skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During the Jim Crow area, many towns and cities put up signs that read

N*****, Don’t Let the Sun Set On You in $CITY_NAME

African-American laborers could come into town for work during the day, but any who found themselves there after dark were liable to be lynched or otherwise hassled out of town. While African-Americans were the most common target, Asian-Americans[0] and Jews were sometimes the subject of these warnings/threats. The cities that put up these signs and highway billboards became known as Sunset Towns (although in the last 2 decades the term "Sundown town"[1] became more popular[2]).

The Negro Motorist Green Book was a travel guide that was written to help black people plan roadtrips. It acknowledged that "the White traveler has had no difficulty in getting accommodations, but with the Negro it has been different". The Green Book warned about Sunset towns and had pointers for finding friendly lodgings. Sunset towns weren't limited to the Deep South: New England and California also took part in the practice, and Route 66 was notoriously difficult for black travelers.

Afroman immortalized a Californian sundown town and its racial housing covenant in his song "Colt 45"[3]:

Well, it was just sundown in a small white town

They call it East Side Palmdale

When the Afroman walked through the white land

Houses went up for sale

Well, I was standing on the corner sellin' rap CDs

When I met a little girl named Jan, I let her ride in my Caddy

'Cause I didn't know her daddy was the leader of the Ku Klux Klan

[0]: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_BLlJwLdIRpk/RZ1Bfy6G8CI/AAAAAAAAAB...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town

[2]: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sunset+town%2C...

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH2ukQdF-0U&t=1m21s
Bits rot. If you want your data to last the next 40 years, plan for spending a few hours every 5 years migrating your storage. It's a far better plan than trying to predict what the world will be like 40 years from now.
An open source map that helps people find and volunteer for COVID vaccine trials
It's from my experience. Ableton is optimised to cram as many plugins onto a single thread as possible, which means you are quickly going to run out of processing power when using more CPU demanding plugins, because as soon as you exhaust one cpu core, the project will no longer play in real time. When plugins run from their own process, the OS take care of distributing the load across multiple cores and that lets you run more plugins before it will overload.
So I agree that sandboxing is not done to gain perfomance, but better perfomance is an unintended side effect. That shows how bad Ableton scheduling is.
Dell even sold a 4GB (!) version of the XPS 13 for $999 up until a few months ago.
We want to build a new car. A fancy electric car. We raise money from investors, build plant, hire engineers, designers and workers, establish a supply chain and a distribution chain. How should we fairly price the product?

A. $0 for the next 10 years. We've got really rich investors.

B. $X0,000, in line with the fair market price for a new vehicle.

The role of capital money is to cover capital expenses (duh), especially in the early stages, not to subsidize selling the product at a dumping price for a prolonged time period.
I don't have the stats, but I know for a fact I've never owned an iPhone (back to the original) that needed to be charged midday. Not much more matters to the average user.

And I'm sure there are power users who killed their original iPhone by noon in 2007, and I'm sure there are power users who do the same today.
I am a Bitwig user, really love that they support Linux. Their platform is very stable and the modulations are imo the differentiating factor.

Ableton is a beast, I haven't used it as much, but I know.
"Why do some people like onions?"

I don't care for onions, but I can appreciate the logistics of shipping one.
The server-side JS architecture created in 2005 was presented at JSConf 2011 by Andrew Paprocki.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODgs0eWAIKc

The talk describes the system architecture and shows how the IDE is used to create applications.
Squamish is full of vegan rock climbers, so I assume he was trying to blend in there, at least.

Squamish has a lot of mentally and physically healthy people... It makes me uncomfortable because I am not those things.
This is endemic in the finance industry. Build something cutting-edge, rake in a bunch of money, and then let your tech rust.
If you're not certain about your setup, yes, avoid doing anything. I have a Bluetooth speaker in the crib to play white noise for our baby. It's a ruggedized speaker secured to the crib with 150-pound zip ties, and we charge it when the baby's not in it and remove the charging cord entirely while the baby's in there.
How do we square that, then. You want it to be OK to call for a public servant to be beheaded? (The Bannon case). You want it to be OK to just print lies (c.f. most of Newsmax and a lot of Breitbart)?

You need to understand that to anyone left of center, your demand seems to be a conspiracy to be wrong at will. Isn't that likewise a "bad look"?

What's your solution?
Article says "Apple officials literally claimed that the new MacBook Air using Apple’s custom M1 chip is faster than 98 percent of all PC laptops sold THIS year." (emphasis mine)

The event video says LAST year: https://youtu.be/5AwdkGKmZ0I?t=1561

"I can tell you that I am 98 percent sure that any of the above laptops listed will wreck the MacBook Air doing any of the tasks I just named." ... those laptops listed got reviewed 2020 so I think they're 2020 models.
Oh comon, unlike the cassette tape or floppy, newspapers are still around everywhere
Motivation is likely not the right word here, in my experience of burn out, depression hits pretty hard and you stop doing things for yourself due to lack of joy/seeing the point in doing anything.

