skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it generally tries to accomplish its goals while first keeping the corporations pleased

What goals are compromised to "keep the corporations pleased"? How would these goals be defined if the corporations were not be taken into account?

> and second never truly taxing the rich

You hold "taxing the rich" as some sort of high level independent goal to be done in and of itself. Can you quantify what the lack of funds are that available to SF from not "taxing the rich"? How much is the budget shortfall, and what would this extra budget go to if San Francisco were to "tax the rich"?
hmmm, feels like a cash grab to me. We couldnt create RNA vaccines because the nature of RNA virusses dont really allow for it, but now suddenly they can? Im guessing money is involved.
Thanks for this -- this is what I'm missing. I was starting to essentially suspect that NVMe is really more of a benefit for "hyperscaler"/IaaS providers... This lays it out well for me, and the how too. I rent my hardware so I don't have access to the hardware RAID stuff but this really filled out holes for me.

> If you've got higher concurrency, you'll want several NVMe SSDs behind a hardware RAID controller, in RAID0.

Hmnn why would you want RAID0 here? faster speed but absolutely no redundancy? what about RAID1+0/0+1?

> That's the point when you're starting to reach those "basically identical to memory" figures that are the use-case for Intel's Optane.

I need to do more reading on this but thanks for pointing this out
Yes, the menus match the dark mode setting. And they look great!
That's great, another idea we'd need is more priority to bicycles on the roads, meaning this order:

1. priority vehicles (firemen, police, ambulances, ...)
2. bicycles
3. bus public transports
4. all the rest: cars, motos, ..

Bicyles would be allowed to pass at traffic lights, and have priority in intersections on cars. This will help to promote bikes, and also because if there were only bicycles, traffic lights wouldn't be that much necessary (extreme case with dense traffic aside), with bikes the traffic is naturally fluid, health beneficial and non-polluting
It happens from time to time, but if it's not skating that ruins your wrist, it'll be typing for years ;)
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I never learned Vim commands (*) because I couldn't get past how different it is to use compared to everything else. I found the selection of editor modes confusing because I'm used to just typing where the cursor is. This is the first diagram/cheat sheet which has made some sense of what's going on.

Thanks for posting this; bookmarked.

(*) apart from :q!
EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies
I simply asked, didn't suggest you weren't doing things. Please read my comment carefully--I specifically tried to be careful not to imply anything. I asked because I think participating locally is the only real answer, so kudos.
Interesting that syphilis is theorized to come from the new world. I hadn't heard that before.

Did the old world have gonorrhea, herpes, genital warts, molluscum, trich, or any other visible STD? It seems like any one of those would be sufficient to cause a superstitious, iron age people to suspect something was plaguing the sexually promiscuous.
This is a great question.

Diversity is the solution to groupthink. From the book Surrounded By Idiots, the author demonstrates that people with different backgrounds and behaviour models come together to make stronger teams.

As engineers become more senior, they have a hand in design, in product etc. they bring something of themselves to their software solutions. Making software with only a team of white dudes means you miss the mark on issues important outside that group.

Also, inclusion goes hand in hand with diversity. People from all ethnicities and not just cis males can code, but if your team is mainly white guys, you have to work twice as hard convincing others that they'll be welcome and fit right in otherwise it becomes a self perpetuating pattern.

Also, "abilities" is subjective. If your exemplar for software engineer progression is a path that fits a majority white man route into the industry, and plays to the strengths of the people you promote, you'll over-index on those abilities. It's a good question to ask, what skills are we missing out on because our lack of diversity leads us to self selecting?

For transparency, I'm a white cis male manager, who manages a team of almost exclusively white cis males. I'm working on some long term strategic projects to help foster diversity in engineering in my city.
Most of these are not really unusual, but they are taken with weird perspective, are deformed due to rapid decompression, and their skin is badly damaged. For example #23 seems to be a black scabbardfish [0], which is a very common food fish in western europe, and you can find it in many fish markets. And #35 is just a regular john dory. What do people find bizarre about this? I guess this is the sort of stuff that you are expected to find in any trawling trip.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_scabbardfish
Hey I think you might have forgotten to add your source for (1) to this analysis!
Is "reprograms innate immune responses" not just another way of saying it does what a vaccine is supposed to?

All I got from it was that it might cause you to react more strongly to fungal infections.
Bret's work is inspiring and we're at a point where we have the media and tech available to make that massive upgrade.

When you look at work like this, and also the work produced by distill.pub achieving it is beyond the reach of most researchers. Right now that means someone would need to custom build the experience -- html/web development skills required. One of our aims with Curvenote is to bring that within the reach of most researchers, making it easy to publish interactive content by default.
This is very cool. I think this area is a very good one to apply crypto to. Research is a decentralized coordination problem, and many of the incentive problems involved with replication and evaluation seem amenable to mechanism design oriented solutions.

