skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We absolutely can claim moral superiority, while being open to a critique of our hypocrisy - and to changing our ways based on this critique. To do otherwise than seek and claim moral superiority would be to concede to grim relativism; it would be to discard what progress we have made and what rights we still maintain; it would be to abandon an ideal that can yet still lead us to a better world.

Lincoln wrote, in reference to abolition, that he “[would rather move] to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” [0] But the irony is that hypocrisy drove him and this nation to emancipation, and an improved iteration of the city on a hill.

0 - http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/speed.h...
> Never in my life have I associated git or its default branch name with American slavery

> I haven't discussed the issue with any black friends or family

I'll just highlight these quotes there for you to consider. It was never about you or your opinion on a matter that is not about you.
Natural rights exist even when denied and infringed. Perhaps they are discovered as a consequence of human behavior, rather than molded by a grantor in acts of beneficence or compromise.
It's 'lawyer talk'. It does not make sense, but if you are not paying attention while reading it, you would register it as something positive for the thief.
SF's crime debate turns nasty
Well Futures might be, but every year also the established financial players on the mainstream financial markets invent new derivatives and they all are not regulated until they are.
Businesses will need to have a license and keep logs of such communication.
Fair enough. To the annoyance and solid resistance of most atheists, I assert that Science occupies the same archetype as Religion in our society and psychology, even for devout atheists. They often respond that Science is True and Religion is not. Which makes me giggle: most Believers believe their religion is True, so that's an argument the devout of all stripes would make. The truth (or not) of which though is irrelevant to my argument: like Religion, Science contains the highest Mysteries that we know, with endlessly arcane, esoteric rituals that require lots of education to understand. Its priests, in the form of scientists, deliver encyclics on various matters which we follow because they are True. Exactly the role of Religion in the past. I suspect that Jung is right: human beings need this on some deep level. We will always have this.

We all ostensibly can verify the pronouncements of scientists ourselves, and this is a difference between religion and science, but how many actually do that? We trust that all of the books and scientists are correct about, oh, the age of the Universe and the speed of light, but very few of us have verified these ourselves. We are content to accept them on faith

> Why is that religion dead though, why did people stop believing?

For the same reason that religion is being supplanted by science today. Its story and adoption offers an immediate improvement to individuals' lives. Christianity offered an improvement to the lives of Vikings, for various reasons. No more intramural slaughter allowed, for one. It also offered a literal break from the relentless pressure of dead ancestors, for another (I didn't discuss that part of Norse mythology, but if you behaved like a coward, all of your ancestors would be thrown out of Valhalla for the shame of bearing you). The Norse religion was adopted before that because it offered improvement in the lives of its adherents over whatever had existed earlier. Most likely by honing them into truly fierce, zero-fucks-given badasses.
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I don't care that much about new content, I care about good content. For quite a while I thought Netflix had a very small catalog, until I started deliberately going to specific categories that the recommendation engine never show me, then I realized that there is actually a fairy extensive back catalog of shows that are interesting, especially various shows in non-English languages.
"the belief that every problem has a solution based in technology"

I'm not very well versed in this idea, curious to learn and read more. Have any recommended books? What do you think about this one https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13587160-to-save-everyth...?

I personally believe that all problems are, at their core, human problems. Hence why the focus on meditation as an Archimedes lever. Technology helps us solve problems at scale, but it has to be applied "mindfully". Technology is always a double-edged sword (see Facebook)
It reminds me of a guy I saw at a festival in the UK, who was shouting to everyone that he does not sell drugs, he then proceeded to shout what drugs he definately does not sell.
I wish for the world not to go this direction
Most of the Git projects I've worked with followed the "trunk" model of there being one core branch; in theory, you can use git in other ways but in practice that's the main one. That said, trunk works, but so does main, production, or even development depending on whether you want to communicate that the mainline branch is considered stable or unstable.
Yes you need active ventilation systems, because the thermal efficiency is highly dependant on the house being airtight - to the point where efficiency scores are calculated by overpressuring the house (basically taping a huge fan into the front door with all other doors and windows shut) and measuring the pressure loss. When applying insulation, contractors have to meticulously use foam to seal everything up. It's a major part of the work when building a new house and just a few mistakes can seriously affect thermal performance.
Please don't take HN threads into generic ideological or nationalistic flamewar. No, we don't care about Xi [1]. We just care about not having tedious and nasty HN threads, which is what comments like this point to. Plesae don't do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[1] and if you worry that we may secretly be communist agents please see this mini-FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26652363 and the associated "algorithm": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26637365
You Can’t Disable Taskbar Button Grouping in Windows 11
Not a good sign when your official incident description has a typo [1]. Not that perfect language is important in and of itself. But it indicates that stress is leaking through into the official communication.

