skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I decline to derail this with my own views on Brexit itself, but in answer to your question on what would have happened, I think if it was up to the government they would have bumbled along with one foot in the EU door much like before (not joining the Euro/Schengen, special conditions for the UK) which from outside might be seen as a reasonable compromise between the different factions of the UK.

I used to be in favour of direct democracy btw and somewhat changed my mind lately. The 2019 Reith lectures may have something to do with it - Sumption raised quite a lot of points I hadn't thought of before, in particular making a link between direct democracy and our lawyer-up culture of everyone-suing-everyone-else-all-the-time (the linking factor being the appropriate role of judges in society). I think he would also say it's the first past the post system that has caused so much alienation from the political process (when so many have votes that don't count), rather than there being a problem with representative democracy per se. Worth a listen (also on any podcast app):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00057m9/episodes/player

I would add that there's a bunch of other issues that caused that alienation, not least mainstream economics being so far divorced from reality for so long; also our media is a disgrace (not that I have any ideas for fixing it I'm afraid).

So would it have happened if we had direct democracy beforehand? I don't know, but I reckon we'd have replaced one problem with another one generating just as much discontent.

Sorry I had missed your context on local issues, you are right about the EU being abstract to most people, though there will always be issues in trying to draw a line between local and global.
That's simply not possible nor desired. It's like trying to think of a way to make ints support fractions in C without storing a second int for the denominator.

What you really want is that SSH implements support for a remote keyboard so that the application on the other end can simply read local machine key events and this is as far away from "upgrade the old way" as possible.
> The biggest challenge for me is finding information

If you can understand Spanish: https://foro.infojardin.com/ is probably one of the biggest communities of gardeners in the latinosphere. Just don't be shy and ask direct and well defined questions. Some people in America has problems with that, in my experience.

In English: https://tropicalfruitforum.com has good technical advice for American and Asian fruits

And there are some people that could help in https://news.ycombinator.com/ of course ;-)
It is not lost if then that person's truth emerges. In any political system, one may have to burn themself to make any change.
Who approved this in the listing? Should Microsoft sue them.. that would be a start
I mean, why not? What Uber and the other companies who are doing this is entirely legal -- but, probably pretty costly at 500k dutch.
I might be interested, I have some questions thought - is it best to contact you via the form on the site? I don't see an email there or on your HN profile.
There's no silver bullet.

Cultivate as diverse an ecosystem as you possibly can. Good indicator species include amphibians (esp. frogs), spiders and fungi -- if you're seeing lots of those in your veggie garden, your soil ecology and fixed-plant guilds are healthy.

I had a neighbour complain that they'd had a particularly bad invasion of bugs one season, despite a couple of prior seasons with no trouble. "Third season growing in that spot?" I asked. She answered affirmatively. "Hang in there," was the only advice I could give. It seems that a new veggie garden gets about 2 seasons "for free", then, in the 3rd season, all the bugs find it, but the predators haven't caught up yet. It's highly instructive to run a predator-prey model -- you'll easily see the natural delay between prey population peaks and the lagging predator population peaks. So 3rd season is a downer, but take heart! from there on things steadily get better.

The BIG thing to avoid (assuming you're aiming for completely pesticide-free) is to NEVER use pesticides of ANY kind, "organic" pesticides included! The moment you deploy a pesticide, even on a limited scale, you break the predator-prey networks you need to build and foster. Once you have your local ecosystem really healthy (compost, compost, compost!) you'll hardly ever have serious pest problems. I speak from having gardened this way for over 25 years.
With selling dreams they mean selling the scene in which your insecurity has been relieved.

People feel pinned down in their life, so a common dream sold is to be free. Think of Mac and their proposition of enabling your creativity (a creative person is unconstrained). A lot of car and motorbike companies also show their products as liberating in different ways.

Beer ads often show popularity and unselfconscious social interaction, which is a big deal for young guys.

For course there's dreams of beauty, success, feeling accepted.
Ohio State professor who is part of the Thousand Talents program
> I assume if the user chooses “strictly necessary cookies”, SO saves as little data as possible, and they decide to not save that choice.

This feels like malicious compliance. Storing an "Opt out: Yes" cookie is clearly not personal data requiring consent, but not storing it makes the opt out experience more frustrating than opt in which I suspect is the real point.
Unless someone changed the submission title within the 2 minutes of your comment and this reply... you really have a high expectation of catastrophe.

Edit: well, don't complain about the downvotes, but here I am after a few downvotes thinking "Wow, who are these baby-coddling users who think HN readers are idiots who don't read the headline and just accidentally click 'Add to Chrome'?".
I find it rather surprising that anyone with a gmail address can publish an extension that appears to be from Microsoft.
People are going to get more desensitized to Elon's whims the more he showcases them. The last week was enough to desensitize a lot of folk.
For #10, both buttons say the black button is opt out. Since the question says at most one is true, they're both false and white is opt out.
The first one I got was the avatar with an online indicator. It's meant to be green if you're online, sure, but the subtext clearly says 2h ago suggesting they're no longer online. So what does 2h ago mean if they are online?

