skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Surprise: a box member of a car filled with PU foam.

Groan. I (novice) lit my Xterra on fire while welding on the wheel well. I was going at it and then heard that "whoomph" you never want to hear, and thick white smoke started coming from under the dash. Taking a chance, I ran to grab a small fire extinguisher, pointed it up under the dash, and emptied it. The cabin was full of that nasty powder but the fire stopped, and I never did find what was on fire. All the wiring seemed to work by some miracle. But yeah, that could easily have taken the house with it. Definitely know what's behind the weld.
CA is about to get educated on what capital flight does to local economy.
Fingers crossed they don't pay and end up losing their data.
It is just another photomultiplier. These devices in various forms have been in existence since 1934.
My parents house has 2mbps DSL from ATT.

This would be a massive upgrade, and for petty much anyone in rural America 1.5mbps has been the dream for years now.
I hope they provide global coverage despite totalitarian regimes !
Unfortunately PayPal is not supported in Lebanon. We are trying to setup a GoFundMe campaign (also not supported) through an international intermediary.
Can anyone find anything official on this? Is it actually a lawsuit? Or what does "Go After" mean?
Hitting the Glass Ceiling, Suddenly, at Pinterest
The common thread is that in both cases, those entities and individuals closest to the problem have strong incentives to do nothing (prevention is a thankless, costly task), and so it falls to the general populace to create incentives to hold them accountable.
It's been obvious from observation, no hindsight needed, since S Korea's outbreak and handling. And again once you had Italy to compare.
Dozens of Montana USPS drop boxes removed
But even if Apple were forced to allow alternative app stores and payment methods, the methods it uses to prevent tracking are built into the OS. So wouldn't they continue to work?
Ah, I think we're just miscommunicating. I'm not saying that local time-reversal is more likely to happen than other kinds of entropy decrease; I'm not saying that a system is more likely to retrace its past than to enter a different state of low-entropy. Spontaneous local entropy decreases happen all the time, of course (but are overpowered by entropy increases), and the majority of those won't be exact reversals.

And I'm not saying that locking yourself in a refrigerator will allow you to predict the future!

I'm mainly picking on time reversal because it's easier to concretely communicate and reason about as an example of how a system behaves under entropy decrease, and is philosophically important because depending on one's definition of the sign of 't', you could actually view our universe as undergoing entropy decrease right now. But redefining the arrow of time won't let you form memories of the future -- you'll have memories of the lower entropy universe, regardless of which way you call "the future".

The deeper point is, that's not a coincidence and doesn't depend on entropy decreases specifically being tied to time reversal. If we lived in a universe where the second law were somehow different and entropy "statistically always" decreased with time the way it "statistically always" increases now, then... well, it's hard to reason about such a universe because either it has very different laws than our own, or it's just our own universe with exactly that arbitrary t <--> -t transformation. But in most logically-consistent interpretations of that scenario, that universe's version of Landauer's principle would also flip the arrow of time perceived by its local inhabitants, and they'd end up with only memories of their "future".

If I'm not quite making my point clear, try asking yourself why, if the laws of the universe are time reversible, why can't you remember the future the way you can remember the past? This gets into the mechanics of how memory works (as a general concept, not human memory specifically; it's easier to think about computer memory).

(Edit): Why isn't this a trivial point? Well, if you imagine a universe composed of a chain of of "linked states" that goes from (low entropy) - (high entropy) - (low entropy), you'd find that any inhabitants of that universe would perceive a universe with directional time that progresses in the entropy gradient, even though that universe has no consistent directional time.
You know what HN hates more than "suggesting that minor distinctions that do nothing to help and are only kept in the world to prove you know them, are a waste?" Complaining about downvotes.

Yes, there is a reason the saying "a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" is a thing. (Incidentally, it's a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson.) But, my experience, and that of many others is that having a consistently styled codebase makes things a lot easier when making changes later.

Yes, there are tradeoffs, but, in engineering, we learn to figure out which tradeoffs are worth making. That's the point people are trying to make, and it is not a trivial one.

Edit: also note the word "foolish" in this context. "Foolish consistency" would be taking the consistency principle to levels where it no longer provides benefits.
So, that graph on the GP's link has a total scale of 10^14 times between the smallest and largest point. What is roughly the difference between the energy of electrical and nuclear phenomena.
Where do all the competent people end up? Do the competent people find equally challenging positions or is their potential wasted?
Damn, it must be so hard for them, having some evil organization demand a huge payment for something bad that happened to them that wasn't their fault.
Recommendation: All calendars should have a "Today" or "Now" button to return to the current date as part of the nav options.
The free radicals don't stick around for very long, maybe seconds before they react with something else.

