skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference between substantive criticism and monkeys flinging shit at a wall.

Section 230 says nothing about "you must allow all public comments."

Its not very long, go read it.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
Just for clarity, I just installed qutebrowser and tried it on github.

The page works just fine. There is a small yellow badge on top talking about changes which disappears after a few page changes, and that's it. The quick test actually shows the functionality works -- I can browse repos, view files, PRs, get git commands for checkout and so on.

I don't think there is much shaming needed in this case.
hit the nail on the head
As counter-argument, I reference the Voynich Manuscript: clearly a language is used to share thoughts, even though only the author (presumably) understood it.

I come to this definition of "art" precisely because so much of what is deemed "art" today "is not stuff people would usually agree to call 'art'", such as the "artist" shuffling around a pile of salt whilst on his knees for hours each day. Current art has done a great deal to eviscerate any sense of meaning (despite the pages of explanation accompanying every piece thereof), leaving me with my working definition: that which is made for the sufficient purpose of being perceived. I don't like the definition, being devoid of any aspect regarding improving the human condition, but that's what I'm left with.
We live fairly rural so it's not a huge issue. The moon is usually the brightest thing we have to deal with. I have considered automated black out blinds even for that (plus for daytime movie viewing and naps!)
Crypto Art Carbon Calculator Shuts Down
Blocking canvas fingerprinting makes you stand out like a firework, in fingerprinting terms.
NFTs provide proof of ownership of the token, but no guarantee the NFT wasn't issued "fraudulently".

C.f.: https://www.reddit.com/r/NFT/comments/m3y4go/my_art_stolen_a...
Wait, are you implying Musk would move out of China, but the shareholders would want him to stay? You do realize he's done nothing but praise China right? Let alone that much of Tesla's funding would dry up if he "went private".

The reality distortion field around musk is insane...
> The test includes six events - a maximum deadlift, a standing power throw, hand-release push-ups, a sprint, drag and carry, leg tuck, and a two-mile run. Those taking it must score at least 360 points out of a possible 600, and those who achieve higher scores are more likely to be promoted.

Just a dumb RPG comment but it seems to be weighted toward STR more than DEX or END. Even a 2-mile run seems suspiciously meh compared to a max deadlift. Is this normal for Army fitness? Hopefully it wasn't a knee-jerk designed by frightened men...
What's odd is that the listing on Christie's references a larger christies.com-hosted version of the JPG (3000x3000), here:

https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2021/NYR/2021_NYR_20...

Whereas the IPFS version of the image is merely 1200x1200. In this case, it really matters because the image is a mosaic that is virtually indecipherable at the 1200x1200 size.

So, it begs the question what is the person actually buying? I get that it's the concept of "ownership" that's being sold, but ownership of what exactly?

When the new owner then goes to sell "it", what do they reference? An illegible JPG?
I enjoyed it, but damn that dude is hella privileged.
How to Make Ordinary Headphones Smart
Why do you think that Colin Wright and Göktuğ Kayaalp are the same person?
One of the things I miss from Slashdot moderation is the tag that would accompany the score — Informative, Funny, etc. I’ve never really seen it take off anywhere, and hashtags or emoticons don’t convey the same.
Indeed. It doesn't fit how I currently view the world so therefore it is false.
Am I missing something here? Is there specific evidence showing that sky intended its service to be used by criminals? If not this should be very worrying. A company offering secure 1 to 1 communication shouldnt be liable for what that content is. From my understanding this has nothing to do with content in the public space. What is the difference to something like signal, or telegram?
What about narcos working as spies?

What about counterspy? What if one of them decides to make a little extra money running drugs?

