skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it was manifestly not obvious to the board members who voted to enforce the shutter-color policy

I'm not even sure that's the case. I can conceive of a board that previously had a house like this[0] (first result of google image search for "garish house colors"), had a big back and forth on what to do about it, and wants to avoid getting into the same fight again. The resolution from last time was to establish some boundary and to enforce it rigorously, even if that excludes some colors that are acceptable. The current board knows that the shutter-color enforcement is ridiculous, but can't make an exception for the general house colors without giving ammunition to the person who painted their house neon green with pink polka dots.

Not saying that that is the reasoning of any one particular board, but rather saying that I can conceive of cases where a person or group takes actions they know to be unreasonable in themselves, but may be reasonable in a wider context.

[0] https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a3/9b/35/a39b35132a3c1cc219a7...
No, they died from being overly alkaline, from eating too many vegetables. Get your facts straight.
Some crypto projects will fail, beware
> I understand why people don't like HOAs. Yes they were born out of racism. I don't think that invalidates the concept.

Other countries have similar concepts to HOAs, often without any particular history of racism behind it.

For example, here in Australia we have "strata corporations", "owners corporations", "strata title", "strata schemes" (different states call it by slightly different names, but they're all the same basic concept). Individually owned lots attached to common property, with a corporate body whose voting members are the lot owners, which controls the common property, and also has the power to charge fees to the lot owners and impose rules on the lot owners (and their tenants). They are most commonly found in apartment buildings, but are also used for housing estates of townhouses / semidetached houses, and even (albeit more rarely) detached houses. When applied to housing estates, they are rather comparable to HOAs in the US. But, as far as I am aware, there is no particular history of racism behind strata schemes in Australia.
Infant mortality is what brought the average lifespan down.

People also had harsher lives and were exposed to a wide variety of stressors, diseases, malnutrition, etc.
I'm also not opposed to targeting in principle, and in fact I'd love to reach an end state where a company - whether you call it an ad company or otherwise - does 98% of my shopping for me. But I feel like we're in an uncanny valley in which adtechs are hoovering up more data than they'd even need to do that, but with no incentive to push consumers toward products we'll actually be happy with. Facebook is probably better off if your new jeans wear out in a few months, and Amazon can't even be trusted to reliably ship you the products they think they're shipping you, let alone vouch for their quality.
The list of things that I don't understand only seems to grow longer, so I'm not sure, sorry.
I also rarely use the dock (unless I'm forced to — e.g. to navigate to the freakin' Trash/Bin folder) but that's separate to the point of applications staying open even when all their windows have been closed.
> (spoiler: this argument is dead and nobody will ever go back to native apps again)

Ahaha, I don't touch web apps unless I really really have to. And even then it's lighter stuff, like chats. Can you imagine using an actual productivity application in the browser?? No thanks. The thought that Slack/Ms Teams/Discord all run slower than MSN Messenger did in 2005 despite my having a computer ~50x more powerful is depressing enough (and each of them consuming as much RAM as I had on my desktop back in the day!).
I don't think the Web sucks, just what many have been building on it, certainly the most popular options. . .

It is up to us to build something better, and the Web offers a better framework than most other options:

Human-readable code, mostly text

Decentralized and independent

Great tooling for just about any platform

25+ years of public knowledge

I think we're only beginning to see a new epoch of Web tools which:

Can be run locally and remotely

Support just about any browser, certainly no-JS and Lynx

Work hard to help the user without demanding anything

Allow easy migration of content between instances and instances between hosts

Full honesty and transparency of internal works

I might be a bit biased, since I have been writing such a thing, but almost every day I see another project here on HN which has similar values and functionality.
That's begging the question [1]. An HOA is just another form of government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Android apps update in the background. Most don't nag you unless there's some breaking change.
IIRC, the embarassment of the Swedish incident was that US attack subs didn't catch the Swedish sub, which lay dormant on the seafloor until it could pop up and blast the carrier in the props.
Something similar happened to my dad when he had a stroke. Someone showed up to clean the room 4 hours later because he had been coding for so long they figured he was either dead or transported.

In your girlfriend’s case, they’ll sell that record to a subrogation company as well. If she ever gets into a car accident or has a back injury, she will get weird calls to try to get her to say something happened that night that would be another insurer’s responsibility.
Virtually everyone who smokes for any reasonable duration will become addicted and almost all do so enough to substantially effect their health and longevity whether they know it or not. Most of the people who consume alcohol do so casually and not to excess.

Essentially the chance of dying in a given year due to alcohol if this were anything like a random chance is around 1 in 2000 whereas the chance of dying from smoking is around 1 in 77.

