skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A relatively common local tax in mediaeval England was a 'Scott' charge on property and/or land, used to fund some locally necessary common good. Because the charge was most often area-based, landowners/householders just outside of the charging area were said to get away 'Scott free' - a phrase still frequently encountered in UK English.

For instance in the area where I grew up (Romney Marshes, Kent) a Scott tax used to be levied on local householders and landowners to help pay for the local sea defences (because: most of the Romney Marshes is below sea level). People living on land above sea level were exempt from the charge, thus 'Scott free'. The levy was paid in cash or thorn bushes; failure to pay led to an ear being nailed to the church door[1].

And the tax is still - apparently - alive today ... according to a brief report in the UK's Law Society's Gazette[2].

[1] - https://theromneymarsh.net/newhall

[2] - https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/unearthing-history/68506.a...
I mean...it's just the typical mindset of a Mac user really.

I don't want a choice, just give me something with a chrome finish and I'll throw my wallet at your face.
The only problem with this is that, for historical reasons (and lack of caring?), the default stylesheets for unstyled HTML in the leading browsers are terrible. Best to apply a simple classless style sheet once then forget about it.
Hot reload doesn't imply compilation in the browser. For all you know lein could be recompiling via the JVM and sending updated JS files to the browser.
With genetic engineering you can introduce favorable traits or increase diversity in monocrops to buffer against changing environments. This is already done to some extent and will be done for pretty much all food we consume in the future, as our climate changes faster than planted crops can adapt to produce yields under these changes.
- Split words in 3 groups

- at least two groups are needed to assemble full phrase

- spread each 1/3 in different entities - ex: lawyer, safe, relative

- write a will authorizing kids access all 3 places
Sources are in Russian. Russian separatists told shortly after the incident:

"В районе Тореза только что сбили самолет Ан-26, валяется где-то за шахтой Прогресс. Предупреждали же - не летать в "нашем небе". А вот и видео-подтверждение очередного "птичкопада". Птичка упала за террикон, жилой сектор не зацепила. Мирные люди не пострадали. А также еще есть информация о втором сбитом самолете, вроде бы Су", - говорится в сообщении Стрелкова.

"In the area of Torez, an An-26 plane has just been shot down, lying somewhere behind the Progress mine. We warned not to fly in our sky. And here is a video confirmation of the next birdfall. Civilians were not injured. And there is also information about the second downed plane, like Su, "- said in the message of Strelkov.
I believe Tesla didn't contest this lawsuit because it was in the lower courts, they will very likely appeal and contest this in higher courts.
A) I don’t think that’s true. GMOs are not the kind of biodiversity we need. We can move to mechanized automated organic farming and get all the biodiversity we need from healthy soil and diverse planting regimes. I am working on this problem and making our solution open source so the technology can quickly spread. [1]

B) In practice GMOs are used to enable massive use of harmful biocides (glyphosate) which poison the soil, the workers, and our food. So the idea that they are like pesticides is not exactly correct but it’s not far off. [2]

C) GMO patents have allowed large firms to extort farmers with predatory business models and Monsanto/Bayer for example have filed hundreds of lawsuits against farmers who accidentally had some contamination with their “patented” seeds. [3]

GMOs are not a cure all. The whole reason we have problems in farming is our failure to see the whole system of life and our reliance on pinpoint “solutions” that only cause more problems.

[1] https://youtu.be/fFhTPHlPAAk

[2] https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/study-monsant...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/feb/12/monsanto...
It's not a law so much as a governing principle.
Everyone knew the Foxconn plant was a joke when it happened, and was mainly to get Trump off their backs by giving him a photo op.
I beg to differ. Controllers are not ultimately responsible for the safety of a plane and its passengers. The pilots not only had a right but IMO a duty to make sure they understood the situation and the request before making any decision to divert.
Yep, that's pretty much been my experience.

I'm in a rental, so instead of smart switches I just use smart bulbs. For like <$10/bulb, I've got full RGB/colour temperature adjustable.

Most are configured so turning them on turns them on full brightness and pleasantly warm. The one in the bedroom and the baby's room are configured to turn on dim and warm, and if you do another quick off-on flick of the switch they'll come on at full brightness.

So they... work like normal light bulbs. Except they're all remote controllable from your phone. So if the baby falls asleep on top of you and the light's on you can turn it off without getting up and waking her up.