We need to go deeper.
We can only fantasize about schemes that may never be revealed.
We're pretty bad at managing wild resources, but then again, we're pretty bad at saving them as well. For example, the same marine mammal act which saved sea otters from extinction has also allowed for the overpopulation of harbor seals which is going to drive the southern resident orcas into extinction. And the fisheries systems that we've built to save salmon and steelhead populations have resulted in less genetic diversity in wild populations that make them more susceptible to disease and predation. Not that I have an answer to this, just a little frustrated that we didn't care about this stuff sooner, and had a more developed body of science on how to deal with these things.
It's the definition of an error or exception.
It is a bottom tier food source and like you say, they don’t like the evacuated ones present in an urchin barren
Just give it some time. Once the user base swells up I'm sure the site will witness a general decline in quality, unless the moderation tools catch up.

This is something I've seen with countless forums and message boards over the years, i.e. Quora, Yahoo Answers, etc.
Honda has done some amazing things with engine design, and they are catching up to Toyota in terms of reliability as well. 2018 Honda Accord - 4 door sedan - I4 has 45 mpg in real world driving.
https://www.truedelta.com/Honda-Accord/mpg-108
So. From a supply chain perspective.

Let’s say you go buy a Tesla or Volt. The cost to charge it at a station or even your house isn’t carbon neutral. It depends on how your local power is generated. In my gas that’s primarily natural gas.

Is the $0.11/kWh truly, not to mention the cost of the battery and all the lithium/magnesium/nickel mining it requires, more “carbon neutral” than a 35 mpg petrol vehicle with all the catalytic converters and whatnot.

In reality the combustion engine pollutants contributors seem to be more shipping related. Diesel boats, diesel trains, diesel 18 wheelers etc.
Have you seen this cryptocurrency usecase?
Are there any existing platforms that allow leveraging a cryptocurrency's volatility for a layaway purchase? For example, a customer using a digital coin as a deposit to layaway an item for later pick-up when the value of the digital coin can pay off the price of the item
Didn't say to not eat meat- but most people eat more than necessary.

I was a little facetious when suggesting to keep your car forever. Just don't ditch it merely for being "old". That really goes for anything.

You can also accept the fact that you are but one human among billions. Tend your garden.
> that would imply you would prefer a term that is in a way discriminatory to a particular group right?

Here we have an example of how you go about dealing with the issue
International issue???? I think you overestimate how much people care about a tiny luxury car maker...
Errr, this is very different, but not because of the submarine.

Modern ASW[1] is based on the idea that Russian subs come from Russian bases. US and NATO submarines (and airplanes and ships and undersea sonar arrays etc.) pay a lot of attention to those bases. They are constantly looking for anything coming out of those bases, and then they can follow and track them across the ocean. But saying "somewhere in the Atlantic ocean there is a submarine, let's go find it" is not how modern ASW works. Think of it like looking through a telescope- in order to see something you have to shrink your field of view a lot, but when you narrow your field of view you can look pretty clearly at that one spot. The trick is cuing to point the telescope at the right spot. That's where the difference between a Navy and drug smuggling organization becomes clear.

Drug smuggling submarines are, at least as far as I am aware, generally built in situ on random uninhabited spots, by small groups over the course of a few weeks, then sail to another random spot to deliver their cargo (in Latin America they tend to build on the coast, in Europe they tend to build inland and then truck to the coast). They try to avoid busy shipping lanes or other high traffic areas, try to avoid sending messages via radio or anything like that. The whole point is that there is nothing to cue anyone. That's why drug smuggling submarines are different from real navy submarines. Real navies need facilities that appear to satellites, they need training time which can be observed, they need coordination between ships which means communications, etc. Real navies have to deal with their sailors revealing their locations on VK or Strava. Drug smugglers organize their lives so they don't leave any of that. And when they do slip up and someone can cue the police, the coast guard, or the navy, the submarine gets found just like a real navy submarine does.

[1]: With the very important caveat that over the last 30 years the USN has allowed it's ASW capabilities to atrophy, due to the atrophy of the USSR/RU submarine fleet. But, to look at what they did back when they cared about ASW google: GUIK Gap, SOSUS, SURTASS, Classic Wizard. Those were all about getting ASW assets close to Soviet submarines, and then letting them go to work.
> It's not vague, it has a literal meaning. Efficient.

