skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and in at least one instance he used his Google email to engage in political work that would get any other Googler sanctioned

Is that as opposed to Googlers donating to Google's PAC so Google can use it to donate to neo-Nazis and Mitch McConnell?
For one, the word "above" is unfounded. At or slightly below works too. You can have a consumption-based economy where the population drops 1% per decade just fine.

But more than that, even the least capitalist economy is going to have trouble if the ratio of young healthy workers drops too low.
Docker for Mac is a really bad resource hog for devs at my company. It's a common refrain that comes up again and again.

We build a SaaS web app with a MERN stack deployed to AWS. Local development usually involves running about 12 containers.

Personally, I got fed up and installed Ubuntu 20.04 in Parallels and have been running the Docker containers there for several months. What a night and day difference... the entire VM sits at about 13% CPU when idling, whereas Docker for Mac would whine my fans at around 150% CPU continuously when idling, and spike up to 300+% when clicking around the app.
Woof. Cracks in welds is always a bad sign of poor engineering management and quality control. Getting welders that can consistently produce xray quality welds isn't hard or even expensive. You just need to get good people and treat them well. As for discovering them you can xray all the welds during fab to ensure nothing like that makes it out.
Though depending on what surfaces you were joining you can often just grind the weld out and try again, though this is pain in the ass with full penetration welds.

My brother runs a high end fabrication company (the kind you might hire to fabricate a piece of your rocket) and such things would never leave the floor of his shop.
https://xkcd.com/1386/
This is actually pretty explosive news. Several of the ongoing antitrust cases involving the tech giants would require a more relaxed definition than the current antitrust standard which necessitates linking direct consumer harm. This standard was established by a somewhat radical pro-free market court decision that reversed an earlier interpretation that viewed monopolies in and of themselves as a condition subject to antitrust litigation (without the direct consumer harm piece). The current definition poses an almost insurmountable challenge for regulators as all companies need to do in order to avoid meeting the statutory requirements for antitrust is to refrain from colluding and/or abusing their market dominant position (engaging in anti-competitive practices). It seems like Google and Facebook crossed that line in a pretty blatant way which is quite shocking considering they are fully aware of the consequences. They opened themselves up with this one in a way that could lead to their undoing. Crazy stuff.
Not particularly secure (unless you go to the expense of getting a second lock for the bike helmet) and depending on the configuration of the bike parking where you are, may not fit with other bikes parked.
It depends on the game. There are asymmetric games like Acron and Takelings

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/2345082335516570

https://takelings.com/

You can also stream the VR game to your television if it's a single player experience.

You're also discounting the fact that we have the internet now and we can do multiplayer online.
The coast lines are the least of the problem.
We haven't had any hardware failures - hard drive or otherwise - in the last 5 months.
Peertube 3.0-rc1 released, with P2P livestreaming
Off the top of my head:

Micro:

A positive test is reported to the FDA. DHS gets this information. It is determined the individual "exposed others to Coronavirus". A "common sense" remedy is applied like, say, prohibiting the individual from boarding airplanes.

Individual is now on a possibly secret "no fly list" with terrorist connotations.

Macro:

Minority groups are skeptical of the government because of historic abuse. They tend to take fewer tests. Majority groups trust the government because of being treated well historically. They tend to take more tests.

More cases are found in majority groups per capita because they took more tests per capita. Data shows more cases in majority areas. More resources are sent to majority areas. Minority areas are neglected and do not receive the resources they need. This perpetuates the experience of mistreatment and discourages future cooperation.

The chilling effect is real, and concern is reasonable on the part of individuals. Who wants to defend a group of bioterrorists anyway?
Cmd isn't really a meta key, though. It's just the equivalent of Control on Windows; there's no equivalent of a Windows key on macOS. That said, it's not quite necessary due to the decoupling of app windows and app open/close state.

Personally I find Apple's approach to key commands far and away the most well thought out and intuitive.
Two quick questions that may or may not make any sense.

If you've seen the Starlink dish teardown, would you suspect that it's built for just a single beam or could it support multiple simultaneous beams?

And what would you expect are the primary performance/capability differences between the 'dish' antenna and the one they fly in the satellite (space-hardening aside)?
Alibaba's Software Can Find Uigher Faces, It Told China Clients
Markdown – A lightweight markup language with plain-text-formatting syntax
Free Law Project is looking for ways to identify bad PDF redactions
Free Law Project is a non-profit that seeks "to collect and freely distribute online all United States court opinions, both state and federal, both historical and current."

They have a trove of over 1 million donated pdf legal documents, but they can't release them until the documents have been checked for bad redactions.