[1] (To date, we are aware of fewer than 60 Kaseya customers, all of which were using the VSA on-premises product, who was directly compromised by this attack.
I have the same fan, I'll love to control it with esp32.
Is he using 3 relays to trigger on/off, rotation and speed? Also, from what I see, he is not detecting the previous state?
There have been past claims of quantum advantage that so far always turned out to be rather questionable when the details are discussed.
Hiring employees is not the only way to create an environment you can thrive in. There are plenty of examples in all cultures (maybe not the US?) of co-operative arrangements that were successful.
This is causing flashbacks to CDOs from back in 2005-8.
Elephant in the room: Sayid. It's made for Emacs, and it's so powerful, you may want to switch to Emacs just because of it.
CenturyLink's DSL signup process pushes you towards the "simple credit check" option, but if you refuse enough times they let you sign up for prepaid and do absolutely zero validation of any of the information you supply.

You can also sign up for a "business prepaid" account and they won't even ask for your name. They also don't ask what type of entity the business is, so there's nothing wrong with just making up a Doing Business As off the top of your head.

Frankly, this is how it ought to be. My personal data are none of their business.
>I suspect we will lose Muji soon as well though.

why?
https://www.drbronner.com/all-one-blog/2019/12/dr-bronners-s...

... Dr. Bronner is supporting research in that area for a while.
Isn’t StarCitizen using a special version of CryEngine?
EU carbon border tax will raise nearly €10bn annually
IT Consultant Sharing Feedback Why Jelastic PaaS Chosen by SMEs and Developers
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27753727
UK households face energy bills surcharge to fund nuclear plants
Does specialized staff dev mean you work with a very specific tech stack? If so, do you mind sharing what it is? Also do you work 100% remotely within the States or from another country?
I've just read a great and trippy book which resonates a lot with this kind of thinking, Geometry for Ocelots (https://amzn.to/3jQeVxt), it's a sci-fi which basically attempts to deal with how intelligent species accelerate their demise by owerusing, and over-spending resources in their natural environment. A big part of a proposed solution was "moderation" -- but never specified how it would be done.

This article kind of starts thinking about that "moderation" bit in real-world terms.
As you noted, thar was procedural rather than reactive — Dallas passed a similar “form-based” code almost a decade earlier that Austin is using as inspiration, I believe, and it’s only been expanded since [1].

Austin also just passed a historic public transit capital program via referendum that the GOP was openly against, and though the state government could have used some shady but technically legal tactics to prevent Austin from building a subway under a state-owned park (simply by refusing to bring a bill up for a vote rather than actively taking the right away, too!), they didn’t and gave Austin a 99 year lease on the ground rights for $1. [2]

Dallas and Austin are currently in a competition to ban parking minimums, which funnily enough has found much bipartisan agreement [3]

[1] https://dallascityhall.com/departments/sustainabledevelopmen...

[2] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kvue.com/amp/article/news/p...

[3] https://dallascityhall.com/departments/sustainabledevelopmen..., https://communityimpact.com/news/2019/07/23/austin-parking-r...
Wow that would be quite the situation. Do you have anaphylactic reactions to any other fungi?
macOS (Mac OS X lineage) was always based on mach (a microkernel) which made it a hybrid kernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
Do you have an good references for implementing an ECS? I've only found very high level descriptions but they all are a bit handwavey and avoid the implementation details.

I know Entt is a highly praised library, but I'd be interesting in folding in ECS as a general design pattern in my programming.

https://github.com/skypjack/entt
Seems more like a missing feature, you can physically cover your webcam if you're that paranoid.
I’m on Linux. This stuff is notoriously fiddly and inconsistent across platforms. I think the relevant code is https://president.mn/mng/wp-content/themes/president/fronten... at a five-second glance, it’s not doing any sort of sniffing, so it’s most likely the events being passed around are simply different in some way. And that kinda demonstrates why it’s such a dangerous thing to fiddle with, and why scrolljacking is a bad idea. Looks like it might be trying to ignore horizontal scrolling. Dunno what’s happening with it.
One good thing that has come of Github changing the master/main/default/primary branch to "main" is that it forces git-related software/products to drop the assumption that the primary branch is `master`.

Unfortunately, Heroku "fixed" this problem in completely the wrong way, by now allowing deployments from `master` or `main`, instead of making it user-configurable.

So although I'm not particularly a fan of the PC brigade researching the etymology of technical terms to find new ways to feel outraged, I do appreciate the fact that in many cases, it forces developers to create software without arbitrary assumptions.

