skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, the problem is definitely on your end.

> Having a domain is identical to having a driver's license: This org says I am "X".

Nope. You just described two different documents.

http://horsawlarway.example/drivers-license.html

http://horsawlarway.example/library-card.rdf

It's very odd the position you're taking here, given the sentiment in your other tirade about being digital sharecroppers to Facebook and Google <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27369652>. Your proposed solution is dumping more fuel in their engines—which is why it's the kind of solution they prefer themselves—and completely at odds with e.g. Solid and other attempts to do things thing would actually empower and protect individual users. I'm interacting with your digital homestead, why are you so adamant about leaking my activity to another domain?
> This article isn’t terrible

I totally disagree with this statement, the article looks like something from a cheap business webinar. He talks about Planck, Chomsky, Charlie Munger, Joseph Henrich and even talks about something cringely named “Quantum Thinking” yet he fails to mention a single philosopher born after 400BCE and only makes platitudinous references to Plato and Socrates.
> However, Nix does also supply the "nix run" command, which allows you to use software without installing it permanently (but without NixOS' configuration support).

What do you mean without config support? It runs a nix derivation which can be arbitrarily complex. Do you mean your /etc/nixos/configuration.nix file? Because you are not really using it either, only for creating a derivation that will become your system. A nix-shell of a user will by default use the user’s channel and may not do anything with the global config.
Well this wasn't a quad copter someone bought at a Walmart. This thing was allegedly 5ft by 3ft, had a range in excess of 50 miles, outran a police helicopter (though as other comments have pointed out, take that with a grain of salt) and was able to reach and cruise at 14,000ft.

I'd like to hear why you think some branch of the US government would be behind this. To what end?
I actually have no idea, can you elucidate?
Is there public data behind this, or your estimate?
I tend to agree. This ended up longer than expected, sorry.

There's the theory of how incentives should work in free markets, and then there's the practice of exactly how savvy consumers can really be, and whether non-consumer interests can organize themselves in a way that easily overpowers the consumers.

I've thought about this recently regarding hardware DRM in Android phones. Google has Widevine which has different levels of support, and Netflix, for example, will only send high definition streams if your device supports L1 Widevine which means it will only be decrypted in "secure" sections of hardware and the user cannot access these areas. This is intended to stop user access to the unencrypted media.

This hardware is widely available in Android devices already, so why would Netflix* do otherwise? And if you want to stream HD from Netflix then you'll get a device that supports it because Netflix require it. However, how did our devices end up with this technology to begin with? If consumers acted in their own best interest, why would they pay to have this extra technology in their devices that protects somebody else's interest? If this technology wasn't on our devices already, do we think that Netflix wouldn't be offering HD streams anyway? Basically, if consumers could organize as effectively as corporate interest, would this technology have made it to our devices at all?

It's possible that it would have. Perhaps overall people would deem it worthwhile to acknowledge and protect corporate rights holders so that they can continue to produce the media they want to consume and stop people consuming it for free. Personally, I would not have accepted this bargain and I would have left it up to the media companies to manage their own risks and rewards, and I strongly suspect that they would have found profitable ways of doing so that would include non-DRM HD streaming. I think it's tough to say what an educated consumer would think on average because so few consumers think about these things and those that do may have a strong bias that led them to research it in the first place.

* I'm saying Netflix here because it's easier, but in reality I'm sure a lot of the content they licence will require DRM so it's not entirely up to them
> Why is complicity in abuse of populations suddenly a problem?

It's always been a problem, but it's best to make whatever strides to resolve it that we can.

> The US imprisons more than China does

Sure, but it is not currently engaged in a genocide. Standards for due process are also stronger in the US than in China, and you don't get thrown in jail for criticizing the government either.

The US prison system being bad does not make China's abuses any less serious. They are still much worse than what the US does.
How does that matter? You said "game development", not "writing a game engine". You said "data analysis", not "writing linalg algorithms", in which case we'd all have to bow to Fortran anyway.

Your argument also doesn't apply to GUI apps, anyway. C# and Java amount to a huge number of such apps, and they're self-hosted.

GC languages are vastly more productive that manual-memory languages, and for the vast majority of users, that is worth the performance hit.
If you write a thinkpiece online that doesn't include the word quantum, commentariat assassins will personally break into your house and torture you.
Most of the time when people call something "degenerate" it seems like they're making an argument based on the idea that progress depends on self-control and personal sovereignty.

Everything I see labeled that way, psychedelics included, has a reputation of being either a cause of loss of self-control or a consequence of lacking self-control.

If you want to be in the habit of understanding people who use words like that to describe others keeping that frame in mind may make their fears, and emotional reactions easier to understand, even when you disagree with their premise or judgements.

