skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A free person does not take orders from the state, nor from anyone. A free person has a right to weigh advice and conscience on his own terms, and negotiate his externalities with society.

How do you balance that with another person's right to live? If you as a free person decide "F it, I don't want to stay cooped up despite my positive diagnosis." Is that fair to someone you then infect out in public?
"inductive reasoning is still a validate tool for understanding the world."

Thank you so much for saying this.
Oh what memory will we use!
Wrote a common lisp client package for NATS.io.
The problems with Hacker news I'd like to add

* HN Companies and sock puppets pushing agendas

* Hacker news counter culture movements and backlashes. Seems to be bipolar with pro Rust / anti Rust every day of the week.

* Hacker news nice guys who have account names like "mothsonasloth" or something really depraved. Along with all the other hypocrites

* Hacker news Admins and big personalities driving content trends on the site e.g. (/u/patio11)

* Recycling of posts / knowledge, since there are always new people joining. You get things like "TIL that microservices are awesome" trending once every month. Which is frustrating for veteran users

* Hacker news arm chair generals/economists/politicians. The points system rewards trendy content and doesn't necessarily mean quality. Unlike points in Stackoverflow, there is some degree of confidence in the users competency.

* The fact that Hacker news is mainly populated with technologically proficient people, who probably have some sort of issue, whether it be mental, psychological. Sure we all suffer from our demons but the amount of stuff I read on there makes me cringe at times.

* The "Hacker news Contrarian", waiting to snipe your post with their immense intellect
It needs further justification because it's contradicted by the evidence cited to support it.

"Terrorists don't use digital communications[0]

[0] Example of a terrorist identified and killed via surveillance of their digital communications"
or pay them 6 bucks a month for a G Suite account instead of free gmail so you actually have the ability to call a 24/7 customer service phone number and yell and scream and get someone to find out why they removed access to your lifeblood account, and have access restored.

it constantly amazes me that so many HN people put their ENTIRE LIVES/BUSINESSES in a free account that [has been proven, countless times] can be taken away from them at any time.

i mean what do folks expect for free?

google is an asshole company, sure. but so many HN'ers expect to be treated like "customers" with associated "customer rights" when in actual fact, they are a free user, a total nobody.

pay a company a small bit of money, and hey, whaddyaknow, you can suddenly call them up and talk to someone, figure out why they removed access to your account, and get it sorted out.
TypeScript Interface vs. Type, which to use and why
https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Encrypt...

Yeah. The truth is that groups like ISIS use Telegram pretty heavily. Same with some of the Persian threat actor groups, Hezbollah, others.
You're right, but it's also not a settled or well understood concept yet. This whole idea got running with ecological cascades, and it turns out that these are all complex systems. But just adding or removing a species doesn't have one effect, or even an effect at all in some cases. We have to be careful not to trumpet one or two successes of eco-forming, because lots of people will read that and repeat it and think that doing X is always going to have a positive effect.

Reintroducing the wolves was part of a much larger mis-management of the park where we basically destroyed 80-90% of Yellowstone over a half century, by doing things like screwing with the animal population, or the controlled burning by indigenous/native populations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_effect_(ecology) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_cascade https://kottke.org/15/01/yellowstone-how-not-to-manage-a-nat...
Neat! Do you get paste stencils made as part of the PCBA manufacturing process? How many components a year were you hand soldering or reflowing before you decided to try and automate the process a bit more?
Yes, but I've never seen this done for normal posts, just rule announcements and such.
The order they struck down was an order issued by a non-elected bureaucrat.
There is no conspiracy here. Anyone saying there is simply doesn't understand the dyanmics of moderating large subreddits. Moderating sucks. It's thankless volunteer work babysitting a bunch of children and adults acting like children. The biggest subreddit I manage has 6000 subscribers, 1000x smaller than some of these, and I've had to ban people for harassing users, being racist, and posting NSFW content when one of the rules is literally don't post NSFW content. It's not a fun job. It's janitorial work. Voluntary janitorial work. It's not easy managing a community of several million users. I doubt many of you would actually want the responsibilities it requires to do at minimum a decent job of it.

In regards to the users in the OP, I've personally talked to cyXie, Gallowboob, awkwardtheturtle, and siouxie_sioux, and they all seem to be nice people who simply enjoy participating on reddit [1]. I don't necessarily agree with all the things they do or decisions they make (particularly in regards to moderation) but it really is not malicious. If you start moderating one big sub it means you can be trusted at least enough to do it for another sub. If you think this alone is evidence of a conspiracy then you don't have enough experience with content generation on reddit.