I'd argue that one is wrong in both images, it's failing to communicate either their online status or what the "2h ago" means clearly.
Anecdotal, but working in retail in the 90s, the backend system was some *nix server, the wireless Telxon guns ran DOS 3.2, and there was a dedicated OS/2 Warp desktop that would perform reporting and aggregate data.

I am not sure what the registers ran, but they were IBM, all text-based.

Also, I remember my friend was a manager at AMC theatres at the time, and their system was entirely text-based. I remember watching him run end-of-day reports and you could see it zip up the files and hear the modem dial out and connect to corporate.
I love that it's made by: "Extensions"
As far as I know the One World Government has not yet passed such legislation.

The main reason for that is because there is no One World Government yet, and no such thing as international law.
Yes laws can’t be implemented in a straightforward and neutral way. That’s not a benefit of laws or something we need to preserve. Exactly the opposite.

The fact the process is sitting on a case for YEARS because they can't decide how to interpret the facts, or which laws apply, or what they mean, or even simply due to the procedure being enormously inefficient for everyone involved, in fact usually means that whether you are found guilty or not in the end... you lose.

And humans can always have the last say. Computers don’t take that away from anyone. Having computable law doesn't mean 100% of it is computed by dry algorithms.
I write my lower-case 'g' with a loop like this, although I have only ever met one other person who also does so.
That's beside the point, I think. What's the dream?

Yes, I might prefer pepsi to coca cola or vice versa and maybe that's a product of marketing, but both are just drinks to me. Just another product. Which I might buy once in a while, but it's really got nothing to do with my dreams.
No, a character stream is a character stream. You don't get key down or any key events. Why does everyone talk about key up exclusively as if there were 99 supported features and key up was the only forgotten one that you need to get to 100?
Please, please, please regulators, don't allow them. It is obvious that they want exclusive content for Amazon VoD, and this kind of plattform exclusive content is harmful to the users. For a working market, it is important to separate content producers/IP holders from the plattforms so they arrange for license deals.
I'm still amazed that people install (outside of very specific development or page manipulation use cases) Chrome extensions.

Are these more common on Chromebooks or some other platform I don't regularly use?
What a tasteless analogy..
A famous 1932 essay on the matter— The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible by Beatrice Warde: https://veryinteractive.net/content/2-library/52-the-crystal...
It's pretty simple for me, him and the people he surrounds himself with create tech and don't force anyone to use it. I suspect anyone who dislikes Musk is someone who has a general disdain for everyone on top.

I don't expect perfection from Musk, but it's easy to imagine he does most everything with good intentions, or at least no malice.

I'm a fan of anyone willing to go broke for what they believe in though and I do recognize his social influence is so strong that it would be very difficult for any human to handle that without getting a god complex.
Going to go out on a limb and suggest the massive hill Angel sits at the top of is more of a factor in the long escalator than the ads, which were relatively discreet last time I looked anyway
If you invest time learning Erlang everything around Elixir will make sense and it will be a pleasant experience not only to "write" but to test, debug and maintain as well. I would go through this slightly dated but gentle introduction before learning Elixir: https://learnyousomeerlang.com/content

Thinking in processes and knowing/using the GenServer abstraction is the core of Elixir programming.

So, one negative is that difficult to use without Erlang knowledge. Also some good libraries are Erlang only for compatibility/historical reasons.
You would also need escape sequences for pressed keys.
My six years of dept free, tuition free education in computer science earning me a M.Sc. with government student housing subsidies and monthly pay is "the government doing absolutely nothing"?

And it is morally warranted that I do what I can to avoid paying taxes when I employ online?
How do you keep track of which plants you have? Do you just wait for them to flower/fruit?
Lots of expensive cars have loads of magnesium in their gearboxes. Nobody thinks about that when driving with low gearbox oil levels.
I suspect some readers are thinking ok, so it's ~6x worse, surely that's noticeable. But the COVID numbers are seriously inflated relative to past epidemics by the enormous testing programme, and the way mass PCR testing has cut doctors out of the loop. These numbers of deaths are deaths in which a positive PCR test was roughly temporally co-present, regardless of what an expert on the ground said the cause of death was, which is a much weaker standard than was previously used for ascribing a cause of death.

