skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't be more different. I probably wouldn't even get out of bed each day unless I wrote down what to eat for Breakfast the night before.

To mentally keep track of your entire life, from "in 1 years time I need to get my boiler serviced" to buying birthday gifts on time to completing school/college assignments on time without ever forgetting anything is from point of my view an astounding achievement.

If I were to follow such a system I would be constantly racked with anxiety that I had promised someone I would do something and then forgotten about it, or needed to pay a bill, return a library book, eat some food before it went off, etc. etc. Perhaps I just have a terrible memory.
Very nice.

I would say that in my attempts I don't try to fill in the correct word 6 times.
Once I have information about a letter position I try to make guesses that give me information on other letters and that don't give me information I already know.

Eg. If I know A is in the word and not on position n3, I'll try to make a word which maximize the number of other unknown letters in the word and maybe I'll try A in position n5.

If I know A is in position n3 I won't put A in the other guesses at all and try to guess other vowels first and then consonants, until I know the word.
Outside the huge difference of scale that another commenter mentioned, there is also the difference of how easy it is to ensure this doesn't happen. For paper voting, in many countries, each party participating in the vote will have members observing every step of the process - the voting rooms, the local ballot counts, the vote transport, the regional and global vote tallies. Additionally, every citizen and even foreign independent observers has/have the right to do the same. And, since the system is dead simple, they each have the actual ability to tell if nothing was tampered.

The same thing is in no way true for electronic voting. Giving everyone access to personally inspect the electronic equipment at any level of detail is difficult logistically, and also very likely to result in damage. Even if you were able to, vanishingly few people could actually convince even themseoves that the systems are not tampered with.
Uuuh the large scale mining operations can easily be detected through their power use.

Then warrants can be served equipment can be confiscated and people be put in front of a judge
Others have said that the $350,000 is reasonable - but let me point out that there can be a wide range of "2-line roads", even in a small area (so same cost of labor, gravel, concrete or asphalt, etc.).

Some rural "2-lane roads" are two barely-wide-enough lanes for vehicles, with no shoulders, no curbs, and drainage ditches (so no buried storm sewers or anything). Curves can be sharp, grades steep, and blind summits frequent. Bridges may be 1 lane wide, or have weight limits.

Vs. "2-lane road" in even a modest little city often implies pavement wide enough to park on one or both sides of the 2 traffic lanes, and a load of other expensive upgrades. I'd not be a bit surprised if the cost per mile of that was 2x to 5x the cost of a bare-minimum rural 2-lane (paved) road.
It did say no cheese on some images I tested... And it was right.
In Spain both public and private TV channels are at the service of the government. The government always finds an excuse to give money to private channels to make sure they say what they have to say. It's a disgrace.
Muppets In Space!

Muppet Wiki: Farscape

https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Farscape

In Praise of Space Muppets

https://jeffstidbits.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/in-praise-of-s...

I also loved LEX, which was soft core porn comedy SciFi, almost like Flesh Gordon!

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/Lexx

>The show takes Sigmund Freud's axiom that the sex drive and the death drive are the two main forces controlling human nature: Stanley Tweedle, security guard (Level 4, the lowest), Zev Bellringer of 3BK, a woman who was forcibly converted into a love slave for failing to perform her wifely duties (she's got the looks and the libido, but none of the mental imprinting), Kai, an undead assassin, and 790, a robot head (that got the mental conditioning intended for Zev) zoom around the galaxy looking to get laid. They never learn lessons and blow up every planet they visit. Rinse and repeat. Take the fatalism of Wagnerian opera, the budget of a Sega CD game, and the logic (and sometimes acting) of softcore porn, and that's Lexx.

>[...] The show was often described as the anti-Star Trek, and, fittingly, you could say the show's five-year mission was to explore strange new worlds and blow them up, seek out the sleaziest and seediest new life and civilization, and to boldly come where no man has come before.
Of course, it's a `.fr` :D
Ask HN: Why so many DI libraries for the JVM?
Can anyone help me understand why there are seemingly dozens of different libraries for DI/IOC for JVM languages? From what I can tell they all do the exact same thing just with slightly different syntaxes/patterns. Is there any canonical guide out there for choosing one, or even something that helps shed some context on why various versions exist? (I’m specifically interested in the context of server-side Kotlin, but open to all resources)
Peak BBC is making a story about the BBC headline news on the BBC news website. As if anyone else cared when they opened their new offices.

I’ve never really understood the rage the licence fee provokes in a certain type of voter and I have little faith that any replacement proposed by this government will be an improvement.
AFAIK this was a thing for a long time and not something recent. IIRC Bochs for example was written by someone making their own OS and wanting a way to debug it.
More likely there is no comment until the UK government makes the announcement public - rather than responding to 'informed sources'.