From there, I added some basic z-wave sensors in a few spots in the house. If you get up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, as soon as you step in the hall the motion sensor picks up that (1) someone is moving in the hallway and (2) the hallway is currently really dark; and it turns the hall light on a really dim red. Enough you can see where you're going without killing your night vision. Then a minute after it stops sensing motion it turns off.

If you walk into the one end of the basement where the washer/dryer/workshop/storage/etc are, all of the lights will come on for you, and a couple minutes after it stops sensing motion they all turn back off. If you want them to stay on you can just flip the switch off-on to turn them all on and keep them on. So now if you just wander over to let the dog out, grab a tool from the shop, throw a load of laundry in, etc, the lights are just automatic. No need to try and balance a laundry basket while you screw around with light switches.

The room my office is in does the same thing except uses my computer's lock state for presence detection. So when I walk in the lights come on, when my computer unlocks it keeps them on. When I lock my computer it goes back to the regular program. At any point I can pull my phone out and flip them over to the super bright, super harsh light when I need it for doing fine work instead of working at my computer.

Just a lot of little, basic conveniences. And it's amazing how futuristic it feels to just wander around the house and have lights turn on and off for you as you do.

It all runs locally in a VM on my server, with all the smart devices entirely isolated from the internet. If the internet's out... nothing changes. If my server/WAP/whatever dies, then my house just goes back to working like a normal house.
I built something like this way back in 2008, since paypal let you set a IPN dynamically. Was basically a pastebin behind a paywall. I found it incredibly difficult to market, but I think I was doing it wrong because gumroad took off many years later

https://www.redferret.net/tiny-checkout-very-cool-little-onl...
https://web.archive.org/web/20090227044608/http://www.tinych...
No it doesn't. Please tell me what part of the article clears this up besides perhaps the previously reported fighter jet.
In this case, I use the super power of self control, and I wait to be home to watch the video on a bigger and better screen, and without ads.
In this situation though, any client who still knows the key can access the data, since there is no way to remove data from the database server, or make it unavailable at the server level.

Assuming the clients and server are operated by different entities (otherwise the immutability and verifiability are not that interesting), if someone comes to the server operator with a court order and ask that data be removed, it seems like there is nothing they can do.
I know some people that run a number of small manufacturing sites spread across the US. When they get something tricky, they send it to their factory in (to avoid flame wars) State A, which happens to spend more per student than the national average. Line workers have the freedom to experiment and improve the process until they have something very good, and then they move the line to their factory in State B, which happens to spend significantly less per student than the national average. Probably just a coincidence though.

PS - 2020 was their best year ever and 2021 could be even better. People are currently willing to pay American rates to avoid supply chain risk.

PPS - Ohio is a great location for Peloton. I bet they can get 70-80% of their product by value from supply manufacturers just within the state. Expand to Michigan and Indiana and you might be at 85 or 90%. This is in the Toledo metro area which already has a large auto manufacturing supply chain, as well as PV panel production. They’ve got plenty of workers and suppliers to draw from.
To me, a good website should be usable without any added style or scripting. CSS should make it look good, but you should be using the markup to make is usable and roughly laid out how you want, at least with a sensible default.
Often it is. Earlier in this thread I used the example of a unit system - one example of there there can be a ton of repetition to remove, but there are fundamental differences between liters and meters that make removing the duplication hard if you didn't realize upfront you had a problem. Once you get it right converting meters to chains isn't that hard (I wonder how many reading even know chain was a unit of measure - much less have any idea how big it is), but there are a ton of choices to make it work.
Peertube is essentially that, a peer to peer video hosting site that is decentralized with multiple instances hosted by different people/organizations
Do hedge funds have need for distributed Java engineers? I'm mid level, not senior, under 30, and work at a bank.

As far as interview, is it leetcode plus some math brainteaser type stuff?
GDPR requires to erease user date if users withdraw their consent or their data are no longer required for purpose which you originally collected or processed it for.

Therefore, you must carefully check that no personal data is stored in immutable databases.
I can envision relativity if our brain has relative anatomic constructs. That said the symbolic idea is a source of struggle even for teens.
Peertube seems like a nice technical solution, but 90% of the content I could find was either French, social justice activism, furry-stuff or combination of the above. It was really overwhelmingly so.

