skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the first things I do is make scroll bars always on. I wish it was opt out rather than opt in but I never lost my mind over it.
People like the sunshine. Getting rid of DST means you're always getting off work at 5:00 either in the dark or an hour or two before dark.
Making it always DST means 5 o'clock will be before sunset year-round.
Schools also have to take bus schedules into account. A district with elementary / middle / and high school will have 3 separate bus schedules if there's enough population.

My 8 year old nephews' school day doesn't begin until 9:40, but it ends after 5pm and allows very little sunlight for play time in the evenings. I know that when I was that age, I was far more concerned about being able to go out and play than whether the sun was up when I got up.
True, although kids are only of childcare age for a few years, so if all adults share the cost burden of childcare for everyone throughout their working lives rather than just paying for their own needs for a few years, the math works out a lot easier. (IE, childcare paid or subsidized by the government.)

The other piece of the puzzle though is that there need to be sufficient providers, which can't happen instantaneously. So you'd have to scale up such an initiative in a sensible way.
I think the reverse of the question is also important: why would anyone want to fly on a plane made by such a colossal company that any blame for flaws (design/technical or decision process) is diluted to the point that hundreds of deaths result in no measurable punishment?
Top cyclists dying in their sleep happens far more frequently than it does for random selections of the general population.

That's because the performance-enhancing drug EPO thickens the blood so much that the heart can't pump it, not because of low heart rates. Low heart rate in itself is not necessarily a "condition". I assume you're slightly misremembering the details of a story similar to this one:

https://www.ridemedia.com.au/features/epo-and-the-spate-of-s...
I have no great love for high school sports, but at least it's a mechanism to get kids moving. Given the obesity epidemic, a solid physical education option seems useful. Definitely has grown into something way beyond that though.
Conjecture: almost every belief that your wiki needs support for ACLs and needs to be moderated (for any reason other than spam) is a belief that's wrong from the start. (And it should be a criminal offense the way that GitHub and GitLab to have corrupted the word "wiki" to be understood to include PR- and review-based workflows centered around big collections of offline source files—the very practice that the wiki was created in reaction to, as a means to solve the problems inherent to that workflow.)
I say we should ban data centers instead. They're clearly a scam and no one should be allowed to use them because they waste so much power!
My daughter is starting to use her Chromebook more and more independently. I'm very happy she's developing the skills, but also nervous about who and what she might encounter. I am convinced the danger is overblown by far, but seeing how trusting kids are I know I have to be safe rather than sorry. They think the world is a safe and good place and while it's much better in western countries than, say, India or Iraq, truth is that the world is a dangerous world for little girls everywhere. The internet takes away some of the physical aspects (direct bodily harm) but there's enough things that can happen to ruin your mind, psyche, life, and some abusers are skillful to even get victims to expose or harm themselves, setting up further harm for a lifetime (think of all the teenage girls who's photos are shared online for decades, with many of their friends having seen them, and with facial recognition this can all only get worse).

I'm less worried for the boys. I'm also less worried about the 'sex stuff' they might see (say, stumble upon erotica, porn, fetish porn, etc) as all those will come with time. I'm more worried about violence and /r/watchpeopledie kind of things. Imagine a seven or ten year old that can't sleep after watching Caspar or Moana, encountering a video of an innocent person being pushed in front of a train, or lynched, or ... It's absurd to me how that's legal on the US platforms that prudely censor every nipple...

But beyond this, there's a categorical difference to seeing something and being urged/pushed/forced into seeing it and the other person taking some perverse pleasure from it, as described by the previous poster. Goatse is disgusting but funny to some degree, but being lured into someone's virtual torture or rape den...?

It's like upskirt porn - totally uninteresting from the sexual perspective, its all about power, abuse, invading in the private sphere and mind of the victim. I don't want to expose my kids to that risk. The most previous thing I have in my world are my kids and especially their minds.

