skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate babying hand crafted items for this reason. Or flagship phones. Conscientiously downgraded to burner mid-tiers that I toss around without worry. I go out of my way to make a knick somewhere ASAP to pop the bubble of new item preciousness. Buying second hand is great too.

With exception of classic monobloc chairs, I really appreciate industrial, mass produced, value engineered products that brought affordability to the masses. Including relatively high-margin Apple products. Most cheap products are still developed by competent designers with adequate production oversign. But ecommerce and cheap global shipping started flooding markets with subpar products or knock offs designed for developing markets (i.e. Chinesium). So one has to be more vigilent with with purchases these days. That said design and quality for indigenous PRC brands has largely caught up with modernization, I wouldn't hesisitate to fill my life with Xiaomi/Mijia products for 1/2 the cost if they were more accessible. No more tier level distinction of same MD player between Japanese / Korean / Taiwan / PRC factories.
The videos I'm thinking of that someone sent to me are way outside of what I would normally watch, so seeing that exact video in recommendations and other videos from the same channel immediately afterwards on the home page can't be a coincidence. But most of the time what I watch doesn't affect recommendations, only the odd time.

In addition to curating what I want to see with upvotes/subscriptions, I also use the "Not interested" and "Don't recommend channel" buttons heavily. For some reason YouTube always recommends those stupid "meditation music" videos, even though I have never watched one and I always block those channels. Honestly, YouTube's recommendation engine is shite; even when I tell them exactly what I like, it still recommends absolute tripe, and most of what I discover comes from external (personal) recommendations.
You should read Sowell to get the full picture.

Yes, in many cases a prestigious college degree is just a social signal. But that doesn’t materially change anything. Let’s concede for a moment that all college degrees are simply a ticket to an upper middle class lifestyle. Then that seems to imply the students receiving the degree were already essentially prepared for upper middle class lifestyle upon entrance to college. Those being thrown into the mix from underprivileged communities majorly are not. It’s even worse than the charitable interpretation whereby colleges confer essential skills to their graduates. You're just giving people a fancy suit and hoping they figure out how to use it to get a job.

I’ve experienced this first hand with the posse program. One of my closest friends in college was a posse member. It has been heart breaking to watch them struggle and regress after college. My friend group and I have tried to help, motivate, and encourage, the best we could exiting college and at various points since. We helped them get into TFA. They gave up after 6 months. We tried to get him jobs. Nothing and now they’ve essentially disappeared and rarely interface with us anymore. This person has a special wit about them, they’re bright and deserving as any of a successful life. The college ticket simply isn’t enough for this person because so much of their identity is tied to the community of people they developed in the first 18 years of life. 4 years and a degree is too little too late.

So this is the entire point: it’s incredibly naive and reeks of a search for an an easy out to sit back any say that college is the only thing that matters the challenge is simply getting people in so let’s just skip the challenge and fudge the numbers and “get them in”. I don't care if your provocative econ class taught you college is just a signaling process, that’s a rash short sighted response to an intense submission to “white” guilt. The challenge is solving the challenge. The challenge is providing resources required to hoist entire communities out of their rut so they can be held to the same standards as everyone else, the answer is not to trash our standards (as we’re literally doing by removing standardized tests from admission processes) and regress our expectations to the lowest common denominator.
Why that's true! It's a real shame some people don't understand there's no first amendment protection on social media. Nor is there at your day job, but I digress.
Of course, the benefit of Starship is that it can (in theory) do that several times a day.
> It's nuts how widespread these ideas about EVs are, even amongst people where I honestly would have expected something more.

It’s not nuts, they’re just bad faith arguments.
And that's how, (in my head,) we ended up with the international spelling of "Česko" using the Polish "cz".
I too am thinking of FL. Any particular city you are interested in?
An interesting detail is that a CO2 pipeline may be a little more dangerous than a methane pipeline.

Methane is lighter than air and leaves the scene quickly; even if it catches on fire the flames are high above the ground and radiate a lot of heat to space, where early-warning missile launch detection satellites will tell the world you screwed up in a few minutes. Unlike a solid material fire on the ground it doesn't create brands that fall down and start more fires in other places.

CO2 on the other hand will sink into low spots and could possibly suffocate people.

CO2 pipelines, for one thing, will need many more shut-off valves when they pass near populated areas.
Another great reason for self hosting if you or an organization you work for will ever be at odds with a governmental power structure:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_administration_data_seiz...

The most notable example of self hosting going right is CNN, they self hosted their emails and were therefore able to fight the court order until it is narrowed and there was a change of leadership in the white house & DoJ.

