skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say almost no completely third world countries, but there are large parts of many, if not most countries that are very much severely underdeveloped or riddled with systemic corruption (third world by the classical definition), This is sometimes even found in the middle of some of the worlds most highly developed nations (cough, cough, Baltimore, New Orleans, etc). To what percentage of a country's human-inhabited area these third world tracts extend is essentially based on how pervasive or deeply rooted bad government and systemic daily corruption are. But i'd argue that in any country where the percentage of underdevelopment goes over 50% you can loosely claim third world status.

Also, don't be fooled by the main business/living hubs of the glittering major cities of the world into thinking that most places are now mostly first world: Sure, you can travel from Bangkok to Delhi to Cairo and then Mexico City and in all of them spend days inside an urban area that's remarkably comparable to a normal European or U.S city's. However, these bubbles only represent a small fraction of the totality of these places, and much of that total outside of said bubbles is very, very different in how it looks and works compared to how the majority outer parts of most first world cities look or work. This without even going into any detail about difference in the countryside and smaller provincial towns that aren't specifically tourist hubs.
I don't want to pay for sports, culture, opinions, entertainment, godsip, reviews etc coverage. I want to read the news. One week of newspaper issues contains something for everyone, from cartoons, to cookie recipes to car coverage etc. Not interested. I want the news, only the news. The rest I can get elsewhere.
The TV part is a legacy of 1950s era laws for free-to-air broadcast radio and television.

You say the USA has a cultural aversion to nudity. But it also legally produces a vast quantity of legal pornography, and the web hosting companies for the world's largest online paid and advertising-supported pornography operations are all in the USA.

And provided that things like ID age checking, consent and record-keeping are all followed, nobody is kicking in their doors and arresting the operators.

There is no "full censorship" of nudity in the USA.
There are so many adverts for Uber in London now, including buying the naming of the already existing Thames Clipper boat service [1] (previously MBNA Clippers).

I think they are worried about the competition and spending a lot to be the first company you think of (after TFL) when you think about traveling in London.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jul/08/uber-to-l...
Behavioral Programming and Tic Tac Toe (2018)
> In July 2015 the Supreme Court of India refused to allow the blocking of pornographic websites and said that watching pornography indoors in the privacy of one's own home was not a crime.[13] In August 2015 the Government of India issued an order to Indian ISPs to block at least 857 websites that it considered to be pornographic.[14] In 2015 the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had asked internet service providers to take down 857 websites in a bid to control cyber crime, but after receiving criticism from the authorities it partially rescinded the ban. The ban from the government came after a lawyer filed a petition in the Supreme Court arguing that online pornography encourages sex crimes and rapes.[15]

> In February 2016 the Supreme Court asked the Indian Government to suggest ways of banning all forms of child pornography.[16]

> In October 2018 the government directed Internet service providers to block 827 websites that host pornographic content following an order by the Uttarakhand High Court. The court cited the rape of a 10th standard girl from Dehradun by four of her seniors. The four accused told police that they raped the girl after watching pornography on the Internet.[17]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_India#Legalit...
there is also a hip-hop version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZobf0MiWpE
> A simple hint when installing or downloading, “hey did you know that there are these starter packs?” would already do wonders.

Automating the Starter-Pack-Installation at virgin start and adding one or two out of the box would be better. Many people are not downloading emacs directly. On Linux you go through your destribution.
Free in money, not free in time. It’s a different kind of micro-payment system.
Raw material cost has usually very little to do with what a similar weight or volume of purified material costs. The purification process, energy input and any kind of stabilization trickery required to keep it pure are what drives the cost, the raw material costs are a footnote in that.
Bangkok also feels like a real life Gotham city. They have this elevated train line running between fancy shopping centers, high rise luxury apartments and office buildings. But just below it there is miles and miles of street prostitution and poverty.
Regarding nuclear waste: first off, the amount of nuclear waste generated today is drastically less than in the past. During WWII and the Cold War era the methods for processing nukes was extremely crude, resulting in an embarrassing amount of waste, which we are still dealing with today. Today, the amount of waste is small fraction of that. Second, the waste problem has been solved by vitrification. Vitrification takes nuclear waste (in liquid or solid form) and blends it with molten glass in a high-strength steel casing. When it cools, it becomes solidified. Then it can be stored in a remote location. Vitrified nuclear waste poses no acute danger to humans and IMHO is much preferred to the damaging effects of fossil fuels which include both harmful pollutants (Particulate Matter, NOx, Ozone, etc.) and dramatic acceleration of climate change.
Pretty interesting, but it doesn't seem to be possible to use the resulting values? Except as type declarations of course. Also, the playground link either fails (there are several errors) or doesn't produce any output.
I think I see where you're coming from. I don't think the author was trying justify being a for-profit. I read that line as "We are a business. Businesses exist to make money, not for social advocacy" But in more flowery language.
It's hard to get a point that doesn't exist in the first place. It's entitled folks moaning about having too much choice. So what, you would want it to be bundled again, so that you pay for stuff you don't need? Big facepalm.
I get a lot more value out of my Economist subscription than my Netflix one.
So long as the correct background checks are carried out on the drivers, I’m all for it.
> It's not that hard to build a browser

