skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where do I even start ...

Most dictators (Mao, Stalin, Castro) died of old age in office. If you call that a peaceful transfer of power, you're delusional.

Khrushchev was plotted out of office, with a scripted vote after the fact.

Brezhnev became senile and was used as a puppet for a decade, much like Biden today.

The oligarch's military coup against Gorbachev was because they wanted the status quo, and resulted in Yeltsin taking power.

The popular vote had nothing to do with most of those leaders gaining power.
This is the best parody I've ever seen in my life.

EDIT: Thanks for censoring my comment CCP
GNOME 3 will probably be looked back upon as ahead of it's time. It implements a considerable amount of features with a single design language that's easy to read, recolor, and interpret to one's liking. On top of that, the flexibility it offered for touchscreens is unparalleled. It makes UWP feel archaic by comparison.

I also, curiously, like the Nintendo Switch's design language. I used to be a part of that scene a few years ago but fell off due to time constraints, but I remember the feeling of awe that I got from seeing someone recreate the entire Switch toolkit piecemeal with CSS.
Challenge HN: I'll completely redesign all of any 4 random sites within 3 hours
Post any site's link in the comments and I'll then reply to each comment letting you know once I start and once I end (redesigning it). (I'll share a link to the redesigned version uploaded to Netlify).
This was interesting too. Since he posted pictures of envelopes with people's names and addresses on Twitter, he was asked:

>are these fake addresses or?

His reply was:

>All names and addresses are public data in Texas!

Ugh.
When the group was on reddit, I liked it because it was laser-focused. The moderators didn't tolerate racism, anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, antisemitism, sexism, etc.

On these other platforms, the users seem to think that, in the name of "free speech" everything is allowed everywhere. So on other platforms that tried to host it, it's full of off-topic posts. The don't respect the rights of a group of people to carve out an area for themselves.

Someone just needs to launch it on their own website, and hope the ISP doesn't pull it, or the DNS provider doesn't refuse to resolve it, etc.
This is definitely not an actual solution. It's a first order solution to a non-first order problem.
People are starting to realize that traceable and reversible bank transactions were actually a good thing..
They do need to train in the airspace. Would you want pilots unfamiliar with the terrain to show up when they’re needed in a hurry?
The idea of consent is a rather dumb one.

It came out of kink. Communication and consent in that case is rather important since the difference between rape and battery and a fun night is rather thin. For some getting a toilet brushed vigorously stirred in their privates is a good time for most it isn't.

Trying to apply that to normal people is not only bizarre but actively harmful. A much better one is harm minimization, everything people do is bad for them, we just want to make it the least bad it can be.

When you start using that lens pretty much all our laws which deal with children are there to make adults feel better and nothing to do with actually protecting children. E.g. sexting is the safest way to have sex. It is also the only way to have sex that two 12 year olds will be arrested and put on the sex offender registry for.
Eric is a really sharp guy, I’m super interested to see where he goes with this. The ideas of a Clojure/Ring inspired HTTP framework in Elixir land it really cool.
Reminds me of sinatra
Reducing noise from training runs would be welcome in many communities.
Interesting. I looked into this and if it was a medival casting, it was probably a replacement for the original.
The solution is obviously solitary confinement \s.
she managed to charm a star studded board of directors so i'm not surprised people are still on her side.
What does this mean? That if any legal entity ever tried taking Library Genesis down, they'd be unable to?
Here's a list of characteristics of a cult. You'll probably recognize some of these in our modern (since about 1992) political discourse.

http://cultresearch.org/help/characteristics-associated-with...

- Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.

- The group has a polarized, us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the wider society.

- The group teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. This may result in members participating in behaviors or activities they would have considered reprehensible or unethical before joining the group.

- The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt in order to influence and control members. Often this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion.

- Subservience to the leader or group requires members to cut ties with family and friends, and radically alter the personal goals and activities they had before joining the group.
I don't care if they're topping bankers as long as those bankers like bottoming.
I still have my Adobe creative suite 4 from 2008. Works 100% fine for me. Yay, me!
You must have been an extremely boring 10 year old then.
How many PMs does Core have compared to other PAs?

The problem isn’t really with SWEs but with the entire incentive structure of PMs and the product management chain.

They in turn are able to get more SWE headcount for these unfruitful ventures and end up failing upwards.
So why not just make the video available on torrent?

It's even possible to streamline the experience for torrents like how Popcorntime has done. Users don't need to even be technical enough to understand what torrents are - the same way users don't need to understand tcp/ip to visit a website.
When was the last time a military airplane actually caused a sonic boom near SF?
The only way college students could be meaningfully freed from parental supervision is with tuition, room, and board affordable on a student’s earning power.
Call for investigation of menstrual changes after Covid jabs
You see proved my point.

