skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, I do notice that "because science says so" is becoming a more and more common "you are not allowed to argue with my conclusions" kind of add-on to any assertion. It is an oddly religious, faith-like use of the word "science".

Conclusions are based on science? So, in a sense, they are the best result available based on evidence, best accepted theories, reasoning? Isn't it logical to say then that one approach is better that another because it's "based on science"?

What is faith-like here? Faith in scientific method, instead of having scientific method based on best results?
I think it's time to give up on machine translation. Let people do it. Maybe try and teach the computers how to do something we can't already do ourselves.
Long live LibreOffice!
A Stability Problem Is Brewing with Nvidia RTX 3080, 3090 GPUs
Based on my training and experience, the war on drugs causes violence and wastes resources.
The title should say “their tweets” - foone is not a man
> then storing it in large mylar bags

May I suggest “Hindenburg” as a brand name?
Your funny,

Freedom of speech? @merica has never had it! The Jews that own and run Briton were the ones telling colimbas to take them lands at no matter the cost! Britain has been owned by J's for 100s of years. Back in 1600 they said about just needing some criminal goyhim (non jew) but they have enough already in law, goverment etc. And that was the 1600!

And look now, they have the whole world on lockdown over a bullshit virus that's no worse than any other cold or flu!

Your not allowed see friends, visit, and in the case off Scotland, not leave your dorms at uni! Yes, them freshman have moved into prison!

Worse in fact, prisoners get let out of their rooms! This is a power grab, and white man been dispersed off. Why? Well, jesus, King of the Jews, taught us gentiles how to be better than an individual! Of which the Jews killed him for lol. Since then a war for over 2000 years as raged.

Not rocket science, and easily proven when you get the schooling (indoctrination) out of your head

Educate yourself, no one else can!
Eh, I don't think it's unreasonable to complain into the void if a particular site has a userbase with whom you usually disagree winds up continually linking to you, just to make the same round of comments. People don't like perceiving that they're getting dumped on, even if that's "part of the game" for writing things on the Internet.

One person's "blunt criticism" is another person's "jerk," especially since text has no emotional context.
Listen dude, I've had a few libations and am starting to feel that your concern is valid. It is so easy togo along with the crowd, just remember the one most important th1G 1$ Tha# yo? M##/er.
Here's a very short list of pro-democracy or pro-human rights dissidents and what kinds of punishment we know happened to them as a result:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_dissidents

Here's some internet-specific examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_China#A...
It seems there can be stability problems with some RTX 30 Series boards depending on the type of capacitors used by the board manufacturer. From EVGA, quoted in the article:

> During our mass production QC testing we discovered a full 6 POSCAPs solution cannot pass the real world applications testing. It took almost a week of R&D effort to find the cause and reduce the POSCAPs to 4 and add 20 MLCC caps prior to shipping production boards, this is why the EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 series was delayed at launch. There were no 6 POSCAP production EVGA GeForce RTX 3080 FTW3 boards shipped.
The surface storage isn't at temperature, though. Waste is cooled off in a pool of water until it's cooled, before it's placed in dry storage.

Sure, rupturing that would release toxic materials out into the surrounding area. But how is that different from flying a plane into a chemical plant? If terrorists hijacked a plane, it'd probably kill an order of magnitude more people by flying it into a skyscraper than into dry waste caskets.
The last phase of desktop wars is apathy, unfortunately.

OSX is ignored/unimproved by Apple.
Windows is ignored/unimproved by Microsoft.
Linux continues to be horribly balkanized, and lacks market share to be fundamentally improved.
Can't i just pop open my browser's console and:

- Unix time converter: (unixtime) => new Date(unixtime)

- Unix time converter reverse: (date) => ~~(date.getTime() / 1000)

- JSON prettifier: (jsonString) => JSON.stringify(JSON.parse(jsonString), null, 2)

- JWT debugger: doesn't exist in browsers i suppose

- Base64 encode: btoa

- Base64 decode: atob

- Query string parser: (queryString) => new Map(new URLSearchParams(queryString).entries())

- HTML entity encode/decode: idk why u need this, should not be escaping html manually in webpages just use .innerText

- Backslash escape: not sure what specifically this is doing in the app but sounds like it's easy enough to do it with a regex

I feel like if u want a UI u should make one that can save scripts and turn them into forms so that users can add arbitrary functions themselves without having to wait for the application to add more functionality
This is ... based on your own observation and experience?
> Honestly for the vast majority of births the father is unnecessary to be there after two weeks. The child spends the first month basically eating and sleeping. The father needs to be there to help the mother while she recovers.

So are you saying the father doesn't need to be there for the child after two weeks? Or are you saying he only needs to be there to help the mother after two weeks?

