skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But they are taking side!

Of course some people are against reunification but trying to push the narrative that this is not a matter of reunification really is propaganda and not fact.

What I quoted is not neutral journalism. Neutral journalism on this issue is extremely rare.

It has become a widespread trick to push a narrative under the cover of being neutral or irrelevant facts. Clever use of quotation marks under the pretext that not everyone agrees, systematic use of 'democratic Taiwan' are 2 examples of subtle and clever bias when it comes to reporting of cross-straight relations. Another one is today's reporting on the BBC for the 10th October (national day of ROC), which was not even subtle.

But it's hard for the public who does not know about an issue and trust what they are told. And of course there is one so blind as those who will not see.
Users know they're buying into a closed garden when they buy the product. It's a feature, not a bug. If people wanted alternative app stores, they'd buy Android or Linux devices.
Debt is fine if you're a big country. If you're a factory, a bank might decide to not loan you any money if it thinks you're not going to make any profit (e.g. because of inefficiencies, unpredictable raw material costs, better competition) so you can return that loan with interest. If you're the United States of America, you're going to be around for a looong time and the population there are going to continue enterprising and paying tax, so the bank knows you're good for the loan.

I guess it's not such a good example since the US can just mint a trillion dollars as you moaned, but that's a coin that no one in the world would refuse, so I guess it's good to be king.
> Letters To The Editor

No, FB users talk to each other not to FB (the editor).

Quantity has a quality of its own - when size is huge it should be reclassified as public interest, not private. There should be mechanisms for people to ensure their voices matter similar to elections and parliament.
These bland styles of course correlates with the startup culture. High growth pressures leave no room for specific designs and these attempts would be scorned immediately (sadly) when these new companies are the most creative.
people like the softer version of the same thing, in all actuality more people have died when biden got into office, i am not talking about covid here, the air strikes on civilians, the pulling out of afghanistan only to re-enter through the back door is a new kind of okie doke, but hey at least the guy with the spray tan is gone.
The only long-term value I see are DRM-related things like reselling digital assets, artist compensation, etc. Other than that, mostly greater-fool scams and signalling for the tech elite.

The 3 in Web3 is just there to wipe the slate clean in order to resell just about any original vision that previously failed.
>Prosperity is unfortunately a zero sum game.

Only if you delude yourself that full time jobs and money are equivalent to prosperity, many have deluded themselves that this is the case but I did not, I live in reality instead of a financial world of made up work.

https://youtu.be/ZFRVfXeIaek
Powershell has stopped doing that in that newer version. I think since 6 or 7. On Windows 10 you do have to install it separately though.
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
Couldn't you generate an arbitrarily large number of variations of vaguely human meaningful sentences, until one of them ended up with a convenient hash? The sentence you wrote as an example sounds like something an ML model would spit out.

Yesterday I texted my coworker a suggestion to dockerize his yocto build so that it would work better in vagrant on a lambda server in the cloud. It's borderline these days, but he realized I was being facetious. He retorted with a serious comment about 500 lines of typescript to run 5 lines of bash.
First USB-C iPhone
Everyone trying to sleep with lights on knows that bright light definitely hinders sleep. This is even used to torture people. The spectrum of the light is most probably only a secondary effect.
Towards Automated Science Writing
Part two: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-damage-to-the-...
What? Here's the editor-in-chief's page that I see:

> "Mnar Adley is founder, CEO and editor in chief of MintPress News, and is also a regular speaker on responsible journalism, sexism, neoconservativism within the media and journalism start-ups. She started her career as an independent multimedia journalist covering Midwest and national politics while focusing on civil liberties and social justice issues posting her reporting and exclusive interviews on her blog MintPress, which she later turned MintPress into the global news source it is today. In 2009, Adley also became the first American woman to wear the hijab to anchor/report the news in American media."

Nothing there so far as I can see about how "they're only against them and only report on them when their political enemies, the US and the west generally do them regardless of context or provocation or any broader circumstances"? ... Are you referring to some other page maybe?
This bulb emits a lot of infrared light, probably its main purpose for the intended use. In Germany it is sold together with protective goggles for your eyes. So you should be carefull about the intensity of the light you put onto your unprotected eyes. With a reasonable distance it is pobably fine.
I think a good example would be something like the Land Registry here in the UK. A use case where you need digital ownership and the records are public for all to see.

The decentralised part acts as the security and it would be hard to forge records, could make the process more transparent and therefore less corruption.

As a side note, I'm shocked by the amount of cynicism in this thread. It seems a lot of people have been put off from the negative media surrounding crypto rather than looking at the technology behind it with an open mind. It reminds me of when P2P file sharing was demonised by the media because of pirating.
Living in Australia, I'm not going to take the chance. Daddy long legs I'll generally live with until my next house clean, at which point I'll vacuum them up. Hunstmen I won't stop what I'm doing immeditately, but I will remove them from the house the same day.