One man's hate group is another man's valuable discussion forum. Mocking people who won't take precautions against COVID is perfectly OK! Mocking people who won't take precautions against eating too much food is "hate."
Why Wokeism Will Rule the World
Arrived expecting to vehemently disagree, given how much I rely on version managers for everything (Ruby, Node, etc.) in my work. Came away thinking, yeah, okay, Nix probably is a better solution to all of this and more.
Upper class families don’t have their kids transfer into Exeter after two years at public high school. But I’m fine calling that upper class, the point is that it’s not anything like generational wealth.
This is called a “jury” and participating is called “jury duty”. We mostly do it for trials, but there’s no reason we couldn’t do it for eg redistricting as well and a few other niches.
Father-son hacker duo is helping people crack into their lost Bitcoin
In the US, at a Federal level, it feels like a party needs both wings of congress & the executive to get stuff done. With some exceptional periods where ruling by executive degree has been enough. Who we vote for feels semi-immaterial given that getting anything done feels so impossible. The party I vote for will have been "in control" for let's say half my life, but trying to get even the most meager change passed seems to have required an act of god or a budget reconciliation bill. This is jacked up, just farcically bad.

The change appears to have happened within my life too. I hear politics was never a pretty game, but since Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert & the Hastert Rule, there's been a seeming inability & general unwillingness for Congress to even have to bother listening to or voting on anything other than what the ruling party decrees.
Ultima Ratio Regum, which makes this list, is a game that is easy to overlook because it looks like "just a Dwarf Fortress clone."

But Fortress-like is merely the foundation upon which the game is built. I would say the main innovative feature is it's a mystery generator, with a focus on the intersection of lost history (ruins, artefacts) with contemporary politics inside and between empires.

Where DF is very simulation focused, URR has made real steps forward for procedural and emergent _narrative_
Indeed -- the only loser for a quieter fighter aircraft is the enemy. If fighters could be made silent, they'd be even more effective. The 'sound of freedom' can take on many interpretations.

A major winner would be the communities near airbases. Hornets, in particular, are quite loud.

https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2021-08-19/naval-air-s...
This is by design. The populace is easier to control that way. This has been going on here since Bacon's Rebellion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion
Git checkout is overloaded with too many behaviors. If it was naturally intuitive they wouldn't have needed to add the restore command. A better comparison would be Mercurial which has a much more coherent command interface.
Yeah I find this to be a cheap trick and it really takes me out of the experience. Another example is when the characters are running away from a threat which should clearly be able to overtake them.
only the featured watch photo on the homepage changes time. the others are fixed.
My unwritten dissertation is also giving me a look from the corner of the Desktop.
Biden voter, no doubt!
John Carpenter’s “Planaria”: Or, the New Individualism
Climate target updates slow as science demands action
not particularly new, although maybe newly applied to combat aircraft (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_kit)
Governments don’t generally do it that way. Usually they just seize assets.

That is because if you print exadollars then either the assets rise in value in proportion or beyond a certain point, implode, making the country as a whole poorer. That is because companies can no longer make money. Suppliers demand more anticipating further inflation. You then need to pass it on but may not be able to pass it on fast enough. Cycle builds upon itself.

Pretty soon, your currency is completely devalued and there is a robust underground economy. You run into shortages for essentials and have to introduce price controls. The poor get poorer. The rich get poorer. Good job.

Lebanon. Venezuela.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/money-credit-debt-ray-dalio
Elon Musk mocks Pres. Biden after SpaceX completes first all-civilian mission
Since when is there comment censorship on HN? Just had my comment disappear
With a few changes I got it to compile and run. Working correctly is another story.
Maybe it’s because the education system has failed at critical thinking.
it's not like the OG creators expected money from it. They did it as a part time hobby to show friends. They didn't expect to transform their lives. I get just as much enjoyment watching creators who only spend a few hours per week on their content as a hobby as those who have turned it into a giant company with employees and a studio. Actually, I get less enjoyment from those who have overly commercialized their channel.

Why does money have to touch everything? Why do I continue to make comments on HN? It's certainly not because I hope to monitize this. It's fun and you share your ideas.

Acting like removing the ability for creators to get money from ads is going to eliminate all creators is silly, so yes it's a hard sell for existing creators, and if forced upon it'll remove a lot of the profit driven creators, and I view that as a good thing.
I consider myself to be on the right. We use Ivermectin. We have stocked it for years. It's a very handy de-wormer. It has served our livestock very well. If you have never used it, and have never treated animals for worms, maybe you should listen more and talk less. Most experienced people I know on the left are fine with Ivermectin.

