skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're giving nature too much credit. Nature doesn't try and balance life. Nature doesn't care- it throws asteroid impacts and supervolcanos and natural disasters all over the place. Life just happens to be very very resilient and consistently able to jump back and fill new niches. Nature also "created" us - were a product of the universe like everything else. If we are destabilizing, so is nature.

And most scientists do not assume they can blindly mess around. There was a whole section of this article related to ethics, they didn't let the fetus be born (which would definitely have been messing around). They're not trying to "do better" or control nature - they're just trying to understand what makes us tick. This is a mutation that already exists in humans. It might make us human. If anything, that makes nature the one that was blindly messing around.
Dual-license typically means (A)GPLv3 with the option for a commercial license.
"the simple fact that Ruby is really, really slow"... it's that slow that Shopify and Stripe don't mind building their global scale products in Ruby.
Honest question: I can't figure out what the point is that that image is making. (I can't reconcile the image with the caption.) Could someone explain?
I'm really happy that you're willing to take this discussion with me.

I totally understand what makes IndieAuth is a good solution. And it seems really easy. For me. But I have no idea how I would go about explaining it to, let's say, my mom.

Apple is offering something very similar to what Promise does. The difference is that Apple is a commercial corporation. Which means they're in the game to make money. Promise will be in the game to make authentication easy, secure and private.

In many ways I compare the goal of Promise, with the goal of DNS. Take a commodity and make it available globally in a reliable way. Yes, it will be a single point of failure. So the job of Promise will in large be, to keep the platform secure and reliable.
The ONLY wireless lighting system I will ever use is Lutron Caseta light switches.

They are magic and don’t require a neutral cable, unlike just about every other smart dimmer, which means they can be swapped in place of literally any light switch in any home.

If the Lutron hub is unplugged, the switches continue to operate as normal light switches.

They also operate as normal light switches at all other times. So no need to teach every guest how to control the lights.

They are HomeKit compatible, so you only have to deal with Lutron’s trash app when pairing new switches with the hub.
Great stuff, you can't make this up.
Well, for what little it's worth, you've convinced me to give sourcehut a try for a personal project where any of these shortcomings should not pose a problem.

You leave me thinking you actually give a shit about not leaving the average person behind and that ease of use is a priority. So if you can eventually couple the simplicity and performance you already have with slight changes to make the UI at least as obvious as GitHub to both programmers and students, then that's a winner. Just subscribed in hopes to seeing that happen.
Yes, it is. Also true for data. The problem is that common mode rejection is limited for unshielded pairs, so it works - but not perfectly.

POTS is legacy now, so I'm not sure how much of a consideration it is for modern builds.

There are safety issues with running network and power cables close to each other, but generally on small domestic systems crosstalk between data and power shouldn't be a serious problem.

The exception is if you have a lot of hash on the power lines from USB chargers, unfiltered noisy motors, or white goods that generate both digital and analog noise.

Ferrites or other kinds of filtering can help. So can using shielded cat cable.
FirefoxOS tried to ride on an Android-base to help solve device-support and being able to focus on the user-facing aspects of the platform.

As a result they were stuck with a combination of the terrible Android-build system and the complex Firefox build-system.

That alone probably wasn't the reason it failed, but it certainly didn't help people who wanted to contribute (like me).
Yikes, that seems like a massive privacy issue.
> Long-waited NetBSD support in CI would be awesome to be finished too.

As the maintainer of the linked vis project, I can confirm that the provided SSH access to the CI environment is very convenient and saves a lot of time.

I would also like to see the NetBSD support completed. It turns out that up until last week, we missed a #define to compile out of the box[1].

[1] https://git.sr.ht/~martanne/vis/commit/01eef9f87b72b0c147367...
The history of treasure hunting is riddled with hoaxes.
Yup. We migrated from BB to our own self hosted install nearly a year ago. Couldn't be happier with the change.
Multirotor designs are not limited to 4 motors. You can add more for redundancy. Four is common because it’s the smallest number that has good control characteristics.
Hogwash. No religion is forced to perform marriages they don’t believe in.
Post author here:

Note that the people that live in Stolipinovo are Bulgarian. I guess you meant to say "I do not think they would be friendly to any non-Roma Bulgarian". That's an assumption that (from experience) is incorrect.

Also, I'm not American, but I get that a lot.
what does this have to do with technology?
Buy a Tesla everything else is shit. Others need to catch up but it's going to take a while. If you buy a Nokia phone today it's not going to work as well as an iPhone. I'm presuming the electric car you have is from a company who isn't as good.
I don't know what you mean by voters. Since the gay marriage issue was decided by the courts instead of legislatures.
> Sincerely, can someone direct me to a calm, low jargon explanation that I might be able to grasp on why there seems to be a full court press to suppress rather than refute this narrative?

