skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the Solovair mention, the Mrs is currently going through the process of buying Docs (online, so stacks of boots in the hall) and I think I've convinced her to give them a go. I do enjoy a well-made boot.
Or instead of stone tablets you could simply build a 10,000 year clock.

https://www.businessinsider.com/everything-you-need-to-know-...
Technology can regress by idiotic initiatives like banning advanced math

https://reason.com/2021/05/04/california-math-framework-woke...
think of it as a label for the process by which you decide to prioritize cleaning up different areas of your house -- and utility becomes a rational and humanizing thing.

using it to prioritize your relations forces you to grapple with subjective and irrational things such as personal prefs, aspirations etc. so.. also rational and humanizing.

this leaves using it to mess with others without them participating in weight-setting (democracy as a weight discovery mechanism?), that's where it gets messy.

i fail to see where any of the three facets above make it humiliating to see where 'by priority' the most relative improvement can be made. i mean, this is all just fine talk about something innate to nature, no?
What a different world we would be living in if Bernie Sanders had won the US presidential elections.
The constant underhanded tactics are the exact reason joining a union is immoral.
I've written systems that integrate with these. The old crop (bullhorn and similar) probably wouldn't be able to do what you're saying easily. The more modern ones out of the usual places could likely do it easily.

I base this opinion off of ~6 year old data and experiences. The "best" horror story was an ATS that used client-side browser datetime without timezone support as their official timestamp record for various events.
I don't see how the thing being overwhelmed matters for determining if a DDOS took place. For instance, I think many people would characterize the Church of Scientology's attack on the IRS [0] as a denial of service of sorts.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White
Well, the company I work for builds the hotel system for two of the biggest monasteries! (It's a super outdated .NET Framework + webforms website for which, over the years, they have requested micro-changes to the fullest extent so it's really made to measure now, I am pretty sure it will never be upgraded)

The two monks I have spoken with are real sweethearts, but they sound really bored and idle to me. They do love speaking with my female coworker though which is, eh, kinda funny. :p
> A reserve ratio of 0% means no customer funds are used to pay loans. The fraud is that the money is fractionalized into thin air.

No, that means that all customer deposits can be used for loans. There’s zero requirement for banks to hold any deposits in reserve to ensure they’re able to pay out individual depositors on request.

In short, they can lend an amount of money equal to the amount deposited with them. They can’t magic money out of nowhere, only the fed can do that.

> Or there wouldn’t be as much cheap credit floating out there, forcing lenders to charge a more reasonable rate for borrowing. Cheap money creates financial crises.

Also no, poor risk management creates financial crises. Cheap credit itself doesn’t cause anything. It’s irresponsible lending, and failure to properly account for credit risk that creates a problem.

There would be pretty much no risk in lending Jeff Bezos huge amounts of money at 0%, because it would be trivial to securitise it with physical assets and stocks. But lending at similar amount of money to someone with no income or assets would be very risky.

Lenders always want to charge more interest, that’s how they make money, and they need to charge a minimum amount to cover the costs of administering the loans, and the costs of loans that default. The idea that lenders want to lend cheaply is nonsense, it like saying a shop only wants sell everything as cheap as possible. Both shops and lender sell/lend as cheap as is needed to compete, and no more. Anything else would be voluntarily giving up profit margin, find me a bank that wants to do that.
I once heard someone (perhaps jokingly) suggest forwarding the captchas to users of some website you control - e.g. a free porn website where you have to solve a captcha every 10 images.
Thank you for this talk, this is fantastic
I agree, it's also very difficult to do one's best by the customer when there's such an adversarial relationship inside the company structure. I think Unions work better when they're more like guilds, where the primary focus ins perpetuating best practises and serving the public, with fair wages for work done being a natural consequence of the best workers being union members.
My mother had one of those, I also once borrowed my father's HP graphing calculator for a math test and quickly became unpopular because it beeped every time you hit the wrong key.
Fadal VMC40 CNC mill. Mine is a 1984, making it one of the first ones made.

This was one of the first wave of CNC machines made and priced for a smaller job shop environment. It's not large (axis travels are 20" X, 16" Y) and it's not fast by modern standards (slow travel, max 10k rpm spindle speed). However, it's easy to use, not over-complicated, rigid with box ways, and DIY repairable. There are several places to get affordable parts and support. I have yet to encounter a component that is "no longer available," a common occurrence on other machinery. I've had a specialist out to inspect it when I got the machine, but other than that I've been able to fix and maintain it easily. Besides, very little has gone wrong with it, and I started running it hard straight out of a 20 year hibernation.