Anything else is kill on sight.
never knew ssh did tun/tap. live and learn.

my personal preference has been to use ssh -D and tsocks for this. it doesn't require root on either side and tsocks is elegant for inbueing just the processes you want with the ability to use the tunnel.
> machine learning?

Not sure why you assumed this. ML isn't the only "innovative statistical method". I haven't read the paper though.

> "depression in early adulthood is correlated with dementia later in life"

That is how all inferences are made. It is very _very_ rare to be able to demonstrate strict causation in medical sciences. This is why the title says "may".
How the world has changed:

"What you’ll need

A thermal printer,... Ideally, a Raspberry Pi with Bluetooth,...Node.js 10, Yarn, Python 3.7, Docker...An iPhone for the app, "

Nearly forty years ago I implemented a till-roll printer for logging alerts on a UPS. It ran on a 6502 1 MHz SBC with 2 k bytes of RAm and 8 k bytes of EPROM. The 6502 also did all the measurements.

Before anyone complains that my old system did rather less; yes I do understand that, but it still seems to me that both the hardware and software requirements for the Tinyprinter seem rather excessive.

Wouldn't it be possible to just use an ESP32 to do pretty much all of it?
The Longest Journey's original engine is also from an era that makes it a pain in the ass to play on modern machines - new enough there's not really emulators that can run it but old enough to do a bunch of weird stuff with early DirectX that doesn't work so well with modern OSes and drivers. So ScummVM support is going to be very useful to anyone that wants to play it nowadays.
Yes, because our ability to automate has increased.
And what will stop the next platform from doing even worse? It's not solving the problem, just passing it forward.
Writing better code (in Dylan) (2005)
I think I agree with the GP here.

A lot of discussion is US centric. Even to the point where people will bring up esoteric Prop-xx legal references and be upvoted as if that is at all relevant in a global context.

I don’t believe the 10% number of SV participation. If it really is 10% I want to know the percentage of contributing commenters.

For instance, I have seen very little Melbourne centric content at all here. Perhaps Canva (though that’s Sydney) and only because of their insane valuation and relationship back into the valley.

Given the Timezone difference, there should be a time period where Australian content dominates, but I don’t even see that.
^^ This comment is spot on; my personal path has evolved from low-level "let's build everything ourselves" to "which components/services/apps can I leverage to serve my clients and get a new feature out in a few days instead of months".

We're moving up on the abstraction ladder, and as hacker news has always had an early adopter audience, focus is shifting here first.

Assuming these trends are highly correlated with the Kondratieff cycle, I expect a new trend to emerge about a decade from now. My best bet is focus will shift deep into the implementation again, but now in another context (Maybe on edge devices, data/code floating in the void, more decentralized, ...).

I've put my money where my mouth is, and my personal bet is on interactive 3D, as 3D capable devices are becoming more of a commodity and the current generation of youth (future buyers) will be a very technically literate audience that has grown up playing games and being connected 24/7.

Maybe I should send myself a reminder about this post in 10 years from now; curious to see what will have emerged by then on this site...
As noted Iceland is part of the EEA and so follows almost all of the same rules as countries in the EU including freedom of movement. When Brexit happened it was pretty up in the air what that meant for my permanent residency but the UK and Iceland signed an agreement before the UK left. Right now my wife and children can freely travel in the EU and I can’t or won’t be able to shortly. So getting citizenship here in Iceland will restore my rights in the EU.
Lithuania: Recent vaccine mandate laws have upended my family's life
Flooding others with a mass of data is a rhetoric trick.

Again, the situation is exactly like Germany and Korea. China is currently split and this is an issue of reunification.

Taiwan is part of China and the last territory of the Republic of China, whose government was kicked out of the mainland by the communist.
Today is national day in Taiwan and that commemorates the fall of the Empire and the founding of the Republic of China...

Now, some people in Taiwan are opposed to reunification because of the current regime on the mainland, some are opposed to reunification full stop and want Taiwan to remain an independent country. That's the factual situation.

But calling into question the term 'reunification' is purely propaganda in order to paint the PRC as trying to invade a foreign country like if they wanted to invade Vietnam or another neighbour. From the West's POV this is a standard divide and conquer strategy.
Only two? Doubtful.
2021 is the year of the Linux desktop
It never occurred to me that they were homophones in any English dialects!
A decado ago we didn't expect the following either:

* That a complete madman would be elected president of the US.
* That people would gobble up all kinds of nonsense facts on an ongoing pandemic; which for many lead to them not getting vaccinated which ultimately lead to their death.
* Some LARPers on a chan forum would garner a cult following in and outside the US and "anon" would be an almost household name. Many people believed this cult so strongly that it in many cases lead to families being shattered; a few even lead an insurrection on the US capital.
Pretty cool to revive a bunch of old Arduino's as plug n play HID input devices across platforms!
I'd also recommend the Nand2Tetris course / book if you haven't done it already.
The blog the article is on is from teleport (goteleport.com), which you might want to take a look at. I haven't used it myself but it could be used for this task.
Is there any known corruption in the UK Land Registry though? Are there frequent reports of land that someone had bought quietly have its ownership transferred?
I think it's just the same problem as HDR - there's absolutely no technical reason why we can't have a good HDR desktop monitor, but those really don't exist outside of a few extremely expensive models - yet good HDR tech is available on mid-tier TVs without any issue. I imagine it's just that the market for an HDR-enabled monitor is absolutely tiny, so the prices are very high and the choice is small. Same with OLEDs - there is demand for large(50-75") panels, so those are made en-masse and available at reasonable prices, but not so much for desktop-friendly 25-30" sizes. Laptops will budge that trend in 13-15" space but again, that does nothing for desktop monitors.
Bitcoin seems to have been developed by Hal and Satoshi working together with Satoshi being the only other plausible person if you look at the Wikipedia article on him.
Which programming language I studied first and why
If you can't pay £1000 and jump through hoops you can't join their magic world. Sorry kids you can't have their hipster drum.
Nasty highbrow gatekeeping now has copyright lawyers. Well they may have legal rights, but watch how the community of players judges them for this. Hated by history, well done to the smug ex-hippies. Makes me feel like sponsoring anyone else who fancies making a steel drum derivative and making it open source
I’m not a fan of Discord for many aspects, but everything else is even worse. Matrix, even after all these years, is still a massive pain to use. It doesn’t have a way of putting together multiple related channels (I’m aware it’s coming), which is a Discord core feature. It also doesn’t have voice rooms, which may not be central to the FOSS community’s use of it, yet extremely useful for it.

There are other organization chat solutions like Slack (proprietary), Mattermost and Zulip (I’m trying out the latter with an organization). Those are the real alternatives to Discord, not Matrix (... yet ...). Neither of them (besides maybe Slack?) has an integration for voice channels (not “calls”).
I’m a bit hesitant to post a “what about X?” so read this knowing that I’m fully in support of new open source CAD projects.

It seems to me there are no options for open source CAM, is this something you’re interested in? I can use a variety of CAD but when it comes to producing the tool paths and G code, I have to import into something like F360 which is unfortunate.
Yes they acted faster with more political capital at stake AFAIK, in the end the important part is how free trade countries reacted to the pandemic. There is a lot to say about acting in a way that hinders pandemic compared to making nations feel safe.
Wow, that is helpful. Because even very interesting links have a quite short live on the front page, to be replaced with generic news, that makes you miss out if you do not check everyday.
Not sure what the context of your question is, but using Windows for the same purpose is probably doable too. It's just that Linux makes it a lot easier to ensure that your OS isn't any chattier on the network layer than it needs to be. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable trying to be an anonymous Windows user if the stakes were as high as we're alluding to here.
In terms of safety, vaccines are much better then getting COVID.

One of the big factors of "better protection" of immunity gained after recovering from the virus is survivor bias. In data about mortality after reinfection there are no people who died after getting it for the 1st time. This leaves only ones who had body strong enough to recover.

There's no surprise that later that group fares better.
"No telemetry / We don't need to know what you do within your browser."

OK, good.

"Limited Data Collection / We try and take the bare minimum amount of information to keep things running smoothly. "

Wait, what? So which is it?
I am sorry if you feel offended, probably undeservedly, but understand that I heard a lot of explanations from the aforementioned company and those explanation usually turn out to be lies. It makes it difficult for me to trust anything from the aforementioned company without some more substantial proof.

You know the story Jack and the Wolf?

I looked at electrospaces website and I just can't figure out what cause it to be classified as "spam". Please, don't tell me it is AI because it has become so easy and convenient to avoid any responsibility by just saying "AI did it, not us".
> I recall a classmate in college relating to me that he had put in over 8000 hours in various games.

It’s possible that if it wasn’t video games it would have been something else like partying and drinking.

Some people do it to escape, to block out real life, the means can be substituted if some forms aren’t available.
This reads like a perfect case of extremely tenous correlation passed off as causation for the sake of media hysteria. Sure, some teens react to Instagram posts in self destructive ways, just as some teens react to all kinds of otherwise normal things in self destructive ways. And so? The problem there lies with the mental health treatment of those teens, not by insinuating that a whole normally ordinary category of human activity should be considered "problematic" because it happened to adversely affect a few abnormally mentally unbalanced individuals. Reminds me of the whole "violent video games cause violent behavior and school shootings" nonsense, which was just as absurd a hackneyed media-generated nonsense with no evidence-based backing used to generate views.
Possible, but it would take longer and require more skills. I guess the question is what one's aim is in acquiring a thermal printer. Is it to print thermally? Is it to have a Raspberry Pi project? Or is it to learn a load of electronics, a load of low level code, and the minutiae of how to control a thermal printer at the byte level?
It's only decentralised at the web layer - we basically stopped inventing shared protocols after that point in the 90s.