Another way to look at this is overall mortality levels. In the UK, which has a reasonably high death rate, COVID raised overall mortality (per million) to around the level it was in the year 2000. Nobody was worried about that mortality level at the time, it was normal. Nor has anyone really noticed or commented on the general improvements in mortality since then. In Sweden age-adjusted mortality went back all the way to 2012 levels, and that with quite minor restrictions.

This is suggestive that we perceive the impact as large because it tends to be phrased in terms of deviation from a 5-year model baseline, and because of the general expectations created by enormous 'expert' predictions. Having sacrificed so much via such extreme measures, people need to view it as an extreme event to justify a worldview of 'experts are generally honest and correct' (which can be seen in this article as a very, very strong prevailing world view at the NYT!)
It seems to be something wrong on desktop. When I inspect the DOM you can see that the location of where you can click is not at the actual text.
Two years in, Elixir+Phoenix is an extremely productive setup for me.
My customers care at a high level - they are loyal to our product, and perform the majority of their jobs using our tools. They need to plan their own projects based on the release dates of our features, so they need to know if a feature is 3 weeks, 3 months, or 3 years away.

To be fair, they do not care about any specific individual developer. And I don't bother tracking individual dev performance. I track the overall delivery cadence.

Where I do care about individual developers is knowing how much they stay on-task. My teams vary from someone who will always do exactly what is outlined in the ticket, to people who second-guess and redesign the work (sometimes for the better, sometimes not), to people who go off the rails and design grand future visions that we then need to scale back to reality.

All of those people have value, but I need to manage their working style to the short-term business needs when planning upcoming work - sometimes I can let them fly free, sometimes I just need someone to put a freaking button on the screen and ship it.

So yes, it matters... micro-managing is pointless, but high level tracking helps set the correct pace of delivery.
Here's my relevant post about choosing Elixir: https://lucjan.medium.com/choose-exciting-technology-e735bba...

TL;DR: very satisfied
But what can we do? It just feels like the thought that we could easily abolish advertising in public spaces, if we wanted, doesn't even occur to anyone. Some considerations:

- Governments (state as well as municipality) like having some inescapable public ad space, because they use it too, for announcements and such. Solution: decouple commercial advertising and government announcements.

- "But how will people find out about new products?" - yes, I've heard people say this without any irony, maybe nowadays we can respond that people are on their phones all the time so they can still see ads there. Some opt-in advertising solution (like jokoon is describing) could be an alternative as well.

- "What about store signage and shop windows?" - I think these shouldn't be included in an outdoor advertising ban, however advertisers are sure to try and muddy the waters here to get small businesses on their side, so it would be wise to emphasize this from the start.

- "I like ads, some of them look nice" - replace billboards with trees, art, the sky...

- "What about the revenue the city gets from advertising space?" - The most hairy and perhaps most important point. I would like to make explicit all the implicit exchanges of value involved in advertising, but it might be too abstract for the average Joe. Someone pays the city to show me something. That means the ability to show it to me is worth more to them than what they pay the city. It also means that at the end of the day, the money is somehow coming from me, and this amount could be larger than what the city gets out of it, even. Therefore I would actually save money if the city abolished advertising and just raised taxes a little. Of course there is the false consciousness that many people have, "I don't get influenced by ads".

- Negative psychological effects of advertising, the basic human right to not have to look at something designed to manipulate you. I feel this on a deep level but you quickly start sounding like a crazy person if you explain it to someone who doesn't really get this. Maybe an alternative would be to refer to objective studies relating advertising and wellbeing.
High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure on the Cheap (2017)
They had their fun back in the day when they smuggled opium into China.
Right, that's it.
Black Mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
They do but those things are harder to block as techniques like DNS over HTTPS take hold.
These reports are usually handled by a single person with a dozen other responsibilities. Chances are, nobody will ever read majority of user generated reports. Also, the person may have already left the company and a replacement was deemed by management to not be necessary.
Very surprising - I assume that there is absolutely no human check before an extension can be made available.
I just tried it out and it seems to work pretty well. I connected my bluetooth gamepad and your website recognized it instantly. Well done.

Is there any reason why the "Anguna" game is offered by default, while other ROMs should be uploaded by the user first?
If everyone that reads this simply takes the time to report it, the HN community should be able to get this extension down fairly quicly, right?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/report/mabdjppmcjpjplolig...
Very interesting syntax, clearly REBOL-inspired.
I think it's almost worth the effort just for the pleasure of using those HP buttons again.

Muffled-clicky but firm, very satisfying !
California City That Sends Drone Almost Every Time Police Are Dispatched on 911
Three leaks? Where did you get that number? Lab leaks are extremely common, far more common than 3 in the last century! Quoting the Wade article this article starts by referencing:

The smallpox virus escaped three times from labs in England in the 1960’s and 1970’s, causing 80 cases and 3 deaths. Dangerous viruses have leaked out of labs almost every year since. Coming to more recent times, the SARS1 virus has proved a true escape artist, leaking from laboratories in Singapore, Taiwan, and no less than four times from the Chinese National Institute of Virology in Beijing.

