skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends if you also consider bad management to be a fire (it's more like a flamethrower though). But in that case, probably at least 50. In terms of tech fires, maybe 5? Although sometimes I get other people's fires.
Would love to see color come to a future reMarkable! Would also love the ability to insert primitive shapes like circles and squares for diagrams.
It's not as bad as one from their message when they wiped Freenode, which include the line "freenode is freedom." Someone either hasn't read 1984, or deliberately echoed it.
747: Server in Airplane Mode.
They were talking about the US specifically.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=j...

Looks like Kwanzaa was bigger until 2018 when Juneteenth first started getting promoted.
>> The Wacom is made for drawing, and that's about it, and thus it is very good at it, apparently.

They truly are. One thing I might also mention is that in my experience, the wireless connectivity is less than great for Wacom tablets. Way too much lag. I recommend using a wired tablet if at all possible. It may be that this is old advice, but I couldn't deal with any lag whatsoever when using one for hours at a time and disabled the wireless mode of my Intuos 4 (yes, it's quite old, but still works fine)
The window-snap layout menu is neat but I wonder why snapping features always seem to prefer screen halves/quarters. It is always more useful to me to have something like 1/3 or 2/3 and I think it should be there.

Also, there just isn’t anything attractive to me about the space-wasting layout of Ribbon in Explorer windows and I hope there are plans to fix it. (It’s still there in these screenshots.) It is easily one of the lowest content-to-chrome ratios I have seen.
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Saturday is a potential issue for people who observe Sabbath and any attempt to move elections to Saturday would be seen as a potentially discriminatory act in the US.
Yeah, before, insurers could throw out people who have preconditions or have “maximum lifetime benefit”, obviously you were going to pay less in premiums. The bureaucracy / cost of new technologies have not made this any cheaper either, especially as cost-benefit analysis for new procedures and drugs is, somehow, not a thing in the US unlike everywhere else in the world.

The US hates cutting costs via market intervention too (also see our crazy college costs problem), so until we decide to finally tackle it, they’ll keep on rising.
That one's excellent, perhaps followed closely by "794 - Someone let PG near a REPL"
Of course, white supremecy
They indeed do "stuff like that" all the time. That's exactly my point.
> "So people start buying it, because it's going up". That's speculation.

Mostly but not entirely. It's also previous shorters who buy to manage risk. These people are qualitatively different from the speculators.
You're totally right about it being an executive function disorder.

There's a variant of ADHD that tilts to the other end of the scale. Where the executive function doesn't fire by stimulus that ought to "execute". Less things overall catches the attention and leads to action, but the things that do, does so in the focused, engaged way.
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That one really is a gem, but what gets me about it is why it's funny. It's so darned simple, yet the video has nearly every person from the crew get punched in the face and it's funnier each time (to me at least). And it seems to be funny to a lot of different people too. I could show it to my mother and she'd be horrified, but also laugh.

I feel like Jackass, with that prank and others like it, tapped into something a little bit deeper in the psychology. That's where the genius of it lies.
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A review article from Lina Khan that explains the new New Brandeis Movement, a move back to Brandeis type antitrust from Borkian antitrust that started in Reagan era.

The New Brandeis Movement: America’s Antimonopoly Debate by Lina Khan https://academic.oup.com/jeclap/article/9/3/131/4915966

"We learned long ago that liberty could be preserved only by limiting in some way the freedom of action of individuals; that otherwise liberty would necessarily yield to absolutism; and in the same way we have learned that unless there be regulation of competition, its excesses will lead to the destruction of competition, and monopoly will take its place." – Louis Brandeis
Is Vue support in the works? Or maybe even react native?
It sounds like the reason was to not perpetuate stereotypes, and in general caucasian people don’t seem to have that stereotype as far as I can tell. Whether they would have posted it or not is unclear, but if their only reason for not posting was as to not perpetuate stereotypes and the offender wasn’t living under that stereotype…
With Flu your bones or muscles ache or your belly feels like it falls off. When bad, you have all symptoms. Worse is when attracting lung inflammation, that feels as if you are constantly drowning. All of this with high fever or even worse, cold fever.
Here's a recent article about the special electoral conditions in the US:

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/advantage-gop/
"we can't have democracy because then the anti-democratic party would have to change" is my favorite talking point
The title should really be: as expected, no evidence of Coronavirus infections earlier than original Wuhan outbreak found in the US.

