skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite weird theory is the "Siluran hypothesis," which states that our industrial revolution was not the first. There are some events in sediment that look like what our industrial revolution will look like. (many millions of years ago, so yes, reptiles)
Huawei paid Democrats $500,000 to release their CFO:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/huawei-paid-tony-podesta-500...

I am Ukrainian. It is clear to me that parts of the US Government (and a specific political party) are openly corrupt, at the highest level. I really hope that Americans can deal with this - the nation needs to serve as a reference point for the rest of the planet.
I’m guessing among other reasons: droughts, floods, loss of pollinators, extreme temperatures, loss of natural fertilizers, etc.
So it started as "battery swap stations will never happen" but now it's having a whinge that they're not more widely used, and you're not even the person I was replying to.

Still, this kind of back-pedaling and goalpost shifting is entertaining.
Last I checked (a few years back), vinyl sales were also supply-limited rather than demand-limited, since there was (again, last I checked) a shortage of equipment for producing vinyl records. If the supply capacity had been available, vinyl would have passed CD's a few years ago.

Of course, this year sales of just about everything are supply-limited...
I think it’s fair to assume that if we can’t understand them, they probably couldn’t understand us.

Yes, they’re long gone so it doesn’t really matter.
I did a bit of this a few years back - the folks who did not already have their act together on the web were easy sales, but terrible clients. (Looking for cheapest deal, wouldn't give you time to talk through their needs, just wanted you to magically put something online and have it creates sales for them.)

Or, you had people who already had their web presence figured out, and did not need much. A little SEO cleanup, maybe some content updates - not enough to sustain a business.

I ended up actually finding good clients with decent income by sliding right back into dev consulting, custom coding business-specific CRUD/LOB apps. After about 6 months, though, it was just the same old corporate coding with added sales headaches... so I just got a job and called it good.
Itch.io uses Coroutines for non-blocking IO
It's Apple's fault Google spies on everyone's bank account?

I suppose it's also Apple's fault that Google pressured device makers to hide the Android privacy settings, and ignored users when they turned off the setting Google told them would stop Android from tracking their location?
I agree, especially when it is free accuracy wise :)
That's why its now usually called "climate change" since if you dump more energy into the system that can lead to more evaporation, more moisture in the atmosphere and stronger storms both from the moisture and energy. The greater warming at higher latitudes is also changing the climate in ways that increase both cold and heat waves.
> But those would then be immigrants, right?

No?! Why on earth would that be the logical conclusion? This is almost funny in how Americentric these threads become. You can outsource your project elsewhere. It's very common. America isn't the only country in the world that has software engineers who are competent.
Yes! This sounds really promising.
Civil asset forfeiture requires some degree of at least suspicion that things are not above board, AND they need to know it’s there. A receipt for a cash withdrawal sitting on top of the stack of cash that 100% shows every dollar came from a legit bank? And it was in a place you didn’t give them consent to search, and you can show there was no probable cause to search?

Someone’s gonna lose their job over that, at least if you have enough lawyers

Where civil asset forfeiture comes in hard core is when you can’t show the source of the money.
Great comment! I’m curious, why did you choose Arabic, Mandarin, and Spanish?
I believe you have misread that table. The prices (which depend on size) are all per package of 100 sheets. So you can reduce that $1000 to $10 as an order of magnitude estimate.

That's still rather expensive just for paper, but it might make a nice project, as a one-off, to print and bind a book to that sort of standard.
Agreed.

Having faced potential costs associated with exercising rights, I must say it can go very bad, very quick.

Done right, even when it does go bad, means a likely win in court.

In my case, preventing warrantless home entry involved:

Personal beating, like ouch! People will notice it happened to you type ouch!

An evening in holding.

Long walk home. (I could have gotten a ride, but was a mess mentally and just walked 10 miles.

A few thousand for a defense attorney.

10 court appearances called for at expensive and tiresome times.

Trial.

Tort to recover fees.

Personal unease for about 6 months while it all played out.

Not recommended.

Unless it is worth it. In my case it was more than standing on principle.

Finally, public defenders are not generally what you want in rights violation type scenarios. Be ready to pay up for experienced representation.

Be ready to take the ride, take the beating, pay the money, lose the time.
True, though I'm assuming by "the world", they mean that traditional processes which would have involved pen and paper and other non computer based tools and systems are all being redesigned to make use of computers, thus Software is eating them.

But AI is not replacing processes that rely on software with something that no longer relies on software. What AI is doing is it lets you replace even more processes that were not yet able to be handled by a computer with one that a computer can do, and thus it just helps Software eat even more of the world. Decision making and judgement tasks were not able to be successfully moved to computers prior to the recent advancements in AI, now some of those can be.
> Lisp allows us to scale dramatically and manage a large code base.

Wow, really? How big is your company?

