skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you sure? The Taliban have RPGs.
We've got a rescue Border Collie, and our theory is that she was abandoned because she's the laziest collie in existence.

She was trained to some degree, probably reasonable harshly, but just doesn't show the signs of wanting to be active and do things. (other than walkies). Running - a bit, like 10 meters, and then it's back to the trot. Balls, no. Sticks, no. General Dog play, no. Couch? yes.

We've fostered other collies, and they've been far more active. Even little pups will try to herd the cat (and sometimes succeed).
> Can Discord do that? Nope.

I use discord to relay in game chat from the game Everquest to my phone. Surely it can relay other types of text, too.
Regular guns are sufficiently potent weapons to give the government trouble. Whatever else you might think of him and his stunt, Ammon Bundy proved that.
The rationale for preventing citizens leaving is that they may catch COVID abroad then rely on govt. intervention to get back home as a "stranded" Aussie. This is of course nonsense, as govt. intervention to get home has been worth exactly fuck all over the last 18 months. An acquaintance of mine went overseas for his mother's funeral, was told he wasn't allowed to return, managed to get back on the constraint that he flew business (we want rich people back here, after all), then had to fly to South Australia (we are in NSW), quarantine for two weeks, hire a car, and drive back to NSW where he was required to quarantine for two weeks at the border before returning home.

Whether all that was indeed necessary to prevent the spread of COVID (despite several negative tests and all but total isolation in that time) is up for debate, but yes the government certainly makes it as hard as possible to enter the country, virtually impossible unless you can purchase upper-class tickets (bribe the border force).
They did that; Howard Springs is a remote quarantine facility. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/20/world/australia/howard-sp...
I go further and wonder why don't we do that (steroids, growth hormones, sarms, everything) in advance as people reach certain age (and their natural secretion of the hormones falls below certain level). I feel inspired by Dr. Life and feel like starting taking hormones (from the black market, European doctors will never prescribe this officially) as I reach 50-60.

AFAIK the growth hormone even rejuvenates the thymus, the immune system (and may prevent cancer this way, if not over-used) and is the only way to trigger regeneration of joints.
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Surely there are other ways of increasing density than some concrete tower dystopia? I mean, there's this entire movement, 'new urbanism' or whatever you want to call it, which is specifically about creating nice AND decently high density towns and cities.

IMHO, the Bay Area is its own kind of dystopia, with low-density 'burbia spreading like a mat over the (previously beautiful, I presume) landscape. Even things like central Santa Clara are quite low density, with wide (very wide!) streets, low houses (typically 1-2 stories) set back far from the streets with ginormous parking lots.
> I also believe in intolerance of intolerance

I also like being able to justify intolerance towards anyone I want by labeling them "intolerant". Same as only caring about those I want to care about and only supporting free speech that I agree with. Makes everything much easier.
Didn't know. Savage! Good luck and wish you success!
The USGOV has bombed it's own citizens before, but it probably wouldn't go over as well in the age of twitter as in the past.
Yea so the Lebowski one was the only one I really agree with, and even that's is a stretch. We have to believe that the title is actually mistepresenting the genre... Maybe but it's still liated as a comedy.

The other 2 examples did not make any sense to me at all.

I guess to summarise what I mean: of course people want to make good covers. It seems these accusations depend on us really assuming a very nefarious intent. It just feels like any art couod be clickbait by that. Eg. If they used an image if a bowling ball, I could say 'Well, this movie isnt about bowling!'
Telegram also added this a few months ago.
I really hate it that when I'm digesting an episode of Rick and Morty I have to scramble for the remote or I'm watching some completely uninteresting series about a family in the 19th century or something. I just want the end screen and sounds to finish and then turn off the telly and go to bed. In stead I feel slapped in the face.

Consistently my watching experience ends with (increasingly large) negative feelings. How can that be a good choice for a company offering watching experiences?
Why the pessimism, really? In my opinion we need both a severe reduction in carbon output AND carbon removal technologies. Any progress in either of those is a step forward. Don't be so dismissive, this is a young technology that can really make a difference, provided we invest enough money into the problem.
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A little bit of feedback on namy.ai

Small improvement: filter by type of domain (.com, .ai, etc)

Big improvement: filter false positives, it showed some sites as available, but they were taken (those were sites with English dictionary names .com , which I think are pretty much taken 99% of time).

If you hit 3 cool names that are supposedly available and then it turns out they are not, you are unlikely to use the suggestion site again.
Cultural habits?
US psychologist justifies quote “whites should commit suicide as an ethical act”
A person acknowledging and countering a stereotype is not responsible for the existence of the stereotype.
Donda Stem Player: Customise Songs and Stems
The US government certainly has better guns than the Taliban. Let's see how that's working out for them. Oh, my...
As per beginning of TFA: it was possible, found out and then fixed.
I'm not familiar with OS internals, but i believe having a system-wide consistent design (whole haiku is a monorepo) would enable you to simplify a lot of stuff.

