skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What you said is not even an argument - it is just an expression of personal preference towards specific actions.

Which is the whole point. Eugenics is “fiction masquerading as fact”, as you put it. The core hypothesis (selective breeding works) is sound, but the traits that historical Eugenicists were trying to breed into the populace were all subjective, fictional correlates of what they thought were desirable. It’s not about MY preconceived preferences, but about what preconceived preferences the person running the eugenics experiment has.

When I say it can’t be done “right”, what I mean is that what constitutes the “eu-“ part of eugenics, meaning “good” or “best” is inherently subjective, and the choices of a particular experiment may end up being counterproductive to the goal of creating the “best” humans.
I wonder how towable it is. I have friends who have RVs that are much more expensive than this portable house, and the RVs are not as nice inside.
Are you sure the future ETH 1 shard won't continue to execute transactions via the EVM? AFAIK, I don't think it will be replaced, it'll just live within Ethereum 2 as an "execution environment".
I don't think so if anything veterans of those conflicts probably have way more restraint because half the crap police have been shown doing wouldn't be allowed by the military. If soldiers shot and abused people as routinely and willnilly as police do it would be a major scandal.

If you go read through US military documents about the use of force and rules of engagement you will find things like it requires _presidential approval_ to use riot control agents like pepper spray and tear gas. You aren't allowed to use non-lethal weapons like rubber bullets and bean bag guns without special training because they are dangerous if use improperly. It's against the law of war to target noncombatants (police have been specifically targeting journalists in a number of high profile incidents)

[0] https://www.trngcmd.marines.mil/Portals/207/Docs/TBS/B130936...

edit: I agree with the sister comment that the faulty police mentality largely comes from really bad training that instills the mind set that there is danger behind every corner.
I use the Dark Reader extension [0], and the standard HN topcolor stood out too much, so I darkened it to #fff0e6.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/
You sound like a cop. Maybe if you didn't ghost people for 5 years, this wouldn't be an issue.
Yes, I am on MacOS. Thanks for the info.
Remember there are companies making USB cables with the data lines omitted. If you can save a few cents without the customer immediately noticing, it will be done.
I have Brave installed for the exact same reason. I usually use Firefox or Safari for most web browsing, but unfortunately some web services requires me to use Chromium-based browsers (e.g., Paperpile).

I used to have Chrome installed for theses situations, but so many factors made me want to use Chrome less and less to the point that I simply didn't want to use it at all, even for rare occasions. For the curious, here are my reasons:

1. Deprecation of APIs that are essential for uBo

2. Phone-home features

3. Non-standard APIs (remember FIDO U2F, anyone?)

4. Constant bashing and name-calling of other browsers that doesn't implement their favored APIs (names like "the new IE")

5. Websites constantly badgering me to use Chrome

Using Brave on rare occasions is a good compromise for me. It has some weird crypto stuff, but it allows me to use an degoogled version of Chromium. I also don't have to worry about it being a vastly insecure fork like some browser forks out in the wild.
Following it further we can even see the pull request and the requirements. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/9302

Interesting as I didn’t realize Brave did all their development out in the open like this.

“ Similar to top site suggestions, we'd like to add Crypto Widgets and Binance related suggestions based on what a user types in the URL bar. This is mostly an experiment to see if it's useful. It could be expanded in the future to involve BAT or even be used if the user has Brave ads turned on.”
I used to use 1blocker, but switched to Wipr after 1blocker started charging yearly or whatever. Also, firefox focus is a free ad blocker on iOS.
5G does not use UWB.
Author here. Sorry about that. I just turned it off.
Then those values are not truly absolute by definition if they are being compromised on if absolute is to be held to mean what it is conventionally held to mean when used in the context of values. That definition of being inviolable.
At the library. Microfiche. I'd get a bagel and coffee, walk across courtyard to the library, and read through that days paper (100 years back.)

Very depressing comparing the news then to now... if there was a bill at issue, the text of the bill would be included in full. The grammar was perfect. Few typos. Vocabulary was rich. In short, it was well-written and edited. There is nothing like it ... anywhere ... any more.
It's unstated in the article, but it does say "orders of pizzas, kebabs, pittas and other food that he never ordered kept flowing in", which could mean it's a lot of different places delivering to him.

If the harasser is smart, they'd vary the restaurants and use a burst of different ones at a time in sequence, with long time gaps per restaurant.

And if the delivery driver isn't reporting it to the restaurants every time, the delivery person doesn't necessarily have a high chance of reporting it, so I see how it could continue for a while if there are a lot of restaurants in his delivery range. (Assuming it really is harassment, that is.)
For a keyboard, wireless buys me nothing but introduces a number of new potential issues.

