skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Following this argument, nobody is culpable for any crime they may commit, because their behavior is fully determined by their biology and environment. Try that in a court.

Evil is a perfectly straightforward concept. It may have many definitions but it's easy to conceive of one, e.g.: willingly making others suffer unjustly.

The concept of evil is quite different from what is being argued in the source material. There, we are questioning whether the environment created by a proposed god systematically leads to situations that indicates that the creator is not benign.
In a couple years we all should be in Space then.
I'm sorry that happened to you but, who cares, move on.
For that to happen, I believe the pictures must have been better. I watched the live stream and was quite underwhelmed to see how poor the footage was.
But there is a reason behind the phrase: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-going-to-build-my-own-them...
An average house in most Bay Area counties costs over $1,000,000. That’s even outside SF and Silicon Valley. Being a millionaire is hardly enough money to do interesting things that require intensive capital.
Even if you do specify a column as a text excel WILL assume that it contains dates sometimes.

Happened to me multiple times, even when i set each cell as a text.

Seems like copypasting a tab separated values resets the cells to their default state.
I am really surprised these billionares do not get more bad press for taking their greed and selfishness to suborbital levels!
I didn't know that. I'll look more into it, thanks.
With them making such a big deal out of it I thought they were going into orbit and would stay there for a bit.
I regret wasting time watching this, the celebrities and fake grandiosity didn't make it any more interesting.
Weird, but that setting seemed to not work. What did work was disabling JavaScript, which is a bit puzzling -- why is JS loading the fonts?
Or at least 32 of us.
I accidentally read the PPP GDP from Wikipedia, the nominal is $93 billion. Bottom 30 for GDP per capita. The point still stands though.
Seriously, most billionaires are so fucking boring. Imagine all the interesting things you could do. Most of them just buy homes and yachts. Who’s spending billions on a future tech iron man suit or building a utopia under the sea? Not that those are worthwhile but it would at least be interesting.
Most people say they want this, but they really just want headlines, and occasional in depth reporting on some long tail interest of theirs. Social media / message boards serve this and have taken over for a reason.
The world lost an inspiring billionaire... for a minute.
Right now, most US schools are on the regularly scheduled summer break. Full opening guidance came pretty late in the school year, so many districts finished based in where they were in early 2021.

Starting dates vary, but generally schools will start their new school year in early September. That's when we'll really see what happens. But I'd expect most school districts to be doing full time in-person learning based on US CDC recommendations; many districts will likely make an optional online program available, but I doubt there will be many districts doing widespread online only or hybrids like we saw in the 2020-2021 school year.
https://archive.vn/SFVU8
I wasn't expecting anything, that's why I asked. What are the confounding factors for the countries you named?
How many times have you altered Firefox, though? Or Chromium? Or GIMP? Or any other large software project?

Free as in freedom doesn't mean shit when codebases are so large as to be inscrutable and induplicable.
Ask HN: Redundancy-free FOSS Android launcher?
I might be looking for something that already exists, but it does not seem to be the case.

Numerous launcher applications are available on F-droid, including text/search-based ones, Pixel clones, and so on. However, all classic-style Android launchers show applications in multiple copies: if you put one on the homescreen, it is still shown in the app drawer. This creates needless redundancy, because the app drawer is cluttered with applications that are easily reachable from the home screen anyway.

On the other hand, iOS-style launchers force every icon, a single one for each app, on the home screen(s), but offer no app drawer.

Therefore, I'm here to ask if there is any launcher that has an app drawer, but hides the icons there, if they are placed on the home screen?

This approach would produce a home screen with frequently used apps, and a more usable app drawer that only contains applications that are not visible elsewhere, thus improving the user's chances of findig them.

Thanks for the insight in advance!

Edit: formed proper paragraphs
The problem that I've had with this issue and Excel is that Excel performs overly-clever-automagic type conversions in certain situations where you don't want them. And then especially when you're collaborating on files with non-technical normal office workers, they're not expecting this behavior. So the end result has been that this issue has bitten me many times, despite knowing how to ideally tell Excel to handle it.
The containment isn't the most expensive part, the pressure vessel is. Single forged part of some magic stainless steel alloy able to withstand 300bar at 500K and high neutron flux costing a billion or more. Gen4 reactor designs try to do without that by having the actual core non-pressurized, e.g. in molten-salt reactors or pebble-bed reactors. The other idea is making a loss-of-coolant-accident harmless, thereby getting rid of the necessity to have too many redundant ultra-expensive cooling systems (current EPRs are at quadruple-redundant...). The problem with regulation there is that those novel designs are currently still regulated based upon the aforementioned PWR/BWR reactor designs (so your coolant system has to have X amount of redundancy, the reactor vessel must withstand Y amount of pressure, ...), forcing unnecessary cost that isn't necessary because the possible accidents and conditions are completely different.
> nationalists version of Croatias flag

It wasn't the nationalist version, any state flag is inherently a nationalist symbol, the problem is that the logo is from the NDH, a Nazi puppet state of Croatia, which created the Jasenovac concentration camp.