I've heard of some maternity leave policies that differ based on type of birth (longer time off for caesarean), and it would actually make sense to give fathers the same so that they can help the mother. Of course, you are absolutely right that some fathers take leave but don't spend it caring for wife/child. I'm not sure how to get around this problem, but it seems that we shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater, to use a terribl(y appropriate) turn of phrase. We just have to understand that some people will abuse the policy, but that overall there is a net benefit (to fathers, children, and mothers) to offering it.
> Braben was studying natural sciences, Bell was on the maths course. Neither went anywhere near the computer science department, which they had arrogantly but accurately decided offered them nothing useful.

They're talking about Cambridge in 1982. Was the computer science dept. really useless at that time? I doubt it. Obviously, I respect their DIY ethos and their genius for invention but they might have picked up some ideas for further invention if they had done some CS courses.
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I run a tech company that got randomly blocked in India. There's no way it wasn't some kind of mistake. It's been months and there's no way to find out why and there's no documented method to resolve the problem.

While looking into this, it turns out it happens all the time and many websites have been blocked for years. If you're big enough then maybe you can get unblocked. Or you might just be SOL.

Some examples:

https://www.alexa.com/ has been blocked for over 1 year (https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/b084so/why_alexacom_...) (wtf?)

Trinet.com, an HR tech+services company is blocked in India (wtf?)

Adobe-owned behance.net is blocked in India. (why?)

reddit.com or parts of it are frequently blocked/unblocked https://thenextweb.com/apps/2019/03/14/isps-are-reportedly-b...

9gag and collegehumor have been blocked for over 5 years (https://www.news18.com/news/buzz/comedy-websites-colleghumor...). At least there's some reason here.

Three environmentalist websites were blocked (and eventually unblocked): https://scroll.in/latest/967589/centre-run-agency-blocks-web...

The NYTimes was blocked for a while: https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/new-york-times-access...

In 2014, India blocked Github for a while: https://qz.com/india/319866/a-threat-from-isis-prompts-india...

India is known for filtering websites belonging to NGOs, feminist groups, and others https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-tops-list-of-w...

As far as I can tell, if there's some random bureaucrat that doesn't like you, your website is going to get blocked. Equally likely, the process is so poor that you might get blocked for no reason at all.
I find that Zenity really shines if the script is intended to be launched outside of a terminal window.

For example, I have a script bound to Super+Y that opens a youtube video inside a local video player. Before it starts the video it shows a zenity popup with the URL so I can confirm that it is correct.
Thank god humans invented culture and society ;)
Some people have photosensitivity. Those with lighter colored eyes tend to have more photosensitivity. I wonder if this affects the preferences one way or another.

There's also plenty of shades between white and black, and maybe there's some kind of sweet spot.

Another issue is that syntax highlighting is easier to notice on dark themes, and differentiating between type annotations and variables and functions and operators probably takes much more brain power than the visual recognition of the text.
Try `notify-send TEXT` instead. E.g.

alias n="notify-send Completed."
The bigger thing is them dragnetting 100 million Americans for data like interests, conversations, contacts, location, private videos, etc. Not to much potential for pushing backdoors into to target individuals.
Oregon State University bought a ton of these for the major library remodel around 1998.

They were really bad and no one used them.
Too heavy? The executable I just built is 19K. I like it for localhost.

Did you wind up picking something else?
Let's see if it hits all the Zeitgeist buzzwords:

- Rational

- Buddhism

- Rational Buddhism

- Meditation

- Habits

- Accountability

- Happiness is a choice

- Prioritize

- Sapiens as a top 'recommended book'

- And, to top it all off: Foreword by Tim Ferriss.

Yep, I think we've covered them all.
The audio was mono, sounded terrible, and only included a 60 second sample of a song.

So in a few decades we've added stereo, video, and ... how long are TikTok samples, again?

(The whole project reminds me of a colleague who brought his childhood programs into modern archival format by using a walkman to play the cassettes into the audio-in of a Sun, then decoding from there into plain ascii.)
Taking this as true, are you suggesting we should have, instead of our (expanding on what I think you're saying) "non-democratic capitalist ologopoly", have our important companies and institutions be run the by the CCP?

Two wrongs don't make a right. Work to improve our system rather than using our failures to normalize CCP oppression and violence.
If you search the web for "FBG-1701", at least for me with ddg, it turns up a user manual for "Quanta Computer QF7" and the FCC reports. Theres the same ID mentioned in the tweets but no mention of fb. So just some OEM item rebranded?

FCC infos: https://fccid.io/HFS-QF7
http://archive.is/glAOq
The funny thing is that Europe some really old wooden buildings. There is a 1200 year old one in Essex.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensted_Church
Maybe we shouldn't use complex structures if we don't really need. Having e.g. special characters which can't happen in normal strings - only on boundaries - makes parsing simpler. At the same time we remove "hidden" layer of object organization, so whatever is seen in shell can be byte-for-byte transferred to another computer and processed there.