I am not affiliated with Free Law Project, I just think this is an interesting technical challenge.
The Sherman Act is brilliant. High prices - gouging. Low prices - stifling competition. Same prices - collusion. It simply doesn't allow for any sort of equilibrium.
Women getting into the workplace have made it expensive. Women don't generate enough economic value to cover the economic value they provided as housewives. Even the small economic value they do create is usually eaten by increased rent or mortgage to match the increase in family income. It was a bad deal for everybody to get women out to the workplace.
False claims which have been widely debunked about the adverse impacts or effects of receiving vaccinations

"Debunked" by whom? It doesn't say.

False claims that COVID-19 is not real or not serious, and therefore that vaccinations are unnecessary

Given that "serious" and "necessary" are totally undefined here, this amounts to enforced and mandated panic. What does serious mean? Serious relative to what? What does necessary mean? Necessary for who? People who already had COVID and recovered? It's certainly not necessary for them, not that it seems governments will care.

COVID-19 is serious in some ways, but is objectively not "serious" compared to the initial incorrect modelling by epidemiologists. Anyone can look at the data from places that didn't lock down to see that predictions of huge death rates were wrong. Their claims about the level of seriousness were false yet they were allowed to spread them all over Twitter, the media and the world.

The establishment could not find a better or faster way to destroy people's confidence in science than this. Literally make claims that everyone can see with their own eyes are not true, then ban anyone from disagreeing. Academics are not smart enough to deserve this kind of protection.
I switched from Vim to Emacs (specifically, Spacemacs) 1-2 years ago. So much time and effort to configure it and deal with its quirks. (I like Emacs and plan to stick with it longer, but I still think it has a number of issues).
(Speaking from a complete US-centric perspective here) The goal is to hire electors that know how to work with others to reach solutions. In emergency situations this should be the case because fundamentally, and philosophically, we should all be striving for the same things (how we get there has historically been where the parties have diverged). But those events are very, very rare. I took from the article that the shared fundamental notion of what the US is and means is itself fractured and sectarian. Because of _that_ deadlock is an even more appealing thing to have happen. It's no secret that there are two Americas any more.
It uses whatever git's core.editor option tells it to, and supports setting $GIT_EDITOR to override it. I rely on that from time to time instead of having to write a bunch of different aliases in to my tig config for different editors.
Just like getting hit by a car happens almost never? Anecdotally, I have never been hit by a car, but have fallen off my bike multiple times for a variety of reasons: bike entered the lane without warning while I was going downhill, I hit a rock on the road, front tire got caught in a groove in the road, …
This seems like the textbook definition of market division.

From the first Google result for "antitrust law market division" (https://www.classlawgroup.com/antitrust/unlawful-practices/m...)

> In almost all circumstances a market allocation agreement will be illegal under antitrust law. Federal antitrust law treats a market allocation amongst competitors as a per se violation of the antitrust laws. Other types of potentially anticompetitive behavior are only illegal if their anti-competitive effects outweigh their pro-competitive efficiencies. But per se violations are automatic violations of federal antitrust law.
Reminds me about how people don't even give CockroachDB a chance because of it's name. Every time it's mentioned on HN, people can't help but to bring up it's name.
These things don't happen in Europe. Yay for socialist work laws!
Yeah that was my gut reaction too - especially in a town like Seattle... I'm sure there's one or two shops up there that can competently weld critical components that are designed to fly.
There was something in macos Catalina that broke mupdf on my macbook pro. The view would occupy the lower left corner of the window, and something was clipping the view to the lower quadrant.

I tried installing from source, changing the gl library etc. But it was the same.

Am done with Apple for now. M1 is a bit tempting, but I guess I will wait for the technology to mature, buy a Macbook Air, and run Linux on it.
My Christmas List Data Room
You can rub static sites for free on DigitalOcean’s new app platform
It's pretty easy to turn off any ML-generated Pocket recommendations. I wasn't even aware they were doing this given how long I've had it turned off. I'm only interested in articles I've curated myself.
In law school the mnemonic was "IRAC": Issues, Rules, Application, Conclusion. A lot of legal writing at least rhymes with that structure.
This is the downside of having an AG who has been indicted on criminal charges for thee last 6 years. How much can you trust the guy?
I think this is sort of burying the lede though that if the cost of a bigger car is keeping people from having kids, that implies that the real reasons for the declining birth rate are economic.
Do you really think this was done to reduce sexual harassment of male fans?

I think it's more likely that Twitch takes a cut of all simp donations, and they don't want the stream to ever stop.
I agree, but I also have friends who fit three car seats into a Honda. It’s super tight, but it can be done.
So you know what's awesome about doing business and breaking all the rules to get to the top?

The government doesn't want to actually debilitate you in an antitrust lawsuit because it could ironically make the nearest competitor a monopoly when your business implodes. Whoopsie! Although monopolies themselves are not illegal as long as anticompetitive practices aren't deployed, the state is still trying to promote competition, and is keen to avoid causing it themselves.

