skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It says that autism and other behavioral health issues are not necessarily inherently "bad" (just as being in a wheelchair is not inherently bad) but we fail as a society when fail to accommodate such folks.

You know, when I put on ramp for someone with wheelchair, it is done. It takes some space, alright, but mostly does not affect healthy peoples days.

When I am yelled at and get insulted by an autistic because I personally did not done things in the exact required routine, then it is not nearly the same thing. It is not that we should not accommodate people with issues. But pretending these are not issues that dont affect others is not accurate either.
This is more or less how much of the world works already - if you’re in the USA and you’ve heard of FinCEN, that’s what that’s for.

Money moves quickly, often between non-co-operative jurisdictions, often irretrievably. Money laundering activities exploit the points in the payments system where enforcement and traceability are slower and more difficult. Filing suspicious activity reports is all well and good, but enforcement is always a tradeoff between the expense of the prosecution and the prospect of obtaining a conviction.

Meanwhile more than a trillion dollars leaks into the global money laundry annually under the status quo[0]. That’s _with_ the threat of prosecution - and thousands of people working in AML/CTF prevention worldwide.

MC and Visa (JCB, UnionPay...) have to walk an awkward line between consumers’
and businesses’ demands for instantaneous global payments and countervailing demands that consumers be protected from deception, bad business practices and other forms of abuse. The policy is almost always to opt for the ounce of prevention, because most individuals can’t afford a pound of lawsuit.

[0] https://www.un.org/en/desa/tax-abuse-money-laundering-and-co...
Using Python's JSON Module
> Seeing this at the top of any piece of code running in a production environment is enough to induce an anxiety attack

Then what about this?:

import pandas as pd
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import math
from __future__ import print_function

(sorry about that)
In my experience, hackintoshes sleep/wake much more quickly than Linux, even on the same hardware.
Yeah but the duopoly is at least committed to opensource for most of its components. I can download opensource drivers for the GPUs (provided by Intel and AMD) and network components (Intel) as well as most-if-not all of the components on my current motherboard.
One cool feature of functional package managers such as Nix and Guix is that the dependency graphs are entirely transparent and can be inspected programmatically.

I wrote a script that lists the number of dependents for each package in Guix by traversing the package graphs:

https://gist.github.com/mbakke/f354272666fbef09c5229f7b85377...

Running it takes about 16 seconds on my laptop, and piping to 'grep -v bootstrap | sort -rn | tail -n 20' gives:

16695 guile
16692 ld-wrapper
14686 pkg-config
14512 perl
14444 ncurses
13135 readline
13133 zlib
13022 libffi
12470 xz
12448 libunistring
12433 openssl
12353 bash
12050 libxml2
12016 gettext-minimal
11950 tar
11942 bzip2
11896 expat
11857 tzdata
11850 net-base
11846 python-minimal

(GCC, glibc and binutils are missing for complicated reasons, but should be up there with Guile)

By changing (all-packages) on line 26 to:

(fold-packages (lambda (package result)
(if (string-prefix? "python-" (package-name package))
(cons package result)
result))
'()))

We get the most popular Python projects:

6672 python-setuptools-scm
6667 python-nose
6662 python-pyparsing
6662 python-more-itertools
6661 python-wcwidth
6660 python-py
6660 python-pluggy
6660 python-atomicwrites
6657 python-six
6593 python-mock
6587 python-appdirs
6586 python-lxml
6584 python-filelock
6584 python-distlib
6583 python-sortedcontainers
6580 python-hypothesis
6577 python-elementpath
6576 python-xmlschema
6575 python-pytest
6303 python-libxml2

This approach misses "end user" packages such as browsers and QEMU, but provides some insight into high value targets.

For end user packages, Debians "popularity contest" can be useful:

https://popcon.debian.org/
> AFAIK linux-only distributors like System76 don't have this problem.

Doesn't need to be linux-only, just well supported. My Dells and Thinkpads don't give be any trouble.
And btw, I spent nothing on advertising. Everything was organic.
> Note: Despite the fact that I think Brexit is a devastatingly bad idea I don't mean to imply that leave voters are bigots or racists.

