skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I use FB or whatever, I want to be completely anonymous.

Keep in mind it's already against the FB terms of service to use it anonymously. You're supposed to use your real full name.

> With requiring payment comes the ability to trace where the money came from.

One possible solution could be bitcoin. I'd be more worried about where the money is going, though. Do modern democracies need to be collecting even more money from us, to do god knows what with? Would this new tax come with a decrease in other taxes? Probably not.

I think disincentivizing social media is a good idea, but a social media tax isn't the right move. Brainstorming some other ways of doing so:

- Ban certain social media Skinner-box features like endless scrolling, recommendation algorithms, likes, whatever. This is more likely to get to the heart of the problem, but gives the government more control over the internet, private businesses, etc.

- Create alternative social media platforms which don't use the same rage-inducing and addicting mechanisms. These will fail because they are by definition less addicting than the alternative.

- Make current social media unusable by flooding it with spam. This could be accomplished "extra-legally", preferably using AI to make spam hard to detect. This is already being done to an extent by bad actors (Chinese Communist Party, though you don't need AI when you have over a billion cheap workers), but could be done on a larger scale not to sway opinion, but to ruin the platforms altogether.

- Social media companies could use semantic analysis to downrank rage-bait and negativity and up-rank positivity and thoughtful discourse (though hopefully not that hollow "you go girl!!!" faux-positivity you sometimes see on social media). This is uncomfortable because it means social media companies get to engineer our conversations to be whatever they want, but they are already doing this, they're just doing it in a malevolent way.

- Somehow educate the entire population on the dangers of social media the same way we did with cigarettes. Whether through a public information campaign, or by generally getting people to meditate and realize the true important things in life. This is a terrible solution, and obviously social media companies would fight it tooth and nail, but I only mention it because I've heard it seriously proposed too many times. If your solution is "educate everybody", but everybody is currently hooked up to disinformation machines, you're screwed.

That's all I've got. Anyone else have any ideas?
I have and like the gameshell from clockworkpi. I'm particularly intrigued by the "Volume VIZ" window on the stock image and curious if that's a real pic or a staged/rendered one.
He's targeting 4x4 tractors specifically because he works on soft waterlogged soil. Rust is going to be an issue.
> The compiler of Play is written in Elm.

Ooo la la! How was that?
Not only there is an established framework named Play, but googling anything on Play-the-framework is a PITA because Play, as you can imagine, has a gazillion hits with any word you may imagine.
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This seems like it risks having an opposite effect.
Recipe for bugs but possibly also a recipe for performance.

I’m not making any claims for this particular case, but if a function taking a large buffer to modify needs some extra space, and the code can get faster by storing that at the end of the buffer, requiring the caller to reserve that space can mean not having to copy the buffer twice, increasing memory use and execution time.

A fairly common example is room for adding extra zero string terminators, so that an vectorized algorithm walking the input always hits one of them.
I think even with our current knowledge no. We still haven't even really figured out how to do the energy sector without fossil fuels (we're pretty darn close though). But outside of that we have a lot of problems. One of the biggest challenges in climate is that the population has been so hyper focused with energy and transportation (because they are the primary drivers, but only 60% of emissions). Modern society needs steel, concrete, plastics, medicines, cooling systems, food, etc. We have major challenges in making many of those things green.
Whats wrong with brave? Seems like a decent browser to me.
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Wow. Where is this, if I may ask?

Here in Finland, there is no mandatory mask usage, largely because the government hasn't been able to find a constitutionally acceptable way of mandating it. Instead, we have increasingly stern "recommendations". OTOH, the situation is relatively well in hand here still, so I suppose the political pressure to act is not as heavy as it is elsewhere.
> Apple is made up of hundreds of thousands of employees

And they can still be bad

I could be fooled by your words when I was kid, unfortunately for me I'm too old to be fooled by rhetoric and propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Philip_Morris

> Their individual decisions might be better or worse for certain groups of people

And those can be criminal decisions.

More often than not, multi trillion companies act like villains, they lie, deceit, bribe, threaten, they use all the tricks in the book.

And people working there have no decisional power whatsoever, they are just clogs in the machine.

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

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

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

Not rarely, their actions lead to innocent people dying

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

> but Apple as a whole isn't really an entity that you can make a value judgement about.

Then how can you make a judgment about China or USSR or Cuba or Iraq?

There's a billion and a half people in China...

By your logic it's impossible to make a judgment, right?
How did you land on another analytics SaaS product? I think like every dev I have always dreamed of starting my own thing, but never had the time/energy to compete with existing spaces, and couldn't think of any new markets create. It just seems crazy to me when someone is like: 'oh I am gonna make a tool for people to manage their finances' when 1000 exist, but then they build it and achieve some level of success.
I took the survey. I see the value in this. Simply because aesthetics are important (big concern for patient) and maybe you could use data to help them make a big decision in a data driven way on which type of surgery to choose.

