skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you find hard to believe that there are people valuing their freedom and independence more than those benefits? Not everybody likes being an employee and I think that is great. Choice is a great thing to have.
That story reminds me of the Bermuda Land snail rediscovered in....an alleyway.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-48527398
Since they effectively banned you from Chase service, what other retaliations were you worried about? Honest question.

You might want to consider fighting it, though. It seems that it was a decision done at a pretty low level, or even automatically. Chase, like most US big banks, are under constant scrutiny and hate bad PR. Write to their top HR, say you are submitting a formal request to <pick a four-letter financial oversight agency> and send a copy to your congressman. What do you have to lose?
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You're in for a world of discovery. Here is just a start: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=escher&atb=v173-1&iax=images&ia=im...
But in this case the remedy is head to your local town hall and start complaining. The "monopoly" is usually a 5ish year contract that the city sends out for bids.

I'd love the ability to head to city hall and convince local leaders to switch from Comcast to X.
Why not if it is effective as this solution likely is. Just because you can afford to spend more money isn't a great reason to do so.
Perhaps they could have added some grooves or small plastic hooks outside to route USB cables.
Good websites use graceful degradation. The basic features should keep working, even if more clunky, with JavaScript disabled. Of course I couldn't do photo editing with that concept in a browser, but that's not what I use a browser for anyway. A site that uses drag & drop most probably can implement a pure HTML version that may require a few more clicks but in the end the same action can be achieved. Having this fallback also has the advantage that it helps disabled users and users on poor network connections.
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Not necessarily. Remember what happened when Digg tried to ban anyone from posting the 09F9 number because it was a secret key to some DVD thing? The users revolted so hard that the people managing the site gave up and let it stand.

Then again... who remembers Digg?
When I was around 7 years old, our family was manufacturing ZX81, ZX Spectrum and Enterprise foil-keyboards, because the factory ones were just shit and died within a year or two.

they were all the same design. 3 layers of plastic foil. 1 for horizontal wires, 1 for vertical wires to create a matrix and a 3rd sheet of foil between them with holes, so the horizontal and vertical wires can contact when pressed.

before that, when I was around 6 years old, I remember my father was sticking round aluminum foil stickers on his finger and type directly on a keyboard made out of a PCB with a key matrix.

The keys were the shape of 2 combs facing each other and you had to short them by touching them with the alu stickers on his finger.

It was an AirComp II computer, iirc. I can't find any references to it online now...
You make assumptions, just when you learned your first language. Then you check if everything makes sense. If it does, then probably your assumptions were correct.
How does the 7/8th requirement for changing Prop 22 square with your thinking of it as a referendum?

Everybody agrees that AB5 is flawed and needs more work. But Prop 22 let money-losing, worker-exploiting companies literally write the law they wanted and made sure nobody could change it. A referendum on AB5 would have forced discussion and improvement. This closes that off.
Or they suck, depending on whom you mean by "they".
> I am curious whether or not you think we should focus on increasing spending to increase medicare coverage or if we should focus on decreasing healthcare costs for the country as a whole.

Yes, both.

> focus on decreasing healthcare costs for the country as a whole

Most importantly, I believe that through the patent system 1) Pharmaceutical Corporations, together with 2), politicians - who are corrupted through lobbying and who thus make advantageous laws (for Corps) - are getting away with murder. Yash Tandon gives a great example of this below:

“During the 1980s and 1990s I worked in many countries in eastern and southern Africa, and then for four years at the South Centre—2005–09. I can say from my experience that the industrialised countries of the North have been trying systematically to block all efforts by the countries of the South to industrialise. Their mega-corporations have tried—and, alas, succeeded—in privatising knowledge, and using it to promote corporate profits over the lives of people."

[...]

“It is the seeds and pharmaceutical companies of the West that have pirated the knowledge of seeds and medicinal products from the South. But whereas in the South this knowledge was shared as a public asset, the Western companies, having learnt from the South, proceeded to claim it as their private property. They are guilty—morally guilty—for the avoidable deaths of millions of people in the South who cannot afford their ‘patented’ medicines against, for example, AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and other killer diseases. It is a sordid story. But it is not all doom and gloom. Those who control the system (the global corporations and the international organisations that the West controls) do not get their own way entirely. Wars do not always end in the victory of the militarily or ‘intellectually’ powerful.”

- Yash Tandon, Trade Is War: The West's War Against the World
Paper has the highest margins outside of software and maybe sunglasses but none of the regularly recurring revenue or growth rates
“The experts don’t know what they’re talking about and are blinded by tribalism” is rhetoric of the 20th century.

How would you describe the medical abuses of the last century? e.g. lobotomies to cure mental conditions, refusal of surgeons to wash hands etc.

