skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jack Dorsey says ‘hyperinflation’ will happen soon in the US and the world
Had the same experience in Sweden. Between certain pairs of ISPs, all traffic was routed via one of the capital cities (Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo), adding 10-20 ms and jitter. Solved it by setting up a VPS at a provider with good connections to all ISPs involved.
Hundreds of cases of Assault on Police Officer occurred there, bud, many captured on video. Many already charged, many more to come. Those assaults won't be forgotten.

Wrt to the rioting around the Floyd protests: what Federal building in DC was stormed? Crowds/mobs were close to the White House, but not into the actual grounds.
Yeah if you have a situation where JSON gets into the megabytes you should definitely stop using JSON! I recommend SQLite for large datasets that you need to put in a file.

I guess if you don't have a choice then it might become a bottleneck. Parsing 300 MB of data can be very slow.

But even with small JSON messages it can become a bottleneck, e.g. check out the Xi editor's issues. They thought it wouldn't be a bottleneck and then found that sound languages don't have insanely optimised JSON parsers like this. Boom. Bottleneck.
MachinePix Weekly #61: Jason Crawford, Founder, the Roots of Progress
We took a tour of the port. Here's a thread about what I learned
People are always transferring schools so there's probabaly tons of friendless people. It's common. Drink, torn on my own frat experiences but Greek life mignt be good.
How would you summarize the article? I wouldn't have read it, had you not complained about this poster.

Let me share what I gathered:

1. Francesca really likes working from home. She has the time to pick her son from school and feels empowered but she's also worried because Johnson and other British conservatives are pushing against "work-from-homers"

2. "The permanent secretary for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Sarah Healey, recently told staff that she would keep online meetings, because they were more effective and also helped women participate."

3. “Being interrupted and talked over puts women off from speaking out in meetings – it silences them,” she says. “On Zoom, interruptions are very messy, if people just try and shout over others everything sort of seizes up.”

4. “In physical offices we have what sociologists call a hegemonic masculine organisational culture, where white male characteristics are seen as virtues,” she says. “To think online spaces can completely remove that culture is a bit too naive but maybe some of those ingrained habits can change – if people are reflective.”

What did I just read?
What if they look up the lies and only find more misinformation and articles giving "both sides of the story".
Tailwind is almost CSS. Most Tailwind classes only apply one CSS property/value.

If you needed to code the same thing without Tailwind you can easily convert the syntax.

I would agree more with “Bootstrap is not CSS.”
I think Kevin Powel[1] is worth more than one mention... Although I think Video-Tutorials are usually inferior to text based tutorials regarding the time it takes to learn something, I don't think so in this case... he has mostly awesome stuff and really focuses on the important things.

A lot of my personal collection of CSS tricks[2] are inspired by his videos...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/KepowOb
[2] https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/03/html-and-css-tricks/
I am a big fan of RSS but I strongly agree with both of your points. I have only used it for checking out new things. Though having the option to fetch the full feed without visiting the website would be a great feature. I use an android app that seems to do that by scraping the site, I love it.

That being said, for some reason that escapes me, some news sites don't make it easy to see a list of articles at all (looking at you, https://cbc.ca/news). And when writing this comment, I see that if you scroll down far enough you can see more articles in this really annoying tile format (the app is better but I hate downloading a ~300 MB app when a <10 MB RSS reader is all I really want).

TL;DR: somehow it isn't just RSS but even somewhat publicly funded news sources seem to prey with the "get you stuck in an endless cycle of scrolling while you're trying to find the content you want" trap.
regardless of who is doing the logistics it's expensive.

synthesizing fuel also means nuclear powered aircraft carriers would be vastly more self sufficient
Ask HN: Do you buy from a retailer who’s rude because their business is slow
Yesterday I went to get a bunch of flowers my partner asked for, but the florist was low in stock so I passed. He was rude then, and he’s not happy generally, but I knew he’s worn down by slow sales and high prices during Covid. Do I ever go back?
My point here (I got a rain of negatives, but I got used to, my opinions seem to be very particular) is that we need objetive law to judge.

But the fact of creating laws
in large sectors of people's lives creates evil incentives and dependence on people who did not take part in creating wealth for others.

I just find it contradicting.
Nobody can bully you any place off the internet.

You're the one who has to care so much that other people disagree with you and hurl insults, that you leave a place.

There's all kinds of people in this world. So long as your worldview doesn't involve genuine malicious intent, who can crucify you?

I hold some unpopular opinions and expressing them has gotten me insulted and dogpiled-on, on more than one occasion.

That's other people's problem.

If you know that you're a good person, and your personal philosophy stems from this, you've no need to give in to mob demands or go back on your public sentiments.

Let them scream all they want, never compromise your integrity or moral standards, and never back down.

This is how they get the idea you can shout people into backing down in the first place.