With the amount of passenger flights leaving Wuhan daily, it's completely expected to see rapid spread in December, given the current theory of a November initial outbreak.
I have also really enjoyed my BOOX Note Air. I read like crazy on it and use it for note taking constantly. I like that I can have Firefox on it, for a little light web browsing. Maybe it's because it's my first e-ink device and I got enamored with the "new and shiny" of it all; I dunno.

Personally, I don't need it to translate my handwriting, I just like the act of writing and like being able to design my own paper types on demand, with infinite paper. For me, it meets my needs. I put hands on a variety of devices at Yodobashi Camera and this was the only one that felt natural to write on. Everything else had a perceptible lag, or the pen was weird, that I couldn't handle for long.

Of course, leave it to HN to make me feel like a total shithead for not looking into FOSS and other things (it didn't cross my mind even once). Guess I'll be rooting it this weekend; I really hate sinking the time/effort/risk into doing stuff like that.
No, I’m just providing my own n=1.

(Why is it that “I am unhappy” is justified to report, but “I am alright” isn’t? Don’t we want a representative sample of opinions?)
Could you use a USB or wireless numberpad, or do you have particular ergonomics in mind leading you down the "built it" path?

You'll get 15-18 buttons you could remap to trigger whatever events you want.

On the ergonomics front, I have long wanted to try out foot pedals/buttons for Shift or a few triple key combo shortcuts I regularly use in my IDE.
Do you think the reaction would be the same if there was never a story written in a paper or wherever the "crime story" appeared? If someone googled your name, there are a lot of websites that show your personal records (current/past addresses, employment, family members, etc) along with arrest records and for a low low price of $x you can view them. Would they not find that public info eventually?
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Most people would prefer an extra vacation day that they can take any day they want, or accumulate and take in a block, over a mandated holiday on a particular day.
I remember discovering CKY clips on some Russian FTP site around the turn of the century. Blew my mind at the time.
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Yeah, go to the doctor man.

Not taking care of yourself is one of the worse symptoms of ADHD/mental illness. I stopped taking my meds back in December and just started seeing my psychiatrist today.
Yep I remember it well. That was the time the internet started doing downhill :)
That's not my (the developer's) fault. 787. Talk to the bean counters.
Obviously not. That's why it's such an insidious and esoteric way of pulling up the ladder behind the chosen groups.
And you have to use Discord's client, which looks the same in the browser and on the desktop. Among other things you simply cannot watch multiple channels at the same time, even on the same server. You have to switch back and forth between them, and in my experience you give up and stay in one or the other. If they're on different servers, it's even more of a pain.
You may find this resource useful for current values: https://netsplit.de/networks/top10.php?year=2021
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Or, just… spend more money on it. Here, polls are from 7am to 10pm, you don’t generally have to queue to vote for more than a few minutes, and unless you’re in an extremely rural area you can walk to your polling place.

Now, presumably American elections are cheaper per capita, but it’s not like the money isn’t available. Cut down on the f35 habit a bit and have some proper elections.
Gemini protocol is lightweight alternative to HTTP which concentrates on the actual content (like Gopher).

I spent couple of nights just browsing random people’s pages and it felt like fresh air – and very reminiscient of the nineties web!

Give Gemini a try:
https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

The Lagrange browser is quite nice to browse Gemini:
https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
I haven’t read the article yet, so i’m going to bet now that there is no direct link in the article to the text of any bill they’re characterizing this way.

If i’m wrong, i’ll donate $10 to NPR.

ETA: unsurprisingly, my money was safe. But at least they linked to the Juneteenth bill. That’s rare enough. I think it should be considered a bare minimum in modern reporting to link to the original sources.
Is there? I literally have no idea how many states respect that doctrine wrt at-will employment, particularly outside of CA. The limits to PE claims are based on your lost income from previous job, not compensation you would have received (which a contract dispute would theoretically avail to you). Right?
Bug report: "733 - Fucking Deadlocks" shouldn't be there? What kind of fake BS deadlock would let the server send back a status code?
Its still sqlite. You can get more info here https://www.tutlane.com/tutorial/sqlite
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"More people voting always hurts <x party>, and helps their opponents" has always seemed to me like an admission that <x party> is innately anti-democratic, and I don't know how people ever spin it otherwise.
no ACH on Federal Holidays

Flag Day is a National Holiday but doesn't count as a Federal Holiday

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/6103
I was reading the article and thinking to myself, what happened to Bam cause he was one of my favorites of the show.

I started googling and found the drama. Just finished the article... thanks, you're right he is covered... I just feel bad for Bam. =(
I'm not defending the anti-democratic party, I'm simply explaining why increasing voting access is so controversial in the US: because a party with outsized power does not want to lose their power. Fully for democracy over here.
> Others tried to mimic what they did by being more bold, or gross, or edgy

There was a while there where it was genuinely upsetting to see some of those people. They really didn't understand the difference between pranking a friend that's opted in to the behavior and random people in public, and what's acceptable as a prank in both instances.

