skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The breakup was a huge win for consumers. Long-distance rates dropped significantly due to competition and the telephone system became much more open.

And I think it dramatically aided early internet adoption. If you read "When Wizards Stay Up Late" you'll see how big a barrier AT&T was to the adoption of packet-switched networks, rather than the circuit-switched networks they sold people. How far would the Internet had gotten if AT&T had banned home modems [1] or priced early ISPs out of existence? They would have vastly preferred something like AOL, not the Internet, which destroyed their long-distance call business entirely. Look at how they behaved with mobile apps up Apple launched the app store.

Our problem was that we didn't stick with it. Starting in the Reagan era, antitrust enforcement shifted toward much laxer standards. So AT&T reassembled itself as a (smaller) juggernaut and kept going.

[1] I realize this sounds insane now, but one of the things the DoJ sued for is "Obstructing the interconnection of customer provided terminal equipment and refusing to sell terminal equipment, such as telephones, automatic answering devices or switchboards, to subscribers".
This is the best, most complete analysis I've seen to date on what went wrong with Facebook.
Anyone who played new world private alpha new this, the first alpha (closed) had an amazon games Epic Games like client, they choose to remove it for new world public beta and release but I knew they had been working on it because of it
Thanks! That does look like a good solution for moving a tab to a specific window. Serious bummer that it Sidebery doesn't include a Window selector. It appears to want to use panels, but panels can't be named. Turning off the horizontal tab bar in FF is also a hack rather than a simple setting.

(edit)
UG. The only way to create a new tab with Sidebery is to use a keyboard shortcut - this makes using Multi Account Containers a serious PITA as you can't just open a tab directly into a container. so frustrating!
> It would also destroy the confidence in US Dollar worldwide

If it was used to redeem debt held by outside parties, that would be an issue. Redeeming Fed holdings has no effect on circulating holdings or public debt holdings, and is basically a nonevent. The money creation that matters regarding those already happened when the Fed created real circulating money to buy the Treasuries in the first place. (Which, btw, did not have catastrophic effects on confidence in the US dollar.)
The defectors is an interesting point.

If Yang had major defectors from both parties, this might have a chance.

As it is, its just a party of one.
No, even 5000iu/day is too much for some people, as previously discussed on HN at length.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24261948
Tiobe Index for October 2021 (Python programming language number 1)
x86 emulator that runs natively and in browser
Auto-formatter is already built in for some simple violations: https://docs.sqlfluff.com/en/stable/cli.html#sqlfluff-fix
"Can _insert technology we don't have yet and that requires breakthrough_ save use"

Yeah sure, why not

Nuclear is already the answer but people are afraid and even countries lead by "smart people" such as Germany are slowly decommissioning their nuclear power plants...

In the meantime we're using more and more energy while putting all our eggs in the "intermittent energy sources" basket. It might have been fine if we all lived like 1960s era people but I don't see how that would work in today's world
But it's not true. Fusion power plants produce a steady stream of radioactive waste from the neutron bombardment. They can leak radioactive tritium. They can explode, spewing hot plasma and chunks of radioactive reactor walls in the area around the plant. The scope of the problem is nowhere near a fission reactor meltdown, but it's also not "gone".
Natural versus Vaccine Immunity
Given that today is 6th Oct, I am gonna guess 06-10-2021 means today, and not the 10th of June. More often than not American dates would use a 06/10/2021 format, I think?
Any discussion of regulating the use of facial recognition by government misses the point. Private industry has just as much if not more power to misuse the technology. I don’t know what a global opt out system would look like, but that’s the only serious answer to preventing misuse.
How isn't it true? They're just describing a prism/rainbow in basic terms.
Correct link: https://dietpi.com/docs/hardware/#make-your-own-distribution
This thing again. I think all the misunderstanding starts from this one person misinterpreting Homer's "wine-dark sea" to mean blue. No. It means on the deep black sea.
As a german I can tell you that not being able to get rid of certain people because they will always re-enter parliament via party list is annoying as hell.
is it microscopic sizes?
I may have been unclear. I'm talking about Backblaze's personal backup product/service, not their generic cloud storage service (B2).