Disclaimer: I have no side in the discussion mentioned. This is just on ethical grounds.
I have a friend that is an actor, good looking, charismatic. And I've occasionally tossed around the idea of working with him to create a coding or otherwise tech social media channel where he would be the voice and face of the channel. With me creating the content. I sometimes wonder if some of the more niche, expert influencers are doing that as well.
Interview: Machine Pix Weekly with Kane Hsieh
That's not the majority. It mainly applies to a privileged sector of tech from what I've seen.
Fire your supervisor.

But does your "need" involve a legal responsibility, as parents have to their children?
Probably this, yet. When the problem is real, people will find real solutions. Or not, but it's not happening now anyway. Are you driving less? Have you stopped eating beef?
How do you think folks heard about opioids? Word of mouth?
Dumb idiot, get cancer and die squealing out of pain.
What are the odds a disgruntled crew member slipped a live round into the gun before leaving?
There's no proof. The proof would be if it actually happened, at which point it'd be too late to do anything, you'd just be fucked. That's the point of models: being able to make an (imperfect) prediction of the future, based on available data. It might not be right, but having a halfway-workable model is better than just going through life taking whatever comes.

There's a lot that's suggestive of hyperinflation within the next ~5 years. Unabashed money-printing by worldwide central banks. Zero or negative interest rates. Massive supply-chain disruptions. Rising prices. A global economy that was shut down for extended periods of time.

Yes, that would collapse the entire global economy in a few months.
While that’s true, since we are talking about trust… I can trust Microsoft’s intentions more than I can Googles or Facebooks.

Microsoft wants to make money by charging for features. Unlike Apple, they consider developers to be actual customers. So I trust them to take care of our needs, and trust that their only ultimate motive is to get us to willingly empty our wallets in order to be more productive at work.

They won’t steal our data to sell to political relations companies like Facebook, create walled gardens and charge us 30% to import goods to our own captive customers like Apple, or arbitrarily try to control what can and can’t be done on the internet like Google.

They will just charge money for features like a normal business.
Should I take this to mean atom is irrelevant these days? Ive been looking into creating an RSS Feed for my blog, but there is Atom option as well so wasn't sure what to pick, and many of the references I found are quite old
Agreed. The question is, how do you get individuals and organizations who couldn’t care less about tech monopolies and advertising ethics to switch away from private social media owned by ad companies? Like it or not, Facebook is “sticky” for those who don’t think about these things, and it requires a lot of convincing for people to move away from dependency.
First of all it's still there if you haven't checked for yourself:
https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct/

Second, if you were wearing "I'm a good guy" badge on your shirt and later on decided to go rogue and work for the enemy, would you then remove that badge right away? Of course not unless you're truly incompetent at being bad.

I'd understand it if they got rid of the wording because of how much headache it creates for them.

Btw, that's basically why government and business officials often resort to saying the least informative statements. Because every word and sound bite will be used against them.
We ask all the free people in the world, to stand with us
I think it has been established that the vaccine acts more as a therapeutic and does not prevent one from catching or spreading the virus.
Biden’s $3.5T spending plan shrinks as Democrats battle for pet projects
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> First, kids use sites and apps when they're below the ToS age... How are you meant to know that as a service provider?

You think major providers don't know who is a kid? Please.

They have profiles for every person living and dead. They have 1000s of data points for every person.

They only pretend to not know. CYA.

A fiction that stops when they target ads towards those same kids.
> While triple buffering is at least moderately popular for games, I know of no UI toolkit that employs it, and the power concerns basically take it off the table for mobile.

Unity, which is the most popular game engine for mobile, is using triple buffering by default.
This has been going on in Guadalajara (México) for like 10 years or so (before the pandemic).

It got so big that at one point the city decided to close some of the main roads every Sunday, making them exclusive to pedestrians, bicycles, scooters, or whatever-thing-that-is-not-a-car.
I hate rich people
> You're saying that inalienable rights might exist, depending on US policy?

Yes, in practice if not in principle or statute. American citizens and their citizen children have been murdered by drones without a jury trial or public hearing, or much of any due process which may be examined by the public openly. We take the US at their word when we say inalienable rights exist, but their behavior suggests that the US doesn’t respect inalienable rights or view them as an impediment to implementing unconstitutional US policy or performing acts contravening said inalienable rights.

> If the US doesn't respect inalienable rights, then non-citizens should have them?

Extradition to US has been blocked on a case-by-case basis by foreign courts due to observable effects of American courts not even meeting their own regulatory bar of speedy, fair, public trials, trials where you may confront your accuser in open court, with a jury of your peers. Parallel construction makes a mockery of the investigatory chain of evidence. Fruit of the poison tree doctrine is DOA. Secret grand juries are lied to in order to force unjustifiable, indefensible charges. Secret evidence and secret trials. Are secret convictions and secret imprisonment next? Indefinite detention without charge already gets US government 90% of the way there.