As with other surveys like this, and perhaps eye exams, I found myself several times thinking "these two look the same", or "I have no obvious preference", or "I like both". I'm bringing it up because I think that's valuable data that should be considered.
I'm running Guix on Void, but I think Guix on Debian (experimental) is better supported [1] and what I plan to switch to eventually.

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg002...
How do you mean viable on Linux? Are you looking for a 2FA app which runs on your desktop computer?

On the phone andOTP is a nice working Google Authenticator alternative.
> for whatever good it will do...

None at all. I’ve taken to getting my daily exercise in the early morning and late evening just to avoid talking to/arguing with my neighbors/the busybody brigade. The fact that I walk well out into the street when there aren’t any cars keeping roughly 15 to 30 feet from just about anyone and line of sight on everyone around me does not change this.
I think biogas might be winner for farms. If reliable and cheap production and liquefaction could be done. LNG seems perfectly reasonable self-supplied source for farms. There is likely enough waste material around for power needs of farming equipment. And source is local.
But not fire, probably, which is a key to many tech trees (e.g. smelting, cooking).
Super cool, I've never thought about it this way before. Having read about this stuff somewhat intensively, it just goes to show how many blind spots I have.
Fair point. Given their business model, it seems like the whole segment of co-working (renting long term leases and reselling as short term ones) never really made sense to begin with. (Despite it being to many people's advantage, including myself).
on further reflection I'm not going to their's; gonna facetime them and have some food with the people in my bubble. Just not the move right now to push the limits.
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Depends entirely on the county you live in. In many blue counties, this is true. In red counties, we have sheriffs that hand them out to almost all applicants, and encourage people to apply for permits.

It also changes as new sheriffs are elected. Where I live, the previous sheriff was known to reject applications, but the current one is known for the opposite stance.
One of the long running problems in capitalism or indeed economics in general is the so called agency problem where in this case you entrust Benchmark as an agent to invest your money wisely but it can be in their interests to throw it around wildly as long as they can collect 2% on assets invested or similar. Not sure exactly what the solution is.
Without ability to synthesize medications society would need to go back to herbal medicines. Too bad 90% of society knows jack squat about the natural sources of commonly used medications.
Storybook 6.1 – faster performance in a smaller bundle size
That's not true at all. From the text of prop 22, the minimum wage covers the entire period "from when an app-based driver accepts a rideshare request or delivery request to when the app-based driver completes that
rideshare request or delivery request."

So it's true that if you're sitting outside an airport at 3am when no one is there you won't be getting paid. But as soon as a plane lands and you accept a passenger, you'll get paid for the time you spend driving to pick them up AND the time after you pick them up.

Similarly, if you accept a food delivery in the app but the food isn't ready when you get to the restaurant, you'll get 120% minimum wage while waiting for the cook to finish
Isn't it true that Google doesn't use git? Wonder what they know that we don't.
I tried installing GUIX on my 2013 MacBook Air 11" on Sunday night.

The installer insists on erasing the entire disk, not sharing with other partitions.

I removed the SSD for safety, and plugged in a second USB stick.

The installer took from 21:20 to 7:30 am the next day. It needed to be connected to wired Thunderbolt Ethernet, which in my case means in the laundry.

Downloading packages took a long time (about 2 hours). "grafting" took longer. Finally it failed to set up the bootloader. No big deal, try GRUB or rEFIt, right? But they didn't detect it.

There is an "EFI Boot" option in the startup menu (holding option). That just boots to a black screen.

I'm sorry, but issues like this mean that I think GUIX is not desktop-ready for bare metal. It'll be relegated to a virtual machine (along with OpenIndiana, PureOS, Haiku, Hello, etc).
I haven't quite gotten to the point to leave LI. Mostly because I forgot the password and because my filters get rid of the emails.
IANAL...

Without a license, your code falls under copyright protection. Licenses will work on a before/after basis, RE: Amazon / Elasticsearch.

You can also dual license and there are a myriad of new "open source" licenses being created (as in possibly evolving meaning or bastardization, depending on who you talk to)

We've entered an interesting time with OSS proliferation and the need to make money to support products.

Check out https://coss.media and https://2020.opencoresummit.com/
For those who like infographics:

https://i.redd.it/grnr8kxbl6zz.jpg

https://old.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/7ebdyu/bil...
> The only things that seem apolitical are the things that are so widely agreed on that their true political nature is hard to discern

The disagreement is what makes things political. There isn't an inherent "political" quality sitting in things. Existentialist's motto was: life is meaningless until you give it meaning. By analogy, most things in the world are apolitical until quarrelsome people with pet issues show up and make them political.
How is good that a government is banning Facebook to control narrative about their corruption? I really don't understand the Hacker News crowd sometimes.
My big issue, is that I don't particularly trust any organnization to audit information in a non-partisan manner within the context of our polarized political and media landscapes.

