skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's always strange to read these reports from American cities that sound like something out of war-torn countries.

It's a new thing in the US, and took me about a year to figure out.

Democratic Party mayors of US cities think it's "progressive" (Marxist) to not arrest people committing crimes, since the mayors live in gated communities and have bodyguards.

Even our light-weight VP, Kamala Harris, bailed out arrestees, and is shirking her official duties by opening the border with Mexico to gerrymander our entire country.

Think of it like Nazi brown shirts or Mussolini fascists roaming the streets, but in 2021.
Are you looking sources for the leftist side of the right wing ideology (centrism and politicall correct speach) or things from the socialdemocratic revolutionary left sparce represanted in media mostly sencored.
> Of course we shouldn't attempt to anthropomorphise animal behaviour

Why not? Our behavior emerged from a primitive animal state. It's not crazy to think it can happen again.

The only mistake would be to pretend it's the definitive answer, but unless we got one, it can be one of the theories.
Great work, thank you very much.

Wouldn't have thought though I had the most in common with AfD and Green Party.
Which is no problem, because I roll the dice for my vote since about 30 years.
And neither of them did get my vote.
In political and some other questions I am a supporter of a moderate Rhinehart process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Rhinehart
You are falsely equating anonymity for privacy.

The goal of anonymity is to avoid disclosure of identity but not secrecy of content. You don’t care if the entire world sees the substance of the communication. You care that they cannot detect who you are. Networks like this and Tor share your information across a large number of nodes to resist identity detection.

Privacy is the opposite. You don’t care that the entire world knows who you are so long as they can never read your communications. Privacy is challenging to achieve with anonymity because it is almost impossible for one party to trust the other against information disclosure if they have no idea who they are.

The first world problem is confusing these concepts so that you can have your cake and eat it too, typically for self-serving reasons.
Drew also gave this talk about NUMA optimization that I found enjoyable (from the same conf): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NSzkYSX5nY
wow, I don't even believe 100% of the tax dollars spent on education would be justified, but I'll still prefer such a system.
...hence you're not responsible for what it could be decrypted to.

You do NOT want your defense in court to rest on convincing a judge or jury of this.
Some of the best content on Youtube takes time and money to make - even for hobbyists and enthusiasts, and much of it would be impossible if creators were also forced to hold a second full-time job to cover their budget. I say "second" because content creation is a job whether it's compensated for or not. And not everyone who makes a living at it has a giant company with employees at a studio.
I believe all of the balance information was destroyed, so I'm not sure how they're managing any of it.
IntelliJ solves this nicely by showing the parameter name at call sites, effectively making it look like the language has named parameters.
Go Ravens!
The story behind Segro: The app for time usage insights from your calendar
> Sadly peertube seems to have to buffer from the beginning to play from this position.

That's weird. What browser are you running? Is it downloading video directly from the server or is it doing WebRTC P2P download?

The former (direct download) is intended as fallback mode and i believe it uses HLS chunking which may or may not be well supported by your browser.
> France can not go out of NATO, the alliance with all its drawbacks is just too important for its own defense.

France could. It has maintained a strategy of independence regarding its own defense. France has its own nukes, its own nuclear submarines, designs and operates its own fighters, has a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and has some limited capacity of projection. France has no American troops stationed on its soild and apart from the catapults of the carrier, none of their technologies come from the USA.

France has one of the lowest public opinion on NATO in the EU. I think France would be very much in favor of sidelining NATO for a EU force. The issue is the others members of the EU particularly in the east.

> France like other Europeans countries are too far from home to take a part in this.

France has mutiple territories in the Pacitic including New Caledonia which has a border with Australia.
>Our primary challenge has been finding the ideal way to lock the bikes while dismounted. The best chain locks are too unwieldy to use for the pace our couriers move at. Wheel locks were interesting but would end up breaking spokes when couriers would inevitably ride them while still locked. We’re currently giving folding locks a go. Open to suggestions if anyone has ideas or experience with other solutions.

Possibly something like the Velo Guard steering locks? They lock the steering in a fixed position (making the bike impossible to ride).

https://www.velo-guard.ch/en/
They never went away. There are more of them and they are better than before.
> Closer to a post-mortem. They apparently do a threat assessment so this particular cause of death can be avoided in future

wow that's interesting I would love to read more about it if you have any links.

> though standing in a group on the road is maybe not the brightest idea.

