skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell if its a joke post or not, but UTC is a terrible idea. If I'm calling Italy from the US, I won't know if I'm calling during business hours. With regular time, I know that 9am their timezone is roughly when they start working, and 5pm their time is roughly when they finish work. With UTC, I would have no context.

Instead of making it easier, it would make it much much harder to do global business.
Washington state passed a a law to follow daylight savings time year round but it's contingent on changes to federal law that requires states to observe DST changes or use standard time all year.

I've emailed all my representatives asking for action on this without any response.

I've also emailed the president, our governor, and and secretary of transportation asking to move Washington to Mountain Standard Time because it is equivalent to Pacific Daylight Time and doesn't require changes to federal law.
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> The idea that he would hold a tobacco pipe was so bizarre to me I assumed it was a regular pipe

I think the bit started as a spoof of a character that I assume held a pipe. It doesn't seem too bizarre to me, so they were being true to that. Holding a regular pipe would have been a non sequitur. When I grew up, smoking was definitely presented as bad, but I still got licorice tobacco pipes at a candy store on a couple occasions (e.g. https://economycandy.com/product/red-licorice-pipe/). It seems like now they don't want kids to even know what smoking is.
Color me surprised :)

Obviously its no one's job to fix Wayland for me or anything like that, but I've literally never gotten Wayland to work on anything beyond a live distro. Now, of course, I haven't tried very hard because I have no use for it. But yeah.
All you’re arguing for is that business hours could/should be variable between summer and winter. Don’t you realize there is no need to change the clock setting to solve your problem?
Hawaii doesn't bother with it but it does make it annoying having to remember what the offset is with the mainland since that changes.
Wouldn't a carbon tax on primary energy sources, e.g. per barrel of oil or ton of coal, help account for pricing food more appropriately according to its carbon impact?
When .net core came out and we decided to move to Linux, we asked our devs if they were familiar with a specific distro. All of the ones who had used Linux were familiar with Ubuntu, less than 10% had tried fedora. We made the decision then and there, and we're happily surprised when we compared the support packages. Not that Ubuntu is perfect (they love strong arming their house I'm house tech like cloud init, snaps) but they're better than red hat and have full commercial support.
> Each citizen should at minimum see on a itemized bill the amount of money the government is collecting from them

We have that. It's called a "tax return".

> each citizen should be forced to write out a check to every government entity that needs to collect money

You do understand how that would increase government bureaucracy, right? Whereas I'm sure your goal is the opposite.

> if people had to pay their taxes like they do their utility bill there would be continual protests in the streets

Maybe you would protest. Most people likely would not - they bear far worse from their governments on the daily.
Most of the apartments I lived in in china have been absolute garbage. In shenzhen - most were probably not more than 10 years old. I even had to go the hospital once because my hand went through the glass of the bathroom door, when I tried to push it open.

Meanwhile my current home outside china is almost 100 years old and not garbage.
And bees make honey. What’s your point? Contrary to popular opinion, and as explained by the GP, judges only interpret the law, they don’t make it other than that their interpretations can later be cited as case law.
Is there a way to distribute proprietary software with PyPI? Based on the license text it appears the author wishes to keep it proprietary (maybe source-available, but not open source).
Tss Tss! Nicht gegen den Strom schwimmen, Äh sprechen. Das ist Värrbotähn!

Besides that, what do you think how much of the prekariat, be it 'Aufstocker', Hartz-IV, 'Scheinselbständige', or otherwise living in strange circumstances without much money even have the possibility/ability (spacewise/circumstancewise) to stock up on things? Not to forget, the students, our saviours, the future elites in Wohngemeinschaften, sometimes too stupid to even open a can? Or too lazy/stressed out to shop at all. Mensa, Döner, streetfood or delivered by heroes it is.

OTOH, I've heard in some parts of Asia, in very dense cities there isn't even a small kitchen space available anymore. And mostly they still manage. So what?

Isch sing dann mal mit der Stimme von Rudi Carell: Lass Disch Überraschen! ;-)
An interesting point to think about is that MagSafe appears to be about 75% efficient (due to alignment of coils from the magnets), but also the battery size on iPhones tends to be much smaller than competitor phones.

For example, Samsung S21 uses a 4000mAh battery. iPhone 12 Pro uses a 2700mAh battery.

At 75% efficiency, it's effectively like charging a 3600mAh battery.

Both likely get a full charge every day. So, even with less efficient charging, you come out ahead vs. a Samsung device.

That's also assuming efficiency of the actual charging bricks is similar. Apple tends to be known for high quality and efficient charger bricks, so it wouldn't surprise me if that has an impact.
The "publisher vs platform" distinction has been sitting weirdly with me, lately.

