skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And here society is hard enough these days, pressing more and more people beyond their limits. I really wonder how you all do it in America.

It's all relative. Someone in the US is looking at failed states in Central America and Africa and thinking the same thing. One day, people will look at Denmark and think the same.

Objectively people may be having a better or worse time in different places at different times, but how you personally feel about your situation is all relative at the end of the day.
Sorry to hear you guys haven't had lunch for so long
The problem is that sites (that users can choose to use or refrain from using) have a right to freedom of the press and protection against libel / slander lawsuits for also re-hosting information that third parties post through them?

I don't think that's a problem. Sounds like working-as-intended.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700605/section-230-inte...
Lessee, this:

1. Creates an alias named "vi", so that next time the user runs the text editor vi, it will run this script instead.
2. Deletes whatever files the user was planning to edit in vi.
3. Removes this "vi" alias, reverting the behavior to just running vi in the future.
4. Removes every line from the .cshrc which contains the string "BoZo".

If you put this in someone's .cshrc file, the next file they attempted to edit with vi would be deleted along with the evidence that anything malicious had been done to you.
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I mean how much data and analysis do we really need at this point to realize America is a complete shit show at the moment.

Statistics be damned, Inductive Reasoning needs to take center stage here.
8:33pm GMT.

Only about an hour away from launch.
In my experience the transportation authorities care deeply about proper signage, and may have been happy to put up a new sign had he asked (did he?). It's not hard to print one in the machine shop, and definitely would have been less work than what this guy did.
I don't find it clear the agreement is being violated, but I am not a legal expert. Anyways, the agreement is a matter between Britain and China, AFAIK. EDIT: I read a bit more about this in the intervening minutes, and it seems like the Declaration is not really an agreement, and even if it is I could not find info about whether it is enforecable. If the two parties did not agree on a court that could resolve disputes, the Declaration means nothing. Blame that on the UK if you want.

EDIT2: OK, my current (still amateur) position is that China did indeed violate the Declaration (if it is true that it imposed the law on Hong Kong), but the agreement is bilateral and defines no penalty for the violation. Here is the agreement on UN's site: https://treaties.un.org/Pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=0800000...
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201399/v...

I am not saying that I like the authoritarianism in China, but would, say, Saudi Arabia not be an easier target for the "global police"?
This has been all over 4chan for a while now.
That's clearly dependent upon how (or who) you tax. Someone with no income will not have a net negative. And a yacht tax would fund a (miniscule) UBI that benefits everyone but the rich and yacht builders. But the main point is that you gain something nonfinancial: more options or a stability.

For the record, to the extent to which I support UBI, I support my own net income decreasing to support others on it and I think any tax plan that does not involve some upper-middle class and middle class Americans paying more than they receive would be financially unviable.
If you're interested in corporate governance, you might enjoy reading the book "Pay without performance"

One of the points it makes is that shareholders have very little power in practice, as even if you own a million dollars of Apple shares, that's only 0.00007% of the company. Not exactly enough to force through a motion on your own.

And if you think you'll build up a coalition to get a majority? Good luck doing that when you can't even find out the names of other shareholders.

Minority shareholder lawsuits? They're actually a negligible force; rare, unlikely to succeed, and low impact even when they do.

And that's without getting into 'preference shares' that grant CEOs outsized voting rights.

The book argues management can neglect shareholders' interests with impunity for these reasons.
What do you do when two of your biggest products flop as badly as the 737-MAX and the 787 have?
The bigger problem is that the British electorate still believes they are the ones calling the shots here. There is no opposition to China with Hong Kong. China is the more powerful political entity now.
That is ... an interesting observation.

Was that office just not staffed for that period?
Curious if you use your markdown files on mobile and if so, what tools do you use? I’m still using bear because of their iPhone/iPad apps.
Show HN: Shrugs.app, a Native macOS Slack Client
I understand this sentiment, but if SpaceX pulls this off, it's going to be an order of magnitude cheaper and more sustainable than the incredibly awesome but one-off and flashy Apollo (or even shuttle) missions.

Crew Dragon is not visually BIGGER than a Saturn V, but it is in a lot of ways a firmer footstep into space than we've ever taken before. SpaceX's program isn't going to dry up as soon as the cold war is over, and we stop devoting 5% of GDP to beating the Soviets. This is for real.
I wouldn't be so sure, history is an awful long time and we don't have great records for most of it.
It's called type inference: https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/types/inference.ht...
Replying very late, because I was on vacation.

In embedded, you're often talking directly to hardware chips. How you talk to those hardware chips absolutely depends on the endian-ness of the CPU... unless the chips all have 8-bit-only interfaces.
Tell that to Amazon? Frugality is one of the top principles of the company.