I look forward to seeing how this evolves.
French people consider themselves an exception compared to USA, but stats depict a stunning similarity: Our stats about male/female suicide, court judgements about family, female position in companies, are closeby the US ones, generally within 4%. The whole Western world, despite local specificities, are going through the surprisingly same questions as I’ve raised about California in the main trends, and local trends don’t offset the main direction.

Culturally, France systematically follows US trends with 10 years delay. My theory is that ideas are tested/tuned in US and reproduced with more intensity in Europe, with the additional help that France already has a strong socialist culture (a quarter of its workforce as public servants, tradition of organizing and demonstrating) so there is no counterpoint to the liberal arguments.

So we basically have similar laws to California. We even have a Ministry of Equality, which sound terribly dystopian.
Recent and related:

Rescue Mission for Sci-Hub and Open Science: We are the library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27154266 - May 2021 (52 comments)
I had people express appreciation about having a loud and clear bell, over some unclear yelling from behind. Maybe it's a cultural thing.
The biggest problem I find with Firefox under Sway is that its child windows don’t get sane window types. The most significant place where this goes horribly wrong is notifications: whenever a notification arrives, bam! it’s a full tiling window that steals focus and probably takes half the screen, shuffling everything else around, rather than being marked as a notification window, which would make it float in the requested position, get no decorations, and not get focused. And there’s no good way of targeting them properly to work around this: they’re just Firefox windows with an empty title; but so are download prompts and one or two other things. Still, I decided to favour the notifications (at the cost of download windows and the likes) in my current compromise:

no_focus [app_id="firefox" title="^$"]
for_window [app_id="firefox" title="^$"] border none, floating enable, move position 79 ppt 88 ppt

I’ve been thinking I should confirm that there’s a bug report for this at some point, though I can’t imagine it’s unknown. But now I look, I actually can’t find anything about it on Bugzilla (though I can find a complaint about it on Reddit two years ago). There is an unacknowledged report about the About Firefox window not floating (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1681158), which I expect is connected. Hmm. Oh, and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590909 which is fundamentally about this very notification issue, completely unacknowledged after two years. Hmm. Better file something.

Edit: OK, filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1712681.
The handwritten notes go from coherent and logical to irrational scribbles over the course of the document. You can see it not only in the content but also the style of handwriting. It honestly feels like the output of someone with a serious mental illness and I hope this person gets the help they need because no job should make you write "GASLIGHTING" in scribbled all caps across a document that isn't even part of the company you work for.
I just tried out the i3 repo linked at the bottom of the blog post, and uh wow. Here we have what looks like an X Window session, accessible via (presumably) VNC embedded into the browser, running a custom tiling window manager (i3), with xterm, neovim, and firefox available. All on a site that’s supposed to be for writing code and hosting apps.
As i was getting a flu shot, i saw a lone young guy enter a Walgreens near oakland with an empty duffel bag intent on stealing a few hundred dollars in deodorant and face cream. As he proceed to use his arms to shovel the first batch in, the security guard, one or two employs and a bystanders just started shaming him. "Dont do it!!", "Please no!!", "you can still walk out!!". They were screaming at him at the top of their lungs for 10 second from both ends of the aisle...
and it worked! it was surreal but with the empty bag, He walked out distraught. The security guard let him pass out. I couldn't believe it, but he just could not take having so many people screaming at him for it and carry it out .. i guess he just felt too guilty. maybe if he had'nt gone alone he would have had the strength to continue which is why i see people operate in groups.

Wouldn't believe it could happen before i saw it. "criminals are so desperate these no point" is not something i buy anymore, they clearly aren't always fully sold on what their doing, especially if young and any little thing could be enough for them to turn back.
There are all sorts of stats and data out there

That's true, do you happen to recall the sources of the ones you cited?
Damn, that was solid my friend.
The movie in question is getting streamed at a pay-per-view price of Rs.249, and is failing to generate revenue magnificently. It should have been obvious, no one is going to pay theatre-ticket prices to watch a silly[0] movie on their little phones.

[0]: https://youtu.be/jD-jxRrSANY
Show HN: Hierarchical Clustering in Action
Simply put, there is no humane way to occupy a people.
They have several problems but not necessarily homelessness.
Google is officially releasing Fuchsia OS, starting with a first-gen Nest Hub
I frequent a airports in the eu where they do and where they don't: seems to depend on the country and maybe the airport. The number of places where it happens went up.
> The trash and feces becomes more than just a nuisance

Don’t forget the dirty needles
As someone currently writing scientific programs for scientists, much of the culture of scientific programming is bad and they are having rings run around them by kids who build websites for a living and it's embarassing.

