skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Compare to SF. SF I think there are 5 restaurants in the entire city open past 2am (5 might be wrong but the number is small. SF clubs have a curfew. SF has homeless everywhere. Just got the pleasure of having one squat and defecate in front of me in front of the local market. SF has car breakins and garage breakins all over.

I can't vouch for the nightclubs and bars bit but there are plenty of cities like Detroit, Gary, Newark and Baltimore (the list goes on) that don't have nearly the frequency of petty property crime and poo in places other than the sewers. Don't get me wrong, these cities have their problems but the baseline level of petty lawlessness and flagrant anti-social behavior is far lower than it is in the west coast cities. You don't have to oppress the heck out of the poors Singapore style to prevent people from crapping on the sidewalks.
Everything is just building blocks or layers on top of other technologies/paradigms making different trade-offs. You just have to figure out which features of which products compete with each other.

That said, it involves a ton of reading, and reading Twitter daily to stay up-to-date.

I've been thinking of putting together a curated website to break down the differences between JS tools, explain what the metrics and trends mean. In the end, everyone wants an exhaustively researched short-list so they're not missing some obvious trend, and then they want recommendations to suit their personal preferences. Existing comparison sites lack the necessary curation component to tease apart the layers involved in each tool.
A linter is supposed to tell you "you are probably making a mistake."

"= NULL" is as syntactically correct in SQL as "if (x = null)" in C.

If it wasn't, code highlighting or compiling would break, both of which are much much more obvious.
A 5 pointed star is not a communist symbol, except maybe according to some communists. There are 50 of them on the US flag, as just one example.
US Department of Education Overhauls Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
I thought psi more or less solves oom, or at least the practical problems of it. I wouldn't expect anything more elegant from linux kernel
From another site a user commented that it might have proprietary modifications to ffmpeg which is LGPL/GPL (I think?). Would a leak be considered to be distribution, could others legally take these modifications and merge them into the upstream project?

I imagine other free software might have modifications too.
I would imagine they would attempt to secure exclusive rights to a popular title and only distribute it from their new platform. I believe that is what epic did when they launched their store.
Sweden pauses use of Moderna COVID vaccine for people under 30
Story points are a curse on the software development industry. However much people say "they're indicative, and don't map to hours", someone, somewhere, will map them to hours.

The most accurate project plan I was ever involved in had only 3 values that could be assigned to a piece of work during the early estimation phase: hours, days, and weeks. Each of those was then turned into a range of possible hours they could represent, with that range expanding as you got into larger units. You could then slice and dice the numbers however you choose to get anywhere between the most pessimistic timeline to the most optimistic timeline. Probably unsurprisingly the project was delivered somewhere between the two.
It's a service. Service is a product that is consumed when it's produced.
I've never worked in this way (when I've been part of the org), is it that common? What are the benefits of making everyone fork repos vs branching off the original repo?
You cannot be quite sure

- that someone who takes over your "garbage" account

- could fake someone else (on your behalf)

- with a traces on corporate servers that will lead authorities to you in the future.

It might be highly unlikely to happen, though.
Wow. The anti-Chinese rhetoric on this thread is bordering on horrifying.

I had to ctrl+shift+F the webpage to see if I missed something on the Reuters article relating to China.

What does Chinese policy on human rights have anything to do with the above mentioned article?
If you kept reading you would see the points he makes where he outlines exactly where their actions match up with their intentions.
So here is an idea about deleting accounts. Usually people may want to undo it sometime but if it's deleted it is deleted.

One of the things required by the GDPR is a way to export your data and even import it (article 20, right to portability). So you should implement a way to do that.

Then when users ask to delete their account, create an export, encrypt it with a one-time use key which you mail to the user, store this encrypted dump and remove the rest of the data. Now if the deletion was an error the user can get their key in their email and get their account reinstated. And no one in your company can access the data in the meantime.
I understand what you mean but I’m 45 and have been around the block a few times. I’m not sure if this analogy works completely but teaching someone how to climb a mountain safely is good.