Do more with less, learn how to solve hard problems so you don't have to pay other people who maybe won't actually fix those problems.
Accessibility is one of those things that isn't taken seriously enough by many people. It's good to see this on the front of HN.
I agree that 'things that aren't said' is something one needs to look out for. This goes for both sides of the media. There is a lot of mainland Chinese perspective that the western media doesn't cover. That is why CGTN is valuable. Granted, they have their own omissions. Nothing we can do about it -- all journalists have their own biases. Still, I think watching both is more healthy than just watching one.
I was just introduced to Firestore (in Datastore mode) last week at work. (Enterprise dev.) Should I be afraid? I've heard so much shit about Mongo that at least I hope we are not dealing with as bad a product as it.
I've just decided that my weekend days are Wednesday and Saturday -- on Wednesdays in particular I get to waste as much time on HN as I want! You don't need to work 5 consecutive days every week, now you can do what works for you.
It is disappointing to continue to see such rampant fragmentation within Europe.

I had hoped that the EU would break down regulatory barriers and force bureaucratic consolidation, but it seems progress has stalled in the last 10 years.

The EU should have one single intelligence agency - not a dysfunctional collection of fighting to be part of the "in" group.
The A-320 was a runaway success which threatened to shut Boeing out of that segment. Boeing needed to do something, and fast. Hence the 737-MAX as a stop-gap until they could come up with a better competitor.

Yes, the A-380 (different segment) did poorly. Boeing actually had a nice thing going for them with the 787.
> America's return to lunch capability

Perfection.
Watch the SpaceX launch in this 3D virtual room
Thanks, didn't realise Python releases are supported for so long. For Libreoffice the LTS release is called 'Still': https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/
There hasn't been a regression, but priorities changed. NASA is a government agency and is thus subject to politics. But make no mistake, we are ahead of where we were in the 1960's, both technologically and organizationally (i.e. a private company achieving spaceflight). This is unequivocally a step forward.
I like to pick my own avocado.
I'd personally say "la porte arrière" for the rear door of a car but "la porte de derrière" for the rear door of a house for instance. I think the distinction is that on a car both sets of doors are side-by-side whereas in a house they're in opposition to one-another. That's my France's French take at least.
Me too. So many of those postings seem to read "[something] is a problem with [list of ill effects] and I wish it would go away, but I have zero interest in learning about how or why this came to be".

Cf. Chesterton's fence.
Gov. Jared Polis (D-CO) liked a tweet this week where someone proposed a charter city for Hong Kong in Colorado - the thread shows why that's probably a bad idea, but clearly surprising levels of support outside the Libertarian think tank world for charter cities in the US: https://twitter.com/ariarmstrong/status/1264628307586248704
share holders? The same "passive investors" that are buying an index fund that includes Boeing.

It's not about leverage it's about taking time and figuring out what you are investing in. Everyone wants the free ride of "investing" nobody actually wants to pick stocks by doing research into which companies have sustainable businesses and good governance.
There should be a ".well-known" spec for changing email. Currently all we have is one for changing passwords I believe:
https://wicg.github.io/change-password-url/
https://archive.md/FMsZM
Umm. We barely avoided war with Iran when Suleimani was killed. Thankfully, Trump saw no benefit in it ( for better or worse, he does seem responsive to his base, that is not super thrilled about dying there ). But if you do not see the steady push of the drums of war, or worse, choose to actively ignore it, it is difficult for me to say anything that would change your mind. To me it seems apparent. It certainly should have been apparent after Iraq.
Musk doesn't have much in terms of competition today but I have high hopes for the Collison brothers, they are on a similar trajectory (starting with payment systems), are both already billionaires and contrary to Musk are modest and when they say something it tends to be very well thought out.

I called Elon Musk many years before he was as important as he is today, let's see where Patrick and John end up in a decade or more.
If you want to try again: be careful with the controls; fix yaw, pitch and roll one after the other first (you might need minor adjustments to the other angles after fixing one, so keep monitoring them), then move laterally. Counting how many times you fired a thruster helps to stop the motion by firing the opposite thruster as many times as well.

Good luck!
I'm using an iPhone 7 which is almost five years old. Apple has changed the battery once (during which I was without the phone for a few hours).
Fragile?

We basically locked people in their homes. Shut down every imaginable business except those deemed "essential". Closed all retail and restaurants.

What would you expect to happen?
Not to mention expiry dates on products. A store is happy to give out a 12 pack of KD that expires tomorrow. Shopping myself I know it will take a couple months to finish and won't by something about to expire. I also won't pick defective packages.
Both of these things happened ordering from Amazon before this crisis and I have not tried them since, or likely ever again.
The NYT is doing a special podcast on this topic right now.

In one of their episodes, they interview the CEO of YouTube about what they're doing to stop the spread of misinformation on web content platforms like their own.