> I don't see any connection, and you seem to also be saying you believe in inalienable rights which are alienable.

I believe in inalienable rights, in that the concept is an unequivocal social good, but rights are not only what are claimed, but that which can be exercised freely and without undue restraint; I also believe that the government doesn’t act as if it has a good faith belief in ensuring that inalienable rights exist to begin with, nor does the US seem intent on defending them in all cases. In practice, inalienable rights don’t exist. This should change in my view.
That would be a worthy contender to reheating fish in the cafeteria microwave.
Methods of Design-Oriented Analysis: Low Entropy Expressions (1992) [pdf]
Just as soon as we prohibit homeowners from serving in local governments.
> But IMHO there wouldn't be much point in doing that, over just keeping all the data in Prometheus's own internal storage.

So far from what I've read Prometheus isn't built for that. It stores all its data in RAM and asking it to store any more leads to running out of memory quickly. What have I missed?
A new book explores the symbiosis of espionage and entertainment
Building an Emacs Lisp VM in rust
This is the point indeed. I once doubled my revenue one day, it went from $2 to $4. You think I joke but I was a kid back then. As a kid it was actually quite meaningful to double that particular amount.

Now I wouldn't care about having a 100% return on $2. Perhaps if there's a principle behind it that's interesting I might care, but I wouldn't care much about the money made.

But having 100% return on $2 million. Well, let's just say I'd care.
pretty realistic unfortunately
The same way pizza and bread make you fat. I tried anything from wine to vodka, if I drink enough to get drunk, unless I compensate with a really good food diet and a ton of workout, I will gain weight. What makes you gain weight is not just the raw calories but relative to food, it is very efficient in delivering most of those calories to your blood.

"Don't drink your calories"
Thanks, this is great and much more meaningful to me than the generic "tool of thought" hype I'm used to. APL is extending scalar functions with implicit map and reduce operators, and doing it in a way that's more general, consistent, and concise than, say, MATLAB or R's system of rules for scalars/vectors/arrays, or NumPy's array broadcasting rules.
ISO Prolog and SQL matter for me a lot: I sometimes write both, but overall not much. Sticking to the standard makes revisiting code years much easier and code can survive a few major version bumps of compiler/database without problems.
You’re asking a lot of children. Skilled people have been working on improving propaganda techniques for a very long time. It’s rarely just outright lies - there are more effective techniques. For example, it’s easy to find dozens of cherry picked examples and represent them as the thing that was common (instead of say something that happened only 0.001% of the time). Something like this is much harder to refute than an outright lie - you have to do a full blown study figuring out how common the thing really was, and before long you’re demanding everyone to do their own research and verifying everything (in an environment full of bad actors muddying the waters).
I would agree until I found:

* newsboat (command line) for desktop: https://newsboat.org/

* Feeder on android (which also scrapes the full article content in most cases): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsense...

Both are definitely not bloated, though I don't know if there is any decent notification functionality in newsboat. It is open source though, so maybe it's not that hard to add. You can configure it to auto refresh so I've just kept it open when I've been following the news obsessively.
Check out a fraternity or sorority. They get a lot of negative publicity, some of it deserved, but some are good and there might be one that you vibe with. And they are all about your social development and having a group of friends. May not be the answer but at least check it out.
If there is one thing I learned is that what makes you being pervecived as stupid is the way you are asking the qestion, rather than the thing you dont know.

For example for some bizzare reason I am percieved as strange bu very inteligent and yet when I ask the questions they are rarely percieved stupid.

Why I am not going out of my own way to sound smart or anything I display depth of knowledge at certain areas and the way I'm asking questions is in an honest inquisitive matter of fact way.

The other side of this is the way one perceives the reactions, for example they might not reacted as if one was stupid as much as they are confused at disparity between the question asked and the knowledge one has showcased before that question.
See for yourself:
https://www.americasfuture.net/all-events/
Click the Health and Freedom links.
hooks are yet to be added to new docs (only useState for now).
So - topless at the beach kills more people?
I would love a viable F/OSS alternative to SGPro, as it’s pretty much the only show in town when it comes to fire and forget capture sessions, and I’m too busy in the day to stay up all night nursing telescopes - I rely on it handling everything from focus to acquisition to guiding to some control, including exceptions such as weather - and will therefore do my best to find the time to contribute to this project.
Not sure why others are downvoting, this is really great advice for people who have social anxiety - low risk, real enough to be meaningful, usually narrowly focused on a shared interest, prepares you for the real thing. Downvote me as well if you like, but I’d be curious why people don’t agree
Moby Dick is a fascinating book, and I think part of what makes it work so well is the alternating, aside-heavy style that the second review laments. A discourse about whaling or a novel just about going after the white whale would have both been interesting reads, but the way the they're woven together makes them stronger than either element would have been on their own. Kind of like Actraiser.
The GP’s point was that Android/G-Suite/Firmware, the software on Samsung phones, is substantially “written in California”. That seems true enough in spirit.
I read elsewhere on hacker news that the us military runs through 20 million barrels of fuel per day . I can imagine there is a great desire to be less dependent on suppliers both in terms of quantity and logistics. Imagine a nuclear powered aircraft carrier being able to generate fuel for its planes and support ships.
So you're saying that his way to deal with slow sales is to be rude to a potential customer?

