skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> calling a trans person consistently by the wrong pronouns

That's not a stage persona, though. I don't reject that someone can transition genders, and hold political office as their preferred gender.

In the same way, I absolutely don't begrudge a politician using a preferred name if it is their actual preferred name. What I personally won't tolerate is a stage persona. They don't get to "play a character" when they run for office.

> Lord Buckethead does it.

I think this is the best example of a blurred line. I don't mind Lord Buckethead's persona, because I view his activities as political satire despite the fact that he's using the actual election mechanisms. If, however, he stood a 1% chance of winning and actually wanted to govern I would absolutely not accept "Lord Buckethead" as a reasonable candidate. So, as political satire, Lord Buckethead is fine as a stage persona. As a bona fide political candidate, I think it's absolutely wrong.
What would you say is the advantage of roam research over the open source alternative of Obsidian?
> Where did you end up?

Multiple places (Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Seychelles, Malaysia, Japan) but Indonesia for now, but I've been working remotely for about as long (a little bit longer) as well over multiple jobs.

> And did you feel your quality of life improve?

Compared to my COL in Boston (and midwest and other places in NE/NYC before that) and what I'm getting now? Yes
> If these 17yos are already capable of conducting research based on primary sources and not provided to them in a structured learning environment, why do they need to go to college?

That's a lot of words to say "Googling things", and yes 17 year olds are capable of it. And they go to college for the same reason everyone else does, to buy a credential.
Between Everything and Astrogrep, I can find what I'm looking for.
This is so awesome and I definitely want to make a reply what I see here, I'm just sort of busy right now.
The website where the claim of responsibility was posted was itsgoingdown.org. Many of the posters openly refer to themselves as regional "Antifa". Here is the mission statement:

"It’s Going Down is a digital community center for anarchist, anti-fascist, autonomous anti-capitalist and anti-colonial movements. Our mission is to provide a resilient platform to publicize and promote revolutionary theory and action."

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/pair-charged-interferin...

https://heavy.com/news/ellen-reiche-samantha-brooks/
Sports might be useful. Do you see the difference between,

"The Patriots have statistically scored more yards per game than average." Vs.

"Patriots team members are good at scoring yards." Vs.

"You are on the Patriots, therefore you are good at scoring yards"

In aggregate, the players perform in some positive or negative way, but you can't just apply that statistic to any individual player or even say that the players are unusually good at that thing. Maybe they have a great coaching staff, maybe they are cheating, maybe they have a few star players who push up the statistics.
> A more useful signature would have been [returning the index].

Good point! And if you're doing that, there's no reason to use slices. So I guess the only thing to learn from my code... is that slices do useful bookkeeping for problems similar to this, in the case that you don't care about the indices?

> Returning the value you were given or None would be better expressed as returning True/False to avoid the unnecessary copy.

Just because two values are equal, doesn't mean they're the same. Though my function signature was wonky, regardless.
Foster's brilliance and wit are legendary.

Less well known, I think, is that he was a deeply religious man and a fearsome ascetic. It is not a coincidence that he joined the Discalced Carmelites -- among the more mystical, contemplative, and historically, among the more severely austere of the Catholic mendicant religious orders (it was founded by Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross).

He almost never wore the traditional habit of the Carmelites (or even "the blacks" of a priest), because he felt clerical garb no longer represented what it originally was (the dress of the poor). He owned almost nothing, gave anything given to him to the poor (except books!), dressed like a plumber, and slept on the floor. I read somewhere that his office had a dictionary, a telephone, and not much else.

He was so famous for being "the Pope's Latinist." I have often wondered if anyone ever asked him about his faith or the pursuit of holiness. Because I sincerely think he took these matters just as seriously, and probably more seriously than Latin.
Ah so what you're saying is it's like flying an airplane with a nuclear plant, but the nuclear plant is on the ground and hooked up to a hydrocarbon plant as an intermediary.
Schedule chicken is a hell of a drug.

This also applies to start up difficulties in software/service ecosystems, where everyone is waiting for the greater fool to jump in and pay the "first through the door" cost. The GM EV1 is a great example of this.
...I guess they just found little red bits. Gruesome to consider.
> advances that push society forward can come from multiple areas

"Multiple areas" that could produce advances that can push society forward is still a much narrower category than "areas that are eligible for student loans".

> perhaps you want to be able to provide the opportunity to study a subject regardless of whether you can pay for it outright or not

Students can study any subject they want for free over the Internet. Major institutions have their entire curriculum available for free online. There is no reason why taxpayers should have to subsidize college tuition for that.
Important note: defunding higher education also helps people get elected. It's been going for decades. My partner works for a state university system in a red a state and their budget has been cut every year since the 90's. People like to point at bloated administrative salaries and facilities when they talk about skyrocketing education costs, but the fact of the matter is that state schools receive a fraction of the funding they used to, and that makes for the majority of rising tuition costs.
Seems more like some Trailer Park Boys type of stuff.
So the gp post was discussing a government operation to establish a wiretap capability.