Also, many modern distros and desktop environments are bloated: you either have a choice between a full-featured, resource-hungry desktop (Gnome/KDE) or an efficient minimalist window manager (i3/sway). I believe the same applies to different parts/layers of the system.

Haiku doesn't have the same feature set (yet) as full-featured modern desktops and doesn't have to deal with dozens of compatibility layers, so maybe that's also part of the reason it fares better.
I was able to close it on Firefox on Android, on both stable and nightly release channels.
Not making a lot of moolah but here is the current iteration:

- HTTP API: Rust, type checks are really useful as web apps are often just messaging. Not being able to cleanly assert JSON structure in dynamic languages started to become an issue.

- DB: SQLite. Not having to manage servers, and just “click to open in GUI” on Mac OS makes development easier.

- Hosting: Google Container OS, Docker, regional disk replication. Every SQLite tx commit is replicated to two zones, the db is incrementally snapshotted hourly.

- UI: TS, React, MobX. Got tired of Reacts state APIs changing every year so just froze on MobX.

- Editor: IntelliJ. I am happy to pay monthly to not deal with plugins. Search is very fast and type aware. Works with all languages with the same shortcuts.
I don't know about streaming (have no use for it and it sounds like a kitchen sink), but Telegram has everything else you've listed.
Arrow (YC S21) aims to cut drop-offs in ecommerce
I cant find the history of Loadlin. When did it came out? It seemed to be the gateway from MSDOS to Linux Shell. If you had no experience with Windowing systems, or just shitty machine, you slowly turned into Linuxer without paying much attention to details.
I used things like twm or fvwm at the time. in 2021, xmonad works well.

My concern, though, is that:

1) I've never seen modern "lightweight" distros work well. There isn't critical mass, and it's always my wifi or bluetooth or something. In the nineties, there were Linux HOWTOs. In 2021, there's always some kludge written by Ubuntu wrapping some kludge written by Red Hat wrapping some half-baked API and no documentation.

2) The instant you run an app, you lose all the upside. Firefox or Chrome can eventually eat up all available memory. Most apps are super-bloated, e.g. written in JavaScript/electron, and distributed in some containerized VM or some nonsense like that. If you skim out the 5% between apps and iron, it just doesn't help much.

3) Dependencies. If you want Bluetooth sound....

Is void better? Or does it somehow address this?
It's nice to have a messaging option that isn't owned by a single company. Of course it will never succeed because Apple will never support it.
> Has the government of Australia given any rational for banning Australians from leaving?

Somewhere after "flatten the curve", Australia aimed for "covid zero" - so they don't want any cases in the country, at all. They did well at that for most of the pandemic, but now delta is running rampant.

They don't want anyone leaving, because they know you'll just come back again and you might bring covid in.

> What is the public discourse like over this?

There was a court case about it being unconstitutional, but it got over ruled because "dangerous times". [1]

> I also heard that Australia was making it very difficult for Australians who were abroad prior to COVID from coming back, is that true?

(for what it's worth, I returned to Australia from Canada in late June 2021 - so I went through all of this).

Again, they're trying to keep covid out, so they have a strict limit on the number of people that can fly into the country from the outside world. Right now it's 3,035 people per week for the entire country [2]. With numbers so restricted, and a mandatory 2 weeks of being locked in a hotel for the cost of $3000, it's difficult to get a flight. From Canada it wasn't nearly as bad as the media makes it out to be, but supposedly there are well over 10,000 people "trying" to get back... though in my experience, and talking to everyone in my quarantine hotel and on my flight, I don't actually believe that's true.

> Has that changed much? Again, does the government give a rational for this decision? And the discourse?

The incoming people cap was halved in July because of the current Delta outbreak (which escaped hotel quarantine). The government's justification is "dangerous times". The discourse is "this is being done for your safety, and you should be thankful".

> I'm a bit baffled by the fact that it has managed to get in a few times and more specifically how it has managed to get in.

After going through it myself, I'm shocked covid didn't escape quarantine more. Just in Sydney airport more than 10 people spoke face to face with all of us arrivals, touched my passport with bare hands, etc. etc. Multiple people picked up and moved my bags, were physically close to me in elevators, etc. etc.
If I were running the show, anyone coming into the country would be treated like they had the zombie plague and nobody would get within 10 feet of them. Certainly nobody would be touching their bags and physically touching documents.

> the simple solution is to route all international flights to an airport in remote location (not one in a large city) where absolutely everyone involved in the process be they passengers, crew or quarantine staff must stay for two weeks with zero exceptions.