For a mouse, wireless buys you some convenience and freedom of movement. However (and this is slightly niche so it really doesn’t apply in general) I use a trackball, so the wireless advantages are 100% negated.
love dang's response. He sounds like a cop.
wow, thank you so much for spending time to post the issue, really appreciate it! I thought this issue had been resolved months back by adding CORS rules on the CDN (S3). I wonder the error is due to the updated policy somewhat not pushed to some edge. Just tried to push the policy again and hope that helps.
I'm guessing they're using watch.ly. I've never heard of the service but it's on the header of the fastcomments blog. Watch.ly mentions a service that will "add realtime hit counters to my products."
This is great. Bayes' theorem is such a simple principle, which is precisely why it's so powerful.
Anyone who installs IoT devices without reading terms and conditions (especially the selling/sharing your data with 3rd parties) is an idiot.

IoT devices that have the potential to sell every little detail of your personal and business life to 3rd parties are not inevitable. Tech companies and more traditional companies will happily co-opt information on your life and use this information for their own benefit.

Just say NO.

Also, do non-tech friends and family a solid favor and explain this to them and why they don’t want to pay for such devices.
How many people do you know have lost thier jobs? I've been thinking the stories of people unemployed are rumours so that the general populace buy into the whole infectious virus angle. Meanwhile the government has a free hand to waste tax payer dollars on road maintence projects.
Previous coverage on HN because I'm very indecisive and don't like giving links myself:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

You can also find more if you check Opera Software's Wikipedia page.
No, he was standing still talking to the officers in front when the lieutenant saw him and told him to move back, at which point he was pushed by the officers in front.
Lepton: A Lean GitHub Gist Client
> their meetings often run to midnight.

I still have PTSD from that.

Nothing quite like a 14-hour flight, massive jet lag, and an all-day (and all-night) meeting in a packed, cramped, overheated conference room.
So he spent 2.5 months locked in a cabin? Sounds ... familiar?
Interesting. Could somebody program the robots to emulate thinking or is that beyond what you're going to accredit them with?
https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/components/o...

The list of suggested sites have embedded referral links.
You can also do what I do and just ignore those foreign taxes, on both practical and philosophical grounds.

On a practical level, no foreign government is going to bother you until your sales are in the millions, at least. They don’t have the ability to know your sales in the first place, and you’re way too small to bother trying to go after. Especially since there’s no real enforcement mechanism for, say, France to try and collect $200 from some random American online software business.

Philosophically, I vehemently disagree with the premise that a foreign jurisdiction can tax my business because their citizens choose to visit my website and buy things. Should German websites pay a 200% tax if citizens of Eritrea buy things from their website, just because Eritrea passes a law that says that? I have zero representation or connection to these jurisdictions, and if they want tax money or to stop their citizens from using my website, that’s between the citizens and their government. Until there’s some enforcement mechanism, I’ll just keep ignoring them like I always have.
5-Amazon-FBA-Mistakes-You-Must-Avoid PDF and ePub
Pretty nuts, he asked one fellow why he liked his own comment, which seems super juvenile. And, he's just repeating ad nauseam that they will "never revise typed in domains again", which leaves a lot of wiggle room to me in what they will or won't revise with ref codes.
its hard to say illumos is in good shape compared to when opensolaris was being worked on by Sun, or Joyent however.
They added a lang tag recently, too. There’s small changes that go in all the time.
The best professor I remember from my undergrad days in terms of teaching the vocation of writing gave similar advice. His was to write, read, delete, and re-write from memory. The idea being, that you'll wind up cutting what needs cut without bias that way. That clever sentence you're trying to save isn't so clever if even you can't remember it after reading it.

Writing isn't hard, it's just work like anything else. I think people have a false perception of it requiring some sort of talent, when in fact anyone can eventually hit a home run if you let them take 50 swings.

PS: the reason reading it out loud helps is that certain multiples of syllables per sentence tend to sound better. People tend to pair stressed / unstressed syllables rhythmically (iambs, using the ancient word, and hence the iambic notation mentioned in reference to Shakespeare's iambic rhymes, for instance). Recreating the same rhythmic patterns in writing makes the phrases on the page stand out as your mind voices them internally. So, always finish paragraphs with short, strong, 5 or 10 syllable phrases and you'll have people hanging on your every word and thinking you're singing the gospel to them.
More interesting than 5G is the Amazon's ambitious LEO Project[1], a plan to launch several lower orbit satellites (LEOs) so that plebs can have internet access directly. Will be very useful in dictatorial regimes who censor/control internet in their countries. This will probably render 5G useless.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/4/18295310/amazon-project-ku...
Apparently they knew about the hum in advance. Under CEQA they should have had to do an Environmental Impact Report and hold public hearings. Someone is bound to sue.

UPDATE: The sound is intentional. Or, at least, known about in advance.