The control electronics are built with a backplane design that makes it extremely simple to swap and upgrade components. The control boards themselves are made with all through-hole components, making board-level repairs easier. I upgraded the main control board from a '84 version to a '95 version in about 30 minutes (gaining speed and a lot of UI improvements). If I wanted, I could retrofit a fully modern control system in a couple hours. If you're not in the industry this may not sound significant, but if you're familiar with CNC machines this is huge for prolonging the life of a machine. For comparison, older Haas control boards are known to fail and the only current recourse is to pay Haas about $20k for a full retrofit by a factory tech.

The interface is text based and runs on a CRT but it's incredibly simple, ergonomic and easy to learn. Discoverability is excellent, with built-in documentation and useful error messages. If Siemens and Fanuc CNC controllers are emacs and vim, Fadal is nano. If the battery backup goes bad, I can restore the control parameters using a human-readable menu with meaningful variable names in about 5 minutes from memory. On my Mazak lathe, this takes hours of entering hex codes into numbered fields. In comparison to other machines I've used, the Fadal feels like it's made to be used by machinists, not gatekept by factory service techs and expensive training courses.

The worst part of the machine is that it has a total loss mist lubrication system for the spindle, which requires added ventilation otherwise it will fill the shop up with oil mist. I would also like a full enclosure, which mine doesn't have but later ones do. But other than that it's incredibly resilient, high quality and simple machine, the likes of which simply aren't being made anymore.
Laws written by the corporations to protect the corporations?
It is? It looks pretty middle of the road to me. obvious issues:

1. undescriptive variable names (eg. data2)

2. inconsistent formatting

3. copy pasted fragments everywhere
Carlsen Wins World Chess Championship
Why is the law wrong?

By what principle does a group of striking employees have some intrinsic God-given right (or right conferred by some other source of truth, outside the law) to sabotage the company that they are protesting? Is the company their property, that they have veto power over hiring? Is the labor force their property? If there is some property-like interest that grants these rights, then under what circumstances would that interest became their property rather than the original worker's? Is it strictly first come, first serve? Is there a vesting period during which this right accrues? Are the striking employees as a group to be considered a form of government, that they may regulate hiring and firing? What elevates this right or interest over other cherished principles, such as free association? Or do the strikers simply wish to subjugate such principles to serve their own self-interest?

I believe that you propose mob rule. It is no surprise, then, that you are in conflict with a nation ruled by laws, rather than by mobs and strongmen.
If you try to buy a car, but you and the seller fail to reach a deal, is it okay for you to let the air out of their tires, since they sabotaged your ability to negotiate fairly?
The Clintons are a legacy family?
I appreciate you taking the time to explain why it wouldn't stop inflation!
Thanks a lot!
A LSM in enforcing mode (such as SELinux or Tomoyo) on a Linux system would prevent this. I configure and run tomoyo on all my Internet facing servers.

https://tomoyo.osdn.jp/
Your comment basically confirms what he said

> If anything it suggests that you place a higher value on loyalty to the institution you belonged to that committed these war crimes and covered them up than you do on human rights.

You realize you were the invader right?
It's hard to get a "strong consensus" on a negative. I think the general belief is that the weight of evidence is towards most of these cases being psychosomatically driven, as well as some poorly understood post-viral sequelae.

Perhaps it doesn't matter that much at all, the treatment for either is the same. Indeed, if you tell people with CFS that they instead have post-viral sequelae, their outcomes are significantly better.

Basically, the current status is no mechanism has been identified to cause CFS, there is a huge diversity of symptoms and demographics of who gets CFS, and there is substantial circumstantial evidence suggesting large psychological components (differences in effectiveness based on what you call the disease, larger correlation between self-reported illness vs. serological results, etc.) that all come together to form a broader whole. PACE is largely accepted in the medical research community, it has only been "debunked" in the blogosphere and news articles.
Ask HN: What things has tech made worse in your life?
Growing up I always enjoyed tech and was excited for all the problems tech can solve and all the improvements it can make and has made in my life. However, recently I had to check-in into a doctors office using a 3rd party software and the process is incredibly worse for the patient. Normally, I walk in, tell them my name and sit down. Now on my phone, I have to enter my DOB, answer a few questions, "Accept" some consent forms every time. They will not see me if I don't use the system. Then, at the end I am greeted with an advertisement for a medication.

Another one, recently had to call comcast as they were charging my parents $70 for what they are offering for $20, I play the call of "i want to cancel it is too expensive, AT&T cheaper". They recently "improved" their phone bot and added some "amazing" features. I am saying I want to cancel service/speak to customer service, and this thing goes and tells me it is restarting my modem.......then for the next 15 minutes I cannot reach anyone at comcast because my modem is restarting, every time I call I was getting, "We are restarting your modem call us back later GOODBYE!"......I swear things like this just make me want to go live off-grid somewhere.
I believe the idea is that it lets you augment your log line with additional information to make it easier to read versus having to do the lookup at parse time.
For Android most of the lag (IME) is artificial. To disable it, enable the Developer Options panel, and set "Window animation scale", "Transition animation scale", and "Animator duration scale" to off (or minimum value if you still want some animation). Suddenly it's much more responsive!