If you aren't going to self host write it into the contract that you must be informed (Google pushed back on court order because it would have violated the contract with NYT)

Instances of data seizure that went unimpeded: Phone records (both work and personal) for all orgs. Emails for Politico, buzzfeed, the Times, a congressional staffer, and more. iCloud metadata for at least a dozen individuals associated with the House Intelligence Committee, and more.
ok. I can understand that.
German Occupation of the Channel Islands
It exceeds Saturn V on the second launch that day. ;-)
It's very hard to believe that you're able to make such a complex and erudite argument as this, and yet you're utterly unable to parse something as simple as "lion is to feline as close is to distant, true/false". Both tasks require the same basic skills.
Starship brings any 100 tonnes to orbit, while of Saturn V's 120+ tons a half constitutes the 3rd stage with unspent fuel. So it's less of payload per ce for Saturn V compared to Starship.

On the other hand, Starship didn't fly to orbit yet. We'll see better how it goes when it does. And we can't fly Saturn V now anyway. And Starship - even if supposedly with lower payload - promises to be much cheaper. And...
Can this fruit be saved? (2005)
We need an alternative. Simple personal Rss will do. Users will go wherever the techies tell them to go
Back around 1985 or so, there used to be a glut of loose Thai bud in the Bay Area. It was dense and dark brown (like chocolate). But the importers eventually got busted and that was the end of that.
I disagree too... you can't even refer to a file in the same folder without using some magic (adding current folder to the path), which is a huge barrier when starting.
My iPhone X has burn-in from Google maps navigation. The killer combination seems to have been many hours on a mount in the sunlight behind my windshield, running a moderately intensive app (generating a fair amount of heat) that always has a few static elements (the car arrow, a few circular buttons) and keeping the screen on 100% of the time.

It's not particularly noticeable unless you're looking at an all-white web page or email or something, though. I switched to Apple maps navigation for a while because it avoids nearly all the above factors (fewer static elements, dark theme by default, actually turns the screen off during long stretches of "keep going straight for 40 miles") but eventually went back because I'm so used to the Google maps UX (and I stopped driving such long distances regularly).
At the liquor store where I live you can't bring your kids inside with you to buy alcohol.
Someone critical of python while posting on medium.com. I think that kind of sums it up.
It's more like "I want the world to understand code, and I don't think we get here with bougie languages that divide learning instead of emboldening it." Language should be easy, it shouldn't be a ring-kissing circle jerk. Clojure is not on any early learning platforms. There's a reason for that. Children don't understand brackets, cause you know, children. If you look at the data on children learning languages, Lisp and languages like it actually divert wouldbe programmers away. Not something I consider positive.
A master of the dark arts I presume.
We might, and we are (just not Jupiter's moons)! The Dragonfly mission (https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu), will launch in 2027 and arrive at Saturn's moon Titan in 2036.

Dragonfly is a nuclear powered octo-copter, that will fly autonomously on the moon. Titan's small gravitational field and dense atmosphere (about 1.45x Earth's atmospheric pressure) make it one of the best places in the Solar System for flight. The general flight plan is to charge up batteries with the MMRTG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-mission_radioisotope_the...), take off, scout a new potential landing area, land in a previously scouted landing area. On one battery charge, it will be able to fly up to 10km, and stay aloft for up to 30 minutes. Dragonfly will carry out scientific sampling both on the ground and in the air.

To quote Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(spacecraft)) about why Titan is an interesting spot for science:

> Titan is similar to the very early Earth, and can provide clues to how life may have arisen on Earth. In 2005, the European Space Agency's Huygens lander acquired some atmospheric and surface measurements on Titan, detecting tholins,[29] which are a mix of various types of hydrocarbons (organic compounds) in the atmosphere and on the surface.[30][31] Because Titan's atmosphere obscures the surface at many wavelengths, the specific compositions of solid hydrocarbon materials on Titan's surface remain essentially unknown.[32] Measuring the compositions of materials in different geologic settings will reveal how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed in environments that provide known key ingredients for life, such as pyrimidines (bases used to encode information in DNA) and amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.[33]

> Areas of particular interest are sites where extraterrestrial liquid water in impact melt or potential cryovolcanic flows may have interacted with the abundant organic compounds. Dragonfly will provide the capability to explore diverse locations to characterize the habitability of Titan's environment, investigate how far prebiotic chemistry has progressed, and search for biosignatures indicative of life based on water as solvent and even hypothetical types of biochemistry.[6]

> The atmosphere contains plentiful nitrogen and methane, and strong evidence indicates that liquid methane exists on the surface. Evidence also indicates the presence of liquid water and ammonia under the surface, which may be delivered to the surface by cryovolcanic activity.
That's the same software with different UI backends.

If you click the "entirely different URL", it redirects to the HN post's URL. The AUR URL is apparently the URL of the author's company, and I guess that the editor moved to its own URL now.
> Less CO, CO2, nitrogen compounds, and brake dust (possibly containing asbestos!) near residential and commercial areas is a good thing.