> Right now, in our core company we have three people, two here in Virginia and one in Mexico City.
I guess they will monetise their KYC data. Eventually you will need KYC data to accept a payment from a customer. The customer obviously doesn't want to enter it again and again. So some company will build a KYC layer - this might be MoonPay.
It's interesting that the article admits they weren't meant to have access to the instance, that makes them unauthorised users.

Meaning the users would have been in violation of the computer abuse act.
Who's 'modern' definitions are those? All the ones I can think of (for instance Umberto Eco's) describe fascism's use of specific symbology as key to differentiating them from general dictatorships (among other identifiers).
Maybe.

W3C had a pretty big 30th birthday thing recently. https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/08/30-years-on-from-introducing...
Have they said whether it's a complete CL implementation or just a subset? I have the impression that it gets asymptotically more difficult as you approach the finish line.
EFF Board of Directors Votes to Remove John Gilmore from the Board
Nah, if you can show the source of the money was legit (drawn from a legit bank for instance), you at a minimum have a solid claim for civil damages.

Where the civil asset forfeiture stuff really gets people is when they don’t have a paper trail.
But I was complaining about the exact opposite- I have a hard time finding potential design cofounders as an engineer, and every hackathon and similar events seems to be filled with engineers , but short on designers even though designers win pitches more than engineers (you can fake implementation for a demo but can’t fake design).

The fact that it’s harder to find designers than engineers for founders despite the opposite dynamic in the job market is what I was saying was surprising.

The platform does not have many designers looking for technical founders. As I said, it’s filled with MBAs. When pressed what skills they would contribute, they say things like “backend finance.” Usually either they have no money but need you to build a complex project before you can think about raising money (raising the question why not just build it and pitch VCs yourself), or they already raised money but want to give you some absurdly low percentage (you’re not really cofounder).

Are there people in there that would be able to raise money /sell the product if you built it? Maybe but others have discussed why that’s the hardest of all skills to vet for.

Either way if the platform was filled with strong designers interested in partnering with technical cofounders I’d be much happier and speak more highly of it.
Do you work for google?
I found this,

https://web.archive.org/web/20100312100358/http://www.idsoft...

5% royalties on games sold.
Don’t! Write it down on archival paper and present it in an interesting way. The web won’t exist in its current form in 50 years.

As far as I know, my great grandfather’s representation on earth today beyond descendants is a portion of a journal with some writing and a couple of drawings.

For most of us, that’s the best you can hope for.
No. Nonviolet, victimless felony. The maximum sentence was actually 3 years in prison. So I've done almost three times the maximum sentence because I refused to plead out.

I'm British and a felony conviction would impact my immigration status and also I'm innocent. So I refused. I actually thought I'd be in jail for a few weeks. Then 8 years later.
Honestly, is it that hard to make that thing from scratch? I mean Facebook started by just one student… and he didn’t had the technology available today.
It's from a Milton Friedman paper, "The Optimum Quantity of Money":

"Let us suppose now that one day a helicopter flies over this community and drops an additional $1,000 in bills from the sky, which is, of course, hastily collected by members of the community. Let us suppose further that everyone is convinced that this is a unique event which will never be repeated."

His point was that the Fed can generate output (and inflation) when the economy is running below potential.
An induction cooktop and electric pressure cooker certainly makes a gas connection for the kitchen unnecessary.

There's an interesting video from Adam Rageusa on how bad gas cooktops are:

https://youtu.be/CcAJ3_-Hou8

I think that gas cooktops and open-air cooking vessels are just used frequently because they're easy to show off on cooking shows... Its hard to make a Youtube video on things cooking in a sealed pressure cooker.
wouldn’t the purpose of these be so customers don’t continually ask staff for produce they don’t have in stock
Im guessing you were not allowed to produce your own expert witness then? Or couldn’t afford it?
Yup. Setting up a trust is the best way to do this.

--

Many solutions here suggesting physical storage mechanisms which defeats the whole purpose of hosting a widely and public accessible document.

A trust would have the finances and most aligned incentives to keep the content online and in a format that is accessible.

Many other solutions involve telling your children to tell their children to ... etc. But again, you have no incentive to give a damn about the whims of someone who died 300 years ago, and it only takes one uncaring child to cut the chain short.

A trust's hefty financial incentives can keep anyones incentives aligned.

It makes sense that there's sexy technical solutions here (we're on Hacker News), but the most important thing is to
keep the incentives aligned. That's what a trust is for.
One thing we did before to solve this problem in the train robbery days was eliminating bearer instruments. I strongly suggest we revisit this solution.
Except waiting ripples through the economy. You may not need a particular thing, but something that depends on it for their business 18 chain links away from things you need, does. And without it, certain businesses might not be able to sell anything, and thus go bankrupt, and thus put people out of work. It's all a very complicated interconnected web
> X11 is not really a viable solution anymore.