Her response is that they're no longer tailoring their recommendation models or carousels based purely on engagement alone, but also based on potential harm or impact, because the common misinformation preys on being highly engaging. The biggest example of this is how YouTube is dealing with Covid-19 misinformation, that the "COVID-19 news" carousel on the home page doesn't get much engagement but is important for people to stay informed.

It's a good listen if you have the time: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/podcasts/rabbit-hole-yout...
I have yet to see a criticism of JWT that doesn't devolve into developers not understanding them and/or misusing them.

Like, I know some devs use them for stateless auth, which means you can't revoke a token, so a stolen token is guaranteed valid until expiration, but I'd file that under misuse.
Retroactive fact checking is an interesting question. Should social media fact check content that was shown to be false after it was posted? I'd say yes.
Icons are often included using different methods that don't support the alt attribute. Icon font systems like Font Awesome use CSS like this:
.fa-trash::before { content: "\f1f8"; }

Screen readers these days have good support of the ::before and ::after pseudo-elements and most can the values of content properties but if the icon font is using the Unicode private use area, a screen reader can't read it. There's a new standard for content properties that allow for inclusion a text alternative within the value but it's not broadly supported and in browsers that don't support it, the visual content is not rendered.

Icons are also sometimes included using a background-image (maybe one that's part of a sprite sheet) so a text alternative needs to be added somewhere.

aria-label and aria-labelledby attributes can provide text alternatives but generally including the text in an adjacent element that's visually hidden is more robust.
> The explanation that you're providing is really a rationalization for paying more to procure an inferior product

the explanation I gave is literally for paying less, so you missed the point of it, and you are then blaming econ 101 for your lack of understanding. And you are mixing in other factors that econ 101 covers, but the point of econ 101 is to learn to separate different factors.
They already do to a certain extent. Damaged goods often find their way into the "reduced" section.
Their corporate governance teams are surprisingly small. Vanguard has only something like 35 people overseeing thousands of companies and voting on hundreds of thousands proposals each year.

As a result, some of that voting is running - literally - on autopilot, see https://www.issgovernance.com/solutions/proxy-voting-service... and https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2018/11/29/the-realities-of-...
Note that this article squarely lays the blame on finance executives...that were once engineers...
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/28/world/asia/china-began-pu...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_independence#Colonia...

In the 60s/70s China was in bad terms with Soviet, US/UK saw the benefit of having China as "Allies". Thus, HK kind of became the scapegoat.
Right, but if you dress in a shirt with a Swastika you're going to get banned from every restaurant in town pretty quickly, and I don't think that is a bad thing.
Now you're really in the weeds. Syrian isn't an ethnicity. Druze, arab, kurdish..
You can only increase his rent as much as the other landlords do or he'll move. There are a lot of landlords in the UBI jurisdiction so it would be impossible to effectively collude to raise prices together.

I have no doubt that rents and costs would go up but they would go up by less than the full amount of the UBI so the UBI would still be helpful to the recipient.
You're not wrong, but I suspect that there's a widespread Whig view of history that's been present in the Western world since the end of WWII.

You think of the '90s and the prosperity there, the end of major international rivalries, the birth of the Information Age, and imagine that time will just go on forever. Each generation is supposed to live better lives than the previous generation, right? We have the technology!

And yet the past couple of decades showed that no, income inequality and rising costs of living and the impossibility of buying housing in many markets have basically depressed American (and many other Western) youth, sort of like what's been happening in Japan all this time.

The hardscrabble Ellis Island immigrants were fleeing from clearly traumatic problems. Famine, war, disease. What afflicts modern day youth? High prices, bad numbers. It's an abstract foe with no clear solutions. It's not as if they can just move to Australia or New Zealand, another frontier of economic opportunity to start anew.
I'm 45 and have been working in the evenings at this "perfectly fine" desk and chair for 20 years now. However, it turns out that 12 hours a day this "perfectly fine" setup is already aggravating previously-identified ergonomics issues, which have previously been dealt with by standard office ergonomics setups. In fact that Aeron chair and sit/stand desk at the office was pitched to me as part of the total compensation package. I would not have been able to work there if they gave me a "perfectly fine" door to use as a desk with a $50 task chair. So yes, I think my employer should reimburse my office setup at home.
Ah Bash! My friends and I found this at its heyday in the early 2000s right when we were becoming computer literate ourselves. We we not IRC people, but had a communal skype chat going[1] and recognized the conventions.

The hunter2 password joke is so iconic that I still see it referenced regularly. I always think about the "moral combat" top quote where someone is kicked with the input sequence for a fatality as a great example of internet wit[2]. In general, I think many of the top quotes succinctly capture the realities of membership in internet communities (the double-edged nature of having moderators, the daily trials of our fellow users, the delight of linguistic playfulness).

