skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likewise here, I've never liked the Ubuntu font. Something about it just feels slightly off, like those letter-shaped refrigerator magnets for kids.
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Then our experiences differ somehow. Most Disqus users don't look like they have a contract, rather they accept terms and services than can be unilaterally changed by Disqus.

I've signed some DPAs and those that I've signed were very vague and liberal on what data they take - at least none of them felt that they would not try to get all the data that they can.
For people who are not aware, if you write the value no in YAML, it parses it as the boolean false which is then usually converted back to the string "false". The solution is to write "no" and not no, but Norway is the only country code requiring this so a lot of people forget about it.

For example I noticed this week that an environment variable in a few of my Norwegian company's deployments was "false" and not "no".
Ads are fine.

Trying every way possible to track and record every second of my life online and in the physical world is evil.
The title makes it sound like it's a good thing. It's not.
GitHub and Wordpress are both using a list like shown above, neither includes "system-ui". It seems to still be shunned.

I'm looking forward to CSS defined names that just say "make me look like the system".
It is here:

> This model has some major drawbacks from a privacy perspective. Typically, the vendor doesn't just get that you are interested in cars, they get the full URL of the page you are on. This lets them build up a pretty thorough picture of all the pages you have visited around the web. Then they can link their database with other vendors databases, and get even more coverage.
Twine and SugarCube! Interesting to see that pop up here:

https://www.motoslave.net/sugarcube/2/
Yeah, but this is best used for abstract methods or type stubs. I think in 'real code' you would want to raise NotImplementedError, or even (if you use mypy) potentially return a NoReturn

ie:
from typing import Any, NoReturn

def foo(bar: Any, baz: Any) -> NoReturn:
raise NotImplementedError
My dream of going into space was shattered when I got the news that my heart was enlarged and I needed surgery to replace my aorta valve. Between the life-long dependence on blood thinners and the already-weakened heart, I don't think I'll ever be able to go.
Got 3 lines.

Moral of the story - S pieces are the worst possible pieces.
I'm not necessarily sold on the idea of making products without business models. My lawyers so far have told me somewhat different things from "if it's all crypto then you have no KYC obligations"
Something always leaks. If anything just the packings around the propeller shafts (though since this is a sailboat it may not have propeller shafts).

And there is maintenance. Even if you seal up all of the leaks, something will always degrade and start leaking. If you are away from the boat for weeks at a time, you may find your leak-free boat on the bottom of the harbor.

So yes, you could conceivably find and seal every single leak, especially if you don't have a rotating shaft that penetrates the hull, but it would not negate the need for monitoring.
Good point. I thought they officially announced they were halting feature dev, but I guess it was just dev team cutbacks.
I don't think most crazy ideas crashing and burning is good enough to disprove the thesis. Even if 1 in 100 ideas that can bring about 10x change in important areas are all that succeed, we need those ideas to improve things. I think if you look for marketing you'll find it, so even ideas that win on technology can look like monopolist strong-arming if that's what you're looking for. Also not all ideas that win on technology are the very best the technology could be, they are often the right compromise that's a good deal better than what they competed against. Windows for instance did a lot of strong arming monopolist tactics but was also the clear technical winner on PC for ease of use for much of its existence. I don't think the monopolist tactics would be enough if the average joe found it too hard to use.
yeah, good point. The saddest part is, I'm confident that people will buy into that "crazy idea" and before you know it, they have a 4B valuation. VCs always win, even when they loose.
This reminds of the old quip about the founding of Fox News. Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch claimed they had found an untapped niche market in American broadcasting, "Half the country".
In short, yes. But being acquired is probably only seen as a salvage plan at this stage.
Spot on. Often it feels like a cult, but even more often is used as a micromanagement tool.
Clubhouse reminded me of the description in Neuromancer of the trends (I think the relevant example was the Panther Moderns) that emerge out of nothing, become prominent, and then disappear within a couple weeks.

It's not at all surprising that this happens with a social network, what I find more interesting is that there is a better opportunity to capitalize on it by purposely embracing "disposability" and grabbing some value out of it as it runs its course, instead of insisting that it be a longer term play that demands a bunch of VC funding and whatever demands come with trying to maintain that valuation.
$2B is just the new containment structure. Wikipedia lists the original cleanup as costing $68B (inflation adjusted). This article [1] lists the total economic cost as $700B

[1] https://www.thebalance.com/chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-dis...
Angkor Wat is not nearly as old as your Indian examples. It's similar age to Notre Dame cathedral. The main temple complex is the best preserved building in the area with some others that I think came later less well preserved. There are many many smaller temples very poorly preserved. As for a "city" of Angkor, it's now Siem Reap and there isn't much of the ancient city within the modern city.
Physics Tetris
Lol, it just gives me S pieces constantly.
> The bill includes an exception for companies that own theme parks, which I for one am entirely in favor of.