See a sister thread for commenters mock debating over whether it means improved throughput or reduced latency. If a speaker indeed intends to mean “efficient,” then it would be thoughtful to opt to instead use “efficient” for clarity’s sake. Performant has been so often recklessly used that the meaning has been diluted to mean general and vague “fastness,” from which most thoughtful people cannot glean any specific meaning.
Well judging from your comment it's going to be hard to get your default attitude to change on this. What would change your mind? A popular mechanics article? https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a247495...

Turbines are bad for birds. Period.
Let's not forget how well connected Microsoft is. People love to use their clickable UI tools, compared to editing config files. In RHE/CentOS it was possible to store all settings made during installation and reuse the file for future automated installations. (I think it was called kickstart file).
Twitter does allow sharable blocklists. I maintain and distribute a very popular one.
If you're not willing to go all in on community, this is the right decision.

But you are giving up something. Rather than focus on the small commenting audience as a detraction, look at it as an opportunity to grow. 2% seems small, but I bet a huge portion of that is paying subscribers. There are publications that have a healthy commenting section, so we know it's possible.

At one point in time Digg (which has gone to the dogs now) had a thing where they'd have a sort of AMA with the author of an article featured on their front page. I thought that was fantastic. I wonder if the Inquirer considered allowing subscribers to ask questions of journalists, which (if answered) would appear as a comment below the article. You take the money you're paying your moderators, and you pay your journalist more for the time they're spending on that.
Picture the effect of compression ratios or decompression performance improving 1% globally, or conversely, if planes were replaced with a Wright Brothers model or cars with the T1. When discussing Deflate it's not just 1%, but regularly 200% or 2,000%, nor is it something people use once per month, but practically every time they interact with digital electronics.

Regressing to the T1 is unthinkable because they're long out of fashion and widely perceived as obsolete. Every change starts with a shift in perception, a process accelerated by a shift in language. For that I'm content with "junk", it describes exactly how we must feel about this dead technology before we'll ever be rid of it.

I'll gladly reminisce once we've escaped its legacy, be it time wasted installing an Android app and the effect it has on the battery (multiplied by billions of users), the time to open an Excel document, power up some smart TVs, fetch an itemized AWS bill over a typical S.E. Asian Internet connection, or grep that bill at speeds appropriate for a state of the art laptop manufactured this side of the millennium. You expect me to pay respect to software that wastes the finite breaths of billions of real people every single day.
Yes. Unironically. Without the s. Seriously.

Very few news orgs devote the resources needed to curate messages for relevance and filter trolls and flames.

Furthermore, places want to make money on subscribers so potentially have an incentive not to remove postsade by subscribers (no substance behind that theory).

Nytimes is the only news site I see that doesn't have absolute trash for dialogue quality.
And current-day car thermostats. If it fails, your engine overheats, and that's an expensive repair. If you ever see a high temp warning light on your car, you can take it out and test its functionality in a pot of hot water (or replace it for ~$20)
I showed my son (11) how he could right click on a web page to see under the hood a few months ago.

Tonight when he called me he asked if he could have an old Java coding book he found in the basement. Apparently he's been "Hacking" the school computers by editing the HTML on different web pages to add shrek IMG tags.

I talked him through installing notepad++ and the JRE, but also had him install python so he could try the REPL.

He was able to do a quick

>a=4

>b=8

>a+b

12

I'm super proud of him. My daughter (9) was also following along, got notepad++ installed and was apparently working on a HUGE code:)

I'm super proud of her too.
FWIW, it is likely not the websites looking at user agent.

Just checked with "qutebrowser (1.1.1-1ubuntu0.1)", and both github and gitlab work, at least for code viewing. Github shows a badge but then works anyway.