There were other quote sites out there. qdb.us comes to mind, though it seems to have lost all its content, you can still see it on the wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120131065558/http://qdb.us/top

[1] Skype, in its early days (and maybe still?), allowed group chats where other clients would send you the messages you missed automatically. We had no desire to run a server and this was in the era when Skype was nearly entirely peer-to-peer. I think of it as our own personal internet golden age.

[2] http://www.bash.org/?205195
On Mac and Windows, you are relying on Drivers to do the work where you dont have the source code. While the piece of code is running on OpenGL or Direct X or Metal. And on top of all that there is a composition layer.

Modern GPU drivers is an insane piece of optimisation / engineering. But the complexity means you will never quite grasp the problem when things go wrong. In the early days of Firefox or Thunderbird it is recommended you turn off Hardware Acceleration whenever you see Font or Graphics rendering problem. While a lot of these have been fix ( or migrated ), it is still popping up from time to time.

There was a recent thread on HN ( I cant find it sorry ) Firefox asked for help on a GPU rendering bug that they have a hard time figuring out what's wrong.

On iOS, Apple owns the whole thing they can figure out what's wrong and fix it. As Apple write their own GPU drivers.
Ok, since people seem to be liking this better, we've switched to it from https://www.economist.com/europe/2020/05/26/maximator-a-euro.... Thanks!
Are these 2 others actual registered trials? Or are you referring to public proposals for such, like Hanson's?

I'm working on just such a public proposal [1] and have been in correspondence with Hanson but haven't heard of any registered.

[1] "SARS-CoV2 Live Virus Skin Vaccine" - https://tinyurl.com/y8ujrcze
Looks like they finally added it back in to version 83 of Chrome with the flag and then setting, it was originally removed in version 70.

The long dark days of url shrouding and obscuring are over. We won the battle.
I would enjoy this different type of classifying genre, and smaller libraries or passionate stores could use both, scifi-identity, or adventure-isolation, mystery-family.

An interesting appliation would be Orson Scott Card's Ender series, which take a turn! Ender's Game? Perhaps scifi-responsibility, as that is the main issue Ender grapples with and has to decide. Speaker for the Dead? Scifi-empathy, and Andrew resolves inter-species traditions, and language, I think.

Children of the Mind might be about belonging, but the point is that this harder-to-create classification benefits readers 100x more. I might be contending with responsibility or empathy, and easily pick a book that will move me.
Do you turn your AC off when you go to work in the morning?
I do that every other month
The post I replied to mentioned macOS locking up and being unusable daily. I can't remember the last time this happened to me on Windows. It's definitely been 4 or more years since the last time I've looked at a Windows BSOD. WSL2 is pre-release but still hasn't given me issues.

So, no snark intended, but where you have you been for the last 5 years? Windows and Microsoft are undergoing a renaissance and moving ahead and improving. macOS is regressing.
There is actually one thing this survey represents very accurately. Hype. Especially in the programming languages/frameworks section.
I have one question/concern: why is almost nobody wearing a mask? Of course there is no need for people videoconferencing from home to wear masks, but many of the people in the livestream seem to be physically present on site. The only people I saw with masks were the people in the black suits helping the astronauts into the capsule.

Masks seem like an inexpensive way to reduce risk, the CDC and WHO recommend them. Sure, there are other measures that can reduce transmission, but the lack of masks makes me concerned that other measures are not being taken, perhaps because both Elon Musk and Trump have been downplaying the risk of covid-19 and they are both present today.
There's no evidence commonly presented the lid does anything health related.

Touching the toilet is considered bad.

That's the reason please don't.

I guess people consider the lid aesthetic.
> Bruised apples are perfectly edible. Maybe you just don't like them, and that's fine--there's no accounting for taste. But I don't think it's outlandish for someone to give you a bruised apple.

If I'm making pie or apple sauce, I'll seek out bruised apples—and pay less for them. Paying normal prices for bruised apples? No thanks.
Thus far all SpaceX F9 launch failures have been on all-new vehicles. But those were both in the second stage, which are not and cannot be reused. The F9 first stage has basically been perfect on launch, save for two single engine-out incidents (one new, one on the reused fleet leader) which did not impact payload delivery.

Thus far the sample size is low, but to the extent you can measure it they're equal.
That's always been my solution for Israel. Give them a nice hunk of Pacific coast around Oregon/Washington.
it's also completely illegal, but doing anything about it would be a pyrrhic victory at this point - we can't go out and interview for new jobs when the whole state is on lockdown.

definitely have it better than many, but it's a frustrating situation.
one thing, I wish StackOverflow would show is framework | language use across geographic distribution. And one thing, I liked was the data on variation in gender between developers in different countries. though it was just a few countries.