skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most provinces and municipalities in Canada, you can't even have a yurt on your property without planning permission, and town councils are regarded widely as the worst possible bureaucracies to deal with. This is what prevents experimental living that could actually catch on and create something new and sustainable. You can't even build off grid homes in many places because they are not to code, which is subject to capture by various professions and consultants.

There are so many possible alternatives to sprawl, but the culture of bureaucracy is designed to prevent deviation from creating suburban blight. A set of jurisdictions that supported (or didn't get in the way of) experimental development would be really useful.
And all the tools that make those goods and the IP behind them is owned by the US. Stuff like semiconductor equipment, CPU designs, and electronic design automation software, and China has to pay license fees every time it uses them to manufacture a product. China is desperately trying to achieve technology independence because it knows that it has few comparable replacements if the US decided to completely close access to its technology tomorrow. It's not impossible to move manufacturing out of China. After all, it's already been done once before when it moved out of the US. However, it's not proven that China can reach technological independence. Japan and South Korea were able to make the jump to high tech industries but they're still very tied to US technologies.

However, a better indicator of who has the technology lead than commercial applications in my opinion is if China can replicate US military technology, for example build an equivalent or better to the F35.
"clean net 2014" mainly cleans up pornographic content.
Frankly if it wasn’t on Amazon I’d write it off as some self published indie dev trash. Instead I ordered a copy damn near instantly.
> lacking from modern AI is the ability to "invent"

I remember a story about a research group who created an AI to prove Euclidean geometry theorems. The researchers were surprised by its inventiveness almost at the very start, when the AI came up with a new concise proof about the equality of the base angles in an isoceles triangle, which none of the researchers were familiar with.

What the AI had done was demonstrate a side-angle-side congruence of the triangle with itself (BAC ~= CAB) and then immediately deriving the equality of the base angles. I for one find this kind of outside-the-box thinking that an AI can perform to be extremely inventive.
We have that. It’s called gentrification. If you elevate an area, for whatever reason, more non-AA’s will move in. Unless you’re speaking about neighborhood segregation?
You're saying sometimes people estimate equivalent rent too high and sometimes too low. How is that an argument that inflation is systematically underestimated, let alone that home prices are ignored?

Separating housing as an investment from housing as consumption is obviously the right thing to do. But if it wasn't separated, it doesn't make sense it would add systematic bias in one direction. Prices go up, prices go down. Inflation would be pushed higher and then lower, relative to the "true" value.
just a reference to the company’s valuation - and how lack of regulation around interchange fees and payment processing fees has meant very high costs that would be a lot lower if the US were more like EU
A fully serious prediction:

it'll be the singularity, superintelligence will be optimizing human affairs and launching probes to other stars as it disassembles the solar system for material to build a Dyson swarm, and people will still claim it's not "really" intelligent.
BJP, and it’s allies have been dependent on Reliance and the Ambani’s for so long. No way will Reliance be taken to task.
> The same argument is made for not adhering to the XDG spec for user configuration files

I think it's a fundamental difference in that the project repo should be self-contained and "owned", whereas arbitrary software I run really shouldn't be putting files in my home directory.

In a software repo, anything inside it belongs to the project.
Affect as a Service: GPT-2 trained on contemporary art reviews
"As you can see, step 3 of the Godbolt algorithm increments the fourth Godbolt variable by the gradient of the Godbolt network's
Godbolt matrix..."
Ebook on using Psychological Principles to build user-centric products (pdf)
Google's recent research throws light on how using psychology principles such as Social Proof, Power of Free, etc. can be used to build super-charged brands/products.

This short ebook looks at 4 psychological principles that are used by apps such as Strava, Canva, Duolingo, Trello and many others to build user-centric products. There are 35+ real world examples as well apart from theory.
Brainswarming: Because Brainstorming Doesn't Work
I feel like the is just unecessary OCD behavior. We get enough of that in software already
As someone with RSI-strained fingers, there's no way I am concentrating all fingers' worth of input movement into just my two thumbs. Sounds like a recipe for carpal tunnel/tendinitis/miscellaneous other flavors of RSI.
Beautiful! Thats how parenting should be & kids will enjoy their connection with parents.

I hope I too can be of some help to my sons in finding their passion & strength.

Thanks for sharing your story.
The norm for conference-driven fields, I think, is that formal retractions of proceedings papers are really only for outright misconduct, like plagiarism or fabricated data, not for mistakes, oversights, bad experimental design, etc. The proceedings are seen more as a record of an ongoing conversation that continues annually [1]. If you find something wrong, misleading, incomplete, etc. in a conference paper, the normal solution is that you write a reply conference paper criticizing/correcting the earlier paper. This does mean that if you dig up a paper from 10 or 20 years ago, you need to look through more recent literature to see if anyone's published criticisms.