Don't forget the exotic catalyst metals continuously ablating in the exhaust stream one can literally mine from the shoulders of busy freeways.
A lot of universities' computer science departments do something like this. They'll have a cluster of machines in a room somewhere for undergrads and grads to SSH into and use as they please. Those are usually run by IT, but grad students in ML fields will often have another set of machines with specific GPUs in their own offices that are completely student-run.
so is this satire?
99.995% of the water use to grow alfalfa ends up in the local atmosphere, to go wherever the winds and/or diffusion takes it presumably eventually coming back out as rain or dew somewhere.

Only 0.005% ends up actually in the alfalfa to be exported to wherever the exported alfalfa goes.

Similar for almonds. I don't know the exact amount, but an upper limit is 0.03% of the water exported with the almond, and 99.97% left behind in the local atmosphere or local ground. That upper limit comes from counting the entire mass of the almond as water.

There are legitimate grounds to criticize growing high water usage crops in regions that do not have enough water naturally, but exporting water is not one of them.
The jobs program is the practical use - national security requires maintaining an industrial base, or at least that's the theory (don't know how valid it is).
What are those numbers for American suburbs?

We're not comparing to the third world here, we're comparing across models of living in the developed world.
> When you use third-party services, the government can go to them. The third party might not fight the request the same way you would. And, you might not even know it happened. The third party might be expressly forbidden from telling you it happened, in fact.

I just read the LinkedIn Incident [1] from the Darknet Diaries, and it's scary how the FBI managed to get all that information about the Russian hacker.

[1] https://darknetdiaries.com/transcript/86/
I thought all Tesla employees get stock, is that not right?
Indeed. One theory of Taichi is that Taichi was invented as a military martial arts back in the early Ming dynasty. Eventually it degenerated to a physical exercise.
> What is the purpose of modules?

So parts of the system can be managed independently.

> The answer to the second is the answer to the first.

Clearly not - since circular modules cannot be managed independently!
That’s looking at a single launch and neglecting the refuel ability.
That sounds good, but having no demographic stats is the opposite of sunlight. I don't believe it makes systemic racism go away, it just sweeps it under the rug.
Here’s the corresponding blog post from the researcher, describing how they discovered the vulnerability: https://blog.ryotak.me/post/cdnjs-remote-code-execution-en/
The LinkedIn Incident
It seems a bit presumptuous that in an industry with many, many actors, that it seems that the vast majority did not license the patent?
A lot of this is property taxes which has nothing to do with the banks
You seems to be understanding this better than I do.

I understand that if a commercial property gets rented out at 80% of its previous rent that causes a reduction in the valuation of the property. What I don't understand, shouldn't not-renting it out cause an even bigger dip?

An 80% reduced property brings in 20% less income to the owner, but if the property is empty that means the owner has to pay for maintenance out of their pocket. (maintaining the roof, keeping the squatters away etc. However cheap these expenses are, it is clearly not zero dollar.) The property becomes from an asset to a liability. (in the colloquial sense at least, as you can hear I'm not well versed in economics.) How does that not decimate the valuation like crazy?
> (Nearly?) All ChromeOS devices use CoreBoot. You really can't get much more open than that.

Last time I looked, it was really hard to install anything other than ChromeOS on Chromebook hardware. You can install a chrooted Linux on them, yes, but on the device itself you can't even execute unsigned binaries.

Impossible? No. Harder than executing an installer with elevated rights? Yes. Plus, they also come with pre-installed software like Google Docs.

> Android is open source and if you don't buy a locked down device from a carrier,

That's quite a big if. Android itself is open source, yes, but >90% of the ecosystem rely on Google Play services, which are anything but. And, when talking about pre-installed apps that the user can't remove without a lot of effort, Android basically invented that.

> the bootloader is unlockable and the system easily rootable.

If you wipe your device and void your warranty. And then install a third-party binary to actually use those rights, while similarly loosing the ability to use quite a few apps (like banking). That is, if the manufacturer makes it that easy (Xiaomi, for example, needs you to sign up and wait for that - it's possible, but anything but frictionless).

> Now, if you were to mention MacOS and iOS... then you definitely would have had a point

I can't talk about MacOS, to be honest. Though, as far as I know, getting a root shell is not hard and running own software is not a problem.

We agree on iOS, but the grandparent talked about PCs - iOS really does not fall into that category (that's why I explicitly mentioned smartphones).

> Your two examples of something more 'not my pc anymore' than Windows aren't exactly good ones.

