skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been playing with the option in macOS to hide the menu bar as well. The extra screen space is significant to me. The one draw back is that I have a habit of glancing up at the clock from time to time. Now, that's hidden, and I find myself totally losing track of time. Not such a big deal now for WFH, but I do spend more time on things than I would if the clock were still in view. Other than that, I don't miss the menu bar either.
I'm going to ignore the question of whether free will actually exists or not. (I think it does, but that's not the point.)

We all make decisions - some major, some minor. (Yes, I know, if there is no free will, we don't actually "make decision" - we follow some determined process that ends with us thinking we made a decision. We still act toward one of a set of options, though, and not toward others.)

If we live in a universe where free will exists, and I believe it doesn't, I'm likely to live differently. I'm likely to be more careless and blase about my decision-making. That might work out anywhere from sub-optimally to disastrously for me.

If we live in a universe where free will does not exist, but I believe it does, then I still may make better decisions. It's just that each decision was already determined, as was my belief in free will.

And yeah, I know, you can't always know what's a wise choice, and even good choices can turn out badly. That's no excuse to be sloppy in your choices, though.
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People with moderating experience:

Why not just delete [most] offending comments, immediately, no questions asked (and ban repeat offenders)? For maybe 95% (as a wild guess), there's no question - it's clear that the comment is inflammatory or disinformation or whatever. It surprises me that I see so many of them permitted in so many forums, even here on HN. Why tolerate them? One click and move on.

Tell people about the policy, of course, and if the comment is partly offending and partly constructive, delete it. They can re-post the constructive part. It's not hard to behave - we all do it in social situations. If you want your comment to be retained, don't do stupid stuff.

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Also, it's telling IMHO that in this conversation among people relatively sophisticated in this issue, organized disinformation is barely discussed. It's well-known, well-documented, and common, yet we seem to close our eyes to it. It's a different kind of moderation challenge.
I guess for me in particular it's because a lot of my notes I like to share with others or re-arrange in a way that I don't think would be conducive to short-hand.
It feels like this would be the perfect application for something like Geforce Now or even just the Steam streaming service. Provide an interface for users to customize the controls and provide an API for advanced users. You could probably coast on people being creative with the games they want to play by pedaling an indoor bicycle and become a cult hit by being accessible and ... cheap? (I have no idea how much these things usually cost)
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So, in short, a mobile-friendly network is a small network with simple algorithms and fast transfers, where every address is pseudonymous and may drop in or out at any time with no reputational results? These are very bad properties for a blockchain to have, from an integrity context.
hot take is this came from some internal expectation that cars would more and more be using Apple/Android car OSes and so spotify app would be installed by users naturally -- but that hasn't panned out, so they have to create their own hardware to run the spotfiy app now. Gotta get that lockin from customers, on as many avenues as possible.
Great! Clever too :)
Well in this case the cheaters did get punished. Quite harshly. So I'm not sure what your point is, if you even had one?
Looks like you're missing `.json`: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/26795505.json works
iTerm2 is a beauty, is there a closest equivalent on Linux?

There seem to be 25 popular choices especially now with the GPU-accelerated ones. Tried a few of the classics like Termite and they all seemed painfully outdated and crappy compared to iTerm.
TDP rating != wattage consumed. In an ideal world it would, but it has long since stopped meaning that generally. This includes the M1, which will happily exceed 15W of power consumption, and the 5850U almost certainly does as well since AMD's previous generation CPU in that class happily exceeded 15W.

You'll have to wait for a proper review that does power measurements to get a sense for how they actually compare on that front.
I don't use pass myself (I have severe NIH[1]), but its design has inspired me many times over: very, very few tools rise to the challenge of adhering to the Unix philosophy without cargo-culting it, and pass is one of them. I highly recommend that people looking to write engineer-friendly tools study its manpage[2].

[1]: https://github.com/woodruffw/kbs2

[2]: https://git.zx2c4.com/password-store/about/
I finally havve found a peace with emacs orgmode+gpg
Why is it that on a 1.2k bike there was no budget for a more comfortable bike seat. It'd also be nice if the device was less insanely vertical looking.
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Yes.

And that brings up the issue of how, exactly, are we supposed to allow a literal “thought police”.
Certainly not exhaustive, but fairly handy for hobby projects: https://learn.adafruit.com/i2c-addresses/the-list
> Bigger reason is uncertainty about the Windows platform.

Of all platforms to be worried about, I feel like Windows is the last one here (Web aside perhaps). It wouldn't be unreasonable to try running a program from Windows XP era and have it run fine in Windows 10.