Because it is essentially an ideological interpretive framework, not an empirical claim; the contentious part of it is not subject to falsification, so it cannot be refuted.

> What is dangerous about viewing this trend as a social contagion

There are two parts to viewing it as a “social contagion":

(1) A negative value judgement, and
(2) An empirical claim that it is a social phenomenon.

#2 is not contentious, literally no one disputes that both social and personal acceptance of trans identity is a social phenomenon.

So what's the contentious part? A value judgement. It's not subject to refutation.

> Is that an argument that an ACLU lawyer would accept for other contentious issues, like abortion or gun control? That it's a hot legislative issue and therefore wrongthink on that subject should be suppressed?

The ACLU has never opposed private action to oppose and discourage publication or distribution of views that a private actor views as unwelcome, in fact, were there state action to suppress such private action, the ACLU would likely defend it as the essential component of free speech that it is. The action at issue here is exactly that kind of private action.
Currently most of humanity is oblivious to it's enslavement, what does your strategy add?
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> There is genuine work to be done reconciling gay marriage with the first amendment...

Why? Catholics (as an example) don't perform or internally honor Jewish (as an example) weddings, either, without it being any sort of First Amendment issue.
It isn't a conspiracy. It is the organization most at fault for mitch's anti-democratic actions regarding the supreme court that I honestly believe has the potential to completely undermine our government. The supreme court's move to a completely partisan institution is a huge step toward a populist dictatorship. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/supreme-revenge/
>That gets deeply complicated where integration or automation tests are concerned

I don't understand why this would be true.

For $dayjob I've been writing end-to-end tests that run via GitHub Actions. Each test starts with a package of the compiled code (built by another GHA workflow), deploys a bunch of cloud resources including a VM, scp's the package to the VM, and ssh's to the VM to install the package and run the test. The package contains multiple services that must be individually configured based on the particular test, and then a test process interacts with these services in a bunch of ways. I think we can agree these are complicated tests; they're not just unit tests you can run in a Docker container and be done with (which we also have, of course).

Now, these tests are written entirely in a shell script. It has been designed from the start that a developer can run the script locally and get exactly the same result as when GHA runs it. The things like auth tokens for the cloud are read as environment variables, so when running as a GHA workflow the env vars are hooked up to repository secrets, but when running locally the developer can just provide their own auth token via env vars to the script. Furthermore, the script cleans up the cloud resources when it finishes, but if the developer wants to investigate the failure they can just comment out the cleanup step from the script.

I'm sure there are third-party GH Actions to create those cloud resources, to scp files to remote targets, and to run commands via ssh against remote targets. But using those actions not only removes the ability to run the tests locally, it also requires learning arbitrary DSLs ("How does this action take parameters? What limitations does it have? How do I process the output of one action to be the parameter of the next? How do I parallelize these two actions that don't need to run in series?") and introduces third-party code that you have to trust with your cloud auth token.
> it's OS is endorsed by the FSF as truly free.

To meet the FSF's definitions of free, they had to make the (still required) proprietary firmware read-only instead of allowing it to be loadable by the user.

EDIT: see below.
I agree that many Europeans are racist towards Roma and the other gypsy peoples. Much of what they say will be pure nonsense (e.g., they are stupid, not fit for work, etc), but other common statements you might hear also have some truth to them. For example, "they all steal" is of course a gross simplification, as many Roma are well integrated and live a regular life. However, if you are surrounded by a group of people clearly discernible as gypsies (women in long robes, etc) there is a high likelihood you're in trouble.
It would be good to use science fiction to explore some of these ideas before we do them.
We support women knowingly giving birth to trisomy fetuses. We're in trolley problem territory here.
Philip Pettit's writing on the difference between freedom as non-interference and freedom as non-domination are very interesting on this issue.
I outfitted my apartment with ikea lights for the last few years, and I am currently in the middle of replacing them with philips Hue.

It is insane how unreliable the ikea products have been and how terrible the interface is vs philips.
Sure, but do realize those 25 year old cars are likely polluting 2-10x more than modern cars. The sooner we can get the oldest cars off the road, the best chance our planet has.
I think it would be impossible to have a productive discussion about Roma in an American website.
No, they're just wearing smoke bombs/sticks so that you can see the trails in the footage.
Enjoy :-)

https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/
When I was growing up in New England in the 1970's, children commonly used the term "gyp" / "gyped" as a slang version of "cheat" / "cheated".