And cooking in general create a bunch of carcinogens like acrylamide, etc. You can reduce it, but it's tough to eliminate it completely.
This isn't specifically related to this database (since it doesn't contain recipes), but how cool would it be to finetune a GPT model on hundreds of thousands of recipes and have it generate new ones to try.
In regards to privatization, I can't speak on FedEx, but I'll take the postal service anyday compared to fucking UPS.
I'm totally on board for this kind of stuff. Well, not this one in particular (I never had a Speccy back in the day), but I did buy RetroGames' TheC64 maxi and I love it -- that's the one with the full size keyboard. There's room for improvement [1], and yes, it does nothing you couldn't do with an emulator, but still... it looks like the real thing I remember from my childhood, with none of the downsides of plugging an old home computer to modern LCDs and USB pendrives.

[1] the consensus seems to be the major thing it's lacking is a soft reset, necessary for some tricks and dev environments on the C64. It's weird it doesn't have it, because VICE has it. I figure they just have to enable some key combination or add it to the menu in a firmware update.
> Starlink can't handle that many people, so it's a moot point that there are a theoretical 41 million potential customers.

It's a critical point in fact, because you're never going to capture an entire market, you're going to capture at best a modest fraction of the maximum market (for numerous obvious reasons).

Those 41 million potential customers are actually more like maybe 10-12 million stable or semi-stable households. The 41m is an incorrect number to go on, that represents the total number of people rather than the household count.

You're only going to get a fraction of those 10-12 million households no matter what you do. So now you're talking about probably at least 1m, up to maybe 4-6m households / accounts. Starlink can make a large dent in that.
I can't wait to go live in the wilderness with this. seems like pretty good speeds, let's see what price it will get. Not in USA tho...
I'll add that if you're not wearing an apron, definitely don't tuck in your shirt!
Okay, but in those 50 years has there ever been a pandemic that necessitated the use of universal mail in voting? And during that pandemic, did the incumbent President explicitly use his authority over the post office to prevent mail in voting? The USPS sure seems to think these measures will lead to disenfranchised voters:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/usps-states...
> Chinese manufacturers who crank out tiny, super cheap cars more people can afford. Though in the US those don't seem to take hold.

Those cars aren't generally sold outside of China due to their failure to meet international safety standards.
Here's hoping Apple kicks FB off their app store. People are very loyal to their pricey Apple devices, and Facebook is well past cool these days.

I predict FB comes crawling back with their tail between their legs.
aykm?? wasted the sky with this ugly crap for what we already have with 4g? somebody please kick Elon in the nuts for me.
> It is not a matter of expertise, but a matter of setting priorities and valuing projects. I value MDN and Firefox. I am fine with every other aspect of Mozilla dying to save those two.

This is a terrible sentiment, even if the only thing you actually care about are those two products.

As long as most people use Firefox to access websites run by Google, Mozilla is screwed. Google uses both overt and covert methods to drive Firefox users to switch to Chrome. For Mozilla to maintain the Firefox userbase, they have to get them to browse other websites.

Pocket is an obvious attempt at that, by providing a time-sucking website that works great in Firefox, isn't run by Google, and is relatively cheap to run (read: it's not video).

What surprises me is that Facebook wasn't advertising Firefox. I know that sounds stupid, but back when Google+ was a thing, Facebook was stuck competing with a vertically-integrated solution from the browser (Chrome) all the way to the social network (Google+). That seems like a terrible situation to be in, and Chrome's only worthwhile competition on Windows at the time would have been Firefox.
This isn’t about Food. It’s about a question such as “During which decade black pepper was the most popular?”

Perhaps you can find more use cases for it? I can’t think of
interesting (sorry you had to deal with that).

"having investors" is perhaps a different sort of business than other small businesses that start up. many of the smaller businesses (esp software) don't have 'investors' as such, though some have taken out bank loans.
> Not sure if the replier was only specifically talking to you.

> That was happening in this thread too outside of you.

I was guilty of it as well though, and would rather accept responsibility and change than carry on perpetuating the current state of affairs.
You actually did die, we've been waiting to tell you. This is your third reality, you died back in 2003 also.
> earlier been considered as the theoretical maximum

So... Was the theory (quantum electrodynamics) wrong?
If I would make the law, I would start with the operating system.

Why is there no market for operating systems that run on iPhones? Because Apple actively prevents it.

There are only downsides of this. Imagine paper could only be written on with pens from the same manufacturer. Imagine Microsoft would have actively prevented installing browsers other then Internet Explorer on Windows.

It might be a good idea to make active anticompetitive measures on hardware illegal.

If I would make the law, yeah, I would start with the operating system.