As for the ARM fragmentation, fair enough but doesn't macOS face the same challenge? Windows 10 on Arm also supports running x86 apps without recompiling too.
It's really noticable when reading/writing text. I personally do dev work for a living and when I have to use a FHD screen instead of a UHD screen it's really noticable.

It's kind of like going from 144Hz back to 60Hz when playing FPS games.
I really need to read up more on WSL2, but I'm on a windows box so rarely I haven't spent the cycles on it. However, every single time I am on a windows box, I really wish I had it setup for WSL2. Every other box I connect to has essentially the same CLI features, until those rare times I hit a windows box. <shudder>
I personally found the tables less helpful than the text since almost every row is the same in both columns.
I actually have lost my handwriting precision from years of typing on keyboards and electronic devices. So my writing, especially when fast has become extremely sloppy. I wonder if retraining that would have any other benefits beside helping with cursive. I'm thinking of micromotor and nervous system benefits...
If airbags kill someone who didn't crash their car, that model of car/airbag should be recalled. If a vaccine kills someone, people should stop taking that vaccine.

The point here is simple. It's worse for someone to die of a vaccine than for someone to die of the coronavirus. How much worse is up for debate, but it's a significant factor and napkin math has to take that into account or it's morally bankrupt.
>And then we'll get a decade-long global chip shortage, instead of a year-long one.

Sure and the fabs that get spun up will not be under CCP control which is a clear win.
that should be default, thanks for the tip
> I used a browser extension for awhile, but I haven't gotten around to reinstalling since the copy/paste works fine for me.

One danger of doing just copy and paste is that you are more exposed to phishing attacks. The browser extension for the password managers check that the site that they are filling in is indeed the site that they stored the password for.
Typically in an open house just anybody can walk in, can’t they? It’s not like they ask you for ID.
If third party cookies (what FLoC is meant to replace) are indeed going away, Google will be in a tough spot.
My iPhone has ~320dpi and I can't see pixels at non-ridculous viewing distances. I don't know what GP's viewing distance habits or eyes are like but for me, considering laptop viewing distance is probably like twice that of smartphones, I can't imagine a 15" 4K laptop being anything but overkill.
They're all native, to the best of my ability. Obviously Docker and ARM go together like toothpaste and peanut butter, so it's not I went into this expecting good performance (don't even get me started on stability though...)
No dedicated video port? If the USB-C has to be occupied by a monitor connection (assume I don't want to carry surface connect thingy everywhere) then this thing basically offers a single port based on dated technology. Such an odd decision.
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This sucks. Just because I read or own a book does not mean I agree with what's written inside it. You can never learn things you don't agree with if you won't even read them or if people will assume you believe everything in a book you read.
What exact model did you get if you don't mind me asking?
Your HN example makes me think: if I'm talking to my spouse or close friends, we obviously don't have a moderation policy, we know each other well and share values well enough that any debates we may have are (almost always) focused on substance and not on conduct.

In political discourse, and in debates on big platforms like Twitter, it's the opposite- most of the discussion is about people's or groups' conduct and substance takes a back seat. Because a heterogeneous group with different values is involved.

So for social media and online forums, the question is, how big and diverse can the audience get while still supporting civil, substance focused discussion? HN does a pretty good job, and also has some obvious biases, scared cows, and weak spots. Online newspaper article comments probably have one of the lowest quality of discourse for a given participant size. What forum is best, I'm not sure, but its instructive to look at it this way, because it reflects politics generally, if we want to address real issues while maximizing participation.
Meh; nobody needs status. NFTs are a trap for vanity. Real cryptopunks don’t need to trade machine generated playing cards... real cipher punks write code...

In addition, I respect someone less for holding one of these, rather than buying more BTC, which is what they should be doing in order to preserve their wealth.
I don't know how much container ships cost or how they're insured. I'm sure it's exquisitely leveraged and very complicated. ...But, is it plausible that the ship's operator just calls it a total loss and lets Egypt deal with a floating clunker in its waters, or would Egypt simply turn around and sell it?
It is true; the PDF linked in the GC has to make a number of assumptions and is very obviously made from a point of bias (which does not invalidate its claims but warrants extra scrutiny).

Also it's comparing raw ICU admissions, but there are a number of really nasty adverse reactions that don't throw you in the ICU. The general "second shot syndrome" that something like half of people getting Pfizer/Moderna experience is a great example of that. Yeah it's not bad enough to send them to the ICU, but for many people COVID-19 would be literally asymptomatic or would be minimally symptomatic, whereas the second shot syndrome can be quite brutal.
I think there's a real issue with any sort of bike desk/gaming setup which is that it's hard to interact with a stable system while biking so the interface necessarily needs to be tuned to cruder inputs. Biking is mostly a leg activity but the rest of the body does get involved and ends up making using something like a mouse or keyboard require a lot of work to provide a stable platform.

