skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is super fascinating, and not at all clear-cut.

https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center...

It appears that a HOA is not the government, and you can give up your first amendment rights. Moreover, political opinions aren't protected -- this isn't discrimination, and isn't a civil rights violation to my understanding.

Can you cite a law or precedent supporting your claim that this is a voting rights violation? Genuinely curious

Rulings that establish HOAs as not standing for "government" is really interesting to me. Contrast to Marsh v. Alabama, where company towns were ruled to be standing in for government, so they couldn't forbid proselytizing. Very curious.
"held plasma at a temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds and at the even hotter temperature of 160 million degrees Celsius for another 20 seconds."

at the end of that 121 seconds, did some one decide it was long enough and then powered it down and then why? did it fail, and that's why it stopped? if it failed, what does (would) that look like?
>The only possible source for the value of a widely-used currency is the wealth that it represents.

I disagree and I think most economists would too. You provided a tautologic "definition."

I would say a currency has value as a currency iff it meets the three criteria that define a currency. These have to do with utility or fungibility not representation. A currency has value because it is useful as (1), (2), (3). A currency is defined by its use and functions. You can say monopoly money represents real wealth but if nobody agrees with you then it is not too useful.

I think you don't understand what a currency is.
He must have re-pointed the camera between exposures of the moon. In the article, he says that because of a camera malfunction, he had to capture a shorter interval than originally intended. He did this without changing the template he had put into the camera's viewfinder.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/australia/sydney?iso=... has the direction and altitude for the moon as viewed from Sydney during the eclipse. I suspect that if plotted out, they'd trace out something pretty close to a straight line.
maybe if you're trying to make money from it. if you're just trying to see if it's possible in a pure research mindset, then seems like success
You might be interested in Gemini [1][2] then. There is a curated list[3] of clients, servers, and resources.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

[2] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

[3] https://github.com/kr1sp1n/awesome-gemini
I agree, I quit smoking more than 5-6 years ago. I still get strong cravings every once in a while, especially during bad weather. It is probably because I live in Texas now and I don't get enough opportunities to to deprogram smoking associations that I developed living upstate New York. Recent winter freeze made me just want to smoke every second.

I am still looking for something that can replace smoking, nothing really works. I have tried walking around the office, stretching, meditation, chewing gum, running up the stairs, eating snacks, drinking more coffee or tea, going outside for a short walks, etc. Smoking is really one activity where you can just take 5 minutes break from work every hour, stop thinking about work mentally, or keep thinking about the problem, totally normal to join a group of strangers smoking, or smoke by yourself, go outside to get away from crowd and smoke, smoke to get fresh air. Many times I was able to turn off my mind while smoking and when went back to work, I solved whatever I was stuck at.

This is one activity where I can totally turn off my mind and just be. I used to sit in my patio and watch storms, it was such a peaceful feeling. I don't know what activity can replace smoking. Any suggestion?
on a side note I will never understand this trend of having browsers with huge amount of tabs open. i very very rarely go above like 10, maybe 15 or 20 when actively learning something new and doing tons of cross referencing etc. but this 50+ across multiple windows and crap? just close it or reading list. you're never coming back to all that crap
The rules specifically say "Any player, including the one who declined the option to buy it at the printed price, may bid."

May bid. No player is required to bid.

Assuming that, while the rules don't say so explicitly, what they really mean is that the last player in the circle is forced to take the property is unreasonable. That's a fairly complicated rules. If that's what they meant, they'd have said it, not left it up to the players to work out.

Sine they didn't say it, it's much more reasonable to think that they just assumed everyone knows how an auction works in real life. No one is forced to bid on a Picasso when it goes on the block. It doesn't get foisted on the last person on the bidding bench who makes no bid.
You'll get a biased answer because you'll include a group of people who won't succeed no matter what approach you take. People have tried that approach and ended up with things like Microsoft Bob.

The real question is what is effective for individuals and business trying to accomplish real work, who are at least somewhat capable of learning or training staff.
> "You have 88 untitled Preview documents."

