skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ISIS beheadings highlight a part of the world that many don't know. I was in school when 9/11 happened, and there was this shock everywhere. People were thinking "Why is the world so evil?" Or some variation of "Why is Islam/Arabs so evil?" We spent years debating this kind of thing, on forums, poking at Islam, Arabs, US middle eastern policy, Israel, and so on.

Some reach the wrong conclusion, but many come out of that understanding the world much better. It also highlights different worldviews. My aunt told me people would do anything for money, but it was clear money wasn't the case here. Something ran much deeper than money and power.

I think the beheading videos give us a better sense of reality than say, Facebook or Twitter. I'd much rather my kids watch gore somewhere rather than read through politics on social media. There's the initial shock, but it's like the kids slamming the finger on the door. The injury is inevitable, but they learn from it.
Some of the smaller markets in our area sell milk in glass jugs/bottles and charge a deposit (usually $3-5) that you can recoup if you wash and return the container. You can also keep the glass container if you want to use it for other things and just lose the deposit.

It makes the upfront cost higher but if you exchange a used bottle for a new one each time you buy milk it ends up being about the same cost as a plastic jug with quite a bit less waste.
Edit: your stuff is beautiful btw.

Less than an arpegiator, I think it's closer to 1/f or fractal iteration.

I've spent the last few days working out a similar hypothesis using a "fractal sequencer" module for my eurorack rig. (https://www.qubitelectronix.com/shop/bloom)

Essential idea is it takes your sequence of notes, creates a bunch of branches that are essentially folds, and then iterates through them. The track linked is two sequences iterating the 1st 3rd 6th 8th of a scale across two different oscillators creating a kind of bleep-bloopy counterpoint in the background, and then adding a manual three note lead with some drum breaks and drops to tie it together. I wanted to see how different fractal randomness sounded from intentional complexity. (https://soundcloud.com/n-gram-music/beatrice) It's still sounds random'ish because it plods, where a real composer would add intention, emphasis, and ornamentation, but it's still within the domain of clearly musical.

I'd say it's based on minimalism and Arvo Part's tintinabuli method, but I think one should be an actual serious musician before making lofty claims like that. (I am not) However, this idea of whether there is a big difference between 1/f fractal complexity in a consonant set of notes, and actual human intent is interesting. I suspect Bach (and before him, Vivaldi) had an underlying system that was based on fractal iterations of each theme, which is what sent me down this (rather nutty) path, but the journey continues to amuse.
Proper metals testing costs more than that. It's done for cannabis and many of those labs have their pricing online. Even w/o the "ganja gouge" pricing it is not $20 - but it's not $200 either - so, cheap for big companies/government
And what were the alternatives?

Do something that gives the south too much power and slavery will soon be too deeply enshrined in federal law to be rid of. Count slaves as 0/5ths like the north wanted and the south won't ratify the constitution and you'll get two nations, one of which definitely won't be outlawing slavery.

The past is full of situations where people needed to chart the least bad course through a sea of bad options and they wound up doing an ok job at that. It's easy to sit in an air conditioned ivory tower and cook up internet comments that shit on those people for not having modern morals but other than the internet points I don't know of any useful end that behavior serves.
Could be a carrier setting. Log into your carrier account and see if there some sort of data saver that blocks higher bitrate videos.
It's pretty undesirable to hide functionality behind invisible gestures or menus specifically because users do not "just know it".
Macy’s Day Parade NFT
Ultimately, the only compromise that will ever work is a 10th Amendment style compromise where the decision is on a state by state basis.

At that moment, people will get a lot more involved in local politics because national politics won’t matter all that much beyond national defense.
I think you missed the point.

There’s nothing wrong with Outside sharing nice places with world, but it’s ironic that they would also publish an article decrying the very popularization that they themselves often cause.
It definitely was in the early days, back when the movement was more idealistic and people were making posters comparing Bitcoin, Western Union & wire transfers to spread the word. I think around the block size debate/BCC fork era most of that rhetoric went away.
I think that captures a difference in regulatory regimes, which is different from the medical systems they manage.