[1] My source is anecdotal; I have several hundred thousand karma so I run in some of the high-karma circles.
Product placement has had its teeth in movies/TV for a quite a while now. In some aspects it does help movies add more to its budget.
wtf is sos
Wisconsin has a large Swedish immigrant population (immigrants 5 generations ago, not first generation), so that rules out genetic factors to a small extent.
Same here, although I have been refreshing new quite often the last 24 hours :)
Are there any good resources for exploring this? I’m interested
This is correct, and applies (and is helpful) to many cases.

But the moment you need to shift an "Int", or do bitwise operations or transmit it in a network packet (think about endianness, etc.), is the moment you may regret that the compiler is doing too much heavy-lifting for you.
It serves the user; that's why the user is doing it. Whom the hell else should ever be served?

Dumb analogies are dumb. Carefully curating one's online content is in no way similar to "dropping the paper thrash on the street".
Chrome is 90 days
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While it was mildly infuriating that there were 2 zeroes -- +0.00 and -0.00 -- in the game, admittedly, I also enjoyed having that as an extra transitioning step to stay within the acceptable docking range
Wanted to reply to your response - the 1200 USD suppliment payment per person MIGHT pay for one months' costs. The US is oging on the third month of shutdown. The only way for many to survive IS to go back to work.

In addition, for the most part, folks in the US want to return to work. The vast majority find pride and comfort in work, even if they bitch about. They know eventually the payouts will come back out of their pocket.

The mixed signals from the CDC and governmental agencies add to the confusion (everything is fine/stay inside until a vaccine is available, don't wear masks/cover up you face once you step outside, etc.) only add to the feeling the government really dosn't have a clue.
To Kill a Microservice: going from a microservice architecture to a monolith
I've been drinking more coffee than usual, but still haven't perfected my French press. The internet told me it was because of non-uniform grind size as a result of my cheap grinder. So, I knocked together something that can track coffee particle size distribution using my phone camera.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=grind.front.en...
Time of GPU ownership of independent Deep Learning researchers is over. It didn't even last a decade!
Random sample of IN residents: 2.8% infected, 0.58% infection fatality rate
While I strongly disagree with MMT, supports would argue that the central bank can manipulate the currency to the degree that basically any debt is not a problem.
the Dolphins in venice was really a matter oft cleanliness, and possibly less boat traffic. The canals aren't so deep that you would not see dolphins swimming through on normal days.
Elite was impressive. The whole "universe as a random seed number" thing. Some years later I was impressed by Frontier, the sequel, where you had seamless takeoff from planets into space, no transitions or loading screens... this was very impressive back then, in a way gamers today possibly cannot understand.
Seeing him getting banned from all those big subs at once (as in, the same minute) is pretty insane. And confirms what I've thought for a long time, all those big subs are controlled by the same people, no matter which usernames are listed. Also this post is interesting https://www.reddit.com/r/WatchRedditDie/comments/gj2843/so_t... as it was removed by "Anti-Evil Operations" which AFAIK are ran by the company and you're not allowed to go against them. Are these power mods not just the admins in disguise?
I'm working on https://www.monsterwriter.app/
Sorry for the confusion and late reply. I didn't catch this part of the comment. I cant edit it now. I should not have use the term "Open Source" which I agree meant something different. May be source available would be better. But the point of my argument still stand.

Please accept my sincere apology. And no offence intended.

Let hope we continue to focus and amaze at the technical marvel that is UE5.
tl;dr member of illuminati wishes to remind us that the illuminati does not exist.
That's what "stalking" means. I sure hope no one's expanding the term to mean "contact tracing".
(Though this surely exists) I'm working on a website that would allow people to remember their pill-routine in a more interactive way. i.e., many of my friends who are on xyz medication (from multivitamins to birth control) and tend to take them on a specific schedule, tend to start ignoring their phone's native reminders app because it gets very annoying, and some still forget. On my platform (hopefully) people will be able to access their own private dashboard where they'll be able enter info, view all, and somehow let me remind them automatically if they so choose (without me actually having access to their dashboard).
Right, which is why I said HTTPS should be the default for web traffic potentially crossing any untrusted network.

But who is going to set up a hostile router in an office of five people? Or in someone's home?
Same. FF/macOS
My quarantine side project is improving electricity in my neighborhood. Advising others on surge protectors vs elevators.

Rallying others to unplug an entire new development that is leeching from our community transformer / meter. And then trying to build bridges so they start chiming in with $ if they want to connect again.

Now that everyone is at their households all the time it is easier to have people pay attention to chronic problems and fix them for good.

The other project is getting old computers of mine fixed up and giving them to households around with more than one child. Here in Colombia a lot of schools started doing remote but only 50% of kids have equipment to connect from.
I work almost exclusively with Elixir for 3.5 years and love it. But I am not seeing that poster's point still.
This was among my first thoughts when the first unemployment report came out. We are sending our daughters to OnlyFans. Still not sure where our sons end up.
If the Senate has amended the House bill, it will have to go back to the House (or a conference committee) to hammer out a unified version, which then needs to be voted on again and passed by both sides. This isn't a done deal (yet).
you can use the same soln but maintain your own stack instead . equally easy.
They’ll have touched the trunks of the 100 previous people, and breathed concentrated common air from the 80 of them with an SUV, minivan or truck. Is this really better than having the customer walk into a big open room (with a mask in some jurisdictions), and pick up a bag?
Up to 4GB of Memory in WebAssembly
Great question! You're not being a debbie downer, that's a totally reasonable thing to ask.