All the bigots and racists did vote leave though.
Aside: the book Digital Apollo[0] gave me the impression that the computer might well have been able to land, but we'll never know since the astronauts didn't trust it enough to find out.

[0] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/digital-apollo
Yeah, I know. Russia would have a lot to gain from:

-- Trump being re-elected

-- Yellow Vests riots in France

-- Brexit

-- Alternative for Germany party rise in Germany

and all of these happened because of Facebook+Russia.

Sorry, but this is just Q-Anon level global conspiracy theory adopted for progressives. :-(
My last 2 laptops: T440s and an XPS 13 (9310) have both not had this issue, and that accounts for about the last 6 years of linux laptop usage for me. Several crummy laptops (the 300-700 dollar range at best buy) prior to that have had it, though.
I agree with your comment. I'm continuously surprised at how much hate Brave gets from HN. It's a decent browser with a unique and novel way to try to deal with the current adpocalypse. If anything, they should be celebrated for actually trying out a new business model. Come to think of it though, the comment sums up HN perfectly, ending with `deeply involved the incredibly shade business of cryptocurrencies`.

I've been using Brave for about a year now and am really happy with it. I love paying creators directly and just wish more creators would sign up for the rewards.
There has been absolutely no word from CDPR as to why they did not port any of their other games. Both commonts in your article are from a developer from the porting company, not CDPR.
we have extensive Page Objects which let us re use code everywhere. i’m not a huge fan of cypress commands because they pollute a public prototype and i don’t like modifiying those
As a widespread counterpoint, look at Chrome OS. I’ve never seen any ChromeBook, clear back to the very first CR-48 ever fail on this.

That said, I have a work laptop (HP Elitebook G5) running Ubuntu that wakes and sleeps perfectly. Same situation with Ubuntu on my desktop PC.
Prettier for Ruby Goes v1.0
Corporate-based media doesn’t like competition.

Perhaps we need more journalists and not National Enquirer-type ones.

After all, who is really turning off the lights to this “Democracy dies in a darkness”?
I don't know how cosy is the CIA with the NSA, but the NSA certainly has access to anything it wants with Prism.
That promise came one year too late.
I have experienced this on desktops that I have built. I haven't had this problem on my laptops in a while though. I am running stock Fedora on thinkpads for my past few laptops, and hardware support has been great. I haven't experienced the same hardware issues that I did on my desktop.
No I don’t think it’s the same. We are spending some time here but the amount of interaction is very low.

I recently bought something from a whiskey group on FB. We spent about 30 minutes talking about whiskey after our transaction. It was probably more meaningful than a week of HN interactions.
Use a thinkpad and avoid problems
Hit the Covid: react.js game
A web based game related to current pandemic covid-19.
I believe most people like what they're told to like. I think a small number of taste makers can change the future drastically and you never know how your words will influence people. If you ever want it to be different, you and I and everyone who cares have to simply say that it is different.

If you want it to be different, you have to ignore them and get people jazzed about a more open future. Eventually one of us will either become famous enough for us to do something about it, or inspire someone else.
>Do you think someone confused Twitch with the US government?

Yes, this is exactly what's happening. Or, maybe the inverse: people think "free speech" means they can say whatever they want without consequences. This is not the letter nor spirit of the law.
You bet this happened in the 70's.
This data makes me sad just looking at the parents, children, and coworker lines. This isn't how it should be...
It's why the EU should measure all carbon inputs - be they in the EU or imported, and then tax that to reduce them, and either spend the tax revenue on subsidising greener processes, or on mittigation for climate change effects in Europe, or if you're altruistic mittigation for climate change globally, or on a UBI to offset the average cost of carbon -- those that use less will benefit, those that use more won't lose out.
There's Still No Evidence That Either Lockdowns or Masks Are “Game Changers”
Those were early prototypes. Google didn't make it into a touch interface in a single year.

