skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you know what makes it freeze?

For Gnus it was using the built-in fetchers like nnrss, which would block the Emacs process until downloads finished. Using a cron job to fetch RSS feeds avoided this, but it would still take a while to check for updates even from local files. This was around 2012, so Gnus might have improved since.

FYI my current setup is described at http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-01-14-rss_to_maildir.html
"Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, who spent over four years in prison for insider trading, now says his conviction was based on his company’s refusal to cooperate with NSA requests to spy on its customers."

"Nacchio believes his conviction was in retaliation for his refusal to play ball with legally dubious NSA spying requests."

So, was he in jail for insider trading or violating an NSL? There's a difference between being convicted for violating a gov't order and someone pissed off at you to dig up dirt to put you in jail for something you did do. Lot's of people in jail believe they are in jail for the wrong reasons. Don't confuse my arguments as being in support of NSA systemic invasion of privacy. Just saying sometimes guilty people try to shift blame.

I understand the concept of NSLs. What I was really trying to get at is the fact that in all of the corporate shenanigans that have ocurred in recent times, no indivduals gets punished for actually doing the thing that was bad. The evilCorps get some fines levied or something similarly slap on the wrist level, but that's it.
Matomo praises the solution they use. But I haven't tried it yet. You can theoretically even implement it with Google Analytics.
> If it's performed as an abortion would that still be considered genocide?

People with Down's aren't a national, ethincal, racial, nor religious group so strictly speaking it doesn't count as genocide under international law. But it would meet less formal definitions.

Luckily individual women making a choice to have an abortion cannot be carrying out a campaign of genocide. But when a society pushes women in this direction by failing to provide support or by failing to provide accurate information that society is probably engaging in genocidal actions.

> Article 2 of the convention defines genocide as

> any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

[...]

> (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Exactly what I thought would happen. Not only was reinstalling Stallman going to alienate institutional supporters, it's also really a slap in the face of a lot of newer free software supporters, young women in particular given Stallman's past behaviour and comments.

Also very interesting to see the difference in commentary compared to the reddit admin fiasco.
Yeah. Making a decision is the first step, but the life of the decision after it's made is vitally important. You can look at Congress getting stuff passed with split votes, but you can also see the other side digging in to undermine the decision. The Affordable Care Act is an example; it passed, it was implemented, but the Republicans are in court every month with a new challenge.

I think you want to aim for consensus building that doesn't have half of the stakeholders spending 100% of their time to get your decision reversed, basically. Maybe it's impossible to build a consensus, and you have to act. That's the value in the tie-breaking vote, and that's what Congress does. But we shouldn't try to model getting things done at work as an epic battle between Blue and Red. That level of polarization is toxic. Maybe Congress can't fix that problem, because they represent 328,000,000 people, but we can aim for something better in a smaller group.
The ones who actually did it (Russia) ended up worse off, but workers everywhere else in the world gained, because the elite became more willing to let go of certain privileges to pacify the working class.

The goal of threatening to kill someone isn't to murder them for the sake of murder, it's to negotiate with them from the fairly sensible starting point of "give me what you want or I'll kill you". If what they want is "fair wages and a decent life," that seems reasonable enough.
So what has Richard Stallman done? I get that generally he's a bit of an unpleasant person but is there an actual reason?
Parasitic landlords is just as fair as parasitic mask hoarders. Land is a limited resource and you are abusing your capital to extract rent. Then you use your votes to make it harder to build (zoning laws) or more expensive for the next person (prop 13). Many landlord hire a property manager and literally have to do nothing but collect a check. Housing is an essential item, like healthcare, water, and food. It should not be hoarded sorry.
I suggest putting Cloudflare in front of it. I have virtually no AWS costs with S3 that way. If you don't mind that Cloudflare + S3 means it's not fully end to end encrypted.
> Chinese APT malware,

Why is it necessary to point out the foreign origin? Doesn't that just encourage our innate xenophobia?
Unless they've changed this, Medium is one of those sites that asks you to sign in with Facebook or Google, and then after you give them your email and profile picture (why?) they come back and say you still can't read it. I hate that. I don't have a good feeling about Medium because of this. It's trickery.
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> - Adding catapult launchers and arrestor wires adds a lot to the requirements. It's not just a matter of making the ship bigger, you need to provide the power for those catapults. Here's a RAND study that looks at alternative carrier designs that has some information on the costs: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2006.html

Thanks. So from that report we see the estimated savings from dropping one EMALS (the fancy new electric catapults) is $160M, presumably including the extra power to run it. So for a smaller carrier with, say, two catapults, the difference between a STOVL option and a catapult one would be, say, roughly $.5B (allowing some extra for the arrestor wires etc.). Now, based on a quick web search, the price difference between the F-35B and F-35C is around $10M. So if you have an air wing of 35 planes (wikipedia lists 36 F-35B for the new British carriers, and 30-40 Rafale's for the current French carrier, so 35 is probably a good ballpark figure for a smaller carrier), that's already a $350M difference, almost making up for the extra cost in the carrier itself. Now factor in the avoidance of the R&D cost for the STOVL variant, that the F-35C is a significantly more capable plane, and finally that over the life of the carrier you're likely to see several generations of planes used. This reinforces my preconceived notion that the F-35B development program made no sense.

