skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is unconstitutional in the sense that the Constitution is a practical document that has the main purpose of establishing a United States.

The laws that make federalism unworkable ended up being unconstitutional over time because the SC has a vested interest in maintaining federalism.
I particularly hate it when the airport officials seize all of my cryptocurrency. :-)
Congrats on the launch!

I tried to go through the app but I'm not sure I understand it perfectly. Can you add a description in a comment?
Confusing sentence. It could be rewritten as

"Strike works in El Salvador and all US states except New York and Hawaii"
There's some more or less serious discussion, that instead of using π = 3.14... (Pi) in formulas, we should adopt τ = 6.28... (Tau). Proponents claim, that it would simplify many formulas that include the term "2π".

For example the circumference on the unit circle is 2π and would become just τ if we adopted it as a constant.
These days you can get an optical mouse that behaves like a pen like this

https://ergonomictrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/pen-m...

I'm not endorsing the one above, just showing what it looks like. The one I had from the late 90s was wired, with a big roller at the tip instead of it being optical.

The main thing is that when you hold a pen, your hand is more up and down rather than flat to the surface of the table, like when you're holding a mouse. Having it up and down is a more natural position for the hand relative to your body and doesn't force it to be twisted away from the body so that I could hold the mouse. That twist was was pinched my nerve for me.
This is incorrect.

It kills exactly the same. Filter your water.

I think some bottled water might be worse than tap.

If you live by the beach, it's like drinking or smoking, risk assess your PM2.5/PM10. Lower stress, less city pollution. Filter your air when you are not using the sea breeze to relax.
Proposal for New Tzdb Versions
>>If the people and government of Texas feel that way about abortion, far be it for me or frankly any of us (not from Texas) to question it.

Most people in Texas don't want this insane law either, but gerrymandering diminishes their voices.

edit: downvoters should explain why they are downvoting :)
The Global congregation of Auckland Baptist Tabernacle, 10:30 am Sunday, 429 Queen St. One of the least "baptist" of baptist churches that I've known; started as a Bible study for non-native English speakers and grew into a whole church! We thank Jesus by singing songs, listen to someone talk for 20-30 mins, discuss questions around circular tables, then share lunch together.

My favourite church is where the sermons are convicting and the people are encouraging (and least favourite is the opposite). Global is a really great community, welcoming newcomers, and encouraging humble conversation rather than pushing a view. So please, welcome to join and worship God with us online! (and in person after lockdown's done for the food)

https://www.youtube.com/user/tabglobal
I enjoy your podcast.
Battlefield has been doing this, with FairFight, and it's worked okay-ish, but insanely slow
Having your CEO in prison would not do good things for the share price, I’m not sure what you mean by counterfactual.

It’s a simple calculation of utility: minus $5B in market cap for the fine, vs unknown market cap loss from CEO in prison
You might consider that when you start bashing the Firefox developers personally, they are much more likely to just stop working on Firefox entirely than to listen to you. Realize that most engineers working at Mozilla are already giving up some amount of money to do so relative to what they could earn at FAANG.
> It’s probably <$200 flight almost anywhere in the country.

This is the kind of privileged naivete I come to HN for. The cost of an airplane ticket isn't the only cost to travel out of state for a medical procedure. At a bare minimum you also have to consider the person's time and that many people don't have flexible enough employment to take time off for something like this.
> this modern progressive 'everything is political, all the time' mindset

Seeing things as not being political is political unfortunately.

After a war ends, companies can be judged for collaboration with the enemy. Until then, it’s all grey area.
DSL? In 2021?
Would we even have the USB-C connector if lighting hadn't come along to show what crap mini/micro USB connectors and how it could be done better?
Here's more information on the Institute for Justice class action (mentioned in the Twitter thread) that's challenging TSA airport forfeitures:

https://ij.org/case/dea-tsa-forfeitures/

IJ is the leader on this issue, and if you oppose civil-forfeiture abuse, you might consider supporting IJ's work.

(Disclosure: the IJ attorney pictured in the thread is a friend whom I admire greatly.)
I think a lot of this ends up being motivated by employees and customers of Apple who are using Apple as a lever of action, rather than being orchestrated top-down by Apple. This works, at least in part, because Apple is subject to popular opinion in a way that the legislative process is at least somewhat insulated from.

So I guess I just don't agree that it's a corporate dystopia. It's a popular opinion dystopia, actioned through corporate activism. To use a sports metaphor badly, Apple is the football, not the quarterback.

(And to be clear, I don't think it's dystopic at all, at least compared to the alternative, which would be to forbid this type of corporate activism)
>The complete lack of awareness in this whole endeavor

How do you know what awareness these groups have? Even this tiny article demonstrated that they already make bio-degradable versions. The main person mentioned, John Rogers, has an ungodly number of publications and patents, including lots on biodegradability and related issues.