(edit: fix a few typos)
No, the area of the country with the biggest drug problem is Appalachia [1]. California is better than most states in terms of drug overdose deaths. And as others have pointed out, psychedelics aren't really the problematic drugs.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mor...
My "meta conspiracy theory" is that every conspiracy theory is generated by a Russian disinformation campaign.

Actually, replace "Russian" with "Russian, Chinese, Iranian, domestic political (both sides), or corporate submarine", and it's probably not that far from the truth...
I work in an enterprise and use flow and other Power platform stuff. The sense I get is that management look at the headline features and see it as essentially safe. But Microsoft have included some features that will be exploited in unexpected ways that create a maintenance and security problem.

A good example is that Flow/Power Automate can be triggered using an API end point. That can then be configured to provide a http response (including headers). It makes it super easy to setup APIs that have no security and expose corporate data.

I think the Power platform is like a modern Excel. Simple and inoffensive at first glance. But full of features that let unskilled users do risky things that will quickly become business critical. But the convergence of Office 365, SharePoint, Flow, PowerBI and dynamics is unstoppable.
You claim high-end audio is not subjective, but then bring up the Harman target. You're defeating your own point. As you know, the Harman target is a "mass market" pleasing option for average joe's. Its not the be all and end all of audio signatures. I am in the "bass head" camp, and I loathe it for a lot of the stuff I listen to. I'd take a JVC HA-SZ2000 over the HD 800s for my taste.
I find it really interesting.

I had a great manager at my last company. Very good people person, would read on his own time to try and improve himself, etc. He had also been in our department the longest - upper management was always coming and going every 2-3 years. I asked him one time why he didn't want to go for one of those higher level positions and would rather stay at this sort of stressful one after a decade. He said he didn't want to deal with all the headaches at that level (more meetings with C-level people). He just wanted to keep his head down, take care of his team, and go home (a 1-2 hr commute each way).

Given the precarity of much existence in the US, and the ability to be fired on a whim, it's no wonder the 'drone' mentality, of not bucking the system, is pretty normal. Suck up the BS until you can retire. I guess at least these days most of us don't have to deal with hot tar.
Generating great content that is linkable is the mindset to be in.

But putting some media outreach muscle behind it gets you 10x the results. So it's content + link outreach.
SO should allow repeated questions at least within ca calendar year. That would ensure fresh answers to evolving questiins.
Marcus Aurelius and Seneca
It seems much more likely that the people shitting in the streets are actually people who have nowhere else to shit. That's what happens when you have a lot of homeless people in a very urbanized area and don't do anything to help them except 'kindly' pretend they don't exist.
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"That last 5% are not going to handle psychedelics well."

The way this comment is written makes it sound as if 100% of people will be using psychedelics after decriminalization goes into effect.
Other people have taken up the baton though. Apple just so happens to have the ability to pre-install it on the phones of ~500 million MAU, so they "win".
Whenever I have taken psychedelic drugs (mushrooms), or taken cannabis, it has often made me more paranoid. Has there been any research into how psychedelic drugs may fuel conspiracy theories?
It makes the huge assumption that these things follow a distribution where their claims are true.

As we do not know the distribution, you can not make that assumption.
Apple Pay is not an open standard.
Kubernetes works very well for SaaS. The big problem is management of Kubernetes itself, but so far our company has had good experiences using Amazon EKS. I would not say it is perfect. However, it does allow devs to focus (mostly) on problems related to actual applications.
Interesting. I'm also in the top 2%, but I'm far from being an early adopter on that site, with a userId in the hundreds of thousands:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/343302/dotancohen

I was never even very active. I can only suppose that only 1 out of every 50 signups ever accrues any real significant amount of rep.
It doesn't affect rich and important countries? Have you watched politics over the last several years?
I don’t remember how I joined but my profile is apparently older than the official launch date according to Wikipedia? Anyway, I used it heavily for a few years, then pretty much stopped entirely in 2012. And like you I’ve continued to rack up karma, such that I’m still in the top 0.06% somehow. It’s kind of nuts.
US Ninth Circuit declares The Last Jedi “mediocre and schlocky”
Thieves Steal Rosary Beads Owned by Mary, Queen of Scots, in $1.4M Heist
From their website:

> Operating and investing globally in markets with long-term growth potential, Prosus builds leading consumer internet companies that empower people and enrich communities.

Builds -> buys
Not aware of this. But as a former NYT employee, I can tell you they try harder than anyone else out there.
I admire your PR skills :) Maybe I will use your product in my next project. But here the project is free, its source code is open.
IIRC, adding those operations was merely postponed, not rejected.

These are work-arounds: https://exploringjs.com/impatient-js/ch_maps.html#missing-ma...
Pretty cool, I think they way we all talk about psychedelics and drugs in general is harmful and misleading.