And that leads to a chicken and egg problem. You can take your content there, but there won’t be a big audience, because the content which casual users will find there is quite literally content which serves more to repel a general audience rather than attract. And that won’t change until enough “normal” publishers start putting their stuff there. Which they won’t.

I’m honestly not sure what a good solution is, because the technical platform itself seems decent.
How and When to Control for Confounders During Product Usage Analyses
I'm not convinced that the Sun's expansion will be the demise of intelligent life on this planet. If there is a civilization of intelligent beings here ten million years in the future, let alone 100 or 1000, I'm tempted to think it would be trivial for them to A) Move the Earth farther out, or maybe better B) Change the composition of the sun to prolong its life (i.e. remove helium and other heavier elements with... the Sun's own energy).
And the horrifying thing is that they are selling NFTs for NBA trading cards (GIFs). So people now own a trading card of a trading card of a real person dunking :(
People generally have good intentions and want what's best for their communities and families.

It's easy to demonize people with different viewpoints and make them out to be monsters.

Another option is to try to see their viewpoints and empathize with why they do what they do and try to understand why they see the world that way and understand that your way of viewing the world may not be the absolute truth and there are things you may be missing or interpreting incorrectly.
For anyone else wondering, does not seem to be about big O notation or analysis
That actually happened though, lol.
As I mentioned in another comment, I view this as the largest deal breaker for a lot of people. You pay to remove the YT ads, but you still get a 2m plug out of a 10m video which is already stretched so that it gets in the upper echelon of adsense monetization. Even if you don't see YT-placed ads, the content you are watching has evolved due to the effects of that.
Not to mention the people that worked to create the videos. Both them and the engineers deserve to eat.
Yup. At that price I'd 100% do the same thing. That's awesome.
Have any examples? Just using tables to lay stuff out?
Note that a declining number of species doesn't mean fewer living animals.

As the world globalizes, 10 isolated bird species occupying an ecological niche can be replaced by 1 species across the planet, without there being fewer birds total.
Where are they going to go?
Isn't "generating binaries" just as bad for other interpreted (interpeted-ish) languages? If you generate a "python binary", you need to package python with your binary. Same for perl/ruby. It just seems weird that people expect julia to be able to do that. It is cute that PackageCompiler.jl exists and it is cute that more AOT compilation work is being currently done, but it seems crazy to expect Julia to be good at making binaries (and I would say that about python and perl too).

And by extension, it seems weird to me to complain that Julia is not a general purpose language because it can not generate binaries. What stops me from making the same statement about python, which is definitely general purpose?
They're not. SupplyFrame has traditionally been a software vendor for companies in the electronics manufacturing space. The blogs and Tindie are a very, very small part of their portfolio.

For example, there's QuoteFX, DirectSource, DesignSense, FindChips, and a host of other solutions they sell.
To be fair, LAX is fundamentally broken. The traffic design around it is from an era when only the rich and powerful flew, not today. There's what, two lanes of traffic to get into one of the most important airports in the United States? DIA has more roads into it, and it's nowhere near as big as LAX.

Frankly, not running a train from an airport the size of LAX to downtown remains a bafflingly stupid decision, in my opinion. They should've really just done like Chicago or DIA and put a train station in the airport.
It's not necessary to hit either of those though. I don't think I have any weird configuration for window management, but if I close all the windows of an application, clicking the dock icon for it opens a new window. So from the perspective of the user it's no different than if the application had truly exited. I think that's why the default settings for the dock don't even indicate what's running.

(I don't think it's a good thing to keep applications running when the last window is closed, but that's a different argument)
Is this the kind of startup that competes with git shortcuts? I can replace "git push origin master" with "git pom"...
> They call for blood. You call for blood. This won't lead to less blood.

Yes it will, because Belarus nor Russia are in a position for any serious confrontation. As soon as you call their bluff, they will retreat, as they have done many times before. Their power comes from YOUR FEAR and unwillingness to react appropriately to their provocations.

Both Rusia and Belarus are mafia states that serve as piggy banks to oligarchs, who belong to the global elite. When their status, access and financial wellbeing takes a hit from sanctions, oligarchs will tell their public-facing puppets to tone down and seek better relations.