With the former you install some of their software on your computer. That software reads your files, encrypts them with the key Backblaze generated for you, and stores them on their servers.

The Backblaze software sees the same data that applications on your computer see. It is hard to see a reasonable way to impose your own encryption there in a way that would make Backblaze's software see the encrypted data.

If you are using a whole disk encryption system or whole partition encryption system, applications on your computer (including Backblaze's) see unencrypted data.

You could do file level encryption yourself with GPG or age or similar, but that would generally be in enormous pain in the ass because every time you wanted to use a file you'd need to decrypt it and if you modified it re-encrypt it. (And when you decrypt a file to use it you'd have to be careful that an incremental backup doesn't happen while you have the file decrypted).

I suppose you could get a drive specifically for local backup, use local backup software to maintain an encrypted backup on that drive, and use Backblaze's personal backup service to back up just your backup drive.
You may enjoy programming in Elixir if you like that style. In Elixir, you only program the “happy path” and just let things fail. Then you rely on supervisor processes to handle the exceptions/errors. Well, at least that is the idea. I think people still do tests and function guards and things. but the “let it fail” idea is definitely part of the Erlang/Elixir world.

The sad thing is that there really isn’t any “learn elixir” book that teaches this idiomatic design. A student of Elixir should set up an umbrella application from the very first hello world, in my opinion.
+1 on the browser issue. So much of basic development these days requires a browser (I'm even using one to read this Plan 9 Desktop Guide) that not having one hosted by the OS moves the OS from "Desktop development" to "Embedded system development" for all practical purposes for me.
New way to image whole organisms in 3D brings key skin color pigment into focus
> This one is curious. The website appears to suggest that the list of open issues being presented was generated over 4 months ago.

It was generated today. 6.10, not 10.6. Fixed it.

> My second question is what is driving the short list of technologies?

I will add more languages.
It’s not much compared with some other budget items, you’re right. But a billion here, a billion there, and soon you’re talking about real money.
Our societies do regulate how people can spend their time and money in certain regards. I don't think that's necessarily wrong. Smoking is banned, some countries have labeling for unhealthy products, and so on. Things can end up affecting other people in the long run, so I don't think it's unreasonable to contemplate addressing stuff like this.

I think the main issues overall are encouraging parasocial relationships, and also the problem of selling sex to kids. I'm no prude but I think it raises some ethical questions when you have gaming content and sexual content in the same spot. If I had kids, that would matter to me.
And what is the benefit of that?
I have some friends who pay 3000 Singapore dollars for a rather small one bedroom apartment, I would definitely consider that a high cost of living.
No, add a new type. If your SSN is of type "USSocialSecurity" and the canadian system needs "CanadianTaxID" (sorry, I don't know what it is) then the API will not accept the wrong thing in the wrong place.

"But what if I label it incorrectly and send it along?" Then that's a bug in your code. No amount of my API design can prevent bugs in your code. All my API can do is not help you write bugs in your code. I can't stop you from reading the random number generator and claiming its output is a USSocialSecurity number, but at least I've done my best for a reviewer of your code to be able to look at that and ask you what you're doing calling that a USSocialSecurity.
I like command strips for lighter things. But once in a while I'll have a picture frame drop off the wall years after it was attached with a command strip. Startling. When I reattach them, I don't use command strips except as stabilizers.
Not sure why your being downvoted. Nothing about this makes any sense, I don’t think your questions have obvious answers unless you already knew how it works.
Painted drywall is not coarse. Unless it's textured of course, but who does that? Command strips are explicitly designed for painted drywall.
Lack of Engineers Keeping Some Firms Out of the Cloud
So it is true, women do go for chads.
Can captured space alien technology based on element 115 help solve climate change? It's about as likely to generate real commercially usable amounts of power in the next decade.