For the record, I do think in many (most?) cases, these crusades [0] are the social justice equivalent of bike-shedding, so that companies and individuals can pat themselves on the back and say "we're fixing racism/sexism/foobarism" without actually doing any real work to solve inequality issues in the tech industry. It also allows them to squarely put the blame on others (i.e. whichever 1970's white men came up with master/slave or blacklist/whitelist), while avoiding the need for meaningful introspection and contemplation of their own role (as people in the industry, regardless of identity) in the inequality of the tech industry.

[0] Apparently, this is also a word we're not allowed to use
https://archive.is/5wxjY
Quantum Mechanics is not confusing
The Pizza Delivery Guy Will Be a Robot at Many Campuses This Fall
It’s a good question and the poor answer is: Nothing is counting my cycling.
I'm disagreeing with you, and I say "never use jet" (I'm more a fan of Magma) with a lot more confidence than I would say "use python". Different needs call for different tools but there is no need that calls for making distorted plots of your data. Jet adds information that is not there, you never want that.
Past related threads:

Libimobiledevice 1.3.0 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23540185 - June 2020 (1 comment)

libimobiledevice – A cross-platform library to communicate with iOS devices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9670745 - June 2015 (15 comments)

libimobiledevice - Teaching Penguins to Talk to Fruit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596648 - Oct 2012 (13 comments)
Better solution

1. Force (by law) all tracking companies to shut down

2. Enjoy a better internet
Cars are a weird example: they’re right-hand drive for well over two billion people, regardless of LTR or RTL text.
Anecdotally I found that psilocybin reduced my feelings of depression to a state of… nothing.

This allowed me the space to think about how I should build an identity I was happier with.

Another time (LSD) I had an experience so terrifying that nothing in the mortal world compares. It destabilized me for a bit, however, the experience helped me recognize the volatility bounds of “normal” life emotions and that keeps them in perspective.
nah, if you use `unicode-bidi: bidi-override` and force `direction: rtl` it'll still flow top to bottom. a conlang I speak is cursive RTL so I've made extensive use of this. side-note: it's a major peeve of mine that Unicode's entire Private Use Area is plain Latin in terms of properties. there's no way of setting RTL other than using CSS or prefixing an RTL Override character, which gets old fast in text editors. no font system, including Graphite, lets you override Unicode glyph properties to my knowledge.
Study: Full Covid-19 vaccination provides 69% protection against Delta
That's what I've seen. Heat pump water heaters cost about the same to run as gas units. And yes the advantage is they don't fundamentally use natural gas so they are 'green' as the grid they are tied to is.
I recently came across this neat button pusher IoT gadget (used it to control the boiler in our rented accommodation): https://www.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-bot

A less intrusive and safer alternative for those not quite comfortable with mains diy.
> I mean, not so long ago India persecuted an activist who helped Greta Thunberg to the extent of arresting and accusing her of sedition just because the
girl helped edit an online document that Greta Thunberg promoted.

It wasn't just another document; it was linked with the planning and execution of violence that happened on 26 January Republic day in the capital (New Delhi) wherein the national symbols like Red Fort were invaded and damaged. Obviously police acted on the toolkit document and if not enough evidence were found, she'll be out of the trouble. btw, while working on the document her WhatsApp messages with Gretta also showed that she knew that she could get into trouble.

>> Disha (9:35 pm): Ok can you not tweet the toolkit at all..can we just not say anything at all for a while? I am gonna talk to lawyers. I am sorry but our names are on it and we can literally get UAPA against us.

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/do-not-tweet-toolkit-o...

> There was no "trying". They found evidence that emails with malware were targeted at the accused activists, and they found evidence that said malware was used to plant evidence.

Whatever they've found needs to be proven in court before it can be considered as evidence. Until then, as per the rule of law, it's just an opinion of the defendant.
Muji is very very very late to online purchase. Mostly because of their attitude that customer should go to the store and see the product first.

But that is changing, my guess is that UK is lower down on the list for those upgrade. I mean those online improvement only started with Japan and China in the last few years.
Just uBlock Origin "Easy Cookie List" and forget about cookie banners forever
Facebook fails to go after child pornography despite it's insane panopticon.
Surely we'll then get a discount on the price of the electricity generated, since we'll already have paid for the plant itself?
Past related threads:

The Nucleon, Ford's 1958 nuclear-powered concept car that never was - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22836272 - April 2020 (93 comments)

Ford Nucleon - a nuclear-powered concept car from 1958 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4745123 - Nov 2012 (47 comments)
>- If I watched a movie < 1 month ago, don't recommend it

yeah some movies might be more likely to be rewatchable quicker by a larger amount of the population, and some people might be more likely to be able to rewatch movies they like more quickly than a month - and those people might have preferences that indicate their liking to rewatch more often.