According to a statement Saturday morning by Paolo Cosulich-Schwartz of the Bridge District, "The Golden Gate Bridge has started to sing. The new musical tones coming from the bridge are a known and inevitable phenomenon that stem from our wind retrofit during very high winds."
Cosulich-Schwartz adds: "As part of the design process, the District did extensive studies on the impacts of the project, including wind tunnel testing of a scale model of the Golden Gate Bridge under high winds." Those tests, seen in a video here, showed that the bridge "would begin to hum" when air passed through it more freely.
I think you'll find it is closed, unless you have an urgent need to cross (e.g., sick parent). If you do cross, you will have to self quarantine for 2 weeks (which kind of defeats the purpose of trying to help your sick relative). Last we heard, it will be June 21 before we can visit our parents in Vancouver.
I'm a huge fan of 1Blocker and I'm glad they charge $5 a year and it's someone's full time lifestyle company.

I've had a few content blocking apps on iOS and they've all been abandoned (or worse sold to ad companies).

1Blocker so far has stuck around and stayed high quality.
Not as solid as Microsoft
> They don't offer stable APIs (by design) for drivers

The real problem lies in this practice. Which other popular system uses this approach? Windows, macOS but also open source alternative like FreeBSD all have well-defined kernel API and drivers SDK. So, not providing a standard interface but then crying for the lack of third party drivers is hypocritical: the problem is self-inflicted.
Then it becomes a tax on people with underpowered phones, doesn't it?
Also interferes with a lot of hospital devices that operate in that freq range. It’s a fight I am casually observing from the sidelines with popcorn.
Can someone eli5 what this means for regular desktop users of linux distros?
In a hypothetical all out war between China, Russia, and America, what place is safe? There's no way to know right now. Maybe all the countries America has invaded in that past decide to ally up and thoroughly pillage the country for all that its worth. Who knows. In a world war scenario, there's no guarantee that anywhere is safe.

What I do know is that looking at the state of the world today, being thousands of miles away is definitely safer. It's been nothing but consistent and rapid decline in liberty in the US and the protests. For every police department that says they've done something wrong, there are five of them out there cheering when an officer is released for brutality.

Maybe there's a chance America will do something someday in the future to my current home, but America is detaining and beating innocent people within its own borders today.
I was a Mad Magazine collector as a kid and my dad still subscribes to this day to keep the tradition going. I have fond memories of going to their NYC headquarters as a kid and having various comics/editors sign my Mad merch.
Is HBD verboten because it's factually wrong, or because even if it's right it's repugnant to talk about such things?

If you believe it's factually wrong, is that belief falsifiable? Is there some sort of study or experiment that could convince you otherwise? I'm not talking "plausible" or "morally correct" experiment here - if it would take blinding a few hundred infants of different races and raising them without non-automated human contact and comparing outcomes, that's fine - but it would be nice to know what level of evidence you'd be looking for.

But hey, I'm just some guy who's looking forward to Embryo Selection [0], which kind of depends on some part of intelligence variance being genetic, and who thinks Blank Slate/Tabula Rasa is pretty dead [1]. Maybe I'm wrong, but from that perspective your BadSocialScience link is pretty questionable.

0: https://www.gwern.net/Embryo-selection

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_versus_nurture
I was annoyed at many of the moves Ubuntu made and voiced that, but at the end of the day, I kept using it. When 20.04 came out, I uninstalled snap. If I'm forced to use snap, I'm gone.

There's no comparison.

The recent I ran Debian and now Ubuntu will be gone. Evaporated in a poof of smoke. I'll be elsewhere. Probably back to Debian.
React.js – Basic Hooks (useState, useEffect, & useContext)
I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to draw here. The fact that Moonchild has removed some a few features they don't like from Palemoon doesn't make the remaining codebase meaningfully easier to maintain. They're still left with what is effectively an orphaned codebase, increasingly unable to use patches from mainline Firefox, and subject to unknown vulnerabilities in portions of the codebase which no longer exist upstream.
I clicked on the link wondering if it was the battleship minigame. I hated this minigame so much, I too ended up writing code to help me figure out optimal moves just get past the dumb thing, and I wasn’t even trying to speed run the damn thing.
A really robust option that will work on all of your devices is to setup a remote Pi-Hole and access it via VPN. (This last point is very important and I learned the hard way after my publicly available Pi-Hole instance was discovered and used for DNS amplification attacks.)

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/vpn/overview/
Generating a REST API from a Database
>Things happen to people that they don't deserve. Life is profoundly unfair.

Yeah let's build more into institutions.
Large cheap loans from the federal reserve only they have access to and you don't.

Also helps when FRBNY in conjunction with the Tresury dept via state street and blackrock is buying their HY bonds (TMUS US87264AAT25 [Ba3], S US85207UAK16 [B1], CTL US156700BC99 [Ba3], LVLT US527298BF96 [Ba3], VOD US92857WBQ24 [Ba1] for just a few examples, all trading way over par) on you, the taxpayers behalf, on leverage, in the secondary market and thus helping to lower their ongoing borrowing costs.
Ask HN: Selectively changing the color of characters in an animated video?
I have seen some references to libraries that can colorize black and white video and even a few related projects like changing the new Lion King movie to be more like the original animated video.

