skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually a good strategy.

I first came across a similar technique expounded in a book by Chaim Potok, "The Chosen" (good book, I really enjoyed it).

One of the protagonists, Danny Saunders, was the son of a rabbi and a genius who was trying to become a psychologist, so he started reading Freud in its original form. He found the texts impenetrable even after months of trying.

Then he had an insight: in the study of the Torah (his forte, being a rabbi's son), folks typically studied with the help of commentaries by rabbis over the generations who have disputed and explained the texts in different ways. Commentaries provide context and a jumping off point into the text. So Danny Saunders took the same approach to studying Freud -- instead of reading Freud, he studied commentaries on Freud and read what has already been said about him. This helped him understand the original work better.

Many of us do the same instinctively: we read the Wikipedia article on a subject to get a lay of the land before jumping into a subject matter. Context is valuable in pedagogy, which is why it's often helpful to have an instructor for reading hard books -- otherwise anyone would be able to read any book in their language and "get it" -- which is not true. I read English just fine, but I don't think I'm able to understand Finnegan's Wake without any help.

p.s. We often hear advice that we should study texts in their original form without commentary, so that we can approach the subject with an unbiased lens and interpret it for ourselves. But my take is our lens is always biased, and worse still, in subject areas we are unfamiliar with, our biases are uninformed. I think a much more productive approach is to read with commentary but to read critically -- to question and to explore alternative interpretive options. Without this kind of approach, most important works are just too difficult and we'd probably just not try.
Totalitarian governments rely on distraction and misdirection of the populace in order to survive. Without it to use as ammunition to unify the people against a common "enemy", the very nature of its limiting rule forces the populace to start questions to try and improve their own condition. Questions like "freedom" and "censorship". Totalitarian governments are not equipped to satisfy difficult questions like this and will either adapt or crumble.

Thus the best way "oppose a government that is the sworn enemy of values you regard more precious than your own life" is to allow it to face its internal problems without giving it the "enemy" it so desperately needs as ammunition to use against you.
The 'greenhouse gas' tax efforts are essentially EU versus the WTO from a legal perspective. The EU has decided and ratified legally the concept that greenhouse gases are damaging and a revenue source while the jury is out at the WTO despite a lot of posturing
You have a great list of sites but if you want repeat visits you shouldn't make your visitors scroll past 1000 old posts from sites in the first half of the list to get to the new posts from sites farther down the list. Charlie Egan's Serializer [0] handles this perfectly, including letting me indicate when I've cleared the new posts list. If you're not familiar with his site I recommend spending some time with it.

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Also:

The widget for selecting which sites you want to see doesn't actually change the list of sites you see.

If you accidentally open the menu there isn't any way to close it (eg click outside the menu) on my iPhone without going into a submenu item and closing that popup.

There doesn't seem to be any way to reorder sites in the list.

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[0]http://serializer.io
> When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

I think you are overattributing his stupidity here. Engineered famine is a fantastic way to make sure populations that don't like you are less of a problem in the future. The Holdomor and Irish Potato Famine are two other obvious examples.
This is an excellent idea. Why limit it to one game?
Thanks for these great resources.

What I'm trying to do is, I believe, complementary to these LCA tools. I'm building a website https://futur.eco that bridges carbon models with our every day life as citizens.

Sorry, it's in french for now, but I have some hopes that you read french :-)

Behind the website is a database of open source and extremely simple LCA models, expressed in a new redable programming language. All of it resides in this single file : https://github.com/laem/futureco-data/blob/master/co2.yaml.
You keep the feature set of the application as small as possible.

And have no outside integration other than the most common of protocols.
There have been many articles written about it, google "PFAS contamination".

I moved into a new house last year near 2 closed down USAF military bases (known to have been previously contaminated by firefighter foam) and did a ton of research on the issue since the house water comes from a well (free water!). I ended up getting a professional water filtration system installed in our basement (carbon tanks, UV light filter, reverse osmosis). Cost me $5k+ for install and ~$1500 year to swap out the tanks and service the system. It's pricey but you can't put a price on clean water.
Over the past thirty years, a lot of the "technology" has been Chinese people building things overseas and shipping it to the US. There's technology in that, but it's mostly logistics and shipping, not robots or anything fancy.

NB: I'm not saying automation doesn't matter, or that it won't matter going forward. I'm saying that if no automation had happened at all, we'd almost certainly still be in this situation. The bulk of the distribution changes result from human decisions, not tech.
You're not aware of how communist regimes form. They're actually really smart in this regard.