The OP does say things like:

> if you choose to do sensible things like blanket-ban 3rd-party cookies, disable referrer API, disable canvas, etc.

so maybe they disabled too much stuff in the otherwise-working browser?
Can't they just limit commenting to paying subscribers?
This actually happened in the ‘70s and it sucked so hard it got repealed in less than a year[1].

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/us-tried-year-round-daylight...
I think "The only way out is through" meaning, we will not solve the problem by consuming less or becoming primitive. We will solve the problem by developing through the environmental constraints and replacing our harmful behaviors with better ones. For example, solar, wind, nuclear, and one day fusion providing power instead of coal, oil, and natural gas. Electric cars instead of internal combustion and so on.

People just are not going to use less stuff. In fact, they're going to use more. There are billions of people in the developing world who use a lot less energy and stuff than people in the developed world - but they are developing and will come to use and consume more and more. We won't impoverish ourselves, we can't ask the developing world to stay poor, and the population is growing all the time.

Plans or hopes that involve consuming less are unrealistic. The only way to save the environment is better technology and geo-engineering.
Forget all the pessimism and misanthropy. It's never going to solve our problems. Instead, focus on making things that make people more efficient. We won't ever be able to guilt-trip and shame our way out of climate change, but we just might be able to engineer our way out instead.

And, if you have ample means, have as many kids as you can support in your chosen lifestyle, so they will grow up to invent more and better policies and technologies to make the future a place we actually want to live in again.
Facebook is full of complete toxic garbage posted by people with their full real identities.
Myth?

I think the "Bavel" analogy is apt.
Accents, Dialects, and Discrimination
Like this, perhaps:

* https://mathstodon.xyz/@ColinTheMathmo/104081263491233706
Which would be fine actually for the program itself, if this is all figured out by the compiler/at runtime, though obviously more inefficient "for no good reason".

It would wreak havoc on the programming side though. Have you ever worked on a code base with more than a few people? Have you ever had to deal with different preferences programmers have? Differences in opinion between smart, slightly (or not so slightly) non-social people?

Using 0 or 1 indexed arrays, the new space vs tabs war! Or the new 2 spaces vs. 4 spaces vs. 8 spaces vs. using tabs war!
> Drug dosage administration errors are still a not-insignificant cause of death, and are by no means a completely solved problem.

But the cause of that problem isn't even arguably “there is no required testing to verify they nurses can do the task appropriately”, since there is, in fact, required testing that includes that within it's scope.

So the idea that Congress enacting a new requirement on that would be parallel to it's initial adoption of a background check requirement for guns but for a more pressing problem is not defensible.

The fact that Congress has also repeatedly recently adopted (not merely discussed) new rules designed to address things that are actually empirically contributors to avoidable medical errors also demonstrates that the implication that that is being neglected while gun control is being discussed is also false.

> My broader point is that if you are a policy advocate, and you have N hours to dedicate to a specific policy advocacy, if you choose a cause that addresses the death of far fewer people than a more significant problem, your choice is a violation of the least-harm principle

If you assume that every advocate is equally effective in all issues, and that the targets of that advocacy are equally easily moved on all issues, and that the effect of policy change that would be acheived by the same movement of decision-makers is proportional to the scale of the problem being addressed, then this is a defensible position. But none of those are reasonable assumptions.
Because these are often invasive animals supported by people destroying endangered animals.
If I ever get fabulously wealthy, I'm totally commissioning the construction of a 1:1 scale Mad Cat to be placed across the street from Harmony Gold offices.

https://cfw.sarna.net/wiki/images/thumb/7/7e/TRO_3050r.JPG/2...
A Global Computer Chip Shortage Shows Danger of U.S. Production Trends
I don't know...what of it? I still like people, I still like things. Thumb and heart icons on social media haven't changed how or what I like.