By companies that own theme parks you mean major donors to FL state republicans.

ref: https://www.citizen.org/article/song-of-suppression-disney-f...
Securing Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring Ecosystem [pdf]
A college degree is not a guarantee that you'll get a high paying job. Some degrees will only offer a $10k improvement over a full time McD's job. The average will push you into $70k a year, which puts you about $20k over the poverty line at least†.

And skilled trades... they've been devalued as well. The average salary for a welder is in the $17/$18 range across America††. Not really better than McD's (in this thread of conversation at least).

† https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/pay-salary/average-sala...

†† https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/pay-salary/welding-jobs...
It would be nice if it actually implemented SRS. I tried to do an S-twist and was disappointed that I couldn't.
Yes, and in this he contradicts himself because that statement is a tacit admission of the ethical problems, yet the rest is basically a justification of all of it.
A sign outside a gas station is advertising, but it’s hardly going to convince someone to buy a car just to buy gas from them or drove dramatically more.

Unfortunately, more widespread and effective advertising has real costs that end up raising prices. Coke’s premium over sugar water is backed up by their advertising spend.

Tracking, manipulation, etc are major downsides to advertising. But, even purely informative adds on TV aren’t free.
I'm thinking more devious rather than just simply speeding up.
> powerful

I want to visualize 1TB of single cell RNA seq data in a browser tab, then open a new tab, change some params, and share the link to a colleague. I want it to be instant.

In the non-multiomics world I also make browser based data visualization software (most recently worked on this, for example: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer). I want to load up 500GB and facet on multiple dimensions and then share the link and have it all run instantly.

I'm not talking about Gmail and Text editors here. M1s solved that.
Sure, but as someone who regularly switches between Mac, Windows, and Linux (Manjaro) the fonts feel quite distinctive. This probably has some applications in digital forensics.
https://archive.is/Gxsjv
> it's easy to launch a devastating attack on a new idea, and anyone who does will seem clever

This happened to me when I was younger. I had an idea that could best be described as Uber, years before Uber existed. I worked hard on analyzing this idea, preparing all sorts of financials, enrolling in an incubator program to understand how to pitch, getting help everywhere I could.

The incubator held a pitch event that would be attended by a range of people from different professions and judged by a panel of their choosing.

I made my presentation. It went very well. Until one of the five judges essentially took over. Up until then I had received reasonable questions and offered reasonable answers. He chose to be brutally dismissive. I don't know his background but the guy attacked at such a level that no other judge asked any questions. It was truly distressing, to say the least. Once the firing squad treatment ended I said "thank you" and left the auditorium.

I must have been obviously fuming and the attack must have been obviously unfair to some in the audience because an executive from UPS (the shipping company) decided to follow me out and talk to me. After calming me down he said he though my idea was excellent, that it needed refinement and that I should not give up on account of that jerk. Still, I was rattled. Definitely.

I was too young and stupid to process that event for what it was: A jerk being elevated to judging startup ideas who was there to feel superior by hurting people. Again, I was too young to process that and I did not have anyone around to help me get past it. I quit. I abandoned that particular dream. All because of that one jerk.

Now, many years later, I wish I hadn't. I wish I had been equipped with the wisdom to dismiss him for what he was and move on. Again, too young, didn't have enough experience and this guy was at the right place and the right time to destroy me. And that he did.

Thankfully my career moved on. I have nothing to complain about. I sometimes wonder how much of that goes on in the startup scene. I wonder how many great ideas (or potential entrepreneurs) evaporate because of assholes who want to "seem clever".
The advertising industry is bad enough that it's not necessary to exaggerate by saying things like "dominates the entire world". Unless you do indeed mean that, in which case, how do you define it?
That's not really what they meant by "acceptable" - just that either of those metals are traditional.

What's "acceptable" depends on the people in the relationship, and what will make each of them happy.

I didn't have a ring when I proposed to my partner as it was a fairly spontaneous decision when we were in a foreign country, and I knew the location of the proposal would matter much more to her than a ring.

But then after we got back we worked together with a jeweller to design a ring, which made sense as she has better design judgment than me, and we weren't doing anything very lavish/expensive, just something tasteful that she would love (for the record it didn't have diamonds, but rather a morganite stone with white gold).
This is great forward-thinking. It's rarely too early to think about people with disabilities. Setting up some structure to allow reasonable accommodations early will help avoid a need to later 'open up' space travel to others when it [hopefully] becomes more commonplace. This sort of research ought to be done now while we're still in a nascent phase of space travel.