The canonical examples of each are newspaper (publisher) vs newsstand (platform), but if I am running a newsstand and I choose not to carry the Times, that doesn't make me liable for the content of the Bugle.
To not tolerate it, you need something fast enough to shoot it down.
You mean like DOH? which is quickly becoming ubiquitous.
Another huge plus for source based package managers not elaborated in this article is how easy transformations are [1], so you can rebuild your software with different compilers, dependency versions, source branches, etc. from often a single command.

[1] https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Package-Transformat...
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I don't know about you but I don't fancy the all potato diet of my Irish ancestors. Packaging does have benefits: prolongs shelf life thus reducing waste.
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They seem to be heavy on vision, marketing and zero-net-carbon partnerships with huge brands, light on technical detail (i wouldn't hate some links to papers or a PoC of their reactor or something), all of which feels a little Nikola-y.

Thin articles touching on the technology:
https://prometheusfuels.com/on-the-road/meet-our-v3-faraday-...
https://prometheusfuels.com/on-the-road/worlds-1st-machine-t...

Hopefully someone can chime in with an explanation of why the technology is viable now (and not in the past) or why Prometheus is equipped to execute on this vision.
I run my homeserver as a sometimes gaming machine (i5/Nvidia 1050Ti) and unfortunately Steam and desktop gaming isn't a well fit on a machine that gets regular updates (Arch) and doesn't reboot often. Kernel/Driver/Steam updates would often leave Steam not running and only reboots would fix it.

One of the reasons I'm very excited about the Steam Deck is because it would let me de-couple my homeserver and gaming usecases while still running Arch in both.
This is because courts in the U.S. tend to not try to 'legislate from the bench' - if you want laws changed you have to get legislators to do it, a lawsuit won't.
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Other platforms exist. Reddit has been steadily clamping down on content they don’t agree with.
> Apple is letting their desire to get vengeance outweigh the interests of their users in having all the games they want to play on their devices.

Post-NeXT (or at least post-iPod) Apple has always been about total control of user experience, not letting users do all of <whatever category of activity> that they want.

I don't think that vengeance is necessary to explain this.
This project is amazing to me the most exciting part is being able to use this with wasm, what plans do you have for tackling some of the issues of scale that can come with webrtc in general?
At least ASUS gaming motherboards come with heat sinks for nvme slots already.
When I worked at reddit, I refused to run Adblock. I felt like it would be hypocritical to work for a company that made its money from ads, and then block them. Also I wanted to make sure that I had the same experience as the users.

When I left reddit, for the longest time I still didn't run Adblock because as a shareholder it still felt hypocritical.

But a few years ago I couldn't take it anymore -- the web go so awful with ads on it became unusable. And so I relented and went full Adblock. And life got a lot better.

(I did however whitelist reddit and a few other sites that I like whose ads are bearable)
If you have an Android phone, try the great UnCiv game.
There's theoretically some performance benefit to rendering client side over ajax because the pages can be trivially cached, though you then run into the issue of pages being placeholders for a moment while the subsequent request(s!) run. Hence the UX anti-pattern of skeleton screens.
> I read a lot of philosophy in my 20s, but I think only Marcus Aurelius and Wittgenstein actual made me into a better, happier person.

How about Epicurus?

I'm not at all in the philosophy realm, so I don't know who is revered or reviled. Maybe he's not noteworthy enough, too idealistic or just plain wrong? Perhaps he's passed over for some other reason.

The few things I've read about his philosophies seem like they're focused on finding basic happiness. Am I just oversimplifying?
> pushing against the norm of everything being male

The perception some have is instead that of inserting gender where it was irrelevant. (Those "some" do not associate 'he' and masculine, probably also for cultural reasons as expressed nearby.)
That's not a problem on platforms like ChromeOS where web apps are treated like standard apps, from the user point of view they're indistinguishable.

A solution on other operating systems would be to use Electron, but I've seen many people on here also cry foul about that.
Yeah that's what I use for email and I've had no issues with it.
Maybe they are hard working as they have no choice. Majority of Mexicans work odd jobs. The auto factories there have huge training centers because of extremely high turn over.
It's interesting that the answer you came to wasn't "we should align parents' schedules with the biologically optimal time too."
It’s a pinky promise this time. No backsies.
There is no such thing as "fair". There is only what two sides in a transaction can agree to and what is legal.

In this case apple is not a monopoly, epic has many other avenues to sell their product.

I personally dont like the apple ecosystem, but if they can get away with charging 30% they should, until the market doesnt support it anymore.
I would argue they focused too much on the website to the point where they over-engineered it.
> Saying India... Have anybody here ever tried not operating, but just registering a company in India? If so, tell people here how many months it took...

