skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of my early mentors was ex-Soviet, and he impressed to me the absolute dangers inherent in elevation of elevating collective identity over individual identity.

I see this happening now, and all too many of my colleagues gleefully signing on. Recently one posted content that appeared to be regurgitated Agile materials for dealing with organizational dysfunction. But this material had replaced all mentions of org dysfunction with 'white supremacy'. It basically blamed every workplace antipattern on colonialism and, conveniently, whenever perpetrated by a non white person, stated it was internalized white supremacy. The dev, who is very much on the spectrum, seems to take joy in having the world turned into a D & D game, with different rules depending on whether you are orc, elf, or human.
Can confirm it’s not anyone but probably anyone eligible to donate. My sister could not due to visiting Guatemala in the last year.
The app stole your contacts after you granted the app permission to access them, right? Not saying it’s your fault, just wondering if they used some loophole.
Sir, this is not reddit.
Lots of anecdotal experiences with no empirical data. I’m gonna chalk this one up to clickbait.
Ireland is probably better if/when til tok makes money for tax purposes.
The free speech past in US is far more recent than either of those examples. Even when it comes to legal matters, I would point at Brandenburg v. Ohio as the starting point.
You're lucky you have retail that close. Many US residential neighborhoods are planned in such a way that you can't buy a can of coke within a mile of where people sleep.
I haven't used tt-rss but FreshRSS has been working phenomenally for me over the past several months. I don't even use a mobile app because the web site works perfectly well on mobile. I have a few minor quibbles like GitHub release feeds having broken favicon images, but overall I'm extremely pleased with it.
My issue with this is that most transport corridors are

1. not very wide in the first place. Any air vehicle could cross the width of your standard rail line or highway or river in seconds.

2. Surrounded by intensive land uses, because the transportation corridor itself provides valuable access. So vehicles don't have to go very far off the right of way to crash into something valuable where lots of people are.
> Sorry, the Jetsons lied to you

No kidding. They promised Rosie and we got Roomba.
Show HN: Mumu – My attempt to indie hack after two years of lurking
Hi HN! The maker here.

It’s my attempt to code natively on Swift without Storyboard, SwiftUI, or anything else.

Looking forward to hear your feedback about it. I’m all ears.
> I feel the talent we have now has the ability to crush, kill, and destroy the talent in Silicon Valley "engineers" at a fraction of the price in terms of output to input ratio. We've done work on crazy levels of core infrastructure and are scaling.

Easy there eloquent soldier! You might create a blackhole with that much talent.
I can second Islanders, it's a lovely and relaxing game. After playing a level to completion I'd find myself just gazing at it for half an hour or more just imagining life and society on the island. Any game that can so playfully stimulate my imagination is an instant recommendation.

My only complaint when last I played was that they didn't let you save a previous island after moving on to the next level, which makes progression somewhat bittersweet.
Yeah. Tier 1 colleges. Tell me more about NITs and IITs.

I study at a so colled top college. Where highest placement is always around 50-60 LPa. That doesn't mean teaching and other things are good (sure better than average, but that's not what I call 'good'). The highest placements are more because of students and a FEW professors who actually happen to be passionate.

But in the entire class, there are less than 15% of people who actually have interest in CS or Programming. Many came through good scores in entrance exams (myself included) and many through management quota (i.e Paying the institution heavy sums). While the first group has some people who like programming and CS, it also has more number of people who just happened to get good scores because of relentless studying and practice, then took CSE branch because placements.

I don't think NITs and IITs look much better these days. I attempted JEE but that was really hard to get an NIT without studying hard for 2-4 years. People who have money take coaching classes and study for JEE exclusively, but a rural student like me can't do that. The system is gamed like hell. With the abundance of such coaching kids, I don't think IITs and NITs can keep their previous charm.