[1] This happens in practice in some conferences more than others of course. There are lower-tier conferences where people just dump papers and no kind of actual conversation or intellectual exchange is happening.
with ESLint and Prettier on top.
Things that are fundamentally impossible to determine are necessarily irrelevant.
> I think this example is well known but I can’t think what it is

Could be the basel problem though he probably used this trick many times in his prolific life:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_problem#Euler's_approach
I've seen so many benchmarks for these selectors I basically know them by heart. I'm asking for a real world example where selectors cause slowdown.
No, it's a way to censor a lot of websites or push them to self-censor their content.

There are multiple waves of "Campaign to cleanse the Internet". The linked wiki page is for 2014 and the latest one is in 2020: http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2020-04/11/content_5501287.htm
With Open Service Mesh, Microsoft Takes Direct Aim at Google’s Istio
Lichess[1] is a popular site to play chess online for free. They offer different chess variants to play against other people. Would be great if 5D chess was one of the variants to play online.

[1] https://lichess.org/
Not to mention that Russia bore the brunt of human loss in the war for the Allies. It's quite staggering that in 1945, most people in Europe felt that the Soviet Union had done the most to defeat the Nazi regime, but that by modern day, most people think it was the U.S.

To be sure, the Soviets would have lost the war if it were not for the U.S. The Russian breadbasket had been taken by the Nazis, and the retreating Russians burned everything to the ground as they gave ground. But when you look at the erasure of the Russian role in fighting the Nazis, as well as the troublesome views of leaders like Churchill, you wonder not only about Fuchs, but also about the clean version of history we're taught about that war.
Your description reminds me of billiards.

You have to think several turns ahead, in a chess sort of way. But your "best" move may be a low probability move, so you have to weigh that. Same for thinking about what your opponent may do in return.
Check out therapies targeting sodium channels. I found out through my wife that her company (a major pharma corp) is working on therapeutics that can block voltage to certain sodium channels in the brain to suppress pain.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5350027/
Not being in crippling pain is usually considered a good thing. Sure, some things like a broken arm can probably get by with weed and yes some people respond exceptionally well to weed but there is a night and day difference between the two when it comes to treating most forms of severe pain such as what people with significant spinal trauma experience or what the elderly often (for any number of reasons ultimately relating to age) experience.
80M People Scammed by Chrome Fake Ad Blockers: The Same Old Song
"First of all no matter what you launch, if you hope that you simply put your submission out there, and it will end up in the top 5 of the day, most certainly this is not going to happen. If you wanna get there, you have to come up with a plan to promote your listing and get the upvotes." - so, it looks like that was (at least partially) wrong.

Why would you think that it's not possible to launch it more or less organically? It's definitely possible here on HN, why would PH should be very different?

At the very end - don't focus on promoting that much, especially artificially, build the product people love and you get your front page.
It's a bit sad that you've taken a wonderful, altruistic act and cheapened it by feeling the need to broadcast it on the internet :(
There are different tiers: https://miro.medium.com/max/1160/1*sdiFYUM2vR73m9wbzsKLnQ@2x...
It's not quite the same, but you can get the PDF from the Invoice object and send your own emails.
I don't see how that's a problem? There's no lack of payment processors, as you have noted, many with lower fees.

If you choose Stripe, you're doing so for the dev experience, their ML whatever, better testing suite, integrations, etc.

And you're doing that consciously.
What are some good alternatives to Stripe that don't engage in censorship of speech (https://reclaimthenet.org/andrew-torba-free-speech/)? I find the notion that a payment utility service can block a customer based on their speech/thoughts/political views to be absolutely abhorrent. It is no different from when Visa and Mastercard blocked payments to Wikileaks (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...).
The Power That Lies Behind Intentions Find Out
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/e...

George, my mistake. (Polytheism brings up the relevant passage starting with Jews)

The philosophers did not follow the gods, they believed in the divinity of reason. If anything, and consistent with the Scientific Revolution, the confidence in the self-certainty of reason permitted the imagination to expand “beyond” the natural, to examine it, to know it, to necessarily effect it for our reasonable ends.

Where I think the pagans fall short is in their worship of visible objects, where they have no concept of an invisibly present permanence in nature, ie electromagnetic radiation.
Your comment reminds me of an episode of Joe Rogan with Johann Hari [1], talking about what really causes addiction and the failures of the "war on drugs."

He states, "The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, the opposite of addiction is connection." (18:08)

The former U.S. surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, declared loneliness an epidemic, and just wrote a book on it [2].

I believe the biggest challenge we face in the United States centers on emotional health. How do we feel? Whom do we trust? Who do we think loves us? How do we rebuild trust? How do we apologize and forgive? How do we grieve?