Breaking rules is tight!

There is a book on this reality if you want to read more.
I charge more per hour for my consulting, I had a bottle of wine that cost about that last week for dinner. What revenue do they actually get out of that model?
I mean, it’s just a helmet. Sure, I lock it so you’d have to cut the strap to get it (thus rendering it largely useless without repair), but in general the theft rate of helmets is low enough that I can just eat the cost of buying a new one.
U.S. Defenses Failed to Detect Giant Russian Hack
@selimthegrim

I actually discovered Freddie when I lived here in 2011. Big fan! I fly TinyWhoop to Freddie's songs, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xCpyVrdt3c
Hypothesis: The reason having to stand up (or more generally put physical effort) on games turns you off is because you're looking for a different thing in games, probably just turning off your brain.

The appeal, unarguably I believe, is in being immersed in the fantasy, which I think is a different kind of appeal from what you seek. I actively dislike "abnegation" type games, but the idea of being transported to somewhere else, exploring different realities, amazes me (I'm dying to try Myst on VR), and putting physical effort on it adds to the fantasy. So maybe VR isn't for you, simple as that.

I've seem lots of people (online, yes, but still) keep coming back for Pavlov, Population One, Half-Life Alyx, Star Wars Squadron, VR Chat... I really think there's something there.
I mean, Google has been setting floors on ad buys for years because they have no competition. It’s definitely anti-consumer as it drives up prices.

Comically, their manipulation to have higher per click rates may be better for society by reducing the number of ads. But in antitrust law, I think the customer is only the customer of the product being manipulated.
I know a sales guy who had a choice of Windows or Mac, I think engineers use Linux.
> a researcher informed the company last year that he had uncovered the password to SolarWinds’ update mechanism — the vehicle through which 18,000 of its customers were compromised. The password was “solarwinds123.”

Wow
Yet, Twitch will not ban the women preying on lonely men (aka simps). The activity of these women is is no different than the grifters that prey on the elderly. Twitch has become the modern day peep show booth for these women, who engage in soft core porn with their cleavage on full display and risqué clothing choices.
Even if you find a seat configuration that fits, the next hassle that drove me nuts was getting access to seatbelts easily. Taking the kids anywhere is that much more annoying when you can't rely on the oldest at least sorting out their own buckles. (Only just occurred to me that a seatbelt extender would probably help bring the receiving part of the latch up from the depths between the seats -- too late now, bought a different car.)

Almost worth staggering births so that after three years the eldest is able to handle buckling themselves and then siblings. Worth finding every advantage like this when you're outnumbered by children.
> eg. putting teflon or PFAS in literally everything because why not.

But it wasn't because "why not" it was because there were very concrete benefits. This is why the fundamental issue is policy, not science - the science can only help you understand a situation better, it can't answer "what is the right amount of risk to take".

The precautionary approach you suggest isn't a new idea, but it has very real negative economic effect at minimum, and a complex relationship with other issues. Collectively, somehow (e.g. legislative bodies) we have to attempt the impossible task of finding the "right" position on the scale between don't-trust-anything-new to anything goes. Clearly both these extremes are problematic, but balancing them is really hard.
You might need a VR headset with better IPD adjustments. Going that route is more expensive and complicated and requires a PC. It also requires wires which kill the immersion.
That's the problem. I'm keen to see some evidence. The Texas vs. Democracy case had a 70-page filing, of which literally every aspect was obviously false. That filing makes me look at this heavily redacted filing and think "this is all made up". Maybe it's not, but it's the rational reaction.
This is answered above. It is faster for arbitrary means, nothing substantive.
The article's most important quote:

"All this is denied me in this stale marriage to an elderly, sickly, complaining, nagging wife. Let's get rid of her, start life all over again with another woman."

Even if a person doesn't consciously have the thought, there is a biological drive to reproduce. Even if a person expresses the desire to be childless, that biological urge may be pushing for a younger mate who might be fertile.

That leads to the anxiety. Trying to do impressive things and to display wealth, no matter how useless, is a biological urge. It becomes time to buy the fast car or take up hang gliding. When sanity and resource limits pull back on that, the emotions don't go so well.
This is from the suit and is pretty damning, at least to my non lawyer eyes.

"In the end, Facebook curtailed its involvement with header bidding in return for Google giving Facebook information, speed, and other advantages in the auctions that Google runs for publishers’ mobile app advertising inventory each month in the United States. In these auctions, Facebook and Google compete head-to-head as bidders. Google’s internal codename for this agreement, signed at the highest-level, was REDACTED a twist on the character name from Star Wars. The parties agree on for how often Facebook would publishers’ auctions—literally manipulating the auction with for how often Facebook would bid and win."
I don't fully get what is illegal about what they did.

