skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As the breakup of the Empire became obvious during the war, they changed their tune and supported Israel.

So you're just going to keep repeating this claim, that is backed by zero evidence or facts, and is contradicted by established historical facts which I cited.

You claim that Britain decided to support Israel after WWII, which ended in 1945. Yet in 1948, the most powerful military force that attacked Israel was organized, trained, and armed by the British and led by acting British officers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Legion#1948_Arab%E2%80%93...

The rest of your claims are likewise false and counterfactual, and you presented no evidence supporting any of them.
Well I’m fine with that. I’m just arguing for replacing those fossil fuel plants first. We don’t have time or money (which is to say, productive capacity without significantly reducing quality of life somewhat for most of the population) or climate capacity to go the other way.
The market cap multiplied 100X, but whether the company is actually worth 100X is a different question.
What will the authorities do with the 15 tonnes of cocaine to dispose of it? Incinerate?
Or, because they have no money and it's all they can afford.

it's that or being homeless. In a trashy RV park, they generally get running water, electricity and a toilet that flushes. Actual homeless people are a step down from that, generally no running water, etc.

Also note, most homeless persons are effectively barred from working. (employers mostly require an address to hire you)

source: me. a formerly homeless person and have lived in the trashy RV parks before.
And use git LFS and cloned a malicious repo? This bug has probably not affected a single user.
People buying shares were acting on what they believed to be the true valuation. A big difference. Imagine two people are "long" on some stock. Person A decides to sell; They believe the true valuation is lower. Person B decided to buy more; They believe the true valuation is higher. One of them is wrong.

In this case, the buyers of Hertz stock were most likely wrong, although things are not yet finalized and another comment here notes that alternate plans are being proposed that would not wipe out share holders.
Already exists, guys. You're late to the party.

https://dweb.archive.org/archive.html?identifier=home
/r/thetagang
Remote access is fine, it can be reasonably managed: Generally the client sets it, and the manufacturer doesn't retain access. Usually you can geoblock and such as well. You have control of the hardware and can implement encrypted storage and better access controls, rather than trusting a third party to decide what is "secure".
Off topic, but why is this thread (207 points | 5 hours ago | 474 comments) on page 2, rank 37, and the thread about Italo Calvino (62 points | 7 hours ago | 19 comments) on page 1, rank 23?
Agreed that Slack's "main" thread view sucks and I only use the sidebar view, it's really difficult/cumbersome to move between threads. I think some kind of tabbed interface could work.

And I'm all for threaded conversations, something evolved from Slack's model. Purely linear is so damn noisy and participants are forced to follow a lot of uninteresting shit that could've gone on in a thread instead. This happens a lot even with chats with small groups of friends.
There are M4L devices that allegedly let you use notation in Live, but I could never get them to work. You've probably looked into them already, but I mention it just in case.
There is a bubble in housing at the higher end where people who previously paid for e.g. childcare and had two incomes now have an extra $1200-$4000 or more per month. They are buying.

There is a crush in employment at the lower end where people literally cannot afford their rent, and many have not paid rent since nearly a year ago but cannot be evicted.

There is simultaneously a very different feel in many urban areas with nightlife nonexistent and no reason for most people to be there.

It is a short-term (probably) devaluing of urban environments plus a growing income disparity appearing in the housing market.

I think the reopening will be very hard on housing and the stock market as childcare, going out, travel, etc draw down on bank accounts on the high end and people start to try to lock in their gains.
Decades ago, Greenpeace ran an extremely successful campaign to block nuclear plant construction, and to force nonsensical regulations on existing plants.

I imagine they wouldn’t have done so if global warming was well-understood back then.
Would you consider placing your life savings on 100 1:3 payout coin flips investing?
Wow, a real life saint ;)
My point is that reproducible builds in Go and Rust are much, much easier than C and C++ (and Python since everything depends on C and C++). If your C and C++ programs are building easily (including their direct and transitive dependencies), then you're almost certainly not doing truly reproducible builds (or perhaps you're just very, very familiar with your particular dependency tree in a way that doesn't generalize to arbitrary trees).