Beating into the head of an aspiring climber the details of every injury/death disillusioning them of even an attempt is full stop unacceptable.
If it's any comfort, for some reason twitch uses Xsolla as it's payment processor. That is, you cannot pay for premium twitch with your amazon account.
The Airpod Pros and Airpod Max Pros definitely changed my sentitment towards active noise cancellation. Transparency is great when I want more awareness of my surroundings without having to take out my earphones. The Maxs also don't seem to have any of ear pressure that had led me to sell my Bose QC35s a couple of weeks after buying them.
In the 90s I joined an organization called Re-evaluation Counseling that was directly inspired by Scientology. I was in it for only a few years. At the time, I would have sworn also, like Burroughs, that "it works". It offered a clear, simple theory that explained everything confusing about people and society. And these cults do "work", but only in the context of the cult itself. Outside of that context, your ideas and behavior are strange. I eventually left because the leaders of the organization didn't particularly have their lives in order the way I would expect if "it works". Everyone seemed to be headed toward more odd, not more composed and together. Also, like Scientology, criticizing the leadership could get you in trouble.
China has more renewable energy than any one in the world
The only vaguely practical large scale carbon capture I've seen proposed is to convert plants into biochar which can then be buried [1]. Any "machine" based method just needs huge amounts of capital, manufacturing and energy to be done on a big enough scale.

It's attractive for a few reasons:

1. The actual carbon capture is pretty hands off

2. You can extract some (carbon negative) hydrocarbon fuel from the pyrolisis process to help pay for everything

3. The carbon you get is fairly stable as solid carbon - there's no worrying about CO2 gas escaping.

There's pretty much no way we could do this at a scale big enough to cancel out current emissions (I'd say maybe 10-20% would be feasible). But as a way of reducing CO2 once we've managed to stop burning as many fossil fuels, it's pretty attractive.

[1] https://concretecuts.xyz/articles/biochar/
Could do a fasted ride? How long are your commutes?
Isn't #9981 basically what HN is?
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28770590
> I don't want to have to decide if every message I send is sensitive or not, then if it is, swap to a totally different app

Only those messages which are sensitive enough should be sent over the secure channel, the rest goes over Telegram. Assuming that you're not a full-time professional anarchist of the comic-book type (picture man in cloak with a lit bomb in hand) you won't have all that many messages which are so sensitive that you don't want to run the risk of the enemy getting hold of them so don't worry, you'll be fine. As said, there is always the end-to-end encrypted 'private chat' function in Telegram for exchanging passwords and such, those have not caught the ire of the handwave-brigade (yet).

> Even worse: convincing friends and family to do the same!

Unless they're all wearing black cloaks while holding lit bombs in their hands (see above) the same goes for them. It is not the knitting patterns the enemy is interested in. Even more, the enemy might become suspicious if you all of a sudden stop sharing them in such a way that it might be theoretically feasible to decrypt them. What are you planning on knitting next, they'll wonder, sweaters with subversive messages on them? Before you know it they'll be hiding bugs in your cereal, and I don't mean weevils.
No, it is very unpopular in the US in those who regularly vote in primaries. The primary decides the race, for many, many elections. The presidential race is not exempt from this, either. To draw enough primary voters to make the ballot in one of the two major parties, candidates are, increasingly, needing to take extreme stances on most social and economic issues. (for example, look at how many people came out for Trump in the 2016 primary. In my parents' county in their Midwest state, the polling place literally ran out of republican ballots)

Pandering to the extremes, and the movement of many politicians toward extreme views is a symptom of the disease, not the disease itself.
An argument I heard the other day: lots of people are realizing the benefits of typescript. Those same people will eventually realize a table schema will make their lives similarly easier.
Is there a point you're failing at making? In my mind it's no different than, say, voting for contestants on talent shows, or paying a camgirl, or pay-per-view WWE events. Same thing targeting a different demographic.
Bitcoin set to become legal payment in Brazil
Which one? Global cooling? Or peak oil?

70s were full of boogeymen. Not that other decades were / are much better. The methods shift, the profit stays.
I have very little understanding of physics and math and might be wrong.

But if we accept that the Planck length is the smallest possible length and the Planck time is the smallest possible time, then it seems logical that the universe is an integer lattice of these. ("Spacetime is not real-valued")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_units#Planck_time
Depends on the law in your country.
I will echo the parent's feelings. I use the version that has a mic and despite having tried various wireless earphones I keep coming back to these for outdoor walks or video conferences. The only downside is noise from the wires.
I tried to precipiate a shift away from Whatsapp the last time they did a privacy grab a year or two ago. But so many people use it for group messaging. The gravity around Whatsapp is enough to prevent people swapping to Signal in my circles.

Now I've got so many messaging apps. I just want one. Only one.

(based in the UK)
I am sure that this distinction between a near-OOM condition and an actual OOM condition matters to someone familiar with the current kernel implementation. You seem confident describing what happens when the memory gets closer to full, so I believe you. However, the user experiences the PC freeze during certain conditions, however you choose to name them, and it is during that freeze period the user needs a program to be killed to free some memory and prevent the freeze. I would take one crashed program over power cycling the entire PC any day of the week.
No, you should confront and fix both problems. You're argument is entirely dismissive of China's actions.
> Despite this, Tanzania’s cybercrime unit said that NCII cases are few and far between, with the head of the Cybercrime Unit, Joshua Mwangaza insisting it is not in the country’s culture to send “porn pictures.”