Moderna and Pfizer both had their vaccines ready almost as soon as Chinese scientists unveiled the genetic sequence.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/03/how-moderna-made-its-mrna-co...
I grew up mostly on K'NEX but there was one Lego kit I just had to have, and that was this.
No you're not. Really. I think you're living in a world where you believe if you've had covid you're done and you will never get it or future variants again. That's not how it is. The less often you contract a covid-19 variant the healthier /you/ are likely to be. For the immunocompromised contracting it /never/ is attainable. The less of it around, the lower the velocity of transmission the easier that goal is to attain.

"just give up" is not acceptable policy in either intent or outcome. It's mental, in fact.
There are a lot of people who want term limits. Even for their own candidates. I don't think we were ever supposed to have career congresspeople.

That illustrates how ridiculous ideas get traction. Term limits are inherently anti-democratic. They don't end entrenched power but move it to unelected bureaucrats and lobbyists.

I don't think we were ever supposed to have career congresspeople.

The framers of the Constitution imagined wealthy gentleman farmers like themselves alternating positions in power. But term limits wouldn't bring that back, they just make sure that membership in congress would be even more held by the type of person who jump from CEO to congress to Federal bureaucracy and so-forth, reinforcing the "permanent government" situation that already quite strong here.
Just added a new setting called "Opaque bottom navigation bar background" which if enabled makes the bottom nav bar opaque for better visibility of the nav buttons:

https://i.imgur.com/ESFcVBC.png

Thoughts?

The update should most likely be available tomorrow after Google approves it.
the article points out something like 66% of the houses already there sit empty (averaged across the year).

does that mean the "build more housing" idea is not the problem?
If you read the comment thread, lots of people throw doubt on the doubter's story especially around the VHF band.

What's sort of weird is the ATC says they were a controller in the 90's. Could things have changed between the when the story happened and this person was an ATC Controller?

"Speed Classified" might have been different in the early days of the 71's program. Same with the flight ceilings.

To me, the only thing that hasn't been refuted yet is the speed measurement. Specifically the part where it's a multiple of 1842 (or 1942 as was told in the story).
If it is simple enough to do when drunk, why does it need to be done at all?

Typically for us, when something goes wrong that needs intervention, it's the first time that issue has ever happened and it needs to be debugged and understood. Then we'll put a mitigation in so it hopefully doesn't happen again.

In my last place, we had a runbook more like you describe, but I prefer prioritising bug fixes over features as it means I haven't had an out of hours call in a year!
T-Mobile CDMA network shutting down soon
But they are, as both are no longer necessary in a civil, functioning society. Consider Europe, much of Asia, which have been able to achieve democracy, stability, and little need for open carry or slavery.

Now, one has a lot of open supporters (gun rights exceeding the US second amendment, in that the regulated militia component gets left out).
Speaking for myself, but eating cherries off the trees in Europe would significantly lower my stress level compared to deliver-this-feature-yesterday baseline.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/three-fifths-compromise

it's true that the word slavery is not used, but if you talk about free people and then note that there are not free people and make political rules for how those non free people should be counted, then in a slave holding society it becomes somewhat obvious who you're talking about.
This reminds me of something I had completely forgotten: many years ago, we spent a week cruising an English canal in a narrowboat, which have the basic setup of a fixed-in-azimuth propeller and a rudder. One morning, a guy went by backing up a sixty-footer at about 5 knots for about a quarter-mile, until he could swing the stern into a junction to turn it around. It took me a while to get my jaw up off the deck.
Wait a minute — a hardware note taking device requires a subscription for basic things like OCR and getting your notes off the device? How is that not the highlight reason never to buy one?
A few millions are sufficient for you to be able to say "fuck you" to any employer or person you theoretically depend on, while still being able to live a comfortable live and - possibly - defend your right in court, even if it does not make economical sense to do so. That's what most people mean.

