skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> China, North Korea, Cuba

Freedom is not a solved problem, but your examples don't help your cause as much as you think.

None of those countries ever had anything close to a working democracy. Or a large middle class, for that matter.

And in the developed democracies another lesson has been forgotten: prosperity beats freedom/liberty. Empty bellies don't care how they get filled, be it from a dictator's hand or from a well paid job in a market economy functioning under the rule of law of a democracy.

That's what's eroding democracy. The hollowing out of the middle class. Not "freeze peach", though that part having issues isn't helping either.
Great writeup here on how they built this self flying helicopter and the tech onboard.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/aerospace/robotic-explor...
as a dvorak user with caps bound to ctrl, ctrl-b is a lot easier to do then ctrl-a
Looks good. I wonder if there'd be any interest in combining with my side project, which is a search engine for user-submitted personal and independent websites (and also search as a service). I could do with a nicer user interface and more structured data like yours, and perhaps you could benefit from features like user-submitted sites and scheduled (plus on-demand for verified sites) reindexing. Details in my profile, with links to the (open source) code on the site.
Currently when I visit twitch of the 4 streams they recommend me (https://www.twitch.tv/directory/following) they show:

- some sleeping stream "HE WOKE UP widepeepoHappy !SUBATHON !GIFTCAP DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE :)"

- hot tub stream 1 "HOT TUB BIKINI TRY ONSUBATHONSHAMELESS!IG: amouranth!socials"

- league of legends tournament "GEN vs T1ㅣ2021 LCK Spring PLAYOFFS Round 2"

- hot tub stream 2 "CUTEST HOT TUB GIRL ™ © 1080PIG: indiefoxx.tv!socials "

I'm generally watching niche content - diablo2, starcraft, some league of legends here and there. Never shown an ounce of interest in hot tub streams or similar content. Still, that's how my recommendations look all the time over the last weeks, at least at this time of the day. Trying to nudge me to that kind of content.

I can understand people criticizing that.
Well dynamical systems aren't usually random for a start.

I suppose you can make it fit the definition for the random dynamical system, though in that case the underlying dynamical system is ergodic.
German Society Struggles to Find Right Approach to Populists (2019)
Woops, thank you.

Looks like it's too late for me to correct, apologies.
Are opioid overdoses really peaceful and painless to the person ? Genuine question.
Co2 pricing is not the only way though. You could give co2 capturing gas peakers a strike price in the same way as renewables. Or have a capacity market that is only open to carbon capturing energy sources.
Perhaps a hello-world type of project is preferred when trying to get a first taste for it?
Whaha, the Dutch word for insulation is "isolatie". The word "isolatie" also translates directly to the English word "isolation" as in being away from everyone.

I think the poster might be Dutch or similar :p
This video was pretty good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM
Is there a good resource that could make someone not knowing anything about cricket understand it to a level that watching a game would be enjoyable, without spending ages on learning what it is about?
I thought it was going to be about some well cited papers. Replication crisis and all that.
Russian 'Lord of the Rings' TV Adaptation from 30 Years Ago Discovered
It’s a report on a cruiser yacht’s experience passing through the canal, which among other things concludes the level of baksheesh and Marlboros involved is excessive compared to elsewhere nearby.
Never? Counting laws is an exercise of futility. Content, not numbers should matter. If it takes a billion small laws to cover everything needed, so be it, who cares?
Legally, this seems shaky:

- The ship had, as required, two pilots on board at the time. These are agents of the canal and have ultimate authority during the passage.

- the loss in fees seems far smaller, and can easily be counted by the numbers of ships that went the long way around.

- I doubt the salvage operation got close to that cost. There just isn't enough equipment to lease to run up a billion in four days or so., even counting stuff that may have never arrived

- Egypt still knows it's French. Force Majeur should ring a bell.