I fully trust that the policy has been implemented with the best of intentions, but without a common core of cultural values, an environment of partisan hostility, and accepted narratives downstream from the raw data being interpreted as the absolute 'truth' by either side, I think it's safest to select contractors that you expect won't fold under political pressure, or engage in their own activism if your product is meant to be mass market.

Either that, or integrate a level of service redundancy to account for potential deplatforming from any of your providers.

If your product or service is meant to serve a partisan niche, I think you have a lot more latitude.
People can (and do) invest in gold right now. Nothing would change significantly for rich people as they would continue to put most of their money in the same investments they do today which generally have higher risk adjusted returns than gold and would continue to have higher risk adjusted returns than a gold backed currency.

The difference would be in the liquid portion of a person's assets and poor people need to hold a much larger part of their assets as cash and are therefore much more affected by inflation.

It should also be noted that neither fiat currencies nor currencies backed by precious metals are guaranteed to maintain their value and are usually not the most secure means of long term wealth storage.
It's Chromium based so heavily influenced by Google.
Good catch! Looks like a sole purpose of that post.
Parental restrictions on tech use have little lasting effect into adulthood
Yea, but Tesla cars update their lat-lon continuously so you would be able to watch the car drive around on a map. If anything, I think this would make it even less desirable to use to commit a crime.

"The bank robbers are on 4th street. Now, they are turning westbound onto Main st. etc."
ah okay, thanks. Yeah I think I may have over-complicated things by trying to use lambda. Will look into doing this on DO
It's a refreshing perspective. It is still not that much of a knock on Valve - after all, they hired him, seems like they made the right choice, he is really articulate, voted with his feet, etc. etc. It actually makes him and Valve look pretty good, especially since it's such engineering and strategy focused and honest criticism, and none of it concerns illegal stuff either, like retribution.
True, but this IS Hacker News, and most of us in here can easily get around this particular one .
For people on Rails I recommend checking out https://www.heya.email/ from The guys at honeybadger. It is a paid/open source gem, that will let work with the db data instead of having to transmit all that user data to a third party.
Gentoo was too hard for me to install (command-line partitioning is just too risky) so I ended up using Redcore, which has a nice GUI installer, and is Gentoo-based.
Theres ink: a TUI in react, there are others I believe too. https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
Correct. I just got one with a fake name and address, no phone number needed, nor a credit card.
I totally agree that wage theft is a real problem, but the comparison is disingenuous. A more meaningful comparison would be wage theft vs employee shoplifting (which still, obviously, does not justify wage theft, but is in fact a much larger amount).
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> For example, in Philadelphia they have closed the permitting office repeatedly for COVID, bystepping the law which requires them to issue a permit in 45 days, by simply not accepting applications.

This was a HUGE deal in the PA gun community, and I simply cannot understand why.

1. PA extended the expiration date on existing permits that expired after February until Dec 31. It was only new permits requests where the delay actually effected anyone.

2. The delays weren't specific to guns. Government offices closed and then opened at reduced capacity. This also happened for DLs.

3. The remedy provided by the state was also not specific to guns. Again, e.g., expiring driver's licenses were extended.

4. The state's choice not to prioritize streamlining this paperwork was reasonable. It had huge budget shortfalls and more important things to worry about (acquiring/distributing PPE, acquiring/distributing respirators, high unemployment, evictions, running elections, finding overflow space for hospitals, moving schools to remote, figuring out how to safely open up service businesses/schools, and the list goes on...)

5. To the extent that streamlining paper work should have been a larger priority, given the severe stress on logistics networks, I'd imagine CDLs would be the place to spend those limited resources rather than CCW applications.

So, an unavoidable delay happened in LOTS of government processes -- only one of which was CCW issuance -- and the government provided uniform remediation to help partially mitigate the impact of delays in all of those processes.

No one was coming for anyone's guns.

TBH the foaming-at-the-mouth response to unavoidable reasonable delays in processing concealed carry permits during a public health emergency is the sort of thing that makes me (a gun owner) feel completely antagonistic toward the PA 2A advocacy community.
I don't see a reason they would be really against it. FDA says it to everyone, so all companies in same condition. And they can shift cost to healthcare system and have larger revenue. They probably don't mind their pie as a whole being larger, because having revenue of 50 billions and profit of 10 billions is better than revenue of 5 and profit of 1, even though proportionally it's the same. All big pharma companies are massively profitable, fx Novartis net income in 2017 $17.8bln on $50.4bln revenue. Pfizer's $14bln operating income on $53.6bln revenue in 2018. And it's year after year. They really don't seem to suffer from those high costs trials. Also, Pfizer reports only $8bln on R&D in same 2018. I'm sure there' a lot of inefficiencies in those trials, same as it turned out vaccine could be created in year instead of a decade. (btw, previous large scale epidemic of swine flu was largely profitable for pharma companies). They just don't have incentive to reduce the inefficiencies.
You're telling it's not just US but then you cite high healthcare costs (retail vs large scale trial, definitely can be cheaper at scale), which is much cheaper outside of US. I would be very interested in reading numbers of detailed case study of creation of some real world vaccine/drug.
> The trick to maximising timber production is to employ coppicing – cultivating trees such as ash or willow that resprout from their own stump, becoming ready for harvest again in five to 15 years. This way you can ensure a sustained supply of timber and not face an energy crisis once you’ve deforested your surroundings.