Perhaps unethical, but in what way is rigging the ad market illegal that oil companies, lodging, airline, and auto manufacturers don't already do?
Thanks for the link. Though as a Google employee you should probably refrain from any further public comments.
I was able to actually go and buy a telephone after the Bell break-up. Before that, it was not possible to own a telephone. You had to rent them from the phone company. So that was a pretty fundamental change.
To quote:

"""But Apple didn’t tell me that I can’t upgrade to Big Sur when I use ABBYY"""
Thats so reductionist as to be meaningless? Prices are a continuum, and have more values than 'high, low, same'.
HERE's big "trick" is their accurate gradient data. If you're driving big heavy trucks around, and want to take advantage of routing around steep hills to save in fuel costs, HERE are your best choice by far. (Or at least, they were 4-5 years back, anyway...)

They also have some interesting indoor location/mapping stuff I've read about but not used in anger, which seems to be quite promising too. The ability to map and locate phones in multi story buildings including getting each floor right with individual floorplans is not a trivial thing to get right. Their docs, at least, make it seem like they know how to solve that for you.
"What would be a fair punishment? I am thinking a fine to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars."

Those who were responsible for it would still probably walk away billionaires and millionaires.
This was sarcastic, right?
> Until VR is as convenient as picking up a phone or tablet, it's not going anywhere.

It is now with the Oculus Quest. Put it on your hands and head and you're good to go. You should try it. For me this was the biggest game changer. I use this multiple times a day for my workouts / game sessions.

Prior to that, it was really annoying with PCVR. It felt like a ritual setting up PCVR prior to playing and it was a chore cleaning up.
The good old bloatification. At some point Maps was nearly perfect. However the hundreds of people behind it would be let go if they called Maps "complete" so they turned the growth inwards and started creating the bloat.
This is the Linux experience I find (running Ubuntu) and is also driving me crazy.

On my Windows7 installation Ctrl+Tab switches to the next tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab switches to the previous tab. New tabs are open after the current tab.

This might be related to the window manager or the Linux build defaults?
So you have your setup documented anywhere?
https://archive.is/Hrs8u
Yes, and this is what blockchain notaries like notary.bitcoin.com do.
I don't know why this correct comment got downvoted.

A car without a catalytic converter generates as much toxic pollution as 100 new cars with catalytic converters. A car whose catalytic converter has broken and which has engine trouble produces even more. And diesel produces more than gas. (Though new vehicles of both types are about equal.)

Thus a single badly maintained diesel car can produce as much pollution as thousands of legal new cars. Smog truly is a situation where a tiny majority of vehicles produce the vast majority of the problem.
Agreed - I detest Paxton, but this case seems legitimate and if these allegations can be proven in court, wow.
Chess author Jeremy Silman, who champions the "imbalance" idea, gives a list:

- Minor pieces (bishops vs knights)

- Pawn structure

- Space

- Material

- Files and squares

- Development

- Initiative

I would add how much time is left on the clock, though that is not a feature of the board.

An example: say you have a bishop and your opponent has a knight. This is an imbalance, and you want to exploit it by making your bishop better than their knight. Concretely that means trading pawns, to open up the game, so your bishop can bring its long-range strengths to bear.
Current apple user/ex linux user

Can't speak to your firebird issues, never used it, but as for keyboard issues?

Spouse uses my main machine for basic stuff, she has her own account. I use dvorak, she uses qwerty. About 75% of the time when the layout is switched back from qwerty to dvorak it becomes completly fubar, and all layouts output non-sense garbage until a restart. Because the layouts are broken, I can't save any of my terminal work.

I'm still pretty on the fence about things, but honestly I'd say linux and os-x are pretty even as far as shit breaking, and imo linux is a little bit better. I remember the old days when you sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade & pray, but stuff is pretty stable even on distros like arch these days.

Every time there's a major update for os x, I already know it will definitely break something for me. Catalina broke most my game collection that could run on os x to begin with, and I'll be waiting at least another couple months before upgrading to big sur.

This isn't to try and invalidate your experience, but just saying that mine has been: Switched to OS X because things were more stable and I need a solid work machine, but linux is getting more stable while my faith in apple's software quality goes down dramatically every year.
Libraries can be installed from the REPL in Clojure but it does require a dependency ahead of time:

https://insideclojure.org/2018/05/04/add-lib/

Some of Clojure's other runtimes perform a bit better, Babashka, CLJS, CLR, GraalVM for different trade offs if you need something like a scripting language or native images etc

I'm sure CL is still quicker but there are options
Is it possible to use Sequoia to sign Git commits?
One person used to control a lot of gold too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_Musa
Gnome has its own distinctive feel for me, and it feels entirely different from mac or windows. I don't really understand the hate i keep seeing on here to be honest.
How does i3 compare to Awesome, XMonad and other tiling WMs?