To be clear, I'm not arguing that there are better tools for working around C/C++'s build ecosystem; I'm arguing that our lives will be better when we minimize our dependencies on those ecosystems.
Shoulda converted into 3.60B American pennies
Nice! Have used quite a few tools like this to convert data government agencies report in pdfs to csvs. The biggest challenge that existing tools fail to adequately address is when table formats vary (e.g., increasing level of indentation). Perhaps formatting those in json first would be easier
KoenigTech – Software solutions for financial systems
Here we go again........
> items shifting ... before I click ... results in the wrong choice

Or a window from a different app pops up (the app took a while to start), steals the Enter key press, interprets Enter as "Yes do [something]", and then does it (but I didn't want that!).

Why can't OS windows be click & mouse disabled for 2 seconds, after they open
Or... Hertz can organize Chapter 11 bankruptcy, wipe out large portions of its debt, and then bounce back.

Bankruptcy protects the company and allows a company to come back stronger. That's the ultimate issue: with debts this large, it makes sense for Hertz to give up on its debt rather than try to pay it off.

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Its not like Chapter 11 is a death-knell for a company. GM went Chapter 11 years ago, and came back much stronger in the past decade. Bankruptcy protects the company, while (usually) wiping out the shareholders... and bondholders only getting a fraction of their promised payments back.

That's the deal: investors get screwed, but the company survives. A bankruptcy court helps decide if the case truly is as terrible as they are pleading.

But ultimately: that's why Hertz's board voluntarily entered Bankruptcy Protection last year. Its to Hertz's advantage to declare bankruptcy.

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If you have a comeback plan for Hertz, it will be an even stronger comeback plan if you wiped out a huge portion of debt. It just makes sense.
ArduPilot sticks out on this list - could be some cool projects there.

I can’t speak for the current times, but Google’s Open Source Programs Office was, hopefully still is, staffed by some great people. I won the “pre-GSoC” contest, GCI, many years ago. They flew everyone to SFO, had a day in MV, Segway tours, etc.

I met more diverse people on that trip than any other, many connections from that time that I still keep up with. I hope Google restarts in person events like GCI when it’s feasible, it would be a shame to lose those kinds of things.

Edit a few minutes later: we have lost it[1]. Hopefully they have something better in mind to replace it.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code-in
Interesting. I just talked to the experts - my 7 year old and 9 year old. They play Roblox sitting side by side on the couch, right beside me. They spend $0 and I just asked them, are you looking to buy anything, and they said "No" you don't need to, but they do know a kid who has spent $100 and is addicted to it (their words, not mine...could be exagerated).

Then again, the 9 year old also has a steam account, and they buy all their games from their $5/week allowance. It's their choice. We do not control what they spend money on.

They made a couple of bad purchased, and cried, and regretted it, but it taught them to be careful. So I guess, you can say, there are ways to letting kids play Roblox and controlling their spending.

And to be fair, it really depends on the kid. Some resist buying impulsively better than others. Also, as an aside, they try to add kids that they know in real life.

They get their video time from 6:15pm until 7:15pm on weekdays. They pick their video time. Whether watching Planet Earth, Youtube, Steam, Roblox, it doesn't matter. BUT, they get 1 hour. Essentially we are trying to give them power of choice, and ability to fail. It's not perfect, but...I guess we're just learning as we go along.
Why do you think it's an "obvious scam"? I played MtG for many years. I spent money, sure, but nothing obsessive and I got a lot of enjoyment out of it: the game is interesting and always changing, I went to tournaments, met people, and then there was the economy: trade, trying to predict cards whose price would go up, etc. I remember doing arbitrage at some point when a card appeared in a preconstructed deck for €X and was selling for like €X+5 (it didn't last much, of course). I also learned some foreign languages because I had cards in various languages. I think it was money well spent, and I have no doubt it would be a good experience for my kid as well.