There would be no downside of this. Users who want the pure Apple experience would use iOS which is installed by default. And users who want a different OS would install that.
Well there’s still Safari, but I agree, it’s looking terrible for the open internet right now.
Implying the US government won't pay for the cost of an open internet where people can search for 'bad people square'
If you're already used to scheduling this overnight, having it done in only one night is going to be a significant improvement.
I don't think you're wrong here, but I would phrase it a little bit differently. I've worked in a lot of pretty rural areas, and from what I've seen in the last 10 years or so even folks in very rural areas want a lot of the same things from their service as techies do. Also, even places like the Bay Area with huge amounts of exactly the HN demographic the residential Internet infrastructure isn't exactly great and isn't improving very rapidly.

My take on the situation is that what most people want is more Internet for the same or less money. That means the only way to get infrastructure improvements is with competition. If AT&T did a bunch of upgrades and then gave their customers better service for the same price their customers would take it, but the customers aren't going to pay more than they're paying now and they're only going to leave if there's something better.
It's much older than Fox News and also has plenty of racial origins.

A lot of people fought very hard for a century to try to prevent national government from being able to tell them they couldn't have slaves.
More substantial construction does not necessarily mean that the component was more expensive to make. Powerful engines make weight reduction far less valuable than on a bike.
They're not, really. Both companies have enough money to pay for the best lawyers and keep the case going for as long as it takes. There may be a big valuation difference, but it's a fair fight for that reason. Besides, Epic Games is owned by Tencent, which is worth considerably more than Apple, in terms of market cap.
I don't see why apples contract with epic should be able to limit my contract with epic. If I want to pay them directly I should be able to
Room and board costing more than tuition is not a new thing and I doubt amenities is the whole reason. I went to a state school over twenty years ago and room and board cost more than tuition. It was hardly amenity-rich: most rooms were doubles with a shared bathroom down the hall, no carpet, old worn furniture, and no air conditioning. The food was cafeteria style where fajita night was a big feature. The rec center was considered glorious but was funded by a separate fee of about a hundred bucks a semester.

I suspect room and board costs what it does compared to tuition simply because putting undergrads in a big lecture just doesn’t cost all that much. In addition, the tuition for resident students gets subsidized, while the room and board generally doesn’t.
If you don't like money.
You can already do the first one, just put a mirror in front of a regular display. The light from the display will be visible through the mirror.
Question: What is the best way to prepare for a Belarus-style internet attack?
In Belarus, most of the internet went down on Election Day. Authoritarian experts are saying it may be a dry run for similar events in the US in November.

ISP's and cell service were both interrupted. Major social media sites were all DDos'd.

Given that most Americans have only cell service these days, and not land lines, what would be the best way to prepare?

- Get a landline before election day

- Get a satellite phone before election day

- ???

Please do not reply with "oh that'll never happen" or some variation thereof. I'm asking what is the best preparation for if it were to happen, I'm not betting you money that it will.

Thanks!
Defender Antivirus Network Inspection Service Fails Since Windows 10 2004 Update
I wasn't aware that people working in Uber/Lyft advocate for not being employees? Do you have a source for that?

Are people engaging in gig work because it has several advantages over "every other available option"? What other options do people who drive for Lyft/Uber as a day job have? And what are the advantages Uber/Lyft & working as a contractor offer?

Maybe zoning effects should be part of a discussion on the cost of living in California, exploitation of immigrants is deplorable and awareness should be raised and actions taken, but does that make Uber/Lyft exploiting workers a non-issue?

I'm not from the US and am not aware of the specifics in California, but being from a country which has faced severe economic crises I've seen people "choosing" a shitty option despite every other shitty option.

I can't say I understand where you're going with most of what you're saying, or how informed you are of gig workers situation.

I saw a pretty good movie by Ken Loach: _Sorry We Missed You_, that thought was really spot on on the issues of gig work:

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_We_Missed_You
I think the difference there is that Basecamp really is a small player compared to Apple, and it's bootstrapped. DHH's parade was a little tiring but he at least had a reasonable 'moral leg' to stand on. Epic Games doesn't even come close to that.
Yes and no. My CS101, CS304P, was taught in Pascal and just involved general, basic programming. It didn't so much expire as was largely irrelevant, except as a foundation for the next round of things: algorithms, data structures, formal math, assembly, machine architecture, and so on; these were then foundations for the rest of the education. Bootcamps are like taking CS101, then saying, "We're done. You can go get a job and pick up the rest as you go along." (Which is of course possible, but only for those who are very dedicated.)
I'm a fan of weekly view todo management. I've been using https://teuxdeux.com/ for quite a while, which was good enough for my needs (+ supported markdown text formatting for items).

But apart from that, I really prefer Tweek's design over TeuxDeux. Seems more usable (typography, spacing, etc).
Without Apple there wouldn't be iOS devices for Epic to sell their games on, that is what Apple has done.
Possession of unauthorized satellite equipment is as good as getting caught red-handed at a dead drop. A paranoid security state wouldn't blink at executing every such person as a spy.
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People type street addresses into forms all the time though. Of all the times people type in a web address, what percent of the time do you think they type in anything past the tld? 99% of all the times they enter something in the address bar that is longer than just the tld, it probably got there by them pasting it.