Here is a paper on the Joint Entrance exam (JEE) tragedy:

https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/hk/jee/press/currScienceJEE...
That’s the perfect timespan and context for it, I think you’d love it
Being POC doesn't make you any more or less right - considering that nothing of what you wrote is exclusively applicable to POC in US.

You created a narrative that any opposition to your opinion will be instantly regarded as racist. (That said, I disagree with the prejudiced person above)
Is it really? Big Corp destroys competition, gains monopoly, stops innovating, and then they hike up prices. Look at what autodesk has done for the 3D-software industry. AutoCAD is a bloated piece of crap and hasn’t changed much in years yet everyone drawing details uses it because of file system monopoly And industry standard. Same can be said for revit. 3ds max and maya are all in one modeling/texturing/animation software that just repeat the offering of what the other does just with a different interface, both of which are clunky and outdated. Oh and they also have the benefit of being industry standard so if you work in a team, likely you have it just so you can modify files. I could go on but this is classic Autodesk, and they aren’t the only company that does this. We the consumers are ultimately the ones to pay for the disproportional power dynamics, while big megacorp keeps the dough.
The designer broke the commonly accepted and specified UX of links. The user is not stupid, the design is.
Sorting by date I see 2 additions to the table on 2020-07-21.
I guess only after the writers have "atomized" can they be reaggregated into new dynamic configurations.

If I could pick my few favorite writers and combine them with some curated feeds I trusted, including a few "bubble bursters" giving me the top ranked stuff from people I consider idiots, that might just be a nice new news & commentary ecosystem!
There was a win-win-win available and it didn't happen.

We should be honest about who benefited, as well as who was hurt.
Profitable company stories that don't charge customers
A newsletter about profitable companies that make money without charging their customers a dime.
Love the understatement: "As a general rule, bricking the hardware is a level of overhead which goes well beyond the acceptable parameters."
TypeDraft: Language Is the New Framework
Another great argument for always going for c2c instead of W2 work.
They had apparently moved to somewhere in Morrisville but I never saw them again after they closed down their Kildaire Farm Road location :(
The most interesting part of this is how it works, which this article is kinda light on.

It uses the "wave function collapse" procedural generation technique (has been on the frontpage before if I recall correctly) to select fitting tiles when the player clicks on the map to build something.

https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

In the section about notable forks, ports and spin-offs there are some links to Oskar Stalsberg's twitter showing various points along the development of this digital toy.

https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse#notable-ports-...

I've been following this for years and it is really inspiring to see this be so successful.

I have the feeling that digital toys will become more common when gamedevs get access to things like GTP-3 seens like a really natural fit to me, supporting the creativity of the player by filling in blanks in a sufficiently advanced way.
People are allowed to think you are a bigot and say so. You are allowed to deride them while you roll in your scrooge mdduckian pile o money.
You're right.

In this case Google develops (largely) free features or apps and (largely) monetizes them with ads. One should also wonder why startups want to free-ride on Chrome and then complain about Google harvesting this info when they could help drive users to community browsers (the answer is obvious: they don't want to spend their money and they'd prefer that taxpayer or government does that for them).

Those who call this situation a monopoly are closet socialists who well know that even Chrome users can use Chromium or Edge or other flavors but use the M word to create outrage that would lead to higher taxes or government-forced breakups of Google and other dominant internet players in the US.

I don't use Chrome (I use alternative browsers) because I don't like Google. Ocassionally, when I want to, I use Google Search Engine. What monopoly?
> while a car can stay at 75mph for most the journey.

You've never driven to Tahoe on a holiday weekend, I see
Ny view is like this. We are entering into narratives which are not only abhorrent but also, largely idiotic and they're being called political beliefs.

It's a very difficult bind, because the media has fully bought in.
Immutables Builders
Yes, because racism is:

Racism, also called racialism, the belief that humans may be divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called “races”; that there is a causal link between inherited physical traits and traits of personality, intellect, morality, and other cultural and behavioral features; and that some races are innately superior to others.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/racism
1) Netlify traffic dropped 4x in May 2020 [1]

2) Email - is very small part of Netlify traffic (0.99%).