> - Even if you decide to build these bigger carriers and phase out the LHDs, that takes time. It would take decades, during which you have no fixed wing aircraft you can launch from your LHDs, unless you want to try and revive the Harrier jet program as a stopgap.

The USMC apparently has some historical reasons why they really want to operate their own fighters, but it does seem horribly expensive compared to the alternative of relying on the navy for support in that area.

> - Keep in mind the F-35B (the STOVL variant) is meant to replace the Harrier, so it makes sense to compare the F-35B to the Harrier instead of the F-18 or F-16.

Why? The enemy isn't going to give you any handicap points for operating a STOVL aircraft instead of a more capable 'traditional' one.

> - An STOVL aircraft can be used from more than just LHDs. They can be launched from short, improvised airfields on the ground.

Sure, that's an advantage. Is it enough to offset the disadvantages of a STOVL aircraft? I'm not convinced. Many traditional aircraft can also operate from improvised airfields, for instance made from a straight stretch of road.
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Like most "business books" it's designed to be read during a single bowel movement by a normal person with normal digestive functions.

The book offers a single unit of recommendations, a good one that's worth reading, but definitely not the complete works of Shakespeare.
Therefore I don't reuse credentials.
Thanks! Interesting observation about the layout!

Indeed, I also feel my most effective notes are the ones where I get a little creative with the layout, placing things out thoughtfully.

(Also, going back and filling in with a lot of balloons with thoughts afterwards etc, to make each page a little customized).
I don't think the term 'naturally' is apt here. It implies that people are actually making a logical choice.

In the same way that a house is often the majority of the network of Americans, a job is often the majority of the income. This fact does not cause most of them to advocate for enforcing immigration laws, even though this choice reduces payrates for all Americans.
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In woke speak, they're implying that because he said something "problematic" his presence may make certain people feel "unsafe", thereby harming "diversity and inclusion".
I had a similar experience in high school with Spanish vocabulary tests. I could remember where the word was on the page, but not the translation.

At the time I perceived using the location as a crutch, so I made photocopies of the pages, cut them into the separate columns, then taped them together to make one very long and skinny list of words. I would then roll it up into a small scroll, little bigger than a tube of chapstick. Maybe the spatial location was a learning aid, and this actually made it harder to learn words, but it did make it much easier to discreetly study during other classes, so it was probably a net win overall.
Jesus wept, what a horrifying abomination of an idea. The way I play computer games is so utterly unlike how I write code or design/manage computing systems, I can only surmise this is the product of confirmation bias run amuck, a nightmarish echo chamber of bad ideas reinforcing someone’s ghastly monoculture.

Cramming these tortured metaphors into your hiring process is worse than whiteboard programming, something I didn’t believe possible until reading this steaming pile of numberwang.
For me it does in a way, but I still need to read my notes while the details are still fresh in my mind. The main reason is I'm a sloppy writer and I might not be able to make out my mess if I haven't reviewed it enough. Also, for small things like passwords, saying them 10 times helps me get over 'what was that again' hump.
HN runs on FreeBSD, start there :)
Just eyeballing it looks like only 25% of the US population lives in states where the federal minimum wage is also the prevailing minimum wage: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/minimum-wage/state

So I'd guess closer to 10% of people make the minimum wage in their jurisdiction (1.9% x 4 + I assume more people make min wage when it's higher)

Very interesting though that 3x as many people make below the min wage as actually earn the "minimum" wage.
> Development may reduce the desire of a new owner to live in a single family home next to an apartment building, but now you have another developer willing to buy your land to build their own multi-unit building, and that's gonna be some good money.

A portion of a constructed apartment building on your lot may be more valuable than your current house is there, but...

A) There's no guarantee that the value of your land to the apartment developer exceeds the value of your current use... after all, they have to pay to demolish and then improve it, and...

B) You and your neighbors may have put down roots, that have a substantial value, if difficult to directly economically measure.

C) Moving, itself, has substantial economic costs.