Yeah, that’s some gaslighting right there.
And what fraction of their energy is that?

They probably have more coal plants than anyone else in the world too.

Citing raw numbers is pointless when China is involved since everything is so numerous there.
Everyone is different. I have suffered from quite severe tinnitus for more than 10 years. Meanwhile, I have spent a huge proportion of my work hours in my Bose qc35 over the last three years. They are amazing and they seem to have very little impact on my inner ear issues. Meanwhile, I can play audio at a much lower volume than I would with regular headphones. This technology greatly improves my life.
That's a pretty harsh moral/value judgment on how someone chooses to spend their entertainment money.

What about comedy clubs? If I buy a ticket to see Dave Chappelle, who is clearly wealthy, am I sucker too?

What about paying cover at my local bar because a local band is playing that night?

What about buying tickets to a baseball game, to see a bunch of millionaires play a game for a few hours?

You are making it seem like users get nothing for their money, when there is plenty of established precedent for giving money in exchange for attending a performance.

Sure the performance has changed, but the actual difference here is that these Twitch millionaires (and the rest who are far from millionaires) are literally charging "pay what you can" instead of setting a minimum ticket price for their show. Plenty of people (the majority in fact) get the show for free.
It would be good to have a streaming service where simps could be called out as such.
I think we would all prefer a quiet environment over needing active noise cancellation, but not everyone has that luxury.
If your email has ever appeared in any breaches, your account probably has had many login attempts.
Yup wired in ear monitors and good fitting tips are the way to go. I’m a fan of comply foam tips which compress and expand to fully seal themselves.

This is the same approach used by live musicians to hear themselves over concert volume speaker arrays, well sealed IEMs attenuate background noise passively extremely well.
Sure, how to you explain the WTO and the IMF?
7 billion people in the world are already ruled by a bunch of bureaucrats. But it's ok if it's for profit and not human rights, I guess.
If you do not need them to be pocketable and concealable, one trick is to use headphones for drummers. One example is the Vic Firth "Stereo Isolation Headphones".
> Any resolution from the UN has to get approval from the security council iirc so if the US or UK object it'll never be formally adopted by the UN.

That's not correct. The general assembly can adopt resolutions and is meant to adopt resolutions by itself. Those resolutions are non-binding however.

The security council needs to agree if the resolution touches on security relevant topics. And the security council is the only UN organ that can issue binding resolutions.
As a color blind person I go when the light is blue. I don't see green well, so most stoplights get a blue tint to help people like me see the color better.

Most stoplights - it was a shock to me driving one dark night when one of those white lights in front of me suddenly changed to yellow. It didn't have any blue tint, and there was no other indication that I was at an intersection as opposed to just a badly aimed street light. (I has never driven that road before, so I didn't have any other clue)
> I've given so much time to this person it's insane.

_why_?
https://apnews.com/article/europe-europe-air-force-russia-7f...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/russia-mig-31-...

US does these things, its just not highlighted front page material in American press when it happens, so it goes unnoticed to American populations unlike when adversaries like Russia fly bombers near Alaska.

Also US conducted similar maneuvers as what China did to Taiwan but to Iraq preceeding the Iraq invasion.
Macron's "En Marche" never took over France "in a storm". That is just media spin. Macron is your typical establishment droid and has always been perceived as such by the majority of the French population. The only reason he won the presidency is because of the extreme vilification of Marine Le Pen by mainstream media.
Seconded. I use the Etymtic MK5s and love them. The only challenge I found is it's hard to get replacement tips in Canada, much less other countries. The standard size is often sold out and/or delivery on Amazon costs a multiple of the product price.
Turning off Bitcoin’s inflation funded security model – wishful thinking?
The amount of time and effort expended on this must be immense. Would it have been feasible at the time to sponsor having these changes pushed into mainline?
They indeed build for earthquakes, but that does not imply they build for longevity. See: https://japanpropertycentral.com/2012/06/what-is-the-lifespa...

