skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking as a South African, I would say that the expression of "never attribute to malice that which can be reasonably explained by incompetence" is particularly apt here.

I'm very doubtful that anyone in government is actually trying in any form to keep the population uneducated, instead the poor delivery of education is a result of general apathy and incompetence.

It is further exacerbated by the largely unchecked corruption, whereby too many people in government are more focussed on stealing from the tax coffers than doing the job they're paid to do.

Finally, this is all made worse by the fact that the people keep voting in the ANC (the party in power since 1994) despite their terrible track record of poor service delivery and corruption. I agree that the lack of education is contributing to the problem of voters not recognizing their options and ability to enact change.

My hope is that eventually as the older "blind devotees" to the ANC pass away, that the younger disenfranchised generation's voices become enough to vote them out.

Disturbingly though, a lot of the votes moving away from the ANC are instead going to a somewhat extremist party which promotes wealth re-distribution and their members tend to proudly walk around with berets and (albeit simple) uniforms. (A side rant is that I wish their party leader would get banned from Twitter for inciting violence, but it seems that the US based company doesn't care to look at the case as carefully as they do for US elected leaders.)
The main factor in determining electricity source when mining bitcoin is cost, not production methods. Just like you don't consider how your household electricity was produced, just that the bill is low.

If you're upset about miners' the chunk of energy being produced by coal, you should be concerned about coal usage in overall society.

If there's coal-powered electricity is expensive or unavailable for anyone to use, bitcoin miners will automatically stop using it along with the rest of society.
To be frank, your responses show a naive understanding of how the world works and human behavior. Also, your responses imply I said things I didn't.

My comment is simply an observation of the way things are, not the way I would want them to be.

> Fault the west for many things, but these kinds of things tend to have full transparency around them.

If you believe that, then I don't know what to say.
I thought I'd hate the new tabs but it turns out, I really like them!
Sorry, not in the US but I agree there isn't a single city in the US with great subways.
If a material is in the superconductive state it does not coexist with a non-conductive or regular conductive phase, all of the material is superconductive. In that sense, it is a "yes or no" property.

What you're talking about is applying a magnetic field, which I'd argue is you're doing something to fuck with it, but if we're talking just lower the temperature and check its resistivity, then superconductivity is a yes or no state.
> fighting exploitation

> fighting irrelevance

This is a false dichotomy generated by corporate propaganda. The system is designed to make you feel this way. Trust me, I was saying these say things online in 2012, and jobs have only increased in number since then.

> When so much work can be performed by machines

Then more people can buy a machine and have their own small automated business.

Why not? Why would you think that this is not a valid idea? Because in your premises you are assuming that all the machines are wildly expensive and well out of the reach of a small business owner.

But then that makes your premises an argument for the "inevitability" of consolidation of the economy into the hands of a few companies and not actually an argument against the number of possible jobs.

Do you see how subtle that is? Do you see how sneaky that false equivalence is?

Politicians and Wall street have been consolidating the economy into a few companies (via mergers, acquisitions, regulations, index funds, etc.) that can work at reduced losses and increased margins and f**ing over the younger generations primarily, but the middle class in general.
Yup, I only learned about that while writing https://www.oilshell.org ! I'm sure that has been around for decades; shell also has discovery and documentation problems :)
This hasn't affected me at all; thankfully I use tree style tabs[0] with some CSS a friend shared:

/*Collapse in default state and add transition*/
#sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] {
overflow: hidden;
min-width: 40px;
max-width: 40px;
transition: all 0.2s ease;
border-right: 1px solid #0c0c0d;
position: absolute;
left: 0px;
z-index: 20;
}

/*Expand to 260px on hover*/
#sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"]:hover,
#sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] #sidebar {
min-width: 260px !important;
max-width: 260px !important;
margin-right: -220px;
}

#sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] + #sidebar-splitter {
display: none;
}

#sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] > #sidebar-header {
visibility: collapse;
}

/* hides the native tabs */
#TabsToolbar {
visibility: collapse;
}
#titlebar {
visibility: collapse;
}

This provides the benefits of tree-style tabs without constantly taking up horizontal space.

[0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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TreasuryDirect.gov’s Password Input is a Virtual Keyboard
Can you share your style? This is what I use on Windows

#TabsToolbar {
visibility: collapse;
}

#titlebar {
visibility: collapse;
}

and the result:

https://i.imgur.com/0DxPCvE.png
I think people "hate" JavaScript because it's very hard to avoid it. If I don't vibe with, say, Scala, I can simply not use it. There's not a lot of situations where I'm forced to use Scala.