This is something like the difference in danger in riding a motorcycle 100 miles and base jumping.

Of course its not random at all whereas taking up smoking is extremely likely to result in becoming a life long smoker and suffering the average ill effects its perfectly possible for most people to enjoy a sane amount of alcohol infrequently.

Consumption of intoxicants of some variety seems to have been a feature of humanity for the entirety of human history. The expulsion of smoker from reasonable things to be in human society has only happened after we realized its predictable massive effect on human health. There just will never be the same impetus with alcohol.
Just a quick note, you could solder together most classic guitar pedals for $20. You could buy reissues of many of them for less than $100. Big Muff, Proco Rat, Klon Centaur (Klones), Tubescreamer, Dynacomp, etc are all available for less than that. Just being clear that this is not a price issue.
There are many systems working on that, one that springs to mind is perkeep (https://perkeep.org/):

- everything is a blob of bytes. perkeep stores everything based on their hash

- a blob of bytes can be a photo, in which case there's a little metadata blob pointing to it, explaining what it is, where it was taken, the modification time, maybe some additional details, and a title. That blob is also stored and retrievable with its hash

- or it can be a video, or a tweet, or a file... in any case that's just an additional metadata blob that creates structure out of the raw bytes

- those metadata blobs are indexed and searchable

The end result is a massive store (possibly implemented with remote storage, it doesn't matter, it's all the same API) with "fragments" in it and a search bar to access it. Search for "Scotland" and you'll see the poem you wrote while you were there, along with your flight ticket and some pictures of the mountains.

I think we've all been using the Downloads or Desktop folder as a user's temp folder, because we knew something we did was recent so it should still be there, and although it's not how it's supposed to be it still works very well that way. But computers are made to serve us, so if that is the way we're using the computer then the software should change to better suit us:

- no software made in 2021 should have a "Save" button: it should be done automatically, such that I can leave the application and reopen it, or open another one that can read the same file, and be back to the state I was in before.

- for some files I just don't care where they are saved, I only want them to be accessible in a "Recent" folder. The only way I've found to make it bearable on windows is to use everything (https://www.voidtools.com).

- for even more files I want to access them not based on some name I put but based on more metadata. We have the tools to automatically categorize photos, I want to be able to search for garden photos without going through a third-party's bloated website.

- some of the files have a specific hierarchy because they depend on each other. A path should be just another metadata instead of being so central to the identity of "something"

All of this is doable with something like perkeep, but its API is not really made for being used as such; it's more geared towards backing up one's digital life and digging through it. Maybe we don't have the right software, but I'm sure we have the right bricks already.
Russian authorities detain head of opposition group Open Russia
I think those are both the native app targets of their respective platforms though? The Kotlin app targeting Android APIs is not cross platform. I gathered they were more drawing a comparison between native and some HTML/JS/CSS thing.
I don't think those are the only options. For example, Linux Mint shows an icon in the system tray to indicate when repository updates are available. I fully own the computer, and it is my choice if/when to apply updates. However, that doesn't imply that each individual program needs to yell at me at startup to get updates.
SDF techniques have been used in one form or another for over a decade in big engines, but may not with such a front and center role.
True, I was mainly thinking about the HN community (and the more technical people around me) instead. This is not for my grandma who likes cats (PS: So do I!)

Yes this is kinda how apps work on macOS, but not all apps yet. The new sandboxed container model isn't mandatory yet. Some apps are just a folder of files with no kind of containerisation at all (other than the .app itself being a folder rather than a file). More modern apps store all their data in a containerised filesystem though.

It leads to some cool things you can do like easily capturing the icon of an app or even changing it without having to change the app itself.

But on the self-hosting side, docker is making big strides there. Almost everyone deploying something like Home Assistant for example will do it through a tree of managed docker containers, in many cases without even knowing it :) It comes with a supervisor (which is also dockerised) which manages that part very well.

I think most consumers I know keep their computers for long enough by the way.. Phones come and go, but desktops and even laptops tend to stick around until they do break and I can't fix them anymore or just heave a sigh and go like "NO this time you really have to get a new one, Windows Vista hasn't been supported for years"
Homeowners also have rights to financial reports, and to display the American flag, https://www.hoamanagement.com/homeowners-rights-against-hoa/
I can sort of buy this.

In Gravity things are probably a lot more robust than they actually should be, but collisions with debris or other objects tend to be immediately fatal for the vehicles involved. Debris at high velocity goes straight through stuff.

Similarly, in For All Mankind, most stuff is pretty fragile and volatile, as you’d expect for Apollo-era tech. It’s only the later stuff that the show makes up which starts to show much resilience.