These are very unsubstantiated claims. X11 works perfectly. Wayland on the other hand is not a viable solution at all at this point. You can't even take screenshots.

> The API has some pretty major flaws that there are no plans to fix.

Except for the 15bit coordinate limitation it has no major flaws and can be extended if needed. If anything has major flaws it is Wayland. As an exercise I recommend implementing a native screenshot application on Wayland and compare that experience with the X11 equivalent. The Wayland API is pure garbage.

> KDE is actually fully behind Wayland as well.

Maybe in words only. The Actual Wayland version of KDE has major bugs and people doing serious work always switch back to the X11 session where it works flawlessly. Besides that I don't think KDE is any good either.
>I think you're being disingenuous, I don't use my lawn to distribute other people's apps/signs, it's not its purpose, and I don't advertise it as such.

That's irrelevant, at least under US law. If your daughter sells lemonade on that lawn, is it more of a platform? Can I then post signs all over your lawn about the dangers of lemonade or citrus?

Of course not. Because on your private property, you exercise your own free speech rights by allowing/disallowing what ever you choose.

Why should it be any different on F-Droid's private property? Do the people who own F-Droid have less free speech rights than you do? If you believe so, please explain your reasoning, as I don't see the difference.
I have hn CRISPRed into my genes, programmed carefully in multi-core OCaml backed by Postgres.
There's a somewhat hilarious audiobook about this by Ellison (titled the same as the episode, I believe), which is mostly a well produced rant burying Roddenberry's versions of events (your justifications included) in 37 tons of molten lead and firing them into the heart of a nearby dying star.

When I started listening, I didn't know what it was and kept wondering when the story would start. By something like 30-40 minutes in, I was laughing so hard I decided I didn't even care if I ever heard the script. It's a masterpiece of pettiness only Harlan could have crafted.
Wild that it never occurred to anyone that the problem might be the state-sanctioned murder, rather than the process used to justify it. A punitive justice culture truly does result in a poverty of imagination.
Well, “worth it” is a stretch - I think they almost put the snail to extinction from needing so much of it.
Interesting point, although a random asteroid might be better, because less likely to be trod upon in the next 500 years.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar, please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments, and please don't use HN for ideological battle. All of that is against the site guidelines.

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly. We ban that sort of account, so if you'd please fix this, we'd be grateful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Maybe appending "... Or something else?" to a limited choices question can avoid the problem GP @indymike mentioned, whilst still generally be quick

Is it raining or something else outdoors?

Do you like Vi or Emacs or something else?

Do you want to hang out for a coffee or something else?
And make it illegal to purchase the tokens they use to make the payments.
A pitmaster is a digital temperature control, so you are on the correct path.

I use a Thermoworks Signals and Billows as my digital control. It allows me to have 4 probes, 1 of which is positioned to control the temperature, 3 of which can monitor other parts of the Kamado or be inside meat.

It also allows me to see a graph of all 4 probes over time. It connects to my wifi (and Bluetooth as a redundancy) so I can check temperatures when im out shopping or working (via Thermoworks, which collects and serves the data back to me). It also allows me to change the temperature from anywhere. I can start a cook at 300, go to work, and drop it to 225 anytime I want.

It's the ultimate piece of kit.

As for not needing a Kamado, I disagree. The 345lbs of mass that I have give ultimate temperature buffer control. It can't be overstated the difference holding a cook between 223-227 and holding a cook between 210 and 240 makes. The steadier the better.
It was a melting pot of the British, the Irish, the Dutch, the French etc. In the old world all nations lived relatively isolated, save them whose profession involved travel, that was expensive and painstaking.
Vinyl was actually (mostly) killed by cassette tapes, then CDs replaced those because of greater fidelity and instant seek times.[0] Though it really took the emergence of writable CDs to totally kill cassettes, since you couldn't replace the 'mix tape' use case until then.

0. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/annual-recorded-music-sales-b...
I don't think the timing is favorable for China. Based on the papers I've read, China is about 15 years away from having a sufficient amphibious capability needed to invade Taiwan. That very likely means a sustained blockade, which will be extremely difficult politically, militarily, and economically. Surely such an invasion would be swiftly followed by harsh sanctions from many of China's trading partners. Considering the systemic risk China is presently baking into their economy by not allowing defaults to occur, what will be the appetite for adventurism of this sort with things unsettled at home? Is Xi willing to risk completely destabilizing China's economy to capture Taiwan? That sounds extremely reckless and unlikely, but stranger things have happened.
Embedded crypto miner in ua-parser-JS
You could keep using your current IDE and use Emacs for the simpler tasks while you are learning it at whatever pace is convenient for you.