I still have the cards, they have a resale value. More than I spent on the game, as some have become difficult to find. Of course, this could change (I don't really think they'll become worthless because MtG is not just any CCG, it's quite iconic due to its history, but it could happen), but at the very least they are a physical item that remains there and can be played with. When my son grows, he will probably enjoy them, regardless of their value.

Loot boxes for games that give you a virtual item that you can't even sell or gift and will probably be worthless in 4 years when the server closes... now that's a scam, unless in exceptional cases (small one-time purchase to support devs, etc.). I don't spend money on that and I wouldn't let my kid either.
Paying a company doesn’t meaningfully affect their incentives to sell your information or not.
With proper security policies in place, creating a flawed key would also "not be as trivial as some people would imagine". The issue which you claimed is that one can not determine whether or not the other party is following proper security policies - which is true no matter what.
another alternative is to give more legal protection for tennants so that corporations can't exploit them anymore
Sequoia is mentioned prominently here. What is the role of venture funds in ensuring their startups operate or endure some basic regular external security audits?
I would also onto your point and say that one reason why Rust is easy to get into is because of the convenience that these semi-proprietary platforms provide.

We here on HN have both the time and ability to set up things like CLI Git, and Matrix. But for a new language, forcing people onto esoteric (& superior) platforms makes them less likely to use them.

It would be nice if Matrix and self-hosted Git were the default, but when acquiring users/programmers is your goal, Rust doesn't have that luxury.
And allow reviews only from customers who have actually bought the product - they do it to some extent today, with "verified purchase" label, but it would be nice to not even let customers review products that they haven't bought
Just for reference: https://www.mobygames.com/browse/games/windows/ has a huge database of video games.

Also, assuming your child plays with real life friends I don't know how much sense it would make to suggest alternatives to Roblox (group dynamics, network effects and all), but something like Terraria, Starbound, Minecraft or even Garry's Mod would fit here.

See also searching by tags on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?tags=3859,3810 (here: Sandbox, Multiplayer)
If they've got nothing to hide, they've got nothing to fear.
21% is rather significant if we're hoping to scale the installation of wind along with other renewables to entirely replace fossil fuels and nuclear. And of course there is just the regular mining of all the other resources needed to produce these renewables in the first place which might actually be the bigger problem in terms of scale.

"Leading manufacturers of large modern wind turbines, such as Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy and MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, use permanent magnet generators based on neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) in their advanced offshore wind turbines. " https://thinkrcg.com/rare-earth-metals-and-their-role-in-ren...
While we are not quite there yet, I wonder if GPT4 or 5 (hypothetically) will allow these businesses to fire most of their workers.

While investigations are hard, writing a piece with no substance for clickbait doesn't seem that hard, and then you just have someone proof-read and post it. Your cost would be very close to 0 and the articles would carry just as much substance as they would have if written by a human being.
Bullshit headline.

The article is about just one UI issue.

Not any kind of comparative analysis of UX.
Preternaturally moderate? What the hell?
I would imagine that most people who've done it a couple times will find reviewing the material is much faster than learning it for the first time. I also suspect that many medical professionals do not live in their first choice of location, but if you think medical school is so much more appealing than some interview prep and a possible relocation what are you waiting for? I think the fact I could learn all this stuff for free is a pretty big mark in favor of it over medicine, but everyone's judgments are different, I suppose.
> The article has really just recreated BBS thread topics

Well in both cases you are dealing with a self referential set of fractal UI/UX objects.

Feed <> Post <> Flat Comment thread <> Sub-Comment thread_1 <> Sub-Comment thread_2 <> _x

Multiple conversation threads inside a BBS post means you 'view' the post as a feed, 1st Order comments as Posts, and 2nd oder...

Branches become trees and leaves become branches.

Building a single 'view' to handle shifting perspectives is not easy and OP seems to have at least thought this through with a proposal to have 2 different modes.