D) If an apartment building built next-door decreases the value of your single family home by 20%... there's no guarantee that there's demand or the possibility to build another one on your lot... and even if there is, the apartment-builder's estimate of your land value will be 20% less. You'll meet in the middle between (0.8 x your previous home value) and (the apartment-builder's estimate of the value of your land to him before improvement).
NearlyFreeSpeech is an incredible service. It has honed its focus on simplicity even as virtually every one of its competitors have attempted to commodity complexity.

Don't get me wrong: I enjoy complex services as well. But for simple web hosting, NearlyFreeSpeech is the best I've found, and whatever is second isn't close.
When the government runs out of money, the semantics aren’t going to matter. Either the rules will get changed, or the town goes bust.

The current situation in CA is tenable because the newcomers who are shouldering the disproportionate burden of taxes are high income, and can and are willing to afford it while the older homeowners continue to wield political power.
What a fascinating way to learn:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semester_at_Sea

"During the semester the ship circumnavigates the globe"...
It's not an issue of being allowed to crawl.
Previous articles about his death mentioned that he also had portable nitrous tanks that he'd use on walks outdoors in Park City and in other situations where he couldn't go through individual whip-its. His being tethered to the tank was one of the things that motivated Jewel to write the letter.
Ah yes, the financial suffocation move. Very tactical. /s

For Red Hat to choose a side wasn't really the smartest move especially also calling for the whole FSF board to resign for the sake of 'diversity and inclusion'.

I mean, Red Hat going to IBM already meaning it was on the way out. Probably better off anyway.
> They’re also not entitled to that. In a democracy the many decide.

Actually, yes they are. San Francisco is a participatory democracy. Between a large # of ballots voted for each November, we elect our board of supervisors and attend supervisor meetings to tell them how to vote.

If people don't vote, well, that's their fault.
That's the thing... they still use fertilizers and pesticides. They're just "natural", but copper sulfate, pyrethrins, and rotenone don't strike me as all that natural. They, too, could have effects that take decades to come together. Indeed, some "natural" pesticides, like arsenic and nicotine, are already banned.

My problem here is largely with the industrializing of the "organic" label. The things that you're really hoping for -- crop rotation, co-planting, mulching, no-till, etc -- don't really scale well. The organic farms look a lot like conventional farms, enormous monocultures. The names on the labels are just different.

I'm presenting the negative case here, just to point out that I'm really not certain. I'm a big supporter of what JI Rodale was doing when he popularized the term "organic", but that's not what you get in the grocery store. I have hopes that the grocery store is in fact ultimately a little better for the planet, but I wish I could be more certain.
>>> The setup isn't as easy as good old FTP, because you need to define your static files in a configuration file.<<<

Are you referring to specifying the path to your static folder/directory in your app.yaml file? If so, that doesn't seem so difficult to me.

Yes, you're right - the deployment is a single command for something as simple as a static website until the next time you need to make changes (then you'll have to root around your terminal again) or you decide to upgrade from static to something a bit more complex. Shameless plug here - my site, https://nocommandline.com, allows you to just select and click deploy; no routing around in terminal/commandline.
I have aphantasia (i.e. no visual imagination). It hadn't occurred to me that people could use theirs to help them memorize things...
Xenophon (c. 430 – 354 BC):

1. “Leaders must always set the highest standard. In a summer campaign, leaders must always endure their share of the sun and the heat and, in winter, the cold and the frost. In all labors, leaders must prove tireless if they want to enjoy the trust of their followers.”

2. "There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform."
Without an increase in wages. And economic instability causing lost jobs, as well as increasing rip stripping away earning power.

I make a lot of money as a software engineer and I don't think I'll get a home until I'm 45.
I thought about replying in more depth, but your last line is just... weird.

> Clean, well designed and secure systems are nice and all but I don't a large majority of non-tech workers will agree that this standard trumps every other consideration when it comes to a functioning society. It doesn't seem fair that some tech workers like clean design and they deserve to dictate what is right and wrong in society.

I didn't say "clean". I said "functioning correctly to their design". I'm willing to wager a "large majority of non-tech workers" would agree that things are preferably working rather than broken.

Twisting a statement like that is very much in the domain of Eristic Dialectic. Please try to reduce your usage of such tools.
So, databases don't do anything goofy, but developers sure do.

Especially when scale (real or not) is in the picture.

I'm a fan of databases myself, but I am also a fan of document stores as well.
Any word on or opinions about Brave's initiative to challenge search?
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This looks almost too good to be true from the docs. Thank you, I'll check it out.
Most innovation comes from building on existing solutions. You’re advocating reinventing the wheel
if you're claiming to be User-Agent: Googlebot, but your IP doesn't seem like it belongs to Google, don't you think it's a clear sign that you're FAKING IT?

