skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an irrational hatred of leaf blowers. Are they even significantly more efficient than a rake?
MS-DOS 1.25 (1983) is on Github

https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
That's an incorrect use of a semicolon ... and it doesn't fix the problem in the sentence.
This might be a bit meta. But why is the article interspersed with segments/links to other articles longer than one screen on my phone so that every time I think the article is finished?
Brilliant idea: cut those costs 10x by moving the staff to Belarus. What can possibly go wrong?
Turnabout being fair play, how about a Lisp in Chip-8?

https://internet-janitor.itch.io/bulb
internet was useful from day one
Sadly, the criminal gang that runs Russia is not interested in the economic prosperity of its citizens. They want ordinary people to stay poor and isolated since this makes them so much easier to control. They fully understand (and welcome) the consequences of their actions.
> China’s one child policy was mainly about population control but also had a eugenics component to it as well

That seems like a ludicrous leap to jump to.

Surely some far more obvious reasons are: better educated people are better able to judge whether they can afford to look after a child; people in skilled professions earn more money, and are more likely to afford to look after a child.
I noticed that as well. The same screen shot shows their choice for the RAM disk icon (which is pretty amusing).
That does sound super weird but I can see how it would work! I’d probably still prefer a stylus though :P
Utilitarianism is orthogonal to animal rights - it analyzes and describes behavior and action with respect to some utility function, but the utility function itself is essentially arbitrary and while utilitarianism can be used to model a balance between "human utility" and "animal utility", utilitarianism itself is just as suited for a "circle of concern" that explicitly includes only the utility of humans, or perhaps even just the utility of a specific subset of humans.

The utility function is not up for grabs; it has to be axiomatically assumed and utilitarianism does not state whose utility matters and how much.
> nothing about the OC suggests they were talking about front end dev

>> I'm never confident in the changes I make, but my style is to write a few lines at a time, save, re-run or refresh.

This is a pretty typical frontend development pattern, especially seeing "refresh."
Except they aren't, and a large number of Wikipedia articles ard so wrong, biased, and locked out from being edited by power hungry mods that its academic merit is questionable
But the children still have papers, so are not unreported, right?

There just was bribery or fine, but they still are registeredin the system? Or are they fake papers they have?
The factor of safety probably doesn't have a specific definition because it's application and part specific. Its an axiom like the 5-sigma rule not a property of the system.
You’re joking but in aerospace they use factors of not 10x or 2x but 10%. On a 30m high rocket. Just 10%. Here’s a tour with the CEO of ELA, as a bonus: https://youtu.be/OdPoVi_h0r0
I have done this but if possible I just run my code locally and reserve docker for infra (e.g. DB). Java, nodejs, go are all very easily run locally.

Maintaining a complex Dockerfile is just more crap that makes programming tedious.
> If you look at the laws of practically every developed country, there is no "tribalism."

The laws may not be tribalistic, but their enforcement certainly is.

Take, for example, drugs. This report from the U.S. Department of Justice[1] indicates that arrests for the selling of drugs disproportionately targets black people by 33%, and arrests for possession of drugs disproportionately targets black people by 26%.

The same is true of voter suppression laws. For example, the closure of voting places in minority communities, which lead to people of color waiting, on average, 29% longer to vote than white people[2].

The January insurrection is also a perfectly valid example of tribalism. A majority of Republicans falsely believe that this crime was perpetrated by Democrats, Antifa, or even the Capitol Police themselves[3]. We cannot have a serious discussion about the morality of armed insurrection when tribalism causes such a large number of people to reject reality wholesale.

[1]: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/rdusda.pdf
[2]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.00024.pdf
[3]: https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/republicans-blame-d...
Browserboard: A pretty good free online whiteboard
Grammar, largest, from original, now incomprehensible
I must invoke John Stuart Mill when it comes to morality and politics. With 138 capitol & metro police injured, there's no doubt some number of protestors should face justice for their harm to others. That is where the accountability will hopefully end. In almost every other respect the January 6th 2021 was a quintessentially American expression of liberty with overwhelming historical precedent.

Time and again aggrieved citizens on both sides have try to be heard by delaying political fait accompli. From city counsels to county seats, state legislatures to native reservations, the US capital to foreign embassies... naive believers, the agitated, sometimes driven by agent provocateurs have risked prison and worse to remind representatives that victory in a vote doesn't erase diversity of belief; and that governance is more effective when the aggrieved are sincerely heard.

Tribalism (on both sides) is all earmuffs and blindfolds that results in shortsighted public policy, and devaluation of different thoughts & tastes.
Wikipedia doesn't need an engineering team that is "the best basketball team in the world". They don't need to invent Wikimedia; it's already been invented. WM is a maintenance job.