I'm looking forward to part_2 and (and maybe comparing it to my own conclusions ;}
In the US, "Made in USA" (or the implication) means that "all or virtually all" of the "significant parts and processing that go into the product must be of U.S. origin".

More information is available from the FTC web site: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com...
Shadow Attacks:Hiding and Replacing Content in Signed PDFs [pdf]
How to Make Money from Your Blog by Adding Web Monetization
Participation in the IETF is mostly free - you can join the mailing lists and discuss the drafts. What costs is going to the physical meetings: there’s an attendance fee, as well as costs for travel and accommodation, etc.

So, in effect, IETF standards are paid for by the employers of people who participate in the IETF, in terms of giving them time to do so and paying for them to go to the meetings.

There are reasonable conflict-of-interest rules for ISOC staff, who are required to be clear when they are speaking on behalf of ISOC or in a personal capacity. Although ISOC provides additional funding, they do not oversee the IETF standards process. That job is done by the working group chairs and by the IESG (aka the IETF area directors) who are nominated by people who attend IETF meetings.
I rarely hear of people who are happy with their cell carrier regardless of where they're from. In Germany we have three major providers: Telekom (the parent company of T-Mobile), Vodafone and o2 (which belongs to Spanish Telefonica). By all accounts they're all terrible from a customer service perspective.

I just had o2 renew my contract rather than cancel it as I explicitly demanded and it took me a week of regular calls to customer service to get it fixed. I want to switch but it feels like I am between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Execution by Elephant
I see your Hanlon's Razor, and I raise you Hanlon's Handgun of mine:

"Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by systemic incentives promoting malice."

I'm not sure what makes Google so different that it should be exempt from general trends around reviews. Businesses have their interest aligned here: removing negative reviews and faking positive reviews are beneficial to each individually, and can't be directly weaponized against competition. Google has no strong incentive to keep reviews honest; regular users will not replace Google Maps with OSM over a review issue, while a business might want to stop paying Google if they get bad experience on the marketing front.
is that quote any more of short-circuit than using the phrases law enforcement agencies or governments as a pejorative?

I mean, isn't it fairly legitimate for law enforcement agencies or governments to criticize software which facilitates crime, or stops those agencies from stopping it?

People always reflexively dismiss this argument, but crime is a real issue.
There is a anti medication bias because these psychotropics medications were not designed to be used longer term. I’ve tried medication, it warped me into a shell of my creative self. We’ve got to stop using psychotropic drugs to fit people to society. And starting helping people integrate.

We’ve had risings rates of mental illness for years. And these method of diagnose and prescribe is only making it worse.

There’s obviously benefits to medicine but we’ve gone insane with how we’re describing the mass amount of personal mental variance in the world as illness and trying to eliminate it.

These medications have lasting long term effects that are unknown. If kids that are the brightest are struggling to succeed change the rules not the kids. I learned more when I dropped out and studied what I love instead of following curriculum. We've got to have more varied paths towards success.
Stadia lets you play people's screenshots, and it feels kinda like the future
I am not dismissing it. I appreciate what React is doing, and it is indeed revolutionary.

My point is that there has been a lot of evolution and improvement, but developer sanity is one of the few things that have just gone worse.

It is dishonest to look only at the bright side of modern frontend coding and forgetting the node_modules nightmare, the incredibly obtuse language, the slow compilation times, the myriad of CSS frameworks that are invented because CSS is an absolute pain in the arse for modern design, etc., the fact that every JS tool either is core to the whole circus and is maintained by a stressed out, underpaid person in the middle of nowhere, or has a minimum of 5k Github issues and a major version released every 3 months, and every time you get a problem you're told "haven't you tried the new alpha release of the big rewrite we've just started?".