"Finding motivation" from finding the joy in things is what I hope to recover. Also starting new habits and not tying so much of myself to my work/current company is something I have to learn better to do and is a goal of mine during my break.

When you care deeply about the area you are working in, it is hard to turn off. This combined with a very ambitious company lead me to crash and burn about 18 months ago. Tried to recover with short breaks and while that helped, it kept going back to the same pace and have decided if I want to kick this exhaustion, I need a longer break to form better habits and try to find that joy in what I do again.

Whether or not I'll be successful, I don't know, but need to try.
(2005) I think?
Maybe we should stop caring. We’re in “boy who cried wolf” territory here, where Gmail’s spam filters are even part of the liberal conspiracy because a Congressman’s email went to the junk folder.

https://mashable.com/article/steube-gmail-spam-question/
The fundamental difference between a business contract and a marriage is (at least in most western countries) a breach of a business contract results in the breaching party paying compensation to the non-breaching party. Contemporary marriage and its "no fault divorce" system means no sanctions for breach, change of mind, cannot be bothered anymore etc.
I believe the author was concerned about the copyright infringement that might occur due to showing the entire front page. Seems he purposely made all text below the headlines unreadable.

Perfectly reasonable concern, although I too wish there was a clearer shot of the front. Dang copyright laws!
honestly the IDE could be using TS typings for their JS. Visual studio does this for javascript we use at work, and we don't use TS
The sad irony here is that no matter which half you're talking about, this is probably going to play out as true in practice.
> Should we put an extra tax "at source" for - online shopping to support high street retailers ?

Some countries are losing revenue, especially where products are bought from overseas and are not subject to some kind of value tax such as VAT, Sales Tax, GST. So yes some countries are looking into how they can tax online shopping. Which this is not to support the retail industry, it is to prop up the Government's funds.

> electric car manufacturers to support the oil industry?

Some countries are looking at taxing electric vehicles differently because they lose the excise taxes attached to fuel consumption. Which this is not to support the oil industry, it is to prop up the Government's funds.

> all renewable energy companies to support coal mines?

This will come, it is expensive to build and maintain power infrastructure. This will be especially more susceptible when power infrastructure is nationalized in a country.

The first example here was interesting as it displays a loss in tax revenue, the second is a loss in revenue to cover the cost of existing services, and the third an example of the same.

If the government builds infrastructure for a train for example, the cost does not stop because people stop using it. There maybe loans which need to be paid, maintenance which needs to be ongoing, jobs which need to be paid for etc. While over the long term this may dwindle down, the short term is that these costs need to be covered. Just like if you lost your job, you would be looking for a new job to cover your expenses, they just don't go away, the government does the same thing by relocating or reallocating taxes or revenue generation to another sector.

While I don't agree with the concept put forward, the general principles make sense.
It is really difficult to describe the benefits of e-ink vs. even great displays. The closest perhaps is the oled of my iPhone with the automatic color adjustment. But for emulating the look and feel of paper, e-ink cannot be beaten. I just basically replaced my iPad Pro for note taking with the reMarkable 2, and it is amazing what a difference it makes. Besides the textured surface, it just looks like paper with ink on it. The iPad is great, but always looks like a screen.
I love the idea of an e-ink display as an art piece, but does a dedicated display for news headlines really operate in the spirit of calm technology, given the current political climate?
YC W17 should be in the title
> It blinds you to power structures and leverage dynamics. It also makes several simplifying paradigms inaccessible.

Are you able to reference any material which explorer these concepts more in depth? These are incredibly resonating ideas.
I was told the rifle rounds where more dangerous, but not why. My suspicion is the plastic tube around a shotgun shell loses strength before the round is hot enough to go off ~200C. Though it’s probably more complicated.

As to humidity, I don’t know it might be just extreme humidity or it could be humidity + temperature, or perhaps we had a bad case of ammo to start with.
Prominent conservatives frequently criticize parts of the left for its constant claims of persecution, and its intense competition in 'victimhood olympics'.

Perhaps we should throw that same playbook at organizations like Breitbart.
SoftBank racks up $3.7bn in losses at tech stock trading unit ('SB NORTHSTAR')
I did a "deep dive" trying to compare my raw photos with what I had on google and I could spot nearly no difference even after zooming way in. The one difference was a 5MB vs 700KB file size though. I was actually quite impressed. But I think these were all 12MP photos.
I agree with your take, but I think you understated the case.

Before the 2016 election, the Republican partisans insisted that fraud and malfeasance were likely, and the Democratic ones said it was impossible.

From 2016-2020, the Democratic partisans insisted that there had been some sort of fraud or malfeasance, and the Republicans insisted that it was impossible.