Thus it might be nice to do AI on this.
A lot of people also use fuel oil for heating (I know we did growing up in a suburb without gas lines). Someone comes by occasionally and delivers it. I expect electric water heaters are very uncommon.
I think this, in combination with the author's previous article about the moves the CCP have made on Ma's business make it pretty clear what is happening. Ma is being held whilst his businesses are dismantled. Ant is being turned into a traditional bank, Alibaba is being attacked from several directions, Ma's university (a clear source of soft power) is being shut down.

When you then ask where Ma is I would say it's pretty clear - Ma is being held out of the way whilst this happens. There's no point in causing drama whist they're doing this, just hold him out of the way and in about 18 months there'll be nothing for him to come back to. At that point they'll no longer need him, all the businesses will be managed by cronies of the state. So what happens when they no longer need him? If he's lucky they'll let him manage some tiny sliver of his former empire, but I can't imagine them taking the risk of him fleeing and becoming a powerful critic, so I guess most likely thing to do is trump up charges of corruption and prosecute him.
New way to show Art in the Browser webxr ready
This approach only seems to target the GDPR. It needs to also satisfy the laws created by the ePrivacy directive in the EU member states, and UK (PECR). Storing data in a cookie ("or similar technology") requires informed consent.

Airgap.js does not shield you from this requirement.

If you want your users to not have to step through the Cookie Inquisition, consider the actual business loss of not using cookies [for everybody] any more. Yes, a ton of marketing tools require them, but do you require the tracking aspects of those marketing tools? Food for thought.

For anybody unfamiliar with EU ePrivacy Directive derrived laws, here's the UK's implementation (PECR): https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-a...
Why Don’t Men Read?
Why don’t men read?
Hi! Thanks for your comment!
I have answered your question below:

- Are these really 1-to-1 calls? Looks more like a room where many could join?
> It is currently only a 1-to-1 call! So you can have a call with only the first follower to join in the room. We are looking to develop 1 to many call functionality soon though!

It's not limited to twitter, is it? I could share it anywhere, right?
> You can post the room link on any platforms technically but it is preferred that you post the room link only on twitter!

Thanks,

If you have any questions, please let me know!

Shinji
Depends on what your options are.
Could you give me an example of such implicit allocations that are done by the language and would be a problem in a kernel context?

Here's my list:

* RTTI: would be disabled

* Exceptions: would be disabled

* STL, stdlib: would not be used
It's likely that is the real motivation for Starlink. Rural internet is just a bonus.

Laundering the money through FCC RDOF was a stroke of genius; I tip my hat to whoever came up with that idea.
Past related threads:

Up to 1,500 businesses affected by ransomware attack, Kaseya CEO says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27750040 - July 2021 (290 comments)

Cybercrime REvil gang asks for $70M to decrypt systems locked in Kaseya attack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27734282 - July 2021 (39 comments)

Supermarket chain Coop closes 800 stores following Kaseya ransomware attack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725576 - July 2021 (16 comments)

Major Swedish supermarket chain hit by cyberattack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27720623 - July 2021 (174 comments)

REvil ransomware executes supply chain attack via malicious Kaseya update - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27716383 - July 2021 (13 comments)

Others?
I'm a developer who maintains repositories with master branches. It is exactly about me.
I don’t like this feature. It’s annoying and I just don’t see the benefits.
I feel that, once you have reduced the consumables of something to energy, that doesn't tend to make it energy limited. Instead, it becomes capital limited. You need to be able to pay for the upfront capital costs of installing the thing.

Add to that the fact that, once these developments have happened, they tend to improve a lot, quickly. That means anything you build will, soon, be outdated and stop producing as much yield. Hence, you don't want to invest too much.
I have a dog so I take around 21k steps per day. I don't understand how people I know manage to walk less than 4k steps per day which some do sometimes.

Altough, I moved to a country house and every time I need to go to the fridge for examples I basically take 2-3 times the steps I did in my apartment before. When I need to get eggs I need to go outside, walk to the chickens and retrieve them.

Small things like that adds up and now I more often than not take 150k steps per week. I think this is good for my health.
Oh man this was huge. You have to remember, machine learning was nothing back then. It was on nobody's radar.

Then comes this flashy $1 million prize. Tons of universities had teams. So it really helped their recruitment.

It also likely contributed to the idea of creating Kaggle which has itself greatly contributed to data-science education by giving everyone an open forum in which to compete.

Then there were other signficant projects around this time like ImageNet which became a competition too. That open dataset led to tons of research and applications.
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There's a Wikipedia page which basically says they're a set of rights that are broadly agreed to be particularly important: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_rights

For example, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but other countries might have determined their own (additional) set.

I would assume the name "fundamental" was chosen because all other rights derive from them, i.e. if they're taken away from you, you won't be able to preserve the non-fundamental rights.