BBC is caught between a rock and hard place. Its journalists 'need' to report the story or risk being accused of 'censorship' for not reporting on the rumour/leak/background-briefings when other news organisations are reporting those, but at the same time the BBC board [0] (10 non-execs and 4 execs) will presumably have been preparing a measured response to publish once the UK government makes the 'official' announcement.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/aboutthebbc/whoweare/bbcboard
> especially its partisan news reporting on the current government

I just want to say that the BBC has had partisan claims by people from all the aisles. The BBC tends to be more left leaning and progressive with a lot of its coverage, I'm assuming that's mostly because journalists tend to be, however there have been certain "coincidences" when it comes to Conservative coverage.

I don't know whether or not they're partisan, but I feel when both left and right leaning people call the BBC partisan, it feels like they're less likely to be partisan.
That's fair. I suppose the source of my irritation isn't just that one sentence; it's more holistic. And it's borne out of experiences living in rural areas that people from nearby cities treat like their own personal playgrounds. I just don't have much patience left for an article bemoaning the lack of "nature" when "nature" is still very much there, and its apparent disappearance is the result of deliberate choices, not some irresistible force.

Anyway, I'm going to put down the screen and go outside and look at the dark starry sky now.
This is not feasible. In the UK we have Freeview [1], a free-to-access television platform which manages ~all terrestrial output.

The BBC administrates this system along with the other major broadcasters (ITV, C4, ...).

If the BBC did not put out its own output under Freeview, not only would Freeview collapse but the BBC would effectively be wiped off the face of British television.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeview_(UK)
To me, ever since Windows introduced virtual desktops, that’s basically my main way to switch between documents. That and having multiple screens to show most of my windows all the time. The taskbar mainly becomes an app launcher. I’m surprised so many people here complaint about using the taskbar like in Windows XP.
originally from the Sunday Times, pasted here because paywall https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/s54g7c/boris_jo...

The other changes are:

•Announce a No 10 workplace “booze ban” in an effort to end the drinking culture in “Club Downing Street”.

•Freeze the BBC licence fee for two years to help the cost of living.

•Hand to the military control of the battle to stop illegal immigrants in the Channel.

•Unveil new plans to tackle the backlog of operations in the NHS.

•Unveil extra money for skills and job training for the 1.5 million people who are out of work and on universal credit.

•Lift the remaining coronavirus restrictions on January 26.

•Publish Michael Gove’s levelling-up white paper the following week. It aims to improve lives in neglected towns in the north.
It's unacceptable, but it is totally possible and allowed by the platform.

I think the solution is platforms which make this sort of editing impossible by using cryptographic signatures and user accounts backed by private keys.
A lot of them took their life in their own hands from the get go and brought us back great art nevertheless.
Have you ever been to any Baltic country?

Your argument is coming across as vaguely racist and appears to be based on nothing but the divisions imposed between the second and first world.
I visit Egypt a few times a year for the last decade. I have a few friends who know Sudan well. I wanted to maintain some privacy, so I leave out details.
PyFlow – Visual scripting framework for Python – NodeRED alternative?
What is the relationship between a Linux distribution and a window manager?
Stackoverflow.com -> help -> search "editing" -> top hit: https://stackoverflow.com/help/editing

See the itemization of reasons to edit a post for. It also explicitly mentions that the meaning of the post may not be changed. You can, as the owner, also always roll back edits. Another option is to take it to the meta site and voice your complaint. One of the reject reasons in the review queue (note that moderator's edits don't go through the review queue) is if the edit changes the meaning of the post; the edit system is really meant (as the page says) for fixing typos and on occasion updating/adding information like if the post became outdated or to consolidate info from comments.

Everyone can also see the revisions of any (non-deleted) answers and questions, so if someone changed the meaning, it clearly says "person x edited this post" (right next to the original author's name) and you can click that link and see who actually said what.
We’re talking about Bitcoin here because the news is about Bitcoin, it doesn’t mean we don’t care about reducing emissions in other areas. There are articles on HN regularly about EVs, synthetic meat, etc.

One thing that sets POW apart, though, is how it is designed to resist efficiency improvements through the difficulty adjustment mechanism. When hashrate per watt goes up with efficiency improvements, the network difficulty goes up to compensate, so more efficient hardware does not improve the efficiency of the system.
If you want to test the water, here is a mega script who does it all in one go in a qemu virtual machine (granted, still some standard manual install of some debian based bootstrap iso):

http://techinvest.li/tinux

Output is X Org and a falkon (chromium based) browser. But need some memory, diskspace and time.. Still a lot faster than doing it all by hand the first time around..
Plenty of people want to live in the suburbs precisely because they want nothing to do with the city center. They live outside it; they work outside it (often on a ring road built specifically to avoid the city); they shop outside it; they view any requirement to go into the city as a schlep.