Japan tends to tear down and rebuild their buildings more often than other countries. Old buildings depreciate in value rather than appreciate as people in Japan typically don't like "second hand" items up to and including housing.
They pay to have the person paid a couple of mil to say their name on stream 'thanks bluecat for the sub'
Pre- or post-Brexit?
Politicians created supply chain crises
> while China does nothing to address their environmental impact

At least it proves that this statement is untrue.
This is interesting to contrast with my experience as a former tank commander doing range gunnery with wooden targets and dry brush. Range fires due to machine gun fire happened all the time. They were not remotely uncommon or difficult to cause.

I know next to nothing about chemistry or materials science, so offer no explanation of why this would be the case but a gas tank is difficult to ignite. The only layman intuitive answer I can think of is that a high speed projectile traveling through wood generates a lot more friction than one traveling through a liquid or gas, and something has to happen to that energy.
There's no reason to believe it's a "full" account delete even in the countries covered by the GDPR considering they brazenly breach the GDPR with their "consent" flow.
Tips for New Developers: Advice from a (Mostly) Self-Taught Software Engineer
Relevant recent post on BTC:

Turning off Bitcoin’s inflation funded security model - wishful thinking? https://www.onionfutures.com/essays/turning-off-bitcoins-inf...
> Generally the rules are stronger and the enforcement is weaker (because turning the screws on the poors over a check engine light isn't as tractable for us as it is for Europe, generally speaking).

To be fair the amount of Diesel cars on the road in the EU with abhorrently poor emission systems is shocking; I was at VW during dieselgate, and worked with Bosch and VW during the buy-back program and VW are by far the only violators in the EU and in the periphery countries for lacking emission standards.

I was behind mid 2010s diesel Opel for ~35km on my way to Slovenia and I have been in enclosed green houses with diesel tractors so I'm pretty sensitive to it, and it was so absurd that such a thing was allowed on the road.

Typical check engine light failures (P14X/0420) are susceptible to modifications to pass if you know what you are doing, visual inspection isn't always as stringent as you'd think even with the STAR test sites in CA, which has the strictest emission laws in the World. When I was in motorsports we had a series of people we could rely on to pass our respective track-built machines on the road, but ultimately you realize that it's not worth the time, resources or risk and that the car (if properly built) no longer belongs on the road anyway.

As an environmentalist who has struggled with addictions to 'car-caine' I've since downsized from a revolving inventory of 5-6 cars, and 3 motorcycles to one of each: what I think is even tougher is to actually make sensible policy and regulation regarding them without it being simply a way induce needless consumption.

Case in point is the absurd World of the 2-3rd Gen Prius used car market and the catalytic converters, which has always had a lot of theft since it was released but have reached an Worldwide [0] extreme this year due to the astronomical rise in PM prices for those metals (inflationary pressure more than demand) so coupled with the supply chain shortages from Toyota and the rise in sudden demand many cars which were in compliance and within emission specs were simply scrapped because when Toyota couldn't deliver there was no other certified manufacturer for the part and something as simple not having a Toyota stamp was an automatic failure.

Even though some owners reported emission testing within spec of counties within WA or OR which have less stringent standards than CA but still worth noting their compliance. Their insurance policies payout wouldn't cover a similar ranged car purchase and the only alternative was to sell it out of state and use that sum (usually half the cost of properly registered Prius in CA) and to buy another used one.

0: https://www.hotcars.com/heres-why-prius-catalytic-converter-...
> Actually in the past "weight" [...] always referred correctly to what is now named "mass".

That’s the same thing I just said. Why add “actually” in front? Yes, weight was historically measured with balance scales.

I guess I should have been clearer that the term “mass” as used in physics only dates from 3 centuries ago (from Newton), and did not historically mean weight in Latin. (Mass comes from Latin via French for lump of dough.)
Yeah, it's so absurd it's hilarious. Seeing people make millions of USD for playing games and mentioning others in a live stream made me seriously rethink the value of my own work.
maybe on streamers with less than 50 viewers. every twitch stream i've seen the chat is easily 100x more toxic than any HN thread. ridiculous comparison
And they also have the most lax environmental standards. Green energy is nice but allowing business to dump whatever they want into the environment isn't.
it depends which legislation you reside in, I believe most allow you downloading stuff like that as long as you don't reshare (uploading and sharing is the part where Amazon could go legally after you)
I think we need to take a deep breath and look at our own abuse of the planet. Sadly, even advanced European countries like Italy and Switzerland were found to have participated in toxic dumping in Somalia. https://theecologist.org/2009/mar/01/somalia-used-toxic-dump...

After China stopped accepting plastic waste, we discovered that almost all of the developed nations weren't actually recycling plastic but in reality just dumping it in developing countries. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/28/treated-...

The simple truth is that developed countries aren't exactly following the laws we put into place ourselves when it turns out they inconvenience us.