One that reliably runs all the javascript needed to support modern Twitter/Facebook/GMail/whatever style webapps? I mean _maybe_, if you're pulling in someone else's code as dependencies to deal with your javascript runtime and your rendering engine. A lot of people could hammer out lynx or w3m in a weekend, but not something that'll run Twitter. (Hell, the Safari Tech Preview occasionally chokes on Titter...)
hover over the type annotations to see results in the playground, that's the output :)

The errors aren't really errors, just warnings about unused types
My supervisor said he's never seen such a straight line but yeah, it is back breaking work.
But the manager is right. There is no way to sell a single article 300 times a year to the same person. A lot easier to sell a subscription to 1/300th of people.

The other problem: if you just want to know what is happening, go to any news discussion site or board and click on the discussion. Comments will often contain long quotes and/or summaries of the articles. Plus major news networks all summarize articles: “CNN says Reuters says the NYT reported XYZ”. Selling a single article is a race to the bottom.

I can see going back to the original model though: for $5-10 you can buy an edition: today’s bundle of articles. Much better value for the buyer, easier than $1 micropayments. This of course requires some kind of clever balance between live updating breaking news and having a well defined set of articles to include in the edition.
It’s what everyone, including China, referred to it as before the CCP realized how serious it was and went on a campaign to rewrite history and distance themselves from responsibility.
Helps having someone to guide you.

You will know what to avoid and what to expect

Tuk tuks are always bad deal/tourist attraction, make sure Taxis use meter, don't take any of their suggestions (girls, jewelery, etc) or accept detours

To be safe, use Grab application,
- no wasting time trying to speak to the driver asking where you want to go,
- no tips (from rounding up the payment),
- no taking you places you don't want to go.
Networking added to the fun. Token Ring. VAX/VMS networks. Then some normal TCP/IP. Then these new PC things with whatever it was they had, which certainly was not TCP/IP. It could even be Novell.

Then the network cards had DIP switches on them and things like thin-net or AUX big network connectors.

This made things we now take for granted a highly skilled domain. Getting your IBM box to talk to the Sun workstation on the other side of the room was rocket science.

The different dialects of UNIX meant that there were niches for those that knew the difference between how to run a 'ps' command on a Sun box to (say) an IRIX box.

Incidentally I am not sure it was about lock in for all companies. IRIX was about doing things in 3D and enabling those applications to work. They had no interest in tinkering with UNIX to make it different for the sake of it. It would be different because they had different hardware and 3D to be standardised.

I felt IBM was different just for the sake of it with AIX. The same with Sun except they dominated in some universities so were the de-facto standard for many people coming through education at that time.
> I don't understand why this hasn't been solved as a problem before.

Aren't you basically describing mainframes?
The UK doesn't have the "shared == communist" mentality from what I can tell. Communism is not such a dirty word either.
To clarify, I don't intend my comment to be read as suggesting "family values" automatically results in healthier, happier children or is superior in some way. Especially not "traditional" family values.

(Personally I hold much more of a progressive, pro-LGBT+-visibility, love-and-let-love type of position than what are sometimes called traditional family values.)

Rather, I want to suggest that long term economic growth almost certainly depends in some way not just on people sacrificing their personal lives for work now; but also qualities that future generations grow up with, i.e. how children are raised, schooled, looked after, the attitudes they are surrounded by and so on.

I'm not informed enough to know how personal life in the present affects multi-generational economic growth. But I'm sure it has an effect, and that everyone maximising work in the present at the cost of personal life is almost certainly not the path to maximum collective prosperity as measured by economic growth in the long term.
I have been using Doom Emacs for a few weeks now, after a few decades of using a handcrafted config. I like Doom very much, it provides enough abstraction through modules to be able to enable/disable large swaths of functionality easily, while still being close-enough to plain Emacs to allow full customization to my liking. I like that it takes care of all the performance tuning, package management and a lot of the visual tweaking. I also like the idea of separating package install & compile into a separate operation, so that it further reduces startup time.

It comes with vi keybindings by default, but getting back to regular Emacs keybindings is as easy as commenting out the `evil` module and running `doom sync`.

If anyone is interested, my Doom config is here: https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-doom/blob/master/doom.org
Parrrrrrtially disagree. Maybe it's because I'm used to Twitter for nifty info dumps like this, but threads like this can be fun, too.