You think web developers are just writing programs for the hell of it? They have operational constraints around their work as well, it's just that there's a rad open online culture of continuous process improvement that's leveling up the tooling and practices that makes what was once hard look easy.

Things scientists using computers can learn from people working in the software industry:

- use a version control oriented workflow

- write extensive tests

- data management, automated data processing/cleaning pipelines, backups

- build generic frameworks

- use continuous integration

- logging and error reporting for long running tasks

- use modern tooling for automating infrastructure and big jobs, rather than manually submitting Slurm jobs via SSH

#notallscientists but the average level of competence is not good and I think the idea that writing software for scientific research is somehow special is backwards and counterproductive.
Those homeless in France have better healthcare and mental health treatment opportunities than I do working full time.
In Vienna, the airport is situated in such a way with respect to the ticketing zones as to trick visitors into not getting the right ticket. I don't remember the details, unfortunately, but judging by extremely unusual frequency of checks on that route, it appears intentionally set up that way to extract fines from tourists.

Just see the first results at https://www.google.com/search?q=vienna+airport+transport+fin...
Also in Europe, but with a completely different experience; it is (well, was, pre-covid) easy to move between EU states.

Within the Schengen Zone it's only the check at the gate to check your ID matches your boarding pass (so no check at "immigration"), and to/from the UK the electronic gates have really sped things up (compared to the old days).

YMMV but I find I'm rarely waiting more than a few minutes at the immigration checks (to/from UK) nowadays.
Like sharedrop.io, it doesn't use the system sharing modal.
Probably, since the local name part can be basically anything.

But the way to prevent injection attacks is not to disallow or sanitize input, it is to escape correctly when interpolating strings in other languages.
Holland introduced a nationwide RFID based public transport pass ~13 years ago.

It had similar problems, probably mostly caused by incompetence, e.g. it was all based on an expensive, obsolete and insecure "Mifare Classic" RFID chip because the transport minister went to visit Oyster and that was what used there. Leaving aside that that system was fully deployed a decade earlier. The chip was obsolete and cracked before it was fully rolled out.
It is nothing to do with the environment, and everything to do with ensuring and retaining control of their money through their central bank digital currency.
KDE -- I guess they want us to call it Plasma nowadays -- still has this feature (it's off by default, but you can enable it in Desktop Effects). It's pretty clunky to use, though: you have to hold down both Shift and Meta while drawing with the mouse. And I don't think you can draw with fire.
I'm not familiar at all with the imperial system (as you can guess), but I tried to make it more accessible to HN

Edit: Ohhh now I get it :D
It has long been my understanding that she is a Stalinist, an ideology I consider truly abhorrent. But you know what? I don't give a shit. Actions speak louder than words and I like what she does. If I like what she's doing, then why should I give a shit that she believes things I think are beyond dumb?
I appreciate the effort that went into this, but I think it actually makes learning vim appear more complicated than it is.

The approach to vi(m) that really worked for me is to regard the different modes (especially insert mode) as commands rather than "modes". Entering text is a single command, usually starting with 'i' or 'a', terminated with <esc>. For each command you learn, get in the habbit to initiate and to terminate it, just like in primary school you learned the habbit of finishing your sentences with a punctuation mark. Then you don't "get stuck" in different modes anymore.
Thanks for your comment! How did you learn about these details? Would love to read more about it.
This looked very promising, starting from good foundations and moving on to more complex ideas/methods, even taking time to explain why the steps are useful. However one thing that spoils it for me is that it doesn't provide solutions to the problems. Some are explained in the text that follows, others are just "cross your fingers you got it right".
As someone who's used Android for a really long time, I've never set out to accomplish something like this. What do you use for it?
Even if they just rebuilt github, but oriented the UI towards academic publishing and peer review, that would be a potentially valuable product.

The integration of the cryptocurrency certainly has the potential to veer off in scammy directions, but it also has the potential to introduce incentive design mechanisms to solve some of the issues plaguing academic research at the moment. E.g. incentivizing replication.
She found a hardware solution to a software problem.
You were not completely wrong.

There is a long story of state agents trying to access SWIFT messages. At some point, SWIFT had to set up a backup data center in Switzerland in order to route European transactions within Europe. The other data center is in the Netherlands.
> You can't steal the ideas from academia or commercial. You can implement the same idea, but the previous one still exists.

It's an important point, but only about abuse of the word "steal".

> A company commercializing an idea from academia does not make that idea proprietary.

It doesn't, up until they start armoring it with their own IP until nobody else can reasonably extend the original idea anymore...
It wasn't heavily flagged and we didn't have to manually unflag it.
Regardless of e2ee, they might have code bundled in the WhatsApp app that just deletes local video messages based on a hash. That wouldn’t break encryption.
Both are missing an iOS app.
> If you do that you disincentivise the rich (who tend to also be the powerful) from using those services, and encourage a two-tier system.

