skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had an AC tech ask us if we knew someone was living on our roof. Turns out an coworker's GF kicked him out of his house* and he was living up there.

Tent, free wifi, showers next to the bike room, full kitchen and big 80 inch TVs down in the conference rooms. He was livin' the life. He said he usually took down the tent and hid everything every morning but just got complacent.

*Yes. His house. She told the cops she felt in danger. Cops told him he had to stay somewhere else and go through the eviction process. Mad world.
I have a hunch that everyone who is against syntax highlighting is somewhat color blind.
I've been watching some broadcasts with RealPlayer, while following the events on IRC. Our national TV did not wake up to the events until maybe 5 hours later.
I currently subscribe to one Substack newsletter and so far I like it.

Even if Substack would tank I would still be able to read those articles in my e-mail client.

However, I’m quite selective with subscribing to newsletters. So if others are the same, that could be a limit on the potential growth of Substack.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/07/obesity-is-co...

Actually there has been a lot of research showing obesity as a social virus is contagious.
That MFA show really was amazing.
Geizhals is much older, was mostly focused on IT/electronics for many years and is thus strongest in these categories. Idealo is broader (due to its much larger team/company) but sometimes lacking detail where Geizhals is good, and vice-versa. Geizhals also covers the Austrian market better while Idealo is stronger in Germany.
Its a HTML meta tag that contains an address where to send/stream money similar to an email address but for value not text. The websites backed ofc revives data about that payment in real time and can change the content of the website based on that.
All I can think of is the people in Afghanistan when asked about 9/11 had never heard of it. We were attacked and then went after the wrong people.
It can be but usually isn't.

The value of a local, penalty-backed law is in it's ability to guide bulk behavior. These laws imply a bargain we make with our governments, that enforcement will be limited to the stated objective.

Reducing traffic speeds by citing a few speeders - this upholds that bargain. Citing every possible speeder while those fines fatten the police budget is a gross perversion.
Oh, and don’t forget the eternal holy war for the right asterisk/ampersand location! (SomeType* ptr vs. SomeType *ptr)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2660633/declaring-pointe...
Are all of those addresses aliases for the same mailbox? Do you run your own email server, or how do you manage creating a new address for each service with reasonable convenience?
"You practically CAN’T make your own. Facebook will stop you one way or another. Google who has a dollar or two"

Google+ was successful and Google shut it down for Google reasons.
If they gave away Google+ instead I can't think of anyone who wouldn't gladly take it off of their hands.

You can make your own facebook and facebook will not stop you. But people don't want another facebook, many are realizing they probably want off of facebook, replacing it with something similiar isn't helpful. What facebook offers (network effect) is the main value of the platform and replicating that is virtually impossible; nevermind in the same form as facebook.

Having Google+'s code day one would mean little without the users.
Yet, but you are also probably the sort of person who would browse this article and conversation. No offense intended, but not representative of the general population.
I think beef and dairy cows are different, right? I wonder what percentage are dairy versus beef?
> It's relevant in that language constrains what you can think.

What you can think is an issue that comes after whether you think and exist at all.

The article does not take a different approach. It's effectively engaging in a strawman argument (all encapsulated in the title itself).

My feeling is that the author wants to show that African philosophy holds its own compared to European/Western philosophy, but unfortunately she misses the target.
From my understanding, China's model of media control focuses more on dillution and distraction than on overt censorship.

Both exist. But the larger effort is put into distraction.

The recent Russian model is more on bullshit and subverting notions of trust entirely.

American propaganda seems largely based on a) what sells and b) promoting platitudes, wishful thinking, and c) (at least historically) heart-warming (rather than overtly divisive) notions of nationalism.

The c) case is now trending more toward divisive and heat-worming.
Unvaccinated People 11 Times as Likely to Die from Covid-19
https://archive.ph/ElMZ0
The worst part is this can be activated with CSS.
NFT about FreeBritney could go viral
Censorship is the sloppiest possible solution to the epistemological crisis. I thought we figured this out during the Enlightenment.
Breaking a browsers default behaviour IMO needs a good justification. This isn't a good justification.

