skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice, let me know if you find any bugs or issues!
It wasn't just people released with no further action. From elsewhere in the article:

The records are linked to police investigations that were terminated before charge (No Further Action or NFA cases) or to those where an individual had been acquitted at court.

Instead of complaining about "huge dangers for public safety", why isn't the Opposition asking why people who have been through potentially traumatic and potentially damaging experiences within our criminal justice system but who were never found to have done anything wrong in the eyes of the law still have deeply personal data like fingerprints and DNA on file at all?

It looks like Labour are completely on the wrong side of this one, and someone has put out a knee-jerk press release to try to score political points before thinking it through. I'm surprised, because Starmer (Labour's leader) usually comes across as quite cautious and reasonable about legal matters. He was a human rights lawyer and then the DPP (the head of our public prosecution service) before moving into politics, and I would have expected a very different position here.
Honestly I don't care about articles that support my skepticism, they largely bore me as well. What made this article and others like so amusing is the tremendous irony of demanding regulation, irony that the author seems completely oblivious to.

Do I regret missing out on all of the crypto gains I could have had? Honestly I don't really think about it that often and when I do it's largely because I work in tech and I'm often forced to work with people who won't shut up about it. But I lived through similar periods with the first dotcom bubble, and the housing market in the run up to the financial crisis. I don't like 'greater fool' investing as a strategy (but certainly some people have gotten very rich with it) so no I guess I don't regret it.

(One sidelong observation there are a lot more paper gains than realized gains. I've worked with a number of bitcoin millionaires. But if I filter the count to those who have > $1mm in USD, in a US domiciled bank, the number drops top zero. Who knows? Maybe it's adverse selection. Maybe the real winners aren't working anymore.)
> First you say nobody has called me stupid.
> Then in the NEXT PARAGRAPH, you tell me that I don't understand command line tools.

Nothing I read by malux85 implied to me that not understanding command line tools makes someone stupid.
very cool to see something on here not made with code! hope your book does well!
Yarh.io Micro 2 Raspberry Pi Handheld Unveiled
Maybe the magnets come out when it crashes.
I see this as driven by the negative interest rates, this is very interesting to read:

- https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2016/12/31/Bre...
> auto playing videos on Netflix

You can now disable this at the account level. They added the option a few months back.
Agreed.

Two of the pieces of irreducible complexity that beginners have problems understanding (or even appreciating!) are change management and software delivery. If a newcomer created a simple but novel program and it turned out to be successful, two sure-to-follow requirements are:

- Now someone else wants to access and suggest changes to your project. In parallel. Without breaking anything.

- Now the software needs to be shared with others outside of the development environment.

Both create a surprising amount of complexity and require fourth- and fifth-dimensional thinking. You have to learn a version control system (probably)! You have to learn how to perform a code review! You have to do learn software design and hopefully documentation.

You have to learn and leverage at least one packaging ecosystem for the development approach that was chosen. Hopefully you chose one with an accessible packaging ecosystem, assuming that exists!
"Facebook container" can be useful here
>that there exists an abstract Python machine wherein the memory does not need to be so described

This is getting a little esoteric. Python interpreters are created in other languages like C where memory does need to be described. How can this 'abstract Python machine' even be implemented? Python or any higher level interpreted language will always have the same limitations of the language it's implemented in and like anything we do on modern computers, can be reduced to assembly where again memory has to be 'described'. Python may hide it for us but it's there.
honest question, but isn't that one of the main value propositiona of Facebook die to its sheer number of accounts? how do you track people without a complementary size?
Apples to oranges. Python is a language and Node is a runtime.

Compare with https://www.javascript.com/
I have been trying to follow the instructions on Zoom's web site to turn on original audio (because I always use headphones on a call), but the options just aren't where the web site says they are. How did you manage it?
Show HN: Niram Color Picker – Build a full color palette for your next project
French Government Public Dashboard
This is one of the most whiny and misguided articles I've seen near the top of HN in some time.

I really fail to understand how people can see something like the $PATH variable and not understand it 'for years' - does everyone else not just Google/DDG things they don't understand?

It's not really worth critiquing more of the article, as the entire premise of not being able to 'write code inside the browser' is just another fallacy that's based on the authors complete lack of knowledge, or willingness to acquire any more knowledge.
So many stories are political regardless but it really gets worse during election cycles when nearly every story is nothing more than a policy announcement or trial balloon being floated by one candidate or another. Usually its found after a few paragraphs and suddenly candidate X's name appears.

What I would love to see is a "flag political" option so if more than a few people flag it it gets a label.

on a side note, would love to see an option to suppress my karma numbers
Author here.