As another example, the most recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the UK was traced quickly to a lab that had kept samples of the first one.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12615-faulty-pipe-bla....
Ice Cube Doubles Down on His Lawsuit Against Robinhood App
Really surprising that something so blatant would get past the playstore checks..If i remember correctly, there was a vetting process on the first updload of an app anyway, not sure about extensions.

Brand/Company names could easily be flagged as a 'needs review' for example.
Sometime I know I’m about to buy something I need and I’m open to suggestions.
I would watch ad at this point.
You'd think they'd have a vetting process on their ads as well, but they don't. Not a good one at least.

Either Google doesn't care, or they aren't able to do any form of sensible checking of stuff uploaded to they various platforms. Well, either that or they don't see it as a massive issue.
I kinda doubt this. Underground tunnels don't come cheap. Communities don't build extra long tunnels that aren't necessary just to appease some advertisers.
Very good job with the documentation. Ultra nice and clean.

By the way, what's up with the "?" functions? Are they all predicates? And what about "if" vs "if?" ?!
The developer's address is harperrodriguez31@gmail.com
Good luck figuring out who that is.
Isn't it set at the price of the last sale?

Who made or enforces that rule?

They can do whatever they want --- even collude with one another at will. They are completely unregulated opaque black boxes.
Haha, good catch.
Depending on the version of Windows, it may not have even had native TCP/IP support by default.

Trumpet Winsock was a very important piece of software for a bit, from Windows 3 to 98.

Serial ports were much more popular back then.
"…because selling it might enable competition. We rent your personal information, for only those limited marketing purposes, within our own managed markets, that further cement our monopolies."
I'm not sure what's wrong with it; many people find sausages to be quite delicious.
Tesla is also an energy company. They could be worth trillions in a decade or two.
4 years of writing elixir professionally and I have yet to enjoy a language as productive as elixir.

Everything from ecto, and branching logic by pattern matching function signatures to the easy composition and cohesive community around the amazing tooling (mix/hex) and testing. Plenty more I love for productivity

But because of OTP and it's capacity to scale and distribute computation I thoroughly stay loving how deep the topic is and how there's always more to learn.
Microsoft lawyer should file a DMCA for abusing trademark, then it should be resolved quickly
BPF for Storage: An Exokernel-Inspired Approach [pdf]
Yeah, it is still worth a visit, I meant that only in comparison to the other Minoan sites on Crete.

There are also some in Malia, but those were in a worse state than others. In Malia you could see another curious and living civilization that drives on motorized bicycles. I believe people called them the British.

For the average tourist without too deep knowledge about archaeology (me), I found Phaistos more impressive, especially for that feeling that you mentioned. It isn't restored to that degree, but still impressive how much remains from this ancient civilization. Maybe it was just the vicinity of the city that made Knossos seem not that special in comparison.

It isn't too far from Knossos, well worth a trip. I think it was just an hour by car from Knossos.

I will certainly put Petra on the list to visit.
I'm in my third year of gardening so can mostly tell what is coming up pretty quickly.
Thanks for the feedback! The flub comment made me chuckle.

This comment made me think of a post by Sandy Maguire that I read a little while back (https://sandymaguire.me/blog/building-over-the-abyss/)

> When I go back and read LessWrong, I’m awestruck by the apparent dissonance between my memories of it and the material in front of me. All I can remember about reading LW is a consistent and unending stream of insights. Mind-shattering insights. When I read it now however, my experience is also consistent and unending, though instead of insights I now say “obviously – who would think this is worthwhile to write about?”

> I take this to imply that I have internalized LessWrong. I’ve learned the majority of what it was trying to impart on me, and it’s become second nature. This has made my life better.

What's obvious to you may not be obvious to others as you've internalised the earlier steps.

I also feel like the psychological safety part requires a foundation of trust (and honesty). If someone who's lied to me a bunch of times in the past is giving me feedback, regardless of how it's framed, I'm not going to trust that feedback. It's unlikely that I'll be receptive to it, even if it's totally valid
Thanks a lot for your nice comments.

I've done my best. As for the inspiration, as I've said before, although the two languages (or the 3 of them, if I include Red) did end up looking quite similar, when I started out I had no knowledge of Rebol (other than the name). So, basically, I designed something from scratch, with its own characteristics. Now, given that, afterwards I sure have studied Rebol/Red a lot, and I must admit that both have served as an interesting source of ideas as well.

Looking forward to your feedback once you play a bit with it! :)
Ah, nevermind, my joke bombed
Advanced manufacturing ERP Benefits modern Businesses
What is ‘meeh’?