By the end of 2020, we're back where we were in the middle of 2016, where the Republican partisans insist that fraud and malfeasance were likely, and the Democratic ones say it was impossible.

And those are the so-called 'mainstreams' of the respective parties! The situation is part Orwellian, and part real-life satire.
That screen looks absolutely amazing; $2500 is an incredibly steep price for what would be a sick art piece.
Very basic, but easy solution: https://timelinetool.app/notion/event
The great 2020 money grab: SPACS
I would never say never for any potential ECMAScript feature.

Sure, and again, at the scale in your organisation, taking an absolute position on this makes a lot of sense and I can respect the principled stance.

On the other hand, the trade-off in this case is giving up a tool that is widely useful immediately in exchange for a potential/hypothetical benefit later. For other development teams, perhaps those alternatives would be weighted differently. And then that in turn might affect how any future changes were viewed by the relevant language committees, who as you say would surely be aware of the implications.

Anyway, thanks for sharing your insights, both here and in the original article. It’s somehow reassuring to me that I’m not the only person in the world who wants their front-end code to continue working for more than five minutes, when it seems like a lot of the front-end community would consider that a pretty good working lifetime for code these days!
> You want it to be OK

What the fuck does this mean? I want people to be free to express themselves, and yes, that includes being free to earn money. I do not want a few corporations deciding what people are allowed to say on the internet, or even who is able to earn a living on the internet.
Microsoft adds a new Linux: CBL-Mariner
Documents show how Amazon misled the public about warehouse safety [video]
Escheatment is to protect you.

I'd say Google Photos isn't for you. It's for a different kind of user, like me.
It must be very convenient to be able to dismiss research done by anyone that might be remotely interested in publishing findings you dislike.

When a left-leaning institution publishes findings that broadly align with the left, do you also dismiss them?
Yes, you're right. I meant Rosetta2. It's good to have native binaries nevertheless.
Refurb 12" Macbook?

Wish Apple would reintroduce those with the M1. Awesome form factor, held back by Intel's anemic Core M CPUs.
I wonder if one of those non-backlit memory LCDs could do the trick. (The kind of display used on the Playdate console, and I believe most Pebble smartwatches.)
The American right - and especially the religious wing of it - has been trying to silence those who disagree for generations, so their dislike at receiving some of the same treatment is not particularly compelling.

Consider the origins of the term "heresy"...

Their problem here is that it worked, and they won. So now people are trying to fight back by borrowing parts of the playbook. Victim of their own success by dirty tricks.
>A dim LCD newspaper on your wall would look really tacky, imo.

It really depends on how you do it. They sell TV's like The Frame[1] from Samsung ($599 for the 32" version) that look much closer to a picture frame and are designed for almost this exact purpose. If you are in some semi-permanent home (you probably should be before you spend $2.7k on an art piece) it isn't much work to mount it in a way that would hide the cables. From the looks of the photos in this article, the e-Ink version isn't event mounted flush against the wall and appears to be tilted downward. I don't love the way that looks given the cost. I would much rather spend half the money on that TV and a professional mounting.

[1] - https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/the-...
Navy nuclear reactors can ramp up and down very quickly, unfortunately for the civilian power they don’t save much money by doing so. Which is why they civilian power plants are generally designed for steady state operations.
You come back from that by honestly addressing their concerns and issues. What you dont want to do is purposefully misrepresent their perfectly valid concerns and then censor and banish them from the discussion because then they will just go create their own platform leaving both groups in their own echo chambers.
Wink, wink.

We at The Guardian will not say that Mr Bourla broke any laws. We will not even say that there is something wrong with someone profiting from a pandemic. We don't have to! We know how our loyal readers think. They will arrive at the correct conclusion, and will seethe with the evil eye like one of Pavlov's dogs...
I've never understood the draw of Obsidian. Their website makes it seem like the "graph view" is their big differentiator, but why is that useful? Why is it useful to know how various topics are vaguely related, and view a giant web of it? Or is their marketing just confusing me.. and really it's just a markdown editor with linking?
> ...the only real uses for a console web browser in 2020 are to stream TV shows and movies illegally or to quickly find a guide for a particular game if you don't have your phone handy.

This made me wonder... will the PS5 support DLNA? Or other local media streaming? I remember using the PS3 all the time for this, we'd use it to play music at parties, watch home movies that we've made, etc.
Comes across as a bit of a puff piece at times.
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MacBooks with M1 Chips by Dave Lee
Before the Coronavirus, I'd still see people reading the physical New York Times on the subway.

Some people were amazingly good at one-handing it too—they could turn the page while still holding onto the pole with their other hand. Don't know how they did it, really.
Can you "import R" in python? Sounds like that would be best.
> Kind of. HTTP was designed with caching in mind, so the idea was that if you GET a page it should more or less not change and you could add headers and stuff to instruct proxy servers about whether to cache or not and for how long. I think you could use HEAD then to check if a page had changed ...