Or did you simply assume?
Don't panic buy, Britain tells consumers as BP shuts gas stations
Looking at the repo and the tweet, this should be dated (2018). Which would explain a lot of things.
I feel like the U.S and middle east are pretty similar in terms of social progress. Or should I say, _regress_.
nothing forbids the system to give mechanisms defining rapid sequences of changes, kinda like debounce in js
I especially dislike when people talk about microservices and scalability like they are a solution. Most companies won't see the kind of scale Facebook/Google/etc sees, not because they won't have that much clients, but also because there's a good chance that they don't need all clients in the same system. Most business don't benefit from the network effect. In that case, your scale is not the total sum of the size of all your clients like Facebook/Google/etc, it's just your biggest client!

Also, I don't like how the discussion about "microservices" is drowning the discussion about plain services. Services are a natural consequence of Conway's law when your organization gets bigger. You can see parallels with the first wave of OO programming for software projects, where the goal of having a public interface and private internals was to make projects scale when 10/100/1000 times more people are working on it. This is exactly what's happening with services: a team maintain a public API, and private internals (and the developpers from the other team depend on the internals anyways because reality isn't that easy). Then it's easy to see what microservices are: ravioli code.

In a way, services and microservices are OO programming in the Alan Kay sense: late binding, message passing, local retention and hiding of state.
I've heard this a lot, that cars stopped being repairable by the Average Joe (and Jolene) once they started putting computers in them. After having worked on my own cars' weird problems and watching a lot more car repair YouTube videos than I'd like to admit, I have to say a lot of that is just bunk. Not all of it, just most of it.

Yes, cars got a lot more complicated. Yes, there are a few parts on them that the shadetree mechanic has no chance of fixing on their own, such as an automatic transmission or the car's security system. (Those parts, you either replace the whole modular unit, or pay a specialist/dealership to repair.)

But for the most part, they are still _systems_ and they are still _understandable_ and repairable. The key is that you have to have the willingness to learn how these newfangled systems work. To make it a computer analogy, it's like an old COBOL programmer complaining that you can't fix modern computer programmers because everything is Javascript now.

It's my observation that over the decades, the mechanical components of cars (the engine and transmission) have gotten extremely reliable while the electrical and computer systems are where most problems occur. That means you have to understand the basics of electronics and electricity in order to troubleshoot these kinds of issues. I know a few motorcycle guys who can rebuild a whole engine for fun on a lazy Sunday afternoon, but the moment there's a slight electrical problem with the bike, they throw their hands up and trailer it into a shop.

On the diagnostic front, the good news is that auto makers have standardized on a lot of things that actually make it _easier_ for independent shops and home-gamers to work on modern cars. For instance, all cars have an ODBII port and CAN bus through which you can (at a minimum) read diagnostic codes and read live data through with a dirt-cheap reader. More advanced scan tools can graph live data from every sensor on the car, communicate with the car's various modules, perform diagnostics, and other fun things. These cost more of course (hundreds of dollars) but can still cost under one trip to the repair shop depending on the issue if you're willing to put in the effort and time.
There seems to be a fair amount of drama brewing on the mailing list [1] for tzdb [2], the time zone database that is the foundation of essentially everything related to dates and time on a computer. The time zone database tracks time zones, UTF offsets and daylight-savings rules and is regularly updated as governments change the local rules regarding time.

As I understand it, recent controversial changes to tzdb effectively removed data for some timezones pre-1970. This email [3] seems to give a rough summary of what this means.

I'm unsure when this change was made, but it seems like in the past month or so there have been calls to revert this change [4], discussions of a fork [5], and calls to replace the TZ coordinator [6].

As a result of Samoa abolishing Daylight Savings Time [7], there is a need to release an updated version of tzdb. The linked proposal is suggesting releasing two new versions, one with and without the recent change, effectively an officially sanctioned (temporary) fork until the issue can be fully resolved.

I don't have any insight into what's going on beyond reading some of the emails on the mailing list and a couple of posts on Twitter, so if anyone wants to step in and provide more detail (and/or correct me), go ahead!

[1]: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-September/thread.html

[2]: https://www.iana.org/time-zones

[3]: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-September/030517.html

[4]: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-June/030220.html

[5]: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-September/030400.html

[6]: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-September/030478.html

[7]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28626595
understanding digital signal processing by lyons is a classic.

of the standard texts, my favorite was the proakis one.

also used linear systems and signals by lathi in school, it was okay.
I wonder how much longer DNS based ad blocking is even going to work with things moving to DNS over HTTPS.
So is Zuckerberg saying he values his privacy that much? I mean, what does he have to hide?