I want them to explore the digital, but the powers of abuse unleashed online - it's just incredible. From the random middle aged man paying for child rape in the Philippines or pretending to be a 12 year old boy and tricking kids into revealing their lives up to the abuse among classmates, friends and strangers - the internet is a damgerous place for kids. And I can manage and anticipate some risks for my kids. I dread what my daughters' friends will encounter when their only protection is a barely digitally literate single mom.
There is self-extinguishing cable insulation, though. I'm actually surprised this (DC flammability) is still an issue, and not already solved by making components self-extinguishing and banning non-tiny batteries inside the equipment. If you want to have a battery for your raid controller, put something next to it that will stop your system from burning down it's surroundings.
> (which on laptop is done using two finger dragging)

How did you determine this difference? I use a mouse with my laptop, because work only gives us laptops.
It makes sense on mobile, it doesn't really make very much sense on desktop. At least there's an option to make them always visible. One of the first things I do when I get on an apple machine. Along with turning off all the autocorrect junk in textedit.
You generally don't have a choice - true you can see the type of plane when you book, but airlines swap them out all the time.
Those families shouldn't have children then.

I know that borders on callousness, and obviously I don't think we shouldn't take care of single parent households that don't have an option or that the child tax credit shouldn't be high enough so kids don't go hungry. Just if you reduce this to the choice to have a child and a lack of outlying circumstances, you shouldn't have a kid if you don't have someone ready to take care of them and the freedom to make that choice.
Oh, for sure, other languages have different idiomatic constructs that don't require such a heavy hammer as goto to achieve s similar effect.

Even in C, if you're writing Microsoft only code, seh is probably a better mechanism than goto error.

I'd argue that the defer statement in go (and the surprising side effects of it, like that it's function instead of block scope like you might otherwise expect) ultimately come from trying to wrap this idiom in a construct that's better supported by the language.

My point though is that in relatively standard, portable C, there are valid, idiomatic use cases of goto, and it's not quite so easy to say 'eww goto' in those very specific circumstances.
Is this all solved by just spawning a new process for each browser tab?

If so do it and spawn a single process for the browser window UI. Communicate between the browser window and tab processes with whatever flavor of IPC you desire, and secure it with whatever security layer you trust (TLS 1.3+ for example). We've basically reinvented the operating system desktop, which isn't that far off from how we treat browsers and the web today anyways...
Great link, thanks.

The line about “all of this is stuff you're allowed to do to compete, of course” (from the Firefox exec) reads like a winking acknowledgement that Google’s behavior is dangerously anti-competitive and deserves a federal antitrust investigation. Google has a pattern of abusing their uncontested market dominance in search engines, and considerable leverage in office web applications, to shore up one of the few product lines where the competition is steep.

IANAL but it does seem like textbook stuff you’re not allowed to do to compete.
The idea is that if it's small enough to fail, then the incentives are much stronger to avoid failure. If it's too big to fail, why would they put effort into avoiding failure? So yes, buying from a small enough to fail company could be seen as safer.

Note that too big to fail, and small enough to fail has less to do with the size of the company and more to do with market position and government perception.
Yay for wlroots based Wayland compositors!

Besides the tiling Sway there's also the stacking Wayfire[0] that is from the same family, but modeled after Compiz (blur, desktop cube and good old wobbly windows are all there) and highly configurable.

I use it with Waybar[1], wf-dock[2], Sirula[3] as a launcher and a bunch of other small tools like Gammastep[4] (fork of Redshift) for white balance adjustment, grim & slurp [5] for screenshots and mako[6] for notifications. [7]

It's a very DIY-y experience, but it's meant to be (if you want something pre-configured you can barely change try Gnome). The combination of getting it just right and the Ikea effect makes for a pretty rewarding result (I also maintain a list of the available desktop tools you can use when on a wlroots based compositor for your DIY needs [8]). The vision for the future is pre-configured DEs being offered on this base and it possibly even offering a lot of Sway's tiling features. [9]

It still feels like the early days (for non-Gnome), but with Nvidia driver 470 & accelerated XWayland coming up, the Vulkan efforts, Electron (finally) and Wine making the switch I feel fairly confident saying that 2021 is shaping up to be the year of the Wayland desktop.