I've seen arguments for object-oriented shells when we want to have more complex plumbing than traditional Unix shell piping, but not sure if those goals couldn't be achieved while remaining in text-only land.
We should find ways to be better people.
He's talking about handing over information, not launching a "elect the next Manchurian candidate" campaign run by the NSA.
let me see. download a PDF. download an ePub. or buy a paperback. or a hardback. hm.

why just the lifeless artifacts for the disk or the dead-tree?

why can't we read the almanack on the web like a clean blogpost or a series of short chapters?

edit: we can. it was down low on the scroll on my mobile. tx!
I think he has simply won the genetic lottery if he was able to live in good health to 107 with that lifestyle.
I agree generally about the importance of sane defaults, but the theme was just soooo damn easy to switch, and a lot of non-techy people I know did so.

I actually don’t really associate Windows XP with its theme in my memory, because I so rarely saw it in use.
https://www.navalmanack.com/almanack-of-naval-ravikant/table...
I wouldn’t claim to be a tax expert. I was responding to a comment that used the term “overpay taxes” differently from how I would. Sure, if you overpay your estimated tax during the year, that’s overpaying. So is failing to use deductions and credits that you qualify for. I only wanted to clarify the distinction.

I’m happy to add that it’s no surprise people consider taxes when they make decisions, and in some cases tax incentives are specifically designed to change people’s behavior. It’s silly to be scandalized when their behavior actually does change. Not everybody agrees on which tax avoidance behaviors are perfectly acceptable (e.g., buying alternative fuels) and which are pure evil.

When people have a lot to lose, it’s no surprise that they hire tax experts. The US government gave up trying to design a system that always gives reasonable outcomes, and instead created the alternative minimum tax specifically for the scenario of rich people getting too creative with credits and deductions. If Trump truly received several million dollars of income in 2016 and legally paid a grand total of $750, then the alternative minimum tax isn’t doing its job and should be reworked.
The land of the free....
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Doesn't this mean there is no permission to use it, as that's the default situation?
It’s unreasonable, I think, because there’s no likely outcome.

First, the complaint is pretty vapid about bots posting, etc.

Second, I think his comment was about wanting to block the site if they were a twitter account.

If I don’t want people commenting on my posts, I don’t make them publicly. Wishing that I could stop people talking about me when I’m making public statements is unreasonable.

Obviously, he’s happy to scream into the void every time he posts something, but that seems like a waste of effort. But if it’s cathartic or something, more power to him. I just hope he finds a way to be at peace as that seems like it would frustrate me.
who cares about the surface storage temperature? a dirty bomb can deny access to surrounding areas for prolonged times.

theres so many potential failure points, here is another: if they fly through the electric pylons and into the cooling tower, there is no place to dump the energy as the reactor can't be shut down immediately, and cooling will fail soon, ...
For surveys and data collection, I built https://blocksurvey.io.
Start by processing formats for which you have docs. Then try it referring to the docs as little as possible. Then move to redpointing formats.

(Feynman said something to the effect that if one is always trying to solve puzzles, and always checking to see how other people solved them, then one day one will discover that one has solved something no one else already had.)
This is correct. Identity theft is a completely different thing.

On what I think OP meant: watch the case with Julien Assange. The current understanding of the law might change in the very near future, depending I guess on if they can determine conceptual legal differences between Wikileak's disclosure and Cryptome's disclosure of the same material. One is being treated mercilessly and the other isn't getting more than a glance from the same authorities, and is presenting as a witness in the Wikileak's case.
> Honestly for the vast majority of births the father is unnecessary to be there after two weeks. The child spends the first month basically eating and sleeping.

I took 3 months off for my first and 4 months for the second. My wife was pretty miserable through the first month. Breastfeeding is exhausting, as well as being woke up at various time of the night. I'm glad I was home so I could take care of the rest.

I agree that afterwards things got easier, and we were able to enjoy some vacations.

But still there is a huge difference between spending a few hours at the beach with the baby and going back to work whole day.
China allows Bing after it censored its content.
I can’t upgrade the firmware of my toothbrush because I once did jailbreak
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...
Not everyone loves infinite amount of attention from the entire general public, some feel it painful and goes so far as to remove relevant tags or ob/fus/cate con_ent tltles to hide from searches and limit audiences.

Personally I would love inexhaustible appraisal from the whole world pointed at me, and I like it when those search obfuscation become obsolete, but not everyone is the same.
What are you suggesting? Growing up I was always told where there’s smoke there’s fire and this administration looks like it’s been smoldering since 2016.
Dry storage casks are embedded in some seriously thick concrete for radiation shielding. I wouldn't be surprised if a direct hit of an A-380 engine at Mach 1 didn't actually destroy it.