Parent provided a hypothetical of the bombing being used to cover up said operation and a discussed what an investigation might find.

My point is, that if you allow for the possibility of the NSA or other agency staging a bombing to cover up a wiretap operation, then a public investigation of the same that would likely also be affected by the cover up.

I doubt the NSA would call the local news for an on the record correction.
I write code all day and I can't be bothered to learn AHK. I tried but it annoyed the heck out of me.
Those are key pieces of information, thanks. I wonder how the existing LoRAWAN based mesh networks work for text messaging. Anyways intermittent text messages itself would go a long way for those who are totally unconnected from the rest of the world, say to know whether the child opened their educational device[1] or say SOS from that device.
You used to be able to tweak part of the URL in the Firefox google search thing, and append queries I thought so as well.
> Even if we did restrict advertising through laws, it would be a race to see who could advertise “legally” first, and thus suddenly capture everyone’s attention.

This would still resolve all of the issues caused by the current model of advertising, so I think it's worth it. Sure, it may make business more difficult, but so do the various safety regulations we already have; being in business is not a right and if your business can't be sustained without heavy advertising (which has negative externalities) then maybe it shouldn't exist?
I still remembered Google Panda update in 2011, destroyed many low effort SEO farms.

I wonder why Google stopped fighting this good fight anymore.
...I wonder how difficult it would be for whatever desktop environments GP was using in 1993 to be used today, on a super-resource-constrained system like an N64. The Linux adage is "don't break userspace", right?
> If the government ordered the channel tunnel to stop, it would stop. [...] Of course a total closure would be a last resort, because that would cut off imports of things like fresh fruit

As demonstrated by the recent French closure:

> French President Emmanuel Macron went further Sunday, with France barring UK travelers and shutting down the Eurotunnel crossing for at least 48 hours, meaning thousands of trucks carrying goods to the continent will not be able to cross the English Channel.

https://www.businessinsider.com/uk-border-chaos-after-france...

You now require a negative test (PCR or antigen) within the last 7 3 hours, and must be within a permitted category of traveller - https://uk.ambafrance.org/France-to-admit-some-travellers-fr...
Tales of the Autistic Developer – The Expert
Dark theme works for me, lowering the the brightness doesn’t.
So it's like cost per gigaFLOPS, instead of cost of one unit of computing device, no matter whether it is an Apple II or a Mac Pro.
If you merely double the cost though it removes the human element for error.
I basically stopped paying attention to the progress of this feature when it was announced it would use header files. I don't expect I'll use it.

I think it might be worth the headache with libraries - I think type errors are more useful when you cross the boundary into someone else's code. They're still useful within apps, of course, but personally I don't think I hit them often enough to make the headaches of a separate file worthwhile.

My hope is that this is primarily motivated by wanting to maintain backwards compatibility for source, and maybe as more of the ruby ecosystem moves to 3.x future versions will add an alternative way of doing type annotations inline.
Farmville, coming to an N64 near you
Did you look beyond the Quora / Pinterest / other SEO spam results? There's good content on the web for virtually any query, it's just often buried under mountains of SEO spam results.
Haven’t mass shootings been a form of this despite the lack of unified motive or ideology? They’ve certainly spread terror.
> Sorry but almost everyone does have ID on them at all times.

This is objectively false. 11+% of Americans don't have a government issued photo id. Presumably many more forget their id on any given day. The folks who don't have IDs are disproportionately minorities and the elderly. In some places, as few as 55% off eligible Black people had IDs.

Millions more are here illegally, and yes, we should design our society to accommodate them. "Maybe they shouldn't be here" is both callous and unrealistic. No one should have to live in fear that they'll be spotted on some camera and have their life ruined.

> All this fear mongering about false positives is irrelevant because there is a human in the loop.

Humans in the loop won't fix failures. Last week we were all discussing how hospital administrators blamed "the algorithm" when vaccines were issued to admins rather than front line workers. People constantly say, "well, the computer says..." when the computer is obviously making a mistake. The TSA regularly screws up people's travel because they make mistakes about the no fly list. A human can be in the loop, but in practice the human isn't going to meaningfully question the outcome.
There clearly is a change in structure somewhere, even if the precise location is arguable, since extremely small brains are fixed in structure (every connection is deterministic) and seem to implement completely fixed programs.

I imagine the transition will be fairly fluid, with ants running a mix of sophisticated hardwired programs and more simple learned associations (and even humans having a degree of fixed-function behaviours), but that's not to say a distinction can't be made.
The audio equivalent of writing a ransom note with magazine clippings!
My theory, and the most untraceable way to do it today, would be to use recordings out of movies or video games, there must be dozen of them available.
In China if you get on the wrong side of somebody powerful it's worse than jail, you end up disappearing to a "re-education camp" for an indeterminate amount of time.