Disclaimer: I don't know much about the typical protocols of astronauts and the engineering required for safe space travel, but I do know a thing or two about disabilities.
For many contractors, it's a lifestyle choice primarily. They often don't want to deal with all the performance reviews and would rather "be their own boss". Day rates aren't always as lucrative as they sound when you consider time on the bench and tax rules such as IR35. Contractors I know would only take a perm gig in very desperate times
It's true, but we shouldn't forget survivor bias here. We tend to focus on the stories of successful founders. To some extent, those are even the only ones we hear about.

Because of that phenomenon, there is absolutely no incompatibility between the existence of disruptive startups, and the opinions of more conservative voices. Similar to how there's no incompatibility between the existence of people who win the lottery, and the opinions of people who don't play the lottery.
Bitcoin: exploiting the dirtiest power sources since 2021.
I'm not so sure. There's a difference between a big line of laptops that were transferred to a new company - and designing with a goal of keeping compatability. Eg:

https://support.lenovo.com/no/en/solutions/pd024289-thinkpad...

Is a lot better than most alternatives - were you probably couldn't swap anything between different models/generations.

But yes, sure - thinkpad might just have been least bad in this regard - not great.
Middle of the road separation barriers.

Separate bike lanes, more like the sidewalks, not just painted lines on the car roads.

Roundabouts instead of crossings and traffic lights. (Roundabouts force the drivers to slow down. And on average, saves time I think)

More trains, buses, subways.
> If everyone charges more and pays more you have, on aggregate, gained nothing.

Except for the rampant price inflation in housing, healthcare, education, which has happened over the past few decades. The higher unemployment benefits reflect the actual cost of living. Wages (and service industry prices) rising are unfortunately more of a trailing correction than a leading cause.
when you sell your stonks, then that becomes capital gains
I presume this is a config we can set, but I can't even find the stackOverflow settings, and I have more than 5k stack overflow rep so I've been using it quite a bit.
I watched this yesterday. It was quite interesting.
Yep, still works great.
Well, that seems to me to be an argument in favor of having the widest possible applicant pool, rather than narrowing it.
Are you saying there is something specifically about ads that make using these products friction-free or non-hostile? Or are you just saying that you like that the products are free?
Targeted ads are much better at exposing people to new products they could want to try than non targeted ads, which appeal to the lowest common denominator. You're actually asking for better targeted ads for your gf
You could argue that an optimum space-human has amputated legs.
It's a governance token, meaning you can use it to participate in non-binding votes about what the developers do.
While Chernobyl may have played a role in the Soviet Union's collapse, it wasn't the only factor, and it wasn't the financial cost of the disaster that contributed to the collapse, but the loss of public trust in government.
In summary:

> The most significant change in this release is not to the language or standard libraries, but rather an enhancement to tooling support for Clippy.

The following methods were stabilized.

Arguments::as_str
Peekable::next_if_eq
Peekable::next_if
char::MAX
char::REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER
char::UNICODE_VERSION
char::decode_utf16
char::from_digit
char::from_u32_unchecked
char::from_u32
slice::partition_point
str::rsplit_once
str::split_once

The following previously stable APIs are now const.

char::len_utf8
char::len_utf16
char::to_ascii_uppercase
char::to_ascii_lowercase
char::eq_ignore_ascii_case
u8::to_ascii_uppercase
u8::to_ascii_lowercase
u8::eq_ignore_ascii_case

There you go. Enjoy!
the article is about how it's a bad thing:

> There’s just one problem: If it weren’t for Bitcoin, there would almost certainly be no reason to run the power plant in Dresden at all. Without the revenue from mining, Greenidge would have no reason to spew hundreds of thousands of tons of carbon dioxide from the plant’s stacks, discharge hundreds of billions of gallons of hot water into a nearby trout stream, or pipe in and burn billions of cubic feet of fracked natural gas.
Write once run on billions of clients but scale to supercomputering power.
I'd suggest that life is neither Chess nor Tetris, it's Magic the Gathering:

- You have to learn to relentlessly blame yourself for the mistakes you make, but also to accept that you can't change everything, and sometimes you WILL lose to random luck, no matter what you do.

- Actually understanding probability goes a long way.

- Regrettably, a large chunk of the game depends on your initial hand.
Depending on the vessel, leaks are part of the design. Seals always leak. Salt water is highly corrosive and will always "find a way." I own a smallish boat on the Gulf of Mexico with outboards (lacking the shaft seals that inboard boats have) and water STILL finds a way into the bilge. I have three pumps, one main and two redundant, just in the event one of my scupper seals goes, something/someone strikes my boat hard enough to puncture the hull below the water line, or one of my through-hull fittings (like raw water pump) develops a leak, while the boat is out in the Gulf or sitting at the marina.