At this point, we don't have new fission plants being built, and we're converting all the coal plants to run on natural gas, which is just going to jack up the prices for consumers who use it for heat.

The time to fix this was 5 decades ago.
Criticism of the EU on this point ≠ the US is better at it. It's not a competition of "my politicians are better than yours".

Almost _all_ of the EU's legislation on anything tech related has been playing to the voters by beating the privacy drum, without actually addressing the underlying issues.

Meanwhile, the EU slides farther and farther into irrelevancy when it comes to being anything other than consumers of tech. All the EU seems capable of doing is creating additional bureaucracy while hamstringing Europeans trying to actually realize Europe's potential in the field.
Less helpful in winter.
No wonder Yang got nowhere. This list isn't really a list of policies at all, it's a set of vague truisms that hardly anyone would disagree with but which can't be obviously turned into any sort of implementation.

And what sort of libertarian party supports UBI?! How would that ever be implemented without massive levels of top-down coercion and taxation? No analysis I've ever seen says it can be self-funding as was once claimed. If that's really their position then no wonder they don't accrue any influence.
Most people don't have metabolic issues, yet steadily gaining weight.

South Korea vs. North Korea clearly shows the effect of food availability. Same genetics.

No one said the solution was easy, only that the solution was simple. But very hard.

But which one is easier to live with?

(1) "this is in my control, but it is too hard, and I am too weak to do it", or
(2) "this is NOT in my control, and I'm failing due to the circumstances, in spite of doing the most possible"
Seems unlikely. How many people have installed AMP blockers specifically on ios15? How many people have installed AMP blockers on any other platform that's not being UA-sniffed?
Emacs: Fifteen Different Ways to Use Embark
Now almost all databases are run on VMs

now, that's a bit of a stretch, no?
cd $PWD works without creating an unnecessary subshell…
In general with paint, the more you thin it, the more coats you need, but the longer it lasts once you are done. Also don't use water-based primer to cover oil (even though it says on the side of the can that it can do it!), use a shellac primer.

That second one I learned from painting my first condo; painted the ceiling, gave it a week to cure; taped off to do the walls, and after finishing the walls, the ceiling paint came off with the tape! Got a pro in there and he said "if it actually did what it says on the can, I'd use it because it's way easier cleanup"
BGP: Bridging Gap Protocol
>Given the current rate of spending and outstanding obligations, what would be a reasonable weight for a trillion dollar coin?

Not sure why you need to factor in "current rate of spending and outstanding ", but 1 trillion divided by current platinum prices gets you 31,610 metric tons. Apparently that exceeds all platinum ever mined:

>Mining experts also estimate that just over 10,000 tonnes of platinum have ever been mined by man.
The claims on nuclear fission being just around the corner are wildly exaggerated. Sabine Hossenfelder has a great video [1] on this topic. I want fusion to be real too, but focussing on small scale fission and solar is probably a better idea.

[1] - https://youtu.be/LJ4W1g-6JiY
I've not heard that one. I've heard of Edison hiring the mob to beat up competing film companies; that's why Hollywood is on the west coast, to get away from him. https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2021/03/thomas-edison-th...

(thermoelectric generators have pretty terrible efficiency, though)
Because it's never ending battle with drywall here in US/Canada.

It's virtually impossible to hang anything heavier than a picture frame unless there's a stud at that specific location. Nothing from that review works for dynamic load, like a vacuum cleaner mount or a coat rack.

Drywall sucks. I miss my concrete walls.
D&D.Sci 4th Edition: League of Defenders of the Storm
The republican party has a big tent too. There are neocons, extreme far right people, religious people, disaffected workers, anti globalists, and increasingly Hispanics and other immigrant groups.

These groups often have little in common. Just look at trumps support base.
Fukushima didn't kill many people, but it's projected to cost $187b to clean up.

Chernobyl has supposedly cost over $300b inflation-adjusted. Gorbachev wrote that in his opinion, it was a major contributor to the collapse of the USSR. Both figures are from Wikipedia.