Bikes as display devices with crude inputs feels like the maximum we can get for a consumer device.
We had more lockdowns, we didnt have more suicides, how is that not showing the claim doesnt hold?
> Is it some non-standard ergo mech build?

Basically this. Not really ergo, other than being ortholinear and having space between the resting positions of my hands.

Here's a photo: https://imgur.com/0UBSi74
The asymmetric point is surprisingly useful.
This isn't a bug. In fact, it's documented behavior:

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#wh...
Greater institutions have fallen; thats when we got the term Eternal September.
It just takes the right influx of users to overcome the human moderators.
Any software running on your machine can do this unless it is sandboxed. In fact many games go even further and install kernel level rootkits to make sure you are not running unapproved software.

See https://www.osnews.com/story/131665/riot-games-maker-of-leag...
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Were they updating the Server during the periods where the public repo wasn't receiving updates?

That's like requiring a developer to push their local changes hourly/daily for a task that's been committed to but not completed.
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I'd love to use deno, but I really don't understand the point deno's module/package system.

The standard practice of deps.ts/dev_deps.ts as described in the docs[1] just seems absolutely asinine to me. Importing everything into one scope and then re-exporting from one file just seems like an awful hack.

What do you do if two libraries have functions with the same name? Do you namespace them yourself, or export an object under the name of the library (and therefore give up destructuring?)

The URL thing seems similarly cumbersome and unecessary. Is there something wrong with a configuration file that would map 'package names' to the urls to get them from?, and then import { foo } from "packagename"?

[1]https://deno.land/manual@v1.9.0/examples/manage_dependencies
I don’t judge people by lack of bookshelves, but I actually LOVE looking at folks’ bookshelves. It basically tells you what their interests & philosophical history were from age 18 to 30 (and mostly in the college years) in a concise way.

People change a lot over time; I don’t judge people on what they have on their bookshelf, but it definitely provides fast context for their worldview, providing background for who they are today and how their opinions developed. It provides an immediate jumping off point to discuss common interests and ideas.

There’s nothing better for this purpose.
A fun example of annotation is the novel S by Doug Dorst in collaboration with J.J. Abrams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)
> What other western nations? Examples, please.

You're literally replying to a comment that gave examples. Please don't post in bad faith as if there were not examples given, that's not a positive discussion.

> What does a world led by China have to offer anyone

never said it did, again, putting words in my mouth is not a good-faith discussion and I ask that you stop.

More than glad to reply if you'd like to engage with the ideas I've discussed. It's not my job to repeat my post 27 times line-by-line, or to defend arguments that I did not make.
I'm actually happy to see that resolution. Usually the only resolutions you can find end up giving a pixel density of 143ppi or 286ppi. 143ppi doesn't look great while 286ppi looks excellent but comes with a large penalty to battery life with the extra power needed to drive the display.

Microsoft picked the lower side of the middle-ground with 201ppi. I'd obviously have to see it to be certain, but I'd expect it to not be perceptibly worse than the ~226ppi that Apple uses on their laptops.

This lack of middle-ground options was actually something that frustrated me last year when I was buying a laptop. It was one of the big motivators for me picking up a MacBook Pro instead of going with another Windows machine.
These are not vaccines. They are gene therapy marketed as vaccines. No one has any clue as to their long term side effects. The under 30 odds of death for Covid-19 are statistically zero percent. The rush to inject a brand new medication into the entire world pop without regards for individual risk profile is ridiculous, reckless, madness.
How do credit bureaus "enforce morality"? I think the point is that the effect of a bad credit rating is much more limited than a universal blackout on the internet. In fact strictly more limited, to the extent that many creditors rely on social media in making their decisions.
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why not? "or" is an operator, like "+", "foo"+"bar" should be valid. Why have special inconsistent case for "or".
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This is somewhat ironic given the recent interview Tim Cook did with Kara Swisher on Sway[1] that touched on topics like App Store curation and not allowing side loading.

Here's an excerpt:

> Kara Swisher: Like Netflix and others, right. What’s wrong with Epic or any developer going their own way or allowing a direct payment system, instead of having to go through the App Store? Why should you have the control?

> Tim Cook: Well, I think somebody has to. I think somebody has to curate, right? Because users aren’t going to come there and buy things if they don’t have trust and confidence in the store. And we think our users want that.

> Kara Swisher: Why can’t there be more stores, other stores run by others?

> Tim Cook: Because if you had side loading, you would break the privacy and security model.

> Kara Swisher: On the phone itself, and the phone itself wouldn’t protect the user necessarily.