Meanwhile, FB itself buys info on people to "augment" their understanding of them as users. And for those who don't willingly participate - they create shadow profiles.
Personal attacks are not allowed here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. Please review the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Edit: we've warned you many times about breaking the site guidelines and your recent comments have mostly (exclusively?) been flamebait and/or unsubstantive. If you continue like that we're going to have to ban you, so please fix this.
As a point of order I don't think this article is advocating for lobbying as much as it is advocating a boycott slash pseudo-embargo of the State itself. To me, at least, that feels very different.
Ancient Footprints Yield Surprising New Clues About the First Americans
"Everyone loves it so far and doesn’t find it annoying at all!"
>> If Bob in Ohio can sue some doctor in Texas over an abortion

This is already happening btw: https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1440059654789165057
> Neither version is really very flattering to the concept of Canada as a nation!

A Quebecois friend, after a bottle (or two) of wine, once told me there's no such thing as "Canadian Culture".

It's all either from Quebec or a response to something Quebec did.

How true is it?
You wrote code for with the only potential benefit of (successfully) making us lol. All I have to offer is an upvote.
Excellent rebuttal. I mean, who gives a fuck what Google does, when we 'av Amex's despicable conducture to worry 'bout, ey mate?
Big-O Was a Lie
A Checklist to Quickly Evaluate SaaS Security
There is a lot more middlemen involved... and at any point they could make a rule that you can only use a certain set of HTML tags and image formats for your ads (none of which include scripts of course).

That would prevent not only most exploits (especially once you re-encode the images), but also simple badly written ads that drive up CPU usage. But it's easier, and allows more middlemen, to simply allow the next party to hand you arbitrary code that may or may not be put into an iframe that may or may not be sandboxed.
I heard it the other way around. Dogs in particular can eat things that might kill a human.
Cryptocurrency Firms Spend Big on Hollywood Names to Gain Trust
Why would paying with a credit card take a minute? It's 3s with contactless, and since covid it doesn't require a pin code.
Being able to play Call of Duty without people screaming the N word into my ears regularly would be amazing. Intolerance to hate speech could be something enforced by this hypothetical service as well.

Sure I can turn off the death mic, but there's been some really amazing interactions though it as well. For those not aware, the death mic in CoD is a feature where the instant you frag somebody in game, it turns their mic on, so you can hear their very candid reaction. Lots of times it's things like "no way what a shot how'd that guy get me!". Such a fun feature, if it wasn't for people that just utter the most offensive things imaginable on it.
> Lyon arrived @RDUAirport & gave his bag to @TSA to be scanned. He says he absolutely knew TSA would see the cash, but said he also knew there is no law limiting the amount of cash one can fly with in the U.S.

Here's the real problem. Civil asset forfeiture is an extralegal action. It's outside the legal system, which is why it's nearly impossible to get your money back. It's why the legality of what Lyon was doing doesn't matter. It's not a system of law, but power. He who has the power makes the law on the spot.

That the US collectively has resigned itself to this level of clear overreach, utterly indefensible on any legal grounds, not to mention the bill of rights, says a lot about what 9/11 has done.

The terrorists won the battle the people of this country thought they were fighting.
great book and reminded me to take a stab at a great checklist UI...
No SwiftUI, just plain Swift and AppKit/Cocoa. I considered SwiftUI, but at the time it was not ready and was missing a few core things I needed, like an outline view (this was 3 years ago).

Sometimes I wonder if I should have gone for a Catalyst app like Craft, for example, but again, at the time when I started Catalyst was in a very early stage. Today I'd probably give it another try. I also considered a Swift wrapper around an HTML/JS core (kind of my own slim Electron version) but decided to go for a native Mac app.
Okay, but where is this energy when companies donate to politicians? Or spend millions lobbying for specific policies? Or contract with the police or military?

Why does the issue begin and end here for so many people?
The antiflee medicine my housemates cat gets is useless. Such is evolution and humans refusing to use medicines properly.
By that logic it would be better no animals would exist at all. If you think cattle suffers, you should watch a live dear being torn by wolves.
I seem to recall a certain game that had a shadowban system that just put all the cheaters in the same lobbies together. Might be misremembering that though.
Wow, congrats on the launch. I see that you already have so many downloads on the play store.

Are you using Youtube APIs to get the videos? How are you circumventing the Ads? I believe Youtube won't be happy if your app becomes popular.
I don't necessarily see this trend as a bad thing and though aging populations are bad for economies, the ever increasing population trend was far worse for the planet and its resources. The only problem I see is the imbalance between rich countries with decline and poor and very populous countries..
As a Texan, I don't agree. I feel like out of the few blue cities most people were happy all around with the bill.

Are you Texan, or do you have a source for your statement?

This is all so reactionary. As GP pointed out, Apple is fine with a China presence while they sterilize Uighurs and harvest organs.
This Week in Rust 409
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>> Why not just pull a Salesforce and offer all employees free travel out of Texas to get an abortion?

