skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is more difficult because then the state can’t be stored in the position of the physical controls. A switch can’t be on or off, a dial can’t be coldest to hottest air, and so the visual indication of the state of the control from the switch or knob is lost.

Touchscreens in cars suck
Could it be that you're used to the increasingly stupidity of windows?

Win -> Mac conversion is annoying I agree. But once you've shrugged off the expectation of windows behaviours you'll be fine.

Cognitive dissonance is a thing with user interfaces.
I usually think of disruptive technology as disrupting an industry. This time it was a whole town.

Seems like towns cannot respond to disruption as well as tech companies.
I hate this. I’m up to my eyeballs trying to keep my newborn away from all the toxic shit that’s in every part of his life, BP* in plastics, flame retardants in clothes and mattresses and rugs, heavy metals in baby food and now in herbs, micro plastics in food, radioactivity and mercury in farmland around coal fired power plants, etc etc etc.

The negative externalities on dangerous chemicals is so very high; what am I supposed to do, test my fucking pepper? The burden of safety is squarely on the consumer after it’s already too late to prevent. I don’t know what to do anymore. At this point it’s safe to assume he is ingesting poisons that affect child organ and brain development in everything.
Nice one! I made something just like this a while back [1] (github link within). But I like the way that you have the matrix theme with the comment.

[1] https://ycomments.benwinding.com/
Correction:
Event logs should be transaction logs instead and you must be able to travel through it reverting and re-applying actions. It should be branch-able and allow you to jump between those branches.
I suspect, it was lobbies from the auto manufacturers lol or some nuance to the law that had Other implications

I wouldn’t confuse peoples ideals with corrupt politicians.
SWE Google – “Black community inclusion”
All of the known STDs at the time we’re bacterial and cured with antibiotics. Syphilis was curable for decades. AIDS scared the shit out of everyone because science didn’t know what was going on. Fauci is a damn hero.
So serveless is a way that the cloud providers are trying to vendor lock you in. Kuberenetes is a way to avoid vendor lock in. I am not sure that serverless on kubernetes even make sense (note the low adaption of knative).
Replacing the www with old seems to help me.
Hmm, is that really so? As far as I understand, for bacteria a more significant factor is horizontal gene exchange (because their genome mutation rate is much lower, presumably because they are more complicated than viruses).

Viruses can't do gene exchange, so the only factor for developing resistance is the total number of viral particles produced, so even if it's a weak vaccine or half dose of antiviral drug, it would be helpful
Is lack of housing really the problem? The resorts themselves are already far too crowded, and it's not like there's a unlimited amount of skiiable area to expend to. Not to mention how awful dense housing would be in a supposedly remote area. It would turn it into "only some can access this area" to "everyone can access but no one can enjoy it."
Why do you guys keep dreaming up there bizarre forms of government when the parliamentary system exists and works well enough…
Until your doing 1:10 500’s you can keep pushing harder.

Rowing fast is one of the most demanding movements you can do.
Most likely he responded in English because he felt it would be easier for both of you, not because he wanted to humiliate you.
In practice, for any memory system with caches and limited by the speed of light, random (unpredictable) access to an array of size n takes much closer to O(sqrt(n)), not O(log(n)). There's an excellent article discussing this that you can search for, and it holds both in emperical tests on modern hardware and in the theoretical physical limit.
The Troubled Ethics of Open Data
Lovely...

> The removal of in-video ads.

You can pay YouTube for ad-free viewing... not doing so and stripping out the ads is dangerously close to "I just want this for free, so I'll steal it"

> Prevent YouTube from tracking your play/pause/seek activities.

A little bit of a tinfoil hat issue here, but it's fair if this sort of analytics bother you (it doesn't bother me).

> Restore picture-in-picture functionality.

Picture in picture works just fine on Windows and Android without a YouTube Premium account. Is this something specific to iPhone?

> The videos don’t stop playing if you switch to another browser tab.

On mobile, web videos are paused when you switch tabs or apps regardless of the website. Not something YouTube can control, and certainly not something YouTube is intentionally doing (unless you count Google and the decisions Chrome makes, and there is definitely something to that). What YouTube is doing, as I'll elaborate on in the next point, is stopping you from resuming the content after you have switched away from that tab. On all other websites, as long as they do nothing to prevent it, you can resume your video in the background by going to your media controls and hitting the Play button.

On desktop, this is not an issue, whether you have YouTube Premium or not. YouTube does not pause or stop videos when you switch tabs.

> You can choose the audio-only stream to keep the music playing when Safari is in the background.

As I hinted above, the crux of this one is that YouTube has deemed that background playback is a paid feature of YouTube Premium. I think this is silly, but it is their policy. Feel free to work around YouTube's technical restrictions on this topic if you want, but I return to exhibit A, that you can skip the ads and the restrictions if you sign up for YouTube Premium.

