skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Canada media is controlled by a handful of private companies who are well connected to political factions. The public broadcaster while generally left tries to stay neutral. Small publications are ignored and usually shutout to the point of them needing to sue to ask a question.

Private or public if the media is controlled by a small club of wealthy and/or connected players you have an unhealthy and not very free press.
for some, simply not allowing me to opt-out without using other mechanisms (some sort of internal firewall etc) is enough. It's my computer, my network, and I get to say precisely how it is used; and that includes telemetry.

There are other threats and reasons, that others more versed in this can explain, but that is the one I can speak to.
It would be interesting to know how they would classify modern "rented" software like the Adobe CS Suite or Office 365. They are installed on your machine but works like SaaS.

It's kind of a gray area for me at least, does it mean you own a copy or not? I'm sure it doesn't but I also know that legal system do not generally deal in shades, they are binary, either a or b.

If it legally means that you own a copy, this would in theory allow you to patch the online checking out of it to keep it running.
The disk inside was floppy
Nostromo, thank you very much, I'll do that. Have a great weekend and thanks for showing me 'the way' :)

Also, do you happen to know why this person's seemingly normal comments appear to be [dead] within 0 minutes of their post?
There is no need to move the goal post. He and you were talking about 'safety measures'.
A probe intended to study the Trojan asteroids takes off shortly
WSL2 on Windows 11 uses the same file translation layer between the host FS and the VM FS as it did on 10, so pretty slow. The big improvement with WSLg is that now you can run desktop linux apps (such as your IDE) within the WSL file world, which should give you near-native FS performance as long as you're not accessing /mnt (and if you want to browse those files on Windows, you can always open \\wsl$ in file explorer).
Yep - seems like they originally did all the work to have it running in win 10, and then decided to take it away as a carrot to get people to upgrade to win 11.

I'm probably going to make 10 the last version of Windows I install.
Brexit really is the gift that keeps on giving.
You have to have 31 karma to vouch for a comment. If you vouch for too many comments that break site guidelines, you’ll have the vouch feature taken away.

https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20356579
Let's come to a reasonable compromise: skeuomorphic is dated and material is super lazy.
Wonder if it makes sense to have two goals, one being the traditional 'drive slightly past then reverse into' spot, and the other being the result.
Thankfully we live in a society now where “the media” does not have carte Blanche on controlling the narrative.

Plenty of dissenting folks using non-traditional outlets like podcasts and YouTube that have an audience that rivals or is larger than legacy media.

Of course, this would not be possible in China where any dissenting voices would quickly be extinguished.
That's an herbicide, best not to conflate, if only because people will use it as evidence of ignorance. The article mentions pesticides:

> States with the most significant dip in bee numbers have the largest increase in the use of pesticides like neonicotinoids, insecticides, and fungicides, per Live Science.
The cited article is here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/29/2021-20...
A ton of college towns are like that. The college/uni does bring some degree of "culture" and other entertainment and spur some tech-related companies you wouldn't find in an equivalently-sized place that didn't have a college attached, but the options are limited.

I worked in downtown Nashua NH for a number of years. The downtown was actually quite nice. On the river, quite a few restaurants, some shops, etc. But yeah, outside of a few blocks adjacent to maybe 5 or 6 blocks of Main Street, things either started to get sketchy or just started to blend into the strip mall and industrial parks south of town. Raleigh, where I sometimes travel to because we have a big office there, is very similar.
It doesn't matter. What matters - if these reports are true - is how they treat their users with these dark patterns. You just don't treat other people like that, it's just basic human decency.
Some other sub-comment mentioned that Facebook used (I think they no longer that according to another comment) to account for first letter being capitalized, and for reverse case. For example a&Ope$G would be accepted in its original form, as well as A&Ope$G and A&oPE$g
Waiting for the Harvard Business case study on how not to run a country.

Lebanon is a fairly wealthy nation thanks to massive remittances from abroad.

The story here is one of massive corruption and incompetence
> PV has been a topic for decades long before prices reached grid parity.

Personally, I assume that's part of the reason no-one believes it's at grid parity and beyond, and half the users of this site are waiting for fusion to save them.

Decades of stories about how expensive PV is, because that worked as clickbait/propaganda, while "this is the early stages of a sensible long term investment" didn't.
Right, they've ceded the server space to Linux but want to cement Windows' position on desktops in a Linux-server world (maybe regaining some ground from Macs in the process, since this is one of the reasons they're so popular with devs)
The Delta variant is sufficiently contagious that all of us can expect to be exposed multiple times in our lives. Just like what typically happens with the other endemic coronaviruses.

https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

Only a subset of those infected will experience clinically significant symptoms. Probably more than 3 of your acquaintances have had it but didn't even know it, maybe just felt a little tired for a few days.
The Ruby Reference
Thanks! Are you aware of a shadowban mechanism that may be preventing this person from being heard, or does this appear to you to be someone who has gained the ire of someone who is sufficiently motivated to suppress their speech indefinitely?

