. Make it even more winding, add road bumps, bottlenecks. Turn it into a 12mph street, and no one will use it as a shortcut anymore.
Still quite useless, because key exchange process is so badly designed. But they've promised to fix this in future.
GE and Whatever Happened to Six Sigma?
What's worse is the hypocrisy of these active SO moderators.

I spent time double checking my answer and answered a question on difference between 2 different web architectures only to see it closed for being too "broad" and the "right" answer being already on Google #1.

The person who closed the question had a top rated SO answer for a trivial C# declaration which already had a perfect #2 answer on MSDN.

https://biblehub.com/matthew/7-3.htm comes to mind here
”the US is a county in which long distance rail is decidedly non-viable, nor does anyone have enough time to take 3 days to travel 1500 miles (which is how long it takes driving or by train - and even longer by bus)“

The current shinkansen reaches 200mph, with in-development versions going faster.

Distance from NYC to LA is 2790 miles (by highway; the straight-line distance is shorter). That’s a bit under 14 hours at 200mph.

That’s pretty much the worst case; most people aren’t flying cross-country on a regular basis, and regional flights (e.g. Columbus to Chicago) are a big business.

Obviously real trains would be slower than peak shinkansen speeds, but like most train opponents, you are severely exaggerating your argument.
I'm not assuming! I know it.

Word2vec results in similarity scores you can use to find analogies. Great! Now how do you know which analogies to look for? Which ones to remember? Which ones to pursue? You need some kind of intuition for where to look. So you need (1) a way to move around the search space and (2) a way to know when to backtrack, or when a line of inquiry is unfruitful, and this last is precisely the capacity for boredom. If you can't come up with new ideas and you can't get bored, you'll suck at finding proofs just like you'll suck at math or problem solving in general. There's also a danger in getting bored by the wrong things. So how do you develop this boredom intuition?

We choose what to think about, but until we make conscious machines, we are probably the only creatures that have to make this choice.
Just an observation, for some reason people take as elitism the observation of having a complete well rounded curriculum has certain advantages. And this article has a good point to illustrate that there is value in taking an engineer rather than a boot camp code fighter.

Data structures are a very specific subject of IT Engineering, every person studying subject should take the whole curriculum, including recursivity scanning data structures and how to transform these recursive procedures into iterative code (or FSM as the article says).
What would you consider a more redistributive taxation policy?
He calls it "Meta effect", I call it "Hacker" "News" effect.

So he's had it, he picked up his toys and he's going home. Good on him. I cannot think of a better thing to do, because this is the eternal September.
I took it as a snarky swipe at "the patriarchy".
"Systems like Six Sigma appeal to managers because they are rooted in the pursuit of predictability, and all managers crave predictability"

And what innovator wants to work in a place like that? I left years ago because that culture was driving me crazy.
I don't share the same view. Pensions, public and private, were supposed to take care of people after many years of work and contributions. Some now are nothing more than Ponzi schemes. I don't see how this (and the inevitable failures of this), combined with the structural problems in the economy, will inspire faith in the governments ability to properly allocate resources, acquired by people, to people.
I've never made from pure scratch like that - but a few times when we've been out of sauce I've made some with tomato paste, balsamic vinegar and sugar/salt - always tasted amazing.

But creating my own paste would feel like a very long winded way of going about the process - esp if as you suggest it really isn't worth it.
Ketchup tastes like it has more vinegar in it than tomato sauce, but that's a highly subjective Kiwi opinion.

Incidentally, the best tomato sauce is whatever magical sauce they use on the hot-dogs at A&P shows.
> Did they not even investigate your claim? Or did they just settle with labeling you a crackpot conspiracy theorist?

They kind of settled half way between "I don't believe that's possible / I don't care".

For them, it makes zero difference in their lives, so they just don't want to invest time and energy into thinking about it.
Lets rephrase that.
I dont even like my government. But i dont like busybodies that tell me what about my government i shouldn't like even more.
Presumably they expect the dollar to decrease in value, leading to the same thing.
Well that is also Googles fear. That some patent troll will come along and patent the tech.