Jail is for foreigners and well known people they want to silence, when they need to pretend there's a real justice system.

There's plenty of firsthand accounts of this stuff happening on the internet.
We have programs for both reforestation and for wetland preservation. With any conservation proposal, one must weigh the pros and cons.

In this case it is true that hydropower is cheap and clean. However, the negative externality of destroying the salmon run is much more than "some fishis" that some Indian tribes cared about.

Aboriginal annual salmon catches have been estimated at over 10 million pounds for year. On top of that, the migration of pacific salmon upriver represents an enormous transfer of nutrients upstream. Salmon are a keystone species and are vitally important for the health of forests.

Unfortunately, the salmon run cannot easily coexist with the dams. Yes, there is value in the hydropower. Yes, it is cheap, clean energy. But it is certainly not without cost. We could be reaping the benefits of one of the largest animal migrations on our planet in a sustainable way. Even disregarding the cultural importance to native peoples there is still enormous economic and ecological value in having a healthy salmon run.
That is certainly an interesting project, I wish it success, and it may very well improve things in the future. However, it looks like currently it is only experimentally used in firefox and isn't really easy to use in other applications. And even if there was a readily available library for consuming crlite files, there is still the problem of keeping the local crlite filter up to date and if you want to use different trust anchors than firefox, you would need to have the infrastructure to generate your own crlite filters periodically.
I would gladly pay the premium price if it is a better monitor for long hours of coding.
However, I wonder if the ghosting and the low refresh rate would negate any benefits it would have over a 4K monitor
"open source alternative obsidian"

Can you share a link to the source? I didn't see a link on obsidian.md
The services went down about 6 hours after the attack. I suspect the gas was cut very soon after the blast and their internal generators lasted 6 hours.
Part of the problem stems from US universities seeming to charge the same amount for every course.

Some courses are necessarily more expensive to run than others.
Simply using the "say" command on a mac would work.
Viet Nam is not doing fine. I have a lot of contact there, there is an outbreak of “severe pneumonia” for which no one is being tested for COVID despite being pretty obviously COVID. To make matters worse, in addition to not testing anybody with symptoms, the government hospitals have been turning people with these symptoms away so they are going to their family homes to be taken care of.

I would take the stories of Viet Nam’s “success” with a very large grain of salt. It should be impossible for me to know so many people with odd “severe pneumonia” there given that the entire country has nominally only had a thousand cases or so.
So... has anyone tried running a Nintendo 64 emulator on it? :)
Ask HN: Is it realistic to make a good living as a sole software developer
I have a B.S. in Computer Science. Having worked two years, I've absolutely found i hate working under people in an office environment. I've hopped across three companies, I'm growing miserable and finding I dont enjoy this whole CRUD MVC business logic type of work. I'm tired of fixing leaking pipes in mediocre code bases by people who aren't passionate about what they do. I also find app development to be plain uninspiring and am constantly biting my tongue.

I want to develop a JS interpreter, a simple game engine, or even an app of my own interests. Can these sort of projects lead to more distinguished roles? Or do I just have to work my way up for the next 20 years under bland government contractors and health insurance companies?

This is not what I wanted in life. Do most people lie when asked if they like their job? People keep telling me to do what I live because bigger salaries aren't as important. That just doesn't seem realistic.
Almost like regular plastic cash note. Maybe a bit thicker. For example it could assume US dollar look. Note is blank until you "upload" BTC to it, then it will look like e.g. $100 note. You could only "cash" the cash by downloading it back to your wallet. Then it becomes blank again. It could also split if you wanted to "cash" only half.
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"T-Mobile partisans?"

Too soon, I suppose, but this did make me laugh. https://imgur.com/a/dOJwx0P
Note there was also an interesting event in WA on Dec 22 - local outlets covered:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/train-carrying-cru...
Their "subuser standard" has the following license [1]:

> Creative Commons Zero, public domain

> With the following exception:

> Only standards documents identical to those released by Timothy V Hobbs(timthelion) or another person or party whom he nominates may be presented as defining “the subuser standard”. In other words: you cannot edit this document and then claim that your new standard is the official one.

That's legally incoherent. You cannot have public domain with an exception. Either something is in the public domain (no copyright) or it is not (copyrighted). If it is copyrighted, then you can license it under "X with the following exception". Most commonly, those exceptions grant extra rights compared to the base license (e.g. Classpath exception), occasionally they aim to take away rights compared to the base license (e.g. the notorious "Commons Clause"). But you can only have an exception to a copyright license if there is a copyright to be licensed, and putting something in the public domain means there isn't.