You kill everyone that doesn't agree with you, along with their family. That's anyone who didn't fight with you either. Let along just against. The 20-45 million that died from famine is in addition to a rough estimate of 30 million killed during and shortly after the revolution. You see the same in Russia too. Oh and in Cambodia. They all actually focused on the "intelligentsia" community first. Cambodia just decided to wipe them all out. Russia and China were big on making double sure they were with the party (not just neutral), before they passed up on killing them. The book 1984 really wasn't accidental in that regard. The more you could think for yourself, the more dangerous you were to the party.

It's not an accident that people are scared to criticize these governments. That's where John Steinbeck really fucked up in his book the Russian Journal. Saying "Oh, do you know anyone that's disappeared because of the soviet regime". If you don't know any Russians (at the time)... I mean, duh, you're probably not going to. But talk to even one dissident against the soviet regime in any of the eastern bloc, they'll give you a list of names of who they personally know.
That has been pretty much South Park's entire premise from day one: mocking the stupid shit we as societies do.
To be fair, these measures are most useful when we are considering alternative ways to state a given set of straightforward facts. It is unlikely that one version will use 'crocodile' and another will use 'gybe'... which, on the other hand, is a good reason for regarding them as merely a first step in studying political speech.

I wonder what William Buckley would have thought of the claim that the language of conservatives is simpler than that of liberals?
How the Silence Makes the Music
> there really is no reason for even mom and pop sites to not provide even a base level of accessibility

Because it costs money to do so, and sometimes mom and pop sites are barely scraping by to begin with. It's also their prerogative to make the content accessible or inaccessible to whomever they see fit - it's their loss if someone cannot buy their product, but it's also their choice to accept that loss. I think it sets a dangerous precedent to make them legally obliged to make their content available in a specific way.
You had me until "cancel culture"

Exactly how many irreverent comedians who achieved significant success and are not really accountable to anyone, telling it like it is, have been cancelled by the cancel culture?

Cosby, TJ Miller, Louis CK, Jeffrey Tambor, James Franco, ...? A good list of people who did morally reprehensible things of varying degrees, from illegal to merely opening their employers to civil liability, and in my mind, they should be "cancelled." Maybe you can argue some of these, I don't think so.

Azis Ansari? I don't know how tranchant his "speaking truth to power" has ever been, but he did a Netflix special this year, and I would need pretty compelling evidence to believe that's your smoking gun. I predict he'll be just fine in a few more years.

Kevin Hart? Maybe. Again, not much of a politically-motivated comedian, but getting removed as Oscar (?) host was damaging. Nonetheless, it looks like he had 5 movies/specials in 2019 and has work scheduled for 2020. Besides the car crash, I think he'll be alright.

Dan Harmon (like James Gunn) was a political hit job and didn't go anywhere.

Am I missing anyone?

Outside of e.g. #metoo, some people didn't like Dave Chappelle's recent Netflix special. I'm not a fan of him "punching down" at trans people myself, but, I don't think it's anything he hasn't said before. Nonetheless it was trending in the top five for most of last month, I think he is, and will continue to be, doing fine.

I just don't see where people attribute all this power to "cancel culture." Chik-fil-A, Nike, ..., all doing just fine despite on-going boycotts from "cancel culture."
I think we can save lives if we stop spending them
I realised the Emoji topic https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21182705 after posting my comments. Blizzard, emoji, Hong Kong, and in part NBA too[1], once again shows how unpredictable viral-ness can be.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21176976
Nobody's forgotten that it isn't a meme.
Yeah, this is how the best science books are written IMHO.

"First we tried to figure out the properties of matter, then this whole 'atom' thing started making sense, then we figured out about subatomic particles, then we realized that subatomic particles actually act pretty weird -- so that's quantum mechanics."

If you were to just start at quantum mechanics, you'd wonder why the heck everything is so weird and overly complicated.
Depends upon what freedoms we consider freedoms. Today, do you support any laws that would deny people what others may consider freedom? For example, supporting age limits on activities. If you support people under 18 being unable to vote, are you not supporting taking away their freedom to vote?

Once you strip away the modern day cultural norms of what is acceptable freedoms and not, and begin to consider other arguments and social views as to what counts as freedom, you find most anyone out there fights to strip freedom from others. Sometimes under the guise of protecting them, but not always.

The same people condemning this person from the freedoms he opposed likely support removing freedoms from others for ageist reasons.
This one cuts across partisan lines- and in fact conservatives/libertarians are more likely to be affected by corporate censorship nowadays, and more than happy to push back on obvious over-reach/kowtowing like this.
The big consumers are stuff like toilets (~2 gallons/flush), showers (2-3 gallons/minute), and lawn care.

So you have 3 people who take a 10 minute shower, and flush the toilet 4 times each, that's 112 gallons/day right there.
[random internet advice]

Don't should on yourself.

Consider the source when should on .
Belt and suspenders.