The exact UI doesn't matter anyway. Apple knew they had something and they knew Google had resources to compete. Don't forget that these companies compete over hiring talent as well.

Apple never, ever planned on only web apps and there's no evidence of that.
> They have collected donations on behalf of people without the consent of those people

Wasn't this related to YouTube channels? I remember Tom Scott complaining about it on Twitter.

While the browser probably shouldn't ask users if they want to donate to people that haven't joined Brave Rewards, the money is returned to the sender (up to 3 months later, I believe) if the creator doesn't join Brave Rewards. It's not like they stole donations.

> they have secretely added affiliate links

They did that with some crypto sites when typing the keyword/URL in the search bar. I can't defend the decision, but the code is on Github[0] and they admitted doing it as soon people pointed it out. And then reverted the change.

I'm not sure what to think about this monetisation strategy. What's the downside for users? Is it worse than generating revenue by selling the default search engine to the highest bidder? And why is it wrong for browsers to do it but it's fine when some search engines do it?

---

0. https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/1cac2377c9a2d5e3587...
I get the same feeling with Bose QC IIs, but on planes it's worth the quiet. That being said IEMs and actual earmuffs work pretty well too if you don't mind looking a bit silly.
I played with both Clojure and Scala, but ended up on Kotlin. I've been very happy there.
Kandria: A 2D platformer written in Common Lisp
Everybody in the world can honestly answer yes they are disabled because of something. Yet the vast majority don't need special consideration to live their life. Even when someone does need special consideration what is important: Those bumps in the sidewalk that let a blind person know there is a road crossing ahead are critical to their safety - but they are very uncomfortable to someone in a wheelchair, sometimes to the point of being unable to use the sidewalk at all!

In short, the question is invalid. What is really needed isn't a yes/no response it is an appendix of what accommodations they have and already and then a blank of what you need. If you are in a wheelchair and the place already is wheelchair accessible then you are not disabled, but if the building hasn't be remodeled to wheelchair accessibility you are disabled. If there won't be a meal/snacks then your food allergies are not a disability, but if there are then it could be (could because some are you know what to avoid and can trust to find the something safe, while others are don't even have something in the same room).

But it is easier to have a yes/no question even though that is useless to everyone.
Pepe was 4chan culture, but was it gaming culture outside of 4chan? Cause I really did not seen it much in general gaming culture, except from chan people.
I see this sorta argument frequently but there was a time when only IBM was capable of making PCs. It seems whoever is first to market ends up not having an open platform, which later is superseded by a more open platform.*

See the variety of open operating systems for devices. Ie sailfish, postmarketOS, librephone, etc.
classic HN comment, nothing is worth anything if not done 100% luckily it's not like that in the real world. Agreements like this are tiny footsteps in the right direction, people are being aware, acknowledging the problem, setting directions, goals, timelines etc. this all helps to reach the goal
“You know what I meant”

No. I am not a mindreader. And “vaccines are injected into the bloodstream” is a standard antivax lie.

Yes there’s a risk in receiving a vaccine, just as there’s a risk in receiving any prophylactic/therapeutic treatment, but severe side-effects are closer to 1-in-100K to 1-in-a-million. Compared to a disease that is currently killing 2-in-100, with significant sequelae likely much higher.

I’m happy to accept that “bloodstream” was a slip of the tongue, but really try not to make those malignant lying bastards’ jobs any easier, when people die because of them.
Versup – a tool to help version up your projects
If reality is not so clear cut, then a constant exposure to lies would not help anyone to better understand it. Which is my point: it's not that people are now trusting an alternative source of information because they lied previously, it's that there's so much misinformation and lies that people don't even know what they can trust, and even basic facts get doubted. That is serious damage for democracy.
Not the OP, but I've got an older W530, and it's a very careful dance for me with sleep and power. If I'm using it at a desk, I have to unplug the power, wait a few seconds, and then close the lid. If I close the lid and then unplug the power, the power change event seems to wake the system back up and I'll find it hot with a dead battery in my backpack when I get to my destination. Running Ubuntu 18.04. When I finally get around to the 20.04 upgrade I'll test it again and see if it's fixed, but I have my doubts.
It's easy to make things work when you control both hardware and software.
Your comparison is off by a whopping 5 orders of magnitude. It’s not even close.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Sovi...
The confederate flag isn't a national flag, though. The Confederacy isn't a religion. It was, at one point in history, a nation that lost an ideological war over a state's right to allow for the ownership of slaves

It deserves the same treatment as a swastika or Nazi flag. Bringing it back isn't some matter of "pride" - it's to let certain people know where you stand
The far right and far left have surged globally, the old center has collapsed. The far right has had more successful surges, to be clear.