In the Expanse, technology is considerably more advanced, but still vastly inferior to any Star Trek or Star Wars vehicle. And in the Expanse we see the hulls of ships routinely get punctured, and a single torpedo or rail gun hit is often fairly decisive. Even the Donnager is forced to shut down its reactor due to a torpedo hit.

And even in non-Abrams Trek, in an alternate timeline Voyager still survives a hard crash on a planet reasonably intact, even if it was fatal to everybody on board. Possibly only because the inertial dampeners were offline.
Your definition of ownership is not the Texas definition of ownership, for example. Water and mineral rights are totally different kinds of ownership and will generally be owned by someone else.
I agree. I'll keep my eye out for other solutions that match your requirements. Good luck!
They more or less have snacks and a little bit of other food.

There's lots of Walgreens that accept SNAP though, ~8700.
>If they have not presented you with a warrant making clear they installed it, you don't know who installed the device.

"Police say a lot of things and they're both trained and encouraged to lie in the execution of their normal duties."
interesting to come across Quercetin, which was also trumpeted as the wonder supplement for minimizing ill effects of diseases like Covid19
See the Zstack prophylactic protocol from Dr Zelenko, where he suggests this as the better alternative to his earlier recommendation, HCQ, to act as an ionophore for Zinc.
That Firefox issue only happens on Linux when you upgrade Firefox on disk using your package manager while Firefox is running. The ABI mismatch between the running version and the new version makes starting new Firefox processes unstable, so it's disabled to avoid crashes.

Simply don't run system updates during a Firefox session and you're golden.
Awesome! I appreciate that you're giving it a try. I'd love to hear your feedback when you do!
Coinbase Fact Check: decentralizing truth in age of misinformation
I quit smoking in 2014. Before that, when traveling, I had a habit of smoking local brands. So when I traveled to Beijing, I picked a brand named Baysan because I saw locals smoking it. It had a beautiful package, it was high quality. When traveled back home, I had a commute in Stuttgart. So I got to a smoking area, took a cigarette from that Baysan box and it was like smoking burning wood. I coughed a lot and threw away the box. I think those cigarettes were bearable because of the pollution level in Beijing. Most days you can't see the horizon.
What definition are you using for "mass extinction"?
Almost any Linux distro respects its user more than W10.

And since Android is also a Linux distro, then there are alternative forks based on it too (e.g. LineageOS).
> how could they intentionally stop a country from developing?

Isn't the petrobras scandal a good example of that? Or before that, the ridiculous culmination of the "steals but does" campaign by Maluf?

My understanding is that the IOF tax is in place precisely as an attempt from the government to keep tabs on the volume of siphoning of currency by politicians to Miami and tax havens elsewhere.

While I'm not particularly convinced of some of accusations thrown around by article, there's at least an attempt to analyze the situation, rather than the usual shrugging off the status quo.
And after reading about it, I imagine it can’t be in ebook form either?
> The head of the now-defunct opposition group Open Russia said he was pulled off a plane and detained by police in St. Petersburg.

"... pulled off a plane..." ,- Russian FSB didt it just in a week after Belarus KGB "pulled off a plane" Belarus opposition journalist.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27262298
Imagine getting bent out of shape about someone else getting bent out of shape over the color of shutters? Its pure spite.
This used to be the default option! I still remember the WWDC keynote where the feature (called Resume) was introduced. Having it on by default made for a really cool demo, where all the windows were restored after a restart:

https://youtu.be/LPMjUtfQPks?t=19m16s

Not only was it on by default, there actually wasn't an easy way to turn it off, leading to tips like this:

https://osxdaily.com/2011/07/18/disable-mac-os-x-lion-resume...

I'm not sure when the option was added or when it stopped being on by default.
But that's just making the observation that things that may seem obvious at first glance may not be obvious once you think more deeply about them. It doesn't really matter why they are not obvious. What matters is that they are not obvious.
Rubric: A simple Python configuration conformity checker
It does seem that a "natural key" is frequently just a really foreign key in a database you and your org don't manage.
Everyone should have a computer powerful enough to run vms for compartmentalisation.

If you can simulate 5 different phones it won`t matter if someone gets their spyware onto one of them.
Washington Post publishes drone strike opinion article by BAE Systems director
A bank operating the platform is a good example. It is certainly possible, and people can and have taken the Ethereum Virtual Machine and ran it as a permissioned network. To the extend that we can trust Chase to do it, that would work fine.

But to that I would say that the banks haven't built it, and I don't see it happening or gaining adoption. Whatever they build will by definition not be an open network, and will likely not cross too many geographic borders.