3) $97.1M funding. Last round - $53M on Mar 4, 2020 [2]

[1] https://www.similarweb.com/website/netlify.com

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/search/funding_rounds/field/organ...
This is the nature of regulation in general. Without it anyone who does shady stuff gains a massive advantage.
I am interested in relevant perspective. I'm disinterested in listening wherein people disguise their lack of insight with the prop of their background and nationality.

Some people use their insight, intelligence, and education to dress up their ignorance in better clothes.

I'm also wondering why someone Who grew up in Russia and moved to Australia would have a deeper insight into the the country I've lived in all my life.
Well-written bio and insights into Ra and his impact.

Here's a hand-made and annotated, and equally well-constructed Ra discography (links only 2 years old)

https://www.metafilter.com/174248/A-plethora-of-Sun-Ras-four...
By empowering users with the option to take control of their own technology, FLO software provides strong protection against abuse -- developers need to weigh user-hostile decisions against the possibility of a fork.

Unfortunately this isn't really true for large and complex FLOSS, e.g. web browsers. For a lot of the little user-hostile decisions they have taken, it would take me far more time to get the source and all its dependencies, figure out how to correctly build it (which can itself include a nontrivial toolchain with its own effort to set up), find where to make that tiny change I wanted to the source, and recompile and test; than to simply use a debugger to find the right place in the binary to modify directly.

Open-source doesn't necessarily mean easy to take control; and neither does closed source mean the opposite. I've been RE'ing for decades and wish more people knew about this valuable skill, because that's what gives you the true power to take control.
Judge Denies Oregon's Request for Restraining Order Against Federal Officers
I tried ttrss, freshRSS, miniflux and a couple other hosted solution: all made use of some "modern" feature that prevent me from using it on a ageing BB10 device. So it now host my own instance of rss2email and just get my feeds as email.
> Wolfsort requires 8 times the array size in swap memory for the O(n) partitioning process.

> Wolfsort is primarily a proof of concept, currently it only properly supports unsigned 32 bit integers.

A lot of sorts can beat a generic sort on an array of numbers by gathering statistics, paying better attention to locality, implementation details like use of SIMD or some combination of those three.
Automatically detect memory leaks with Puppeteer
You raise a valid point.

I still think open source is an important effort, editing/reading source code will always be more efficient then reverse engineering and modifying the binary.

That being said, I agree with much of what you say, and I am working on learning re/binary patching. Are there any good resources you could recommend?
Google announces certificates in data, project management and UX
Java.util.BitSet Class
Notifiers: The easy way to send notifications from Python programs
They should ask their country's embassy or consulate for help getting home. In many cases, travel assistance is available. They would then be in a fully legal status without all the trouble/stress/fear of hiding from the law and never knowing when they might be caught.
Dear Graduating Sixth Graders
You have a sensible third option which is how automotive changed for the most part.

Grandfather in current planes and mandate new models to use new fuel only. Over time, perhaps lot longer than cars(planes do have longer life) you will have changed all of them.

Had they started it in 80's and 90's same time as auto-mobiles, most planes would have changed by now.

Every industry faces the same challenges to transform technology, they are able to move forward without as much difficulty as aviation ?
You could do that with jailbroken phones today.
They aren’t motivated by it. They’re a result of it. Practically every rule or standard in the book can be traced to a crash. Mode C veil? Aeromexico 498, 82 dead. Radio comms standardization? Tenerife, 583 dead. CRM: United 173, 10 dead. Altitude requirements while being vectored to an approach (91.175(i)): TWA 514, 92 dead.

I could go on.