In the Flash days, making it use HTML 5 was (afaict) a quality of life change. This extension seems a bit sketchy at best. On the other hand the fact that the entire thing seems to be Apple ecosystem only probably says more about the Apple ecosystem than anything else (as I've said, this is mostly unnecessary on other platforms).

EDIT: PS: I would love if Chrome and the other browsers reversed their decision to auto-pause HTML5 video when you switch tabs or apps on mobile. It just feels like a way to push native mobile apps over web apps for no reason. I understand the risk potential of allowing this on the open web, but I think a permissioning model can work here to reduce the risks.
>republicans are a mix of libertarians, conservatives and moderates.

>only thing linking them together are the “leave me alone” argument. That’s why I’m not concerned about women’s choice

I think you're confusing ideologies with practice. Ideologues in the coalition you reference find a home in the Republican party in our binary system, because of the traditional Republican brand. But, the real ethos and practice of the party itself are decidedly not one of "leave me alone".

Women's choice is actually one of the more prominent indicators of this, and recent action in Republican-led Texas on that issue is a harbinger.

The party also routinely lobbies against equal rights for "outgroups", proposes book bans, and answers dissenting voices with vitriol, hostility and (recently) violence.

I've also never seen the modern party rally for free speech with which it did not agree. 1A arguments are instead most-often wielded when defending itself against those who find its positions to be repressive towards other groups (ironically).

Aside: I've earnestly never understood how libertarians reconcile the party's staunch opposition to gay marriage, women's reproductive rights, etc. with a "leave-me-alone" worldview.

In any case, it seems the true underlying theme of the party is the imposition of its will and enforcement of its regime, resulting in a "very particular brand of freedom". So, I'm not convinced that a convention of states (where that party is influential) would reflect anything but that.
Aronia berries have about an order of magnitude more anthocyanins than blueberries do. They are too astringent to eat really but they make a very good jam. The bushes seem to be prolific so making preserves is probably the best use anyway.
> Open windows when it's above 50F / 10C

https://www.rte.ie/weather/22259-dublin/

I live in Ireland, it's not typically considered a cold climate. But it won't be above 10C this week, and probably the case for most weeks until mid-March so this advice is less globally accurate than you might imagine.
I find it frustrating that they didn't test many foreign brands, but recommend against import nonetheless.

Laxmi Turmeric is the one Indian (for import) spice brand I recognize on the list. Testing Devi, and the other common import brands, as well as true desi brands would have been interesting.

"Curry powder" is a weird one to test. Might as well compare Italian blends as well.
They did crazy shit in those days. I saw a mock-up of the lunar lander once. I wouldn’t have ridden in that thing to the end of my street but those guys strapped in and went to the moon!
The WHO dragged their feet for weeks, even months, all so they could help the CCP not look as culpable as they are in all of this. They took China of all countries at their word - that or they knew they were lying and ran cover for them in the name of not offending certain groups of people - and as a result the world paid a greater price faster than it would've otherwise.

Now we find out that the WHO skipped "Xi" in the Greek alphabet when naming COVID variants. Indeed, it's very important that we continue not to offend China, the Chinese Communist Party, or their Dear Leader. They're the victims in all of this.

I find the WHO's constant attempts to regain any legitimacy they ever had an amusing, but ultimately a lost cause.
It’s based on the nature of the Senate and Republican gerrymandering of the house. A minority of extreme views from rural areas control the politics of America.

A poll of “all Americans” is useless when the Senate exists.
If you actually talk to the existing homeowners you'll find that they're more concerned about maintaining a certain lifestyle than real estate values.
I wonder if there is literature about improvement in Lego instructions. Current instructions still don't highlight specific changes, although they do list out the parts to be used. As I've watched my kids grow to work it out for themselves it is interesting to see how much tacit Lego knowledge is needed to complete a particular step.
> And yet: what if the course of history as it unfolded was roughly optimal?

Sure, but what if it wasn't?

It seems like there's a bias to viewing history where we judge _our_ outcome as the best one even if it had huge downsides.

I don't see why we should assume the outcome we have is any better than average or why those decisions generally judged to be "necessary evil"s actually were necessary. They were only necessary to get exactly our outcome, there's nothing saying that it was actually good.
Awesome site. Wish it kept going after 2016. The Range Rover (42110) released in 2019 has a lot of the same features.
I'm something of a master thief myself; my whole life when commercial breaks started on TV, I changed the channel or turned the TV off.
Well if we can eventually drop the masks. Otherwise the air is still hot, humid and stale. I personally have anxieties due to them (related to an almost-suffocating experience in the past). But I know many people suffer with them for different reasons.