Free of screen tearing and X-related worries since 2020 :-)

[0]: https://wayfire.org/

[1]: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar

[2]: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wf-shell

[3]: https://github.com/DorianRudolph/sirula

[4]: https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep

[5]: https://github.com/emersion/grim

[6]: https://github.com/emersion/mako

[7]: My not-completely-but-fairly Wayfire config https://gist.github.com/solarkraft/f46421295b8c211b2eb56b3ac...

[8]: https://github.com/solarkraft/awesome-wlroots

[9]: https://github.com/Javyre/swayfire
I think some are missing the point when we say "RSS as a Facebook alternative".

Yeah, current feed readers will not replace Facebook.

RSS as an exchange medium of content (in my naive opinion) can replace Facebook. It's just that a project needs to build around it.

Follow friends? Click "Follow" in UI, it subscribes to their feed.
Live streams? Live stream link can be contained in the RSS feed, subscribers see it in their feed.
Facebook groups? Same as users, just a subscription to an RSS feed.
Security? Perhaps feed content is encrypted, and only Friends can decrypt? Exchange of keys at Friending could provide this functionality?

It would take a lot of work to make this decentralised, secure, private, and usable to regular users. But I think this kind of model sounds much nicer than what is currently on offer. What do others think?
Why would you say the comparable aircraft is a 757, and not the 777 or 787? The 757 is a 40-year-old narrowbody design, not a modern widebody.
> whereas the dopamine hit you get

But have you ever had a salesperson at the pub tell you about how much easier it is to close deals by pointing to the API integration tutorial you've written?

Hands down, absolutely the proudest accomplishment of my career.
Sure, and I’m glad that worked out for you! But for the population at large, lots of research suggests that early wake up times are detrimental to student outcomes as a population.
I keep wondering how much longer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is gonna keep making airplane parts for other people before they decide to stop going white label on anything bigger than a regional jet.
A closely-related issue: Space has long been partially broken in YouTube: if a button is focused, then Space toggles the play state and lets that button activate (the browser default behaviour). This is probably most frustrating if you clicked on the play/pause button with your mouse, so that it’s focused: now pressing Space will pause and immediately resume (or resume and immediately pause again). So I got used to using k instead of Space. Someone should put an event.preventDefault() somewhere.
"dumpster fires of ads"

I assumed most readers here use Ublock Origin or comparable software to weed out most ads.

Yes, I generally read the articles first.
>BTC is an anti-social Ponzi scheme

speculative bubble =/= ponzi scheme

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26203396
Your email is not in your profile. I will bet.
I seriously enjoyed flying on the Boeing 787 myself (two roundtrips to Japan, one round trip to Germany). So much quieter compared to the 777s and 737s I'm used to flying on. Never been on an A380.
> And the IRS has ruled a number of times that when a charity acts out of detached disinterested generosity in making payments to victims or other members of a charitable class, the payments are nontaxable gifts.
Absolutely.

Again, veering into speculation: I think we're going to find out that the #1 most important thing any country did was to close the borders fast and hard before case counts became so large as to be unmanageable. Everything else is just nibbling around the edges of the problem.

Of course, you have to ask yourself if the US ever could have done anything like that. There's pretty decent evidence that the virus was circulating silently in the US in late 2019. Even if we closed the borders on January 1, 2020, it was probably already too late. It's a lot easier to get ahead of that game when you aren't one of the world's leading international travel destinations.
How much energy do the following consume in total:

- mining metal for coins of fiat currency

- mining gold because people don't trust fiat (digging otherwise useless-in-that-quantity rocks out of the earth, a Proof of... hmm... WORK?)