Have scientists moved on from tribalism?
The U.S. Inability to Count Votes Is a National Disgrace. and Dangerous
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What if they made Walmart be a giant vending machine, automatically fed with conveyor belts from a warehouse in the back?
>> You will need a backend to integrate Dear ImGui in your app. The backend passes mouse/keyboard/gamepad inputs and variety of settings to Dear ImGui, and is in charge of rendering the resulting vertices

Some people say this thing is platform agnostic, which is sort of true. But in no way does it give you a multiplatform GUI. You must provide this "backend" for every OS you want to run on. If you decide to handle that with QT, GTK, or WX, then what use is this?
"I noticed a lot of people were having kids and starting families later in life. Many would spend their 20’s and 30’s focused on advancing their careers, making money, and pursuing individual experiences and travel. As they got older, many people, particularly women approaching 40 who were still single, started to feel the pressures of biological clock and were growing frustrated by the short term casual relationships they were finding on the mainstream dating apps. They had limited options for finding a like-minded person who was ready to start a family. I wanted to build a platform for everyone who is ready to start a family and help educate them on all of the ways they can make that happen. We connect and educate people who are looking to start a family in any arrangement that works best for them, whether it be a romantic relationship, a platonic co-parent, or a known donor."[1]

[1]: https://www.modamily.com/about-us

Sounds like a platform for spinsters.
What would happen if we did away with the income tax, sales tax, estate tax, property tax, and all other taxes?

The government could simply finance itself by printing money / inflation. Let’s say the government total expenditures were 5% of GDP each year, then you would simply have 5% inflation.

This would solve all the problems we have with income inequality, worthless heirs of the wealthy hoarding riches, and of very complex and expensive IRS and CPA work.

Everyone would need to invest their money rather than stuff it under a mattress so they could keep it growing rather than allowing inflation to shrink it.

Thoughts?
Oregon becomes first U.S. state to decriminalize possession of all drugs
The Rpi4 plays 720p video full screen at 5% cpu usage (because it has hardware decoding support) - using omxplayer. The hard part is for the hardware decoding support to be enabled in the right places and it seems like kodi is the only place (mpv, vlc don't do it by default)
They specifically choose states close to the West Coast because the climates do not have serious weather or rain. Nevada, California, Arizona etc. SF is a weird city compared to other places with hills and odd obstructions so a lot of them moved to Phoenix for testing. From an outsider, the regulatory environment in Arizona appears to be easier for companies that want to do this type of testing as opposed to highly regulated California.
"I eventually get in a position where I have to make threats of disclosure or nothing will get done."

If they want you to pen test their systems they will hire you. It's not your job.

Vote with your feet and walk to a local credit union which may embrace your help (talk to them before starting your pen tests).
Plenty regret it, but they will never admit it so you’ll never know for sure - not unlike voting for certain candidates. And it gets re-evaluated with time.

I did regret it for some time. I still regret it many, many times in a day. Other times the kids save my life and it all looks somewhat worth it. But I just don’t see it as some mystical experience, on balance. It’s probably different for mothers though.
When Scala, IntelliJ and SBT cooperate the language is so pleasant to work with.

There are some puzzling omissions though.

For example slice method is missing step.
Coming from heavy data munging Python this really bites.
Sure would be nice to have some syntactic sugar for slice.

Some seemingly simple tasks have no one way of solving them.

Let's take parsing JSON. Trivial in Python, painful in Scala. (almost the reverse in Python which has painful XML parsing and Scala's built in support for XML)

So far the easiest JSON library has been Li Haoyi's uPickle: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/HowtoworkwithJSONinScala.html

Still, it does not parse JSON where objects have uknown arbitrary value types. Arbitrary value types are extremely common in real life JSON.

Due to pattern matching you see people suggesting you write your own parser! Sure it can be done, but then the next thing you'll be rolling your own crypto...
Two label that should have the same value are normally one too many, but if they are needed it is often possible to order them properly...

//initialization
int counter=0;
//each frame
label("count: %d\n", counter);
label("count again, in case you missed the other label: %d\n", counter);
if(button("increase")) { counter += 1; }

or, if the order of widgets is constrained, to buffer values:

//initialization
int counter_old=0;
int counter_new=0;
//each frame
counter_old = counter_new;
label("count: %d\n", counter_old);
if(button("increase")) { counter_new = counter_old+1; }
if(button("decrease")) { counter_new = counter_old-1; }
label("count again, in case you missed the other label: %d\n", counter_old);
Shackleton proved time and time again that he was a reckless rogue, hellbent on doing things the hard way, constantly putting his crew in intractable dangerous situations that should never have happened.
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The 7/8th requirement is fantastic because we can all stop arguing about it now, unlike Prop 13. I’m glad that this issue has been decided basically once and for all, and I hope someone comes up with a future proposition with the same 7/8 requirement for Prop 13 so we stop arguing over that as well.
> Shackleton had to cross 35 kms of uncharted rugged terrain and glaciers on South Georgia Island without any mountaineering equipment