I guess we need baby steps but idk if social sharing is enough. A big problem with the current drug world is not getting clean and pure substances and in predictable doses. I didn't see anything about like lsd labs and stores or mdma production being allowed in the bill. Did i miss something about making higher quality drugs more available to regular people?
I strongly support decriminalization, but I'm curious: are people in California getting arrested for the possession of psychedelics for personal use in any real numbers? That is, is this bill going to change anything on the ground, or is it just a step in the right direction?
It's 100% accurate too.

There should be an automated NLP means of determining which stories are "crazy" based on coincidental yet unrelated keywords. That'd be a filter I would subscribe to.
Brand is not a moat.
If nix-env is a big ol' footgun, are there any plans to make home-manager a part of the OS itself, instead of just a community project?
Technically most cryptocurrencies support QR code payments. Unless I'm missing something here(?)
Usually a highly voted answer that is no longer correct will be updated through time. I don't have any data to support this claim but it's what I see happening.
Problems from joining SVG and HTML seem like they happen all the time, esp. judging from Stackoverflow questions. Off the top of my head, I remember that an SVG src for an img tag won't inherit from the containing DOM's CSS.

(That's not to say there aren't Javascript exeskeletons that inject the SVG directly into your DOM for you.)
Massachusetts Steamship Authority hit by ransomware attack; ferries delayed
Don't worry, the system is so screwed up that they will continue to ruin people's lives over other infractions instead of producing true justice.
I commented with a link to the archive.org for the BI article. It aligns with my first hand knowledge and what I’ve read elsewhere. I’m not interested in discussing this meta stuff or what names you’d prefer to be called, sorry. dang can ding me if I broke a rule, but that’s not your job. On HN I believe we’re supposed to discuss the merits of each other’s arguments.
All you gotta do is change the metrics, and the study shows a success.

Incarceration rates are easy to tally. "We made something legal, and -- who would have thought -- now we aren't arresting them! What a great success this law is!" Second order effects are more difficult to assess.

That's why my objection to legalizing drugs -- especially psychedelics -- is not based on "evidence".
Maybe his readership was impaired by a paywall
How to Freelance Without Going Broke in the Process
Total speculation, but Joel is ex-Microsoft (he worked on Excel for years) and I don't think he would sell to his former employer. I've worked with a number of Microsoft alums; all of them have seen how Microsoft acquisitions usually turn out.
1. You seem to be confused about the significant amounts of homeless people[0] having been dumped into the state by various others: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeless_dumping

2. Most people with addiction issues (whether cause or consequence of issues) are not users of psychedelics.

3. How about you explain how criminalizing drugs helps the situation? Because that's the regime under which you got the current situation, why would "keep doing the same thing" yield a different result, exactly?

4. And to my knowledge, the result from Portugal's drug strategy (which essentially decriminalised all drugs back in 2001) has kept looking better and better as the years have gone by. At worst, there seem to be no ill effect compared to other more repressive countries in europe, just less money wasted on possession policing.

[0] not necessarily drug addicts, and for those which are, not necessarily the cause of their homelessness, often the consequence of it or the consequence of shared causes e.g. untreated mental disorders and trauma
Top 7% as well, but most of that came from shitty questions (both by my own standards now and SO standards) that happened to get a little traction so I don't put much stock in the score.
Seems to me there's a constitutional amendment against that particular unfunded mandate. (Yeah, I know, that was specifically housing soldiers. I'm not sure a court would agree, constitutionally, that the government can force you to house civilians either.)
Care to explain what you're trying to get at in greater detail?
'Stand your ground' defense rejected in iguana killing
Ask HN: If you were starting your career today what would you do to get rich?
Hello HN, I’m supposed to answer the above question to a group of HS students and would love to get HN’s collective wisdom.

And just to be precise the point isn’t to expand their horizons or show them other ways to measure success etc, just what to work on to get rich in 2021 as young people seem very confused with the current landscape.

Thanks.
Track your income, expenses and budget with a modern budget manager app
To me, SO is the very opposite of TFM.

A manual contains all the possible answers to all the possible questions in a single document. To get an answer to your question, you just have to read, re-read, assemble, interpret and then you have your answer. It could take you 5 or 10 minutes depending on the quality of the manual and the complexity of the question.

With SO, you bypass all that and simply get an answer. You don't gain any understanding of the bigger picture, but then again, maybe you don't need to. Maybe you're diving into say esp32 to build your smart doorbell. Your don't want to become an esp32 expert, you just want your question answered.