It is sort of inconceivable that some 16 year olds would be allowed to run a lending protocol on the Chase blockchain, or even a random adult, for that matter. Plenty of people would find that positive, no doubt, but it is even hard to imagine a platform being built where companies in say India could get access to on the same terms as those in the US.

Ultimately, the permission-less nature of Ethereum is what has built the DeFi infrastructure we have today, which for all its flaws, is pretty impressive.
But is not, the term was coined by the German sociologist Ulrich Beck. The criticism is mostly directed for countries like the USA and UK, not Brazil by itself, the idea is that Brazil was always seen as a promise of becoming a "a land of the future", a promise that never came to be.

Edit, adding on it: The issues might become a recurring aspect on the future of other western countries. Brazil might be the first one to hit this though
Rust was supposed to be the basis of servo, a truly awesome engine that should have been under the hood of Firefox long ago. That should have been the best thing to come out of Mozilla.

We got some of it: the Rust language and Quantum. I would say the only two good things that Mozilla did in the last 10 years.

Finally, in 2020, the Servo and Rust team got the recognition they deserved, they got laid off...

It is almost like the old joke with the rower, where on a boat race, a team of eight people rowing and one steering beats a team with one person rowing and 8 steering. The losing team change its structure, now with a complex hierarchy but still a single rower, who eventually gets fired.
This is a great story!
I think the expression in this case is "getting water from a stone" - what's the point in suing somebody who doesn't have anything to give you anyway?
Worse, they use that out of date software to run web servers, databases, etc. The next thing you know, millions of peoples PII is leaked.

I also wonder if there is a liability component to this that makes force updating a common pattern.
Am I wrong? Is there a silent majority somewhere who thinks that bitcoin's 1T valuation can be justified by being a slightly better paypal/alipay? As for the "generalize" bit, would adding a "most" qualifier in there placate you?
Record the device being smashed to pieces, then post it on YouTube (from 9000 proxies).
A lot of what makes Nanite possible isn't available 10 years ago and that's how compute is integrated into the 3D pipeline. There were tricks then but now it's supported by design. As you can see in the breakdown a whole lot of the pipeline is done in compute.
MSG is often used as a food additive in combination with heroic amounts of fat and sugar which would otherwise be unpalatable without it - particularly in a Chinese restaurant setting which is what people associate with MSG...

You're probably experiencing a sugar crash.

I suspect you don't experience the same after eating a bag of Doritos but they're absolutely loaded with MSG.. plus in all likelihood also sodium inosinate, sodium guanylate and who knows what else.
On the flip side - I've smoked probably more than 12 times but definitely less than 50. Also only while drinking. I definitely have cravings every once in a while (though generally mood dependent) even when I'm not drinking. I haven't been properly out drinking in a year or more (COVID) but it definitely seems like the switch has been flipped for me.
Plain files stored in a tree (hierarchy) is often underrated but is simple, elegant and efficient.

Storing documents in web apps is, in my opinion, inferior in many ways because this is mostly opaque and thus bad at interoperability.

The not much financial incentive to do so, but everything should be local first, using open formats and protocols, the cloud should only be used as dumb backup.
> isn't MSG avoidance just an example of nocebo?

In fact, the fears around MSG seem to have some overlap with negative racial stereotypes:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51139005
>The only people who would mind are those who like forcing all of their neighbors to be in them against their will.

You mean the people that actually vote, right?

You may think you belong to the majority view on this, but I believe you're incorrect.
Don't say such things without a trigger warning first :)

Though vi has a good track record, and hopefully will be with is for a long time still.
Of all places, StackOverflow/Exchange has something similar going on: The javascript for its cookie banner gets blocked by PrivacyBadger, so you end up with none of the buttons working and it blocking half the content.
I was able to discuss Gwangju soon afterwards with Americans who were in Korea at the time. Reports of what happened varied considerably between witnesses. A conservative establishment guy who was in Seoul claimed Chun Doo Hwan intentionally sent troops there with murderous intent. A liberal Peace Corps guy who was down around Gwangju said the locals initiated the violence by raiding the local armory.

The article is good in that it gives more attention to regional animosities than is usually done, but its tone is far too flippant for the subject matter and I think it may be a bit too credulous regarding the local accounts.
The specific use case, which I do fairly frequently, is to Cmd-W the last open window and then Cmd-N for a new document, or Cmd-O to open an existing document.

When I try that on Windows, the program closes, and I have to re-launch it. I daresay that's more annoying than discovering that a program hasn't quit when you think it should have.
You can contract out the app development.

Freelancers are cheap if you hire from poor countries.
Just to play devils advocate isn't this happening right now with the US army's dependence on aircraft carriers vs the Chinese and Russian supersonic missiles?
Average revenue per store is around $7000 per day across all stores.