I'm on macOS, and have a ton of untitled open / edited Preview documents (annotated PDFs, marked up screenshots)

When I hit Cmd+Q Preview closes without any dialogue, opening Preview again restores all the documents in their correct state

I have a suspicion the author has some combination of "Close windows when quitting an app" turned on in System Preferences -> General (not the default choice), or "Ask to keep changes when closing documents"

I think a lot of people enabled these settings when macOS did away with the "Save As..." options and made everything save and restore by default
Fishing is highly...and I do mean highly regulated in Montana (spawning grounds).
http://fieldguide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=AFCAB0101...
There are wildlife biologists that harvest the eggs and process the meat for you. You must apply for tags and the season can be shutdown if a limit is reached before the end of the season. I fished it once and was glad I didn't catch anything. My heart wasn't in it after I saw the first one caught. They reminded me too much of dolphins and they have to be snagged. They do not take bait so the fish...imo is not brought in as quickly and humanely as I was comfortable with. We hunted and fished because without it quality protein was scarce during my childhood. It was a creature I just chose to appreciate and eat more mac and cheese.
I went to school in Seattle and had a Singaporean trustfund baby friend who always reiterated “everyone deserves to get a masters degree”. She would constantly fly to different cities every weekend on her own (parent’s) dime to volunteer for this non profit org called AIESEC. “Everyone deserves to travel.” To this day, I still don’t understand what this org does and it sounded like a cult or some kind of pyramid scheme. If you can’t explain what your org does in less than a paragraphs… it’s fluff to me. One concrete thing this student ran org did was help other students get internships, and yet ironically my friend never secured one herself. After her parents spent half a million on her tuition, room and board, she ended up going to a 3rd world country to become a tech recruiter making a fraction of US minimum wage. Now, instead of “everyone should get a masters degree”, it’s “everyone should contribute to the developing world”.
How do I quit smartphones?
FYI my experience of these things is in an apartment building. Of course retrofitting old buildings is hard and landlords aren't incentivized to make changes which save energy (after all, the tenants are paying the bills), but new buildings can be built a lot smarter than what has been done previously.

The whole building technology topic is very interesting, as even today in many parts of the developed world (southern US seems to be a big offender here) they still build residential buildings the same as they were done 70+ years ago.
I’m aware, and fine with the file system in general. What I do not want is web browsers having arbitrary - or even restricted - access to it.
Lots of vintage manuals in PDF form here: https://worldradiohistory.com/Electronics_Catalogs.htm
FDR didn't cut off Japan's oil because of their occupation of China. During Japan's occupation starting 1937 American companies were making plenty of war profits supplying oil and metal to Japan's military, with the US government only sending strongly worded letters.

Japan's oil was cut off in 1941 because they started seizing Southeast Asian colonies of European powers that had been occupied by Germany in 1940, and these colonies were significant suppliers of oil and rubber for the conflict in Europe. If Japan had limited its activities to China the US might have continued its war profiteering indefinitely.
The web sucks because why would I possibly want random people to write code to execute on my machine when I just want to view content?

The web is chock full of shit JavaScript; most of which is not adding value for me (ad placement, etc) and some of which is at odds with my interests (trackers, etc).

We have every single web site wanting to give me some sort of unique experience when all I want is to navigate to the information I want and maybe buy something.

I think that the web is insane. I want the web to deliver content and I want my client to present it to me in a way I control. Instead, every server wants to control my browser so they can control my experience and extract data from me.

It messed up.
In the 90s we actually thought human multitasking was possible. This is the Desktop environments fatal flaw. There’s pop-up dialogs, control bar icons with bits of noisy info, widgets and sidebars with extra info. And many OS-X apps don’t honor system notification preferences.

Given a choice between writing on an iPad w/ keyboard or my Mac laptop, I always choose the iPad. It’s a UI that forces a notification paradigm on every app (by virtue of an App Store). It has full screen by default. Ironic that the “phone OS” is better built to respect my attention.
You're not wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised if the "in it for the tech" people are doing some really heavy rationalization about how number go up is just market validation of superior tech and not a massive bubble.
Just did a quick test using Firefox 88.0.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 and it ran very well. No mouse lag at all, just some minor UI stuff like strings showing up in the dialogue and interface elements. Great work.
>maybe if you're trying to make money from it. if you're just trying to see if it's possible in a pure research mindset, then seems like success

My point is not about money. Plenty of research groups have achieved sustained fusion without net power generation. But if this is simply a linear scaling of input power based on existing techniques, there's nothing remarkable here.
A naive totaling of the Capex per CSG is roughly 24.3 Billion dollars. This does not include the cost of munitions.

An interesting question is whether you actually need a mobile airbase which necessitates large quantities of costly defensive weapons ( The new Ford carrier sails with 6 1.8 Billion dollar Arleigh-Burke class Destroyers ).

Considering a tomahawk costs roughly 1 million dollars, it may be more efficient for the Navy's power projection goals to use more portable missile platforms instead of a mobile airbase.
My data is worth money, that's why they want it. If they take it from me without permission, how is that not stealing? And then isn't stealing obviously hurting me?

Just because you don't know how much your data is worth, and may not even know the crime happened, doesn't make it not a crime or not harmful.