Are you American by any chance? You may be committing the same mistake you complain of.

The neonazis have made great gains in Germany, Brexit happened. The far right northern league came to power as part of a coalition, with a leader who called for mass cleansing.

A Hindu nationalist party is in power in India, buoyed by whatsapp chain messages. In France, Macron came out of nowehere: he is a centrist but this still shows a collapse of the old structures. His biggest threat is a fascist.

Bolsonaro, a Trump admirer is in power in Brazil. The president of the phillipines, Duterte, boasts of summarily executing drug dealers. Authoritarians rule in Hungary and Poland.
> It's a photo of a nude 10 year old.

Sure, objectively there's nothing wrong with that.

The problem is that the kid is in a very unlikely position for a child; and then the broken glass effect is terrifying. It gives me an extremely uneasy, disgusting, feeling. On the other hand, I acknowledge that the composition is quite masterful. Thus, it is a work of art that does not leave you indifferent, and you remember it for a long time after having seen it. I guess that makes it a very good, unforgettable cover for a music album.
Alternative title: EU leaders agree to offshore >50% of emissions to Asia by the end of the decade
Because they can sell from Turkey and China into the EU and not worry about carbon emissions.

If those emissions were accounted for, then it would be more efficient to manufacture closer to the customer, and we'd all benefit.
It is actually very much correct if you believe in data backed research and can read Capital in the 21st Century.
When did the sixties end?
Equally bad, ok, yes perhaps. Worse? Absolutely not.
The confederate flag is about exactly one thing, which is white supremacy. The other flags being sarcastically listed as replies to this comment stand for higher ideals, whether or not those ideals were misguided and whether or not the nations behind those flags lived up to those ideals.

If someone puts a sign up in the break room that says “don’t steal other people’s lunches” and then proceeds to steal everyone else’s lunch, you can still point to that sign and say, yeah, that’s a standard we should strive to live by. It would be more difficult to say that if someone puts a swastika up in the break room.
It might be the result of 4chan's influence spreading, mind you, but these days it's part of gaming culture all over Twitch, and maybe 50% of Discord.
Windows was that way back in 2000. Some android tablets are like that too.
E.g on my 2015 macbook pro I need to remove and re-add the wifi driver module to make it connect.
Poll: Are You Happy?
Why? Why not?
It's like those "oh my god new Android malware is eating the world" articles that just casually say "after the user installs the apk and gives it device admin permissions" as if it's not a barrier at all. Coincidently, these articles are usually written by anti-virus companies.
I think that means "no, we don't really have that", because where I'm familiar with roads, the seasons and weather will do that quite unaided.
I've been lucky with Thinkpads. Have you been using Thinkpads?

I know what you mean, it hasn't all been roses. But in general I have no major gripes with my latest Thinkpad laptops.

Lately it's been amazing actually, on a Thinkpad X1 Yoga 4th gen with Fedora 31 atm. I can't remember the last issue I had.
How recent is your recent?
Immigrants are required to possess a modicum of knowledge about the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the system of government, not to mention some level of command of the English language (my wife teaches citizenship courses to immigrants). I, myself, am a naturalized citizen, from Canada, and I had to swear an oath to uphold the Constitution, forbear allegiance to foreign powers etc.

It's a ritual, but rituals have meaning and power. It would be nice to see more native-born Americans with a strong grounding in democracy and electoral politics.