I watched a 60 Minutes episode talking about some of the pharma reps trying to convince doctors to prescribe more opioids [3]. One rep, Alec Burlakoff, had this interchange with the interviewer:

> Bill Whitaker: You're preying on these people--
> Alec Burlakoff: Yeah, because they're desperate. They'll try anything. And they may get relief from Subsys initially, But we all know what's gonna happen. We know. We've been doin' this long enough. We know how it ends.
> Bill Whitaker: And that is?
> Alec Burlakoff: It ends in addiction, withdrawal, pain, suffering, and even death.
> Bill Whitaker: And you didn't care about that?
> Alec Burlakoff: Back then, I was numb to that.

This reminds me that while I often think that the people who feel disconnected are the ones using the opioids, very often the ones selling them also feel disconnected. How did this man get so numb to selling products that he knew were causing so much pain and suffering to others? How did he get so numb in life in general? More importantly, how do we help him feel more alive?

I agree, I don't think the Department of Justice, especially with a focus on punishment rather than rehabilitation, can lift us out of this hole. I believe it will require a focus on emotional health, on repairing relationships, on helping us feel less distant, more close, to our friends, family, neighbors, and fellow Americans.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDpjvFn4wgM
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Together-Connection-Performance-Great...
[3]: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opioid-epidemic-pharmaceutical-...
The U.S. expands the Clean Network that aims to secure American data
From the article, the port officials thought they needed a court order to sell it. And the court system ignored their request for one.

But maybe they were applying to the wrong official, or in the wrong way? For example, maybe they were supposed to have an attorney file a court case, instead of having an agency head send a letter to a judge? I have no idea how Lebanon's law system works.
It wasn't just one person. There is a list of some of them at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_spies.

Those are the known knowns. There are also the known unknowns, the aliases from intercepted messages who were never matched to identities, and the unknown unknowns, the ones we haven't found out about. One of the spies on the Wikipedia list only had their identity revealed last year.
Recently Amazon starts to ask for OTP every time I open its website. Is it due to the new tracking protection feature?
No way you can say that with straight face. The regulatory capture of TRAI by JIO is very well known.
I have enjoyed many evenings there. The music amphitheater was designed for great sound and the vegan meals were tasty. I got to have a long talk once with the architect Soleri.

A good idea many years too early.
What do you mean by "that's where the real money is"? I'm already building an email list, but not sure how exactly you propose monetizing it.
I prefer floating cities.
Here are some random things that are guaranteed to work for landing a well paid IT job.

* get your CCNA and become a junior network engineer.

* Join the military. You can join the US military without living in the US or being a US citizen and achieve citizenship in 3 years instead of 5. If you have a 4 year university degree you can start life as a management intern as a 25A. If not you can be a 25B or if you are more ambitious and not afraid of failure a 17C or 25D.

* Learn JavaScript. When I say learn it I mean actually learn it as in writing original applications, walking the DOM, avoiding frameworks. Most people paid to write JavaScript never actually learn it and they need tremendous help from frameworks, abstractions, tools and other things that slow them down and makes for slow/shitty products. Employers generally realize the incompetence associated with this technology but they have products they need to ship. If you actually learn the technology with confidence companies will hire you just for the potential of solving problems other developers refuse to accept.
Welcome to the decline of the American empire. The ruling class is vainly attempting to preserve what it has by lashing out, but it's not even strong enough to do so militarily so it does pathetic moves like this. 70-80 years ago (pre-nuclear China) they probably would have just invaded and tried to reestablish 1880s colonial rule. I'm glad that the preeminent imperialist of the world is losing steam.
If they called it "Dim Some Networks", do you think the US could make a billion people laugh at the same time?

The Internet has been the best version of Dim Sum for a hungry mind, so its a shame possesive cultures ruined it for themselves...
How cross culture are HELP or SOS? We're talking about being on a tiny remote island here. There's no guarantee that the people who see your message speak English, or have much exposure to western culture at all. Is SOS known to all cultures?
Grain elevators (which that building is) can undergo fairly extreme loading so they are constructed from thick, steel-reinforced concrete. Depending on the details, the walls can be a substantial fraction of a meter in thickness. Additionally, there was tens of meters of standoff distance between the explosive and the grain elevators, which significantly reduces the peak stress it needs to endure.

Due to the height of the grain column, they are designed to withstand enormous pressures induced by having extremely tall columns of grain concurrent with undergoing lateral stresses from typhoon/tornado velocity winds. While they are not designed to be resistant to the shock wave characteristic of large detonations per se, being built with so much reinforced concrete lends some of that property naturally.
I agree (it's meaningless though, I'm just pointing out the obvious above, I'm not an expert here) for acute injury it makes sense to use opioids in severe cases like you mention, however, I think we still need to find the best strains and cultivate them for pain use, we've only scratched the surface with cannabis, it's a big genus. Weed ain't what it used to be.