I'm sure Jackass had a few misses in this department too, but at least by the time they were famous the public stuff seemed more along the lines that might leave public people that saw it or were unwittingly involved thinking "WTF did I just see" or a story that later they would start with "You wouldn't believe the stupid person I saw today" and if the person realized it was a prank would generally think it was rather funny since it didn't affect them.

Contrast that with youtube "pranksters" of the time when they first started being popular physically assaulting people, or stealing things, or tricking someone into thinking they had lucked out and then making them feel the loss of that when it was shown to be fake as well as humiliating them in front of the world. "Haha you thought that $100 bill was real? Psyche! It's fake, you didn't find anything! Hey everybody, look how sad he looks now. Why are you sad, bro? It's a prank, be happy, the whole world is watching!"

I remember having to very carefully counsel my young son who kept stumbling on them and watching them on why these people weren't being funny, they were being mean, and this wasn't how people should be treated.
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It does! Thankfully the shifting between drive / reverse looks much better than what Elon explained on stage and in Tweets: https://youtu.be/HPQ-hta9fuA?t=518
read it as a verb instead
You could have hosted it on your work laptop and you know it.
Its same as sqlite. You can get more info in this sqlite tutorial.

https://www.tutlane.com/tutorial/sqlite
I've met Lina Khan. Silly doesn't come to mind.
Absolutely! That's...pretty much exactly what I said.
They gave me an abacus. 787.
> What will be enough? If you make Election Day a federal holiday as important as Christmas do you still need to have such a large voting window and unrestricted mail in ballots? Even now, as is, most people have a two week window to cast a ballot before Election Day. And plenty of options for mail in if they can’t vote in person.

No idea, honestly. But if we don't start taking any steps at all, we're stuck with a very ugly gremlin of a situation we're already keenly familiar with.
Maybe some high profile companies or leading startups, but the average SMB isn’t going to give paid time off unless mandated.
I had done that. The point is with a modern editor, I don't have to.

Emacs is unusable in a modern dev environment with its defaults. You have to write lisp.
This is really nice! Although I’d find it impractical to use, especially for existing projects, unless it also supported different CSS-in-JS libraries (e.g., Emotion, Styled Components), rather than inline styles with the `style` prop.

These other libraries offer a great deal of more support, such as targeting children and pseudo-elements (e.g., :hover).

Any plans/timeline on adding support for other React-in-CSS libraries?
Yeah, while it's true that a misleading comment can cause more harm than no comment at all, saying code is the documentation is cheating

Either we admit we'll never budget maintaining the comments metadata on top of the code, and embrace that risk for the cost reduction it provides, or we do document for real and maintain and review and fix regularly at a cost.

But saying we dont need to do it because it s already done is a quick stunt that everyone saying it knows is dishonest.
For a more balanced perspective, read the Verge's review. [1] My experience so far matches theirs: the impact varies by album/track, and in some cases, the lossless version remains better.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/9/22525028/apple-music-spati...
See: Operation Mockingbird. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but how was the wide acknowledgement built?
Would anyone seeing this mind explaining to me how to view flagged comments please? I didn’t know this was possible and thought flagged comments were removed.
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What would be an incentive to innovate past launch?

I'm trying to think of any changes to Wikipedia that happened after it launched and can't think of any. It surely does its job, but it doesn't change and there is no drive. Wiki concept was novel at the time, they did and continue to do an amazing job, but there's no evolution there. Or maybe I'm just a blind or unaware or biased - but, honestly, I tried to think of something and nothing came to mind.

Google constantly tries out some new things. They're really bad at maintaining them, they can't stop inventing chat services, they suck a lot and we could bash them endlessly, but let's credit what's due - they're always exploring some frontiers.
Yea, there's tons of political examples, including ideological camps that often have no problem cannibalizing their own.

But the trend itself has more than a little political tilt, while the cause for any particular case often doesn't.
They are cheap enough to be ubiquitous (cheap ones can be had for $5 or so) and are already built into most phones, usually behind biometric verification (face or fingerprint recognition). Note the biometric only unlocks the FIDO2 private key in the phone’s TPM so biometric data never leaves the device.