Surely good in theory, but where will you find a remote location with a big enough airport and enough accommodation you can just take over? also remember staff want to have days off, food must be delivered, people in quarantine want packages delivered, etc. etc.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/asia-pacific-australia-lifestyle-...

[2] https://www.mondaq.com/australia/health-safety/1090494/decre...
Doesn't this backfire? As in, you are free to commit wire fraud, because of this similarity to "international waters"?
Yes, the first line item you mention is rumored to be true. Apple has been apparently working on a search engine. Given their desire to subtly influence social mores while bowing out of true progressive change (beyond LGBTQ+ lip service and pretending to adopt diversity policies), while manifesting total inability to move past their puritanical fear of adult content or basically anything outside the superficial normie sphere of influence, I doubt it will be nuanced or have enough of a "wow factor" to be any better than AltaVista circa 1998 or to scoop up any following. Lol Siri can't even perform contextually relevant suggestive searches or respond in kind back with cues after giving a static response to a query. To think they have the bargaining power to compete with Google is silly, but it shows how Google just wants to throw money at this market (iOS devices) and fears the potential for a competitor to actually release a competing product.

Think different ™ *

* unless the think is too different
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> I come from an age where swapping floppy disks to share code was acceptable

You mean... from the age of Debian? :-) How many floppies was the original install? Something like 15?
If the guns pose no threat to would-be tyrants, why would they need to take them away?

We expect our government to protect our individual rights and allowing citizens to maintain some degree of dangerousness is a nod to that effect. Even basic arms are great equalizers allowing anyone to protect themselves fairly well in practice.
Another thing to keep in mind is that a lot of bad science manages to get published even in the best journals. Science always is about preliminary information about the best current understanding of things.
I haven't used Google Chat yet, but Teams and Slack just feel very sluggish on my slow-ish work ultrabook. Switching between chats or starting a call takes two seconds while Electron gobbles all CPU and RAM it can get. Discord on the other hand feels almost like a native app.
I used both BPC-157 and TB-500 for a grade 4 SLAP tear. There are different surgeries used for SLAP tears, and I could not find a surgeon that would do the surgery I wanted (in the UK). I can't remember the exact details, but one is more risky and has a higher chance of returning to pre-surgery performance (normally athletes would take this option). The other is less risky but screws up your performance (general population usually get this option). I could only get surgeons to agree to the latter in the UK.

Anyway, I went and injected both the peptides for 15 weeks, and after over a year of having a completely messed up shoulder, it fixed it well enough that I can surf.

I was going to transfer to a US office to get the surgery done, but covid fucked up my transfer. I'll probably never compete in a powerlifting event again, but I can surf and that's good enough for me.

I injected 0.25mg of BPC-157 twice a day(near the shoulder) and 3mg of TB-500 every 3.5 days (into belly).

Disclaimer: not a doctor, just my experience. I bought them off random websites which in hindsight was insane. I was depressed and desperate. If you can get it from a real doctor/clinic, it would obviously be much better.
> On at least one occasion I was able to detect malware on my machine by noticing unexpected background network traffic via the light on my network hub blinking when it shouldn't have been.

That's golden. Would deserve a blogpost on its own.
That sounds horrible. We should focus on making good products that last a long time. What is the point of making something new and almost identical every 5 years?
Ideally, all functions should be async-transparent. That is, it should be up to the caller to decide how to invoke it. This is usually done with some form of green threading.

It all works great, right up until the moment you have to interop with another language/runtime that doesn't understand your bespoke async. Callbacks (and layers over them such as tasks/promises) are uglier and necessitate opt-in async, but you can interop them to anything that speaks the C ABI.
Maybe because Facebook's hiring process is slightly more sane than Google's, so they get more engineers with decent design/product sensibility and fewer engineers who just grinded a bunch of coding tests.
> There are single street zip codes (aka postal codes) all over Canada

Screw that, in UK zip codes can be less than single building.

My zip code corresponds to flats 90-180 in my building.
Good to see this bit:

> Note however that there is a substantial portion of the web which is unmaintained and will
effectively never be updated (including historical archives like archive.org). It may be useful to
look at how long chromium has had the behavior in question to get some idea of the risk that a
lot of unmaintained code will depend on it. A breaking change being trivial to accommodate
does not necessarily mean it is low risk. In general we believe in the principle that the vast
majority of websites should continue to function forever.
> and becoming a bloated mess

too late
> I've certainly had more difficulty setting up Linux today

What kind of difficulties?
Off-topic but I really need a clarification on that:
I was told that we have already switched from a situtation where the most alarming greenhouse effect gas in the atmosphere was CO2, to a situation where the atmosphere is hot enough to hold much more H2O (as water vapour), making it the (vastly) most dangerous greenhouse effect gas.
So the greenhouse effect is now self-inducting itself mainly via H2O.
Anyone is aware of that, and can comment?
> Sure, matching a hash isn't a crime and you will eventually be exonerated.

s/will/might/
> 2nd amendment is so high on the list for this exact reason.