Pi-Hole (or equivalents, I use the OpenWRT Adblock package on my router) work through domain and host-based blocking, which is powerful, but not exclusive, and carries side-effects. As a bonus, if your local resolver (which is what Pi-Hole is) serves your local LAN or WiFi network, ALL devices are automatically protected, at least while they're on that network (and are configured to use that resolver).

uBlock Origin works based on domain-based blocks, but also other heuristics, and (where the capability exists) can block specific elements within Web pages.

Generally, Pi-Hole or other resolver-based DNS blocklists:

- Covers all local devices and applications.

- Its configuration can be automatically configured via your network's DHCP server.

- It covers all applications.

- It works only for devices while they're using that network or DNS resolver.

Generally uBlock Origin or other extension-based adblockers:

- Cover only the application for which they're installed.

- Offer more extensive blocking capabilities.

- Work regardless of network you're on or when roaming in mobile state.

Where possible, I use both. For devices and apps in which uBlock Origin (or equivalent) isn't available, I rely on DNS-based blockers. When I'm mobile, unfortunately, I get ads, and really, really, really, really hate them.
Two things are going to make Zero Maintenance kind of difficult. Assuming Ubuntu on an AWS EC2 instance here.

First one is taking OS updates that are security critical - as anytime you take an update theres a chance something somewhere gets broken.

Second one is AWS instances themselves being switched. From time to time (very infrequently in my experience) Amazon will send you an email indicating your EC2 instance is being migrated to a new physical host and to initiate this you must manually restart your instance.

As for the rest, a script in root's crontab that does:

1 - Delete log files older than X (because running out of disk space is not a good situation)

2 - Hit Lets Encrypt for new certs if necessary ( because expired certs give a lousy customer experience)

3 - Preemptively bounce any application servers (Nginx, PHP FPM, Tomcat, what have you )

4 - Setup all hosts such that your critical software restarts at boot time in the event of an unexpected reboot situation (gives you the ability to cron schedule nightly reboot command)

Additionally:

* If you're running any database regardless of where, be sure you allocated enough space that you don't end up running out of database storage

* Implement some downtime monitoring to tell you when there are issues

* It's a good practice to be changing passwords on any authenticated resource at some interval too

The practices listed here (off the top of my head - not an all inclusive list) are about as close as I attempt to get to Zero Maintenance myself. Customers pay for systems to be developed and they should expect some level of ongoing care and feeding as entropy is pervasive.

But its a good excuse to sell your customers a maintenance contract right?
EU's Vestager says breaking up companies is last option
Indeed, even NASA probes have mechanisms to be updated.

The blessing and curse of software is it's mutability.
I answered this a bit:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21181145

and:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21181755

TL;DNR: I buy in to self driving vehicles being good for humanity as well as electric vehicles being good for humanity. I purchased a Tesla to help make the future Elon opines about into closer to reality (even after the Elon distortion field is removed).
It only works for a short amount of time which makes this rather impractical.
Under Commons Clause you must bring something of "significant value" in addition to the original product. You can't just spin up a new instance.
Right, you cancelled Hearthstone from your life because you don't care for the actions of its creators. Not unlike, say, ceasing to watch a comedian because you don't like how they punch down, or ceasing to book rms for speaking engagements because he's too stressful to deal with.

Don't shy away from it; that's "cancel culture."

(Or, more accurately, "cancel culture" doesn't exist; it's just freedom of association in action ;) ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szybEhqUmVI
Why’s that? I would consider economics a hard science.
No, the supreme court prefers to have lots of lower courts weigh in before deciding anything if at all possible. That way there are lots of well reasoned smart people who have thought about the problem and so by considering all different thoughts they are more likely to get it right. They are well aware that they are the last resort and so what they say goes even if it is wrong so they avoid being wrong.

Which is to say, even if the entire court (both liberals and conservatives) thought the lower court decided wrong they probably wouldn't want to hear this case until a couple other lower courts also wrote something - just in case some argument that someone comes up over the next few years points out an angle they hadn't thought of and so they would reverse.

That is a preference though. They can of course do what they want.
> It's not worth the Chinese influence on our society.

US shareholders probably disagree.
Have it do one thing very well and document it clearly so users can build it into their own processes.

If it is more complicated than that ( i.e. must do several things very well with ever-changing needs ), document it clearly and include a link to the source code and build instructions.
We're using n8n in production for a month now and are pretty happy with it.

Easily extendable and new integrations can be built easily.

Also helps that the author works here and is generally a great guy ;-)
I'm not saying that, I was just wondering out loud where people draw the line. Please don't put words in my mouth.
This law is ripe for exploitative lawsuits. Instead of damages going to the plaintiff, of which actual damages are very dubious, it should go to a fund that helps web site developers increase accessibility. Maybe an open source foundation that integrates this into regular HTML.