I'd find another florist and forget about him.

(Don't find excuses to businesses that treat you badly)
Setting up a local dev env is easier than ever on Windows. WSL, tooling, the new terminal, it's all there.
I can't remember being bored by any part of the book.
Or, differently put: "In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve."
How to limit Samsung Customization Service data collection
What? Holmes (allegedly) misled people that were willing accomplices in being misled. There wasn't a regulatory failure, just investors that did not do their homework.
> If you had less intervention with respect to privacy would there be more dynamic market-driven initiatives to fill the gaps?

This is hilarious. Because we had that, and it was lacking, to put it mildly. And some people still have that, in a way that's easy to compare (e.g. EU vs US, CA vs other states). For me, the results are in and obvious. Privacy regulations are the only thing that reflects the privacy externalities they might impose on society back onto them (and the shareholders).
"Honestly, why not? If society deems that illegal, and the enablers are responsible, then so be it."

Why not? I can think of a couple different situations where a given democratic society deemed X to be illegal, but that does not make it right.
There are multiple projects that "RSS-ify" websites with no RSS feeds. rss-bridge (https://github.com/rss-bridge/rss-bridge) is one of them.

I personnally use fraidycat (https://fraidyc.at/), a slightly different "news" reader. Contrary to all other readers it doesn't give you an infinite flow of all posts, but rather a reverse chronological list of who has updates. It's the same paradigm as most IM apps, but instead of people it's sources and instead of messages it's posts.

Fraidycat can parse a lot of sources and all the ones I care about (including youtube channels, twitch channels, facebook public pages) are properly handled
1. It's where the audience is.

2. Sometimes ... tootstorms just happen.

3. It is ... remarkably like posting a public Zettelkasten. In particular, there are often responses to specific items on a thread and those themselves can prove revealing.

A huge issue with traditional "single entity" documents (books, essays, even longish HN comments as I'm wont to produce...) is that responses tend to be either to the thing-as-a-whole or some irrelevant point. One of the hardest things to get as an author is specific feedback to a given passage of writing, and for all its many, many faults, the tootstream format cracks open that shell.

That feedback may highlight well-written bits, poorly-written ones (where readers repeatedly misinterpret authors' intent), salient or poorly-supported facts and logic, etc.

My usual platform for this is Mastodon, and I've posted a number of longer tootstorms (using the Mastodon nomenclature rather than "tweets"), searchable via hashtag from my present and previous instance homes at

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/tagged/tootstorm

I thought there were a few here as well though they're not appearing:

https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/tagged/tootstorm
It's not just services. The most important parts of VSCode are not free software. WSL is designed to make free software users and developers comfortable on a proprietary OS.

Microsoft is also one of the biggest gaming companies in the world (via the xbox platform) and zero initiative on free software anything over there.

Microsoft doesn't care at all about free software, or software freedoms. It's just a means to an end.
A React TypeScript Trivia Quiz with Storybook
ESPN’s NBA standings page appears to be in alphabetical order as of 1995
A textbook example of bad software design that still persists 25 years later
ProjectM – The most advanced open-source music visualizer
I imagine the goal was to expose students to something they'd otherwise perhaps never read. My school favored shorter stuff like the Old Man and the Sea... which I did love regardless, but I guess can have the same problem of not connecting with younger readers.
> And if we're going to start singling out tech giants for lobbying Congress, my question is why them in particular?

Because they're the criminals. By their own admission.

The real question is why it took Congress so long.
I think there's a difference between giving you powerful, easy to use tools to solve your problems with, and solving your problems for you.
Salty-ish (autocorrection got it wrong). I am a bit salty because I was rejected and my tone may reflect that, although it is true that people at Google are in my experience (that is, the one I met professionally or outside work, or saw at events, giving lectures etc.) not very interesting (on average!), in part because that's what the interview process, maybe inadvertently, screens for.
Their revenues would plummet - last time I checked, ads are something like 70-80% of their revenue. And they can’t charge anywhere near Apple can for their hardware products because they don’t have the established luxury brand. I’d doubt their other subscriptions can make up for much either. Maybe they’re making some progress on Google Cloud and it could be a long-term profit center but AFAIK Google Cloud still isn’t profitable as of yet. They ain’t turning off ads anytime soon.