And all this right after crossing, along with five of his companions, 1300 km of some of the most treacherous stretches of ocean in the world, in a modified lifeboat! The entire story of that whole expedition really is amazing.
I meant all of the exempted services, I wasn't trying to pick favourites :)
This is incredibly important! Lobby your legislators in your state for similar laws! We want to expand this to include heavy equipment too.
https://github.com/popcornmix/omxplayer and Kodi are the only ones I've found that handle it correctly (and those are related/share code) - that means Kodi is the only place to play 1080p or larger youtube video (omxplayer can stream video from youtube, but doesn't by itself handle the separate audio and video streams).
Does anyone have a definitive answer how many Hz the Pi runs on a single 4k monitor?
Have you considered that the compression algorithms for video are nontrivial? I mean I'm sure there can be dedicated hardware for video decoding, but would you put that in a low-cost, low-energy entry-level CPU where you want to shave off as much cost in favor of flexibility?

The Pi is not primarily intended for media consumption. That said, for a similar price to a RPI + display you can get a cheap tablet that will (should?) have dedicated video hardware.
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I ordered the Pi 400 for my son along with a cheap 2-port HDMI switch. He has a remote desktop setup with a Chromebook from school. I'm hoping this makes it easy and convenient to use for tinkering.
Shenzhen and Shanghai are possibly the only two that could do it within days and not weeks.

In ALL other regions ( including Beijing ) it is either weeks / months or literally impossible. ( Because no one knows how to do it )
read "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson. In the near future, Home Owners Associations in the US (assisted by AI managers and horrifically powerful robotic armed guards) form their own "countries", with their own legal code, citizenship rights and mutual defense treaties. Top 100 SF book of all time.
Counterpoint: is there an obligation to share in ITER such that walking away could produce competitive advantage, or are there no such restrictions on non-ITER national projects?
I work (transitively) for a very large grocery retailer that rhymes with "Broger". Live inventory data is mostly junk -- it's sorta reliable in broad strokes, but you can't rely on it for determining out of stock events. There'd be all sorts of false positives and false negatives.
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I wrote that in latex a decade ago, and don't know how to update it anymore!
I'm not convinced that redrawing on input events is especially inefficient. No need to redraw continuously.
Anything that’s only electronic is ripe for fraud. Securing digital things is really hard. For something as important as elections we absolutely need a paper trail. Physical things that both parties can verify exist and are simple to understand.

In an ideal world, we’d have a hybrid system. Everyone gets a paper with an ID cryptographically hashed with their voter id. They vote electronically and mail/in person hand their paper with a cast ID that’s also cryptographically signed with their voter id and vote cast. Like how two factor TOTP works, the verification of cast ID can be done totally offline.

That way you have a two factor audit system. A fast digital tally backed with a verifiable paper trail for every vote.

If paper tally is not within 1% of digital tally, then you have a discrepancy and people ought to vote again.

Sure it would take a while to verify paper trail but a couple of days of two factor counting is totally worth it for an important thing as election that decides the fate of a country.
Gg.js – Interfaces much more complex – Development much more simple
This could be possible as well, because they never gave me any information.
People should be free to work for whom they please under the terms they want. As a Californian, I am proud of the people for getting this passed.
I want you to define a title that lets readers know it's more than just any old game engine. Being written in Rust doesn't change that.
Exactly this. I find that each line of go is readable. However actually trying to figure out what the code is trying to accomplish becomes a chore because I can't keep all of the lines in my head.

Maybe it is because what I am used to but I find I am often "pattern matching" loops into `map`s `filter`s and similar in my head. Of course doing this, and making sure that I didn't miss a side effect or condition that makes it not-quite-a-map takes a lot more brainpower than just seeing `slice.map(|path| path.basename())`.
How has the US election emphasized that?
I bought a Brother laser printer from a company that was upgrading their office equipment. I paid for it like £30. It is a colour printer. I have been enjoying it for like 6 years now and it still has plenty of toner left and no issues whatsoever. It feels like it can print infinite number of pages without any issue. I am truly amazed.
When I compare it to the Canon and HP printers I had where I had to literally swap the ink every few pages and for Canon there was a moment where it was cheaper to buy a printer with ink included, than just the ink.
It is a terrible response to a terrible law.
Before you shell out thousands - I’ll recommend option #2. There are “open source” legalese docs [0] you can start with - then hire a lawyer when your business gets some traction.

[0] For example Automattic (Wordpress parent company) has them under Creative Commons: https://github.com/Automattic/legalmattic
Didn't they already take all of his possessions? Isn't it time to let him be?
As long as they act they will be fine. Github will be more at risk, since they are legally responsible for content hosted on their site. They have some protections under the DMCA, but only if they respond to takedown requests in a timely manner. And those takedown requests take time and effort to process.