JavaScript is different, as it is the only language that can reliably run on modern-day browsers, which gives it a kind of reach that no other language can match. If you want to do anything interesting on the web, you have to deal with JavaScript, even if you don't like the language.
Pretty common in Silicon Valley as well, from my experience.
I think the interesting question is: will there be college towns like we know them in a decade or two?

I'm not thinking of places that are essentially also (or adjacent to) large metropolitan areas. Austin and Durham will be fine. I'm thinking of towns where the college is basically the number one attraction and employer.

And I'd put my money on many of those towns being on the wrong-end of the remote learning trend, while only nominally on the right-end of the remote working trend.

Fewer people will be attracted to your once-attractive college town when the student population shrinks dramatically and the businesses they kept alive start to die off (restaurants, movie theaters, performance venues, etc.).
I suspect remote education is only enticing to a small percentage of students.
I guess not a physical science (although there was some crossover last year between some results in quantum computing and physics, there's probably lots other examples that I'm not familiar with too) [1] but it fits squarely in the formal sciences (which includes math, logic, etc). And it doesn't concern any particular physical computer, but it does have topics on what an idealized/ theoretical computer could do haha

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/landmark-computer-science-pro...
Which is not the case of the UI element right under the tab bar ... because it's the toolbar / address bar. In earlier versions of Firefox, tabs used to be located under the toolbars hence they made sense as tabs.

Only Safari kept this UX. I never understood why everybody copied this Chrome thing.
No no, you see, responsibility goes to the top, unless it lands on your tribe. Then it only goes to the nearest opposing tribe.
I am in the camp believing that there are actually at least 2 full time positions just for compiling/maintaining these excel files.
True.

Keeping native plants looking like the ones pictured in the article is nigh impossible with children. Keeping a perfectly manicured lawn is also impossible. Which looks best? I don't know? Neither is great in all honesty.

I think at some point if we have lots of kids running around a neighborhood we should be willing to accept the fact that some lawns, whether grass or plants, will just look janky.
I have found myself to like this new style of tabs, despite not liking it in previews in the announcements.
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Looking at the atrocity that is academic politics, I am not sure if more education translates to better outcomes.

Germany at the end of the 1920s was one of the best educated nations in the world and its universities were chock-full of pro-Nazi student groups.
There's a joke in there about crypto and decentralization.
Also see my sibling comment, but I think it's neither, they don't attack education, they're just apathetic, incompetent and more focussed on stealing from the tax coffers.
I assume it means that jobs are available and people aren't taking them
From MVP to Production Ready with Serverless
computer science is applied math, and software engineering is applied philosophy
I’d love for a robot arm to become a linux level open source project.

I think the level of innovation around it would explode. Companies would pop up for cheaper prosthetics and manufacturing engineering.
I would say no. STEM is science, technology, engineering, math. compsci is a math degree.
And this is wrong as it discourages entrepreneurship and ensures that if you are born poor, you are destined to be a wage slave. That of course unless you get a bank loan or capture interest of "angel investors" and share your business with them.
What a blind fool (Dawkins). Conjecture is not a substitute for truth.
The Guardian reports [1] that, as part of his response to the blow back, he expressed:
"If your morality is based, as mine is, on a desire to increase the sum of happiness and reduce suffering, the decision to deliberately give birth to a Down's baby, when you have the choice to abort it early in the pregnancy, might actually be immoral from the point of view of the child's own welfare."
He claims to know what the world needs, and what the child needs. He claims to be an atheist, but looks to me like he worships his ego as his god.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/21/richard-dawk...
Functional annotation of human long noncoding RNAs via molecular phenotyping
It could be a good point of a spear to have interconnected services.

Let's take game assets for example. I don't see any chance right now to have Steam and Epic build a gaming metaverse since one of them would have to build and own the infrastructure.

A decentralized blockchain would make talks about data transfer and collaboration much easier. I'm not sure about the whole NTF thing as of right now, but I'm still curious for the future.

What is true for game assets can be true for personal data, copyright claims, or anything else. The blockchain might gain adoption because its principles make it interesting as a standard for value transfer.
Here, I’ll help in case you don’t want to click on one of the two links in this post that bypass the paywall.

> At least two colleges — Purdue University and West Virginia University — are supporting programs for these remote workers
That’s pretty neat, but it doesn’t justify their UX decisions. Why change something that seemed to work well? Do they have constant feedback on their previous design?