There are thousands of editors who deal with vandalism. WM doesn't need to develop new vandalism-detection software.
Agreed. There will always be people splitting hairs and vehemently thinking their views are “more correct” and “more morally correct”. That’s why I think this entire article is a waste of time. The idea of “universal morality” is fiction because everyone thinks differently.

The best course of action is never to try to find a single “universal” truth but to accept a plurality of “truths”. That’s the only way we can survive as a species.
you should also try turning off the page style in FF open the view menu go to page style and select.

it makes the page linear, looks like hell and shows you the information most of the time.
If only there was a psychological test for world leaders like we have for astronauts.
Search for USB condom. Usually an adapter that does this.
> should be evenly distributed

This is definitely not true. I don't know why you would expect a 3+ body gravity system would result in an even distribution of natural debris.
According to the article it looks like they did secure a warrant first.
How many record sales do you think you would have made in the old day if you only get 5k plays per month for your songs? Hint: it rhymes with Nero.
Lots of houses are liabilities. If you've ever been to a place like detroit, where they are abandoned, the roofs are half collapsed, there is water damage everywhere, etc. The cost to repair is higher than destroying it and building something new.
You know, I think the "rational" approach is completely hopeless actually. You need a rational frame, but you can't inspire people by telling them how it's rational to do what you want them to do.
Facebook uses location data to learn where you live and where you go. For some, this location-based targeting might be fine since it serves them relevant ads.

Thanks, I hate it.
I could never get to grips with WP's use of function keys. In fact, I hate all software that uses function keys.
I terminated my lease in May 2020 when it was clear to me that 2020 would not have a return to office and WFH was a sustainable option for my family.

I'm now 2.5hrs from the office, with plans of moving a further 800 miles south next year, once we have the new house built in Baja California Sur.

I should have 100/400 fiber through Telmex, I've also preordered for Starlink on the property, as a backup ISP in case there are local issues.

Financially, COVID has been a major boon to my family. Savings through relocating have been the equivalent of receiving a $40k pay raise.
The beacon technology that uses bluetooth when apps are off originated with Apple: https://developer.apple.com/ibeacon/
do people really not remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident or are they conveniently forgetting it? it's an established practice.

"According to Bolivia, the flight was rerouted to Austria when France, Spain, Portugal and Italy[2] reportedly denied access to their airspace, allegedly due to suspicions that Snowden was on board".
Did you happen to notice how almost every other word in the summary is blue?
Sounds like a few software projects I've been involved in over the years D:
After millennia, humans still hate each other on no other basis than skin pigmentation despite our brains being hard-wired to be socially cooperative with other members of our species to boost chances of survival. I have heard arguments against animal rights where the key argument was that humans are intellectually superior and thus it is our right to treat animals however it conveniences us. As smart as some people are, most people are not very sophisticated, especially when it comes to morality, which people mainly wield as a matter of convenience to themselves. My faith in humanity has declined the more I've seen what it's capable of.

Tellingly (to me), despite some non-negligible percentage of the population becoming more sensitive to the plight of animals, the scale of animal cruelty today absolutely dwarfs that of any bygone era. I see the modest gains in the population of vegetarians as a pyrrhic victory that would not have been possible with, perversely, the common knowledge of the current scale and scope of modern animal cruelty.
Mobian provides tenths of thousands of packages through the Debian repositories.

The amount of spyware and trackers allowed into Debian in the first place is very close to zero.

Also it provides firejail. There is no need for flatpak.
Relevant section of the RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5322#section-3.6.3
Right, or source-based distribution of packages.
Scientists unleashed grime-eating bacteria on Michelangelo's masterpiece marbles
The dot-com bubble, mismanagement, and accounting shenanigans took it from being ~1/3 of the entire value of the Toronto Stock Exchange and an employer of almost 100K employees to bankruptcy within the span of a decade.
What a ridiculous thing to assume. Especially since TFA features a statement literally saying "a warrant was obtained for the surveillance equipment."
> A significant minority of people have nothing in the stock market whatsoever

Don't you mean "majority" instead of "minority" there? Most people worldwide (I won't speak for the US, maybe I'm wrong there) don't own anything on any stock market at all.
Fuck the state. It’s your tax money.
Yes. Legal fees tend to scale to what ever you can afford so it seemed like a fair rule.
I live in a Japanese small town and have been looking into this, some random thoughts:

This keeps getting resensationalized[0],

While it varies a lot per region, a lot of these can come with clauses such as making it your residence, doing certain maintenance/reparations/replacement etc.