A few months ago I saw an article from RefactoringUI posted to HN about building your own color palette.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25180180

The concept seemed so simple that I can't believe I hadn't heard of it before as a developer.

It motivated me to create a color picker based on that methodology that lets you build an entire color palette.

It's written in ReactJS + Jest, and the source can be found here: https://github.com/abhchand/niram-color-picker/
I have Prime and, because many of my orders are for business use, I keep being invited to AmazonBusiness where I can download invoices (which I can do already) and buy another kind of Prime or start paying for deliveries again?
For this reason it’s important we start using cash again, and not attend shops and restaurants that don’t take it. Nowadays we have brutal armed robberies like never before, but using non-traceable currency is important for freedom.
Does it still work in recent Android versions though?
The vast majority of software isn't written for the GPU. That's still true today, and it will likely be true in ten years as well. Unless we reach a point where that changes (and most software can fit its restricted paradigm), we should compare apples to apples. If we were talking solely about GPU performance, I would be more inclined to agree with claims about "80x more processing power than 10 years ago" etc, though.
>Article makes me glad I'm using Django.

This was my main thought throughout reading it. So many things to consider and difficult issues to solve it seems they face a self-made database hell. Makes me appreciate the simplicity and stable performance of django orm + postgre.
Small modular nuclear reactors may help polluting industries reduce emissions
The ads Amazon added to Twitch prime have been brutal. Nothing re-engaged me in the adblock war than their constant barrage there.
Just like with adblockers and anti-adblockers, you then go one level deeper...

It's a cat-and-mouse game. As long as you have full control over your device, you win.
The literal answer to the headline question is "You can, just open Developer Tools -> Console and code away." But it seems the question in the article is actually "Why can't I write node.js code inside my browser?", followed by what seems to me lots of confusion between coding and program execution environments (web-browser or MacOS).

You can code in JavaScript on most browsers without installing anything. Sure, the UI of browser Developer Tools can be somewhat intimidating for newcomers, but that could be fixed with some good tutorials. But it seems the author doesn't want to just write and run JavaScript, he wants to use node.js specifically. But the whole point of node.js is to take Chrome's JavaScript compiler/interpreter out of its native webbrowser environment and have it run in a Unix-like command line environment, such as Linux/MacOS. So complaining that you need to know some of the workings of a Unix-like command line environment to use node.js seems very misinformed.

As for accessibility of programming in general, the core developers are usually not that interested in that, but for most popular languages there are plenty of third party tutorials aimed at laymen. Most programming languages are specialized tools; they shouldn't try to be everything to everyone. We don't complain that university Calculus profs don't also write arithmetic books for elementary schools either.
Really, what we want isn't a spell-checker at all, but an intention-checker. "Does what you wrote locally seem to be consistent with the intention of your overall document?"

But of course, something that actually worked like that would be indistinguishable from magic.
Or maybe not because cancer cells do not exist in vacuum but are part of the body.

You will force your own cells to do so: red blood cells, certain immune cells etc.

We already do something along those lines - reducing sugar input via diet and sugar neogensis via metformin.

Be all that as it may, the finding is astounding.
> I am well aware. And I am saying that none of those are easier than the GUI tools provided in this case.

In your opinion

Trying to project your personal preferences as objective reality is not helpful. You don't like CLIs, fine. You sound like you've got some good reasons to not like them. Your assumption that everyone else shares your values is a little weird.

Personally, I love the CLI and have yet to find many instances where the GUI is easier to use and more useful than the CLI alternative. Does this mean I think all GUIs are objectively bad? Of course not. It's personal preference.
Most ads I see are for shows I have already decided I will never watch even if they pay me.
These may not apply to where you live but that does not mean that they only apply to the US. These qualities describe most human societies now and throughout history. This kind of ignorance is a side effect of living a life of privilege.
I find this sort of thing goes hand in hand with the "Maybe Later" culture.

You want to say "No." but you can't, they've taken that option away from you.

Instead you're forced to give them permission to bug you again later.
Facebook Working with Law Enforcement to Ban 'Stop the Steal'
Specifying by volume is also a problem for compressable things like flour, chopped hazelnuts etc.
At the end of the day life is a series of ever complex systems of inputs and outputs. I'm not surprised by the findings and the resolution to this paradox.

When we look at apparent inefficiencies of life systems (singletons and complete systems) we have to take into account setting and environmental factors as well as the various layers of abstraction.