You're seeing the discovery happen in realtime, and people can react and ask questions as it happens. It's quite enjoyable to see it all unfold if you catch threads like this happening.

Now, AFTERWARD, a more traditional blog post summing it all up would be nice. If the author has one, at least.
Why are containment and cost frequently seen as constants while the solar + battery solutions are frequently argued as the only practical solution as long as we keep funding the tech?

I have seen very few comments (if any) on HN that are critical of nuclear and offer thoughtful solutions on how to bring the cost down.
Yup. Black cabs are only really for tourists and people in a desparate rush. I can't remember the last time I got one.
This is not new. It's just that the situation has changed from a multitude of phone numbers to a number of apps.

Indeed, only black cabs may be hailed in the street. All the others are minicabs and have to be booked by phone by calling them or their company, and now also through apps.

Even with a number of different apps it's still simpler than before.
Stages of Ignorance
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Not sure why you're mixing things up so much. In Sweden both parents get two weeks leave from the birth of the child which is separate from the parental leave. Then usually the father go backs to work and let the mother take the first few months of parental leave, and then the father takes a few months after that.
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> I wonder what they were doing in this thing that needed this much CPU power?

Qseven is ... tiny, with total module consumption limited to a measly 12 watts.

For those who want actual massive lots of CPU power in their embedded projects, have a look at COMexpress. I've seen people stuffing i7 and Xeon processors on the Basic sized modules, there's a lot of power one can have with 130 watts. Only downside is, the connectors cost a boatload of money.
It's really easy to disable the vi keybindings (just comment out the `evil` package in `init.el`), and you still get all the benefits of the modules, package curation, performance tuning, etc.
VS Code is pretty much the proof that a modern Interface and beginner-friendly customization is the secret of success even for editors. Of course only additional to a solid foundation in terms of ability.
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Similarly as the author suggest, I would also like to have a button to donate money to an article I really liked. Perhaps most of the times it would be 0.5, maybe 0.2 dollars. For my mental arithmetic, I use the "beer equivalents" as in "would I buy this man (author) a beer if I met him now in the street and if yes, how many". Perhaps someone can make a chrome add-on, with which you can donate an equivalent of a beer's worth of bitcoin that would be called "Give this man a beer".
ohh good catch! Thanks!
Free speech is a culture phenomenon in the US that goes well beyond the US constitution.

This argument that only the direct legal limitations is enforced is very naive and a much more modern take because social media companies have largely ignored the cultural and ethical implications. Yet plenty of people, organizations, policies, and general common sense have embraced free speech voluntarily (ie, companies refusing to try to control their employees speech and views pushed outside of the workplace).
It’s not fair and I agree with you.

But it’s the law in Thailand. And sometimes “those guys” believe that the laws in other countries don’t apply to them because they think it’s “not fair” and not the same as the laws in their countries.
Inside China, Bytedance's founder is known as pro-US. They've publicly made pro-US statements.

Furthermore, the CCP has 90+ million members. With the number of employees that Bytedance has in China, you'd expect — by proportion — that they have thousands of employees that are CCP members. But it's just a couple of hundred.

Bytedance's founder has made an effort to make this a global company, not a Chinese company, not a "CCP/state company". He believes in internationalism.

And yet here we are: Mike Pompeo calling him a "mouthpiece of the CCP", and many people on Hacker News believing that Tiktok is a big conspiracy to hack the United States. All without a fair investigation into who Bytedance is, how much of these fears are actually founded, or whether there are more productive solutions than kicking out all things Chinese.

The irony. Can you imagine what all this does to his pro-US stance, or what it does to all the pro-US people in China for that matter? Treating China as an enemy is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
5. robust regex builder and analyzer, akin to https://regexr.com/

between this and Nova.app, it feels like we are finally starting to crawl our way out of this miasma of non-native apps. Gonna buy right after my morning coffee!
"What about Chernobyl" is usually outright dismissed as being an edge case owing its disaster to the Soviet regime, more concerned over image than safety.

