skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're wondering what this place was, it was a computer museum in Seattle: https://livingcomputers.org

Unlike many other computer museums, the exhibited computers were almost all up and running, and volunteers and staff encouraged you to play around with them, even the IBM mainframes. You could even get remote access to the computers for telnet or ssh!

LCM's indefinite closure was announced not too long ago in the CoViD era, but fits with a longer pattern. Since the 2018 passing away of its creator, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, his sister and estate executor Jody Allen has been unwinding many of their diverse businesses and philanthropies for a more narrow focus, theoretically in line with his hope to give most of his wealth away after his death.

However, Allen's main business Vulcan (https://www.vulcan.com ) continues and remains locally famous as a commercial real estate developer and Amazon's main landlord in Seattle.
> A unionized meat factory isn't going to pay much better wages, if at all, than a non-unionized factory; but it would be significantly safer.

Unionized workers make more than their non-union peers, and have significantly better benefits.

You can see a huge difference in pay and benefits with union and non-union construction workers and welders. One group is paid a living wage with benefits, and has options for retirement, and the other group makes barely more than minimum wage, has poor benefits if they're even classified as employees and not contractors, and they're on their own when it comes to retirement.

Similarly, white collar unionized workers make more than their non-union counterparts, too. They have higher pay, better benefits, and more paid time off.
Can you consistently activate things on it without looking and also know for sure whether or not you activated it?

Is there some kind of force feedback?
Next.js: Server-Side Rendering vs. Static Generation
Do you know about Cmd+Alt+Esc?
> you can't release a car that occasionally drives over a baby for no reason.

I disagree entirely. We have planes that occasionally kill people, we have x-ray machines, microwaves and gas BBQ's too. And of course, 36,000 people are killed on the roads in the USA each year [1].

Any self driving car doesn't have to 100% perfect, it only needs to be better than human drivers, and it will be saving lives.
Yes, the "bad press" will be painful, but in the long run less people will die as a result, so it's a net win.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
this is excellent, except that it doesn't read so well.
In my experience, only Western Digital portables (2.5") have direct USB connectors.
> The right of sovereignty of Native peoples over themselves and their lands, as recognized and respected by treaties signed onto in (ostensible) good faith by the United States, and natural law itself.

Regardless of "whose" territory they reside in and regardless of their racial origins, the people have a right to self-governance. Your proposal for an American Indian ethnostate where other ethnicities are subjugated and deprived the right to representative democracy is disgusting, illiberal, and racist.

Recall what you said because it seems you have forgotten:

> forced you to submit to their authority without your consent. That must just be terrible.

"you" being white people (presumably but non-American-Indian is more correct) and "their" being American Indians. That was your appraisal of the situation. You are in support of one racial identity compelling the submission of another.

And if you think this is a stretch (or that you were just making light) I spelled out your racial ideology explicitly in my previous post. To which you responded:

> Yes, because [...]

But you have a reason, as people often do. I don't buy the "legal" argument. It has been legal to commit a great many evil acts throughout history. No, I believe your reasoning is two fold:

1). You believe the ancestors of one ethnic group committed genocide against the ancestors of another ethnic group.

2). You believe land belonging to the ancestors of one ethnic group was appropriated by the ancestors of another ethnic group.

That's why you come to the conclusion that modern peoples should be rewarded or punished based on their racial identity. Its a racial tit-for-tat where the children of abusers are punished for actions completely outside of their control.

> The ideology is, simply, morality and respect for the rule of law.

I have a different appraisal and I think you can guess what it is.

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I know what your response will be. Its the tribe's land by right (which is an organization that has survived the duration and which has been materially harmed), it has every right to seek remediation. To which I would agree (maybe to your surprise).

But the people who reside within the territory must be, by moral law, given the right to participate in the government of the territory. And if they are not, then the people will exercise their natural right to protest, revolution, and self-governance.

They should not be subjugated to a single racial identity. I don't doubt their legal ability to do it. I doubt the morality of it. And I doubt the people who seem to cheer this "reversal".

A visitor obeying a territory's laws is one thing but a group of people forcibly removed from their country are in a peculiar situation which requires, in my opinion, their consent to be governed regardless of what piece of paper gives what racial identity the right to rule a parcel of land.
Let's start by eliminating federal drug laws, and leave it up to the states whether they want to pass laws against it.

Then, have a hard conversation about what freedom means, and whether restrictions on it really lead to better outcomes. Usually not.
This looks interesting.
How does it handle spoofed email addresses?

A feature I'd like along with this (although I realise this breaks the paradigm of only accepting email you actively want) would be to let unwanted people email me provided they completed a certain amount of mechanical Turk effort up to a suitable standard (ie you'd have a handful of known good values interspersed and see that they gave the expected scores). For some it could be a direct earner of a very modest but for me it would be directly useful for various ML projects.
If you had a really inflated self image, you could have those you really didn't like get a higher target (whether that was communicated would be a interesting point)
"AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch" (2020) https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.03384
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=11748751662887361...