Windows is not a good example of that. Don't get me wrong, I don't like windows. But it's by far not the worst example of a locked-down, vendor-owned system and it would be even less bad if the administration UX would be simpler.
Humans are drawn to the unknown. This desire is how we have dominated a planet. Regardless of the risk there will always be someone willing to go for the sole purpose of being first. Embrace the irrational exhuberance. It is how we got to where we are now. It is how we advance into the future. Even if we fail to become a spacefaring species we will learn many new things in the endeavour.
A government is also accountable to the citizens while a private company is only accountable to its shareholders. That's a pretty big difference.
There you go. They can suspend or ban whoever they want and whenever due to their slippery 'guidelines' and even if you criticise them or attempt to sue them over this, they will just say: 'Too bad. We just a private platform and the account violated our guidelines.'

Do people 'really' think that they 'own' their Twitter accounts when they can be taken away in an instant?
Paywalled. I don't understand why people published to Medium.
As you say, it means the bank’s underwriting process failed. It makes more sense to me that they eat the loss caused by their error and auction off the property at a price the rental market will bear. Papering over bad underwriting with dishonest valuations doesn’t strike me as worth sacrificing cities’ commercial vibrancy for.
>...and are totally motivated to go back to linux.

Windows 10 was what broke me and got me to using Linux full time. Before that, I barely knew how to even just get my way through debian to resume a disconnected screen session. Now I prefer to be in Linux. Even if the software that I can run using Wine/PlayOnLinux/Proton/Lutris isn't 100%... it's sufficient to where I don't miss being on Windows at all.

I recently upgraded my main system and used the extra parts to rebuild my Win 10 standby box. I grew up on Windows. Started with Win3.0/DOS and used every iteration except WinME and Vista... and the rebuild only reminded me how much of a pain in the ass Windows is to install. 10 still has a lot of the usability bugs I've encountered from way back in the Win98 days but all the extra crap we have to deal with now (most inconsistent and overencumbered UI ever) just makes it even more of a chore to use than it ever has been.

For what it's worth, Foobar2K runs great in Wine.
Definitely a bug. The Unix equivalent would be a package update silently making /etc/shadow world readable, exposing the hashed passwords of local users.

Not a big deal for a single user machine — there’s nothing you can do with this that you can’t do some other way as a local admin/root — but not good if you have untrusted, non-admin user accounts.
Been there. But what I try to do is just invite them.

Like literally tell them before hand the food is on me. Or find some stupid reason to pay for them.

Even if it's just two pizzas, but it's at my place, I'll just pay and say it's our home and its on us. But if I bring the pizzas to someone's place I'll say it's their place so it's on me, lol.

I used to be poor, and always saw people pay for my stuff without second thought. I really love being able to do that now.
I don't think we are disagreeing on any points either - my intention was to expand the discussion I think. I totally agree history is very interesting.
I think the answer is that there is no other reasonable way to deliver pop/soda besides bottles. Whereas we have infrastructure for water delivery.

I'm a big bottled water drinker, but if I had to make an argument for why bottled water makes less sense than pop/soda, that would be it.
Show HN: Hyperhello.com
Is that because the 50% who don’t live in cities spend half their typical day in the nearest city?
Hello Hacker News, I wanted to show something I've been working on. It's an end-user tool for publishing progressive web apps with no skills, which I call <https://Hyperhello.com> -- My project is vanilla HTML5 with no libraries and is all hand-written. There is a full LPEG parser inside which I use to allow the user to directly edit elements as a kind of simplified alternative to both JSON and HTML. The editing environment is loosely based on classic Mac (text editing plus marching ants around draggable, double clickable elements), but I've also put some work into making the interface phone and tablet friendly. And I even distribute a Mac app. It's free to use with no email address, in fact you don't even need to accept cookies -- enjoy!

It intersects no-code and low-code, and it started as an outgrowth of my discomfort with the way "simplified" programming is presented. I've been coding for a long time, since the days of BASIC and Hypercard, then C, C++, Java, etc; and so on, and looking at "simplified" products in the space always strikes me that they must have been designed by engineers trying to create a "remedial" thing. For example, Google just published a toolkit for putting syntax together as colored puzzle pieces. I suppose that could help supplement an education, but it would not be used to build anything. So that's what motivates me to try to do better than.
The FAA Changed Its Definition of 'Astronaut' Same Day Jeff Bezos Went to Space
As far as I can tell, they only just figured out that a lot of people ingest THC by smoking it. Horror of horrors, this changes everything.

So fine, then. Why don’t we just make cigarettes illegal as well? As in, serious intent-to-distribute prison time for anyone caught with two packs or more? That’ll cut down on smoking, if that’s what everyone’s so worried about.

Or we could just keep doing what we’re already doing: continue to highlight the health issues behind smoking, ban it in public places, higher insurance premiums for smokers, etc.

I don’t know if this is just a stupid article or if there’s a larger agenda, but this reeks of concern-trolling from the Reefer Madness crowd.