Looking down at cancer (similar to a defect in software) and questioning why it behaves in seemingly counter intuitive ways makes it all the more appearent that we are still at the tip of our scientific and spiritual understanding for models of healthy systems, both cellularly and holistically as life on our planet.

As above so below.

Based on this research cancer switches to a process which accepts the inputs at hand and processes outputs for growth (often rapid growth).

Regardless of how it looks as a spectator, the cells inside you make billions of individual decisions each second and those decisions may have eventual degrgations over time with enough entropy.

The cell has blueprints and is on a mission, sometimes it's mission is corrupted or the order of operations is abnormal.

I like how they make mention yeast fermentation as a similar process and I didnt know our cells could run both processes. I wonder why? Do we use fermentation at various parts of our human development?
> In fact, throughout history there are times when humankind 'forgot' how to do certain things.

I wish, just once, that technology people would actually consult historians of science when making these sorts of claims. There is an entire community of people who study this topic for their entire lives and write books about it.

Yet myths persist. So many of the examples of "civilization forgot" are actually just false or at the very least the conclusions drawn about society from these stories are highly misleading.
Is HN a good acquisition channel for you folks?

I say this because Supernotes has been posted five times in the last nine months.
Pretty annoying when they run you trailers of a sequel before you even finished the first one because 'you might be interested' - sometimes even the thumbnail is a spoiler.
If you say where you live maybe some homeless folks can be relocated and be happy :)
Good point. Probably best then if we only store the actual game config (a bunch of text files) and completely purge the instance when the user ends the session. Then when booting again we start afresh and copy in the config only.
The hardware looks impressive but it worries me that the first photo is basically just showing off a bunch of emulators. Why not show off more legitimate ways of playing games on it? I personally have never used steam big picture mode but it feels like it would be a good fit.
More discussion in this other thread which I didn't find when submitting this. [0]

It appears that the file system is not actually corrupted. The bug is just triggering a warning popup and a consistency check at the next boot. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25787717
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25788171
Most ham radio equipment is half-duplex, not simplex. Your average consumer hifi radio is simplex, because it can only receive, not send. Ham radio is half-duplex, because it can send and receive, but not at the same time.
Can anyone give a TL;DR? This is one of those articles where you can extract 80% of the value with 5% of the time.
I've noticed that as well - but others just about leap off the page for me. Also, some only seem to work at certain distances, or if I am moving, or if I'm scrolling the page.
Agree. I went and looked how they monetize after reading the article [0] . Revenue comes from the below:

1. Search engine partners

2. Affiliate links on 'Start Page'

[0] https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/
Nix doesn't have win32/64 packages or I'm missing something?

Now you can use Conan + CMake to build a project with OpenSSL and Boost deps on Mac, Win, Linux. And it seems that Nix is very far from doing this.
And Linux is the only reason I can buy a perfectly capable laptop for $100.
Source? I would have thought “brutal armed robberies” were way down from historical highs.
There's syncthing now, no need for dropbox.
Extensive GitHub use with Node?

Sounds like GitHub Codespaces ought to be up his alley.

https://github.com/features/codespaces
Emotet using squiblytoo and XSL scripts to evade detection
Perhaps it is time for the codpiece to make a comeback in male business attire, updated for modern times to include a phone pouch.
The Swedish central bank could simply pay you 0.2% of your house price per year by printing more money. Just don’t let the Stockholm/Göteborg housing prices fall... Weimar all over again.
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If you designed this from scratch, is that the name you would naturally pick?
It's very prevalent in amateur gamedev communities. Every day there's someone who played some game, and has some ideas how to make it better. All he needs is a few programmers and artists to make his vision in reality. Usually the kind of projects he wants to make are big AAA games in whatever is the trending genre at the moment (used to be MMORPG, now it's about battle royale). When confronted they often get defensive and don't want to accept the reality that such big projects are made by hundreds of people with multimillion budgets, not by few guys working in a basement, no matter how dedicated they are).
I’m Sounding the Alarm: PRC-Style Censorship Has Arrived in the United States
Ask HN: Hiring “Jesus lovers” for your tech/science startup
I'm a bit torn on this one. Often times in the hiring process I'll encounter really promising candidates that excite me, but then I open their Twitter/website and their first choice of words to describe themselves are "Jesus lover" or "Follower of Jesus", and it immediately turns me off.

I think religion has its place in the world, but the indications I get from those statements are that this individual ultimately hasn't progressed very far intellectually or challenged their beliefs strongly enough. I fear it is a limiting mindset, no matter how impressive their resume is, and that this will translate on the job as well.