For chronic cases, I think chronic makes a lot of sense.

Pain helps you get moving. Opioid's don't. Too much pain is debilitating. Surely we can find a formula here (a very very large one).

Cannabis never removes all the pain. I think that's the main feature here.
Note, the parent edited their post. It was just "citation needed".
Crazy idea, but it might work. Sometimes podcast guests recommend good books, and I happen to have hundreds of transcripts stored to some of the best podcasts (https://smashnotes.com). I don't expose full transcripts to public, as I've learned that almost no one actually reads them, but I could scan for book recommendations and send them your way.
Sounds like Derek Sivers did. Wouldn't be his first time giving to charity.
Golang Desktop App: Webview vs. Lorca vs. Electron
Derek is one of the kindest people I’ve gotten to know. I reached out to him when I was 17 years old, about to embark on a hacker’s adventure. He took the time to respond, and his advice was always a breeze of encouragement.

I recently read both his books. Hell yeah or no I imagined I would love...and was right...but boy was I surprised by your music and people. It’s a book about friendship and authenticity, disguised as a branding book for musicians.

I posit his ideas will stand the test of time. Highly suggest reading :) — and darn happy that the orders went to help those in need
"will have their solar panels lit by the sun" is probably not the primary reason for sun-synchronous orbits (though I guess it is presumably a benefit) - it's more about having a constant source of illumination to enable photography, as well as the ability to photograph the same site with the same shadow angle over time to facilitate comparison.
Grain silos may also be built to withstand internal dust explosions.
There’s a solution to this problem: https://github.com/sindresorhus/hide-files-on-github

Additionally, your OS probably already natively hides files that start with a dot, so this is just a UI problem.

Please don’t “solve” this issue by moving files to a sub-directory. If anything, only leave non-config files there, it’s the obvious simple solution that most projects follow anyway.
I take it you've literally never seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOO5S4vxi0o

The joke went entirely over your head boss.
Charitable acts being lessened by others learning about them is possibly the most harmful widespread opinion that exists today.

Your comment makes it less likely that others will broadcast their charitable giving, result in less people being prompted to give, and overall reduce the amount of giving in the world; all for no gain for yourself or anyone else. You want "a bit sad"? Dwell on that for a while.
> Johann Hari

A man whose professional experience is journalist and has no science, medical, public health, or psychotherapy background... and he’s trying to sell a book.

Is this too harsh a take? Is there a reason I should be taking his opinion seriously?
I don't deny that "clean net" is pushing self-censorship.

I just want to point out that Pompeo’s goal of cleaning up a country can easily extend to ethnic groups, which seems to be a sign of fascism.
It looks like they may be able to save at least some of it.
Is this just spam? The linked article is only tangentially related to stripe, and makes no clear argument against anything in specific. It’s a handy wavy “they took our rights!” but never presents an example. The whole thing almost reads like a scam ad you see on Craigslist or in your spam folder
I'd rather not idolize anybody. Then again, I don't think spending a few minutes looking through someone's book recommendations is equivalent to idolizing them.
I wonder if they waited for after the congress testimony to launch this. Not surprisingly, Zuckerberg was questioned[1] about this strategy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyI3ixI1xSk
The pandemic puts a strain on elite private schools
I think the problem isn't the existence of the config files (since they don't change often), but the fact that they take up a disproportionately prominent place in the root directory (since most configure a tool that handles one particular problem that not everyone will have strong opinions about).

Having lots of tools is, in some ways a good thing. That's how Unix was designed: have lots of little tools, each designed really well for its job. If you have a problem, and there is a tool for that problem, there's nothing wrong with using the tool to solve the problem. It may come with a learning curve, but what often happens without the tool is you end up evolving your own tool anyway, it's just not as well designed as the industry leader.

The problem described on this git issue is generally less of a problem on the Java projects I've worked on, since most of the equivalent configuration ends up in the pom.xml. The JS equivalent problem isn't a problem of too many tools in itself, but rather that no tool in JS has done what Maven has for Java.
I agree with both those statements, but I don't agree with your preemptive ad hominem attack against people who disagree with you.
100% confirm on the wire nut thing. It's possible to get a good twisted connection with a wire-nut without pre-twisting, but conditions have to be just right, and must result in a properly twisted wire pair in the end, or it's just trouble waiting to happen.
Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a Molotov cocktail
the key here is that in the internet market it's usually their parents doing the affording, but yeah you're mostly right.
This was downvoted, but I think it's an interesting argument, in this context and in general.

Should we be rooting for things that make supply of labor in our field more plentiful? Wouldn't it be in our self-interest to prevent as many people as possible from learning math and computer science? One could argue it wouldn't be in the interest of humans as a species, but I'm skeptical that the marginal loss to each of us is greater than the gain.