It might be a mistake, but as a young adult, everyone around me (I live in Croatia) knows what the 'first white square' symbolizes.
Is it? I can’t find any mentions of that plan. This ship was designed for space tourism, the burn is so short it doesn’t really go much far - it even lands back on the same location it launched from.

On top of that, a seat will cost half a million dollars.

SpaceX and maybe Blue Origin can do that, but Virgin would need a different aircraft.
I think more people might part with their cash if they could fund the topics/proposals they were interested in. Something more like Gofundme and Twitch where people feel like they're directly paying for something to happen.
Why go to space when you can influence elections and government policy without accountability
I mean people can wish for anything. I can wish for a billion dollars.

I don't hear anybody actually expecting free news with no ads. Everyone knows journalists need to be paid a salary. So that feels like a strawman to me.

But the idea that content isn't worth paying for is more that it's not worth paying for any single news source. I see links to news articles I read from 20+ sources a day. If somebody builds a Spotify for news where you pay $10/mo. and can access 99.9% of news articles including NYT, WaPo, etc., I think a ton of people (most, even?) would have no problem paying for it at all. But I sure as hell can't pay $10/mo. across 20 different sites, and that still covers less than half the sources people regularly link to.
> there are failure modes where nothing will notify you that the connection has been lost until you try to write()

you need to either read() or write() on a connection to be informed that the connection was terminated or half-closed. My server application works perfectly, it reacts immediately to any state change. Did not require any special code, just monitor the read and write ends, which is what one does anyway. (Yep, this is API specific behaviour of course, but it's the only sane approach IMO, since the termination event must be sent in a synchronization with the actual channel interaction).

Of course, if you're not checking for updates on both directions (read + write) because you're blocked on some blocking interface (either on the same socket or different I/O port or computation), your server won't react. The API is not to fault. The mistake was to write blocking code.

That is the difference between dirty batch scripts and systems programming.
I suppose that works if you and all your friends have an identical list of subscriptions.

It only works on HN because we use things like archive.is or browser extensions to go around it. If it weren't possible to work around it, it would die off pretty quickly as a discussion.
Millionaires don’t have enough money. Branson is a billionaire.

Most Millionaires do all kinds of interesting things, it’s just that those things are in the same realm that ordinary people can. Eg they go to Aspen and ski, which lots of non-millionaires do, but unlike the plebes they stay in a super high-end hotel or condo, or just buy a vacation home there if they visit often enough.

Being a millionaire, < 10M net worth, is not actually that rare or exceptional.
The only thing I see here that's surprising is that pay was docked if you arrived late to work. Everything else seems pretty typical of an early stage contracting firm, and start-up life generally.

The part about getting pay docked for showing up late does sound pretty abominable, though. If the workers are "exempt", their salaries shouldn't get touched for any situation except to lay them off.

I would bet small sums this didn't take place in the US.
As climates change, prepare for more mosquitoes in winter
Islamic state in Bosnia, that's funny. If you've ever been in Bosnia, then you would have known that the majority do not care about islam as itself. Yes, they might identify themselves as "muslim", but they aren't religious per se. My friends would go to pray for Bayram and then the whole city would eat and get drunk together, very Islamic. :)
Here is a manual to the Falcon9 which talks about how they do it. It’s all digital S Band https://www.spacex.com/media/Falcon_Users_Guide_082020.pdf
Maybe they do, but those things are not very interesting for us, or not very showy.

(Also, a millionaire is technically someone with at least $1M net worth; thanks to inflation, this title is now more accessible than ever. Just owning a semi-decent house in the Valley affords you that.)
But with a music subscription like Spotify, you've got the whole catalog to browse at $10/mth. If I want a 90% complete catalog of journalism, what is that $200/mth across them all?
Nice to see someone doing something exciting and inspiring with their money. Much more inspiring than people whining about billionaires on social media.
Are they going to be able to focus on anything in 10 years that's not flashing lights and casino-industry user hooks?
World’s largest domestic Vehicle-to-Grid trial: could save customers £725/year
We never got the results of our covid tests from early in the pandemic because someone imported the medical data into Excel, which predictably and destructively modified the patient IDs by stripping all leading zeroes.

I've used perl, python, and R for scientific data for a really long time but have always made a concerted effort to avoid Excel. My reasoning feels the same as when people say Java is the best language because it can be run on any device, which is like saying anal sex is the best sex because you can do it with any animal.

Maybe I'm missing out on a great experience, but the notion has always made me uncomfortable.
Then you will love this documentary of an early Google engineer jumping from the edge of space in a custom suit: https://www.space.com/alan-eustace-stratospheric-skydive-fil...