There are many reasons (e.g. abortion is a very private and personal matter and most people probably wouldn't want to involve their employer), but primarily, it would count as assisting abortion and could open Apple to liability under this law.
Why do we give special status to “the earliest known people to inhabit a land”? I’m not trying to challenge any particular privilege afforded to any particular group, but I do want to reconcile the entire conception of categorizing people in this way with our modern, western moral framework.

In particular, doesn’t the idea of legally recognizing “a people” seem pretty close to 20th century racial ideologies (per the parent’s point)? How do we test an individual for membership in “a people”? Is there a one drop rule? Do you have to pass a cultural competency test? Speak a language?

What does it mean when we say “such and such land rightly belongs to such and such people”? Even if that people group was the earliest known, that doesn’t mean they didn’t likely take it from an earlier group.

It seems to me that the entire concept is fraught with the same problems that beset 20th century racialism. And please note the distinction between “indigenous people are bad” and “categorizing people into ‘indigenous’ and ‘other’ seems like a bad idea”.
You want to open up yourself to risk for your identity being stolen and normalize handing out personally identifiable information just to maybe make it harder for cheaters to get in on some of your games?

I don't think the idea has merit. See how long it is taking the Real ID act to become enforced. People barely trust the government with this info, with the ability to get on a plane (among other things) at stake.
SoundsFunny is live in Play Store
Hi guys, I want to introduce you my first app 'SoundsFunny' - Funny sound effects for any occasion.
I would love to hear your feedback & suggestions.
This could have a number of potentially significant secondary effects.

1. Accelerating the trend of companies taking sides on political issues. Think about how many companies you use and imagine half of them taking your side, and the other half taking the opposing side.

2. Expanding the already outsized influence of corporations in government.

3. Apple having to contend with their China-Sized Problem re: factory workers, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the Uyghur population.
why would anyone other than programmers/devops/IT pros have anything to do with Linux?
What relevant bits of of Google's conduct did I fail to address?
I flat out don't trust AWS SIG; It falls into the classic encryption antipattern of signing the meaning and not the bytes - Anytime a transformation of the data is required before or after the signature is applied, you open up a hole for attackers to exploit. See V1 and V3, which were flat out insecure and have been abandoned.

Sign the bytes, not the meaning.
No one has explained to me how this is still legal. This "law" has persisted until Bush, Obama, Trump and now Biden. Why does no one on both sides of the aisle have the courage to stop this?

Can no one mount a legal challenge against this?
That doesn't make sense. The main reason in favor of letting cross-platform play is exactly unfragmenting the player base. I'm sure I'll never run out of PS4 players to fight against in Fortnite or CoD of whatever, but I simply can't find an opponent when I play Skullgirls on PS4, while on Steam I can. Games with a small population benefit immensely from crossplay.

That said, if I'm on a PS4 (a platform where cheating is much harder than PC) and the game is well populated, maybe I don't want to play against PC players, as I don't want cheaters.

There's also the mouse+keyboard vs pad thing for FPS games.
From the article:

> “Cattle consume roughly 25 calories of plant material for every calorie of edible protein they produce, according to some estimates. Even chickens, the most efficient form of livestock from a feed perspective, eat 9 to 10 calories of food for every calorie of edible protein produced. Friedrich, the director of GFI, has said that’s like throwing away 8 plates of pasta for every one plate we eat.”

Beef and chicken have more than protein calories. They also have carbohydrates and fats. Reporting only a slice of the calories is as misleading as saying a 100 calorie chocolate chip cookie only has 25 sugar calories so it’s healthy.

Unless someone responds with a counter-argument, this takes away some amount of the authority this article has.
Are you unaware of the large mask use studies? Like here's one that made the national news fairly recently:

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-mask...
Sadly, I think the "free market" system of voting with your wallet is also broken, if not moreso. Everyone hates Nestle, yet they're doing better than ever.

If I don't like what Amazon is doing, how can I possibly boycott a company that has meshed itself into the backbone of the internet at almost every level? As a Texan, at least I can vote in the next election. I have virtually no power over these big companies.
Beats me. When did credit cards ever require a PIN, though?
Gee man, it sounds like you live in quite the hell hole. Move to a decent country, you’ll be happier.
The devlogs they've done showing off the new UI for the Steam version makes it look really promising. The keyboard interface is inconsistent and a complete mess in some cases and they're making a lot of that mouse driven.
> "This also means that humanity will eventually disappear in the next hundreds of years,"

Huh? Has this person not heard of a logistic curve? Or any other number of steady states besides "welp, we'll just die out!"
Zuckerberg is the majority shareholder.
What does '"just" a developer' mean?
This is a really kind product. Congrats on the launch!

I see that INKIII is a non profit, and there are 227 submissions left. Is that number going to increase when you get donations, or have organizations back INKIII?

There should be a mention of how people can contribute to INKIII both as sponsors, and artists. Good luck!