Nothing in the HTTP spec has changed about this AFAIK. The internet still behaves this way.

> Anyway, you can no longer take this approach because bad people broke the Internet and now you have to have a great honking opaque TLS layer between you and the caching servers so there's no way for this optimisation to work any more.

You could certainly still do this, you just need to import the proxy's CA certificate into your browser. It's just not possible to do to others on your network without consent now. (This is a security feature, not a bug.)
Be prepared. - scouts motto.

Anyone who's been through several natural disasters or lives in the northern midwest already should take reasonable preparedness in stride.
Maybe it's a Spain thing. But when I schedule parcels for pick up, I have to print the label myself. They don't bring one with them, so they would have no way to identify the parcel.

If I bring it to the post office I can preregister and show a code and they will put a label on, but I never do that anymore due to the covid measures. There's a massive queue outside now.
Why bother with radiation protection, just run the cooling open cycle with the river water and pollute downstream. It wouldn’t need closing for operational reasons. Just stating a fact.
Maybe real information needs a better PR strategy? What would that look like? I think it needs to be bottom up, at least it can't be centralized.
Questions like "How many tennis balls can fit in a plane?" are a waste of time because they are unanswerable. To have any chance of giving a correct answer, too many variables would have to be specified to make it possible.

Ferinstance:

"How big is the plane?"
"What kind of plane?"
"Will the plane be flying or not?"
"Will the plane require space for a pilot?"
"Will the plane, if flying, restrict the number of balls such that the plane is not overloaded past its maximum All Up Weight?"
"How heavy is each ball?"
"How large is each ball?"
"Do we fill all cavities within the plane, such as wing tanks, wing cavities, underfloor cable cavities, etc?"
....
and so on.

Smart-arse answers, while showing some lateral thinking, are only comparable subjectively by the examiner. Would a different examiner judge another answer better than this examiner does? In that case would person B get the job from examiner B instead of person A getting the job from examiner A?

As I said above, these questions are a waste of everybody's time.
It's been done since 2014 when K8s came out. Move on please. Still I guess it's better than AKS.
The tax reforms during the Trump administration largely eliminated the marriage tax penalty, expect for couples earning more than $600k/year. Prior to those changes, married couples would generally pay more tax in their combined income then if they filed separately. The big exception to that was there was a big difference in earnings between the partners, in which case they’d pay less overall
I've seen this hack in person and it is very convincing. The way to avoid the backlight problem is to frontlight the whole scene.

This embedded imac also has the cool feature of never changing if someone is looking at it.

https://www.claybavor.com/blog/a-canvas-made-of-pixels
I would suspect the EU to be complicit, not a victim, considering their companies (e.g. Ericsson and Nokia) stand to benefit as the US-proposed alternatives.
He was a troll. I also don't imagine he actually held these beliefs, but it doesn't really matter.

People that feel rejected by society lash out at society. The overt spam and Nazism is pretty clearly lashing out.

I guess he lashed out at the wrong folks, because murders are very rare in Squamish. It looks like he was hiding from someone and they found him.

Personally, I would have hidden further from a metro area. Vancouver is very close.
Totally agree. As a software engineer, I was always excited to try new notes apps and to "really stay organized" this time. But I always ended up falling back on either Apple Notes or Sublime because everything else was too slow.

Decided to build an app where it's fast to start writing but is also set up to keep your notes sane over time. The app has a built in scratchpad where you capture notes in small chunks, like texting yourself. Then you triage the notes into categories later. https://youtu.be/xRxn4iiWZUM

Would love the community's feedback.

(https://bytebase.io)
And what will be the basis for the payment processors to censor the content? Their revolutionary conscience? Shall we have Left payment processors and Right payment processors? Each with its own definition of "hate" and "misinformation"? Does anybody see how retarded things became? This is the direct attack on free speech, and people are cheering?!
At the prices involved, it will take years before not pack-ratting becomes a break-even operation.

I take photos every day and I look at loads of them. The biggest mistake I made in my early twenties was not taking photos. Every year since I started taking photos, it's been great.

But to each their own.
Is there some reason they seem to studiously avoid screenshots of the apps?

I looked over the site and couldn't see anything, even in the PDFs of their presentations except for one which had a tiny image that looked awful and had rather 1980s style colouring.

I know the technical detail will be more interesting to those who buy in, but to get people to buy into just how wonderful the idea is you need a bit more than a text description of it!
Not really a fair comparison. Backblaze doesn't thumbnail, index, transcode, compress, collage and animate, or run AI models on your data (e.g., for face/object detection, gene.) Running all that for 28 billion photos a month costs a lot of money. (And that excludes all the engineering cost of building front ends, android apps, integrations, etc.)