Having a few billion gives you some additional fuck you privileges - police officers, world leaders, other billionaires -, but you probably won't get on a level where you can say that to anyone and not fear repercussions. Also, if you can live happily on your own, you can already tell them that if you have a few million to your name.
On call rotation = Company is unwilling to invest in global support of said product. If they're willing to cut corners with their employees precious time off just imagine what other foul business practices are happening behinds the scenes.
Lift tickets are like 2x what they were 7 years ago. Prices are matching demand, I doubt it's vice versa. Personally, I think social media is the culprit for the increased demand. Previously people in most places barely knew skiing was an accessible thing to do. Now you have mimetic desire from their friends posting glamor shots at the resort for all to see.
> Article V allows the states to call a Constitutional Convention if two-thirds (or 34) of 50 states submit a resolution proposing an amendment on one or many topics (or just a general call for convention without proposing a specific topic). Amendments proposed during a Constitutional Convention must also be ratified by three-fourths of the states. Since the first Constitutional Convention, Congress has proposed 33 constitutional amendments and 27 have been ratified.

In other words, it’s highly unlikely anything would pass a convention of states. That said, we are getting close given the dramatic over reach by the federal government
I am very much against slavery even as a punishment. I think it is a shame that the US allows it in such form.

Guns, I am not so sure. There are numerous benefits to be able to own guns besides protection.
It seemed too easy. Thanks, good link.
A few of the towns in the article have vacancy rates greater than 50%. If the free market can support a 50% occupancy rate, there isn't a great reason to think that it can't support a 90 or 95% occupancy rate. Increasing the housing stock by 50% to house 5% of the towns population seems inefficient for both investment owners and workers.
> Plain text as much as possible suffices for most websites; content and speed over style.

I generally agree with this - many websites are insanely over complicated. I should need to download react/angular/<popular JS framework>, load some JSON files, download a 100 MB title background image - just to read some text.

That said, I also except that _some_ websites do require these capabilities. But I believe they should need to justify it. If you can get away with just HTML/CSS, then you really should.

The way forwards would be for search engines to lower the ranking of websites that are bloated for no real reason. But this of course will not work when Google is the major search engine - because their entire business model is based on injecting some JS into a page and tracking you. They even make money up-selling you on their cloud services for resource intensive content.

Given that, the way forwards is actually likely to come from a browser supported advertising model - that respects anonymous browsing but also provides some guarantees to the advertiser. Then, size, bandwidth, position, etc, could all be factored in. The browser could even figure out whether the ad is rendered in a place where the user could have seen it.

> Reddit should copy Hacker News

Reddit should revert to old Reddit and refresh the UI. I'm sure they had their reasons, but their current website is actively hostile towards mobile users.

> billionaires should pay their goddamn taxes so we can implement Universal Basic Income

There aren't enough billionaires for everybody to stop working and it's a slippery slope. I know multiple generations of people that live on government handouts rather than work - they are not motivated to work at all. Whether or not on purpose, it encourage the creation of a surf class.

I do except that something needs to be done to address increasing wealth inequality, but it should be a self-sustaining system.
In a sense, it is, because otherwise the original Constitution may not have been ratified and a possible outcome would be the Balkanization of North America.

In another, it justified and enshrined in foundational law the abhorrent practice of chattel slavery, and allowed the United States to form a strong centralized government capable of colonizing and subjugating the native people who were living there for thousands of years.

These can both be true at the same time.
A few aviation idioms that come to mind.

1. "Stay ahead of the aircraft."

i.e. anticipate and manage administrative (or tactical) minutiae to put yourself in the best possible position when the tempo increases.

2. "Aviate, aviate, aviate...then navigate and communicate" (already mentioned).