I ask because I find 2 or 3 of these accounts each week and have been wondering why they aren't allowed to participate, and by what mechanic.
I am in Vermont and see bumblebees everywhere... am I mixing up a common species with this one?
How many of the unemployed have kids? Seems like something we should have data for.
> Like their predecessor satellites, the Telstar 3 satellites operate at 6/4 GHz (C band). Simultaneous long distance telephone call capacity is 21,600. The satellites furnish voice, video, and high speed data services.

https://www.telcomhistory.org/resources/online-exhibits/scie...
>A general rule of thumb is that any cover with a ~~picture~~ photograph on it is past the magazine's prime, and you'll probably have a lot more fun looking through older ones instead.

FTFY
It's complicated. By proportion of trade, China is more important to Australia than Australia is to China.

But that only speaks to the total values, not substitutability or importance.

Given that most of what China imports from Australia are raw materials, and China is still a primarily manufacturing and construction economy (in dollar terms), it seems like a shortsighted move.

Especially since Australia generally has good relationships with the West (especially the UK and US) due to shared culture.

The proper time to try to bully Australia into line would have been 20 years from now, once China's economy has fully developed and Belt and Road has had time to play out.

But I imagine the Chinese were looking at Australia through the optics of (1) what the US was doing & (2) how a Chinese reaction to Australia's stubbornness would be read by other, smaller SE Asian countries.
I remember spending a lot of hours playing Little Big Adventure with a friend. I love this, will try it out!
“For progress,” he wrote, “there is no cure.”

that pretty much sums things up, doesn't it.
SpaceX becomes the second-ever unicorn company to reach a $100B valuation
Check out https://vscodium.com

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

Builds of VS Code with telemetry stripped out
I moved from India to Thailand to Sweden. And I feel I will stay here for few more years now. Started at a well known global consultancy (ThoughtWorks) which gave me opportunity to travel world for different assignments. Then in Thailand chose to stay for extended period because Thailand . Eventually got kids so was looking for more stable country. Got offer with Spotify and now here since 2017. Didn't took lot of effort moving different countries since I am working on DevOps/SRE/Agile/Cloud which has been in extremely high demand last few years. I think moving to Sweden was very good decision since it gave more stability as I got my first house here and kid loves the country and snow.
On my first day of house duty, when I started working as a teacher, I found one of my pupils — 12 at the time — watching a video on her school issued device.

The video was made by another child, from some random place on the Internet: a teenage girl in the video, staring at the camera with a bland, vacant smile that looked like she had been lobotomized.

The captions on the video had her asking these question of her audience:

- How old did they think they would be when they died?

- How did they think they will die?

- How would they choose to die if you could control your own death?

It was pretty clear that this was skirting around the idea of suicide, albeit in a fascination-of-the-macabre way I think, rather than explicitly encouraging it. Very creepy though.

Apple iPad. TikTok video, reposted to YouTube. Viewed on my watch, while I was the adult in charge.
How come this NYT article isn't paywalled?
Progressive drug laws in cities like San Francisco are killing people
I never understood the expectation that the upswing from every debt cycle can be equally fast compared to the last wave. Doesn’t this assume that all economic conditions pre/post 2008 are the same?

Financial products and regulation changed. Cloud, gig apps, smartphone apps, social media all changed the work landscape right around 2008.
That being said Australia appears to be the world's largest producer of bituminous coal which is considered "higher-quality" than brown coal. Low ash, sulphur, and carbonate coal is ideal for power generation as it results in less boiler slag. My guess is power generation plants require consistent quality of coal, and therefore if China power plants have only access to brown coal, that could pose a problem.

Statistics (Blocked behind paywall, but can inspect element and remove blur filter)
https://knoema.com/atlas/topics/Energy/Coal/Production-of-bi...
This is very English alphabet centric view.

> only costs a single bit

What if the password includes İ. The swapcase would be i. And the again its swapcase would be İ. And swapcase of I is ı. And swapcase of ı is I. Right? Well, it should depend on what language you use. Or should it?

Also I think this was in Github; they ask uppercase and I enter Ğ and Github doesn't recognize it as uppercase letter.
Of course there is a benefit—there is no way to block users who are running such an adblocker.
> Anne Sacoolas

This was front and centre of my thinking, along with some of the war-crimes scenarios that have played out.
In reality, the market isn't really naturally free in the "freedom" sense. There is coercion everywhere. It's just that ownership of land allows for the most powerful form of coercion.