That being said, I wonder if it matters? They could have the right, or at least the power, to simply refuse passage to all vessels operated by the company. Egypt is probably party to some international agreement precluding arbitrary decision in that regard for political reasons. But they'd obviously be allowed to do so for vessels not paying the regular fee. This case would seem to resemble the latter more than the former?
That's a nice trick, with some automation you should be able to register new domain names and Cloudflare accounts to get past the 100k limit as well.

Cloudflare's anti bot tooling is terribly annoying while using Tor. I understand why they do it, though. Using Tor is a good way to show how terrifyingly much control Cloudflare has over the internet.
There are at least some non-firewall or opt-in firewall (which amounts to the same for most people) for IPv6 routers provided by major ISPs.
Maybe you can add Penpot [1] It was released some time ago and it's open source and possible to self host. Featurewise it is comparable to Figma.

[1] https://penpot.app/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26000257
Show HN: Largest database of premium fonts, with more than 200k items
I got an impression that any lawsuit goes like that everywhere. A claimant asks for outrageously high compensation and settles for much less.
If this is an "act of God", should they seek damages from Church instead?
Reminds me of the famous viral Cracked motivational article.

Nobody cares about you, who your self is, whether you 'are innovative' or 'don't follow rules'. What did you DO?

That's the only part people can see. It's a very tough sell, going around like 'I am innovative!' and not doing anything significant. Got the cart before the horse there, very possibly without a horse.
Quant UX? Don't have personal experience though.

https://www.quant-ux.com/
I am only saying that if the canal was still UK property we could probably at least rely on the courts to impartially decide who is at fault. People don't realize things don't operate the same way in 3rd world countries as they do in the West.

Now the fault lies at where ever Egypt says it does. The only recourse is to hope they are lenient enough to not spook other maritime freight operators.
> Congratulations, you're against European human rights and against the law of some US states.

Possibly, BUT, if you can prove that a certain employee holding a position causes brand damage and financial losses, I think they can still not hire you, nobody can force them to do that.
They don't need to know, if an IP hosted there responds with illegal data, you can know which customer it is and ban them.
> The person you're commenting on grew up in Libya.

Where are you getting this information? It doesn't seem to be present in that user's comment history (though maybe my tired eyes ain't seeing it).

Ordinarily this would be called "doxxing" in any case ;)
Someone must have written a great book with that kind of a plot. Does anyone know such book?
Double the price of coal sounds like an excellent thing!

Still very cheap. Promotes better sources of energy.
Do you know anything about long-term consequences of taking melatonin supplements? I remember the results being inconclusive when I looked it up once.

I'm currently trying to get off melatonin and also get to a natural sleep cycle (meaning I won't have an alarm in the morning). But that usually means that I won't be able to fall asleep at night and I'll sleep forever in the morning if nothing external is waking me up. I'm not sure if I should continue or if I should just start taking melatonin again because it helps tremendously.
I have pushed an update to solve the navigation issue.
Demystifying AWS Key Management Service
> involved intercontinental travel, zero sleep for somewhere 48+ hours, and some socialization and 'partying' in a culture new to me

Those are quite some experiences, each of which could have contributed to some form of recovery.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vquKyNdgH3s

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLevCLNnLmg
I instantly thought it was a parody website for what the websites have come to nowadays. Where is the cookie popup? Where is my back button hijacking? Where is my adblock warning!?
I didn't mean it that way :) It's a one question form, with a general question about the UI industry.
Product Managers – do they need an engineering background?
Marwa Elselehdar: 'I was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal'
The article reads like an exercise in the opposite
I discovered the technique he’s talking about on my own back in maybe 2016. He has some extra fluffy language around it that makes it seem more than it is. It’s really just falling back asleep after you’ve already woken up at a specific time. For me, it was 4 AM. The point is that you can control your dreams. So I was using it to have sexual dreams. Which is why the other guy says it can be addictive (which I’d argue is also hyperbole).
I'll add it some time today, thanks for the tip.
Pretty often, IPv6 is NOT firewalls (or the firewall is opt-in which in practice amounts to the same thing).
Looks interesting, I'll add it.
I use vagrant + ansible to configure my development environment. In the Vagrantfile I specify also the mount of the workspace containing my project. I then edit the code using vscode installed on the host (or vim from inside the box).
They do produce literature - newspapers, magazines, posters, songs, plays, books, commentaries, and even films (Fill The Void being the pinacle), etc. But no, I don't think anyone would say this rivals the quantity and quality of the arts during the high point of Yiddish culture in the interwar period. Then again, who knows, maybe in the future they will?
A dynamical system is typically 100% internal state. It's just