CC0 is a bit of a hybrid in that it contains both a public domain dedication for those jurisdictions which recognise that, and a permissive fallback copyright license for those jurisdictions that don't (e.g. Germany). The author claiming to make an exception to CC0, it makes sense for the later but not for the former. Does this mean the exception is only legally binding in the jurisdictions in which the fallback license applies? Or does the attempt to impose an exception nullify the public domain dedication? I don't know, IANAL. (But I imagine many lawyers won't know the answer either.)

Now, what the author aims to do here could be achieved by trademark law – claiming (or registering) "subuser standard" as a trademark, and then saying that even though the copyright of the standard is relinquished to the public domain, the trademark is only licensed under certain conditions. But while that would legally make sense, it isn't what the author has actually done.

https://subuser.org/subuser-standard/standard.html#subuser-s...
What languages/frameworks/patterns are you using? I can’t stand lack of syntax highlighting for JS. If anything, it gives me anxiety when coding.
Is moving back to "trade secrets" really a bad thing?

Is there any evidence that the introduction of patents actually encouraged innovation?
I think there have been several attacks of this magnitude or worse since September 11. e.g. The Boston Marathon bombing or the anthrax attacks, or Christopher Dorner (though maybe that's less terrorist and more revenge). There have been lots.

I think, so long as this wasn't a test run for a coordinated attack on the telecoms, then this is not a very bad terrorist attack.
Technically Xi installed by Mr. Jiang Mr. Hu, and numerous power brokers in CCP and outside, probably US involvement was playing some negligible role as well. The power struggles happen inside the high circle of CCP. Rarely one can get the actual underlying mechanism from it. Likely wise, I doubt anyone here understands much how US high power works.

Xi also cannot dictate an election result. At least there was no precedence. As there is only one candidate for the highest position. Of course, US has 2 candidates, how much better/worse? I don't know, anyone can judge themselves.

As a matter of fact, no election can be held in China. Election was never a thing anyone can understand. Like when I was in elementary school, the classroom head was appointed. No important position was ever elected.

You might stand before Xi, and claim that Xi would be powerless if China is to hold an election. And himself and mostly everyone statistically picked on street, would look at you bewildered, probably laugh hard and walks away like anyone who encounter some lunatic. The analogy could be a Chinese run to US Senate speech, and claim that communism is better for US. The next day all the media would laugh so hard that I bet even divided as Trump's US, everyone would unit and celebrate this rare consensus that this Chinese guys is mad. Essentially, both concepts are virtually foreign to each other's mental system. They cannot process them.

What I want to say is that, China runs a system that is neither democracy nor dictatorship, in western sense.

A lot of people hate China, they often think that's because China is oppressive or authoritarian. While in fact, China is far more exotic than oppressive or authoritarian.

I often speculate that people hate China out of the deep fear of unknown. Not only unknown, China is strong enough that they basically position themselves to be unshakable in the current geopolitical system, unlike the old empire, which also claim superiority and reject inspection, but they were not really strong enough to resist.

I guess China learned the lesson since the opium war: it's important to be actually powerful than just claiming to have the mandate of the heaven.
Legend of Silicon Valley’s Flying Saucer Man
You can already do that by choosing desktop environments that aren't trying to be all things for all people. More bling is literally more resources.

A lot of it is merely feature creep. Remember when OSX used to have animations (like applications minimizing like a genie getting sucked back into its kettle) as a feature you could turn on if you wanted it? Now it's pretty much default, and most people don't know you can shut that stuff off. And that's how things get sluggish. Sexy new "advanced" features become default, and you always need faster computers and more memory to keep up.

If you insist on using Gnome or KDE, obviously bloated because everything has extra features enabled by default, then then shut those resource hogs off. You'll start to get back to fast desktop days again. Some people will miss the bling, but you can't have one without the other. You can't expect all that sweet sweet bling without the resources being tied up to make it happen.
Unless you have those movies and video games already on your hard drive, downloading them will create a log somewhere that could be traceable. :/ Windows TTS on a device not connected to the internet is a better choice. (I don't know why we are trying to give them ideas!)
What is “5d glass storage”? Do you have any links on good source of information?
I haven't found anything promising, but my nephew plays college football (against my lobbying him and my sister) and I've been keeping my eye out for an early diagnosis CTE assay. There's been a lot of hype over various protein analysis and Alzheimer diagnosis tests but so far nothing with legs.
Anyone used appgyver? This one looks solid
Is it really difficulty, or indifference? I think they could do better, but as a near-monopoly in that space they'd rather spend the money elsewhere.
It is basically an arms race between search engines (specifically google) and SEO. Google does change their algorithms, but with enough effort (and money) SEO proffesionals can figure out how to tweak their sites to keep gaming the system. And the casualties of this war are the authentic sites that don't spend a ton of money on SEO.