Fission is safe, but even one accident can wipe out decades of profits. Is it still cost-effective when considering that?
People who go back and forth often, thus will usually be counted in the census, might not be able to or not want to do so. They might not want to risk getting lock out of the other country and there might be quarantine requirements they do not want to be subjected to.
No focus on education in the list of goals, but universal income?
It's been said that the maze-like library in "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco was inspired by the Library of Babel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose#:~:text=T....
Exactly. To me a Potemkin village is one or two steps further away from reality. The Potemkin village is unoccupied and has no potential for occupation. All involved in its construction know it's fake.

My team was sincere, worked hard, and definitely got some good stuff done. Just not nearly as much as we wanted.
>>I gotta tell you that unless you're working with absolute bozos, nobody is looking at estimates and saying "oh duh, I am betting the farm this will complete on that date."

I hate to break it to you, but it happens a lot (and yes, management structures can often work to filter absolute bozos upwards). They make all kinds of representations to customers, investors, etc. about dates that have nothing approaching this level of estimation, more of a wishful-thinking goal. And when they fail, investments, customers, jobs, and even companies are lost — often unnecessarily if better plans and contingency plans had been made.

Sadly, just because it is blindingly obvious to you and me, does not mean it is so obvious to someone in a mgt chair.
Heatmaps for TV series, by episode and season
'Earnings' is absolutely private information.

So is source code.
Depends on the instructor. Some profs where I studied will assign K&R C for reading and others will use King's C Programming: A Modern Approach. King is a much more gentle introduction IMO.
https://www.facebook.com/bro.rin.148553
No equal opportunity for education in goals, but universal income?
One of the big things though, is that you can't know exactly what this division looks like. Like you said, at a high, non-technical level that is kind of fundamentally what is going on, with the caveat that the actual "cut" you are making isn't clean like splitting numbers down the middle.
It is, according to HN alternate reality
Oh I can think of many others: cryptocurrency exchanges, many payment providers, some server providers, Twitter (during verification), freelancing platforms (like Upwork) and even Pornhub.

Sometimes it's a legal obligation (under KYC), sometimes it's pressure from credit card companies, and sometimes it's just websites making shit up to enforce their own rules.
Using Git Graphs to Visualize Dialogue Systems in Games
They've done some analysis, it's not really that clean, once you count embodied energy.

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is...
Pig Poop Lagoons Are Huge Polluters. A ‘Green’ Solution Might Make Them Dirtier
There's also a higher level point which is that he does whatever the fuck he wants with his website.
By default DietPi is no GUI (shell/console whiptail UI only) and SSH-only, but indeed not read-only. There are however ways to achieve it: https://dietpi.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=24920#p24920
I must disagree, personally. Everything can be a laughing matter. At times, everything /should/ be a laughing matter.

There's no way I would have made it this far if I couldn't occasionally laugh in the face of the darkest parts of life. Jokes about a loved ones' recent suicide, my best friend's child sexual abuse, and my own struggles with depression, have all made me and the person I was talking to feel better.

It's hard to feel bad when you're laughing.
Did you learn this in your AP econ class?

Logic doesn't go out the window once you get to government scale.
I implemented TailwindCSS dark mode in my Nuxt blog
This is clearly a strawman, so good job not being “extra provocative”. Please drop the Robin Hood complex and try to have an intellectually honest conversation.
Why not? Concrete use case: many property crimes have a minimum cutoff (a felony only if more than $X is stolen or damaged). So to convict someone who knows the letter of the law and regularly engages in some mischief under the cutoff amount, you will need to gather video evidence over a long time period - a period during which the person technically hadn't hit the felony threshold yet.
While that's true at the Python language level, there are already special optimizations for this in CPython: `tp_iternext` is not required to set an exception. If it returns NULL without setting an exception, that's taken to be the end of iteration.