1. A state space X

2. An evolution map f: X -> X

3. A measure \mu on X, preserved by f (such that f_*\mu = \mu) and where \mu(X) = 1.

To represent a series of i.i.d. random variables you can typically just represent them as a sequence of values with a joint probability distribution as the invariant measure.

If you've got a space X of such sequence you can also add the current value to it to get IR x X, with a map f: (x,t) -> x * 1.5 if t[0] is heads & x * 0.6 otherwise. But you'll have to tell me it's invariant measure because I can't come up with one.
Why not just enclose your strings in quotes and be done with it?

As far as I can see, this has nothing to do with typing and everything to do with syntax (of literals). If strings were required to be quoted this problem wouldn’t appear.

This is the reason no programming language has this issue — regardless of type system (JS/Python/Java/Haskell). If you want a string here you need quotes.

Haskell could even be regarded as what the author calls “implicitly typed” — since types are derived from literals — and I’ve never heard a Haskeller complain about this issue.
Interesting archeological analysis of shell history :)

My question is; To maximize quality of life ... Why not just settle on bash, zsh and fish shell?
Hey now! As a European, we've gone through a lot of grief due to Britain's wish to feel special. Let's try being consistent, at least:

the British are salty over losing an Empire. They're also the only ones where that term is appropriate.

The French are fine since they got to keep Camus and Couscous.

The Belgians never did any colonialising, brutal or otherwise. No, sir. Nothing to see here. If you insist otherwise, yours must be a Heart of Darkness.

The Germans are sorry about that Genocide, as well.
Thanks for the feedback!

Noted.

I have pushed an update to solve the navigation issue.
We already know how to solve that problem. Freedom of speech doesn't cover violent threats. There is no need for hate speech regulations.

Jihadism is not covered by free speech, nazism is not covered by free speech but racism is covered by free speech.

You also seem to conflate jihadists with muslims - that's not the case.

Jihadists are terrorists and they want war, other muslims integrate with other societies.

There is definitely a point to be made that Islam may employ a long term strategy of integration followed by politically controlling an entire country once they reach a majority (which could start happening in Europe in 50 years or so). That could be seen as a non-violent jihad (pardon the oxymoron), but that's a scenario that would be perfectly legal and not violent.
Written or unwritten constitutions in western countries should be able to protect religious freedom even in such an event - or maybe countries will decide to change and become stricter in the religions they allow (whether by becoming islamic or anti-islamic).
45 Fahrenheit = 7.2 Celsius

-130 Fahrenheit = -90 Celsius
You can find its Wikipedia article at [0].
The answer is that it is (semi-)autonomous! [1] I think it is going to get directions where to go and will do the rest itself. Its processor is not hardened against radiation which most likely will make it rather short-lived but thereby they could use a much more powerful processor than otherwise possible.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)

[1] It has to be as even under ideal conditions, Mars and Earth are never closer than ~55 million kilometers. This means the minimum roundtrip time is about six minutes at the speed of light.
That's what the parent meant.
Well, the governments are starting to get the stick out : you don't have IPv6 support? No 5G authorisation for you!
Inside Archegos’s Epic Meltdown
...is there a non-twitter version? (I loathe whoever decided this if it's the only place for it)
This entire concept strikes me as pure exploitation of gambling, with extra steps to hide the situation from the typical non-critically thinking mark.