The answer to “why can’t we just” in aviation is “because people died.” The FAA doesn’t make rules just to make them. They make them because aviation is unforgiving and it will kill you and your passengers if you screw it up.
Jeffrey Sachs: The History of Globalization
Whenever I see headlines like this I think, "... Duh? Of course they do, along with many other underhanded tactics". Perhaps I'm just cynical and know a little too much of what happens behind the curtains in large tech companies...
Biden; the wording is unfortunately sourced from a Trump talking point, but it flows well with the other two "abolitions," and Biden's actual proposed policy would have that effect. Some things in the policy that constitute its "abolition":

1. Ending of single family zoning [1][2]. A suburb by definition is single family zoned. I think Americans should be free to produce communities that live in a manner they desire- and if this is single-family zoned, so be it.

2. Fighting sprawl. Biden wants to implement policy that prevents and disincentivizes sprawl. A suburb is by definition not dense. People should be able to live in sprawl if they want to.

[1] Biden plan citing HOME act: https://joebiden.com/housing/

[2] The home act impact on single family "exclusionary zoning" https://www.google.com/amp/s/psmag.com/.amp/social-justice/c...
I've been using it since I acquired my first Pebble (then the Pebble Steel, then the Pebble Time Steel).

In fact I'm still using it, from my Mi Band 3, to the Mi Band 4 and now the Amazfit Bip.

The folks behind it are doing a great job, and I'm glad they're doing it.
Isn't the usual assumption that team w is responsible for system W to work, team x for system X, etc? And you can figure out who needs to fix a problem when it comes up?
If somebody is judging a person called Karen as being "a Karen" just because of her name, then that is the problem, not the word. If you judge a person called Christian as being of the Christian faith then you're weird and stop doing it. Is Greg gregarious? Is Mohammed Ali a prophet? We really just need to stop judging people for bad reasons instead of dumbing down language.

The whole political correctness idea isn't internally consistent anyway so you can't expect new concepts or words to be "correctly" fitted into it. It's just an arbitrary political ideology for people to latch onto.
That's hilarious!!!

Out-innovating in legislation. Dude, there's a word for that, it's called "bureaucracy"

The results of said innovation can be seen at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...

Reverse sort by Government Expenditure of GDP (% of GDP) and find your innovative EU vampire economies clustered near the top.
About the same with me though it’s not deliberately studying. It’s working on my open source application and innovating new solutions to tough problems.
Concur. There is amazing work being done behind gobs of money and NDAs. Some people are motivated by money and accomplishment rather than citation rings.
The issue with all of those instances is that the people behind the services - could not stay associated with these elements.

Enforced tolerance is the only thing that is keeping really bad people comfortable at expressing their badness. (Suprisingly - the anti-discrimination applied to private businesses is the reason why people like Alex Jones can safely say whatever he wants and then get a free upgrade at Ramada)
There is an older and less flattering term for this. It's called a reverse merger. Typically, you start with a company that sold aluminum siding in the seventies and has no assets but happens to still be on a public Exchange.

They call this the vehicle. The rest works just like the article says, you merge the shell company in with the company that actually has value and avoid the IPO process.

As the article honestly points out, the whole point of this is to avoid the scrutiny that you typically get from an investment Bank. It also skirts the spirit of a number of regulations put in place to keep people from losing their retirement nest egg on snake oil.
As a links user, I think this is feasible without any help from BBC.
Working from a Garden Shed in Northern Minnesota (Wfgsnm)
A kilogram of gasoline has over 5 times the energy density of a kilogram lithium-air battery. Fuel weight will control air travel range for the forseeable future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Tables_of_energ...
> VAT and "revenue tax" are effectively equivalent.

I mean VAT is a type of revenue tax, sure. However it is rather uniform and generally it's rate is not affected, e.g. by the total revenue of a business, the type of business, and other such qualities.

It's very easy to just shift the burden to the customer, not only due to the above but also because there's general understanding in the population (which visibly see the government set that tax uniformly on all their receipts).