- running stock exchanges because people don't trust gold either (tungsten has almost the same density)

- smelting the plain metal and gold

- the US military which backs the dollar, and the other armies which compete with it

- manufacturing paper for fiat (lots of water consumption?)

- printing fiat

- transporting fiat

- transporting bank employees

- building shiny glass palaces for banks to signal their status (PoW)

- flying bank managers across the planet to signal status (PoW)

- the office equipment, servers, and employees of banks

- existing fiat currency becoming garbage due to wear, better fakes, and inflation

- the network of hundreds of thousands of ATMs and the COBOL mainframes which back them
Not to dismiss your position but I think you might have some sample bias - most 'gamers' are just used to mobile and console and really have no noteworthy IT skills or understanding of what happens behind the scenes.
90% of users don't use the scrollbar on laptop/desktop? I find that hard to believe unless your apps don't really need a scrollbar to see all the options.
also just switch to metric system while we are at it.
According to a 2013 forum post by the now CEO of Scaleway, a competitor of OVH, it's due to North American building regulations that basically force you into sprinklers and stuff for insurance reasons.

Source in French: https://lafibre.info/ovh-datacenter/ovh-et-la-protection-inc...
And Xbox and other gaming consoles.
TLDR; our hotel has hd TVs and PlayStation in every room, and we are very proud of it.
The abolition of DST in Europe has not yet been confirmed - it seems to be stalled in the Council

https://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/summertime_en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_time_in_Europe
Selective indifference is malice.
Earlier times are for high school sports competitions.

Everyone has to get up early all year, so the track team does not have to stay up late a couple times per year. Well, also football, basketball, etc
You should avoid giving a right of first refusal even at great cost (20% valuation discount).

If there is a right of first refusal many investors will decline to engage in future rounds since if they end up negotiating a good deal it might fall apart at the last moment.
Imagine having to adjust every clock in your house every single month.
Would the starship do the belly flop maneuver for passenger flights? That part would scare me the most.. playing chicken with the ground and hoping the engines fire up well and you don't just pancake and explode.
Might be, yet I bet Acrobat can handle most of the ones that get sent around.
Bitcoin does not consume energy. Miners do. Before presenting your views on Bitcoin, you should have some knowledge about how the network works, in particular how mining difficulty is regulated. Bitcoin would do just fine if its energy consumption dropped to 2008 levels.
Misleading headline. It means: These films are no longer viewable if your account indicates that you are under 7 years old. Older viewers can still watch them with an attached warning.
> Think of complex numbers

I'd say naturals are abstract enough :)
There are dozens of small airplane manufacturers. Cessna nearly failed in the '90s, but they're doing fine today. They're still small enough to fail. Also there are bizjet manufacturers that could fail. Aircraft producers usually sell the right to own parts and service at a discount through chapter 11 work, so it's not like the parts and service aircraft need to keep flying vanish if the parent company fails. Usually.

Companies like Pipistrel that are producing innovative aircraft are usually small enough to fail.
Dropping the switch itself is a good idea. But to which one to stick to is more moot.
Yes, it is bad design, because you have one Sql.RunQuery method returning a DataTable and it's used every-freaking-where. Then you have to convert the data in every place back to the proper objects, paying special attention to the difference between DBNull and regular null.

I've used both ORMs and direct ADO queries (in C#), and while ORMs can trip you in special cases like the N+1 SELECT problem, the raw queries are a pain everywhere. It's just to easy to say "ah, I need a quick SELECT here, I'll just return this bunch of records and I know that record[5] is a string with the value I need". Hello, versioning hell.
Thanks for the heads up, looking into this now! :)

In the meantime, we've opened up our team Slack (link below) if you'd like more info on Haystack (or just want to jam about metrics with other eng leaders from companies like Microsoft and The Economist).