Is it even harder than registering a company in China?
It’s true. I’m centrist and I’ve noticed it.
I'd love to know why any time I read something about clojure, it's inevitably cluttered with big words that the author (or some other clojurian) invented that have a lot of deep and important meaning, that make it impenetrable to anyone else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol#Methanol_to_hydrocarb...
This.
Can you imagine factoring the cost of keeping the N95, launched in 2006, updated? All the related software?
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Hate towards PHP has absolutely nothing to do with how easy web things are to deploy on it.
Yeah I had a really hard time understanding even with the backend frontend highlighting
LispWorks exists since 1987. Originally developed by Harlequin, a software tools and software applications (Postscript, Lisp, ML, Dylan, ...) company. After Harlequin closed its doors, Globalgraphics bought the remaining assets and employed some staff. They spawned a company. This spawned the current LispWorks company which is a relatively small company dedicated to only the Lisp product.

Initially LispWorks *only* addressed the professional and academic market (for UNIX systems) with the professional edition, enterprise edition, site licenses and special implementations (like the one on NASA's Deep Space One). Over time it got ported to Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS.

A bunch of years ago they have introduced two versions of 'Hobbyist' editions: with delivery and without. This is still expensive, but in reach for dedicated hobbyists (my hobby camera costs like five times of a Hobbyist license).

Meanwhile, mostly only LispWorks and Franz Inc survived in the commercial market for Common Lisp, while all cheaper Lisp offerings (from companies like Expertelligence, Procycon, Corman, Gold Hill, Apple, ... etc.) haven't survived as a commercial and maintained product.

Competitors in similar or more expensive price ranges also went away (Lucid, Symbolics, TI, Xerox, LMI, Ibuki, ...).

Franz and LispWorks must have done something right -> they are still there and publish new releases, while all the other companies (in various price ranges and various target markets) had to give up.
Still, there's a lot more data outputting from goaccess with support for custom logs.
Space Shuttle used expendable ablation, thermal barrier materials, and thermal mass of its structure.

All of that was only to last for a few minutes of re-entry, not constant flight in such conditions.
I know this has nothing to do with the article, but this is one of the most beautifully designed blogs/sites I've seen for a while. Wow! Kudos to the designer. It kept me on the site for a while.
Still, throwing away 25% electricity because "minor convenience" is not such a great idea.
Cables are pretty low on the e waste front, since it’s mostly pure copper and shielding. The e waste for the charger is worse.
Radeontop is awesome and I'm grateful for it, but it's nowhere near equivalent.
Has anybody tried to use an Intel integrated graphics (for Linux) and play games on Windows with KVM/GPU passthrough.
PoliTrack: German election polls correlated with news articles
As the german election is coming up on Sunday (26.09), we analyzed over 200.000 political german news articles.

PoliTrack extracted popular topics/events with NLP and correlated them with poll data. The site gives an interactive visualization of the results.
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I don't blame ISPs for the content of the internet. I do blame Facebook for what happens on their platform though, because unlike a telephone carrier or ISP, Facebook's entire purpose is to get me to interact with content.

If you got food that made you sick, do you blame the delivery service or the restaurant?

If the business is ads, data, and eyeballs, you should be responsible for what is on it.
Forever maintenance sounds absurd.
"Right-to-maintain" seems much better, like "please, release blueprints and sdks, allowing users to run community powered update systems"
now imagine watching ads with the guilty feeling of "supporting poor youtubers". shit
If you're going to try 3D maps, Humankind is the way to go. It feels like a Civ sequel but with a twist.
I find it a bit odd that we always seem to ignore a very important cost when it comes to producing goods: the cost to (ultimately) dispose of them. Disposing of goods certainly isn't free, and it's a cost that both producers and consumers should probably share instead of just foisting it on the general public as a negative externality.

Will adding this disposal cost make certain products prohibitively expensive? Sure. But if no one can (or will) pay for your product after all the associated costs are baked in, then that's just the market's way of telling you that you shouldn't be making that product.
I have been a daily reddit user for the last 10 years. The website has been going downhill with noticeable pushes to make it more "frequentable" and ad-friendly in 2016 and 2020. I am no antivaxxer but the actual negativity and hivemind are too much and made finally quit.

I understand the need of moderation but the guenuine hate and lynching is horrifying. Even more so when you know how young most users are.
Epic already has a games store competing with Steam.

Steam Deck is on the way this winter, and will succeed in locking down users to a Steam ecosystem (majority won't bother replacing SteamOS w/ windows).

An Epic-made handheld gaming device wouldn't be out of the question.
You have been successfully propagandized.

Extreme right wing outlets dominate Facebook interactions almost every day. How is it possible to have a victim complex about something so obviously not true?

https://twitter.com/facebookstop10
Can't one make similar arguments for cars for types of gasoline(beyond premium gas) and the gas pump/tank receptacle design?
I will be so relieved when that anti-pattern goes away.
They use USB-C everywhere else, including their iPads. If it was about control, why did they abandon lightning for their iPad line, or FireWire for their computer lines?