Horses for courses
Ask HN: Managing Personal Finances with Git
I just thought that Git could make a lot of sense to manage personal finance. A little bit in the spirit of Ledger CLI https://www.ledger-cli.org/
I searched & it seems nobody have tried.
What do you thing & what would be the best approach?
It's a Usenet post from the comp.risks newsgroup.
The graph says it all. There haven’t been any technological changes in oil refining to make gas change in value. That it costs more per gallon in raw dollar terms means that the value of the dollar relative to the value of a gallon of gas has dropped massively.

Even more if you figure that today’s cars are pretty damned efficient and use way less gas than a car from the 70s, so we extract more value from a gallon of gas in terms of work performed.
Did you read some of the emails? There was already talk about the virus being engineering. The one about the CCP government cleaning paper money in Wuhan is quite telling.
In the Northwest of Germany the default is either 200ml or 300ml (the latter being approximately the size of a typical bottle of beer). For Pilsener a big beer is 400ml. For Hefeweizen a big beer is usually 500ml.

In the Northwest you won't find beers larger than 500ml (< 1 pint)
ELI like I'm 5yrs old, I have a lovely mediapad from 2015, from Huawei, it runs Android...I like it's huge screen (great for watching movies) ...where is my data going?
It might be possible, but a better approach (and the one Guix used initially, iirc) is to just be compatible with the derivation format (kinda like object files in C/C++ compilation). The end result is basically a big dependency graph, so one may be able to write a different generator in front of it.

Anyone who has done the basics in Prolog could "logically" pull this off (e.g. some rule requires another rule, or however Prolog works; it's been a long time since I looked at it), but all of the extra stuff in the library (e.g. all of the systemd tweaking, interface, etc) is a LOT of man hours.

I heard about Spack [0] on a recent cppcast episode, which seems like a competitor to Nix (but from the supercomputing side of things), but I don't know if they do the OS-level stuff (vs. nix shell / conda / pip / gem replacement stuff).

[0] https://spack.io/
Yiwu London Railway Line
Earlier in the article, it states that “The review found 42% of AA participants were completely abstinent one year later, compared with 35% of participants who underwent other treatments like CBT.”

Cochrane reviews are considered the gold standard for meta-reviews. If the data, which does show AA [1] helps some alcoholics become abstinent, wasn’t scientifically sound, it wouldn’t had become part of the review.

Saitz either thinks a 7% improvement is a “similar result”, or he wasn’t familiar with the study when interviewed.

Obviously, people are free to think the science doesn’t “conclusively support” a given theory. Using this line of thinking, some people think radiocarbon dating doesn’t “conclusively support” the idea of the earth being older than 6,000 years -- but that’s hardly an evidence-based scientific line of reasoning.

[1] Since it’s not practical to use randomization to compare AA per se to non-AA recovery because of “contaminated control” issues, modern studies compare twelve-step facilitation (TSF) treatment with non-TSF treatment.
They don't have BPA, that's the marketing and it is true. But that doesn't mean that other estrogenic chemicals are not leaching, or that the non-estrogenic chemicals that leach are safe to ingest everyday for a lifetime.
I don't think the "far" part is safe to say, not in this day and age.

Also, it is not really interesting what matrices or quaternions "can do". What is interesting is what we can do with them. And quaternions make a lot of things possible that are intractable or at least a huge pain with matrices.
This sounds like a conspiracy theory...

Edit: satirical joke
Truly curious, is there no concept of sexual harassment in Europe? Maybe Europeans are less pervy than Americans, like how they don’t have alcoholism or fat people?
The BBC used the term "study" as if to imply that, but the SOC did not. It's a standard analysis or report, like you'd find in a trade or policy publication.
Yea, it's actually a banned substance in esports racing because of it's known performance enhancing qualities.
As another example, binary blobs are usually hard to get them to run. But steam-run (a base debian chroot, but you can even specifically build custom ones with only specific libraries available), or in the worst case just running a docker container can solve everything.
They're certainly providing the ambiance and the conversation.

Also stickers and writing on the walls
Start the clock at zero and just start counting seconds. The problem only occurs when you are trying to calculate sunrise/set times. Your solar power system doesn't care about leap seconds/days/years. It knows to expect sunrise at 353478515 seconds without regard for human concepts of a particular day or month.
Change, Courage, Chaos
And Sigmund Freud spent a decade using cocaine daily. Doesn't mean it's OK for everyone else to.
Trump supporters can't read. HAHA
Naspers' market cap is 98B, yet they own 31% of Tencent which is worth 775B - am I missing something? I'm aware of conglomerate discounts but I suspect there's something else going on here.
The days before Stack Overflow were far better. A search used to return a blog post in which a person described a bug, how they got there, and the resolution.

The net effect of stack overflow was to spam the search engines with non-answers like "you asked in the wrong forum", "you didn't ask nicely", etc.

Long ago I learned to route around it.