I know we need the masks now but it shouldn't be a permanent solution. It's very invasive. For 30m on the metro perhaps but not all day at work, school... If covid isn't doing away there must be a better way to reduce levels enough. After all it's only a mitigating measure, not a 100% preventative one.

I air my house every day too. Because I love the fresh air.

I hope that in the mean time we'll get powered masks though that don't have all these drawbacks. Especially for people like me with medical issues. Razer has one already but it's impossible to get (I've tried getting one on the last drops and they sell out before my order page loads) and it looks too much like a massive gas mask IMO. It's not suitable for a lot of situations. Still, I'd get one if I could :'(
I guess you skirted closer to the flatten the curve argument than I was comfortable with. Seems that, in retro, it caused folks to take precautions to try and keep hospitals clear, and ultimately threw a lot of nursing homes under the bus.

That said, your first point is a good one. If made difficult by how many later waves in most places have similar death peaks to earlier ones.

I still think we are far away from really having evidence on any good strategy, sadly. All of the places that had it under control seem to have lost said control.

Which, ultimately, is a good enough argument for me, to not just give up on things that have any chance of helping. Sucks, as I am clearly open to the arguments that deniers use. Which... I'm not trying to further that angle, either.
Mars city is irrelevant. What matters is self sustaining spaceships.
They can pay me enough that I’ll do it but not enough that I’ll want to do it.
Unrelated, but has anyone else had issues with embedded YouTube videos playing just by swiping your finger over them while scrolling the page on iOS? I’m sorely tempted to block YouTube at the network level, it’s so annoying.
That is my understabding of what dumping laws mean.

Many laws have not been properly tested on software, even ownership of data is still sketchy.

I am saying that, as scrutiny of software conpanies increases, and a new generation of lawmakers comes in that has some computer literacy, chances that any dumping laws will be applied increase dramatically
> When COVID spreads in Africa and makes a new strain, it may as well be on your own doorstep. The world needs to step up and distribute vaccines to every corner of the globe, for FREE, or we’ll never get out of this.

This isn't quite true. All epidemics come to an end eventually, vaccines or no vaccines. There were no vaccines to end the 1918 flu epidemic, but that one too died out just like all the ones before it in a few years' time. At a far greater cost to human life, of course, but we "got out" of it.
Journeyman level, earlier if you have a mentor that can help you properly understand the contents (particularly, not to take parts of it as dogma).
I subscribe to YouTube, so I already pay them.

If I watched YouTube on my phone or my iPad at all, I would definitely install this. Realistically I almost always use my TV to watch YouTube. So it doesn’t matter.

Purposefully breaking built in functionality (full screen, PIP, etc) to force people to use your app or to remove the functionality altogether is a dick move. Something that’s getting real common with Google.
They use them on ships in the navy, at least they did a decade ago. I would love to have them in my house, cartons are wasteful.
Were you around when this came about?

There was a lot of fear and uncertainty. There was also a strong undercurrent of hate, and that these gay men deserve to die for being "bad".

There still is a lot of hate (hat tip to Mitch Hedberg), but it was worse back then.

I lost several friends to this disease -- it was, and remains, heartbreaking.
Another possibility is a super contagious variant that is much less deadly. Then it replaces its competitor. Perhaps become endemic like the common cold.
I was thinking that it also has a semi truck configuration, but I was confusing this set with 8458:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/lego-technic-8458-sil...

The permutations in these sets are extraordinary.
Rule of the lowest common denominator, whether it be by way of trying to accommodate multiple form factors or multiple operating systems is certainly one of the biggest drivers of the decline of truly excellent software. One size fits all is never going to fit anybody even half as well as something more tailored to a specific subset.

I would like to see someone try the opposite, where when possible gaps in functionality on one platform or form factor are filled in, so all users’ experiences are elevated by the most capable target rather than dragged down by the least capable. That will probably never happen though.
what about hydroponics
Never had this before today. Now the only way to click a link on HN on my iPhone 13 Pro is to press and hold and then open a new tab.
So Hep B, herpes, HPV and anything else that is viral and not readily cured by a course of antibiotics is simply not a concern?

I’m not a doctor, gay man, or a sexually active person, but it doesn’t take much research to figure out that unprotected sex with random people will cause health problems that cannot be waved off with a simple pill.
> It's not worth the risk to the equipment.

… or life.
>Did gay men at the time not consider syphilis a threat worthy of protecting themselves?

Well, there was penicillin. I think most just preferred 'rawdogging' it.
My next game, if I ever dive into gamedev again, would be a programming game.

Btw if you like programming games, zachtronics is definitely the reference at the moment

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/zachtronics
Maybe let's not spend thousands of dollars for outdated gaming systems?
I was under the impression Google was doing that to force people to use their app for higher resolutions.
> And that's tax on all your income.