If sharing would be really that important to your plattform, why not add it as an option that doesn't break expected behaviour?
In the UK and in person transactions that appears to be correct. For card not present (online) transactions its 2.50% ( https://help.sumup.com/en-GB/articles/4oI3qHHji2I2S9dyvRfec3... )

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For the US ( https://support.sumup.com/hc/en-us/articles/115008338687-Pri... )

> When you take payments over the phone or via payment link, you’ll pay 3.25% + $0.15 per remote transaction.
FWIW Delphi being ridiculously expensive for non-enterprise users was something they started back in early 2000s, long before Borland/Inprise/CodeGear was bought by Embarcadero. IIRC the last Delphi you could buy for cheap was Delphi 5 Standard for $99. In Delphi 6 (when they started going hard into enterprise stuff) the $99 tier was for Delphi 6 Personal which was only for non-commercial applications and by Delphi 2005 (2-3 versions later) the cheapest price was ~$500 (the free stuff was dropped, there was a free "Turbo Delphi" later but it was very limited and was based on one of the worst versions of the IDE and was discontinued - this "give some version for free only to take it away and not support it in the future" was also something that kept people away from Delphi even when CodeGear/Embarcadero/etc tried to give free stuff).
I think what you're describing is Forestry: https://forestry.io/
For me personally, the most overwhelming thing in my early days as a backend engineer was dealing with a lot of bugs that my Django apps produced. And fixing those bugs was a really hard process because I didn't understand much of what was going on under the hood.
Learning Flask in the very beginning will by no means by easy, but I'm pretty sure that pain is unavoidable regardless of the framework chosen. Choosing Flask at the start will probably postpone the point when a person is ready to ship products, but I believe it will lead to a much better foundational knowledge that will be an advantage in the long run
Test it with a feature-complete browser and see how it compares to Safari, then.
By one calculation, other person calculated 7.8 mil years for 95% of extinction mentioned on the same page.
As a layman there are probably few theories behind this statement:
1. The plane is not an energy monolith, any part of the plane larger than the building (eg wings) would have its own inertia which continues to rip off and around the building rather than drive all energy/mass attached to plane to the point of impact.
2. A smaller building may act like a plow if circular or hit on a corner, diverting energy as in 1.
3. If you simplify the side of a building to a supported plane, a larger plane may deform to failure more than a small plane due to the distance between supports ( other walls of building)
Substack is still in the “investors throwing money at them” phase. Medium is in the “squeezing every possible source of revenue to justify that investment” phase.
A bit closer is the X-Files spinoff The Lone Gunmen, where a March 2001 episode featured a plot to crash an airliner into the world trade center and blame it on terrorists to justify a new war.

Obviously 9/11 wasn't some government conspiracy to purposely spark new wars, but the other details are eerily similar.
As a metaphor, you can imagine a blind person in the wilderness who has no idea what is in front of him. He will proceed cautiously, perhaps probing the ground with a stick or his foot. You could also imagine a delusional man in the same wilderness incorrectly believing he's in the middle of a foot race. The delusional man just run forward at full speed. If the pair are in front of a cliff...

As the saying goes, it's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
1. Ubuntu 18 LTS

2. Meh, I never said it was on the OS. I'm just listing some reasons why it's impossible to use Linux on my personal desktop. Believe me, I've tried.
Firefox Sync is open source: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncserver
We created an open-source software to track tennis matches
Why it's hard to give computers common sense
If there's one job that doesn't exactly depend on what location you're working from...
Low-Level Vitalist Memeing
I declined to renew my Medium subscription a couple days ago. I had generally stopped visiting the site ages ago.