It is absolute madness, not just frustrating. But yeah, React is cool.
A new theory on who Satoshi (the creator of Bitcoin) may be
The Internet Archive already stores some big public domain data sets in IPFS/Filecoin: Prelinger Films & Librivox audiobooks. They've been partnering with Protocol Labs for 5 years.
https://blog.archive.org/2020/10/22/what-information-should-...
Developers are terrible testers, because they have the opposite mindset. Plus, they are more expensive. So you pay more to get less.

Do you think business analysis is about software architecture? Oh boy.
Honestly if either the brand or charging were as big a deal as all that, I'd expect them to be doing better in Europe. The US seems to be the only remaining territory where they're the market leader, and they may be a bit stickier there, but it's not clear that EU sales of, say, the Zoe or id3 would be any different in the parallel universe where Tesla never existed. Those sell because they've hit a price/range point, and that's more due to the relentless slow progress of battery technology than anything else.

Not to say they're not a significant electric car manufacturer, but "coming third in the biggest western market, behind Renault, who apparently still exist" is not a great argument for them being either a market leader or having a particularly sticky brand.
Do you store code in $HOME. If so, I wouldn't recommend it. I have a case-sensitive partition on my macOS machine because I was bitten one too many times by code that worked fine on my development machine (case-insensitive file system) only to fail in production (case-sensitive file system).
Times greater than 24:00 are not allowed by ISO 8601.

Looking at my copy of the draft of the 4th edition of ISO 8601, it seems they removed the 24:00 feature so now times have to be between 00:00 and 23:59. A shame, I think.
What does the authentication process on RSS look like?
> [one que for multiple cashiers] reduces waiting time compared to the one queue per cashier

Is this really correct? Shouldn't one grand queue just decrease variance, not average?
Ask HN: Why don't microwave ovens have IR cameras to tell when food is done?
I use my microwave all the time -- to reheat frozen cooked salmon (ideally to precisely 130°F), to heat up leftover soup from the fridge (ideally to more like 170°F), or to boil water for tea (faster than stove or electric kettle in the US).

And to cook foods without overcooking requires low power settings (~20%) for long periods of time (6-15 min), but constantly checking the temperature, guesstimating another x minutes, rinse and repeat... there has to be a better way!

It seems like building a cheap low-res IR camera in the roof of the microwave would be such an obvious idea. I punch in my desired 130°F, and it alternates between heating and waiting -- as soon as it detects hot spots or any food that's reached the target temperature, it backs off, then starts up again until the whole item is at desired temperature. Your food is never overcooked, and never undercooked. You could even defrost perfectly, and/or hold a temperature for really large items to penetrate the inside.

Yet there seems to be vanishingly little progress. Searching online yields 2015 patent that seemed to go nowhere [1], a dismissive article from 2018 [2] about a hard-to-use IR accessory, and a deep learning paper from last year [3].

So I thought I'd ask here, since there are bound to be engineers with experience. Is there something I'm missing here that either makes it impossible to build (e.g. microwaves would fry the camera electronics or something) or somehow so inaccurate it wouldn't be worth it?

I don't know if this is a startup idea, or just something I wish the big brands would start producing...

[1] https://gizmodo.com/infrared-microwave-lets-you-watch-your-food-change-colo-1685143405

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17139114/cmicro-microwave-temperature-sensor-system-kickstarter

[3] https://www.mdpi.com/2571-5577/3/1/13/htm
Good thing is Internet Archive is a nonprofit, so cannot be acquired.
> The point of "the grid" is that it is able to serve all the customers plugged into it.

Ah, thanks. I somehow thought they'd be more special than this and required more attention. I think it's because of pop scifi tv show where scientists do some experiments and the building gets dark half the time after that because “of the enormous amount of energy required to teleport this cat in time or behind the wall“.

> During LHC operations, the CERN site draws roughly 200 MW of electrical power from the French electrical grid, which, for comparison, is about one-third the energy consumption of the city of Geneva; the LHC accelerator and detectors draw about 120 MW thereof.[34] Each day of its operation generates 140 terabytes of data.[35]