His wife’s commentary is the best part
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One of the options I had seen was some sort of a CEC communication board. Looked like it might be for sending like a "turn on" signal to other devices.

I've had pretty good luck with CEC with my 5 year old Samsung TV. Compared to my in-laws new house that has a Denon receiver and IR blasters and some universal remote, that they paid big bucks to have an AV company install, CEC is like a space age rocket ship!
The documentation introduction is where the name confusion is mentioned.

https://doc.kerberos.io/
Nobody in their right mind wants an Islamic state there. No sane muslim in BiH wants that.
The fear of "Islamic state" in Bosnia is right wing trope.
Full report: https://www.cenex.co.uk/app/uploads/2021/05/Sciurus-Trial-In...
Can you see past the showmanship of the stream and at least recognise the technical achievement?
Food Cycling: the sustainable way to intermittent fasting
In R, you can use accepted methods of software development and engineering, such as version control, automated testing, CI/CD to catch mistakes and prevent them from causing harm. In Excel? Not really.
See also: https://www.youtube.com/306545da-3bdd-495b-aeae-92f0992e025a
If we limit god to any god worth worshiping, i.e. one that prescribes a set of morals on their followers and answers the prayers of those who follow the god's morals, you would expect that the god has the same set of morals as their followers.

Unless the god is playing games with their creation, maybe studying them to see how they would respond. But even then, this would tell us something about the nature of a god. That they are not worth worshiping from a moral standpoint, since they aren't benevolent.
> But gp has every right to be upset that netflix due to any reason didn’t live up to expectations.

Those expectations are unrealistic, and quite frankly entitled. When did Netflix ever state that any content available now will be available for ever? It's the nature of the business that content is only made available for a set amount of time. What does complaining about it on the internet expect to do anyways?
if you need to do something, use python. if you need to do it while using complex math, use R. if you need to do it in real-time, use c. if you need to do it reliably with memory constraints, use ada. if you need it to work under arbitrary and difficult conditions and continually without pausing for weeks or years on end, use rust. for everything else, there is javascript.
But the Taliban have an ideology, which is not aligned with democracy, and they would not want to legitimize what they consider a foreign system put in place by a foreign power.
Goodbuy to CO2 limits then.
> When I got my first Kindle 12 years ago my Amazon account was registered with my local European address so the books available in store were all complete trash romance pulp novels. Once I simply changed my home address to some random location in New York I suddenly had access to hundreds of thousands more titles. The Internet never delivered on its promise.

Sometimes I’ll gift a kindle book to someone and then they’ll message me back saying that Amazon won’t let them claim the book, giving them an error message about it not being available in their country. They can’t redeem it for anything else, so then I have to go talk to support and ask for a refund of the gift.
I can't trump Bender -- I yield.
Kinds of Technical Debt
Bringing SpaceX to the first spaceflight only took about $100M, firmly in the "millionaire" range. Falcon-1 was not capable of carrying a human to space though.
Heat wave kills estimated 1B sea creatures off Canada's west coast
We're going to have more and more launches like this. Virgin did it today, Blue Origin will do it in a few days and others will come later.
Sure, tell me more about how the Afghanistan and Irak war helped make the world a better place
The Slavic majority in Macedonia has a name, Walter Mayr. It is Macedonians. Western media’s ignorance of one small nation’s struggle for recognition really puzzles me. Yes we are Slavs but you don’t call Russians Slavic majority in Russia. After more than a century of neighbour's aggressive politics to stifle Macedonian’s national awakening the least I expect from the media is to call the majority of my home country Macedonians.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonians_(ethnic_group)
The company described in this post is clearly highly dysfunctional, however the self-sabotaging pattern–scheduling an important meeting before even starting to build the make-or-break thing that will be demoed in the meeting–is one I’ve seen in plenty of ostensibly functional organizations. Nobody should be surprised when something brand new built by an under-resourced team on a non-negotiable timeline blows up in front of whatever important {investor, client, prospect} it was supposed to impress.
Why is this even remotely interesting in light of the fact that Scaled launched pretty much this same aircraft to a higher altitude, 18 years ago?
They generally don't help as I'll get a referral to a service which then isn't actually available in my country, like Hulu.
It’s like walmart throwing some expired food after you for free.

It could be good for some use cases, but not for the primary one which is getting fresh food for consumption.
Most Billionaires are only Billionaires because of the value of the company they own a huge number of shares in, and they’re busy running that company which consumes all their time and energy. They also can’t cash out their shares (or at least not most of them) without risk of losing control of their company, so they don’t actually cash in on their vast wealth. Instead they’re happy to be a Billionaire on paper and “merely” live as a Millionaire.