> Tim Cook: Well, you’d be opening up a huge vector on another store.

> [a minute or so later]

> Tim Cook: I think curation is important as a part of the App Store. In any given week, 100,000 applications come into the app review. 40,000 of them are rejected. Most of them are rejected because they don’t work or don’t work like they say that they work. You can imagine if curation went away, what would occur to the App Store in a very short amount of time.

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I agree that not having sideloading, without giving it any thought on the technical implentation, is probably safer in terms of reducing "viruses" and what not.

It's arguable that cases like families whose kids spends tens of thousands due to dark patterns in approved applications were no safer than if they had run a side loaded application or a vetted one though.

Similarly, I can only imagine the amount of money wasted on misleadingly titled applications.

You could perhaps argue that the privacy model is compromised anyway in the sense that you can install Facebook, sign up and have your info dumped online, through no fault of Apple. The upcoming ATT changes should help but they haven't existed since, well, the app store was created :)

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/opinion/apples-ceo-is-mak...
I get why folks don't like gpg for securing email. What makes this use of it bad?
They begin by describing what I had in mind when they said "Signal will integrate payments": some kind of framework for existing wallets/exchanges to send info via Signal that enables transactions to take place. QR codes that are "auto scanned" (like paper wallets that can be swiped), or something else entirely. I thought they would focus on building this framework, making it available to the crypto community, and then seeing what happens.

Instead, they are still pushing their own coin, which has been heavily criticised for many reasons. They mention in the article that many cryptos have been nothing but "asset speculation" for a while. Well then why did the Mobile Coin creators premine so many coins? If they don't want to speculate on the value of their coin, why not just release it into the wild from Day 1? Every crypto founder cannot escape the FOMO of the Bitcoin era. They all wish they had made it big like some of the early lucky Bitcoin adopters, and no amount of grandstanding, or tech speak is going to convince me otherwise about any crypto founder.
> or weird quirks (webcam at the bottom?!),

whoa!! what? i can't believe that someone did that, but then, yes I can. i guess that's useful if you have to look at the keyboard while typing. in that case, the bottom based cam is just a glance up???
> scaling up beyond cultural norms

This is a great way of framing a certain class of problems that I think people on HN tend to dismiss. "Technically we're doing the same thing as before!" Yes, but as we should all know from the engineering side of things, scale is still very relevant.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk3-classic/ is a partial fix, but it still doesn't restore the filename-entry location bar.
I think the issue most developers have with CORS is how late in the dev cycle you encounter it. When everything in localhost/http you don't see any issues. It only crops up once you deploy to staging/production environments that are actually on the web. Worst case is when it works fine in staging, and only has issues in production and someone else controls the allow list.

It usually bites you once, and then you look out for it. But about every web developer I know hits it at some point. There used to be footguns of being able to disable CORS, and devs would provide this as a work around. Thankfully browsers have pretty much disabled these settings without intensive investment.
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It is 100% by design. It's even documented.

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#wh...

This is not a bug.
It isn't a public space so you can be barred from entry and, often, you'll be let into the house by a realtor. If that realtor recognizes you as abusing open houses they can just refuse you entry or take a more extreme measure.
It's simple file format let to build different interfaces to access the same files. I prefer gopass (https://www.gopass.pw/) as user interface as it have a few extra features that makes it a bit more confortable.
This is better than the original post.
> we've deal with vaccines for decades

I don’t think that’s accurate in this case. The type of vaccine that J&J released had up until months ago only ever been deployed in animals.

IIRC pigs had a problem with corona viruses that we solved”

The J&J is not a heap of dead virus like the common ones we have had forever. But a live harmless (we think) virus dolled up to look like Rona Corona.
I wonder what it is going to look like when finally every single dollar you have is sucked up automatically by the month. The scales tip by the year. People in major cities are already paying 50% of their wages to their landlord alone. That's a degenerate economy, not a productive one.

Eventually we will reach an equilibrium where there will be just enough vultures out there to eat exactly how many slices there are left in the pie. Complete extraction of 'disposable' income will be achieved this century. For working people in major cities, some are already being completely extracted like this, having to work multiple jobs to keep a roof overhead and bellies fed with no time to do something that isn't low skilled labor for capital.
What's obnoxious is there's no interface to go in and blur the photos after they're taken. The software just isn't built for it; it's meant for agents to operate with little to no technical knowledge.
Wow! I remember learning about these Jim Crow laws--e.g. you could only vote if your grandfather could vote. I never made the connection between the practice and the word.

For master/slave alternatives, slave is probably much more loaded then master, but alternatives exist for both.

Master: head, primary, lead, captain
Slave: worker, drone, replica