Advertising companies, sales people, car dealers or realtors are all trying to convince you to spend more so they get their commission or more revenue but ultimately you can always refuse. You can always decide to live well within your means. The truth is that pretty much everything on the market that is free of coercion is getting cheaper.

Housing doesn't work like that because location is a natural monopoly. It's a basic human need that cannot be produced and jobs unnecessarily cluster in cities forcing people to move there bidding up prices endlessly. The rule of thumb has become "If you can afford the house, you can afford everything that fits inside it." Wanna build a machine shop with $100k worth of tools? Cheap compared to the $600k to $2 million house. That's the thing. Strangely enough, literally everything is getting cheap except real estate. The story that inflation has been ruining the working class for the last 10 years just doesn't add up. There is no reason why housing shouldn't obey the same trend other than artificial scarcity of either housing near jobs or jobs near vacant housing.
What bothers me is about 7-10 years ago there was a high quality paper linking transmission of flu to temperature, humidity, and air turn over. Depressingly the response was 'oh well nothing we can do cause too expensive'

We'd be in a lot better shape if we'd decided to actually do something instead of falling back on the usual learned helplessness.
Yes, culture comes into play significantly.

I have seen parents buying their kids Playstations and taking them to expensive vacations in 5/7 star hotels and are content about "doing a lot" for their kids.

I have also seen parents really investing time in their kids' future. Teaching them programming, foreign languages, advanced (for their age as per some regulatory bodies) math, etc.

Any wonder why the kids from the next group will turn out to be more successful statistically?

There is also nuance in this. Almost nobody (statistically) grows up to be geniuses from these families. But they certainly tend to have more accomplished lives.
And note that if it's more than 4m from the space it has absolutely no ability to find it other than luck.
Likely because they've at some point reached and sustained a negative amount of Karma like I have :P

Sometimes it's for a good reason, others it because there's some very alt right folks on HN that will brigade you if you've said something that makes them a bit butthurt.
> we commonly offer to pay COBRA premiums for several months for employees whose behavior appears to be in the context of a mental health crisis

How often is this happening? Or are you in a massive organisation?
A number of years ago WSL completely replaced virtualbox and cygwin for me.

WSL2 + VSCode w/ WSL plugin provide a fluid and fast experience if the code sits inside linux.
> Sigurdur Thordarson, a key witness for the FBI against Julian Assange, has been jailed in Iceland

Oh! This guy was supposed to be a witness _for_ the FBI _against_ Assange. From the title I assumed the opposite.
Google "install WSL2". Man pages come with Linux so they're where they always were.
Personally, I err on the side of only correcting someone else’s speech when I know I am right.
> “ Instagram’s algorithm might suggest more extreme dieting accounts with names such as “Eternally starved,” “I have to be thin” and “I want to be perfect.” “

I know people who cut themselves because of Instagram and not feeling adequate enough. I think there’s a similar version of this with competency for males. The feeling that you will never be good at what you do or that you need to do something to get there just hasn’t been exploited yet.
Low volumetric energy density of hydrogen is the reason why liquid fuels will likely be the energy carriers of the future in combination with fuel cells. Such as methanol.
Reminds me of a similar project i did trying to teach robot AI to jump over boxes.
Always impressive to see how easy it is to get quick results with a bare implementation of genetic algorithms:

https://maperz.github.io/genetic-ai/
"In contrast, in the professional world, what you are going to do is dictated by your manager down to the last line of code. The feature and testing requirements would be specific enough to get rid of all creative freedom."

LMFAO. My biggest challenge is getting my manager to tell me what the hell to do.

What an absurd assertion.
Ignoring all the other perfectly valid criticism of this argument, this isn't what he's being charged with.
They are docile and fun to investigate. I'm not sure you should play with them, but they won't go out of their way to harm you.
It's easier and more lightweight to configure an SSH session than X11 forwarding or remote desktops. So if you do all your real work on a server or desktop that you access remotely, these kind of tools can be helpful.

That said, all I really need is tmux to do my work. I use a tiling window manager as my daily driver. Don't see any reason I'd adopt a floating WM in the terminal except that it looks cool.
We think with our weak technologies and chemistries that we can play God.

However, it is so far from the truth - in an attempt to create more vegetation we have decreased a critical component needed to help said vegetation grow.

Technology should be used carefully when in the environment of the unknown. Trials and observations should be conducted in limited capacity with a long window of study. Only then can we know of the consequences for our actions of disrupting naturally evolved and perfected equilibriums - be it that of the Earth or man’s immune system.
It's a valid take. Not one I necessarily agree with, but one that deserves exploration.