Edit since I’m getting downvoted: yes the ultra rich can and do live off debt with their stock as collateral, but that gets you to the “merely” living a luxury lifestyle point. It’s not a viable mechanism for funding SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, etc, which is the kind of “interesting stuff” this thread was talking about.
It's a quick suborbital jaunt. Carried on another aircraft to 50,000ft, then on rocket power to (the edge of) space, and then back down after a couple minute in freefall. Glides and lands on runway.

Apogee between 50mi and 100km (which are two "lines" of where "space" begins.)
Well, the article says there's basically a 50% chance you paid for it explicitly on your room bill. Which shocks me, I always look at my bill in detail (out of curiosity) and I've never seen that in my life. Is this specific to certain types or brands of hotels, that I somehow rarely/never stay in?

For the other half... now it's got me wondering what hotels pay USA Today on average per newspaper? I'd always assumed it was free or at least nearly free, just an ad delivery mechanism. But now you've got me curious.
I thought the point of it was space tourism (eventually “affordable) and how inspiring it would be for more people to get to see the earth from that perspective.
True to a degree. Still, I typically see tags listing fabric composition of clothing and am able to choose to wear e.g. near 100% cotton or wool. Also, at least a fabric is normally in use by the final consumer/wearer for some time.

The uses I listed are, sadly, completely hidden and are all in disposables.

Personally, I would not be opposed to a regulation that would mandate big red warning labels with plastic content breakdown on at least all of such disposable goods and accompanying paraphernalia that are not entirely void of plastic; or indeed a hefty “plastic tax”.
What are these simple routines?
It's not entirely fair to blame Japan for its attack, as there was a lot of signaling by Washington that taking the strategic base at Hawaii would not be opposed. We might not have been attacked if we hadn't invited it, and there's reason to believe that implicit invitation was extended intending to give the U.S. an excuse to enter the war.
Branson does have a long history of doing things that'd make an insurer break out in hives. E.g. assorted boating and ballooning record attempts.
I suspect “with no tracking” is more important than “with no ads” for most people.

People happily tolerated ads in print media for at least a century. The pivot from display ads to surveillance capitalism is what I hear most (non-tech) people complain about.

Also, per-user targeted ads undermine the value of premium ad real estate, letting middlemen (like Google) eat the content producers’ lunch, all while providing minimal value to web sites and consumers.

(Yes, they subsidize their “free” services with the revenue they extracted from the publishing industry, but that’s just predatory pricing, with the goal of precluding consumer-friendly computing stacks.)
$100/month pay surprised me as being way too low.
It's like the WSJ, except for people who don't like big words.
It’s not full proof, but the heuristic that your stakeholder will ask you for the same thing next week (or immediately ask you to do the same thing but slightly differently) has held pretty true for me
Thanks for clarifying. Any idea how that flag ended up on the jerseys? That's kind of printing the Reichkriegsflagge on German jerseys, with the true equivalant, the Nazi fla, being outlawed.
Hmm, interesting article. It does kind of pointless for this newspaper.
In the US. Different story in Europe or other places
I'd rather spend war funds on building our own infrastructure. American infra is falling apart. I think regardless of the %, it is simple - Afghan war has an opportunity cost.
Other than the windows dependence, what’s the issue with blueiris? I’ve tried the others you’ve listed as well and found it to be the most robust by quite a bit. I wish the web interface were better, and having to use a reverse proxy or vpn to get mobile access is also… meh.
True, but it adds a level of mystery to the activity. When everything is expected to be perfect, unexpected imperfections draw attention.
In the article it mentioned she made 100/month as intern. You can make more money working at McDonalds. It must not have been the US. I think developers in the US have it pretty good.
This will be great for dubbing, no doubt.
I was thinking more about the negative aspects, though. Altering historical recordings to spread misinformation, fake audio recordings "exposing" politicians getting leaked to the public,... things like that.
Rather owning any house
Is pushing the frontier of space such a bad idea?
https://www.virgingalactic.com/articles/virgin-galactic-unve...
https://www.nyteknik.se/energi/eu-forslag-skapar-strid-om-sv...

Run it through a translator if you don't read Swedish.
Exactly. Many opeds have been written about this. Here's one:
https://time.com/5696950/bring-back-the-draft/

The general populace, those that supply their children as cannon/IED fodder, has no control of the "game". I propose that all of Congress and those that work for the federal gov't must send their children into these wars as general infantry. Let's see what happens to our forever wars then.
I get that we're all excited about space, this one rated a "meh" for me.

SpaceX is doing more ambitious things and already launched people into space.
US road safety is awful, but the numbers of deaths (15 per 100k drivers) is small in absolute terms, 1%. Other accidents count for another 4%.

But physical and mental healthcare plays a major part in the other 95% of deaths.
"It works at least on Linux and Windows 98 Second Edition, 2000 Service Pack 4, XP, and 7."
Wonder if author actually tested on Win98SE in 2021 :-)