To me, this smells like internal turf protection or politics.
And how a physical good/energy company that is worth $1.5B only has 20 employees...
Better regulation of news, I believe in absolute freedom of speech for individual, but if the business of news is reporting news it should at least have a licence to do so and when caught selling fiction instead of news, it loses that licence. Imagine a bar selling booze, one time you order beer and get a beer, the next time you get poison ... most people would think that it's good that you at least take their licence away.
People would afford fewer imports, pretty much.

You'd think "China makes everything" but they do need raw materials and fuel. They also import a lot of food, not sure how necessary it is.

So the smart thing to do is invest heavily into poor but resource rich countries in Africa.
Especially not for only part of the year.
1) population in USA: 1918 103m vs 2020 331m

2) Spanish flu death distribution by age was totally different (mainly "young" people were dying) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3734171/

So if we considere the "years lost" (life expency minus age of death multiplied by the number of cases), the spanish flue was way more impacting.
I'm not sure why do you think weak patents are the cause, or what do you exactly mean by weak patents. Especially considering mentioned patents were licensed cheaply.

Seems to me, people's behavior has become much more materialistic / self-centered / greedy, along with the means and societal approval to keep it that way. Most companies will lock and not-share everything they can in almost any way they can.
Yeah, when I worked at a company in the internet ads space, one of the security engineers mentioned his team's regret they couldn't mandate ad blocking for optics reasons.
I don’t know if Google ad networks specifically have been compromised in the past, but it’s certainly happened to networks used by major sites. nytimes.com is one such example. At a minimum, any ad served by a third party network on a site you’re visiting should be considered a security threat. You gotta draw the line somewhere, but I think it’s reasonable to at least consider only first-party content from the site you’re visiting as reasonably safe. Perhaps blocking even JS unless it is absolutely necessary.

Any site you visit could be compromised, but since the only 100% safe course of action is to completely disconnect from the web, blocking the most obvious vectors entirely seems appropriate. Of course, not only are ad networks vectors for malware, they don’t even serve a useful purpose to you that might justify the risk.
Lighting still has a "tooth" (actually two) on the socket side. The choice of keeping the teeth in the connector for USB-C is intentional, the idea is for the wear to be in the connector and not the device.

You also don't need a 30$ cable for 90W, any cable that is rated for 5 amps will do the job.
So you claim that it is lack of imagination that I don't want to install porn apps and receive notification spam from every website on the internet?

Also I don't see how can innovation be equated with support of PWA notifications and porn apps and launchers?
I think it was a system design issue because of lack of proper cooling from the integrator (Apple). Maybe someone can look it up, I'm going off of memory here..
True. Personally I'd be happy with that myself, but that definitionally makes me a non-vegan
Wow. It's not even just everything you buy from Google--from the post it seems like they actively compile and organize the data from every purchaser transaction that touches your GMail account.

I think we deserve to hear from Google about this one. Unless we have already?
Honored to see that it made the cut in your updated list, but it seems like there's a stray ']' at the end of the link :)
Great analogy.

Is that ok? It would seem that people entered the contract together without duress?

Are there other neighborhoods? Run by other HOAs with better terms? Isn't it a market contest at that point to see which one buyers will prefer?
One problem with reading Epicurus is that there is not so much surviving Epicurus to read. The second-hand story from Lucretius is about as good as you can get.
It's not quite difficult to leave. It's actually very easy. The process of getting citizenship elsewhere can take a while. But if you leave and renounce US citizenship, there are many countries that will allow you to stay until you get citizenship there.

Arguing against the value of FB is tough, given how much money it makes. In some sense, our society has determined that the BEST way to measure value is by how much money can it generate. By this measure FB has a lot of value.

You personally may not like FB. But my point is that there are a probably a lot of things that you hold dear (or at least don't find overly offensive) that others consider to do FAR more harm than FB ever has.
Because they were forced to use it due to EU legislation.
No.

Epic does not own Apple's App Store. They bought a license to publish on that platform. Then they violated it and were banned. And the judge agree it's Apple's right to do so, within limits.
You are correct. Most of the deforestation issue could be fixed with better law enforcement, mind you not just "harsher" enforcement, part of the problem is some previous governments went overboard with it, bothering people that weren't doing anything illegal. Sadly the current government fixed it by doing the opposite (enforcing too little).
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I mean, I already wonder what will happen when Square Enix will pull life support to "Rise of the Tomb Raider"'s "endurance mode" servers. A whole game mode made useless.
It would be nice if community could patch the game and point it towards different servers maintained by community.
Same for PS3 store, why can't I download and run arbitrary software on the console?