The total payment would be capped at the actual cost (slightly above to cover for those who earn below the minimum), like the student loan. That would mitigate the issue somewhat, although admittedly not entirely.

The issue with general taxation is that it leaves so many people feeling disenfranchised and apathetic with regards to their taxes due to no real idea or impact on where their money goes. It also incentivises inefficiency.
Non-lethal traps like what he's proposing are legal and surprisingly commonplace. A ton of banks have dye packs hidden inside wads of cash that explode after a bank robber makes off with the money. There's also anti-vandal paint that coats the hands of anyone trying to climb it with a slippery greasy paint.

Even the popular myth that a fire alarm pull station will stain your hands with ink is based on an actual product. High schools with a string of false alarms will sometimes put a marking compound on the handle that is indelible and changes to a bright color when someone tries to wash it off their hands.

Spraying a thief with fart spray and glitter is not illegal.
I can't quite tell if you're cheekily suggesting I should provide sources for my claims, or whether you misunderstood (1) to be a reference to some source? If the latter, it was just intended to document the number of uncached writes for NVMe.
>because from proprietarizing ideas, there is no benefit for society.

Except for a profit motive for companies which then benefits society by lowering prices of products. If it weren't for private companies no one of us could afford a computer today.
I probably wasn’t clear enough. I think there has been an increase in property crime in the suburbs but their violent crime rate doesn’t seem to have increased as much as it has in the cities.

Violent crime has increased in the cities based on statistics that I have read.

Walgreens is probably multifactor but it is guaranteed that the shoplifting hurt badly.

Yes the cities are dead partly due to lost of tourism. However, it isn’t only that. Commercial real estate occupancy rates are worse than during the dot com bust.

Real estate is multifactor. Real estate is booming everywhere in the Bay Area possibly with the exception of SF, not just Oakland.
'No police training' for ticket checkers might actually be a feature.
Refactors are rarely as simple as moving a few file names or symbols around, at least where I work. While we do have some automation to help (and not break existing consumers), it’s significantly more involved in an SOA architecture for tier1 services. These sorts of big refactors also generally come with data model changes, performance profiling etc. This tool seems fantastic for parts of that, but not all of it.

Just as a friendly aside, your tone seems strangely defensive (though this may just be my fault reading this tired at 3AM) - Levels tells me you make on the order of half a million a year, while I’ll be lucky to make half of that in the next decade at my employer, so you really can’t feel persecuted by this when you most likely work half as much as me while being rewarded for it while folks like me struggle to tread water and are considered mentally deficient.
You sometimes can, though you've got to know what to ask for, and what you're trading off.

FWIW, this is what platforms such as Debian attempt to provide. It's a challenge, and something of a losing battle, especially with complex and fast-moving tools, notably Web browsers, but also development toolkits (scripting languages, Web development environments, etc.).
Debian stable attempts to provide a stable feature set + bugfixes for all packages. Increasingly, even on Stable, there is the option to install packages which continue to offer feature updates, including for web browsers. Though there is also the option of an LTS or ESR package install.

These are specified versions with extended bugfix / security support, typically called Long Term Support (LTS) or Extended Service Release (ESR) version of a package. You'll find these with the Linux Kernel, for example.

And yes, Mozilla has an ESR programme which "receives major updates on average every 42 weeks with minor updates such as crash fixes, security fixes and policy updates as needed, but at least every four weeks."

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/enterprise/

Firefox ESR is currently at release 78.10.1:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.10.1/releasenotes/

I believe that's based on 78.0.1, first released in June, 2020:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.0.1/releasenotes/

Firefox Desktop is at release 88.0.1, release May 5, 2021.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/88.0.1/releasenotes/
Going Unconscious
Thank you for your clarifications. I am still a bit confused by the "need" of having a cryptocurrency built into this tool, especially at such an early stage, and as cryptos are getting more fame of financial speculation and less of actual means of payment.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Anyone who followed the various public debates in France or is slightly familiar with the country knows that will be paid via a high tax.
This is one of those delightful "I didn't know I needed that" discoveries for me. Nifty, works as advertised.
>I think it means that the site is an attempt to centralize something that is currently decentralized

with that definition, almost half the internet would be "GitHub for...". at some point, you have to realize that it's just marketing BS and they have almost nothing in common with it.
Arch wiki is an amazing source of practical information. It's like graybeard forums but distilled into a readable text. My last laptop ran Mint distro; whenever I searched around for HW issues it was always their wiki, fully stocked with useful info and steps how to fix stuff.