I believe this link should work:
https://www.usehaystack.io/haystack-slack-community

And sorry for the technical difficulties. Should be resolved shortly.
There was a survey or study of some sort related to this very question. My search foo fails me at the moment, but the question was directed to elite athletes: "Olympic medal and take ten (or maybe five) years off your life?". IIRC, close to half said, "where do I sign?".

Damned if I can find a link, though. It was all over every athletic-oriented magazine ten years ago. EDIT: there's even a Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman%27s_dilemma
Having seen this model before, I think the challenge there is incentives, motivation and focus. If you have a winner, it's likely that through power law effects it makes sense to double down on it unless you have too much capital to deploy through that company.

With that said, I think running a product studio before you find product market fit or the killer company is not a bad idea, especially if you can work directly with LPs to source the funds. Then the challenge is just making sure people don't step on each other's toes when you staff the winner.
I don't disagree. My point I guess is, if you're buying a plane that will potentially be in service for many decades you need some kind of reassurance the manufacturer will still be around to support it?
PE class is one thing, building the whole school schedule around the football team's needs is another.
Is there any particular version of the game you need to be able to code for it? I know for instance - in a vague way - that Minecraft is different in terms of the version that runs on my son's iPad and the Windows version, written in Java.
Playing devils advocate. I’m guessing long term maintenance would be a concern when ones buying something as expensive as a plane. How do you trust a new small company with this?
I can list so many dumb uses of energy out of my head that could be beneficial if banned...
According to a forum post discussing the building of said DC, with photos and such, there's no visible fire suppression system:

https://lafibre.info/ovh-datacenter/ovh-et-la-protection-inc...
> [it improves upon] 28-56 bytes [of IPv4 record size]

that's still 28-56 MiB for 1024000 (~1M) IP records. Who needs to manipulate more than that?
And Argentina.
I started out as a teen over 40 years ago now. I begged and finally got my parents to buy the cheapest Radio Shack 4K home computer for me for xmas ($299). I learned to type by typing in simple game code listings from magazines written in the ROM BASIC. I couldn't afford games at the pizza place (@ .25c for three lives) and the game ROM cartridges Radio Shack sold were $20.

After several months of re-typing in each game listing every time the computer got shut off, I was getting pretty damn fast. My parents finally got me the $30 audio cassette tape recorder for my birthday. That was a glorious day! Once I could save the code, I started changing little things in the games like the colors and number of lives. That expanded into adding new obstacles and new levels.

Ultimately, all the BASIC games were pretty primitive. All the unobtainable ROM cartridge games were coded in some magical incantations rumored to be called "Assembly Language". I knew a guy at school with the same computer who had a couple of game cartridges and I'd sometimes manage to talk him into loaning me one for a couple days. Giving the cartridges back sucked. Eventually I learned how to copy the ROM space memory by writing a BASIC program of PEEKs and POKEs. Many hours of experimentation later I was able to copy the 2k of ROM data into user memory (the BASIC code had to be short or the ROM would start overwriting it). Now I could run that game without the damn cartridge! Unfortunately, that was the only game game cartridge at Radio Shack that worked. All the other ROMS I tried had protection measures which I eventually figured out were trying to write to their own memory.

Then I found a listing for a BASIC program called an Assembly Language Monitor that would turn bytes back onto mnemonics. With that, a bunch of luck and several days of effort I was able to find the code in the game ROM that tried to overwrite its own memory and replaced it with NOPs. I felt like king of the world. I wasn't very productive as a software pirate because I spent many times longer figuring out how to copy the game than I ever spent actually playing the game. :-)

However, as I bumbled my way through each new obstacle I encountered as a game pirate I was writing more and more of my own tooling code. Eventually that slowly evolved into a career as a self-taught programmer, software architect and then tech startup entrepreneur. So, yeah. There's at least one case of a frustrated teenage game-player being an on-ramp into a successful tech career.
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I highly doubt that a scroll bar will overwhelm a user.