Oh, you mean for Covid? We use BioNTech and Moderna for that.

Please stop confusing people on the right with vulnerable uneducated people in general. There are plenty of those on the left and right. Donald Trump does not represent the right. He represents Trumpers. Unfortunately many of those who shape the Republican party are Trumpers. But there are obviously perfectly reasonable people on the right who are not Trumpers.

The ignorant are exploited by both sides. Please be careful to distinguish between the exploiters and the exploited.
It's good to have a certain amount of suspension of disbelief when consuming media, but when it gets to the point where the laws of physics are just clearly being broken, it also takes me out of the experience.
Reinforcing your 4th point, I was shocked by how many old mules who had big plans to pack it in until they were 75 suddenly called it quits after a year off with their families.

They weren't all the highest earners, but relinquishing their spots in the org chart freed up a lot for the frustrated younger people who put in 10-20 years but could never meaningfully move up, either by responsibility or compensation.

I remember the same thing happening in 2008 in the private sector then in 2010 in public but with the opposite effect. So many people that had put everything in the stock market and housing suddenly saw themselves pushing off retirement for another decade. A neighbor offered for me to take over the last 20% of a mortgage on a home because he'd sold his primary residence and had retired to Florida right before the crash, and I still don't know why I turned him down. It would have been a 800% return today, which is just stupid.
Inflation is not cost of living
If you ignore my entire point about how the white working class has also been failed by the U.S. medical system in the opioid crisis, sure.

Trump has been vaccinated and recommends vaccination. Trump's administration instituted Operation Warp Speed, which supported and expedited vaccines the entire world has benefited from.

At the time, Democrats were busy sewing distrust about it.
How many parents are going to buy their kids extra devices just to help them bypass rules and supervision?
Our custom code was fewer LOC, more robust and faster than tf. Honestly, it's not hard to beat OSS if you have a team of great engineers. This was far from the only time our internal projects were better than OSS- it gave us advantages for removing bottlenecks in the critical paths.
It is to stop a franchise rebranding themselves as Golden Arches, selling their own food to the existing customer base and not kicking the franchise money back to corporate HQ. Versions of which happen a lot when an established franchise owner realizes they can make more money by no longer paying for the franchise branding and infrastructure (lose 10% customers, gain 25% revenue, profit!)
Isn't it pretty common to subsidize the cost of phones by requiring a certain length of service? What business model would you propose?
This only works when the Government acts as your daddy
I have been using Actix Web as an excuse to learn Rust recently.

I like the fact Actix Web is lightweight and fast. You can deploy it on cheap $5 VPS's and get single-digit millisecond response times and memory usage.

For API type work, it takes little to get going.

The one thing I've taken away is it's still very early days for web frameworks in Rust and Rust in general, so you need to be committed to putting in extra work building libraries/integrations yourself.

I.E. non of the cloud platforms have officially supported SDK's. AWS have a beta SDK they are working on with big bold letters in the readme saying "Do not use this SDK for production workloads" , Azure has an unofficial SDK it looks like staff are work on in their spare time. Google doesn't look to have anything.

Things like live reloading for templates isn't there. I found myself setting up a Webpack build to iterate templates and the frontend quickly with live reloading. I take the Webpack HTML template I produced + CSS assets and move/link to them into my Actix project. I really like the MAUD template engine for compile-time HTML so I find myself rewriting HTML I produce in Webpack to MAUD and just linking to the css / js asset bundle paths from the Webpack build. If I used something like Mustache templates in Webpack that admittedly would make things easier as I can reuse them as is.

The Actix middleware layer isn't well documented, so I looked at existing middleware to figure out how to use it. There's some useful middleware for CORS + logging, but the user auth stuff didn't work for what I needed, so I found myself rewriting my own auth middleware.

The latest stable version of Actix Web is 3.3.2, which uses the old version of the Tokio framework. This will cause issues if using some libraries that rely on a new version of Tokio i.e. the beta AWS SDK's. This means you need to update to Actix Web 4 beta, which then breaks some Actix integrations which do not support Actix Web 4.