I have been looking around a bit for something like this in the local akiyabanks, but there's just a handful of items on there, most have been there for years and the entry of new ones is really low. Not to say that there hasn't been success, but the reality is that most of these require significant investment and/or dedication to be attractive. There are also other programs, like renting them out rent-free in exchange for maintenance (really, would you invest 100,000s of yen to replace the boiler in exchange for rent on your 6-month notice rental contract?). Still, most empty homes are not part of anything like this and are left to ruin. Anywhere except the bigger cities (and sometimes even there), this has a significant impact on towns. Driving anywhere in a more remote prefecture and you see abandoned houses falling apart pretty much everywhere. It can really be nice living here, though.

0: https://soranews24.com/2015/04/10/so-who-wants-a-free-house-..., https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191023-what-will-japa..., https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/05/asia/japan-vacant-akiya-g..., https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-ghost-houses,
Very cool, thanks.

I totally agree with the fact that understanding the problem of slow application is a first what you need to do.
What are some of the none sketchy reasons for "everyone" wanting us to use their apps. Like for major companies, where the service is deliverable through a website, what benefits does the user get from an app?

I can see why GPS based apps, or camera apps with filters, or networking apps 'need' to be installed apps (I don't know if an easy way to do GPS through a browser; speed and fast access to storage) ... but Amazon, Reddit, newspapers, ... what am I gaining?

Genuine question as a one time web dev I've always considered web sites written as an app, shipped with a browser, to be a negative. What am I missing out on?
Without high-margin profits from drugs, cartels can't maintain the manpower and incredible level of violence necessary to extort avocado growers.
Does this happen? I have been using Firefox on macOS for years and I don't recall running into this
I’m not sure the react team ever makes such a claim. Indeed, the only claim of strict FP I could find in the docs comes by way of this quote:

“ All React components must act like pure functions with respect to their props.”

Which they do. You cannot and must not mutate props. There are of course ways around this (JavaScript being JavaScript) by, say, passing a useRef defined constant down and then updating its “current” field, but that’s completely on you.
> Many of the things that bloated government bureaucracies do should not be done at all.

Just delete "government" and I might agree with you. On the other hand, even though I largely agree with the content of Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs", I think that actually the onus is on those who claim "it doesn't need to be done" to explain one or both of (a) how we ended up with "the doing" in the first place (b) what happens when we get rid of "the doing"

When I said "Most regulations exist to check the power of the rich", I did not mean to imply that they were always effective. However, I also did not mean to imply that they exited to limit the wealth of the rich, merely their power. Particularly in the USA, the concept of seeking to limit wealth accumulation seems to be an anathema to a sizable chunk of the population. Seeking to limit power does not, as naive as this might be.

Regarding churches, I and millions of other people categorically reject systems of aid and redistribution that are based on the personal moral judgement of a handful of people. The bureaucracies we've tried to replace that with do not always do quite what we intended (by a number of different metrics), but they do at least attempt to be (more) value neutral than private charity.

It's easy to create a dewy-eyed view of small, personally-connected communities where things are done "based on personal knowledge of those people". Big cities are full of people who fled that kind of society - the judgement, xenophobia, myopia, and expectations.
Is this supposed to be what trust fund brats think is drama?
> China is more strict on population planning for certain minorities - not officially, but in the background; think Muslims in western China or Tibet or Mongolians, or ethnic Koreans in northeastern China... If you had no population planning for all the Han chinese, you might have a brighter light cast on this small in number but impactful population control actions.

LAMO

My mother was almost forced to sterilze, which would make me disappear in 1984, she is Han Chinese. That was because local beauracrats' stupid idea of birth planning.

Can you stop making CCP looking better by saying it's discrinating against minorities...

Edit: I was the 2nd child.
I don’t use it because I’ve heard it releases Ozone indeed. I don’t see the point. I have hard times trusting stuff made by others, so I’m just seeing 2 filters and a fan, that was just what I wanted ;)
There should be a name for this kind of article, this sort of know-it-all hectoring that occurs in so much media now. It goes well beyond the technical fields - think of how many parenting, cooking, and athletics blogs and articles hasten to inform you “you’re doing it wrong.”

No doubt this phenomenon successfully plucks at some emotional vulnerability most of us have, and thus brings in the clicks.

edit: I also disagree with most of the points this article makes, but that’s just, like, my opinion, man.
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Agricola was an early peak for worker placement games, but it definitely has rough edges. A huge number of the occupations and improvements are garbage, making entire huge decks seem like afterthoughts. It also only really hums if players clearly understand the flow of the game and can proactively plan and interfere with the plans of other players - but this is only feasible if everybody at the table has played many times. The game is also unbearably slow with 4+ players, even if everybody knows how to take their turns quickly.