But what I am interested in, is a way to selectively change colors of characters in animated films. Specifically, I want to change the skin tone of some animated characters.

A few months ago I think I saw a project here on HN that was adjusting skin tone in photos and maybe videos, though I can't find it.

Is anyone aware of any projects or libraries that are already doing this?
5G won't become useless by satellite internet. Satellite internet has upper limits on bandwidth per area.
I used pinboard happily, until i amassed enough bookmarks that filtering by a tag took upwards of 15 seconds to resolve..

So I built an open-source self-hosted site for my bookmarks now:

https://github.com/jonschoning/espial
Amtrak has a route guide for the present-day Sunset Limited, which also touches a bit on its history: http://testsite.itworksdc.com/amtrakconnect_6_30/static/rout... (not on Amtrak's official website because Amtrak inexplicably removed all their route guides)
how can they differentiate between idling tv server running on (all) my machines vs. active tv session?
Usually external tools like this wouldn't be allowed, but the community decided on allowing it because the minigame is so brutal. It's pure RNG and I've seen runs lose 15 minutes to it. This tool removes the random element from it and makes the total run time better reflect a player's skill rather than just their luck.
Way taller, no furniture. Bet that’s a lot of why it looks so much better. RVs have low ceilings and are packed with cabinets and couches and such. This is empty.
APL came before Perl, and APL is regarded by many to be one of the best languages overall.

I'd recommend reading Iverson's "Notation as a Tool of Thought" for a new perspective.

Plenty of people, from Richard Stallman to Alan Perlis, have found great value in APL. Even if just looking at terseness, Chuck Moore, the creator of FORTH, is considered to be one of the best, if not the best, programmers of all time. He credits it all to terseness.
https://github.com/open-sdr/openwifi
You only need 5G towers on every street in places where there are many customers. In other places you can place towers less densely. In the places with many customers, you also see lots of revenue.
You can also deploy 5G in the low frequency bands. Nobody talks about that though, as speed is only slightly faster than LTE.
I own a shed manufacturing company in the midwest. Our orders are up 200% since the start of the lockdown.

If the economy is in free fall, we don't see it.
I'm all for individualism in most contexts but having been the person responsible for the bulk of an organization's message to its customers (email, social media, and phone call etiquette), it's not a malicious intent here. The only way you can accomplish a consistent message is by rules like these, and the people outside of the organization who are dealing with it want a consistent message.

When you're speaking on behalf of an organization, be it a business or non-profit or government or whatever, you're obligated to use their words. When I pick up a novel I know I'm reading the novelist's ideas, but when I call tech support I'm not looking to talk to Joe or Jane, I'm looking to talk to AT&T about why their DSL equipment in my neighborhood is broken. They aren't personally responsible for it, they're speaking for the company.

This even extends to political press. If you go read the submission guidelines for virtually any news or political publication that accepts freelance inquiries, you'll find that they all suggest reading a lot of their prior articles "to get a feel for our tone and style," if they don't just outright hand you a style guide to read such as the one linked.

You can be you standing in plain clothes on a street corner by yourself. You can't be you when you're answering the company's phone. It's not nefarious mind control, it's just business.
Are You Considering a Transition to a More Permanent Remote Workforce?
So you want keying that prevents you from using a too-good cable, like with micro? Cables either have to match the port speed, or be worse?
I hope this doesn't get treated as an advertisement since I'm not affiliated -- but do try Logitech G900 (also branded as Chaos Spectrum) or G903 mice.

My wife played competitive Overwatch for a few months some years ago and she said the mouse feels exactly as a wired device. I play Quake every now and then and can confirm the same. Best mouse we ever used, we have 4 at home.

It has the added benefit that it disables its wireless circuitry when you plug it in -- it both recharges itself and becomes a wired mouse.

(Yes, both mice can be viewed as expensive. But we took the plunge to invest in reliable periphery and have only been happy with our investment.)
Don't they understand they're undermining the entire point of affiliate codes?

This would never be sustainable long-term, it's just dumb and awful for very short-term gain.
Probably trying to avoid C&Ds that are inevitable with using second- and first-party titles commercially.
Do you understand that US police kills people at a rate thats totally unseen outside of dictatorships and bana republics? Not just black people - white people, asians, there is no demographic who's deathrate is acceptable for a developed nation.

Why is that? Either us police is out control, or you have some sort of mass-criminal-psycosis going on over there, and it stops at the canadian border.

You want to go case by case? Explain how can police kill a woman sleeping in her house. To me this is unbelievable.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna12...