Sure, lots of UI designers do. But it isn't a process that scales. If you're trying to define design requirements for a product that's very large or distributed (i.e. Netflix), manually drawing pictures of a UI is simply too slow.

Some designers have taken to writing CSS, and some even prefer it as their main design tool. I think that's awesome, but CSS exposes lots of implementation details that are only relevant to the web. I'm trying to create a declarative syntax that feels as easy as CSS, but exposes lots of functionality that would normally require javascript. And it will be abstracted from the platform, so this would serve not just web designers but also iOS/Android/TV/etc.
It's very similar, you leave thrash around for others to deal with. And it's just not "one's online content", you also degrade the online content of the ones who spent time replying to you and participating in the thread.
Yeah, this is the issue. They're not going to catch every dirty thing extensions (perhaps unwittingly) do. If they are able to detect one or more problems with an extension, there's a good chance that there are other problems that were undetected. Forcing extension authors to go back and think about what they could be doing better rather than just telling them the minimal set of changes that are needed seems like it can only result in more well-behaved extensions across the board.
I wonder whether people who have lived most of their life in, say, Glasgow would show lower incidence of Alzheimer’s, if it’s linked to PM2.5.

I use AirVisual and randomly added a few cities in addition to my current location. Among those I have Glasgow, which is reliably showing very green readings of US AQI (often 10 or less).
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A direct of mine a while ago said something very simple that blew my mind a bit:

> "Minimum wage is a privatized social safety net".

America's social structures are designed around a presumption that one should be working, and if one is not working you better be in a group "deserving" of aid. This is a concept that you can trace back to at least the Elizabethan poor law (1601), which aimed to provide poor houses for the infirm, work for the able bodied, and threatened to imprison the "idle" poor.
There is probably also an issue of too much information. All these massive efforts generate data that is barely ever used as the time and resources just aren't there.
IS was/is a quasi nation state! What do these people think it runs off of carrier pigeons and smoke signals?
Eventually there's a whole deal of stuff you end up paying for, a few bucks at a time. I draw the line somewhere. Ads are one such line. I won't watch them anyway, so their only purpose is to annoy me -- and I tend to swat away annoying things.

Never let anyone make you feel bad for blocking ads. It's the right thing to do.
I finally had some more time to spend on progressing on my card game called The Space War which I am making together with my son:

https://thespacewar.com/
I'm always puzzled by these "how do you deal with lawsuits" comments. Two questions:

1. Have you seen any examples of mask manufacturers/distributors being sued, either successfully or unsuccessfully?

2. How do you protect against the risk of litigation in everything else you do? For example, being sued by anyone who pays you money (customers or employers)? Their lawsuit may not be successful, but you would still have to defend against it.
I have a bookmark to /r/random. When I'm too bored to process information I just click on that like it's roulette and I find something interesting.

Personally, it's the digital equivalent of chatting up the guy in the bar stool next to you.
> : in Germany the outside limit on abortions is 12 weeks—shorter than in any US state. (Excepting a few “heartbeat law” states where the laws have not yet taken effect.) But within that period, abortions are generally available. No such compromise is possible in Americ

You seem to forget that in France & Germany, people go to the Netherlands or Spain for abortions after 12 weeks. It’s not a « compromise », it’s just a 1970s law that hasn’t been changed because conservative groups are annoying.
hah, me too. In addition I move groups of windows to different virtual desktops to further organize my thoughts. Nice thing on Windows is that Alt-Tab in a virtual desktop only switches between applications in that desktop. So once I switch to a particular "context", I only have to work with tabs/windows in that flow.

I need a tab to have more than just a favicon for context, so this works for me.
I am slowly re-shelling and modding all of my original portable consoles. In addition, I am building new ones out of parts and bulk broken shipments from ebay - and selling them for much lower than the market currently lists them.
Shouldn't the fact that there are exploitation frameworks for that specific attack vector (e.g. https://beefproject.com/) be motivation enough to not leave that vector unpatched?
I've picked up indoor gardening and designed some 3D-printed, self-watering planters that screw into jars.

https://blog.tommy.sh/posts/adventures-in-self-watering-plan...
Reddit-worthy comment there!
We need a new economy. The ability to work and survive does not need to be so precarious. If households could make everything themselves, no abstract shock or "job market" would disturb them. But that is not reality. The key challenges... dependency coordination, natural resource control, and circular negotiation. Answer these to clarify the transition.
> I understand there is a pandemic but I do not understand why it is on the company to pay people who are not working.