Email interoperates, but messaging doesn't. There's no adopted standard for identity (except centralised Google/Apple), or for payment (except centralised PayPal/Apple, and the bad UX of entering credit cards).

Turning these (and more) into protocols would allow more innovation at a layer above that. This innovation just can't happen right now, as FAANG have to approve of everything you do that works with systems the populuation already use.

web3 doesn't seem good enough yet to help, but it is at least working on it. And it could potentially solve the lack of identity and payment standards.
That is for methane only, which you can just as well simply burn, because the resulting CO2 has less green house effect.
Adding your HN username to a résumé sounds insufferable.
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Mumble is great for voice chat! It’s just bad at everything else, sadly. I think modern telephony significantly profits from the ability to use video and screen share, which you just can’t do with Mumble.

This is why any telephony solution I’d build would probably be based on Jitsi Meet.

In case anyone’s bored: A channel based UI (similar to Mumble) for it would be rad.
You forget to mention Quora.
It was never my thing, but it is a masterpiece like Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 or Hitchcock films.

It was the first real 3d world game and went to innovate in so many things that we take for granted today.

In an open world the number of possibilities and combinations grow enormously. They had to solve so many problems for the first time.

Games like Crash Bandicoot are much more constrained and simple.

Other companies(SEGA) tried to create their own and failed.

Today it is trivial to make such a world with the great tools that we have, but Mario 64 was the first to prove what was possible, it was inspiration for younger developers.

The Naughty Dog guys actually believed that such a game was impossible to make until they saw it.
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People were willing to accept this for Brexit happening. It has been made clear shortages were going to happen, it's been made clear voters expect it. It's no surprise there is no anger it has been expected.
Is your brew carbonated? The stuff at the grocery store says it's naturally carbonated but I have no idea how it all works
Anti-immigrant bigotry is "something small" in your opinion?
> It's kinda how if you tell me you were a cop I'm going to immediately see you as a power hungry and abusive thorn in society.

Why do you assume that? How is this any different than assuming any generalization/stereotype about a group of people is true until proven otherwise?
But note that "good" is quite relative here, as for Plato good laws also meant, keeping the slaves down in their place by law.
Exactly. Israel was willing to play the game. Other countries like Canada decided to wait for more info. That proved to be a bad move.

And Canada isn’t the only one: Australia, New Zealand, Singapore. Vietnam really screwed itself over trying to get domestic production going (homegrown and in-licensed). Once Delta got hold they saw a 400x increases in cases. Once it dawned on them vaccines were the only out, then acquired whatever they could by begging and borrowing. Now they are looking at a loss of foreign investment and a possible recession.
Detection is much more complex than simply filtering most particles of that size.
Thank you! That's really handy.
Dirtier than that. I have an addiction to Intel Nucs, and put Esxi or Proxmox on them. You can get 10gbe connections with a little effort and then it’s brilliant, but wifi is surprisingly usable.
> I use Waterfox and Waterfox Classic, along five other browsers

Interesting - would you mind sharing what you use the others for?
The biggest drift I noticed is mainstream news articles reaching the front page more frequently. I use and abuse the "hide" functionality, but sometimes I wish there was a setting to hide bbc, reuters, new york times, npr, and the gang - like a "hide" feature for domain names.
Many moons ago I "ported" V-USB to the Arduino platform (before any Arduino used an AVR with hardware USB support) & designed a small shield to enable the required hardware side:

* http://web.archive.org/web/20120204231721/http://code.rancid... (via http://web.archive.org/web/20200119053709/http://www.labrado... (No thanks to Google for screwing over Google App Engine early adopters.))

The project even got featured in a chapter in a book: http://web.archive.org/web/20120203210440/http://www.practic...

As I recall it, mine was not the first ever port of V-USB to the Arduino but was IIRC the first released with source & schematic.

Fun times & enabled some fun example projects (e.g. keyboards, "encryption" dongle, dynamic product/vendor ID driver fuzzing) before hardware USB support became more common & affordable.

I highly recommend the write-up of how they achieved the required throughput to make USB work: https://www.obdev.at/articles/implementing-usb-1.1-in-firmwa...

The write-up is the kind of engaging roller-coaster process of discovery narrative that I thoroughly enjoy reading. :)
Book Summary: Thinking in Systems
Everything in this world is made of systems. While we cannot fully understand systems, we can observe them and study their patterns and behaviors. Combined with an open mind, this will allow us to figure out how we can design and redesign our systems and how we can live with them.