If you call `next()` in Python, this special case is translated to a `StopIteration` exception.
But if you use a for-loop, it can directly stop iterating without ever materializing the `StopIteration` exception. So the overhead of Python raise/try-except is already irrelevant for the for-loop.
HostPath – Kubernetes Volumes – (CKA) Prep
I read somewhere that white skin may have evolved to help supplement the vitamin D required in Europe because the prevailing crops (cereal, grains) lacked vitamin D.

EDIT yeah here is the reference [1]:

> In the food-production theory, the cereal-rich diet of Neolithic farmers lacked vitamin D, so Europeans rapidly lost their dark-skin pigmentation only once they switched to agriculture, because it was only at that point that they had to synthesize vitamin D from the sun more readily.

[1] https://www.livescience.com/42838-european-hunter-gatherer-g...
SMS, MMS, and RCS are examples of such standards, although only SMS/MMS have full support on both iphone and android.
Thermostats existed and worked fine and Nest still got funded/acquired. Plus a lot of people have misophonia (or will convince themselves they do) if it's marketed well.
While it's only a Bezos number, a paid AMP blocker (perhaps from OP?) was in the list of top paid apps when iOS 15 went live.
> I gotta tell you that unless you're working with absolute bozos, nobody is looking at estimates and saying "oh duh, I am betting the farm this will complete on that date."

Apparently I've worked with a lot of bozos over the last 25 years... (apologies to everyone I've worked with).
I'm not really sure why we've normalized the collection of biometrics during police investigations that are kept forever. I know deleting them would defeat the purpose of the fingerprint/DNA databases but if we're gonna do this either collect and keep everyone's biometrics or no ones because creating two classes of people, those who have had run-ins with the police and not, is gross.
I've decided to vouch it, but as basic criticism: the purpose of this site is intellectual curiosity, and criticizing Plan 9 as "dead" is the opposite of intellectual curiosity.

Even dead things are worth studying, if for no other reason than to explore the question of why everyone isn't using them (in Plan 9's case, it has a lot more to do with accident of history than any technical limitations... Once POSIX standardized what a UNIX-like OS that managed processes and allowed IPC looked like, everything close-to-but-not-that became also-ran, no matter its technical merits. Esperanto is a fine language, but useless if almost everyone you meet knows English instead).
Just FYI..
"This version only includes the API for creating and using GC references; it does not actually collect anything."
[..]
".. the collector will not run; be aware that you will eventually run out of memory."
OP said they were an organizational scientist, so I would assume they know this. However the article rather hypothesizes and references recent books like Working Backwards, rather than long-established theories about org-design (like Mintzberg, who dates to the 60s). I’ve studied many of these and they are very thorough (though none are perfect)

I had a similar thought on another commoncog.com post. The author didn’t seem to research deeply before postulating opinions. Looks like this site allows members to post so I don’t know if it’s the same person
Yeah, this has nothing per se to do with exclusivity though. (As in, XX months exclusivity to Twitch. For those who don't know, every common partnered streamer already is exclusively bound to Twitch for livestreaming content. If he wants to stream somewhere else, he loses his partnership. (And yes, there are exceptions, old contracts, ...))

And "premium contracts" to keep talent were offered pretty much since day 1, just looked quite different back then. (Mainly just differentiated in sub share. For the last 2-3 years they also include better ad payouts (and a minimum of ad time), boni for minimum amount of hours streamed, etc.))

And... every streamer who only cares a bit about his business already knows, at least for the most part, what kind of contract other streamers are on.

So don't think there will be any (real) drama - but I also didn't see or hear of any extreme unexpected outliers.
All of these articles should only publish with key statistics

Like..

For every cloud job opening posted, did they get more than 1,000, or more than 10,000 qualified applications?
> If we have an attitude where “computer says no” means you’re now subjected to criminal penalties

You've made quite a leap here - he's talking about using facial recognition software to automate the comparison of pictures from a surveillance video against known criminals (something police have been doing, manually, for decades) and you've jumped straight to "an algorithm is judge, jury and executioner".
Is facebook here different than other apps? If you publically post something on internet, good luck trying to delete it...