IMO we are facing costs and painful trade offs:

* Many insisted that the "moral" course of action was shutting the economy down during Covid to minimize deaths. Well, OK, there is a price for that in terms of destroying businesses and livelihoods, of loneliness and isolation. A lot of people are now stressed out, out of work - and those jobs are gone. Yes, new jobs will take their place, but not necessarily the same jobs in the same place.

* Many insisted that the "moral" course of action is to suspend evictions when people lose their jobs during covid. It was unfair to lose your apartment if you lost your job. Well, OK, but that means that rental prices are now out of whack from what people are earning and the new job situation. That inventory is held back from the market and from (downward) price pressure.

* Many also insisted that the "moral" course of action is to not have professional versus trade tracking in schools, that every high school should be "college prep", and everyone should go to to college. Well, OK, there is a cost for that in terms of not having a trade school infrastructure and a lot of people with no marketable skills even if they attended college or a college prep high school.

The biggest problems that we face in our economy are problems we ourselves create in trying to approach the economy as a pez-dispenser of fairness rather than as an engine of economic growth that follows emergent technical, rather than ethical, laws. By pretending we'll all just be professionals, we have a huge mass of people who have no careers and no opportunity to engage in truly skilled work, together with acute shortages of things like plumbers, electricians, carpenters, auto mechanics, general contractors, etc.

So yeah, life for a lot of people is very bleak. The take away is not to "warn" employers that they should manufacture lots of non-existent jobs for workers, but to fix our educational system so that it produces the kinds of people our economy needs, rather than the kinds of workers we think we want to be. Then rely on church attendance and government income insurance to take care of our moral concerns.
The ones I have are HEPA and the fan speed is still variable, and very quiet on low.
It is paywalled, if the NYT detects from your browser cookie that you have already consumed all of your free articles for the month.

But some ad blockers, like Brave's "Shields" feature, manage to block NYT's tracking so that every article appears as if it is the first article you read this month.
It's not slow for native Linux filesystem, only if you access the host NTFS. Avoid doing that. Git clone inside WSL2.
When he made those comments, Stalin was still alive. You have the benefit of 70 years of hindsight and the knowledge that the Soviet Union moderated after Stalin’s death and collapsed entirely of its own accord a few decades later.

Additionally, H-bombs didn’t even exist in 1950. A nuclear strike on the Soviet Union in 1950 would have been devastating but not as catastrophic as you would imagine today. It would have been closer to the Second World War—a bloody and devastating piece of business to be sure, but once it was all over, most of the people involved agreed that it had been worth fighting.

If the Nazis won WWII, don’t you think it would be worth at least considering using nuclear weapons in a war to destroy their regime before they developed a competitive nuclear arsenal of their own? Or would you have argued for coexistence with them? The Soviet Union in 1950 was very much the moral equivalent of that situation.
Is there any kind of clause or legal structure that would prevent the kind of alteration to ownership structure you describe above? It seems like you’re saying anyone can do anything at any time. That’s scary and I feel like we need laws against that, or a different structure for representation of workers.
It's ok everyone diversity is our strength. Only a bumble bee supremacist care about bumble bees remaining around. They can make way for other species
Pfizer is very effective against Delta. Only very marginally less effective than previous strains. And the reason to vaccinate kids despite the low risk to their personal health has been mentioned multiple times in this thread.
For desktop/laptop use, yes.
And the complex supply chains to supply these cutting edge industries are so fragile, they would crumble easily when the climate turns chaotic.
Both WSL1 and WSL2 are slow for cross-platform disk access... but WSL2 is fast for within-the-vm disk access (unlike WSL1).

Means if code resides in the linux vm and you can somehow edit it directly (eg: VSCode + WSL2 plugin), it's fast.
> "Ultimately, Instagram is just a vicious messenger. But the cesspool of content fueling it? That comes from us."

I don't particularly like that this article tries to absolve Facebook. OK, maybe Facebook doesn't have any particular line of code "for (user in users) if user.girl: user.show(eating_disorder)" BUT they are getting paid to promote accounts with beauty advertisements, and they know those accounts promote eating disorders. That is clearly not in the public interest.
The ones that are still in AT&T's ownership also have fiber co-sited at them, usually on former coax routes, like this former main station between Colorado springs and Amarillo.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/37°55'27.3%22N+102°36'36.5...

There is still active microwave, but its usually in the ownership of the RBOC/IOC not a long distance carrier, and is used to link the end office to the rest of the PSTN. Microwave is also used extensively to link cell sites to other cell sites, so you need to install less fiber.