Sure, this concept is not obviously evil, but is damn close, and I'll bet your ass in practice operating such an endeavor is dancing with the devil.
The second-gen pencil can be tapped on the side with a fingertip while holding it, much like the buttons of old.
In a busy city there are so many people. I don't think I ever felt I was doing it in a way that was obvious and I never followed anyone home.
The back button should be solved now, and I'm just trying to get some general feedback. Or maybe I'm creating a meme website :)
I doubt Suez Canal disputes are adjudicated by some local court out in the the desert. It's either some special tribunal with at least some internationally recognised expertise. Or, most likely, a binding arbitration committee at Loyd's of London.
I feel you on this. I have found that no system lasts for me. I have also found that any system can help to get me going. Such that now I try not to use anything to plan his things will end, but only how I will begin them.

Similar problems hit me with exercise. About the only system I have there is too obligate myself to finish something. For example, if I walk the dog a mile out, I have to walk the mile in, as well. Bike to work? I have to bike home now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26409524

It's literally at the top of page 2.

And no, that's not doxxing. It's not an identifying detail and it's something someone voluneteered about themselves.

It's perfectly fine to keep people accountable to their comment history and that's not even what's happening here.
For completeness, modern C and C++ compilers ship yet another thread pool, in OpenMP language extension. I sometimes write my own threading support for unusual use cases, but that’s hard to do correctly even with experience. For this reason, in 80% of cases I pick an off-the-shelf implementation instead of doing my own.
This was my impression as well. Well, being a non-native speaker I tend to blame myself. Still, this style of writing does sound self-indulgent to me:

"Hemingway’s voice distilled itself with miraculous speed, a fusion of telegrammatic urgency and high modernist impersonality, with counterpoint learned from Bach and rhythms located profoundly in his own neurology"

etc.
How did you mean it exactly? Did you genuinely think that the commenter didn’t know your popup could be closed?
I mean, yes, but.. what's the solution? Never collect data? In at least some of those cases (and arguably all), that data does need to be collected and stored. What is the government going to do, not maintain birth registries, tax registries, land owner registries etc? What is a big business like a bank going to do, not collect customer data like your name and address?
Depression's Evolutionary Roots
> I often think that, in a way, I killed my father.

No, you saved him a lot of suffering. Its something very kind and brave to do
Pointless, since we’ve already paid billions upon billions to the telcos and gotten very little for it. Also, in less than 8 years Starlink will be available world–wide, and anyone without other types of broadband access will be using it. Telcos will have to up their game to compete with it even in reasonably dense cities. My own internet access is fairly good, but expensive, so Starlink will be quite tempting once it’s available at my latitude. On the other hand, I think Wave Broadband’s fiber service is available just a block away, and I saw a bunch of their trucks on my street last month…

Also, I don’t think that deficit spending on infrastructure projects is any kind of magic fix, but you can’t tell a politician that. Spending the public’s money in flashy but inefficient ways buys the votes.
Each of those has its own distinct appeal, yes.

However, let's start by making sure everyone with a job makes a decent living wage. I define this as being able to support oneself with housing, clothing, food and have a non-zero amount of savings, without having to rely on welfare.

Let's make sure that everyone (and I mean everyone) who can't or won't work for whatever reason has at least somewhere to live and three square meals every day. The western world is prosperous and can easily afford this, especially given the money saved by no longer harassing homeless people and punishing people for loitering and petty crimes.

Let's make education freely available to everyone, it will pay back massively long-term, an educated population is a healthy population is a prosperous population.

Legalize marijuana and free all the people currently in jail for minor drug offences, victimless crimes. All of that money is so much better spent elsewhere.