My problem is not with Medium's paywall. In principle, I'm 100% fine with being asked to pay to read something that someone else wrote. $5 per month doesn't bother me; I would gladly give even more if I felt that it was supporting the production of high-quality media. I already give many times that much to my local NPR and PBS stations.

My problem with Medium is the pay-per-read model. They have eliminated the actual ads, but left in place all of the incentive structures favoring the production of low-value clickbait articles.

That said, I don't want to harsh on writers for choosing Medium. Sure, they could use Hugo to slap together a blog. But, in order to get paid, they would probably end up needing to drop in Google ads, and end up with much the same situation that exists with Medium, only perhaps minus the access to an audience, and plus a bunch of other annoying ad network crap.
Medium is just YouTube, but for written text.

Perhaps someone can develop a "medium-dl" to make reading less painful.
How can anyone call firefox privacy focused when they use telemetry so fucking heavily?
Per default telemetry is active, disable it and you still got telemetry/pings whatever. You have to opt out of everything. It's not even limited to the user side look at this https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460678#c20
You get a sense of that feeling, from watching the various tv stations on this thread. I had the radio on too, and you get a real sense of the total confusion of that day.
I think it's beautiful. You might prefer to read 20 pages of code. And, me too. But this is a puzzle, and it intrigues me, so I read a good quarter of this. If it was 20 pages long, I probably wouldn't have gotten that far
Or early (mistaken) estimates of the mass of the electron, which were presumed correct by later experimenters who would shade their own findings down to match. Richard Feynman discusses this.

First impressions / models matter.
I would agree...

Bought a 3 person infrared sauna (through Costco) for about 1600$ 12 years ago.

There were periods we didn't use it but generally at least a couple times a week.

Gets you hot, helps you sweat, can be relaxing in itself.

But it's not same 'experience' as a traditional sauna.

I would probably say it was one of the best purchases I have made based on how much we used it, still running strong, has definately helped us over the years.
Yes. Many states do tax gambling establishments if not outright ban them. Why not? They are vices.
You need more than just a shared area to put the data, which main memory, with DMA for devices to access works great for, you also need a way to coordinate on what data is ready to send or ready to receive. That could be in main memory and polled, but it usually makes sense to signal the device directly that something is ready to be sent so the device isn't constantly issuing reads to the memory to poll. For the device to signal the host, you'd generally raise an interrupt somehow, and then the host would ask the device what was ready. Usually you want that host to device communication to be direct, and memory mapping the i/o is a straightforward way to do that. (Using DMA to store/retreive the data also means the device doesn't need a whole lot of buffer space: enough to store a packet to be sent and maybe two packets to receive assuming you'll have time to DMA the first before the second is done, if the bus may be more congested, you'll need more a bigger receive buffer.
New people are being born every day who weren't around for the steps forward made in the past. If only there was an institution that could step up to the task of teaching them. Instead there are institutions for getting them to buy toys and making them do algebra drills.
Yes, Facebook's upper management is definitely not freaking out about Mastodon. However, from my own experience working at a large, somewhat ethically-challenged organisation (not fb), it would not surprise me in the least if they gently yet actively pushed down a competitor, provided it can be done discreetly.
‘I was responsible for these people’
Well, when your competition was IE 6-8, it's easy too look good. The process-per-tab architecture of Chrome was a revelation when it was released in 2008.
> However that work travelcard covers zone 1 anyway,