The order of ammendments is chronological, not one of importance.
I wonder if any South Africans in Australia are wishing they had stayed. Pick your poison right?
General introduction to the TSP problem video by a member of the winning team:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vQMFVLa7yYQ
If you hear a loud bang, that will be the RMS smug-o-meter exploding.
Remote work tech will do more for car CO2 emissions than what electric cars will ever do. My theory is that EVs won't succeed at all as cars, BUT they will be great as backup batteries with wheels for home-solar installations.
I know nothing about housing, but I am always perplexed about size of US houses. My sister has 9 room house, and it is considered small! My parents here in northern Europe has house twice as small, and it is more than enough for them.

Maybe it is part of the problem. Smaller house obviously is cheaper to build and maintain.
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> There's just no competition to any other voice chat system out there

Steam's voice chat is nice. Somehow low latency VOIP where you don't interrupt eachother due to lag is something only gamers need ...

Skype used to be good too. Somewhere down the line they switched to some high latency mess.
You have some weird definition of freedom with which I am not familiar. To me, freedom would mean I could, at a minimum, go wherever I want to go, and meet whoever I want to meet, without government interference.

And if there are any epidemiological recommednations, _voluntary_ compliance would too mean freedom, but _only_ voluntary.

By your definition people in prisons are "free" too - most of them are locked up for a reason. And yet they can't go anywhere, and are most definitely non-free.
In theory this system already exists with emission rights, but the problem I have with that is that everyone just gets an X amount of emission rights - and then gets the right to sell them, providing an additional source of income. Tesla famously earns a billion a year from selling their emission rights.

So that system can work, but don't give out the emission rights for free, have the companies buy them and invest the money earned in removing emissions from the air again.
Perhaps you are right that the outrage should have come much earlier. I myself avoided Apple since a long time. However, it's better late than never. I'm glad people are finally waking up.

See also: https://stallman.org/apple.html and https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/apple.
Discord has done some shady stuff for quite some time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/coo3h6/discord_use...
On Android at least there is also a separate Chat app you can install: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
You'll find that I no longer post to Ello due to numerous issues, including those rather annoying elements you describe.

It's unfortunate as the platform was clean and does do some things well (Markdown and quite nice image display).

It managed to kill off an active discussion community quite effectively however. With an effectiveness that strongly suggests intent.

Believe me, it's annoying for me as well even to visit and link back my old content from there.

More, if you can take the pain ;-)

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/8yvblh2kk33or_oz5nvmhw
Love it. Would you mind putting it on Github and making the licence MIT so that I can use it and link back to you? I really like it, makes it so easy to read. Big like for the nice transition on hovering links as well.
Whatever money we spend on a Gen 1 plant can’t also be spent on Gen 2 plant. Whatever CO2 emissions we create while making a Gen 1 plant can’t be used again to make a Gen 2 plant. Whatever land we dedicate... Whatever ongoing power is used less efficiently for decades to come...

I think there might be ample valid reasons to think 20 years from the starting line could be better for waiting rather than racing to get an inferior Gen 1 plant online in the name of doing something. This is partly a political/social problem, but it’s largely an engineering calculation. “At the end of the useful life of both plants, which leaves the planet and humans better off?” should be the guiding question.
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I'm not sure what do you mean by "kitchen sink", but at work we do often share screen with eachothers

e.g when somebody needs help with something / to help debug something or show current version of app to my product owner.

It's very handy feature
Google need Apple user’s click stream data to rank the search results?
I'm in the same boat as you. My question is, does this hyperoptimisation of preferences actually work for anyone other than children? I guess Netflix thinks it does.
If even FreeBSD switched to Git I don't think there's any reason for other projects to not do the same, other than inertia/lack of resources.

And I'm saying this as someone who's not super fond of Git (especially the UI).
Would be interesting to see a comparison between a perceived prohibitively expensive carbon-free alternative, and the use of carbon capture in order to offset the pollution of cheaper technology that is not carbon-free.

Like, would a coal power plant combined with carbon capture be more economical viable than a nuclear plant?
Theoretically. Practically, that legal theory is just a smokescreen for the willingness of the government to overlook any misdeeds by the secret services. Prosecutors and courts got the hint and didn't investigate any further. However, if you are a non-state-sponsored criminal, of course you will be prosecuted. "Qvod licet iovi, non licet bovi" is a very important legal principle ;)

Also, later on, the government just legalized what the BND was doing, thereby invalidating any future attempt at prosecution for that past crime against the BND. Yet still maintaining the illegality for everyone else.
Yeah I'm done. I was still on Hangouts with one family member, but not moving to Chat or any future Google app. I'm mostly on Signal now.
And when a storm hits? No electricity?