How does this compare to MOSES (OpenCog/asmoses) or PLN?
https://github.com/opencog/asmoses
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C43&q=%22... (2007)
I stopped using my MBP 16 solely because of Touch Bar. The way my hands rest on the keys causes accidental presses on Touch Bar and it drives me crazy.
Huh. As soon as I read what you wrote, I thought, "that actually makes sense", but then I wondered how it worked. Happily, Wikipedia's entry on Sonic Boom is detailed, with animations and specifics - including altitude and temperature, which affect if the boom is heard or not at ground level. Very interesting.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_boom
I Made My First Sale and Made It to #7 on the App Store
After a year of being free on the iOS app store, my app Dark Hacker News has received some positive reviews and maintained a 5-star rating.

About a month and a half ago, I decided to make Dark Hacker News a paid app at $1.99. I felt at this point it had enough features and I've never had a paid app on the app store so I decided to just go for it!

In the first month and a half as a paid app, its been able to generate $42 in sales! I've never made money off of an app I've built so its been awesome to see those sales come in.

At one point in June I even made it to #7 on the list of top paid news apps!!! (I'm not exactly sure how the app store algorithm works, but hey I'll take it) Up to this point I really haven't done any marketing so I'm considering getting the word out there to see how it would impact sales.

All in all, it's been awesome to make my first real dollars as an Indie Developer!
Obviously depends on the type of speaker and microphone, but I have actually used headphones as a mic in a pinch before (in a lab setting, not in everyday use).
I'd make sure I had a solid foundational basis before calling anyone on the PZ team untalented ;)

He abused the jailbreak to cause a crash. A talented researcher would try that before diffing kernel binaries.
Free Speech in the Context of Digital Media
Adverse possession generally doesn’t apply to land owned by a sovereign. You cannot claim adverse possession against the United States, or against the state of Oklahoma, not even after squatting for many years. The Creek nations could be considered sovereign in this case, since they were party to a treaty with the United States.
An open source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software
I mean, I know that you can force quit apps from it…
Apple has downplayed the existence of the function keys for much longer than the TouchBar though. On prior generation MacBooks the function keys provided actions (volume, brightness, etc.) as their primary function, requiring you to also press the Fn key to access the true F1-12 keys.

TouchBar MacBooks are much the same. If you press the Fn key, the TouchBar shows F1-F2.
This is crazy. Old enough to remember 2000 and 2006 frenzy buying of anything. Assuming that any assets (house, stock, etc) will continue to appreciate is insane.
Breeding Codemonkeys: The Software Engineering Overspecification Death Spiral
I’m curious if you can give an example of a promise that cannot ever be revoked?
It helps if you realize that the English legal system developed as an alternative to trial by combat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_combat. The point isn't to empower judges to make decisions that have the best "ramifications" "to certain people." It's to reach a decision that people who violently disagree about those "ramifications" are nonetheless forced to accept the result because it was reached in accordance with agreed-upon rules.

That's why so many decisions come down to careful parsing of words and "technicalities." A case that reaches the Supreme Court will usually have generated intense controversy about what is the more desirable result. Thus, the focus is on reaching a decision that people can't argue with because of scrupulous adherence to rules and doctrines.
PostgREST: REST API for any Postgres database
Stackoverflow is about 10GB:
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

English Wikipedia is about 15GB:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#En...

Reddit is about 1TB: https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3bxlg7/i_have_eve...

Common Crawl (May/June 2020):

"It contains 2.75 billion web pages or 255 TiB of uncompressed content". About 50TB compressed.

https://commoncrawl.org/2020/06/may-june-2020-crawl-archive-...

I think 100TB would be plenty. We're not quite there yet but I wouldn't be surprised if you could get "The Internet" on one consumer drive in a few years. This would be a cool product.
You must be thinking of the devil weed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhQlcMHhF3w
An open source tool manages your hundreds of stars on GitHub
Datasets and evaluation metrics for natural language processing(NLP)
Thanks for the correction! Apologies for my gross oversight.
I'm with you on the speaker versus microphone. Both piezo and magnetic coil driven can be used both ways. Just like an electric motor versus an alternator. They're essentially the same thing, but optimized for different purposes.
Just in case it's not clear, I stated that MEMS mics and IMUs are used in smartphones, and that MEMS speakers have been available for a while now. If it seemed like I said MEMS speakers are used in smartphones, that was unintentional.
"Being antifa" has a lot more connotations than just being against fascism.