Might seem like overkill where regular maintenance should be sufficient but you can never have too many redundancies to keep a boat afloat. Murphy's Law very much applies.
You only have to be right a few times in your life to make your career. Most people are right zero times, and hardly anyone is right 10 times. Von Neumann might have hit 10.

So regretting past mistakes is a big waste of time. Learn from them, but don't let it get to you emotionally. (All easy advice to give, and hard to follow.)
Agreed on all of this, + Facebook and Google both ban images of alcohol on their ad networks. Even someone holding a glass of wine.
DeFi – An Overview over Decentralized Finance
This has software a bit newer than Damn Small Linux: http://delicate-linux.net/

Try compiling a modern TLS under /opt, compile and link a new mbedtls library, and try compiling Dillo from Mercurial.

Edit ~/.dillo/dillorc in order to set the User Agent to either PSP or Opera Mini 3. Or better, Lynx. The Lynx one.
Web pages got lovely formatted where supported:

http_user_agent="Lynx/2.8.9rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/1.1.1k"

Also, edit ~/.dillo/dillorc in order to make cookies work.
For example:

DEFAULT DENY
.news.ycombinator.com ACCEPT
.news.ycombinator.com ACCEPT_SESSION

Bam!! Modernish web "support" for your browser. HN should work, and a lot more too.
This sounds like the world I want to live in!

Shouldn't our miraculous technological advances and enormous wealth enable this lifestyle for anybody who wants it (rather than just the idle oligarch class, which has not only the luxury of not working, but the luxury of actual luxury to go with it?)
That essay completely misses the simple quantum truth of the matter which is that it's all of the above.

It's all clearly just the universe acknowledging that, with all of our ramped up observational capabilities and all of our beaming radio waves into space, it's becoming more and more likely that we should have had some encounters with advanced spacefaring civilizations by now.

The logical conclusion is that any given Schroedinger's Spock is more or less likely to be a mistake, some new government tech, a hoax, AND traveling aliens whose DNA both is and isn't a branch off some human ancestor's...until the autopsy.

'Cause when you reach over and put your hand into a pile of goo that was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do!

Forget it, Marge, it's Chinatown.
Doubling prices would double (incremental) revenue.
It's funny how this context changes the entire the article. I didn't realize that this was related to Mighty and thought it was a good "call to arms" for domain experts in non-tech industries to disrupt their markets.
Vaguely related, but I've found the tetris-y mobile game High Rise to have a surprising amount of depth:

https://smpl.productions/high-rise/

I don't think the creators of it quite anticipated how effective the center-merge strategy could be at keeping the board clear, at least based on their surprised Twitter reactions to users (including myself) achieving scores into the low 7 figures.

But given that the game has no timer or really anything that explicitly escalates the difficulty over time, once you figure out how to maintain steady state, you can theoretically play indefinitely (though it does very occasionally crash).

This has raised an interesting question for me about what it would look like to have a version of High Rise with an adversarial bot choosing your pieces. Perhaps the bot's "meanness" of selection could escalate as you get into higher scores, with some kind of checkpoint system to start the game at certain milestones/hardnesses once you've proven you can consistently achieve them through ordinary play.
Cool, and amazingly these appear to be stackable. Enabling both at the same time makes the screen even dimmer.
> The vaccine program was failing to rollout when Biden inherited it.

Regardless of what you think of Joe Biden or Donald Trump, this statement is categorically false.

There are enough legitimate things to criticize Donald Trump for that we don't need to make things up. As others have pointed out, the vaccine program was just starting up at the end of the Trump administration. Besides, much of the actual logistics were, and are, handled at the state level.
To be fair it's not that ads are making anyone physically suffer. It might be an annoyance for some people or even considered a privacy threat. But it's not undisputed. That said, when I was a kid with no credit card ads were the only possibility to register a domain, host a website or for that matter even receive a fax. ;)
I'm downvoting because you imply that having body abnormalities makes someone lower quality person. A disability should not be taken into account if it is not significant for the job (a rather personal bias).
Well here is the soundtrack...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8

Compete History of the Soviet Union, arranged to the music of Tetris. Pigwiththefaceofaboy.
I feel like there's some bug where it gives me S's when a Z would clearly be worse. I managed 3 lines, all of which were completed by S's and would have been thwarted by Z's.

In fact I'm not sure I got a Z all game, though it seems other commenters did.
Vintage used to mean something 50+ years old, but now it means 20+ years old. Antique used to mean 100+ years old, but now it means something covered in dust.

If it looks old, but isn't, it's Retro.
Yes, this is probably a bad idea, on the other hand the "paradox of tolerance" is a thing. (Note that it should still apply to actions rather than ideas.)
Not if its functional programming. And it has a chance to move just about the same speed as the legal system.
If won't happen overnight, but if they are successful with this tech it simply won't make sense to put friction in front of it.