Edit: just checked, a hyperfido mini sells for $9.99 CAD, so not quite five bucks but still pretty affordable.
Really? I've never seen one, could you give some examples?
See also: 757, 767, 777, 787, 797
Biden and Schumer can't unilaterally decide Manchin's vote for him. This is a democracy, after all. Conversations are likely happening behind closed doors. So we shouldn't critique Democratic leadership just yet.
Is there a popular religion that is not completely centered around humans? I find these whole "happiness" and "charity" concepts fake and disturbing.

As in good deeds = making other humans happy or whatever.

Yah, I am not big on religion.
From the severity of the reactions you described and the way you talked about it (moment, mistake) I had thought it would be a lower murder or manslaughter charge. I think it's helpful for people to hear the never-ending punishment that a young person gets for nonviolent theft and recalibrate. Thank you for sharing.
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Maybe it is fun?
On a related note, he changed his nick to root. I'm pretty sure he did it because of the saying "root is god," which is true on *nix platforms. (The root user can do anything, including deleting the entire filesystem while the computer is running. It's powerful and meant to be used in moderation.)
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How hard would this be to get it working with preact instead of react? I always liked that preact has a very easy "no build tools" route for creating simple frontends that you can simply open and run in a browser.
I imagine the non-Americans in this comment section have to be snickering after seeing the Americans ask “what’s a public holiday?”
I don't think treatment is always a necessary outcome, but awareness probably is. Medication helps with doing things, but if all you did was take medication, your family would still have no idea why you constantly lose your housekey or why you chronically show up late. Simply being able to establish that "these are things I'm not going to be good at" or something along those lines is an improvement.
I was and am bad at integration problems like this. I find them scary. And mysterious. Somehow I associate these with engineering type classes, but that may not be generally true.

On the other hand, I really enjoyed and did well in classes like real analysis, functional analysis and measure theory, even though I am not a mathematician.

But those classes are fun. Say, the construction of measures and Lebesgue type integrals makes sense to me.

Integration by parts? And this stuff? I feel like a stupid monkey.
It's weird.

For a real mathematician, both of these types of skills are probably important.
I wish I could do integrals better.
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Windows 8 Start Menu was pure crap. It had half of the features the Start Menu has now in Windows 10. Features like named groups, collapsible folders, tiny icons, transparent tiles etc. were added long after Windows 10 release. Not to mention the Start Menu in Windows 8 was bugged as hell, like not working at all if more than 256 "apps" (actually files in the Start Menu folder) were installed.

But yes, by now, the Start Menu of Windows 10 is the best of all Start Menus of all Windows versions. There're a few features that I miss from the old times (like the full "All Apps" list not supporting subfolders, or lack of the "tiny icon with long text" size), but overall it's never been better, especially for crazy people like me with hundreds of apps.

It'd be really stupid of Microsoft to replace something as massive as this, which has been improved over many years, with a joke of UI with more "breathing space".
Australia has 83%+ (with 67% being of British ancestry) and UK has 86% white population while US has 60% non-hispanic white population (with no such single major ancestry inside it like the British ancestry of the AU and UK white populations). Thus there are huge sources of racist/xenophobic voting power drivers that the right-wings in AU and UK can tap into while doing so in US causes blowback of similar scale and which grows with voting participation increase.
The "wings" are not very comparable between countries. They are influenced by their environment. I can confidently say that an alternate universe where those countries had US-style elections would have very different parties, though not necessarily more US-like.
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there's nothing wrong with speculation.

But there's something wrong with speculating using other people's money.
> "Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders."

This is the reason why we have to file tax papers. State & federal can calculate taxes for majority of the people but don't because a group "" want people to suffer and revolt against income tax.

All politicians wants to cut spending but just not for the area they represent.
There isn't really a "rise", there are basically two. That's it. They're still incredibly niche products.
The New Zealand Prime Minister gained (even more) respect from me for this:

“He sought many things from his act of terror but one was notoriety, that is why you will never hear me mention his name,” she said of the gunman. “He is a terrorist. He is a criminal. He is an extremist. But he will, when I speak, be nameless." -- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/19/new-zealand-sh...
In many cases, you never really had a 300m market in the first place. The EU membership spans a wide range of cultures, languages, traditions, economics and politics. Many products or services won't be equally attractive to customers all over the EU, particularly once you take into account the rules that mean you can't necessarily price according to what a free market would pay either.
So if you were told the board of a company Unanimously Approved something, would it be secretly understood by you to mean there might be only a handful of board members present and that they didn’t actively agree to the motion, they were just playing with their phones or something and ignored it?

All I was trying to say was I’m fine with it if this is understood to be how things are done in the US, but it’s not correct use of the terms unanimous or approved, certainly in the way they are used in day to day English.