When we had a mandatory military draft, at that time most able bodied young men were required to put on a uniform, salute the U.S. flag, march to patriotic music, etc.

Today this sounds trite and even anti-democracy -- weren't we indoctrinating generations of gullible young people to just blindly follow the leader?

Yet, today, many young people including college graduates are hardly patriotic at all, and are mind-numbingly ignorant of even the most basic facts, as illustrated by man-in-the-street interviews posted on Youtube by wags like Ami Horowitz and Mark Dice, getting college students to admit that the triceratops (an extinct dinosaur) is endangered and trophy hunting of this poor beast should be banned, and similar ridiculous notions.

Even during the Vietnam War, one survey in about 1970 found that 25% of Americans thought Vietnam was in South America.

Education is the key, and by that I believe you and I both agree that indoctrination in particular directions is not the same thing. My kid in high school... well, I could tell you stories, but I'd better stop :)
It’s easy to scapegoat than actually solve a real problem. This is a well tested way to win elections.
It should say infected with SARS 2 because COVID is the just the disease cause by this SARS virus.
Explain concurrency like I am five and give a concurrency example problem and solution.
Plastic does have issues though - my wife's ThinkPad had a small piece of plastic holding the battery break. If the battery moved a little too much, the computer would shut down.

So she sent it in for service. When she got the computer back, they had replaced the entire bottom of the computer, plus replaced the battery. Great, right? Except now the bottom of the computer is a different color than the top of the computer, and the battery is a 3rd color!

It's ridiculous, but that's the thing you get with plastic. UV light changes the color over time.
I think that's a fair assessment.

I also think it is super super likely that Apple is about to hit Bose and other higher-end headphones makers by surprise with how good these sound. We'll have to wait for some real world usage tests and whatnot, but most $500 headphone makers are pretty hidebound / kinda into the woo-woo world of audio. These could be pretty disruptive -- especially if, in year or two, they introduce a lower-end model (AirPods MaxSE?).
How do you explain the Internet Research Agency then? What purpose do they serve?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
I had never seen the cover to this album... it makes it look like a children’s sing along album. Sco is the man though!
I launched https://forwardemail.net out of beta on Nov 23.
Within twelve days had thousands in sales. This is also an open startup at https://forwardemail.net/open-startup.
Thanks for the feedback, you are right in that there are no results covering those languages to date.

We are currently focusing on Romance/Latin European language documents as those languages in themselves have a huge amount of content to crawl and index. As our index expands we will increase coverage to index documents in other languages.
Neat VS Code 1.52 troubleshooting feature: Extension bisect
Quite a few companies have specialized in migrating COBOL to C# or Java code, so I’m not surprised. I wonder why they choose those languages as one-trick ponies though. Seems like the “we only have a hammer” problem.
There's probably some public relations and real actual concern about what people are doing on their platform too.

I also wonder why you think it is cynical to point out that a business is acting like a business. Of course they do.

It would be cynical to outright dismiss the possibility that individuals involved in the process also had concerns about things happening on the platform and argue that it was purely for business reasons.
"trackingEnabled: 0" does not require consent and lets you acknowledge

"consentId: abc134" then looking that up in or even "consentDenied: exact timestamp" could be used to identify a user so would require consent. I suspect lots of companies want to use the second so they can choose to bug you for [more] consent at a later date, or choose to interpret the first as not allowed in case bugging the user again enough times does get consent.
The mistake there would be getting that specific about it – it's not a useful method for an individual developer, but it _is_ a useful method for the team overall, where these effects get amortised.

(Although in this specific case, your colleague who has been working on one ticket for two or three weeks is operating in a way that I find is usually pretty harmful for productivity overall. "Solving a critical bug" is almost universally something that can be broken down further.)
Yep, Etymotics are absolutely the gold standard in my opinion if you want a high quality sound experience while traveling (train, plane, etc.) I've had a crying baby directly in the seat in front of me for most of a 10 hour flight and didn't hear it with music on at a reasonable volume.

And the sound quality is really excellent for the price.
Also some platforms block it. E.g.: Amazon Prime for downloaded videos.