The issue is not the Tesla is obligated to pay people who are not working, it is that (1) violating the shelter-in-place order is a crime, and (2) paying someone to commit a crime is also generally unlawful, and also (3) imposing adverse employment consequences, including reduced pay, for refusing to commit a crime is generally also unlawful.

(Of course, Tesla itself is violating the order and committing a crime by reopening, but #3 particularly is an avenue by which individual workers, as opposed to just public authorities, may have a claim against Tesla based on their unlawful acts.)
I finally got my perpetual yak-shave to 1.0: an org-mode file viewer for iOS and Android

https://orgro.org

It's cross-platform by way of Flutter. It's also open-source, so you can get it for free, or buy it on the App Store (Google Play coming soon).
I got laid off due to covid and needed to know how long my severance/covid check was going to last me so I built a site that looks at all your recurring income and expenses and tells you when you're gonna run out of money.
Definitely still a work in progress so be kind :)

timetillbroke.com
If TOR had fiver-level speed I'd be on all the time. The trade off is just too high.
.Org registry sale officially terminated
Somewhat related: There's a car that's parked in front of my house, on the street, for over a year now. Never moved, no sign, just parked there. I find it hilarious and annoying that there's no legal way for me to report it, or have the authority check the owner. Is it stolen? Abandoned? It just seems wrong that a car can be legally parked at one spot for so long.
> You seem to be stuck on the 3rd definition

Quite possibly. I concede the point.

> It's quite common to refer to things being rendered to another forms

I think it’s my mathematical background. I tend to think of these kinds of processes as ‘transformations’.
> Advising others on surge protectors vs elevators.

What does this mean...?
When I feel I have too many tabs Open, I simply close the entire window. I don't understand tab hoarders. I've watched them use browsers and they almost never revisit those hoarded tabs. They actually start from a new tab and search or type in a URL when they want to go back to previous tabs.

Chrome should make this behavior more obvious to do. Like LIFO queue for tabs which popped tabs turn into history entries and keep a max number of tabs visible.
>Ideally, the court would grant a stay on the enforcement of the decision, to give her time to properly promulgate the rule.

The ruling explicitly addresses this: the case has been in deliberation for longer than the originally requested stay already. During this time, why has the government not ALREADY promulgated the rule?
I've been learning websocket stuff with Socket.io. Built a game to play with other remote friends that is comically simple, but really fun:

1. Item appears on the screen (like 'vacuum', or 'Q of spades'

2. Whichever team finds it in their house first and returns with it to their screen wins a point

http://www.rummagerush.com/
Typical TDS
These issues apply to any internet forum once sufficiently popular. Digg and Slashdot had the same issues, and were slowly strangled by them. The plebs dragged the average down to... well... the average, and then people moved on. Right now YC seems to be the "hip new place to be", but you mark my words, it's going to go down the same path.
Are you testing any of the masks? How do you test them?
shutter helmet to save you, like active 3d glasses.
I've continued to work on my open source BI application:
https://github.com/shzlw/poli
The roadmap is to make it a all-in-one database application!
IANAL; It doesn't appear that OP does any kind of QC, just extra work to say that the labeling on the masks isn't lying. I don't think the liability would be with them unless it was provable that they are lying or are tampering with the masks. They aren't putting their name on a "this won't get you sick" sticker.

On a broader note, if the burden of proof is on the accuser I have no idea how it would be possible to get a lawsuit like that of the ground in the first place. First off, how do you prove it was the mask and not a thousand other things? Also, manufacturers don't say things like "this mask will stop you from getting sick" because they know that would be a really legally stupid thing to say.
This quarantine I decided to restrain myself from starting a new side project (many of you might agree that we've got too many abandoned projects) and just pick one from the abandoned queue.

My pick: http://seriesreminder.net It was going to be the first choice when you wanted a new series recommended or just wanted to see which tv shows will air this week.

It was still using Rails 5 and Sprockets so I had to make the proper upgrades (including migration to Webpacker) and revamped the design using React and MaterialUI. I wrote an article about that https://medium.com/@cionescu1/how-to-use-react-components-in...

My only goal moving forward is to find the sweet spot (not really MVP, but a nicely working state) where I can go back to just ignoring this project again
Hacking Honda's telematics system.

By hacking, I mean setting up MITM proxy.
Such a bad idea. A set of comment threads is going to be a tree of some type and you need to decide if it will be deep or wide. This promotes wide with very little justification beyond 'I didnt get in early on the discussion but still want a high-ranked comment' while the idea of allowing people to necro old threads is so bad it does not even merit discussion (seriously, go try out some forum that allows this and it will take you no time at all to realize that this is a phenomenally bad idea.)
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