Equating the antifa group and it's loose "members" with just an anti-ideology is a cop-out that isn't helpful to differentiating a desirable mindset (anti-fascism) with the undesirable tactics that many "members" of Antifa use.
Show HN: Sparrowdo – An Alternative to Ansible/Salt/Chef/etc.
"Usually". Evidence? I doubt that the police pre-emptively stop many crimes at all. They catch criminals _after_ they have committed crimes.

Even if they were able to catch every crime before it started, ala minority report, they, based on past behavior, would most likely seriously abuse that power hence the strong opposition here to having them even come close to posessing that power.
I did not mention it to imply it would lead to a bump in IQ points. I believe the psychological effect is the most important/dangerous aspect of it.
"Arguing under the banner of "fighting for diversity" that culture B is the only acceptable culture is ironic and a little sad. We aren't all the same"...

So true..but even making these statements will get you cancelled or fired these days.
Concentrating Solar Power Best Practices Study [pdf]
I was outstandingly lucky! Most of my work came by word of mouth. I live in a comparatively small town in a small country, I used to work in a small but tight-knit industry, and I have an unusual name. I tried to make sure to have coffee with someone every week and the work just came in. It didn't seem to matter who the coffee was with, as long as I did it to keep my name current. Hence the lack of recruiting experience.
A Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workbench for FreeCAD
>Mark Antony would have replaced Ocatavian

Can't emphasize enough how different Mark Antony and Octavian were; the history of the Roman Empire probably would have been significantly different as Antony had little to no political skill.
I doubt there's a ready network of cypherpunk remailers sitting around at the moment. I seem to recall (~20 years ago) a lot of remailers ended up with spam problems.

However the system by which they operate is relatively easy to implement by volunteers. The model is very similar to Tor's onion routing (they're both Chaumian mix networks). I could see middle relays run by volunteers on their Gmail accounts (or whatever) with exit nodes being established addresses specifically for the purpose of being exit nodes.

Exit nodes might require messages be signed by a publicly available key or one registered with the exit node. The sender does need a public key for all the hops. So the final recipient needs to have a key known to the sender.

While spammers could send stuff to people they know public keys for, they wouldn't necessarily be able to send random spam to people.

IIRC in the historical spam problems the sender would make an anonymous (non-crypto) remailer the final recipient so the network would forward the encrypted messages around but the last one would remail the unencrypted message to an included distribution list or listserve or something. Since anonymous remailers aren't a thing anymore that spam vector is closed.

Remailers were an interesting thing a long time ago. Because they work on extant infrastructure I think they could be a cool thing again.
Well, ok I guess you can argue that, but can we then get rid of the notion that the US is a meritocracy?
An aside: I'm going to bet that this website was made with Hugo and the Hugo book template, which is pretty easy to use IMO.

https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-book/
XFS don't support checksum for data but only for metadata.
dm-integrity could be used with XFS.

https://www.redhat.com/ja/blog/what-bit-rot-and-how-can-i-de...
Give where interest rates are, young people should be borrowing more (but not student debt), not saving more.
Agreed, this article is a nothing burger.

The US air doctrine (excluding Marines) is air dominance at any cost, hence the F-22 and F-35 prices. We'll see how well that works with such small inventories. (Less than 200 F-22's were made.)

For those not familiar with current stealth, it absorbs radar, so are invisible to normal radar detection.
> I feel relatively similar about Visual Studio. It's pretty clear that it's a 2nd class citizen on Mac due to being build on top of Mono.

"Visual Studio" for Mac is Xamarin Studio, not Visual Studio.

The naming suggests they are the same, or at least equivalent, software, but that is not the case. They are completely different code bases.

Visual Studio has over 20 years of Windows legacy. There is no Visual Studio for Mac nor will there be any time soon.

Visual Studio Code on the other hand, being Electron-based, does have a consistent cross-platform experience.

> the three main cloud providers basically vendor-lock you

There's a wide range of lock-in you can build yourself into, or not. Services and features between Azure and AWS have a large intersection. Automation is where you typically run into the most vendor-specific stuff, as you alluded to - VMs, RDBMS, Redis, blob storage, media services, etc. are easy to adapt over multiple providers.
Nice concise dismissal.
I mean, when someone asked for proof, that seems like a reasonable way to "prove" it.

There are vastly easier ways to find his last name, and even work address, than to (presumably) stumble across a Hacker News comment and then follow my oblique instructions.
I agree that deleting the blog makes it less likely that NYT readers would investigate and find something objectionable, both because the blog becomes less accessible (but not inaccessible) and because if the story doesn't run (as it seems not to have) then there's no readers in the first place. The New Yorker claim was about the NYT reporter, though, not the readers. If I had an embarrassing secret out in public and a reporter was sniffing around, then conspicuously deleting some but not all copies of it seems like the stupidest possible thing I could do, just encouraging them to dig further for it. That's the reason I doubt that could be Alexander's motivation in deleting the blog.