But there's typically also additional taxation on corporate income. Isn't that essentially the "revenue tax" people meant?
I used to work at Mailgun. Believe me, there's a lot more to getting your mail delivered. Simply configuring DNS stopped being enough maybe around 2006-08.
Build and Deploy Your Flask API with a Postgres Database
Willhelm Gustloff is a crazy story. The captain who sunk it was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Marinesko. He was reprimanded for being a drunk and for gambling and was facing court martial. Then only later after his death awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union award (the highest award) and had streets and museums named after him.
Oh I find that lovely actually, that bittersweetness is one of my favorite parts of the game. It makes me imagine god was a painter, moving from one piece to the next. Each creation perfect to its time and place, but evaporated along the temporal axis as well.
Just to be clear, the Lou Reed quote was fake.
Public reviews should be outlawed unless some form of credential system is created. The review system is another example of how the tech industry is unable control their urge to inconsequentially behave like if they were gods with complete lack of empathy.
Linux Distributions for Beginners in 2020
Same. Roughly 60/90 minutes a day plus weekend. Where $studying === learning new ideas/material that I didn’t previously know, or bettering existing skills
Nothing damning about it. It works.

I know seven people who have experienced engine failures in general aviation airplanes. Not one had anything to do with the carburetor.
Time of commute is also a major factor.
The physics that suggests we have no free will
People should be free to do whatever they want to themselves, but an embryo can't give informed consent.
As a representative of a minority within a minority - libertarian gay atheist immigrant - both sides have been completely crap about it. For different reasons...

Such as - banning testing for COVID by nursing homes upon (re)admittance in NYC.
Personally I prefer “toys” to real video games. I’m not very good at video games that have a win/lose condition, and when I lose I get upset because I’m just trying to have fun. My favorite games are actually toys, like BeamNG Drive, Euro Truck Simulator, Cities Skylines, etc. Games where I can create my own win/lose conditions and maybe even create my own narratives.

I’ve gotten more enjoyment from GTA V and Red Dead 2 from just random playing after I had already finished the story missions, because there was no stress to be good and no punishment if you make a mistake. You can just be, rather than having to be perfect.
You are correct. I should have used the term "suitability."

What I was trying to communicate is that RH could be liable in a situation where it approves people for margin or L2 options accounts who have no business accessing those kinds of products. RH may benefit from increased order flow, but is not permitted to cultivate order flow that is clearly inappropriate for its clients.
How would they have known, weeks in advance, for what is being reported as an "abrupt" decision? Guessing wrong would mean destroying everything without reason. How would they benefit from not waiting until the decision was actually made?

From the linked video:

> Images show people burning documents at China's consulate in Houston, a common practice when a diplomatic post is quickly abandoned.
Well, this kinda answers the question I had, which was whether you could use denatured alcohol to sanitize things. Because, when the crisis started and you couldn't get isopropanol, you could still get denatured alcohol by the gallon. But I assumed it had this hazard and didn't buy any.
Ah ha! Thank you so much -- been wondering for months who might have been on the other side of this trade:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoinegara/2020/03/25/billiona...

The tragedy of it of course is that the incompetent pension managers will keep their last ten years of performance bonuses, and the citizens of Alberta will get ... tax increases.
Our hard decision to turn down PPP funding at Ordermark
They don't need to agree! That's part of the fun of it!

A regular on my service is hotdogs are sandwiches or emacs is the superior text editor
Gee, my sibling comment here was flagged, I don't know why, except maybe people saw "fascists/Nazis" and flagged it without reading it and/or the parent. Would the person/people flagging it care to explain why? Or do they have another better description for the style of reasoning in the parent's extreme example? Who have you seen talking/writing in precisely that way, besides fascists/Nazis? I thought my comment would be totally uncontroversial, both what it said and how I said it.
How can I convince my colleagues that FP beats imperative style for building SPAs? That's the $100,000 question. I've seen the light, and it'd be nice for them too as well.