Consider voyeurs who take upskirt photos. Even though the victim may never know that data was stolen, it's undeniable that it's an invasion of privacy and often a criminal offence.
Using Notion made me realize that markdown files in a hierarchy is the ultimate personal wiki solution.

I never have issues finding notes or choosing where to put them if I have a good hierarchy

Ideally I'd like to get away from Notion and just use local files but I can't for the following reasons

* Everything needs to be viewable from any device

* Drag-and-drop embedding images in documents is just too convenient, using plain markdown with images seems really cumbersome

* Need to be able to make quick notes/edit on mobile

Curious if anyone has found solutions to the above ^
They had a good reputation early on. One of my uncles built a Heathkit color television in the late 60's and it spent more time broken than working. I cannot vouch for his soldering skills, and that was likely the problem with many of them.

In my case, I had about a year of professional soldering (electronic assembly) experience when I put the SW717 together. All the solder joints were shiny and perfect. I think I was about 17 when I built it. I sold it at 19 and got something much better a few years later -- a Kenwood TS-440S/AT.
ON UPDATE CASCADE avoids much developer impact, but it isn’t free and has (potentially quite large) performance impacts.
And now we have people losing access to their cryptocurrency wallets[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/technology/bitcoin-passwo...
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This seems more an issue of the libraries random generator to form uuids.

Eg. I use guids ( .net) and i have never seen an issue.
Is that what they want, though? Most people that work an office job, at least, still deal with Excel, Word, and Outlook. Maybe they’ll setup work email on their phone, but that’s probably it. I’ve noticed a pushback (true for myself, too) ever since the push from work-supplied devices to BYOD.
I can barely read this with all the distractions and popups all over. I don't want to sign up for your newsletter!
Because the buyer is not the user
> [Bitcoin] also allows perfectly efficient markets

Perfectly efficient? Of course not.

If we weaken your claim to "Bitcoin _helps_ markets be _more_ efficient", I would still ask for your reasoning.
I don’t think it was ever their goal to straight up fight the US. They just wanted the US standing navy ruined so that they could go about their business in the Pacific.

I don’t think they counted on a few early problematic outcomes, and the US will to enter a fight over the loss of a few soldiers at Pearl Harbor.
I don’t disagree with you, but I think the web was far better for learning a decade ago than it is now. Now I have to wade through paywalls, clickbait farms, SEO scams, useless auto-generated articles, etc…

Some specific examples: When looking up resources on high school level mathematics, it appears that fully half of the content is paywalled. Often this paywalled content isn’t particularly valuable in the first place (eg, hiding a basic multiplication chart behind a paywall)

And a more technical example: when I was learning the Angular framework, damn near all the results on Google were SEO scams. It was content masquerading as tutorials, but when you reach the end (often after investing significant time), they try to extract money from you to read the rest of the guide.

It’s gotten to the point where I’d be willing to pay money to filter out all the garbage from the web.
Well, I believe the meta-question here is: why aren't we experiencing Moore's Law rates of efficiency in all aspects of human life? Doubling in performance every two years or so. Even if pricing remains relatively constant. I think it's sort of the basis of "Progress Studies". Look to areas that have kept up with Moore's Law (such as GPUs) and try to work backwards. Competition, R&D spend, relentless focus on innovation in consumer products, global distribution and the willingness to foster talent required to achieve those relentless milestones. Seems to be lacking almost everywhere except computational architectures (and perhaps payloads to low earth orbit) ;)
> File system access

How about just subfolder access? Limit facebook.com's permissions to only the user/facebook/ folder.
My grandfather who lived in that area said there were water quality issues after the war in some of the nearby rivers, as so many bodies were dumped. He also referred to Srebrenica from time to time. He was part of the resistance, the partisans.
How do cases like this work? If he is unemployed and has no income, can they still garnish wages and enforce judgement once he secures employment even to the point where the defendant may not be able to afford adequate housing to maintain employment, thus creating a cycle of non-payment?
The biggest thing I miss in the file folder paradigm is dividers/sections. Like folders, but without nesting.

I used to have a tendency to over-categorize and nest things too deeply, which makes them hard to find again. Concrete example: nesting classes by semester. When looking back for something, I would usually remember what class it was, but I'd often forget the semester. So now I have to search through a bunch of folders (manually or automatically) to find it. Ugh. A flat structure is much easier to follow.