This is commonly used during a crew brief prior to a flight, particularly when discussing emergency procedures. Focus on the most critical thing (EP immediate action items, keeping the bird aloft, not hitting lead or the ground) and when that's done, use your remaining bandwidth to complete the 'nice-to-have' items (e.g. keeping the flight on course, a MAYDAY call, or an advisory call to the flight/controller). I like to really emphasize the aviate portion during my briefs. Junior pilots have a tendency to try and do all three things simultaneously which can compound an already bad situation.

"Waveoff's are free."

If you see a landing going bad, don't hesitate to use a mulligan.

*Free as in you won't be judged for choosing to 'go-around' but will be held accountable if you push a bad situation that you could have prevented through better judgement.

Get-there-itis: Wanting to accomplish something (e.g. get to a cool destination or hit a time on target) so badly that you will accept unnecessary risk in order to achieve whatever you're trying to do. Many aviation (and life) mishaps are the indirect result of get-there-itis; most notably, accepting poor weather or an aircraft with maintenance issues.

This is kind of fun and I could go on...
The curves of the keywells, the integrated wrist rest, the thumb buttons placement, the tenting angle, etc. is unmatched.
>A Teclea Shimperi fruit was collected from Alamata, which is located 600 km away from the capital city (Addis Ababa) in the northern part of Ethiopia.

but why not just use the yellow/red Fall leaves ? :)
I’m very worried about the US turning into a one-party theocracy. The actual institutional norms have been violated and the path has been laid. A very large portion of the country supports an authoritarian Christian theocracy as the future of America and it is terrifying. They are concentrated in smaller states that give these extreme voices outsized power in our current constitutional structure. I worry for the future.
Which was kind of how the US was supposed to be designed. It’s exactly what the “right” wants as well, so it might indeed happen.
Article 1, Section 9 specifically prevented slavery from being abolished until 1808. The three-fifths compromise (Article 1, Section 2) also addressed slavery. The word never appears, but there are plenty of euphemistic references.
Anyone notices pressing Cmd-F / Ctrl-F on this linked article pops up a website launcher in that page?

It's so neat and I want that in my Quicksilver / Alfred!
It's still believable, when the 71 started flying it's possible "speed classified" hadn't been introduced yet.

To me the only thing that the doubter's story that hasn't been refuted well is the number being too specific.
So what is this, replacing it with an invidious-hosted embed?
I went to Mayo last year (immune system issues) and told the internist I had chronic gurgling in my ear. He said it was probably related to the immune deficiency and the best thing to keep the ears cleaned out are regular nasal rinses. He also recommended the NeilMedi squeeze bottle.

Now I do it every day with distilled water. Mix it in the bottle with the packets, nuke for 25 seconds, do the rinse each side, gargle with any leftover water, clean the bottle and nozzle with dish soap. Takes only a couple of minutes.

If I'm going to be out like at a store or someone's house, I wait until I get back home to do the rinse, figuring that if I've picked up any Covid cooties, this is a good way to get them cleared out of my nose before they start multiplying too much.
Insane to me how terse and elegant that code is for such a beautiful outcome
Nonsense. SARS-CoV-2 is just one more endemic coronavirus. No one is giving up; the vaccines and other treatments reduce the infection fatality rate close to zero.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2108120
I bill my hourly rate for all on-call hours regardless of if I'm called. If my employer wants any amount of control over my time (sobriety, proximity, etc) then they pay my regular hourly rate for it.

Most will not accept these terms, and that's the goal.
Not an IDE user but in textmode I really like using GNU diff -y for a variety of file comparison tasks. There is no word-wrap and it is readable on smaller screens.