Then we get into taxes. Tax all inheritance, why should you get a free ride, just because your parents were wealthy? Set it at the same level as income tax, it is income after all. Tax gains on investments and speculation. No free rides, taxes are the waterwheels on the flow of money, they translate it into productive uses for society. You don't tax the tiny flows, do you? Tax the powerful flows, to provide for the good of the whole of society.

That said, massively reduce the ridiculous overspending on military and police, it is absurd and offensive how much money gets shoveled that way, thanks to cronyism and lobbyism and exploitative contracts by private contractors.

This is just a very few ideas, but the major problem is getting rid of corruption and lobbyism and make the elected politicians actually work for all of their constituents, not just those with wealth.
Virus Variants Threaten to Draw Out the Pandemic, Scientists Say
Sonos CLI (Python)
If we even could call it ‘killing’ - which I don’t subscribe to - it was an act of mercy, love. And that made all the difference.

It is not about quantity of life but quality of life, I’d say.
> file and directory manipulations are way more complicated in native Python

Have you looked at the pathlib[1] module that was added in Python 3.4? It's fantastic. Makes things both more convenient and more correct, in my experience, and it lets you manipulate Windows paths on Unix and vice versa.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html
That's certainly true when we're talking about images of solitary rovers. Now that they've sent multiple robots to the same location, it's at least possible they could get real pictures of them.
Just checked out your profile, but couldn't find an email address. I might be interested in working together (email is in my profile)
Wasn’t a spectre paper published some days ago, and extensively discussed on hn?

All cpus can be affected by spectre. Including arm, mips, etc. Unless we totally disable speculative execution/branch prediction, which will impact performance. A lot.

EDIT: it wasn't a paper per-se, but the Google PoC: https://security.googleblog.com/2021/03/a-spectre-proof-of-c...
Until humans find something capable of the level of creation that humans deem higher order, then human logic is the only viable measurement?

This is a circular argument for anthropocentrism. It makes no attempt to define any of its qualifying characteristics from outside the human perspective.

To some, coral reefs, rainforests, and biodiversity are all a level of creation higher order than what humans can produce. Those things didn't need us to exist. In fact we ruin them. Not to mention other forms of created beauty humans haven't figured out how to ruin yet, such as sunsets or starry skies.
I'm not arguing against nuclear. I'm arguing for doing it better.

And a straw man ? Really ? I'd argue that the real hazard here is precisely such an off-hand moral position as you seem to have. Either that, or you think current civilization will stay as is, only progress.

IIRC, the Yuka mountain folks did indeed take such questions into account when designing the facility, as they though not doing so would be irresponsible. Moreover, barring climate change, we're statistically due for the start of an ice age sometime this century or the next. That would most certainly cover northern Europe.

So it's not a question of IQ, but of the stability of the civilization occupying a territory in the very long term. That could have major repercussions on any maintenance organization.

My questions would be, why even design such deep structures if it's now to take into account generations in the far future ? Solutions could be much simpler for nuclear fuel disposal.
Good God. I write Lovecraft pastiche for fun and even I think that's way too purple.
> The game making it impossible to have a stable large city with low crime without dystopian modes of control absolutely communicates the ideology of the creators of the game, conscious or not.

No, it "absolutely" does not. It could simply be a shortcoming of the developer's reach. You try to simulate a large city and get it a stable utopia! Do I have to remind you that this is something we've yet to accomplish in the real world, either. You expect a single game developer to do it successfully? Will Wright is (presumably) not a mayor, city planner, nor politician; he's a gamedev. Talented and famous, I'll grant you, but not infallible. And we're talking about a game he made 28 years ago from today, at the age of 33.

SimCity 2000 isn't your typical illusion as many games are, either. It's trying to be a fairly accurate simulation of its time. Of course it embeds its creators biases, but it's not really trying to "convey a deep message" using an elaborate facade, like some games are, or theatre, for example. It's a sandbox.
In Rust, some expressions (e.g. `while`) always evaluate to `()`. What’s the benefit of that compared to making `while` a statement?
No PowerPoint? ;)