The real important question, as you aluded to, is "What about Fukushima" - a disaster occuring in a rich, western nation, Japan; Japan is a nation generally seen as being on the leading edge of technology. If a disaster can occur in Japan, it can feasibly happen anywhere in the west.
And remember all that stress of making sure you had enough money left for a cab at the end of the night? Then getting stuck somewhere weird because you didn’t? Or the minicab getting completely lost? Or charging you 2X what you agreed? Or having the back seat covered in vomit? Oh the fun of pre-Uber cabs.
I'm a little sad now. At least they could clean the Sun logo up a bit.
No one dies of Vitamin D overdose.
Hundreds of thousands of people are dying of COVID-19.
So dosing everyone with Vitamin D is extremely low risk for a very high reward...
What the author didn't mention explicitly is the obvious sludge techniques used in media subscription models.
(https://www.behavioraleconomics.com/resources/mini-encyclope...)
In case of The Economist, to which I'm subscribed, you have to call them...on a phone...like it's the 80s
The worst offender of the type is scribed.com that has a fake "we're sorry to see you leave" page before you actually hit the final "yes I confirm that I want to unsubscribe" button. This resulted in at least 30 dollars extra that they got from me.
Construction Equipment
Which is the best company to buy heavy machinery construction equipments?
Presumably it was envisioned as an internal project, so nobody though about trying to sell it: pure inertia.
I'd say if you only own "ACME, Inc" in the US (UK), you only get to register acme.co.us (.co.uk). In this case, when no company owns an international ACME trademark, there should be a body that maintains acme.com as a simple text-only disambiguation page showing you links to each ACME, Inc with a description in the respective country's official language(s). I am nearly certain there is already a discussion buried at the end of some RFC about exactly this problem and proposed solutions, which weren't implemented because the good-enough solution was way cheaper than adding trademark disambiguation to the assigned names system.
Not being an idiot in the context of traveling to developing country means a) not carrying too much cash b) not having all credit cards in the same wallet c) not having IDs in the same wallet as the above and finally knowing your credit card numbers (or have a record of it) so that you can quickly call and cancel them.

It sucks that it happens but if you take proper precaution it shouldn't ruin the vacation besides a slight annoyance...

It's also bad luck, as a counterpoint, I forgot my bag with my computer at a restaurant in Bangkok, I noticed 30 minutes later, came back and the restaurant staff had kept it for me.
You can argue over what should be considered “news”, but updates and commentary on new events are now distributed online by anyone, outside of print periodicals.

For example, video game streamers I follow on YouTube reacting to new game trailers is news to me. It’s how I learn of upcoming games, among other things.

The NYT and similar periodicals are no longer the gatekeepers of distributing new information and commentary.

They can compete in the new information landscape, but they no longer define it.

Journalists no longer need the periodical, they can work for themselves and distribute through Twitter, newsletters, etc.
Great sales is a byproduct of a great product. Focus on the needs of your customer (talk to them) and build a product that solves their problems, saves them money, or helps them make more of it.
Oh and the stress of watching the meter tick up and up past how much money you have and then having to do a detour to a cash point costing you even more money and the driver getting really mad at you because they think you’re doing a runner?
Default window manager switched to CTWM in NetBSD-current
Open-source VR headset with SteamVR support
Green text on a black background. Mechanical clicky keyboard. Anything else marks you as a poseur.
>I got burned at least once by a Windows 10 computer restarting in the middle of the night when I had programs running on it

That means you have been spared. For me "getting burned" means endless boot loops and reinstalling windows. Windows updates have bricked my system on every version of windows so far. Windows Vista, 7, 10. Their updates all suck.

Yes, I'm one of those "stupid" people who installed updates as soon as possible. No more bullshit. I'm using Linux now.
I view mobile free-to-play games as the preview of some micropayment-oriented professions. They suck away your time if you don't pay up, and at that point I don't think it's even worth engaging in news reading.
It would be nice to have a graph of the benchmarks, and perhaps add the 5%, 50% and 95% percentiles, and the average.

Is is very strange that you couldn't implement this in Python, but I'm not an Python expert so I can't help.
That is really cool, thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I really consider the BBC is a national treasure and I hope we can preserve it.
I have enough of astigmatism to have it corrected in my glasses and yet the colour scheme I found the most comfortable over the years is Zenburn. Though I do prefer the high contrast version with darker background.

The only time I managed to use a light theme for an extended period of time was a couple of years in a room with weird lighting and reflective screen of an imac. That's when I was using Solarised Light, because my Zenburn just couldn't provide enough contrast.

Then I moved to a different room and it was back to Zenburn.
Well, the Labour party just ran their most socialist campaign in years and suffered a historic defeat.
Wow, that's an excellent port; the Oric only has a 1MHz 6502.
Arbuthnot was the original judge for the case, but there were complaints about her impartiality so she handed it over to her subordinate, Baraitser. I believe it is still the case that Arbuthnot has not recused herself in this matter.
Well, they did not want to accept cards because cards cost them and leave a trail. It was a case of them wanting their cake and eating it too.

Uber and friends effectively forced them (or local authorities) to accept cards.

Where I live the council and taxis have been endlessly moaning about Uber but a couple of years ago they made accepting card payments mandatory for black cabs... Cause and effect.
If only you had enough RAM to load it into.
thanks for encouraging people to actually listen to it because it is great, and Joe DeRisi (the molecular biologist in question) is super engaging
You can buy a single issue of The Economist as a Kindle magazine. But they don't make it easy for you.

If they did I'd do it more often.
"no place existing in the world"?

Jesus this mentality is so stuck in the stone age and what enables the vile & pernicious war on drugs to continue.