For example, I can dump two files to single column hex using od and then do diff -y to find the bytes that differ. A nice complement to cmp -b.

test $# = 2||exec echo usage: $0 file1 file2\; for small files
od -An -tx1 -vw1 < $1 > $1.hex
od -An -tx1 -vw1 < $2 > $2.hex
diff -y $1.hex $2.hex|tr '\11' '\40'|sed '/[<>|]/s/ / /g'|less -Jj5 -NGp "[<>|]"
exec rm $1.hex $2.hex
I don’t know but it’s a hell of a lot more than anything I make.
That is a lie, most mobile arm processors are hostile. Mediatek contributes to the Linux kernel, and it isn’t a recent change. I don’t think they’re worst than any other mobile chip manufacturer.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mediatek...

They are the easiest to root on Android too.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/amazing-temp-root-for-med...
To echo the other poster - I read a bit about Malone the other day. He definitely helped the tech along at some point, but he has no claim to sole creation of or invention of the mRNA vaccines. He's one of a cast of hundreds or thousands.
Why should anyone trust the scientific "establishment" which claims to be about truth but is willing to blatantly lie about issues obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes, like race and intelligence. And it even banishes heretics like James Watson.
I think it's worth nothing that prohibition was passed as an amendment because they had yet to establish the judicial precedents that allowed them to do those sorts of things through normal legislation. As controversial as it was then we'd only need a simple legislative majority and presidential signature to pass something even more onerous today.
5 minutes is absurd. You'd basically have to keep your laptop with you at all times
Based on what evidence are we heading to a civil war conflict? I know partisanship is really high and such, but what recourses are failing so bad that we are heading into a situation that only armed conflict resolved?

Yes, some idiots tried to storm congress and extremism is a real problem, that isn’t an oddity of absolute occurrence. If the UK can avoid civil war even with persistent IRA bombings I think we will too
A replacement for Yahoo Pipes!

In the early Android days, I wrote a few apps that relied on web site scraping to provide their data. Even back then, these websites evaded scraping. Yahoo Pipes to the rescue. You'd set it up to scrape their site and provide a well-formed RSS feed of the data. Since these sites saw Yahoo connecting, they typically didn't block it, presumably because they thought it was search crawling.
If you are forking the chain state and not just the vm, that could be the case.

However, if you are only forking the vm and allowing for people de deploy other protocols (or forks of other protocols), this is not the case (they just start off at lower total supply relative to the native collateral available on that network from a lower demand base).
It is not exactly what the "right" wants. Conservatives favor local control for some issues, but emphatically not for others.
I think their point was that you need to have EVERYONE vaccinated in order to reduce spread and protect people for whom vaccines are ineffective.
And then add kids in to the mix. Is just not possible (despite the baffling downvotes).
Ah yes, the "always be working" method. That way you never need overtime!
In other ski towns you build during the off-seasons and the construction workers live in the apartments that would be otherwise empty.
The Austen Connection
>If you are worried and want to reduce exposure, probably the best you can do is buy local instead of imports. Know the land your food comes from and its history.

from the article:

>Also troubling: There was no single predictor of which products contained higher levels of heavy metals—for example, brand name didn’t matter, and neither did “organic” or “packed in USA” claims.

I'm also not sure how feasible it is to "Know the land your food comes from and its history". What are you supposed to do, go to the farmers market for all your herbs, interview the farmers, and then somehow determine heavy metal concentrations from that?
I was more into computers than into Legos when the 8880 came out, but I liked this one: http://www.technicopedia.com/8865.html ... which I never actually had, but I had enough pieces from other sets to build one from the pictures in catalogs.
Do we know how well they work yet, really?
(Genuine question)

They were released earlier, though I got the impression they were released really without very much phase 2/3 testing at all. If you think the anti-vax folks are having a field day with the current western vaccines being given special accelerated roll-out...
I find that at the 2-3 year mark too many people have come to know that I will be able to solve their problem, either directly or indirectly. That's when I usually leave, because my day becomes filled with constant "distraction." This distraction may be good for the employer, because problems get solved and things the employer values get done. But it's miserable for me. The part of this career I enjoy is getting that "in the zone" feeling when neck deep in code. If I'm getting yanked in different directions constantly I don't get what I value out of the job anymore.