It's only as an adult that I realized this was probably a racial or cultural slur.
Are you still interviewing for this role?
That doesn’t appear to be the case from the article you posted. Moreover its the case that more people have access to wealth than ever before because the capitalist system has commodified the ownership of wealth through stocks. So I’m not convinced about this claim. Look at the graph from the article. The amount of wealth owned by the top 0.7% is dwarfed by the next bracket.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution_of_wealth_gl...
If the author is the sole contributor or asks contributors for copyright assignments, then they can offer a paid license as well for "commercial use".
How is only allowing male <-> female marriage against what you wrote? Religions would still be free to let gay people get married, they just wouldn't be able to register with the state.
E2EE has been implemented since 2016, and turned on by default as of May 2020.

Uploading contacts is strictly optional (and is missing on some platforms like Android currently, as per complaints elsewhere on this thread). They're used purely to discover which of your contacts are already on the platform - the privacy policy can be found at https://github.com/vector-im/policies/blob/master/docs/ident...
Not more expensive per se, but more truthfully priced.

E.g. cheap rare earth minerals from China are only cheap because we are borrowing from the future people who will pay to clean up the mess.

When we more accurately price the real cost of goods by quantifying damage to the worker’s health, global environment, etc. then outsourcing would not look nearly as attractive.
I would like to know your opinion, after living for a few weeks nearby one of such group. Maybe you would turn racist then? /s

Most people here do not have that experience. In their ignorance they think, that it is a case of racism. It is not. It is not tolerating asocial behavior.

Romas, who integrate into the society are accepted by the majority. Unfortunately, that requires for the individuals to break ties with their community, because their community encourages their members to behave asocially. It is really hard problem, you cannot even start with pupils in school, as they routinely skip it, because... see previous sentence.

Untold millions of euro were spent to solve this problem. It was wasted money.
Hi,
I have built my house using KNX. Actually, the fact that it is mostly cable based makes this system super reliabe.

It also combines various trades, lighting, heating, etc and is supported by 500 manufacturers.

Together with a friend who has more than 20 years experience, we published an ebook on how to get started without any prior knowledge. There is a free version at https://knxtutorial.com/knx

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You're probably being downvoted for mentioning neo Nazis but you're absolutely right. Racism and these various similar tensions aren't "natural", they're constructed over time by people with their own agendas. In the U.S. what we've come to know as racism is a set of ideas constructed to justify slavery. Roma people were similarly held as slaves in the medieval area - discrimination against them benefitted slaveholders economically and justified their exploitation.
I don't think that changes how much the Koch's donated to climate change deniers.
Where did I say it isn’t?

I have agreed with that criticism elsewhere. I also think unencrypted iCloud backups are a very serious problem.
Cheers :) Let me know if you come up with any questions or feedback, my door is always open at sir@cmpwn.com.
There is a whole subset of memes focused on the "political compass", which maps one's position from liberal to conservative and from authoritarian to libertarian. Right-wing authoritarian is where people like nazis are typically placed; left-wing libertarian is where progressives or green party type people are typically placed. The joke is that some Europeans will say, "We should treat everyone equally; hon hon, look at silly American being racist!" then go treat gypsies poorly (moving from bottom-left to top-right).
You can go on google maps and judge for yourself:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1589047,24.785939,3a,75y,202...

You can compare to other areas of the city:

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.1589047,24.785939,3a,75y,202...

I think racial tension came down a lot the last 10 years, and the reason is that quite a few Roma work in Western Europe. For the ones in Stolipinovo I believe the prime destination is Dortmund.
FWF I think the EU helped diffuse the tension by allowing increased mobility of both Roma and poor Bulgarians. I think the Roma neighbourhoods were much worse around the turn of the century and the politics were much more aggressive towards the Roma - I remember the Attack party being really popular back then.

I think it has been slow, but nowadays it is not as acceptable as once was to publish bluntly racist texts like this example from a prominent BG journalist in 2012:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=bg&tl=en&u=https:/...

In 2018, the same guy got a lifetime achievement award from the union of BG journalists.
>"It's meant to be a living document, right? "

The constitution was not originally intended to be a 'living' document; that theory came about in the progressive era as a way to change the meaning of the constitution without amending it.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Constitution
You’ll never play doom on any amount of neurons... brains are not cpus
> with the help of Vimimum, even chrome!

Even though OP made a typo, he more likely wanted to say Vimium.
I think the ethical questions here mostly revolve around how the resulting animal would be treated. It wouldn’t have the legal status of a person- although it might be one. So we would probably use it for slave labor, as a pet, probably not as food although there are probably people who would do that too given the opportunity. Certainly that’s how we treat other nonhuman animals. Or they might escape and the gene might start to circulate in wild populations. There’s no good way this pans out.
Agreed, it seems offtopic.