Coppice and pollard creates 'water shoots' - long, straight, copious branches. For crafting material, the taper of the material creates problems, so coppice gives you better results.

Similarly, charcoal made from coppiced wood will have a fairly uniform diameter, and few side branches to create snags. Post-industrial, that should allow you to make more charcoal per batch, but I don't know if that matters as much for brick retorts.

For steel making, I don't know how important air gaps are versus calorie content of the furnace. Uniformity would certainly get you more calories into it but might also suffocate the fire.
Cellular aging in humans has been partially reversed using oxygen treatment
If any app failed to run on Windows 95, I took it as a personal failure (2003)
Because it’s competition to multi billion dollar existing companies.

John Deere has the ability to buy every new ‘disruption’ and lock it up in a vault..never to see the light of day again. Why would they disrupt anything? That would be akin to market cannibalisation.
> removing the Ten Commandments from schoolrooms

That was just one small part of a society-wide change of worldview. Prior to 1970, Christian values, ideals, and beliefs were assumed by the majority of the US population and respected by all but a tiny minority.

However, even by 1900 the philosophical basis for this shift had been laid, starting in 19th-century France and Germany with enlightenment (and particularly existentialist) philosophy, like that of Nietzsche and Sartre, joined by Marxist atheism, and finally making its way to the US and the rest of the post-WWI Western world as secular humanism--and to weaker parts of the Western world, and other places as well, as full-blown Socialism/Communism.
This part is strange:
"NVMe drive — an M.2 SSD looks almost identical, but has two notches instead of one. Generally an SSD will perform to the tune of hundreds of MB/s instead of thousands."

First, both are SSDs, so I don't know what he is trying to compare. Both use M.2, but different keys from the sounds of it (the "notches").

M.2 drives can be either SATA or NVME, but it is harder to come across a SATA M.2 drive than an NVME drive these days, so I'm having trouble seeing the point.
Mmmh! https://guix.gnu.org/audio/ode-to-one-two-oh.ogg
It uses the Google rendering engine as it's main component.
The marginal cost of carrying a gun is an enormous increase in the probability that you, personally, will be killed by a gun.
Three Body Problems in ClojureScript is the only UI for my blog
> Reddit honestly killed news for me because of the trump presidency.

Reddit for news is like StackOverflow for programming. If come to either one already knowledgeable in the given area looking for a quick supplement, they are a boon. If you use them as a substitute for knowledge, they are harmful.
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Of the big five, Amazon was by far the easiest to give up. Unless you're super embedded in the Alexa ecosystem, you're giving up... what, the bottom-of-the-barrel streaming services and some minor convenience/savings when it comes to online shopping?

All but the most specialized products on Amazon can be found elsewhere. You'll pay a few extra dollars for shipping and it might take a couple extra days to arrive. That's about it. As a silver lining, you'll probably get to use a slightly-less-terrible web interface. And frankly, if you're habitually making full use of Prime, you may want to re-evaluate your shopping habits anyway.

I understand why Google and Apple and Microsoft are able to get away with what they do. It's hard to ditch one and practically impossible to ditch all three. But Amazon? I just don't get it at all.
^^^THIS. I have a friend that believes that if everyone invited to an indoor house party goes and gets a test, the test comes back negative, and if they have quarantined since the test, that they can then party in the same room together with zero risk.
> Even with the "War on Terror" going on in full swing, Air Force pilots were under the same FAA crew rest procedures as commercial (e.g. Delta, United etc) aviators

This is obviously not true, is it?

For example 33-hour flights with a crew of 2.

https://www.defensenews.com/air/2019/04/29/heres-how-b-2-bom...
Google and its users could take a more balanced approach with regard to data.

I am not advocating for or against google. However its products are frankly very good. I wouldn’t mind giving up some of my data to make possible products that improve my productivity.

Of course the devil is in the detail (transparency, control, meaningful privacy etc).
Yes, please. Go ahead.
like fire, metallurgy?

They are stuck behind bronze age. I just don't see any technology without having these things as prerequisites. Even electricity is generally impossible when you live in a big conductor.