However, I still want all my classes grouped together when I'm listing them. Currently the only way I know to achieve this is by adding a prefix to the file or folder name. This works, but you end up with some grotesque names. The implementation could be regular folders with a flag to indicate their contents should be displayed inline one level above.
When the Internet really took off in the mid 1990s I thought to myself with all the websites, IRC, email, blogs more people than ever are reading. Sure it's not books which are the crafted thoughts of writers instead the Internet is a million concepts.
If I may summarize, the single most important takeaway seems to be:
The original mental model for computers focused on its function as a storage space. We should focus more on its search abilities (and freeze ongoing tasks).
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And ideally there is a created time stamp and a last updated time stamp.
My hunch is that the could language is couching since it can be hard to know for certain of Facebook is storing the data or just doing something else. But I think the implication is that they at least were looking at it when they weren't supposed to be
Yeah, what exactly makes the 36k US lives lost more important to focus on during Memorial Day?

The best arguments I can think of:

1. This memorial must be acknowledged or practiced by the Hackernews community, because it's _mostly_ US-based and English speaking. So by association by language, we are expected to talk about a United States federal holiday?

2. All human lives are equal, but there is a day and place for everything. On May 31, the world should practice the Unided States federal holiday. On May 18, well... May 18th is just a Korean holiday. Not everybody needs to be aware of it.

3. US citizens and other English speakers should observe US holidays because that's just the way the world works. Just like how you do more for the funeral of your family, you should discuss US federal holidays more than Korean holidays. Holiday practice is a like zero-sum game, as there isn't that much time to just think about holidays and there are too many holidays. Using the same logic, some people's lives are worth more to you because they affect your life more. Sometimes with this approach, we mess up and overvalue one race more than another...but that's just a side effect of "the way things work".

I can't see the logic. Saying that we should focus on Memorial Day sounds like a talking point that riles up emotions to me.
We also have strong reason to believe that south korean figures are a gross underestimate (if you read the linked wikipedia article).

Victims have a hard time coming forward if there is a strong possibility of being victimised again (korea has a long history of blacklisting victims families for generations, it's not just a north korean thing).
> By that logic you can’t trust anything anywhere.

Well, that's just an argument for only using services that are open source, such that you could self-host, and more importantly, someone else can stand up a new (paid or otherwise) hosting service in competition with the one that has gone bad.
My understanding is a few labs, including one in North Carolina, were working on this virus and shared samples with labs around the world. Unfortunately, these viruses are now easy enough for a small team anywhere in the world to create with the widely available tools....transporting a payload across borders is trivially easy.

Motives... the Chinese have no incentive to maliciously release a virus in their own country during an event that is tied to national pride and acts as a showcase of Chinese domestic development in Wuhan. The western warhawks on the other hand have a tremendous interest in obstructing any Chinese military cooperation with its peers. The potential motives seem quite clear...with the nice side effect of disrupting Chinese trade as the world recoils from a new downside risk of globalization.

The US and its allies have a long history of biological warfare against economic competitors. Even the Japanese bio-warfare campaign in WW2 China was supported, partially funded, and fully pardoned by the US/UK...people and history books tend to forget/omit that Imperial Japan received all of its oil and much of its supplies from the US. These supplies being cutoff (aka treaty violation) without FDR's/Churchill's knowledge are what resulted in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

During periods of uncertainty, it's good to remember that America's left hand doesn't always know what its right hand is doing... and vice versa.

I tend to think history is in the process of rhyming again.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_Ei_1644

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaimingjie_germ_weapon_attac...
Thanks, this made me laugh out loud.
> Although the study’s findings seem promising, they have not yet undergone peer review. Plus, it’s worth noting that cash on its own probably isn’t enough to end homelessness.
They successfully held a temperature of 120 million degrees. That's not impressive? This seems like the experiment was more about the magnets and the temperature than it was about generating electricity. Small moves Ellie, small moves.
Wow, the subject influencers in the article were insufferable just to read about. I can't think of any group I have less empathy for than them. The world would be such a better place if the concept of an "influencer" completely ceased to exist.
‘Her IQ is far lower’: professor’s rant at ‘rubbish student’ daughter goes viral
I'm having trouble understanding the point of your story. It sounds like you don't think very highly of this friend. Does she know you talk about her this way?
I've tried nicotine (in cigarettes, cigars, and vape-based products), but for some reason, it never became this light switch in my head. However, as soon as you started describing this, I immediately thought of my relationship with food, which is not a healthy one.

I maintain a healthy weight (now) and exercise, but this is a daily struggle. Since about the age of 12, certain peculiar foods inexplicably got wired in my head with pleasure, and the way you talk about this light switch is spot on.

I wonder if it has more to do with having an "addiction gene" of some sort – could some of us fall prey to addictive behaviors more than others? If so, why?
> Democracy is not a contract with a homeowners organisation.

It's the same mechanism. The only difference is you agree to be bound by the rules of the HOA - contract rather than common law. The HOA is a direct democracy. It can vote to change the rules - you can give your input as a vote, but you're bound by the majority. It's the same system.

> HOAs are not government.

They're a form of local government.