I think Gloomhaven is loved for somewhat similar reasons. It is a better cooperative tactical combat game than many others but I think that it really developed a following by being one of the first giant kickstarter games. This meant that the game could expand to be unreasonably large - 100 or so scenarios, like 20 playable characters, and riding the wave of legacy-style games with permanent changes to the game over time. It therefore hit at just the right moment when really nothing else like it existed on the marketplace. Since then, there have been a lot of other enormous boxes with far too many miniatures funded by kickstarter so it feels a little more bland today.
Unfortunately, while that's certainly common sense, I very much doubt that there's any actual law or jurisprudence that supports it, whether the perpetrator is a police officer or a private citizen.

This is almost certainly yet another place where the law simply hasn't caught up to the technology available.
Because it is not possible to forbid procreation to ones who cannot provide enough starting capital to their children. But one can still consider that irresponsible. It is false dilemma 'start at zero' vs 'few mil in the bank'. Providing to children some basic capital resources that are necessary for living in society is something that could be done by significant share of population.
When most people say "immigrate", they are not referring to foreign worker status that allows for long term residency, but actual naturalization.

Japan has some pretty high bars and the number of naturalized people is quite small -- about 10,000 per year, and these are primarily Koreans of Japanese descent. The high bar is not the "good moral character" bit (which is also required but that is common) but rather financial stability. So if you are from a wealthy nation and a high earner you will be fine, but that is not the typical immigrant profile, and so for this reason there are very few naturalized immigrants in Japan compared to US or other nations that do not have financial stability as a criteria for naturalization.
This sounds like CNAME cloaking perhaps? (https://medium.com/nextdns/cname-cloaking-the-dangerous-disg...)
The ad in that case is to prevent Lyft from getting that ad spot. Fucked up, I know.
Meanwhile in the United States you ask for that and you get the cops called on you.

‘Murica
Japan also learned plenty of things from Taranto [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taranto
Soviets were proud of economic damage and the strength of human being putting rivers to flow in other direction for the benefit of a soviet man. All sort of talk about protecting the nature was by people brainwashed by the western ideals and propaganda.
Yeah I was confused by that was well, 1024 watts per sqcm can be bought on eBay
> The only winners are those who didn't advertise at all and only competed only on value.

I keep seeing this sentiment here on HN. What fantasy world do people live in where advertising can't exist and people can still find products/services?! It's existed for centuries, the medium just changes over time.

The digital advertising world is far from perfect, but suggesting it should outright not exist because we have perfect information about goods and services is laughable.
> If we can agree that some behaviors are wrong (the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia for example) We can say unequivocally the west is a morally superior culture to Saudi Arabia on that point.

I guess "we" is "the west." I imagine a Saudi cleric is describing a porn clip he saw on the internet to his flock, explaining how cultural relativity = the abuse of women, and that imposing the world caliphate is the greatest act of mercy imaginable.
Sound is so hard to shop for - in every product category.

Im shopping for a home now and I detest open floor plan homes because I was raised in a large family and know how a house sounds when sound can take the shortest path to reach your ears. Similarly, in my area the style of renovated homes is to strip the ceiling of any tiles or insulation to expose the bare baseboards to the room below - which is essentially a giant diaphragm to propagate footsteps. Laundries have moved upstairs or into kitchens and pantries to add a spare bathroom or bedroom/office in the basement as well.

The cumulative effect of all these changes is to make homes louder. But you would never notice it until you lived there.

On the plus side modern double paned windows with argon/low pressure gaps (often sold as energy efficiency windows) and good weather sealing makes an enormous difference in sound isolation from the outside. It's an expensive upgrade, to be sure, but well worth it.

That and some hidden foam paneling with thick carpets to reduce echoes, but that is mostly an illusion and doesn't affect sound transmission between rooms.
The fact that there's substantial disagreement for and against these principles is an argument that whatever morality Ayn Rand is arguing for, that morality isn't universal, it would not be universally accepted.
If you can guarantee "good" rulers, then even autocracy isn't so bad—the problem is there will inevitably be bad rulers. Even if I 100% agree with the current administration's policies, I'd be foolish to think there won't be a time when another party (whose polices I 100% disagree with) will be voted into power, and be given access to the same tools to use for what I'd consider nefarious ends.

We must ask, when agreeing to give government a new power, how to protect ourselves against their inevitable abuse of that power. The "national security" excuse circumvents that process.