Semantically, I generally understand a person who says they "liked" a thing to mean the social media verb. Context also makes it pretty clear.
The difference is that air travel is at least useful.
Highly recommend David Deutsche - Beginning of Infinity. Talks about this and much more, weaving together a great read on our place.
> Is the $0.11/kWh truly, not to mention the cost of the battery and all the lithium/magnesium/nickel mining it requires, more “carbon neutral” than a 35 mpg petrol vehicle

Yes. My power company gives me a green energy certificate, which means that all the money I pay for energy goes to green producers.

> the catalytic converters and whatnot.

You're conflating pollution with carbon emissions. The only thing that matters to carbon emissions is mass of fuel burnt.

> In reality the combustion engine pollutants contributors seem to be more shipping related. Diesel boats, diesel trains, diesel 18 wheelers etc.

Same here.
> they more than anyone else know why they would need to start from scratch over improving x11.

That's not what they actually say though:

https://wayland.freedesktop.org/faq.html#heading_toc_j_5

"It's entirely possible to incorporate the buffer exchange and update models that Wayland is built on into X. "

Again, they literally say "It's entirely possible". They just didn't want to.
Your service...

So this isn't an Ask HN and more of a spam submission.
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas [pdf]
I'd say yes, adjust local schedule to your needs instead of adjusting the clock to some schedule.
You missed a heart-warming, thoughtful piece because you couldn't take a half-serious, half-humorous comment on the fact that some C&H comics do indeed have adult sensibilities.
(GitHub CEO)

It looked at first like this thread was complaining that GitHub doesn't work in something called Qutebrowser. So I downloaded Qutebrowser to try it out, and GitHub seems to work just fine.

We care quite a lot about web standards and broad browser support at GitHub, so if anyone is able to tell what the issue is, please let me know: nat@github.com. Thank you!
I'm sure that if the Palestinians were granted either citizenship in a Palestinian state or equal citizenship in Israel, there would be many fewer ideologues in the region.
There are no “space travel and settlement is necessarily and always too hard to ever be sufficient for humans or their descendants to live beyond the Earth” physical laws. From what we can tell, no physics law prevents it. And our history of Spaceflight, both robotic and human, confirm that space, while a challenge, is not fundamentally unable to sustain humanity.
I think you just proved the parent's point: Most programmers working on 'business software' do not need this as a built-in feature of the language.
Oh, I thought that was HI for some reason. I obviously misremembered. Thank you for the correction.
> decentralization; it's the only real way to deal with increasing complexity and sprawl

Decentralization can help with sprawl (aka scale) but it makes software more complex so it’s not a way to tackle complexity. Decentralization is only tolerated because, at some point, it’s the only method left to scale. As an example, distributed databases are significantly more complex to build than a single node database.

You’ve also ignored all of the downsides of using your OLTP database for OLAP queries. The most important is that adhoc queries can impact production. In my experience, that cost dwarfs the costs of maintaining an ETL pipeline as soon as you have your first outage. Another downside is that with a federated, pull based model you need to keep the mapping (FDW definition) up to date. In essence, the maintenance cost moves from an ETL pipeline to an FDW definition.
Query — if one makes an excel macro that consolidates PHI into a chart, that is then copy and pasted into a medical note, and no PHI is transmitted by the macro, but can instead be saved as a Marco-enabled xlsx file and emailed to another location... does that make one an CE/BA or not?
I'm really disappointed that Google removed the ability to ban domains from search results. Pinterest was one of the first to go.

For those wondering, this it what it looked like: https://searchengineland.com/google-brings-back-blocking-sit...
The "only" asset in the world with these properties, except for countless clones.
There's a great clip of Gould spinning these golden yarns around a performance by Richter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1iUdM5k5Hc

What I love about that clip is how Richter succinctly calls bullshit on Gould. He's not an artistic archetype for being in communication with the composer or whatever-- he's just playing a piece in a way that Gould happened to like.

I feel like social media today is tens of millions of Goulds spinning personalized yarns for tens of millions of Gould sycophants. And exactly zero Richters to reply, "What you just read is probably not true."