Oh, you're right, that's what I was missing; I could've sworn you could get 2&3-only travelcards.
Embroidery File Digitizing
Seriously, in many part of the world during the summer you can just go outside. Although I wonder what the relative humidity is of a typical sauna and where it falls on the spectrum between Southeastern to Southwestern US.
Why do we as a community feel that one technology has to “take over” another all the time? Native apps continue to exist on desktop alongside web apps and that’s fine, as the capabilities of PWAs increase we might see more coexisting with native apps on mobile. With web assembly and projects like wasmer the lines are likely to become blurry anyway.
When I was cycling between Lisbon wnd Istanbul I made sure to either sleep far from view or to be as obnoxiously visible as possible (calling the local municipality, cleaning around campsite, knocking doors of farms nearby) precisely to avoid scaring people. I was lucky enough to do my homelessness as a choice, I can only imagine how many persons do this in city environments ourbof need of a shelter.
I agree it’s important for Chrome to have a competitor, but Firefox has proven itself not to be a successful one. I’ve lost faith in Mozilla’s ability to make decisions that win back users from Chrome. I wonder if Firefox shut down, the dispersal of its users to other non-Google browsers might create enough momentum that one of them could start to become competitive with Chrome.
Ask HN: Am I the messiah? if so, how do I quickly reach the seekers out there?
bottom line up front - how the fuck do i get in touch with some of the smartest people in the world, quickly? because i think i'm the messiah, and those are the people i need to talk with to confirm.

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hi gaze of the internet...

against all odds...

*lil wayne bubbler sound as i take a tasty tangerine dab*

i think i'm a messiah, or jesus, or whatever you want to call it -- i think the modern day meaning will land somewhere closer to 'an original translator of the master meme'...

more later on the master meme & scheme prompting my candidacy for philosopher king / meme lord...

for now i need to confirm that i am...um... indeed a messiah...

i have already successfully 'checked in' with my friends in family, e.g. they all think i'm crazy and i have 48 hours before i will get brought to a psych ward... seriously :/

...so, giant decentralized mimetic gaze of the internet and fireball of capital chasing it...

a few questions for you:
- what questions would you want to ask me if, let's say, i was a messiah,
- how the fuck do i get in touch with the smartest people in the world, quickly?

the last nodes i was connecting to before going hermit mode and coming to this discovery were: balaji, naval, & kapil.

so if you know one of them, or have an idea for how to get in front of them, please have them check their dms / emails, or get in touch with me @chilipixels on twitter

#snowcrash 12121
Unfortunately these types of people are everywhere. My Grandma grew up on an island of 100 and half were farmers, half were fishers. She was on the fishing side and wasn’t supposed to even dare talk to the lower cast farmers…
Man, it's no way to live life being this mean.

Remember the human.
After using Storybook for a couple years at work, I've soured on it. The Canvas / Docs distinction is weird and confusing. There are lots of poorly documented aspects (did you know pressing "S" causes the sidebar to disappear without any sort of visible way to open it again?). The controls are awkward to build complicated components around.

Consider just rolling your own component showcase. You can do it in a day and probably get a much cleaner and more straightforward static site out - all you really need is a sidebar and then display areas hooked up to buttons. That's it. Storybook is just a heavy, complicated, awkward set of abstraction layers over that very simple core experience.
It's a really hard problem to solve. History has shown time and again how easy it is to coopt institutions as well.
These numbers are really important, especially on a day like today. It's strange how much of a spectacle [1] 9/11 was, almost made for TV. Our 3000 victims of terror are thus acknowledged, depicted, and disseminated throughout the world. As a result, they're remembered in some sense too.

But the hundreds of thousands more whom we maim, torture, and kill across the globe are given no such status -- they're barely even admitted to exist! Simple efforts to just count these people etch them into the documentary record, and allow no one to say they couldn't have known. In this way they serve a similar purpose to Holocaust studies: by tallying the victims you make it harder to forget.
This theory is frequently stated as fact here on HN, so clearly you're not the only one to feel that way.
dumb question but where is the source ? what is the license?where i can install the program(linux/ubuntu)?
Do you get paid by Medium for your posts that others need to pay to read? (Edited: misread that you're also an author there).

In my book, it's wrong to pay if original authors don't get that payment.
Afaik, the major clouds use encryption transparently. Google Cloud has some good docs on this. There are private compute type VMs and customer supplied key options as well.

https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption/default-encrypt...

https://cloud.google.com/compute/confidential-vm/docs/about-...