They were not exactly on the road pavement but on top of lower objects e.g. a couple of nearby fences and a couple of parked cars just next to where the other raven died.
Ultra-white paint could reduce the need for air conditioning
> you still need all your normal tests anyway

What's a "normal test"? I tend to only write property-based tests (i.e. tests with parameters, which get run many times with random inputs).

Tests without parameters tend to either be trivial, or involve a bunch of setup that would be better turning into parameters.
The work of Ela Bhatt in India in the 70s may be relevant. She organized women who did odd jobs like delivering this and mending that, despite having no one entity to negotiate against/with, and created the Self-Employed Women's Association, SEWA, which continues to operate today.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_Employed_Women%27s_Associ...

From a systemic perspective (which may run counter to your goals), I believe the best solution, which I know won't soon happen in a nation like the US that values comfort and convenience over health and nature, but it's to return to home cooking over deliveries. While it would decrease these jobs, it wouldn't hurt the economy. People who saved delivery money would still spend it, just not on these dangerous jobs.

It makes sense from a systemic perspective. We say we need immigrants to do the jobs Americans don't want to do, but I believe that view reverses cause and effect. Rather than having job vacancies first and need people second, when people divorced from the actual work see lots of cheap labor, they find ways to use it that no one would choose for themselves.

We once had butchers, grocers, and tailors. Then big box stores drove them out of business and replaced them with slaughterhouses and such, incredibly dangerous jobs increasing the disparity of wealth. I see reversing that trend as helping restore safety and dignity to the work and a middle class to the nation.

My result: I don't think I've ever had something home delivered besides the post office, UPS, and Fedex, which don't have these time limits. Shopping for myself and cooking save time and money, plus I meet and form relationships with my counterparts at the coop, farmers market, and CSAs. I pollute a lot less too, taking two years to fill a load of garbage since I avoid packaging.
Thank you, I will try and find that study.

European magpies (unlike Australian magpies) are actually related to ravens (family corvidae, whereas Aussie magpies are in the family artamidae)
Those batteries are vastly overpriced. The individual cells cost next to nothing and the BMS in them is an off-the-shelf component. But almost all of them contain some kind of DRM which makes it so that they only talk to their own manufacturers motor. This makes repairing them a fairly difficult thing, especially because they are typically constructed in such a way that opening them up is hard or will break stuff.
Love this. Now someone show me how to make a nano Windows 10 installation without all the telemetry BS. Essentially the kernel only with custom explorer.exe.

Experimented with modding Hyper-V Server (the free one) with some success, but too many DLLs missing and multimedia functions don't work.
Everything is okay in moderation, it's just that moderating yourself requires some discipline and some of the uses of the internet are actively trying to get you addicted. One "solution" is thus to just never interact with certain stuff, although I agree you then miss out on some of the good parts of the internet.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205588 (May 16, 2020, 614 comments)
You could make the same argument about Couchsurfing.

But actually, on Airbnb you can't see the review of the other person before both have submitted their review. That ensures that neither party retaliates.
The tasks asked to name 10 nouns which are as "different" from each other as possible. I chose 10 common words which all belonged to different concepts, I scored 75%.

The results then stated that "different" refers to the probability of two words appearing closely to each other in known texts.

With that in mind I retook the test and chose 10 words which are rare or vulgar. Scored 93%.
I’m currently struggling with this, I have a three year old, and a wife who work in retail. On the positive side, also every afternoon is set aside for my kid. The downside is that project of any kind is more or less relegated to a few hours in the evening or the few weekends with no other plans.

As children get older they love helping with project around the house, but still, finding time is hard.

My biggest success is keeping a list of small tasks, stuff which can be done in less than 15 minutes. You can actually churn through quite a few of those during an afternoon.
The funny thing i observed is: Especially immigrants from (former) communist countries (at least in my peer group) are tending more towards AfD instead of more left leaning parties.

My wife, originating out of Vietnam has studied in germany, has now full citizenship and is working here would rather vote for the AfD then anything left of the CDU. Why? Because the memory of $left_leaning_party = communism = bad living circumstances are too deep engrainend in her mind.
you forgot the one where you go like this

- "you are right, i completely forgot about that. thank you for catching this, i am changing the code and asking you to review it again after the fix."
So we must shut down all hotels because they all unknowingly hosted some illegal activities in their rooms, e.g. if someone met a prostitute there?

In fact we cannot have people rent out condos or houses anymore either because illegal stuff will happen there and the owner is responsible even if they don't know!

Also we need to shut down all ISPs because at some point in time illegal data was cached on their machines during transit!?
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Good introduction to Nix. I wish I would have had this when I started.