Totally shit design. And could still have lower input lag. But instead of reducing it they added slow animations to try to hide it, which makes it take even longer!
It's still up 25% from 2019 numbers: https://polb.com/business/port-statistics/#teus-archive-1995....
You won't be able to trust any evidence they present. They've already exposed numerous times to have lied.
Agreed. But "in front of a jury quickly" might be forensically a better idea than "wait in jail for years" while the prosecutor drags things out. [Edit: assuming that his team are confident in getting at least one vote to acquit from somebody angry]

Personally, I don't think we should extradite him simply because it's arguably a political 'crime'. The US/UK extradition treaty is so one-sided, though, and British extradition law so Executive-friendly, that that is essentially an impossible case to win if the Secretary of State wants to extradite.
A recent case at the Supreme Court has limited this, and it seems applicable here, on the face of it.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/supreme-court-overturn...

> the Court adopted a “gates-up-or-down” approach: either you are entitled to access the information or you are not.

To me, it sounds like you are entitled to submit a job application or you are not. I don't see how a charge under the CFAA for submitting an application would stick, when they are inviting the public to submit applications.
What if China and US teamed up in a war against some common super enemy?
In the US, that won't be the case. AT&T shut down GSM at the end of 2016. Verizon will be shutting down its 2G/3G CDMA network at the end of 2022. T-Mobile is also slated to shut down its 2G GSM network at the end of 2022.

As others have pointed out, 2G GSM uses less spectrum (not for the same usage, but as a base) with 0.2MHz channels rather than 5MHz channels. There's been some stuff talking about T-Mobile running GSM inside the guard bands of their LTE network (dead space between channels). Still, it seems like they're also going to be shutting it down.

T-Mobile's GSM network is pretty limited with maybe a third of the coverage of their LTE and 5G networks. It doesn't use any low-band spectrum so it performs pretty poorly. They also haven't been expanding it over the past 7 years or so, preferring to put their effort into LTE and now 5G.

They did keep GSM alive a lot longer than AT&T (6 years longer), but it seems like the reasons for keeping it alive are dwindling compared to the cost.
Ummm, I think you’re rather making my point for me: if, as you acknowledge, other groups in western countries are functionally equivalent to “tribes”, why are they not referred to as such?

You also make a number of wrong statements (not sure if you actually live in Ghana, I do):

> The heads of each tribe are represented in the federal government via the House of Chiefs[1].

Ghana does not have a federal system of government. The House of Chiefs is just a nod to traditional ways, with no real power.

> Your chosen tribe is listed as part of your national ID, and used to open a bank account.

This statement is definitely incorrect. I have a national ID of the recent type, and there is no reference to a tribe. There is also no requirement to declare a tribe to open a bank account.

The rest of your arguments expose the core of the issue:

> The UK had tribes too, but the supergroup became dominant and created a “nation”. Wales was 3 tribes, but it was unified under a single throne for so long that the cultural differences waned since they had an external enemy: the British.

So why would the grouping of three welsh tribes themselves not form a tribe? Don’t you see by that deceiving a group as a tribe rather than a nation is arbitrary?

> The Ashanti tried to do the same thing but it failed which is why the Akan supergroup still has dozens of tribes.

Note that the Akans are called a tribe, and sub-divisions within the Akan are also called tribes. The Ewes you refer to can also be divided into many smaller groups that can also be called tribes.

> When it comes to art there’s a difference between the art that has its cultural roots at the national level, and art that reflecting a local tribes ethos (e.g. Ewe art has very few examples of warrior motifs but Ashanti culture has venerated specific swords).

Of course art from anywhere is going to be influenced by its origin. And notice the circular argument being made: Ewe and Ashanti art are tribal because they reflect a tribal ethos.

So far you haven’t addressed my point. You have simply asserted that there is a concept of tribe. My point is that concept is entirely arbitrary, and not applied to other groups exhibiting similar characteristics. That points to the real reason for using it: to other non western local cultures
I'm not sure if it's the same in the reliability department, but in 2015 they released a Les Paul "Less+" variant, with a much thinner body than the traditional Les Paul, while otherwise looking identical. It feels very comfortable to play (at least for me), and IMO it makes it a better guitar than the standard Les Paul, although they only seem to have made them for one year. It also has automatic tuning pegs (Gibson G-Force), which is a big quality of life improvement IMO.