I’m still confused why the tabs look like this. The active tab is so different than the inactive that it’s hard to make a connection between them. Most people already have an association with typical tab UIs. Why change this fundamental perception into something more generic and ambiguous?
The big table becomes more obvious when the constants are written using hex:

static uint64_t table[] = {
0x100000000, 0x1FFFFFFF6, 0x1FFFFFFF6,
0x1FFFFFFF6, 0x2FFFFFF9C, 0x2FFFFFF9C,
0x2FFFFFF9C, 0x3FFFFFC18, 0x3FFFFFC18,
0x3FFFFFC18, 0x4FFFFD8F0, 0x4FFFFD8F0,
0x4FFFFD8F0, 0x4FFFFD8F0, 0x5FFFE7960,
0x5FFFE7960, 0x5FFFE7960, 0x6FFF0BDC0,
0x6FFF0BDC0, 0x6FFF0BDC0, 0x7FF676980,
0x7FF676980, 0x7FF676980, 0x7FF676980,
0x8FA0A1F00, 0x8FA0A1F00, 0x8FA0A1F00,
0x9C4653600, 0x9C4653600, 0x9C4653600,
0xA00000000, 0xA00000000,
};
Is there anything wrong with not sacrificing your own position unless the collective is also willing to sacrifice theirs?
I'd say it's worth reading to get a better understanding of how the mind of an asshole operates
I'm not sure they're meant to "defend" themselves against US psyops

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/apr/12/julianborger: CNN [and NPR] let army staff into newsroom
My point was that the vast majority of Americans are lower class.
I agree that it may be possible to implement this feature in a nice form where it makes sense (for the people who need it). But it seems really strange to me and I cannot imagine a use for it. Conceptually, the shell only sees the contents of the script, why would it act differently according to where the script is? When you open a jpeg image, the jpeg library does not provide a facility to recover the directory where that file was found. For all you know, this may be an in-memory jpeg. Isn't the same with shell scripts?
What’s really cool about this is it could enable multiple print heads working in parallel.
Missing: what is the customer break even for unlimited.

If I buy a word processor for $.01/word, I can buy one for $100 - then I only need 10000 words to break even. You can play with different pricing schemes, but you need to ensure that enough people will find value in your scheme to pay you, because there is always the option of someone else's unlimited plan. Even if all your competitors are also on some sort of usage pricing, I can hire a bunch of developers to write me a custom an unlimited version, and maintain it - at some usage this is worth it.

Of course not everything is so easy. My company pays AWS because it is cheaper to do that than to buy and upgrade all the servers we need. Our usage has busy months where we use 10x as much as the slow months, if we had consistent usage it might be cheaper to have our own servers, but we don't pay AWS for the non-peak months even though they have the servers. (I don't know how AWS handles this, that is their problem not ours)
Ask HN: “Tank man” image search blocked on Bing and DuckDuckGo
If you google “tank man” and click on images in Bing and DDG either nothing shows up (Bing) or unrelated photos shows up (DDG). Images show up in Google.

What does HN make of this? I would think that Bing/DDG would have separate search results in China so I’m quite surprised to see this happening outside of China.
Same. I used to be impressed by cities like NYC, and then I moved to Japan for a few years and I realized that I'm not sure there is a city in the US that makes the top 5, or possibly top 10, best cities in the world. At least not in terms of livability.
You can get Sorbothane pads to go under your bed - Sorbothane is a material designed for vibration reduction.
That was my exact thought too. I was trying to imagine how it would be done in an ebook where it could be resized appropriately to the various screen sizes and couldn't really grok it.
Thanks for listening and thanks for encouragement. I really appreciate it.
Then the costs have to be reduced even more, since the people with children aren't being subsidized by the people with no children.
In my observations, unfortunately most of the people spreading misinformation are not really interested in "the truth", but in re-affirming what they already think is the truth. This applies equally to "all sides". This is also compounded by a widespread erosion of institutional trust (whether justified or not).

So I don't think it would really help much.
This is an issue for sure. The core reason though, IMO, was the contrast - for example, you have the president calling for injecting bleach, publicly. Any reasonable person is going to drift away from that, and towards someone who seems more reasonable, and thoughtful. Now that there is less extreme rhetoric, the seams in this particular leadership are starting to show. Can't say the same for Michael Avenatti, who seemed unhinged from the beginning although again just my opinion.
Some of the online CS master's programs allow you to take in person classes if you want, so when work is busy you can make progress online and you can pick the in person classes that really interest you. The program you're talking about exists, though it may not be marketed that way.

I did this a few years ago and highly recommend it.
You're correct.

Historically the choices were made to spend billions (and trillions) of dollars to invade countries harboring terrorists and use the situation to project power against other adversaries, advantageously control the price of oil, work trade deals, etc.