The check itself could be implemented for example with ASN or reverse DNS lookup or hard-coding known Google's IP ranges (though that's prone to become stale)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzdxnuk-2pM

This guys channel is fantastic. Check out his other Suez vids - he is a maritime expert, former huge ship captain and very very good at explaining all the concepts.
Yes, and I should have been more clear. For anyone making their own programming language, the list from Dang is... amazing.
Google Cloud run although not free is great for many situations, like if your website is not static and is low traffic.
This is overkill. Stallman is not accused of doing anything illegal. He just expressed an unpopular opinion.

Get angry about something real, like Georgia voting to keep poor people from voting.
Why is everyone pretending Down syndrome is great ? Sure some people manage to live a pretty independent life but other are rather limited. I don’t understand why we should praise people that decide to raise handicapped children, considering how much care they require from society and the dramatic problems that will come with aging parents. There’s a reason for the 90%...

Also I am creeped out by the grunting almost non verbal ones, socially inapt sometimes to the point of masturbating in public. Not all are happy go lucky witty individuals like these comments seem to pretend.
I don't understand why Americans buy these kind of (expensive) processed and branded food products. Why not just buy pasta, the cheese (grate it if you want) and some other seasoning, as the raw individual ingredients?

From there you can add chicken and fresh herbs.

If you have a modern electric pressure cooker these kind of things are super simple to make, and with glass tupperware you can store and eat it over the next several days.

Or am I missing something - are these branded products somehow cheaper than these recipes?

Note: I am from Ukraine.
Books as garbage and/or guided-thinking; levels of gptness; meta-books
Super interesting - I really was waiting for the twist in the story about how they recently made a pledge to remove Phlates from their product lines. Was also curious if the article was going to ask Annie about that.

That was such an incredibly disappointing thing (how they have dangerous compounds for children in Annies) that I learned as I have been feeding both my 1&3 year old Annies mac and cheese. I had such high expectations on Annie given its origins and stand against toxicity. (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/business/annies-mac-chees...)
Zig-Tcl: compile zig libraries as Tcl extensions
worth noting that there has been really good progress reverse-engineering support for 2017's Snapdragon 845[1] (SD845). quad A76 + quad A55 on Samsung 10nm. pretty modern, all in all.

generally i still feel tortured by the situation, by highest of high tech devices being unsupportable, unmaintainable after a couple years, and it seems like upstream support is the only available path to keep devices from turning to e-waste. however, there are some positive signs. most chips still have seen nearly no support from the chip makers, but we have seen, for example, Qualcomm land some additional support for some additional the SD845 gpu, for which reverse engineered support had already been nicely developing.

we're also seeing more phones with Samsung, MediaTek, & some other chips. it's notable that none of the other chip makers have much of a presence in kernel upstreaming either. it's not just Qualcomm: everyone is very bad at making mobile devices able to be supported.

i'm very interested to see what starts happening with cars, which face a similar supportability problem, but which are less disposable. long term kernel support has been extended greatly to enable a longer life. Google's Project Treble has created a device-driver abstraction layer to try to ease things along some. but it's very hard to imagine the sea-change necessary for commercial teams to take their work, & rebuild it, safely, successfully, easily, atop the complex drops of vendor code &c. chip makers have had an enormously difficult job supporting the teams making software, providing them updates that they can readily begin to use, and it's been a very conservative, slow, deliberate process. most technical folk seem anxious to shift the mode, to get more upstream support, such that kernel & system upgrades don't require carefully tailored support packages from the chip maker to make updates possible. the current pace feels very logjammed, there's so much custom code people shipping products rely on, and trying to make folks less critically dependent is such a powerful compelling vision for so many techies to improve supportability, to make updates shippable both faster & doable in the long term.

[1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/qualcomm/snapdragon_800/845

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qualcomm...
Isn't this (binary blob drivers) an obvious violation of the linux kernel's GPL license?

I presume that there's a good reason why that isn't being enforced, but I would like to better understand why.
I've taught a ton of people to fly RC helicopters and drones and the physics of it is the hardest part. The lack of friction throws off our sense of control.

I tell people to steer sooner and more slowly than they think they should because "swerving" to miss something isn't really a thing. You just crash.

And flying behind/below things is easier. The second you get up above the tree line or from behind that building where there's real wind, it's 10x harder.
Why do you need a cookie at all? All the HN comments are public so once you’ve ascertained the handle you can query the API for any user to diff for changes.
> The UK has done the costings and VTOL is cheaper.

Sure, but that decision was made before the full trainwreckage of the F-35 was clear. In hindsight, with what we now know of the cost of the program, perhaps the decision would have swung the other way.