(The only issue was the stock nut they give you, it tends to have poor tuning stability... it would grip the wound strings while tuning in a way that makes it hard to arrive at the right pitch. But replacing it with a graphtech tusq synthetic bone nut fixed that issue completely.)
Interfacing with Zig, a BDFL-run project
yeah that one drove me nuts for some reason.
In practice, countries recognize only eID cards they produced and signed themselves (well, ordered from Gemalto, Giesecke and Devrient or IDEMIA).

Now, once the use of eID cards expands, all these use cases will require software. So far, countries do on their own. Belgium writes its own software, Estonia as well. The point is that most of that software could be reused.

So far, only open source parts are reused, like opensc.
I see where you are coming from, but there are legitimate concerns with the language package systems such as pypi. For one thing, pypi is unvetted, and the problems that bring should be obvious by now.

Another thing is that many move only the tip and older versions seldom gets fixed. If you introduce a dependency in a core package you take on the work of maintaining that version as long as the core package lives, which may be much longer than the upstream author wants to work on it.

The language ecosystems usually don't bring any stability guarantees. Just because the upstream author thinks a new incompatible version is the bee's knees doesn't mean core packages can suddenly be rewritten in the middle of stable period. So there needs to be a system for maintaining these packages in place anyway.

And if it's something distributions generally know how to do, it's packaging software, so it's pretty natural they use what tools they have available. The outcome isn't always great for the end user who wants unrestricted access to the language ecosystem, but that doesn't there aren't problems to solve here.
Dude google "Operation Mockingbird" and Chomsky's "Controlled opposition" talks (don't do it in google, the term "Controlled opposition" is shadow banned because is heavily used by the "fake news" crowd. Compare googles result's to Duck Duck Go, you'll love it).

The main media is a main target in the information wars so both local and foreign power players (mainly intelligence agencies) are going to fight to compromise the people in charge of it, so they can set the agenda and control information and perception. That is a given. That is the purpose of places like "Epstein's Island" and it has always been like that, at least from the time of J Edgar Hoover.

Any time that you have a strategically important target like that (for example Google or any similar key information hub) the power players are going to strive to control it and a simple way to control it is to get to the people in charge of those organizations. So that is what they do.
There's also: https://rainglow.io/
I find it funny whenever Tailwind people tout that you "don't have to name things." You still have to name your JS-framework-of-choice components, and you still have names for each of the parts of a single component that get smattered with class names; it's just that the name is implicit in your head now instead of explicit in the CSS
That link supports the premise, you just chose a specific timeframe which had a small decline, the overall levels for the year are a huge increase:

"Through November, the Port of Long Beach has processed more than 8.6 million TEU, up over 18% from last year and already surpassing the annual record of 8.1 million TEUs set in 2020."
You’ll see these questions more clearly once you start applying Hume’s Guilloine:

Some questions are “is” questions: objective truths about the world and how causality operates within it.

Some questions are “ought” questions: choices about what we enjoy, want, or consider unjust.

I ate dinner last night because my biology is such that I feel sluggish and distracted if I forget to eat and I ought take care of myself to keep from feeling sluggish and distracted.

Facts won’t change people’s minds on “ought” questions. Only stories can do that. But if people aren’t muddling their is-oughts then facts can change their minds on “is” questions. If they couldn’t, then science and engineering would make no progress.
Yes the sensible approach of loading a whole layout, drawing, and interaction library before showing anything at all on screen. Why has only Google thought of that?
Less Than Vs Less Than or Equal To – which is more efficient?
I'm one of the maintainers of this project: we're happy to hear some constructive feedback and proposals for improvements, so please don't hesitate to speak your mind at github issues: https://github.com/yjs/y-crdt/issues .

The internals are still very hot and in a state of flux, as we 1st decided to go with porting the Yjs, then leave cleaning and optimizations for 2nd step after we have something, that's compatible with existing Yjs behavior.
If someone is struggling to feed their family on $10 and hour and they can get a job on the Kellogs line for $20 an hour essentially changing their life and that of their kids, they are a bad person and should be punished for the rest of their lives? This makes absolutely no sense and you are imposing your moralistic world view on others who most likely don't enjoy the financial freedoms that you do. Family comes first over everything. Also all collective bargaining accomplished in this case is to get everyone fired and 1400 open positions.
Agreed, but we can only support better treatment of whistleblowers, by making different choices in our lifestyles. These corrupt organizations, that try to make whistleblowers the enemy, are propped up by institutions that are created an exist by our choices. I'm thinking about the [ending](https://youtu.be/vZNnDiDSUiI?t=98) of "Three Days of the Condor"
Ask HN: Do quaternions have any interesting properties, akin to those of complex numbers, when calculus is applied? The only application I've ever seen is for doing rotations in computer graphics.