All the issues stem from the Rust ecosystem being young. You need to invest extra effort for functionality that exists and is quite mature in other languages/tools. In my current personal project, I could have written it 10x faster using a different stack just because in Rust/Actix I've had to build a lot of basic functionality other web frameworks provide already. It's a pet project, and I choose Rust/Actix for learning purposes, so that's ok. If I had something I really needed to deliver and it wasn't just a REST API I'd probably not use Rust/Actix right now unless I was on a team/company who where willing to spend the extra time for the performance / hosting cost savings.
They don't want to pay market rate, or train anyone on the job, or offer a modicum of respect

1. The market rate has been artificially increased through free government money.

2. Your employer doesn't owe you respect, they owe you a paycheck once your job is completed. Similarly you don't owe them respect, you owe them a job completed
> Scihub Test

Did you just coin that? Well done. Quick web and HN search, nearest I could find is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27805134
What was censored? The mods here on HN are good people, if you had a comment unfairly removed, I'm sure it was in error rather than malice.
You have both options, either to use a convenient Web gateway without decentralization, or to use full P2P access. It's up to you, the code and offered domain names give you all the freedom.
If anyone is interested, another similar obscure p2p: http://antsp2p.sourceforge.net/
Emmy Awards
Imho, property based testing makes you think a little bit harder about the invariants in your code, witch by itself only it's a win. Then there's this https://groups.google.com/g/leveldb/c/gnQEgMhxZAs
>BBS’s are the internet.

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

They kinda melded a little at the end of the BBS era and the beginning of the public internet era with integrated email and whatnot and you can still get to some via telnet, but they were distinct entities / networks / protocols from the internet.
Which paved mountain roads in the west are stressful?
Sure, they could, but at least while I was there, there was no interest in doing it, and amazement than anyone else would want to (and push back on declaring at least a handful of IPs as stably allocated enough to be included in app downloads).
Exactly - where we are the people running are either

a) totally bought (big business, unions etc).
b) very strong opinions

Makes for weird politics in the end.
How many videos do you watch per day? If you're anything like me, i at least skim through 100 videos a day. Likely more, depending on my free time and interest.

That's like 1-2 dollars worth of 'penny' donations per day. I'm not sure i would be willing to pay that, esp. if for videos that i'm only mildly interested in, and would not have gone to watch if it weren't free.
I have a really hard time transcribing phone numbers and entering product serial keys too
Video from the article -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X9ORR-z_tY
fyi there are a lot of tristate areas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_area
Excellent. Good to see all the ones I reported have been removed. That gives me a lot more confidence in the reporting mechanism. Youtube is obviously dealing with a considerable volume of these. I still wonder if I am being used as a mechanical turk to help identify these. Hopefully the inputs are training a machine learning system.
In other words, you can’t tell people anything: http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...
I am curious what type of data they're sending to sentry?

Could be some leakage there, don't think sentry does PII scrubbing of any kind either iirc.
I don't have kids, but my parents treat my brother's kids like plague rats to be avoided. It's very sad because the kids love them but the ship sailed on changing who my parents are now a long time ago.

I wish more people that pull out the moralizing "everyone should just" would understand that just maybe the rest of us don't have a life that looks like theirs, and not for reasons under our control.
This should be easy to set up with Github Actions, here is an example where it builds some Kotlin documentation and deploys to Github Pages: https://github.com/kwebio/kweb-core/blob/master/.github/work...
That's called a contract. You still have to pay money to end your contract early.

Carriers, to my knowledge, do not sell phones at a loss without a contract in place.
No. For a while it had to be done from a server on the carrier's side.

It used to be that if you wanted your iphone unlocked (this may still be true) you had to beg your carrier to do it. THey would submit a ticket to their internal team, and within 48 hours your phone would get the go ahead to unlock itself. Even if you had bought the phone, or fulfilled your contract, the carriers in the US would frequently refuse to unlock. The workaround was to go to some sketchy guy in a strip mall, give them $50, then they would somehow get someone at the carrier to unlock the phone. I suspect this guy had something to do with it.

Carrier-locked phones are a real stupid idea that should have been legislated away a long time ago
FPH actively went after individuals who could be easily identified. And they weren't content to keep their opinions in their own sub. Instead they would pop up regularly in completely unrelated discussions. They also had a culture of harassment.

They made themselves rather unpopular. If they had stuck to their own sub, made an effort to hide the identities of their targets, and mostly just said: "boy, I really hate fat people. So disgusting", then they'd probably still be around today.

Those are some key differences between FPH and HCA. Not to mention HCA is a response to the ongoing pandemic. While fatness isn't contagious. The obese are only hurting themselves.
"As soon as the entire adult population had been educated to the limits of its intellectual ability (and sometimes, alas, beyond) genuine democracy became possible... Thereafter, selecting a head of state was relatively unimportant. Once it was universally accepted that anyone who deliberately aimed at the job should be automatically disqualified, almost any system would serve equally well, and a lottery was the simplest procedure."

- Arthur C. Clarke, The Songs of Distant Earth
Indeed. And not just that. GE finance division turned out to be its undoing. Maybe Amazon which looks invincible today will fall to the perils of leverage in finance.