My advice would be to use the cloud provided solutions and not roll your own setup. They have sufficient protections and offerings for healthcare companies and GovCloud if you need to go that far.
Firefox is 20 million lines of code. What do you think?
Because of the duopoly that pushed native apps way harder then the web, mostly.
Salesforce Will Help Relocate Employees from Texas After Abortion Law
…then it's not content moderation, which AFAIK companies like Facebook and Google require to take place on-site, in a controlled environment with no electronic devices, due to the potential data security issues involved.
Censorship, meet Filter Bubble. Filter Bubble, Censorship. And this little tike you've got with you, what's his name? Engagement Metric? Oh, how cute. Nice to meet you. You look innocent. I'm guessing you couldn't do any major societal damage at all. You're certainly not a little problem child.
> Does not having crew on board really make the ship better?

North Koreans and Iranians can't capture the crew and hold the crew hostage after claiming the ship violated territorial waters, if the crew doesn't exist.
Animals bodies evolve to adapt to changes in the environment. This is nothing new. It's literally the process that has driven life forward since life first appeared. And given that the planet has so far only warmed an average of 1.1 degrees celcius due to climate change, isn't it a bit overzealous to blame animals' adaptation on climate change?
Yes, very unlike VIM. Have you ever used VS Code? The second you open a file with an type you haven't used before, the application is like "Do you want to install the extension for this?". Like 2 more clicks and it's done. VIM plugin discoverability literally could not be worse.
Yes i was referring to the official positioning (hence the reference to Delphi's name too). In practice their uses got sort of swapped, though i think in VB's case wasn't that people didn't use it for what Microsoft intended it for but that because it was so popular it was also used for enterprise stuff.

But during the 90s and early 2000s a TON of commercial applications, especially from smaller software vendors were written in VB.
> Brands and vendors don't like the web because often they cannot 100% control (...)

App permissions exist to do the same for native apps.
Well, if your target audience is HN, then you really need to worry about this. But for the majority of the (non-technical) bloggers, this isn’t the case.
Always shower beforehand, sit on a towel or a tissue, afterwards rinse the benches with some water. Wash the sauna more properly a few times a year or so.

It sounds like it's too hot if it's a workout and a mental challenge every time. It should be mostly relaxing. Get out when it starts getting painful.
Original conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19798678
I live in Sweden, so I have, and most of them would have just given me the Finnish piercing blank stare of "why are you hurting my brain with stupid questions like that?"
Using this logic, one could argue that using the WSGI and psycopg directly would teach you even more.
Thanks. But how would I find said user...is there a way to get erm, the top posts of the day from anothermastodon and firstmastodon together?
I'm from the Netherlands so not sure about the current US situation, but:

Firstly, Ok: I take full responsibility for advocating for a temporary reduction of rights to stop the spread of a novel virus with the aim of reducing strain on the healthcare system. I also think that we made the right choice, waiting for EMA approval before starting vaccinating.

Right now here about 77% of the people (17,4 million) has been fully vaccinated and everything except nightclubs and big festivals has been reopened. I went to see The Green Knight a couple of weeks ago, didn't need a mask, or proof of vaccination/negative test. People haven't died en-masse from the vaccines, so things are pretty good right now.

There is still a big backlog in delayed care right now, so if the seasonal aspect of covid means we gotta partially shut down some things the next winter, so be it.
And yet, chrome doesnt feel slow to me. The difference isn't nearly as stark as it once was between the two. FF lost because they lost the plot.

If I were a tab hoarder (I.e. didn't know how to use bookmarks) or thought that Mozilla were any more trustworthy than Google (why is it that the for profit puts out FF but the not-for-profit collects donations that go to anything but?) then I would switch.

I'm waiting to see how manifest v3 shakes out- Chromes plan is still better than safari has been (she admittedly low bar) but until thr browsing experience is affected, I have no problem sticking with chrome / chromium.