Oligarhs are not hermits like Kim from the Best Korea or leaders of Middle Eastern theocracies. Their families live in the west, because Russia is a dangerous shithole; they own luxury apartments in NYC and houses in the best parts of London. They spend their holidays in Los Angeles, Southern France and elsewhere. Their kids and wives want to live like the rich people they see on Instagram and in Hollywood movies. They are not willing to give this westernized life up, and that's the string to pull them by: identify key power brokers and their inner circles and target them mercilessly.
In order cores can't use branch prediction?
The word "finger" did not occur so I skipped it.
Towel Day (2019)
But the reverse is also true. Top-down programming doesn't really work well for smaller programs, it definitely doesn't work well when you're dealing with small, highly performance-critical or complex tasks.

So sure, I'll grant that when your program reaches the 10,000 line mark, you need to have some serious abstractions. I'll even give you that you might need to start abstracting things when a file reaches 1,000 lines.

But when we start talking about the rule of 30 -- that's not managing complexity, that's alphabetizing a sock drawer and sewing little permanent labels on each sock. That approach also doesn't scale to large programs because it makes rewrites and refactors into hell, and it makes new features extremely cumbersome to quickly iterate on. Your 10,000 line program becomes 20,000 lines because you're throwing interfaces and boilerplate all over the place.

Note that this isn't theoretical, I have worked in programs that did everything from building an abstraction layer over the database in case we wanted to use Mongo and SQL at the same time (we didn't), to having a dependency management system in place that meant we had to edit 5 files every time we wanted to add a new class, to having a page lifecycle framework that was so complicated that half of our internal support requests were trying to figure out when it was safe to start adding customer data to the page.

The benefit of a good, long, single-purpose function that contains all of its logic in one place is that you know exactly what the dependendencies are, you know exactly what the function is doing, you know that no one else is calling into the inlined logic that you're editing, and you can easily move that code around and change it without worrying about updating names or changing interfaces.

Abstract your code, but abstract your code when or shortly before you hit complexity barriers and after you have enough knowledge to make informed decisions about which abstractions will be helpful -- don't create a brand new interface every time you write a single function. It's fine to have a function that's longer than a couple hundred lines. If you're building something like a rendering or update loop, in many cases I would say it's preferable.
top 100 electronics company in car space means it is extremely small/doesn't produce meaningful amount of cars.
So how does this differ from PayPal pay buttons from the 2000's?
McCLIM is licensed under lgpl-2.1+ and does not impose its license on applications.

That said using the word 'infect' seems to imply that copyleft licenses are a disease; this does not sound like a serious discourse argument.
Yeah, this one is pretty easily explained as a statistical artifact in this way. The more religious someone is, the more time they are likely to spend around other religious people (at church, with friends met via church, various knock on effects of these things). As you become more religious, this effect will tend to increase your estimate of the population's average religiosity.

This also explains a number of political effects, especially once you start looking for it in other high time commitment social activities.
Same as https://www.plugnpaid.com ?
Huh, genuinely thought this was a research kernel type situation. But they have a display manager and everything built in to it. Wonder why they're using a different kernel instead of using Linux.
I had some success reaching out to android devs for a voucher on iOS when I switched. My success was mostly limited to finding contact information. When I did, a few answered with a voucher. Most didn’t reply.
Thank you - added an edit in time, epic brain fart upon my part that and certainly makes the price with the turnover balance out more as a much fairer deal.
I can reasonably say that calling a cake shop whom you know for a fact will not bake you a cake, not because you actually want a cake but instead for the purpose of getting them in legal trouble from the official inquisition, is "acting like a moron".

And yet I had to very very carefully word that for the sake of my own conscience because I know full well that HN will crucify me regardless on the theory that merely mentioning this topic amounts to homophobia.
what should be used instead?
Will uBlock origin etc block ads on YouTube? My understanding it that videos/ads are served from the same domain. (Update: a quick test suggests this method works.)

That said, either youtube-dl or Invidious [1] will do the trick. The latter can be self-hosted and emulates a more familiar YouTube experience (minus the tracking/recommendations).

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[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
Siemens likely doesn't care at all about and may not even be aware of Hackaday. Wouldn't it be fairly easy to restart Hackaday elsewhere if Siemens chooses to defund it?
We know what you did during lockdown: A FT short film