At the same time it feels important on its own. I’d be interested in a follow up post that would focus on just that.
Not in free states like Washington. The voters decided.
In-group out-group thinking is completely natural. That doesn't make it good. If you expose a dog to only one race or one sex from when it's a puppy, it will be uncomfortable as an adult around others. Same goes for a child. It's up to us to adjust ourselves to a diverse global community that our genes never could've prepared us for.
Koch has spent a fortune on destabilizing public infrastructure in midwest cities. If he "believed in people", he could show it by not tearing down public transit systems which disenfranchises poorer people.
About 70% of my lights are smart lights at this point, and I disagree.

They are super useful for things like adding "sunrise" light in a bedroom with few windows/north facing, great for situations where you have a non ideal arrangement of light switches (one of my living room lights is on the switch circuit that my entry stairwell light is on). I also am very affected by light color temperature, so being able to easily transition lights from cool white to warm at night is very helpful for my sleep quality.
That's what my American friends say, but it's easy to tell, for example, Albanians and Greeks apart, or Englishpeople and Spaniards.
I have experience developing MVPs for clients, theres a few ways of going about it I think the best is to go to a few local agency and talk to them about your idea and needs. They won't really want to steal your idea because they already got their own money making idea and its currently making them money.

Its going to cost a lot more than a fiver like $25k minimum for something you could potentialy trial in front of customers / investors. Upwork is fine for finding a developer but you need to make sure its some one who has a range of skills to essentialy be able to lead the project and understand you when you are communicating your idea, ie don't just go for the cheapest.

You can learn programing yourself its easy enough but it will take a few year or two for you to be good enough to build an mvp a few more years to be able to grow your technical understanding enough to lead a larger project or organise a team of developers etc, you are investing a lot of time into a skill that won't really help the business side of the business.

You won't impress a technical found by trying to do his job, do your part of the job plan out how you intent to implement and communicate your idea. Design a prototype of your idea draw it out on paper how it works. Whats the problem? How to solve it? Who will pay for the solution? How to market and sale to these people? How many are there? How are we going to finance this?

The more evidence you can provide that this is a real idea and not just wishful thinking the more time a developer will commit to your idea.

Ideas are worthless some one who can figure out the idea and communicate it effectively is worth something you need to prove you can do that, also setup a ltd business its like $100 and gives you a legal fallback.
The answer is simple: We massively fucked up chemistry in the last 100 years. How do we get the confidence to know we can't fuck up biology (much much much much more complex)?
> What on earth does it mean to "out" a trans person?

Typically, it means to publicly reveal, when this is not welcome by the subject, the gender-socially-ascribed-at-birth (usually, on the basis of external genitalia) of a person whose gender identity and public gender presentation are not consistent with that ascribed-at-birth gender. (Though in the case of the legislation at issue, it generally goes beyond that kind of outing to also include forcibly ascribing the gender-ascribed-at-birth and regulating substantive behavior and options on the basis of that ascribed gender.)
You almost make my eyes water... :)
"even after it became clear that ventilators aren't uniquely useful for treating covid."

Is that established knowledge now?

I remember the discussions about it here on HN quite early, but for example here in germany, I believe lung ventilators are still the tool of choice for serious cases. At least, I never found information, that they changed policy towards it.
"non-Roma Bulgarian"

are you quite sure they self-identify as Bulgarian? My experience from a different country is a different one.
Generally one side of America so gave up on government that a guiding principal of ‘starve the beast’ (that has done so much damage to our young) became dominant.

Once people with that world view actually enter government, they don’t have a lot of desire to use government for what it could be used for in terms of helping citizens instead of consolidating powers as a function of lobbying dollars.
I have now met someone who would be unironically mad at Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story for merely "pretending" to fly.
Most Roma at a very young age are taught by their parents a moral code that says, "Never steal from your own Roma people, but outsiders are fair game, for they are not your people." During countless European wars this was also the code, for example, "English ships may rob Spanish treasure galleons, for the Spanish are not the English." "The Spanish may rob the indigenous New Worlders of their gold, for they are not Spanish." There have been many largely unsuccessful humanitarian efforts in Europe to get Roma to assimilate better, to abandon their nomadic lifestyle so that their children can remain enrolled in the same public school and eventually qualify for decent jobs that can pull them up in society. But they are culturally resistant to change.
I meant living document in the prosaic sense, of document meant to be regularly updated. The amendment process is baked in from the start, so was clearly intended from the beginning.
I mean, label-actions-ng is open so is ya-label-actions
Just reading how he wants to all of a sudden improve his legacy makes me so mad. How many thousands of peoples' legacies has he impacted?
With the right size room, I would probably leave it accessible most of the time and only close it off when hosting guests or I otherwise need the extra space. Of course, if you have that size room available to you, you probably have better options than this already.