The money should NOT go to lawyers for their fees and plaintiffs. It just creates the wrong incentive system.
30-90 days is pretty normal, and what you should probably plan for if you're doing high-dollar consulting.
US immigration laws require an actual marriage, not just something that looks like one. Please educate yourself about what marriage actually means, not just what you think it means.
Note that these are “life hacks” and “Twitter responded with” refers to Twitter users, not the company.

The trick in question is to use the clips in the hotel’s coat hangers to keep the curtains shut. The others are:

* Block blinking lights with electrical tape.

* Avoid dry air by hanging a wet towel next to the heater.

* Get a free phone charger by asking at the front desk.

* Override the hotel thermostat. “[H]old down the thermostat’s “display” button, then press the “off” button simultaneously. Keep holding the display button down, but let go of the off button and press the up arrow. Once you release all of the buttons, you’ll have free rein of the temperature controls.”

* Avoid the germs on the remote control by putting it in a plastic bag.

* Keep the power on without using your room key, by placing any other card in the slot (doesn’t work everywhere).
I mean, yeah, for whatever that's worth.
In the context of a certain society, sure. But those are “rights within that society”, just like your lease is “a lease within that society.” (The pancake recipe is a pancake recipe anywhere; whether or not you can get the ingredients is a separate issue.) Having rights enforced by treaty across most of the world doesn’t mean you have rights if you e.g. crash-land your private plane into a North Korean military base. Or if you get hijacked by pirates in international waters.

In both cases, it’s not really some airy universal human rights that’ll protect you; instead, you have “being the subject of a powerful sovereign nation that has made a promise to its citizens to retrieve them from such peril, probably ultimately because of that nation’s perception of your granted rights as a citizen of that country.” (And, if you’re stateless, you don’t even have that—which is a big reason many nations don’t let you renounce citizenship without already being a citizen of somewhere-else.)

And, more to the GP poster’s point, your rights don’t exist if you wander into the wilderness, get chased by a bear, get backed into a corner, and want to convince the bear not to eat you. The bear will not stop because “you have rights”; those are, at their widest, a “human civil-society” thing. At that moment, you need something else. Something negotiated, probably. (Maybe you can throw him a sandwich and leave while he’s distracted? That’s a negotiation.)
Speed of Light: Fast but Slow
I think perhaps it be best to limit the list to instances of actual action being taken, rather than just ownership, but I don't know for sure
Handle every error possible in every code path and don't make new features at all.
Yeah, the clickbait itself is enough to criticize without adding unnecessary exaggeration. Now we just look stupid by attributing things that simply are not true. It happens way too often here. People are in pitchfork mode and upvote the most slandering comment, even if it's false.
Nothing about the behavior of the average gamer, to date, should make any of us think they're going to lead the charge for much of any social change that involves distancing themselves from their favorite addic^Wgames.
Side project + hobby = euphoria.

Find the intersection
1. Try to make the software tolerable to the wrong input.

2. Develop tools which allows end-users to adjust the software, make as many settings as possible.

I don't think that those options are actually good in the end. If your software is tolerable to the wrong input, it might just work wrong and nobody will notice it. If there are too many options, nobody will know all of them and in the end they'll either ask you or configure it wrong. If you'll have too much of flexibility, then developers who will need to extend your software, will be forced to work bounded by inevitable restrictions.

I like software that's precise and does only one kind of thing. It crashes on wrong input, so I can either blame someone who's responsible for wrong input (I mean service, not ordinary user) or fix software. It must not be flexible, but it should have flexible architecture so I can just adjust or extend code to adapt it as necessary.
I expect companies to do what’s morally right not merely maximize profits while doing anything that is legally acceptable. I expect leaders of companies to do what’s morally right while explaining to shareholders that if they disagree they can sell their shares or replace them. I have zero respect for a manager at Blizzard or the NBA who decides to try to pull what they did this week.
Oops, sorry; yeah, I forgot to specify the app being Overcast. Though without firing up the machinery to confirm, I believe on the watch it's just using Apple's Now Playing? Or maybe not. Anyway, to be specific, on the Apple watch there are buttons on either side of play/pause; one goes back 30 seconds, one goes forward.
The group could hire people for some of those things. The other guy certainly does.

Most dentists have had to figure out how to run a business. At some point these chefs have to decide weather they are owning a business or just cooking. This situation allowed them to confuse the two.
As a fully sighted person (well, I wear glasses to drive), I'm thrilled about this. Websites that are easier to use for the blind are easier to use for everyone. If your website is a giant picture of text, this is just karma.
Open Source Consumer Apps Are the Future
All Mac apps using 'Paddle' middleware deactivated after upgrade to 'Catalina'