What's your experience with hiring or working with "Jesus lovers"?
I don't think there's really a single thing I read that led me to this. I'll list off life experiences that come to mind, though:

(1) I guess it probably started off back in 2015 when I read about Utah's "Housing First" approach to ending homelessness which got quite a bit of national news coverage at the time[0].

(2) I started talking to some of the people experiencing homelessness who hung around the grocery stores I went to in Seattle, seeing them as a person and not an unsightly problem to be swept under a rug. Ask them what food they want then buy it for them sometime, you might get a good conversation out of it; if they're not up to talking, well, someone got a meal out of it at least - and they shouldn't really owe you anything.

(3) Then one year I went on a business trip to Copenhagen, and saw their hybrid system of both privately-owned & socialized housing; went to a BBQ at a coworker's place at one of the socialized housing complexes, which was very nice.

(4) I bought a condo myself, and cheered as the price went up on Zillow. Then was struck with the somehow extremely obvious yet little-noticed contradiction that house prices appreciating in value, which is more-or-less the driving thesis of investment the largest asset class in the world, is diametrically opposed to the goal of making housing affordable - as in, cost less & thus be worth less!

(5) I met my current partner, who is a medical resident in combined internal medicine & psychiatry. Their patient population is almost all homeless. I heard many of their patients' stories and the misery they experience.

(6) I started watching some urban planning videos by donoteat01 on youtube[1], who is an entertaining presenter that uses Cities: Skylines to illustrate common concepts. I especially liked their video on gentrification[2].

(6) Somehow I heard about the Tax Amazon movement in Seattle[3], which aims to put a payroll tax on workers at large corps & use the proceeds to fund the creation of public housing. I thought - that sounds great! Even though I work at a large tech corp myself, I'll participate. Speaking with people at the various planning meetings (who were almost all outside the bubble of friends-who-work-in-tech I had) was really educating and solidified my views on all this.

Sorry that isn't a link, but more a story of how I arrived here. Hopefully it helps you in some way.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chroni...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/donoteat01/videos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdeirDrinWk

[3] https://www.taxamazon.net/
There is a relatively new theory saying that malignant, metastatic cancer cells behave like single cell organisms, and that cancer basically represents an unwanted return to our genetic roots; multicellular organisms used to be single cell organisms a billion years ago and the original genes might carry on within our DNA until today. But they should be switched off. Once they are switched on, the cells will stop cooperating with the rest of the tissue and start acting "selfishly", at others' expense.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5474827/

This is known as "atavistic theory of cancer" and it is rather controversial, there are people who utterly hate it, not least because the original authors are not specialists in cancer treatment.

Part of this theory is that cancer cells "cannot help but switch to the previous single-celled metabolism, very inefficient compared to ours".
There is one problem though. That happens a lot (I have homeless Syrian people in mind) but the government does not allow them the right to work so they can't get out of poverty.
It's surprising how many ipv4 problems tor can solve if you're network is a mess.
I used to use it all the time in college to ssh back into my laptop/desktop when I didn't have a public ipv4 address.
It's a substantial percentage of news site traffic - if you're interested in something in particular (as opposed to "what's new today") often people'll search for some topic (e.g. "impeachment" or "Arsenal game" or the name of some celebrity) and get linked to an article in a news site, so a significant percentage of news site traffic does come from search engine.

On the other hand, you're right that intuitively people probably won't consider that their local news sites must be accessible through google, if they want news, they do have a go-to source, whatever that is - so that supports an argument that Australian news sites overestimate their importance to Google; Google probably won't suffer much if it can't or won't link to them.
This sounds like a life one would avoid when consciously thinking about it, yet this will be the destination for most people. I am constantly amazed by how people like geohot seem to escape this. And I am thinking if that could be a model for me, but then again I am maybe ~5-10 times less productive so that might be the limiting factor.
And btw. I love that in english you say “to spend time” it really captures the investment perspective that you mention.
This is a good start if you want to get into (or avoid) Guttenberg's stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfMg5P0_vJk

Listen to him wax sarcastically about blind tests. Does he not get it? Or does he make his living from not getting it?
I think he returns to the theme in "The Song of the Sausage Creature."

Myself, I can barely ride a simple bicycle more than about two hundred feet without somehow dislodging myself in a manner with roughly equal parts comedy and tragedy, but the way he wrote that and described the attraction of an edge where on one side laid a perfect moment-to-moment mastery of all of the physics in racing and the appeal of having absolutely nothing else matter at the moment because you simply haven't the space in your brain to do anything else ... and the other side, which involves multiple surgeries, rehab, and long phone calls with insurance companies, it was very appealing. "One of my finest addictions" indeed.