I think that's what it comes down to: if you're just copying and pasting the whole thing, there is no need to show the user all the garbage after the tld, it may as well be totally random characters to them. You can still copy and paste the whole thing.

I'm not sure whether I'm in favor of this change or not, but I can see there are at least some valid reasons to do it.
My personal biggest problem was with the conduct of Greg. But honestly, even that is in the past.
As someone who lived 50 minutes inland in Florida, no way.

Our DSL and cable options were limited, Comcast said they offered cable, but when they got to the line near the house, the signal was so poor they were unable to make it work without 50k in labor.

Then ATT came with DSL, the connection has routine outages for hours at a time. There is a technician servicing the DSLAM pretty much every week, there is literally no way ATT makes money where I used to live. Everyone owns 20+ acres, there's basically 10 homes in 1 square mile. And then the Hurricanes... Every 4 years all of the lines get blown down and it takes ATT 1-2 months to get it back online... There is way too many advantages for satellite in rural areas.

If I had to guess, there was over 200 outages (anything over 10 minutes IMO is an outage) in the 6 years I lived there.
Crappy electrical appliances (anything that charges a battery, powers a heating element or spins a low torque electric motor) cause far more fires then welding and grinding and other hazardous operations that internet commenters love to clutch pearls over are just so rare by comparison.

For every hour that someone has an arc struck there's a battery sitting on a charger for an order of magnitude more hours.
Not sure if Vim can do it, but code can be read outside of editors. Sometimes people review PRs in browsers. I can see why there might be a confusion when using static imports or properties/methods from the base class without the base keyword.
(Posting here just for completeness…) Yes it can be solved optimally: https://shreevatsa.net/post/set-cover-ip/
Thanks. I guess the thing I didn't understand was where this leaves Reason: what is left under the Reason banner? But a fork would explain the overlap.
As far as I can tell, https://give.thunderbird.net/ actually goes to the organization in charge of maintaining the software. It's not tax deductible or anything, but nor does it (appear to) go to other uses like advocacy. I would recommend looking closer for yourself first if you want to send them money.
Stepping Out
There are very real costs associated with ridesharing. Many states require specific insurance coverage; for example, in Texas that's an increased cost of 15-30%. Your car will depreciate faster with miles; I ballparked it at around $2000/year. I also ballpark an additional $500 or so year for increased standard maintenance costs. Someone may still come out ahead of course, and this will vary based on how much someone does it, but these costs are very real, regardless of whether you are on the left or the right.
I agree - most states simply restrict felons from voting while they are serving their sentence or while they are under parole/probation. Only after that are their voting rights restored.
enough with algorithmic grading already.
Most sources agree that the average American eats 250ish pounds of meat a year, which adds up to about 5 pounds per week or 9ish 8 ounce steaks. (I do agree that the average American isn't eating that in the form of steaks - there's a lot of bacon, burgers, and chicken mixed in.)

(example: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/06/27/155527365/vi...)
I've dug everywhere and can't turn up anything definitive.

The language, however, of "guaranteed access to an affordable line" does seem to imply a TELCO will have to run a line to your property at your request? Without fees (since that wouldn't be affordable)?

Perhaps, in practice, this resulted in all new construction having lines run since that was cheaper than doing it ad-hoc upon demand.

> I suppose we would need a land developer here to chime in.

Yes, hopefully someone out there knows more! Honestly curious now, since I had always assumed this was how it was.
No Bathroom Relief in Sight for Thousands Living on the Street
The problem with universities simply selecting by score is that it reinforces the inequality feedback loop. Education tends to correlate with wealth. Wealthy people are really good at investing into educating their descendants. Selection by score becomes equivalent to selection by wealth/heredity.

Used properly, “hand-tuning” of university population could offset biases liable to be introduced by a seemingly-unbiased simple score cutoff in presence of social inequality—though I wouldn’t go as far as to claim it works as intended.

I found this discussion with Daniel Markovits quite enlightening, even if I don’t agree with the 100% of it: https://samharris.org/podcasts/205-failure-meritocracy/. If it’s partially paywalled, sorry—I think there are other resources online that convey his ideas (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/arts/meritocracy-trap-dan..., etc.).
So we're agreed that consistency is a good thing, and that making things easier is good?

Why are you saying it in the style of disagreeing?

> Complaining about downvotes.

I'm not complaining about downvotes, I'm accusing people of not reading. I think people saw my comment as pointing out the wrong "your" and reflexively downvoted it. I'm prompting people to see that's not the case.
> There’s a lot to be said for working smart in a business where turnover has shown to vanity and profit sanity.

This isn't grammatical! What does it mean? Is it machine translated?