But what do they mean with “works forever”? What if the Git repo or Web server of the project is gone in several years? How do you reproduce it? Does niv include a local source code mirror?
My rule of thumb these days in JS/TS is all functions with more than 2 parameters should be refactored to a single object parameter using destructuring. I don't start with a single object because most times YAGNI applies.
Well, blogs are still very much there. I began blogging in 2006 and I still continue to write blog posts, mostly to take notes, share my thoughts, etc. I still follow my favourite bloggers via RSS feeds. I don't think the culture of blogging ever went away. The blogosphere along with its tag clouds are still very much there.

I think what has changed in the last two decades or so is that a lot of new users have come on the Internet and this new generation of users spend most of their time in walled gardens thereby making the bloggers look like a small minority.
> They were aware there were issues, and negotiations happened on how to fix them, with the French leaving them with the impression everything is good.

The French culture is to never deliver bad news before the deadline has arrived. Underlings will never tell their boss that something is impossible, decisions will be made by grande-ecole-bosses without technical expertise and relationships are valued far higher than knowledge and expertise. You'll always get the first impression that all is well and they'll manage before the deadline. If you need a real non-sugar-coated insight as to how the project is going you need to gather your own data. Discreetly.

However, as soon as shit has hit the fan and bosses got involved, they'll bend over backwards to make things work. But you cannot expect meeting the first deadline, ever. Same for the first budget. Subsequent ones depend on the size of the project.
Building and maintaining a data pipeline and data warehouse for the enterprise
Peertube is closer to MediaWiki than Wikipedia. Anyone can setup an instance, and scrap/share content from other instances using URLs. Nothing is distributed, anonymous or censorship-proof... but the entire network is federated and pseudonymous.
For a while there, NYC was very safe. Then de Blasio got elected. Hopefully, Eric Adams can turn around the disaster Bill is leaving him.
Works, but last I tried, not even a local gateway, so you're limited to the built-in web-view.
But it's not Wahl-o-mats job to fix people. It wants to help people choose a party.
> “native desktop app” means something specific

honest question - what does it mean? Is a Qt app "native"? Or does "native" just mean "any language other than javascript"?
How do you all discover blogs?

I used to discover blogs via the Yahoo Directory, blog rolls (where we mention others' blogs as external links to follow up), Live Journal's listing, and cross-referencing of blog posts. Google search used to surface blog posts too.

Now it's all on Medium - where I don't grudge those who want reliable hosting+discoverability and want to get paid for content, and where Medium charges for this. But I dislike that the content is "locked up" at Medium. I don't quite know how to explain this dislike, and I welcome any points of view that might help make this dislike go away.
I'd be curious how much data you could store for free on Youtube given some clever steganography.
It's not always a free choice.

For you and me it might be, because we may have the acquired skills to research sources, spot bullshit, etc. We still miss stuff.

But for a lot of people "choosing wrong", it might just be the sum of their environment. A media diet too heavily reliant on Facebook for example.

Ah but they're choosing to stay on Facebook you say... Well, yes, but if they can't directly make the link between Facebook and the propaganda, they don't even know they have a choice to make.

"Free will exists" is a hand wavy way of victim blaming here, imo. There is a reason these people are called victims of propaganda, not willful soldiers.
Not the good kind of incredible though.
For anyone curious, you can find the source code at https://github.com/mozilla/http-observatory
The predecessor (the percolator) was invented 150 years earlier and still has a dedicated following today, and then there is the cafetiere. Both of these do not have any waste other than the coffee grounds, which I think is a big point in their favor. Oh, and no DRM either, nor any subscription components. I guess for the manufacturers that is now a point against them.
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I think you should always take these type of articles with a grain of salt. The author seems keen to play up the drama
It most likely isn't instantly.
Out of curiosity, how do you go about generating "random valid well defined programs"? I thought about doing something like this for testing my own toy language, but wasn't sure how to go about generating random test cases.
I have discovered many blogs reading HN...
> Doesn't seem like such a big problem to make a PR with multiple commits, and then squash and merge into 1 commit after the review.

I fundamentally disagree here. If you're reviewing code, the code that is pushed should be what is reviewed, not a draft of what is reviewed..
Ah, yes. We've descended to the point where HN gets mad at you for building technology that lets people speak to each other without people on the west coast sitting in meetings and deciding whether that speech is moral.

All I see on this thread is people saying speech is bad, censorship resistance is irresponsible, and that it's very important that the Bay Area control words that go over the internet.