As to the Streisand effect, we're talking about this now at least, and you're aware that he "likes" eugenics[1]--indeed, if anyone's still reading this thread then perhaps they learned that Alexander likes eugenics specifically because of this article, which appeared specifically because he deleted the blog. I can't imagine the NYT reporter doesn't know too. So as a tactic to conceal his writing, I think deleting the blog has empirically failed.

Though I agree that he probably did fear that an NYT story that said "[Scott Alexander's full name] likes eugenics" would harm his ability to practice as a psychiatrist, and reasonably so. Eugenics obviously has an abhorrent history in its purported application, and he treats the subject casually enough to creep me out too. I didn't read his blog extensively, but the creepier stuff always felt to me more like autistic-style disregard for social context than a desire to revive those horrors. I think the remedy to that should be for someone to point that out to him (as they have, of course), rather than for a journalist to quote his worst phrasing out of context and thus end his career.

1. Literally with the word "like", too, https://web.archive.org/web/20200109033206/http://slatestarc...
This is common because people in rich countries have no idea what the situation is in other countries.

I remember something similar happened in India. Kids were sewing rugs or something, someone didn’t like it because it looked bad (like a sweatshop) and there was a boycott.

The place went out of business. International investigators later found that 50% of those children had to resort to sex work while a good percentage of the rest ended up doing hard labor jobs and such. It was absolute catastrophe. The white rich people who started the boycott? They just went on with their lives. No significant and realistic effort was made to correct anything by them.
I doubt it. My son would very likely have had permanent damage to some of his internal organs while in the NICU had I not insisted on a second look at a diagnosis after the physician ruled it based on a checklist cross-indexed with age because "it's impossible."

And that was just one instance among many where me and my wife were the best--and most accurate--advocates for our son's care.

It's not that doctor's are dumb or uncaring: they're simply stretched thin and feel they have to play by restrictive rules put in place to help prevent lawsuits.

It is absolutely crucial, in my opinion, to have someone who truly cares about you accompany you if you must go into a hospital for any reason.
I'd recommend removing Siri (or just disabling it entirely if you don't use it) if you're activating by mistake.

Also with volume/brightness you can press and slide instead of tapping and then adjusting. Hope that helps!
This hits hard. I know that I'm missing some truly fundamental techniques in my development such as testing and ORMs, but I can't seem to bring myself to take the massive steps to abandon the way I'm doing things now.

Every time I try to start doing things "The Right Way" I end up getting nothing done. In frustration, I revert back to my old technical debt building ways just to try to move forward at all.

-side note- I didn't even know it was possible to bowl without sticking your fingers in the holes... it's almost as absurd as not doing any automated testing.
netflix doesnt work out of the box. just found that out.
I honestly would prefer if the post was left unanswered than having to read shit like

> Hi,

> Thanks for the update on the issue.

> We have tested the same with the latest Windows updates installed on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.

> As suggested, I would recommend sharing this as a feedback on the Feedback app of Windows 10.

> Do let us know if you face any Windows related issues in future. We will be glad to assist you.

> Good Day!
No. She is Romanian. As a result, Romania's GDP was going in a much better trajectory before the local politicians tried to stop her and bring the country back on the old corruption path.
Fast electric trains are also, well, electric already. Powering planes in a sustainable marrer is not a solved problem.
We also have no idea how much terrorism we have due to the FBI, ala CONINTELPRO.
You can just press and slide on the volume/brightness buttons without needing 2 taps.
Nope, everyone happily shovels all of their data, as well as all of the data their customers provide them, into AWS, which is very cosy with the US military.

You can be reasonably certain that anything in AWS is available to US military intelligence without judicial oversight.
for nojs folk: http://archive.is/U8tTA

OP: fyi, your site fails to load or display anything besides a "loading" spinner which never goes away if js is disabled in browser.
Electric aircraft like the Eviation Alice could do similar speeds and 1000km miles between stops. Comparable to HSR (early routes in CA were about 500km).
I think this is a really cool analogy, but I feel it falls flat when it comes to true wealth. There’s a big difference between not needing to worry about money to live a normal life and having so much money that your life is a series of experiences that would be considered life-altering to most of the world.
On the other hand they're investing in Africa where I don't believe anyone else is. I don't think opportunities for Africans to learn/practice software development in their native country are very common. Moreover while their salary is low compared to western devs, it's still (apparently? Article not clear) high for Africa, where wealth inequality is extreme, mind you, so their "low" salary probably goes a really long way. I imagine they also hire inexperienced workers, so this sounds like a legit opportunity depending on what they're doing.

I suppose the crime here is misleading investors as to the proportion of funds that go to salary...but I don't know what they're doing with the money, and unfortunately they might be passing on more of it than some popular charities.

Article needs work perhaps.
at this point they should have those setting at an equilibrium
You’re not the target market.