Again, if you have a highjacked plane on hand you can cause way more damage by crashing it into a skyscraper than some nuclear waste storage - it's a somewhat different risk but not a greater one.
The thing that nobody realizes is that we are now subsidizing an office at home and those companies are still expecting us onsite once or twice a week so that we cannot move to a low rent area.

In the meantime, those same companies are going to downsize their offices since not everyone is going to show up the same "days" at the office.

I want to move to a model where everyone is expected at the office maybe a week (or a couple days of a week) every two months. That would allow workers to really live wherever they want. It also allows to live close to the office for those that don't want to travel a week every couple of months.
I agree with you. I just wanted to focus my comment specifically on the topic of solitary confinement. At present moment such correctional and rehabilitational systems do not exist, so unfortunately yes prison sentences should be given as a way to separate dangerous people from society, while concurrently we need to be developing better rehabilitation and correctional services to make these old methods obsolete.
Botnets have no problem existing across many regions, this sounds like the most plausible scenario imho.
what's wrong with any of them?
You at least will have some leverage and the ability to deny
It isn't missing a key. It is called a blocker. They are fairly common on 65% keyboards.
People aren‘t paid by companies during parental leave, so I call bullshit here. And hiring laws aren‘t determined by the employee‘s nationality.
> Thanks, junk stores.

I wonder if the barcode displayed on the screen is going to get some careless sod fired.
Then his freedom and his livelihood suggests he should maintain a low profile. Right or wrong, he's not in America, and shouldn't behave as though he is.
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2 hours in the kitchen for a weeks' worth of meals is ludicrous if you're doing anything that I would call cooking. The cleanup on some days alone takes 1 hour. And if you're using more than a handful of ingredients, how would you even cut and peel and blend.

And definitely no baking or fermenting or any other chemical processes.
This is really nice. Would like to see an option for SA keycaps as well. Great job.
Seriously, Who does foone think they are on their glorious high horse telling 'us' what we can and cannot do to the public tweets they post?

You are open to critique if you post something publicly on Twitter or social media aren't you? If they don't like it, they have the option to restrict the account to only approved followers so that they can see their tweets which will just create another echo-chamber.

> https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1310434318490034176

Here come the "always like" generalisations.

EDIT: Downvoters/Flaggers: You have some explaining to do as for why this comment is flagged.

So a user complaining about their 'public tweets' being linked thinks that other sites they dislike (Including HN) can't or shouldn't link their tweets or blog and comment on it?

Well this is almost the same idea Jamie Zawinski 'jwz [dot] org' had, but for his own blog. The logic here doesn't make any sense at is somewhat irrational since 'they' are both speaking in absolute terms of HN, which is clearly not true.
Isnt' SNI based on the 'Host' header?! This is a news for me that SNI is not encrypted in TLS. Its a problem with the protocol not the ISPs then.
Cool idea, look forward to seeing where you go with it.

My suggestion is a TOML validator, and conversion from TOML to JSON and back. I'd actually use that a lot. Others have already mentioned YAML, and I'd second that, but it's a real beast, TOML would be an easier bite to chew.
Yes, that's why he said "imagine".
Best[1] I could do was a non-networked forth that easily fit in a jumbo frame. Maybe one day I'll think of a trick to fit it in a normal MTU, but it's more likely that networking will widen in the meantime.

[1] I chose the constraint that CODE words were fine, but the kernel had to already contain the dictionary implementation: no "magic numbers" known to both the forth and kernel source. The motivation for that constraint was the "three instruction forth" which I would call a "monitor program" instead.
Increasing keystroke latency was discussed on HN before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15485672

>I would argue that multitasking, camera postprocessing, widgets, background app refresh, and others are all features worthy of more resource usage. Many of those are things you can choose not to use if you want to save power.

For all those features turned off (before and after), the usage increases with each version.
China censors the Internet to prevent public information from getting in.

The US Government is attempting to restrict the activities of certain Chinese companies to prevent private information from getting out.
Strange, I had the opposite experience - hated working remote in the past but been mostly OK with WFH during COVID - I think the main reason is that during COVID everyone else was also working from home, not just me. So the company had to come up with procedures that suit well remote workers, and I never felt "out of the loop" compared to others.
Last time I checked there was no good fft for AMD.
>which may be why your quotes are so old

Does their age determine their validity?

>However I believe since the modernist movement the ideal has shifted to be more about eliciting an emotional reaction

That does not mean that what they produce cannot be ugly or bad.

>I really don't think you are going to get many art critics to agree with a "Guernica is bad, actually" take.

...Okay? Does the existence dissenting opinion mean that I am incorrect? Let's say my claim about Guernica is true. It is indeed ugly and bad art (remember, this is objective). Art critics saying "No, Guernica is beautiful and good" essentially say "the truth is false". So, if Guernica is indeed the antithesis of beauty, it matters little what dissenting art critics say, as they are incorrect in stating that something is not what it actually is.
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