I (strongly) suspect that will not stand up to judicial review. Income that has no nexus in the state, let alone the municipality, is not going to be taxable for part-time visitors to the state.

Here’s a research position paper prepared for one state that touches pretty squarely on the issues and the Constitutional barriers to enacting what is proposed above: https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/hrd/pubs/ss/clssnonr.pdf
I don't think unelected bureaucrats and lobbyists would have more power than they do now.
One issue with term limits is that there is some power in trying to get reelected. On the other hand I'm not sure how much that matters considering how hard it is for an incumbent to lose
Sure, but no matter how many measures you take, on-call still means you have to be available, so it’s a drag even if it’s quiet.
It differs by streaming platforms, take Netflix by example[1][2], up-to-720p are fine in most browsers and software DRM, 1080p may get "soft locked", 4K are well locked by a combination of software and hardware spec (HDCP 2.2, ECP).

[1] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/23931

[2] https://help.netflix.com/en/node/55764
I remember as a young IT technician, getting chewed out by a CEO because his assistant sent a PowerPoint at the very last minute that used a font only she had on her computer, and it was played at a quarterly meeting and looked odd.
the wait times are even worst then the costs... but either way I like something like Busch Gardens mush more.
I think that the fraction of users who are power users has gone down as the people who own a computing device has gone from "those willing to shell out the price of a used car" to "everybody"
>> The removal of in-video ads.
> You can pay YouTube for ad-free viewing... not doing so and stripping out the ads is dangerously close to "I just want this for free, so I'll steal it"

I don’t understand this sentiment AT ALL. Google has built an entire business out of scraping and selling other peoples content. YouTube has become the defacto host of virtually ALL VIDEO. So yeah, I would watch a video without ads.

This is the internet. If they send the ad and the video and I use a program to hide the ad but watch the video thats my choice. Its MY computer. If they want to take steps to stop this thats up to them.

Advertising is disgusting honestly and your statement in my opinion is an ice cold take
In Switzerland I can walk out of my urban flat carrying my skis, get on a train, and get dumped at the base of a lift an hour or two later. One or two-transfer public transportation from city center to base lift. There's no reason you have to live at the ski areas.
Updated to v0.2 with less bugs and maths, more exact time

FYI fish is a scripting language that doesn't have to be your shell to run this script
Reply above says

> because YouTube's new embed widget starts playing on touch-start instead of touch-release, so it triggers while scrolling...
-1, viruses are not sentient and are only given pressure to not kill their hosts if that reduces transmissability... which specifically doesn't apply for COVID, which is asymptomatically transmissable.
I can assume that if you are taking those measures, you also avoid crowds of any sort. Which probably does a lot of the heavy lifting for you.

For me, I also saw that we had fewer sicknesses when the kids were all home schooled. Not shocking, we got a ton of bugs when they started school back. Not sure how sustainable it is to have such isolated lives, though. :(
> For instance, if you have the belief that men and women should not be educated in the same classroom together, or that women should not be educated at all, that's a political opinion. If you want to be a teacher, that opinion turned into practice could be problematic for our business because >50% of our customers are female.

Was there a big problem with professors instituting sex- and race-segregated classrooms, that necessitated filtering them out with diversity statements? There must have been, since in one instance, a pool of 893 candidates was narrowed down to 214 only on the basis of how convincing their DEI statements were [1].

Imagine that - a full 76% of candidates were some kind of segregationists (that's the kind of person you claim DEI statements are meant to exclude, right?). And that's in academia, in California - the most liberal of the most liberal.

> how many DEI statements have you actually personally read?

None. But I have read one set of rating criteria [2]. Candidates that merely do "what is already expected of staff" [3] regarding diversity (I.e. what you claim is the goal of DEI statements) are given the lowest scores.

[1] https://ofew.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/life_sciences_...

[2] https://ofew.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/rubric_to_asse...

[3] Only mentions activities that are already the expectation of faculty as evidence of commitment and involvement (for example, "I always invite and welcome students from all backgrounds to participate in my research lab, and in fact have mentored several women. [..] Describes only activities that are already the expectation of Berkeley faculty (mentoring, treating all students the same regardless of background, etc).
That happens even if you don't open your windows, since buildings aren't perfectly sealed.
The forecasts for Dublin I'm seeing predict 10C or higher for most of Tuesday. Regardless, my advice is to keep the windows open where possible and it will offset the energy needed where it isn't. And the other component of my advice, turning down the thermostat in places where it gets cold, is certainly applicable in Ireland. You don't need 25C indoors in the winter.
Worth pointing out that Helm was a fork of anything.el, and I’m pretty sure stuff like Icicles predates even that by as much as a decade, so 2011 is underselling Emacs a bit here.
Schemaverse, a space based strategy game to learn PostgreSQL
I came here to mention something very similar, haha.