If the only “new” penalty is they can’t go see the pro sports team in person without paying a lot of taxes, that seems like a fair trade. (Or they’ll go see the NE Patriots at the stadium a little over 25 miles from the city.)
Maybe if countries stopped giving away free energy people would waste less...
Some comedian said that the left think the BBC is right wing and the right think the BBC is left wing and that means it's doing the right thing.
please check the video I mentioned in the above post; Alan Kay addresses exactly this point ...in 1997
No it doesn’t. Example, imagine you currently have a energy bill of $1000p.a. With the proposal above, we’ll move you to a $3000p.a. bill with CO2 taxes. And, we’ll give you $2000p.a. to compensate for the increased energy bill.

Would you really just keep paying more for energy because you have that? The payback period on solar panels just went *0.3, batteries just became a affordable option for day/night balancing, many alternative investments in renewable energy just became profitable.

Many people will use that opportunity to get ahead financially. I think that’s what GP meant with “the free market will sort out the rest”
4GL - Fourth Generation Languages

also CASE (Computer-Aided Software Engineering) tools
Was GitHub ever profitable?
I still be able to read and scroll Twitter feeds if I clear Twitter’s cookie or disabled cookie .
Probabilistic Programming Language in 70 lines of Python
I gave photo of Brie cheese and got vieuxboulogne. Well, they need to improve.
The climate crisis will solve itself when flying, eating meat, gas guzzling cars, etc. are impossible to use because the climate crisis has made life an (as of today) essentially unimaginable hellscape. Sure it’ll be a few centuries of abject misery but as a result the world’s population will contract a lot and things will “reset.”

If people today aren’t willing to change their lives (and they clearly aren’t), then it’s time to enjoy the ride and hope we die (fingers crossed) before things get awful (which they will).
Of course and there's no reason to refute this. The reason we got here is that the quantatative measures a Bank would use are biased by actual societal bias. This is a situation like asking why your ML became racist.

Letting a bank choose the interest rate based on your zip code would allow banks to predict which families will remain rich and that would be a self fulfilling continuation of current class distinctions in a system where they are allowed to do that.
You don't, you tax mining as an economic activity with profit like any other.
does photoshop have a command palette yet that lets you search for commands? that's one feature i really like about gimp, being able to press the / key and then search for levels, blur, invert, rotate image etc etc

its especially useful for stuff that you would normally have to spend a minute or two going through the menus trying to find.

apart from that though i have to admit its hard getting used to gimp but i haven't really put the same effort into learning it as i did with photoshop so its too soon to tell
So are giant TVs, PC gaming rigs, ACs, large cars, overconsumption of meat, etc. None can be justified given climate change, but everyone wants to keep it.

The truth is that nobody cares about energy usage. It has exploded in the last decades whilst fully knowing about the problem. People only care about somebody else's energy usage and call for the banning of things they don't use or care about.
Ask HN: How do you organise and manage documentation/content in Google Drive
In our company (2000+ employees) we use google drive as primary means to collaborate in our company. We also use confluence for tech documentation.
One challenge we face with google drive is organising documents and organic discovery. People dont create in designated folders. they create in their drive and share the URLs. It works but if the person leaves or if one has to find other documents in related area it becomes difficult.
Does your organisation faces this problem? If so, can you please share the techniques or tools you have used to solve this problem. thanks.
If you dont consume it, you do not have to pay. Nothing and noone is forcing you.
It is insane that this kind of bullshit is tolerated. I don't believe any other company would get away with frequent, regular threats and misrepresentation of their level of authority.
Triz is a Russian engineering problem solving methodology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ it's incredibly methodical and basically brute forces creative insight.
Most Americans live in areas far more dense, though. Even the least dense US states have far higher density in the areas housing the vast majority of their populations.
Even if I do not agree completely with the article I think it should be worth pointing that human beings are specially strong in self-domesticating themselves.

For example at shoes, clothing, drinking milk, society, culture, language, agriculture, use of fire etc

Our own artificial environment gave shape to ourselves. And most likely that’s unstoppable.
I wonder what kind of drone they would be using for this?

My DJI drone requires me to be registered with my email linked to it to fly, and I assume everywhere I fly is logged and they could hand over the data to the authorities if I was doing something illegal
A related thing I wish all businesses would embrace is limiting work in progress. Lean has been around for decades and this lesson still hasn't landed.

The key resource is mental energy rather than time worked. I'd accept some trade off between hours worked and the context switching and fire-fighting I do in those hours. An hour spent working at my least professional gig is as exhausting as 5 spent at the most well-run.
I don't use finder tabs much. I just use them to create a new tab, when I need to copy something inside a directory without losing my current "state".

I tend to use finder tabs very differently than the browser tabs where I can have
many different websites, but later I tend to forget why I have those there.