To hell with that attitude. Technology should start to just ignore HN and its moralistic and increasingly irrelevant screeching.
Bittorrent protocol is not supported in browsers. Peertube uses Webtorrent, which is a WebRTC port of the Bittorrent protocol. Those two networks are incompatible but the magnet hashes are the same and there is progress in desktop clients implementing Webtorrent peering.

You can try to think of Peertube as Popcorn Time with user following and channels and comments... and interop with the rest of the Fediverse.
> So they have failed to deliver for five years with huge cost overruns and delays and get all mad when their customer says enough is enough.

The contract was signed in 2019 after a complicated negociation and is only in the design phase.

If you go read the Australian reports on it, you will see that the main cause of delay is actually Australia. Contrary to France which has experience working on this kind of deal - they sold submarines to Brasil and India and boats to many more countries - Australia is not used to do this kind of work and it shows. The Morrison government however is all too happy to pin the blame on France especially considering the deal was mostly done by Turnbull.

If you expect the American contract to go smoothly and with no overrun, you are in for quite a surprise I fear.
I don’t get much pompous extract from the author (in contrast to many other “here’s how I structure my days to maximize my inherent awesomeness” articles; the Stephen Wolfram ones come to mind here).

In my own life, I have one (niche hobby) site I probably spend too much time on and watch a lot of YouTube when I’m bored (almost exclusively on the TV so displacing sports/other TV). I’ve noticed that if I let mindless consumption drift into too many areas, it takes over like weeds, but just a little bit of consciousness helps me keep/regain the balance I want in my life.

I see the structure as the author keeping the balance they want and sharing some details about it.
Agreed. Medication to inaccessible spots: fine. Coffee to spoiled yuppies: really not the way to go.
I must be odd but I like the smell of certain organic solvents - alcohol included. Perhaps shellac adds some extra depth to the already sweet smell of alcohol and produces something that OP finds nice?

Note that I drink very rarely so this is not coming from being a heavy drinker.
When I hear "nitrocellulose" I quickly get doubts if I'd want to coat my instrument in it. (If it's common I presume it must be safe, more or less, but it sure doesn't inspire much confidence in me.)
Hey tudorg,
Really sorry if I posted this prematurely to HN... Came across the product on Twitter and it is an attempt to solve an incredibly common problem that me (and others in this community) break our heads around quite often!

Really looking forward to play around more with the product and I'm already on the waitlist :)
Fully agree. No need to change the source code to fix what isn't broken.
A super cool next step would be to track the actual trains with the LEDs, is there any city with an open API for that?
> They are trying to peek at the true nature of reality.

That would be science.

Religion is a set of rituals, values, traditions, beliefs, institutions and power structures which claim to have a supernatural justification. Since the supernatural justification cannot be examined, it cannot really be questioned or investigated.

Whether the claims of a religion is "true" typically doesn't matter much to the adherents. What matter is the community, traditions and identity the religion provides.

Imagine some historian proved that Moses never existed. Would Christianity, Judaism and Islam just disappear? Of course not. It would have no effect, except for a few atheists gloating on the internet. The world religions would be unaffected.
It is still Windows 10, but Windows LTSC would be a start.

Works fine for daily use after you restore some small things.
Just like Facebook does, right?
The answer is that people don't ever think for themselves. If you say to them that something is occultist, or a cult, or a conspiracy theory, then that's what they think, and they won't consider it. In reality, 'occult' belief systems like Thelema or even Satanism are far less mystical than mainstream religions like Christianity, with its con/transubstantiation etc.
I'd have expected the CO2 tax to be a bigger factor than any shortages.
I had a friend that did this to run Windows 3.0 (IIRC) on his old 286 from a single floppy.
It is a bane of numerical code, in which there are many flags, quite a few parameters (with values 0. or 1.). Moreover, some flags are conditional (e.g. the value of the argument 5 matters only if the flag at position 3 is true).

In a much simpler case of arcs in SVG, I still need to check flags to do the correct path (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial/Pa...).
Not building new nuclear power plants in the last 30 years was a major mistake, in terms of energy supply security as well as CO2 emissions.
"Xi Jinping is already 68. His rule won't last eternally."

Eternally not, but the recent progresses in longevity field might give him 20-30 more years at the helm.

This is an interesting strategic question that isn't discussed as much as it ought to. Even Western nations are evolving into gerontocracies. We should probably introduce some hard term limits. Already there are U.S. Senators that served more than 40 years.
Hehe, that's really funny. The value of what you can transport by drone is likely dwarfed by the value of the drone, why not go for stealing the drones themselves?
Too busy arresting people for victimless crimes like smoking pot.