The RIAA and other copyright holder representatives have automated submitting a DMCA takedown request process ages ago, and now submit thousands a day to e.g. youtube. Youtube in turn has automated taking down content that receives said requests and probably a big part of the appeal process as well. Is Github that far already?
I would suggest checking out umatrix as a souped up alternative to ublock origin
Sorry but if you're going to those lengths you should be buying a laptop without a camera or mic. Do video calls from your phone and put it in a soundproof/wireless transmission proof box.

If a nation state is able to get to your laptop they're going to figure out pretty quickly that you're "feeding something pre-recorded" into the mic and camera every time you have a meeting. Ignoring the insane effort you'd have to put out to feed that in and make it even semi-believable. For starters they are presumably tracking who you're meeting with - are you going to have a meeting before your meeting to pre-record? Hope they don't figure out that you're saying the exact same thing in two different meetings? Somehow have root on your laptop but aren't bright enough to figure out you're feeding data from a local file into your mic and camera?
- https://mushroomobserver.org - crowdsourced database for mushrooms.

- https://www.inaturalist.org/observations - plants and animals.
Criminal prohibition of drugs just drives sales underground where there’s no regulation or testing of substances for potentially lethal contaminants. It also creates a huge economic opportunity for violent cartels/criminal organizations which can destabilize entire regions. Furthermore it does almost nothing to reduce the supply or availability of illegal drugs - we’ve been fighting a war on cocaine for 50 years and cocaine has never been more readily available or cheaper. The only thing criminal prohibition of drugs has accomplished is an explosion of the prison population making America the country with the highest level of incarceration in the world.

The war on drugs causes more death and damage than drugs. The only way out is for the government to legalize, regulate and tax drugs just like alcohol and cannabis. If heroin were sold at a pharmacy there would be laws against selling to minors... dealers today will sell to anyone.
The problem is that git is not feature complete to replace github. In hindsight I wish it had gone the Fossil route: integrate issue management in the distributed repo.

If issues, wiki and code review were integrated in git proper it would be trivial to change host on a dime. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way (yet?).
I agree! If people believe that Go is easy to read because it is simple they must love reading brainfuck as there are only a handful of simple operations!
No, because browser is open source and can be forked or modified by anyone should Google do something that threatens the web.

AMP, for example, has nothing to do with their control of Chrome.
I agree with you. My view now when approaching all (and similar) situations in life - is "Can someone with mild to average intelligence interpret this negatively against me and act upon that perception?"

Because let's be honest, that is Occam's razor most probabilistic outcomes.
This is why the ninja society haven't been found yet. They are among us, but we don't know where because they're so good at what they do.

Lizard people? NWO? Worry about the ninjas first.
Cornell is the most definitive source for a lot of this kind of thing.

Good show!
Uber and Lyft claim that they would exit. But I don't see much reason to believe that. And if they did, well, it would be a great opportunity for other companies. The barrier to entry for rideshare is very low; the main reason we have only two options is that they've been burning money trying to establish their monopoly/duopoly position.
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> Why would you care about fooling surveillance?

For example, when you are "required" [1] to run surveillance software on your computer.

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7wxvd/students-are-rebellin...
Every penny of cost had to be an issue. The RJ-45 jack doesn't have link/activity LEDs.
I think that you (and others!) must have misread: I did not write that malicious software would turn on the hardware — I wrote that it 'could turn off the LED when the camera and microphone are running.'

What I mean is that a user could leave the hardware switches in the microphone- or camera-on positions, but malicious software could turn off the LEDs, so that the user would think he had privacy but in fact did not.
Isn't this similar in result to an arranged marriage in a lot of ways?
Tho it seems like a lot of these increases in efficiency we traded-off by being more liberal in using the tech; Light bulbs are overwhelmingly LED these days, but we now also stick LEDs in all kinds of places where a light bulb would never have fit/made sense before.

Smarthome might theoretically work, but as of right now most people are just throwing even more IT and IoT devices, constantly drawing power, into their homes. As these come from a myriad of different vendors, there is no unified platform to utilize and manage all that for electricity efficiency, it's just going on, drawing additional power.
Theft, misplaced items, etc. Employee grabs it to use for the store, damaged items, etc etc.

With only using in-out the inventory system thinks there are plenty to sell and won't reorder, but if it's wrong the shelf is empty and can't be reordered. There are posts from Walmart people online complaining about this exact problem.

Affects me as a customer, hit their website says they have 10 in stock for pickup today, drive over and the shelf is bare. Ask, they say the inventory is probably wrong, check another store because they can't reorder.

Now they are missing x items + y lost sales. That's why place do inventory.