I'm glad that MacOS can restore everything pretty well after a logout/login. A major focus of OS should be on managing these "work state" through new UI paradigms/tools.
edit: typos
They only seem to be interested in French cheese.

What a pity... There are so many great non-French cheeses...
It wouldn't surprise me too much. My completely embarrassing website from the 90s has been running on the same host and subdomain with zero work done by me to keep it running:
http://boglin.iwarp.com

I think I edited the HTML once since 1999 to add a Google Analytics tag because I was curious if anyone ever visited it.
See the pie chart in the post again -- citizens of Galesburg are paying 9.89% property tax on their home, not 0.5%. There are a lot of other taxes that make up the total property tax. Your 1.6% is incredibly low, in my experience.
Other than a hospital, schools and big box retail, what is the economic "engine" attracting new homeowners? Big box retail was the place to spend the cash, but what is the source of "earn the cash"? Illinois is a top state for "fleeing" citizens.
judging by the datacenter names in that spreadsheet they are hosting at OVH and most of the money already goes into salaries: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Si3PMUJGR9KrpE5lngSk...
I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something (2020)
So many interesting/fascinating concepts and ideas that will remain relegated to niche communities because of basically one problem: lack of drivers. This is the problem that must be solved if we ever want to move away from the dominance of a few OSes "too big to fail" and their million compromises to a thriving field where competent programmers can create new OSes as easily as now they can create new apps.
Please share! I have plenty of poetry from 20 years ago that’s probably quite cringe and I can’t bring myself to look at it. But yours! I’m intrigued. And maybe it isn’t cringe maybe it’s great.
A cult of repeat group suicide sounds like something out of Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
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In the 70s and 80s there was little entertainment other than real time broadcast TV on the 3 (later 4) channels. The BBC was a cultural institution. 20 million people would tune in to watch absolute crap, because that was really the only option other than go to the pub or play cards.

Places like the BBC Television Centre were engrained in the public zeitgest, and thus newsworthy.

This clearly isn't the case any more, there's far more choice, and the generations that grew up with "Auntie" are getting older and older.
This is part of the handmade software movement. An effort to focus down on elegant software development using primitives rather than generic libraries and testing the status quo. Exciting to see this project move along!
> UPDATE As of January 14th 2019, Orthodox C++ committee approved use of C++14.

So it is basically Modern C++, just a few years later.
Yes, so again, a period of several months, not several years.
In America we have state and federal fuel taxes (per gallon) collected at the pump. Almost all of the federal tax is sent back to the states in the form of interstate highway money (and is used as a carrot/whip to impose federal regulations on states). In Illinois' case the fuel tax is supposed to go to maintaining and improving roads but, like any big pot of money, it is frequently diverted to the general fund and/or maintaining Chicago's transit system (much to the chagrin of the rest of the citizens of the state).

At this point unmaintained roads are the least of Illinois' concerns. The state has massively underfunded state pensions combined with a fleeing and aging population that probably means some for of bankruptcy protection in the not so distant future. Before that happens all available money will be used to fund pension payouts due to how politics works in Illinois and the roads will start looking like a set of a Mad Max movie.

Source: I was born and raised in Illinois (~40 miles from Galesburg) and most of my family still lives there.
There are federal laws and Supreme Court cases specifically and exclusively applying to collecting sales tax that require online retail to do so. There is no legal framework to apply, for example, car lemon laws to those same online retailers.

I suppose if you change US law then it might be possible. But if so I would anticipate a major shakeup and secondary effects you wouldn't expect.
The text says "it's G:0 everywhere", but the short hand of the clock is pointing to P and not G. How come?
I don't know 3% seems small but significant...

"Across the world, thousands of underground coal fires are burning at any given moment. The problem is most acute in industrializing, coal-rich nations such as China.[7] Global coal fire emissions are estimated to cause 40 tons of mercury to enter the atmosphere annually, and to represent three percent of the world's annual CO2 emissions.[8]"

From the wikipedia article above
Maytag used to have a refrigerator manufacturing facility in Galesburg, which moved to Mexico around the turn of the aughts, and incurred a loss of thousands of jobs. Usual NAFTA hollowing out of middle America story.

Can’t be a strong town when you’re a dying town.

https://www.peoriamagazines.com/ibi/2015/mar/galesburg-after...
I guess they do not include B1 because caffeine blocks its absorption anyway. Which is bad.

It is better to have B1 in everything that involves energy instead of caffeine. But B1 will hardly be noticed by the general public while caffeine is addictive for many. Energy drink producers clearly maximize for profits and not for health.
And how exactly do you stay "away from the lights of the city"? Last time I checked light pollution didn't really care whether you live in a city or not, having a strong light source within a quite sizable radius was more than enough to significantly limit what you can see in the sky. There's not a lot of places where humans live and which aren't polluted at night.