I am a new Emacs user. I decided to give it a try about ten days ago, so I followed the built-in tutorial, read a bit about minor and major modes, buffers, global and buffer-local variables and it started making sense. The online documentation is extensive and the built-in documentation system is very easy to use.
If it's not an acronym, why is it all caps?
Laws imply coercion and force, by definition.

If you and your hippie friends wanna band together and start a commune somewhere and commit mass suicide (or something), I got no problem with that. Just don't force everyone else to join you by gun point (the logical endpoint of enforcing laws).
I fully realize the theoretical advantages of blockchains. I can still store multiple copies in multiple clouds across multiple availability zones cheaper. The original question did not imply the destruction of S3.
This is great, if you want to see what the other extreme looks like check the source code of the perl5 interpreter, it's all weird macros.
Electionics has much shorter than 500 year life times , even shorter in the harsh radiation filled environment in space.
This might be off tangent. Create something similar to the Internet Archive, but for profit. Of course the key to success is remaining profitable for 500 years.
Workplace Occupancy Barometer
For one, exhortations to violence are an explicit exception to free speech. And secondly the amendment only prevents laws being passed to prevent speech. Not private businesses from disallowing content.
They are the most widely spoken languages world wide after English.
The question is really not _how_ to maintain it, but _why_.

If you've said something valuable, then the means of preserving it will take care of themselves.
That guy was 19 in 2013, and elsewhere our allegedly felonious friend here mentions being a web developer in the 90s, so it's not the same person.
Reasonably large mobile cranes exist and the cost of renting one for a day is small compared to the amount of capital bouncing around logistics operations surrounding the Port of LA.

They're not currently in use at truck yards because it's illegal to stack containers high, but if it were no longer illegal then they could be quickly and temporarily set up.
I agree with you regarding the SFC. However, regardless of your perspective of the world and a presumption of my motivations, it is reasonable and fair to make the observation that this scrutiny is not happening in a vacuum absent of politics.
I'd say they can just distribute their changes to remedy the situation and issue is resolved, or they can do the litigating you are asking for, and then be mindful that as a pariah organization they are the canary in the coalmine for FOSS license lawfare.

Indeed, I don't think anyone would offer them special relief, but if this issue shows we are in an era of political exposure to opportunistic enforcement, that's notable for everyone who develops products.
My hope is that supply chain issues will make clear the downsides to execs (not just the workers) and governments of externalizing all manufacturing abroad and out of reach. Look at the chaos caused by a pandemic, now imagine war or purposefully using supply chain as leverage.
Discussion here: https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/issues/536
I think we can look to the way we archive any other information, which tends to be libraries and archives. So in the first instance, make sure the Internet Archive has a copy. If you want to be even more sure, find a friendly library of record (British Library, Bodleian, Library of Congress, that kind of thing) and see if they archive digital documents and give them a copy. Perhaps with a financial contribution guaranteeing retention?
Atomizer: S-Expression Visualization Tool
The concept behind Arweave is to provide at least 200 years of permanent storage.

https://www.arweave.org
Hmm.... You may be correct
Breaking the site guidelines like this will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. You may not feel you owe them better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Funny note: under the Tripartite Pact, because Japan was the aggressor in Pearl Harbor, Germany didn't have to declare war on the USA.

Of course, politics overrides contracts. Hitler wanted close relations with Japan, and gave them his word that Germany had Japan's back on Dec. 4th. So Japan used that to attack the USA (knowing Germany would help). Germany, much like Japan, underestimated the strength of the USA and didn't expect them to be a big deal.

But WW2 could have just had US vs Japan, but kept "neutrality" vs Germany ... if circumstances lined up just right. Apparently there were many German advisors who were trying to push for this scenario, and didn't think Germany had anything to gain for keeping its verbal agreement with Japan. We can imagine an interesting parallel-world where maybe some Advisor managed to convince Hitler of this plan and Germany going down this path instead.

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USA wouldn't get first-hand witness accounts / pictures of the Holocaust for years. The Holocaust was happening, but US citizens wouldn't know about it. (The first whispers of the Holocaust were given to the US State department in 1942, but were written off/ignored)

New York Times had the Holocaust discussed on its 10th page in December 1942. (Not even front-page material). So once again, news of this genocide was largely met with a shrug. War-plans to bomb concentration camps were discussed, but pushed out as a low-priority. Some rescues happened, but it was clearly not a focus of the war effort.

I think people greatly underestimate the USA's capability to be isolationist. Yeah, we play the world's policemen at times, but we also don't like doing it.

In any case, by the time our soldiers found the concentration camps and gave first-hand accounts of them... the Holocaust was largely accepted as fact. But we weren't exactly proactive at stopping it.
Yes, in Illinois. Things like bump keys are illegal.

Here's the full list.. most of it centers on intent, but intent can be inferred in some cases:
https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/documents/072000050K19...