I predict the same path will be taken with cybercrime. The U.S. defense apparatus won't be giving subsidies to non-tech companies to boost security. Rather, they'll be waging war and using overlapping objectives and narratives to further other goals.
Pfizer jab produces less antibodies against Delta variant of Covid: Lancet study
It kind of makes me think these cruelties are why the vigilante justice motif was born
This could be the way to go for 3d printing houses. Instead of setting up a coordinate system on the build site you just show up with a truck with this arm attached.
It sounds like you have software in your stack which assumes a strong memory model.
What grates me is that I can't turn it off by saying "Alexa, turnoff sidewalk". They make you go into the app and dig for it. IMHO, you should be able to access all of the settings via voice.
I think the purple theme is pretty so I enabled it.
You haven’t heard the term “silence is violence”? It’s not ironic. Anytime you see on a list of “demands” (which is a term that people feel very comfortable using) that includes “forcefully condemn X,” they are basically rejecting your choice to remain silent on the issue.

You may have never seen this in the workplace but it is increasingly common in some of the most coveted (or formerly so) employers like Google, Basecamp, Medium, etc.
Tank Man
It's only a two-party system because voters vote almost only for those two parties. Other parties exist but get very few votes.

Other countries also have majority voting systems which immensely favour the first arrived, and yet there are more major parties there: 3, 4, 5...
Much of the economic wealth of the last 40 years has gone to the coastal states, while draining from the middle of the country. The loss of manufacturing in the path towards financialization of the economy really hollowed out opportunities in states like Indiana and West Virginia. (Though West Virginia has always kinda been on the shitlist)
Alternately, many college towns may become more appealing for non-college students as demographics shift. Boston proper peaks at ~30% of its population being students, the main student neighborhoods are infrequently visited by those who aren't students.
They are talking about libraries being abandoned or otherwise introducing breaking changes.
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The guest of this episode is working on porting J to modern C++. Someone also shared this javascript implementation of APL:

https://github.com/abrudz/ngn-apl#readme
What is the link between free software and changing designs?
Having seen such a problem elsewhere, mostly having a stable life, normal family, educated and fed kids etc. Also naturally no addiction that is wasting your life away.
No way to leverage popcount instruction for this?
Do you have more details? I would be interested in understanding this specific situation a little better - can you tell us a little more about what the job requirements are? What type of salary range?

I would guess that these days that Clojure isn't "popular" in a large sense so you have developers who would rather build their careers on more recognizable programming languages (java, javascript, c#, etc).
I mostly like it, especially along with container tabs.
That would be a pretty useless definition of lazy.

I can hang a sign out asking someone to work for minimum wage during evening hours in an area that requires them to live with 3 other roommates in a 2 bedroom apartment with a 60min commute on an erratic bus.

But I would not classify people not taking me up on this offer as being lazy.
Depends on your definition of widespread. There have been level-4 leaks multiple times in the past. England had an outbreak from a level 4 lab in the past 20 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_foot-and-m...
Do you know how much where they being paid? In my experience, this only happens when the wages are very low. I don't know the direction of causality: do higher wages motivate workers not to be more professional, or do low wages result in the 'good' workers avoiding those jobs? Even in the US, a lot of minimum-wage McJobs have relatively high levels of absenteeism
The mRNA vaccine revolution is just beginning
I can't find that option, do you know where it is?
I am definitely going to use this wonderful analogy. Thank you.

(Yes, fuzzy metaphorical reasoning is what misled us in the first place, but the problem isn't that the "this is victim blaming, you can always break into a house" people are using fuzzy metaphorical reasoning; it's that, like physics crackpots trying to build the Grand Unified Theory out of styrofoam models, they are only using fuzzy metaphorical reasoning.)
Probably to prevent keyloggers
> the shell’s semantics is black magic, specified in a 119page impenetrable document that is the POSIX shell specification (with an extra 160pp on utilities!).

That's academia going pedantic and mystifying things right there. Strict POSIX compliance was never that important to most people. I never read the POSIX shell specification and never needed it. Writers of shells like bash or ksh probably did and apparently managed this "black magic" well enough to make their shells work well.

You can learn shell programming by yourself, from bash manpage and examples used in Linux systems. It's not rocket science.

Computer languages get adopted not because they have nice and simple spec, but despite not having a neat and simple spec. It's like with natural languages. There is no authority and no simple spec. And it's not an important problem.
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9/11? COVID-19 has at times been like a 9/11 every other day, and yet our government's response has been to abdicate any serious attempt to prevent community spread in favor of a death march toward 'herd immunity', which may well never reach despite this huge emphasis on production and distribution of vaccines.

It should be clear by now that media and state comparisons to 9/11 are closer to the beat of a wardrum or the scream of a police siren than they are any kind of analysis or argument.

Ransomware is being taken seriously because its most recent victims are the owners of large businesses, and their interests are the interests our government is responsive to.

Don't be a bootlicker. When a cop tells you something is 'like 9/11', tell him to fuck off.